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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
6
The Washington report notes the new regulations aim to curb duck hunting with a 30 day season, a two zone system, and a three shell limit. Shooting only from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and bans on baited water, live decoys, and possession of more than one day’s bag. Iowa in northern zone.
The Soviet government moved to raise the sunken wartime submarine B-3 which killed 55 Russian officers seamen and cadets after colliding with a surface vessel during Baltic fleet maneuvers in the Gulf of Finland. All aboard perished according to the official communique.
Mrs. Sarah Stroup entertained at a noon dinner party at her home 912 East Eighth street in honor of guests from Grinnell Mr and Mrs William Tice. Sister of Mr Tice attended with Mr and Mrs Frank Tice of Grandview and several local women. The table featured garden flowers and refreshments were served.
Elmer Stock of Wilton joins Norman Henry Stender of Walcott and Samual Nunnally of Clinton in Davenport district August navy quota. They depart August 8 and enlist August 9 in Des Moines, then travel to San Diego for three months of training before serving at sea on a man o war.
Austrian born bridge designer Gustave Lindenthal dies at 85 in Metuchen New Jersey after a life crafting major structures including the Hell Gate bridge. He came to the United States at age 24 starting as a stone mason. his widow and one daughter survive.
Fred Wingerter of 311 West Seventh sustained a deep chin gash and minor injuries when a plank fell on him this morning at the Maple Grove road water works plant. He was taken to Bellevue hospital for treatment. injuries not serious.
Firemen fought a dump fire on East Ninth Street with a booster tank at 11 p m. Riley Cooper received a 30 day suspended jail sentence for intoxication after arraignment before J C Coster. M L Tompkins obtained a 150 building permit for a one room residence on Cannon Avenue. Full Gospel tabernacle picnic postponed with no date set. Bob Roberts Jr and wife announce birth of Ardith Mary at University of Iowa Hospital Iowa City. F G McCullough confined with dislocation but improving. First Christian Missionary Society to meet for a Friday 1 30 pm trip to A C Hunter home Cranston. Courtney Wilson returns from Chicago after two weeks at American School of Praktac ics studying scientific shoe fitting. graduates top of class. Maude Chambers Lysle and Beulah McCullough leave for Chicago Indiana after visiting Hitchcock home. County Farm Bureau agent Carl Rylander and county club agent Edgar Rogers head to Burlington for district conference. Muscatine Sea Scouts vote no meeting due to skipper’s absence. plans for moonlight excursion to be finalized next week. George Meerdink named Muscatine chamber of commerce president for August.
About 45 boys will attend the Muscatine county 4-H club camp at Rotary lodge Friday through Sunday. Edgar Rogers announces meals will start Thursday night with last year’s cook returning. Byron Virtue of Iowa State College will lead field trips. A large Sunday picnic invites parents and members. a Sunday kittenball game or two may lead to forming a county softball team for a district tournament.
Des Moines WPA officials favor permanent director for Iowa Prof. George Keller. Acting administrator L. S. Hill also backs I. T. Jones as assistant administrator and outlines several departmental heads. Keller, a University of Iowa engineer, previously led emergency relief work then returned to academia. Jones ran for Congress in 1934 and once advised Oscar Hartzell defense fund. Approval would let Hill resume postmaster duties.
Illinois enacts new highway code prohibiting hitch hiking with the threat of arrest for h thumbs. Drivers must report fatal or injurious accidents within 24 hours. Chief Engineer Ernest Lieberman highlights penalties including at least ten days in jail or a $100 fine for DUI and notes trials move beyond justices of the peace.
Horace B. Kelly 94, Commander of the Iowa department G. A. R., was critically ill today at his Waterloo home. He became ill last week from the strain of official business in hot weather and has since failed to recover despite a weekend rally.
Washington working rap idly toward agreement between house and senate conferees on the AAA amendment bill. They tentatively agreed to accept senate provisions for suits to recover processing taxes and for restoration of the export debenture program. They also struck out all price fixing provisions.
A motion to nullify a court order from April 1925 extends a foreclosure suit by Murray Figg against Alexander Kollman and others to March 1 1937. Albert and Maud Grunder receive permission to adopt their grandson Albert Grunder in a decree by Judge D W Jackson. Receiver D W Bates of Pleasant Prairie Savings Bank sues Robert Bennett for 1784 31 dollars in foreclosure action.
