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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1947
Page
4
A September 30, 1947 editorial column debates charity over fury, comments on Eisler deportation, and urges stronger community programs. It cites Washington County fair plans, juvenile delinquency prevention, playgrounds, and tax worries from business leaders.
A letter recounts visits to Chicago by Mr and Mrs Manford Wilcox and a girl from the city who spent summers there. The piece also celebrates Katherine Wheatley turning nine and receiving a surprise bicycle, plus small town anecdotes about weather, a fallen tree, sheets, and a mud incident at nursery school.
Des Moines reports a flicker of life in reviving a special session to block tax doubling next year. Rep Arch W McFarlance and Sen Leo Elthon discuss a Republican caucus to pledge cooperation to Gov Blue, though pledges are unlikely. The Farm Bureau opposes backtracking while the state party fears voter backlash. Also notes Farm Bureau county supply units reorganized as for profit firms, blurring ownership.
A quip attributes a puzzle about learners to the ancient thinker Pythagoras. The verses cite fractions of students studying science, sophistry, or disputation, inviting readers to count the share engrossed in each discipline within a hall.
Three U S soldiers Lieut William T Van Atten Pfc Earl G Hendrick and Glen A Myers were captured by Yugoslavs near Trieste last Monday and held five days before release after State Department intervention They described their interrogation as focused on U S strength in the Trieste area and said interrogators wanted to know their rank name and serial number The soldiers reported Yugoslavs blamed President Truman for the Trieste situation and released them on Saturday with a cautious portrayal of their treatment.
More than 2 400 000 tractors are used by farmers across the United States according to agricultural figures. The data highlights widespread adoption of mechanized farming and reflects increases in productivity.
Corwin Evans of Long Beach and Orville Thoma hosted visits at the Thomas home. Clifford Campbell and son John of Washington joined guests at the Boileau and Norris homes. Nash and McCreedy traveled to Ft Madison and Nauvoo. An ice cream supper at the school raised 65.50 to buy girls basketball uniforms. Gail Troy and family returned to Buckeye Arizona after visiting Kalona.
Van Allen recounts a five day period as prisoners of war with Yugoslav troops. They endured coffee and bread meals and limited shelter while being taunted about Russia and told they would be moved to a major. Guards offered small comforts, like cigarettes, but caution remained.
Oxford’s Bodleian Library reports on the 1662 Easton parish poor rolls with the name Joseph Stal in appearing among the listed paupers. The notice notes the archival discovery by Dr W O Hassall during a routine sifting of records.
Ceremony surrounded royal beds where courtiers saluted them as if they were altars, reflecting the pageantry once tied to royal ceremonial spaces.
Hollywood Indians form Indian Citizens League to press housing rights in court. About 100 members from various tribes plan a pow wow at Shrine Auditorium and threaten legal action over zoning and home eviction cases affecting actors and workers in the film industry.
In New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman tells a 53,000 strong world unity rally that world communists aim for a brutal peace built on total captivity and crushing of weak nations. He warns the threatened peace reflects Godless domination by aggressors.
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