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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1931
Page
1
Washington reports President Hoover rejects new pleas to legalize beer and wine as illogical and unlikely to pass. Labor leaders and allies push modification to Volstead but Hoover sees no feasible path, noting constitutional changes and political opposition.
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Sowash are announced for 10:30 Thursday morning at the United Presbyterian church. Rev D Chalmers Fulton and Dr Bailey of Moline will assist. Interment follows in Elm Grove cemetery. Mrs Sowash died last Saturday in Moline. plans delayed awaiting word from her son Roy in Canada.
The state highway commission authorized closing all four sides of the square in Washington for the three day fall festival on Sept 15 16 and 17. The action allows rides and concessions on Central Park with street use while preventing traffic on the primary roads No 1 and No 2. An executive committee meeting at city hall was set for 7 30 pm to finalize arrangements for the event beginning a week later.
The September term of district court will not hear jury cases until Tuesday Sept 22. Petit jurors were told none of the assigned jury cases were ready for trial and duties were deferred for two weeks. Judge D W Hamilton plans to leave for Grinnell and the festival in Washington may keep court from meeting next week. Several jurors were excused after presenting reasons.
Chicago crowds heard that gangster Capone was ordered to stand trial October 6 on evading nearly one million dollars in income tax. Federal Judge James Wilkerson returned to the bench and allowed Capone to withdraw his guilty plea to conspiracy to violate prohibition laws.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Randolph of Des Moines visited over the weekend with relatives here.
Mrs. Lizzie Harbaugh and her daughter Nellie of Wellington Kansas returned home Monday after attending the funeral of their brother and uncle John Blattner of Wellington Kansas.
Two changes announced affect ten games at the new athletic field. Winfield high school shifts to Washington for a game. The junior college adds Creston on Sept 25, with other dated matchups listed for both schools.
Mrs. K. D. Melcher was hired to conduct the Methodist church choir. R. E. Brown announced the appointment at a church board meeting last evening. Mrs. Lewis Warren had planned to resign but agreed to stay through September. Melcher, formerly from Albia, will start the first Sunday in October.
Mr. and Mrs. John Simmering Sr and family express gratitude for kindness shown after the death of their son and brother George with thanks from friends and relatives for sympathy messages received during bereavement.
In Fairmont Minnesota on September 8, Mexican sugar beet worker Nicolas Rodriguez barricaded in a shack after fatally shooting Sheriff Gus Jorgenson. National guardsmen under Captain Follett surrounded the hut and fatally shot Rodriguez after volleys were fired from inside.
A H Glaves of Toledo spoke at the Rotary Club on the European Corn Borer and its impact on corn belts. He outlined pest behavior and current scientific control efforts, noting progress but noting ongoing challenges as the pest expands westward.
President Clyde Brown announces the county Sunday school convention to be held at the Kieher church in Marion township on Thursday Sept 2. The event features addresses by Walter Hutton and O G Herbrecht with three sessions morning afternoon and evening and a covered dish dinner after lunch.
Oliver M Gray age 84 died at his brother Henry M Grays home in Portland Oregon after leaving Washington in 1929 He will be cremated in Portland and ashes sent to Elm Grove Cemetery Washington for burial He was born November 4 1846 in Patriot Indiana married January 26 1869 to Aschah Buttles of Vevey Indiana He was a longtime farmer and Methodist church member with noted descent from Governor Bradford.
George Adams and Alva Nadison of Keota admitted intoxication and were fined 12 dollars and 50 cents plus costs for Adams and 5 dollars plus costs for Nadison by Justice of the Peace W. K. Barber.
The notice lists an adjournment at 6:00 for a kittenball game followed by a 7:30 evening session and devotional period with Rev. Miller and Kicher. At 7:45 a pageant titled Youth's Response and an 8:30 address on Christian education for Christian citizenship by Walter Hutton are planned.
Austin, Sept 8. The Texas legislature meets at noon in a special session to debate cotton relief legislation. Members remain unsettled amid a bear market driven by a government crop report and a maze of proposal options.
In Santa Monica on September 8 Wilkins remarks mockingly about a second hand submarine while noting the Golf Championship win of We Met. He downplays the vessel idea and compares following the champion to tracing a plowman all day. He also mentions friendship with Fred Stone.
Howard Sitler and Al Fields were injured in an automobile accident near Osage while returning from a fishing trip to Wisconsin. William Sitler received a telegram saying they were in a hospital at Osage but not seriously hurt. Mrs. Howara Sitler and son William Sitler left to bring them home.
At the council meeting a committee of area residents sought city guidance to improve water service east of town where mains are lacking. A larger pipe likely to be installed was discussed as a future step. Mayor Applegate was absent due to illness, awaiting a second operation. Also noted was Dave Knottnerus completing a drainage sewer project along East Van Buren Street and South Twelfth Avenue to improve sewer drainage.
Berlin reports negotiations nearing conclusion for a credit enabling Germany to import 500000 tons or 161% million bushels of American wheat. Details unrevealed but three years credit at 4 percent interest expected. Similar cotton proposals dropped amid criticism. a German mission reportedly traveled to Washington. Agricultural critics say price 50 percent above Chicago quotation effectively adds 20 percent interest.
Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi proposed an immediate armament truce among all nations participating in the 1932 world disarmament conference before the League of Nations assembly. The move aimed to ease tensions and accelerate disarmament talks.
Chilean sailors aboard the battle fleet surrendered at Tongoy near Coquimbo after eight days of revolt. An aerial bombardment preceded the capitulation marking the end of the mutiny.
Police say John Markham 19 of Granite City Ill confessed after hours of questioning to shooting and killing Stanley M. Moore 21 of Lowell Mich a student at Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Denver.
Don Moyle and Cecil Allen began a non stop bid from Sabishiro Beach for Seattle in the City of Tacoma II. The 4500 mile flight along a great circle route faced unknowns as ships tracked the monoplane and weather held favorable. Moyle faced possible jail time for a prior DUI, while Allen mourned his fiancée Eileen Miller killed in March.
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