Chicago Mrs Evelyn Smith 41 and Mrs Blanche Dunkel 43 pleaded innocent at arraignment for the swamp murder of Ervin Lang. Police say both confessed though neither had counsel. Case set for trial next Monday. Lang's dismembered body was found in a Hammond Indiana swamp on July 9.
The relief administration announced direct relief of 544400 dollars for Iowa for the first half of August. The move mirrored allocations to 12 other states, distributed on the same basis.
Construction on dam No 16 across the Mississippi above Muscatine is about 30 percent complete under U S engineer Oscar R Ramser. By end July 18 000 cubic yards of concrete were placed. abutment A was 60 percent done and tainter gate piers 14 to 18 about 90 percent.
President Roosevelt expressed hope that the quarrel between Italy and Ethiopia would be adjusted. He voiced the desire that the people and government of the United States support an amicable solution and the maintenance of peace.
Berlin reports indicate the Schutzstaffel issued a solemn warning to state enemies as Count von Helldorf orders police readiness this week. The capital remained quiet amid worries over food shortages and rising prices with merchants pushing for metal money and reluctance to accept high denomination bills.
Washington reports that New Jersey advertising man E P Cramer told senate lobby investigators he suggested a whispering campaign to damage the New Deal by portraying President Roosevelt as insane. He testified the plan, proposed last March, was not carried out. Meanwhile a Chicago utilities official said he paid a Washington lawyer $500 to learn how to oppose the utility holding company bill.
Harry Longshore an 18 year old Creston youth drowned in the One Hundred Two river near here while returning from a Kansas City vacation. His father Thomas Longshore warned him not to swim. the body was recovered.
Indianapolis action in the National Public Links championship sees defending champ Dave Mitchell and 18 year old Arthur Armstrong advance to the third round among 14 survivors. Bob Tomes of Long Beach defeats Lloyd Nordstrom to reach John Madara, with Madara awaiting tomorrow.
The county recorder reported July collections of 157 for hunting and fishing licenses issued at the recorder’s office in the courthouse. Fifty three fishing licenses, six non resident six day licenses, and sixty six hunting and fishing licenses were issued. Assessments were one dollar per fishing license and one dollar and fifty cents for combination licenses.
Official records show recording fees totaling 238.45 collected from 386 instruments filed at the Ida E. Grimm county recorder’s office in July. Excluding 11.75 for deed transfers to auditors, deeds brought 29.30, real estate mortgages 84, chattel mortgages 50.75, releases and assignments 34, marginal releases 6, certified copies 0.60, and miscellaneous 33.80.
Des Moines reports Walter F. Maley first assistant attorney general called his plans to answer the Sioux City indictment very indefinite. The graft grand jury charged Maley and Attorney General Edward L. O Connor with conspiracy to operate gambling devices. Maley said he would not answer this week but might travel to Sioux City next week.
Dr. David Grau of Muscatine connected to Dr. Walter J. Bauer who died after a mutilation near Chicago on Wednesday. Grau studied post graduate work at Kirksville School of Osteopathy and Surgery while Bauer was there in 1933 and 1934.
A coroner's jury ruled the death of 13 year old Denzil Burkey an unavoidable automobile accident. He rode the running board of a car driven by 15 year old Blair Fenter when the vehicle overturned on a rutted road, crushing Burkey's chest while Fenter was uninjured. Burkey's parents reside near Emeline, Iowa.
Otis Hicklin reports for July that 43 placements occurred, 24 new applications, and 17 re registrations. During the month 28 placements were PWA jobs, seven private, eight other. Referrals totaled 48 with active files of 1,014 names including 854 men, 103 women, and 57 veterans.
Iowa City inspectors report that 3 of 41 applicants failed to qualify for driver's licenses after today’s tests. One failed in 31 on the driving test, while 2 of 10 failed the visual examination. Inspectors R. W. Warner and D. E. Kelly will be in neighboring counties through Wednesday visiting Washington Louisa Sigourney and Marengo.
Four teams are set for a Friday night kittenball program at Jefferson Field under the YMCA. The Heinz Club and Ina Mae Prager meet after dark, followed by Red Paint Store and Melton’s Grocery in a Commercial league clash. Each contest is billed as a tight matchup with late start times.
Four persons took county examinations at the office of E. D. Bradley county superintendent in the courthouse as the second day of tests ended. Similar number wrote review work at the city superintendent’s office in the city hall. A complete review of second grade subjects was finished and first grade work to begin Friday. All test phases were to be completed Friday night.
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