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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1940
Page
1
In Cedar Rapids St Luke's Hospital attendants used a magnet to remove a small steel fragment from Elroy Hoylman’s eye. The shard came loose from a staple his father was pounding.
Waterloo court clerk Ira W. Blough reports a marriage license issued April 20 was returned intact with a note from the bride explaining her parents stopped the ceremony and she will not wed him or anyone else. The couple was of legal age at the time.
District Judge Frank Shankland granted a bench parole to Richard Fox of Adel after he pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. Fox, 22, was sentenced to six months in county jail and paroled to Rev. Charles Parsons, superintendent of the Iowa Society for the Friendless. The judge cited Fox’s marriage and several children, recommended parole by Dallas County officers, and no prior arrest record.
Edward Nisson of Waterloo sues in district court for annulment of his marriage to Vera Lippert alias Germaine Olson. He alleges they wed May 1, 1939 in Toledo and that she used the name Germaine Olson. He claims she was then legally married to William Lippert of Black Hawk county, as shown by a divorce filing she made April 18 in district court seeking a decree of divorce from Lippert.
John J. Gallagher files a $5,000 damage suit in district court against the Iowa State Board of Education the State University of Iowa General Hospital and nurse Galacia Davis alleging negligence caused permanent leg and arm injuries in 1938 after hot water bags were left on his limbs until burned to the bone.
A dinner in the North Side cafe gathered fifteen captains for the Boy Scouts of America finance drive in Washington. Oney B. Thiel, Scout executive, attended with team leaders. The drive, aimed at funding the program, runs through next Tuesday evening with each captain directing five volunteers.
Dedicatory services for St. John’s Lutheran church Wellman will be held Sunday with visiting ministers. The men built the church with a basement 22 by 58 feet using native white oak, and all work was donated. The auditorium seats about 200. Rev. W F Krueger will receive keys and lead the congregation inside. Sermons by Rev. C Hesse of Eldora and Rev. P W Happer of Wilton Junction accompany special music.
A buff brick service station for the American Petroleum Co. rises at the corner of South Iowa Avenue and East Jefferson Street south of the square. Roy C. Smith, Davenport president of the independent firm, will supervise. Marshall Smith, pre law student at the State University of Iowa, will run the station when ready in about two weeks. The facility includes private and main offices, double bays, restrooms, but no mechanical work. Nearby stations include Iowa City, Columbus Junction and Muscatine.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Witting will return from Des Moines this evening after attending a two day state wide Sunday school convention yesterday.
DES MOINES April 26 Two men will oppose Governor George A. Wilson for the Republican nomination for governor at the June primary. They are H. R. Gross of Des Moines, former radio news commentator, and living Knudson of Jewell, former member of the state highway commission. Harlan A. Riggs of Des Moines who had announced as a candidate did not file nom ination papers.
In Iowa district one crewmate Thomas F Mertia a Republican from Iowa City faces no opposition in the general but three contenders in the Democratic Primary James M Bell Burlison Zoe Nabers Fort Madison and James France Tipton For state representatives from the Washington County district two Republicans run with the Democratic slate rejected Representative E L Stewart opposed by T Reagan Adams Kalona No state senator election for Henry Washington district as A Claire Dewey Washington holds over County offices seek nomination papers by May 30 with the county auditor.
J Jungbluth of Washington testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington arguing the Putman Act would harm consumers and local economies. He warns that limits on chain stores would force shoppers to rely on larger cities and hurt small county seats while price competition benefits remain essential.
Machine guns lined the streets and armored cars patrolled Dublin after a powerful land mine exploded in the lower yard of Dublin Castle. Troops arrived by lorry as the blast shattered masonry up to three feet thick and shook the city.
Ira Chase former Los Angeles communist party organizer told the Dies committee the party seeks to organize basic industries to trigger a general strike. He warned a general strike could become civil war and threaten the government by using labor groups to seize key sectors.
