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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1930
Page
5
Washington reports much uneasiness in Hankow due to Red threat despite increased garrison, 150 Japanese marines, 130 British soldiers and more Japanese troops en route from Shanghai. Changsha is described as quiet amid mutiny rumors.
City brief records Mr and Mrs Carl Heinz leaving for Kansas City. Knights of Pythias heard Lindbergh on radio and planned a cantaloupe and watermelon feed. YMCA discussed kittenball leagues gate receipts fall activities and a two league schedule. New car registrations noted for Fonda Naber and H P Mason. Mutiny fears rise in Hankow with executions and security actions amid nationalist and communist clashes. Chinese officials caution on responsibility for outsiders outrages. Local social news mentions Miss Raub Sauer Gray Baker group camp stay and two marriages. Roy Glass sails for buying trip. hospital updates on Miss Schafnit and Miss Brandt. Shipley birth announced. hog receipts totals with two carloads.
A brief six to ten minute gale delivered light rain today, briefly dropping Davenport temperatures from 94 at 12:30 to 74 at 1:10. Winds toppled minor utilities but caused no serious damage, and rainfall over the past week measured 0.35 inches with no river level change observed.
William Butler Jr., 22, is jailed in Lake County, charged with his father William Butler Sr.’s murder after a quarrel over money. The defendant failed to pay a $10 support installment for his wife Mildred and their 3 week old child. After the deadly assault, he was also booked for robbery with a deadly weapon following a separate incident. Preliminary hearing set for next Saturday.
Friday morning river stage was 2.9 feet and the temperature reached 74 degrees. South winds continue as fair and cooler conditions are forecast tonight and Sunday by the government weather bureau. Southeastern areas may see uncertain conditions tonight.
Residents blocked a gas station at 714 Park Avenue saying it endangers students and raises insurance costs and lowers property values. A 3 3 vote gave Mayor Thompson the deciding vote. New rules require 30 days notice and applicant payment before permits for oil stations or similar businesses.
Police sought Goldie Thresher a 25 year old telephone operator as a potential woman connected to Hugh Rausch who died at Lake Pepin Minnesota. Investigators traced letters found in Rockford Illinois to her and noted she was believed at Mackinac Island Michigan at the time. Her parents live in Indianapolis and authorities checked Mackinac Island for any link.
Louis Rogosia Jr. 27 and his brother Paul 22 drowned while swimming near Burlington Iowa in Flint Creek. Their car and clothes were found at the scene after they failed to return home from 7 30 p.m. Their bodies were recovered by 4 a.m. today.
Candidates for baptism will be baptized at a Church of the Nazarene service on Sunday morning in the Mississippi river. The 10:30 a.m. service will be near Maple Grove road by the J. W. Brockway residence with Rev. J. W. Short of Iowa presiding and preaching on Johns Baptism. Rev. H. L. Kindred of Des Moines will assist during revival meetings at 1401 Oregon Street.
Irene Schroeder and W Glenn Dague, both of Wheeling West Virginia, were sentenced to die in the electric chair for killing highway patrol Corporal Brady Paul near New Castle Pennsylvania on December 27. Judge R L Hildebrand refused new trials and will set the execution date with the governor. The pair were captured in Arizona after a gun battle in which a deputy sheriff was fatally wounded.
John Henry Mears, pursuing the round the world speed record, left Harbor Grace for New York after his City of New York plane crashed on takeoff for Ireland. He was accompanied by pilot Henry J. Brown and motor expert E. Carlisle, who stayed behind to inspect the aircraft as Ted Lundgren of Hollywood plans a trans Atlantic hop.
Viola Reeley twenty one of Spencer Iowa was absolved of blame by county authorities in the shooting death of her aunt Mrs Emily Rock sixty eight at Brooks ton near Duluth. Mason Forbes St Louis county attorney said the shooting was accidental after an attempt to frighten the women with a believed unloaded gun. The bullet struck Mrs Rock’s jugular vein and she died shortly after.
Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine weathered 456 hours aloft in the Greater St. Louis monoplane above Lambert Field as the duo began day twenty, with 98 hours needed to surpass the Hunter brothers 554 hour mark. Gasoline use increased but other aspects remained steady amid the lengthy endurance mission.
Knoxville Iowa August 9 AP Paving on primary road No 6 will be completed into Knoxville tonight Contractors expect to finish the remaining 15 mile stretch north of here in October Efforts seek State Highway commission award for paving four miles north of Mahaska county to connect Centerville and Des Moines this fall
Miss Gladys Hagenbuch of Iowa City won Johnson County's healthiest girl title with 99.1 points and the improvement contest. Lloyd V. Fry of Kalona was named Johnson County's healthiest boy. Rowland Griffith of Iowa City and Everette Winbourn of Kalona placed second and third in the boys' division.
Mt Pleasant Iowa August 9 Mrs Bessie King and George Brown were released by Justice of the Peace G W Laird after the arson case was held for advisement. The decision ends a two week review since the hearing.
Charles A. Lindbergh will fly to Washington next Friday to receive a special congressional gold medal from President Hoover for his aviation achievements. The same day Lindbergh and his wife departed from the Aviation Country club field in Hicksville for North Haven, Me., the summer home of Mrs. Lindbergh's father, Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow.
Three brothers Roy Harold and Lester Hiron imous and Roys wife were arrested at Butternut Wisconsin completing the roundup of a gang of nine men and two women accused of about fifty robberies across northern Tellinois and southern Wisconsin in recent months. The rest of the ring were captured here yesterday and authorities said they confessed.
C. E. Wixom killed a rattlesnake he found hanging over a door in the barn within three yards of his two sleeping children in Farmington Iowa. He woke to a noise he thought was horses kicking and spotted the snake above the doorway shortly after.
Cleo Mattix aged four was struck and killed yesterday afternoon eight miles east of Osceola by a car driven by C. F. Hertig of Milwaukee. Hertig was absolved of blame after investigators found he could not avoid the child. He said the youngster darted into the road and he stopped within a few feet.
Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago 9 to 2 in the first game of a doubleheader. Chicago scored two runs in the top of the ninth, while Philadelphia tallied three runs in the fourth and three more in the seventh. The text also notes a fire destroying the D. L. Groves market and bakery complex with an estimated loss of $30,000.
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