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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1930
Page
11
The parish sponsors its annual social and chicken supper on the church lawn this evening to raise funds for the general parish fund. Other items include marriages, travel plans, hospital visits, and local incidents across Muscatine and Davenport with updates on community members and fire calls.
Babe Ruth connected for his forty third homer off Waite Hoyt in the third inning against Detroit, driving Reese home and giving the Yankees a 4 to 1 lead. Also notes Columbia tests show stutterers equal to normal children in vocabulary and intellect.
Vienna reports Leon Trotzky, exiled Soviet leader, passed Bratislava en route to Franzensbad for talks with Georges Tchitcherin and A C Luracharsky on possible return to Russia. He has lived in exile on an island in the Sea of Marmara since leaving Russia.
The 168th infantry massed on capitol grounds upon return from France in 1919 is depicted in a 26 by 6 foot enlargement by W. T. Showers. Lighting affects clarity. officials consider improved illumination. Adjacent is Blashfield’s "Westward" bought for $10,900, with eight Kenyon Ox allegorical panels and twelve high relief statues symbolizing history and civic values.
A humorous exchange from Tit-Bits frames a couple's engagement talk. The young man asks what the father said, the girl prompts a guess, and she reveals the father echoed the same line, highlighting playful family reactions to news.
A beggar pleads for aid and speaks of social exile while an income tax collector refuses. The scene, from Der Lustige Sachse in Leipzig, shifts to a comic note about American macaroni imports from Italy and trade figures, as exports are shown to far exceed imports.
Philadelphia fans saw the Athletics beat the Indians 9 to 1 in the first game of a doubleheader. Grove pitched a complete game allowing six hits. Simmons belted a three run homer in the fifth with two runners aboard. Shaffner Bean and L Sewell backed Grove while Cochrane catcher.
Two 16 year old girls were jailed in Detroit juvenile detention after a brief crime spree involving a toy pistol hijack. They forced chauffeur Steve Schultz from his car, demanded money, then fled. the vehicle was later found abandoned and the suspects identified by Schultz. The girls, Dolores Kowalski and Alfreda Lepak, confessed and showed police where the toy pistol was discarded.
Alexander Legge, head of the federal farm board, will be rushed by air from Dickinson, North Carolina, to Washington for a farm relief conference with President Hoover. Major General Hapgood said a plane from Fort Riley will meet Legge, then another aircraft will carry him to Chicago for the second leg.
Daughters of the Union Veterans sponsor the fifth annual picnic at Weed Park on Monday afternoon to honor G A R post members their families and Colonel Hare circle members. About 30 people attended with a 5 o'clock picnic supper and a short program including a history paper on the first Iowa regiment by Mrs Walter Evans and a reading by Mrs Laura Runyon. Arrangements were by Mrs Clara Bowser Miss Marjory Bowser and Mrs Ada Talkington.
Miss Helen Volger Mrs Etta Jehring and Mrs Bertha Roth join the committee in charge of general picnic arrangements for the Joan of Arc court Catholic Daughters of America to be held August 25 The group will select the site and organize all advance preparations Employed girls of Muscatine plan a hiking party Wednesday.
Members are invited to a Wednesday evening event by the Young Womens Christian Association. The outing includes a hike boating trip and swimming with a motor boat reserved for part of the journey. Lifeguards oversee the swim and attendees bring their own picnic lunch.
The Vanatta family reunion scheduled for the last Thursday in August will not be held this year. Officials cite the destruction of the Weed Park clubhouse, where the meeting has been held, as the reason for postponement until 1931. A Wednesday excursion on August 27 is planned.
A warm southerly breeze lifted the city hall thermometer by 12 degrees in the morning and afternoon. The 7 am reading climbed to 66 degrees, four higher than Monday at the same hour. Clouds cleared after an overcast start.
Fore noon to noon shows intermittent clouds with likely light showers tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures warm slightly in the north tonight and the west Wednesday. River at 7 am stood at 3 feet, up 0.1 foot in 24 hours, a rise seen only once more in the past month.
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