A federal grand jury indicted 122 people on charges of participating in an illicit liquor ring. The defendants allegedly defrauded the government of more than 1.6 million dollars in liquor taxes over the last ten months, marking a record in the number of individuals involved and described by federal agents as the largest bootlegging operation ever uncovered.
Four hundred workers of the Great Lakes Towing company walked out at six this morning paralyzing operations in 17 Great Lakes ports across seven states. AF of L. President John Malley said all units except Lorain Ohio voted to authorize the strike. The walkout also idle 500 to 700 tug captains and engineers.
Rev Claude Breidenthal of the Washington Church of Christ will discuss The Church and Its Stewardship Program at the southeastern Iowa district convention of Churches of Christ. The event, May 1, is at the Ottumwa Davis Street church with pastors from Hedrick Ottumwa Knoxville Chariton Fort Madison Oskaloosa Bloomfield and Des Moines on the program. A men’s banquet follows in the evening and luncheons for ministers and their wives are scheduled at noon.
Mrs. Della F. Richardson, 63, died at 11 30 am in Washington County Hospital after a gradual decline due to diabetes. She lived at 221 East Seventh Street and had worked as a practical nurse in recent years. Born Della Wilkin in Dutch Creek Township on September 15, 1876, she married William Richardson in Jefferson on March 12, 1905, later residing in South Dakota and Twin Falls Idaho before returning to Washington County. Funeral plans are handled by L A Jones Funeral Home, with service details pending.
A Newton Iowa blaze destroyed a combined garage and apartment building near the square. Eight people fled in night attire as firemen pulled Mr. and Mrs. Carl Perryman from smoke and their two sons escaped unhurt. The one story rear section housed mechanics and storage. twenty six cars burned. loss about fifty thousand dollars.
Fire at a flimsy wooden Rhythm club in Natchez caused 198 deaths and panic. Authorities say iron bars over windows and lattice work blocked exits, with only two windows and the door serving as escapes.
She is survived by her husband, four sons and two daughters Raymond S. of Washington, Alvin of Kalona, Earl and Alice at home, Mrs. James T. Stewart Crawfordsville, and Harold W. Yakima Washington. Three grandchildren, five sisters Miss Griswold Myrtle Wilkin Cooper Iowa, Mrs. John Calvert Jefferson, Mrs. Ellen Richardson California, Mrs. Clarence Wheatland Newburg Iowa. One brother and one sister are deceased.
Sir John Anderson told the House of Commons that the war must be waged with all strength and will crack down on fifth column activities including soap box protestors with Nazi and communist sympathies in public parks.
President Roosevelt issues an executive proclamation announcing a state of war between Norway and Germany and declares U S neutrality. He also bars submarines from U S ports and territorial waters and applies cash and carry neutrality to Norway.
German forces report success along a broad central Norway line from Steinkjer to Ringebu while British lines withdraw from Lillehammer. Allied communications to forward positions reportedly disrupted as Berlin press described gains, with Narvik holding out in the north and Otta targeted about 85 miles southeast of Ringebu.
The official news agency D N B reported German bombing planes at low altitude dispersed concentration and remnants of the main Norwegian army around Dombaas. It also claimed two British transports were hit by heavy bombs and a British minesweeper sunk off Norway's west coast.
Paris April 25 news from Navy Commissioner Cesar Camptnchi reports French warships sank two German patrol ships and a U boat in the Skagerrak after engaging a hostile flotilla yesterday.
Lee Boone found his barn burned to ruins at the dairy farm south of Christiansburg. Fifteen Holstein cows perished in the blaze along with a mule and a horse. Hay and feed were destroyed and the loss was pegged at about $3,000.
Iowa Memorial Union trustees election results list six students for the Memorial Union board and three for the Student Publications Inc. board. Elected to the Memorial Union were Martha Koeb Evansville Margaret Kuitler Davenport Josephine Sidwell Iowa City John Bangs Fairfield James Bramwell Cedar Rapids and Martin O Connor Des Moines. Elected Student Publications trustees were Bill Sener Chicago Robert Kadghin Iowa City and Deming Smith Topeka.
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