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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1937
Page
1
Davenport authorities seek two men called phony jewelry peddlers who obtained 25 dollars from two filling station attendants with worthless jewelry left as security in a daylight scam.
Cedar Rapids Dr Harry Morehouse Gage president of Coe college will be the speaker at Drake university summer commencement on Aug 13. Fifty graduates will receive degrees as the term ends. Gage has led Coe since 1920 and previously headed the Association of American Colleges in 1922-23.
A threshing machine generator broke on a Missouri farm owned by Frank Heisel. Instead of a machinist, the broken part was taken to the nearby jewelry shop where workers fixed it promptly and the threshing operation continued without delay.
In Des Moines a rear Grand avenue hamburger shop lot has become a late night lovers lane. Customers unhappy when attendants fail to come out for service reply that many cars park there and demand service at the door.
Ed Wells 60 of Washington died at county hospital from injuries after a car left the road near Ainsworth yesterday evening. He lost control, plunged across a ditch to a willow tree, suffered head injuries and a broken leg. Funeral set for Sunday at L. A. Jones funeral home. Wells, born January 18 1877 in Dutch Creek Township, married Rozette Keister in Des Moines in 1911, leaves wife and two sons Walter and Curtis, plus brothers Marion and Roy.
Secretary Legh Soule reports July pool attendance at the Washington Y M C A totaling 2 403 with swimming instruction and tests leading to several advancements. Readouts show groups for non-swimmers beginners and swimmers, with totals and averages. special notes list passers of tests and junior life saving classes. Tennis courts remained in condition and about 25 people used them during the month as part of a city tournament.
Duane Peterson of Waterloo reported to police that he was duped at the Union Bus depot while waiting between buses. He lost $250 and a California vacation as two members of a known swindle ring raised the stakes from pennies to dollars in under thirty minutes.
The Logan amendment moved general supervision of the 370 million housing program to Secretary Harold Ickes by a 49 to 37 vote. Senators Clark and Vandenberg opposed the change in a heated session in Washington.
Oxford Junction Iowa August 6 a barn fire on the Frank Burresh farm destroyed the barn and revealed a 700 gallon still on the property sheriff H B Kichorn said Burresh lives three miles east of town and disappeared when the blaze started about 1000 cans likely for alcohol were found in the barn the sheriff called the still the largest he had ever seen and suspected the cans held alcohol before the fire.
A. Ralston of Washington public schools announced the school system will reopen on Monday September 6 following Usual national opening practice. Office hours begin August 23 for enrollment and course planning at the high school, with registration dates to be announced later for junior college and junior high.
C O Dayton returned from Washington with Des Moines based Farmers Processing Tax Recovery association to speak for hog producers before a Joint U S Senate House committee. The group urged a refund of the processing tax on hogs marketed for slaughter arguing farmers bore the burden under the AAA, and a joint resolution was introduced August 3 seeking refunds to raisers and producers.
FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover reports 36 Washington criminal fingerprints added to the permanent file in the 1937 fiscal year ending June 30. Most came from the city police, with voluntary civilian submissions totaling about 400,000 in the voluntary file. overall criminal prints exceed seven million.
About 150 Iowa farmers State conservation committeemen and extension workers met to study a 1938 soil conservation program. They kept maximum payments but trimmed several deductions including reducing the corn-price penalties and the overall per-acre reductions, despite objections to lowering the 1.75-dollar per acre figure.
The summer convocation at the State University of Iowa will bestow 406 degrees tonight. Among the recipients are William Zillmer of Wellman and Catherine White of Washington.
Reports say a clash at Hankow brought a declaration of war closer. About 300 Japanese landed at Hankow and Chinese troops were driven back in the Japanese concession after an anti-Japanese boycott. Japanese women and children evacuated as tensions rose and China's formal declaration looms.
August 6 dispatch lists new assignments for the Iowa State highway patrol. Ottumwa district 10 commander Sergeant Herbert Jannings and patrolmen Williams J. Matthias Samuel J. Shaffer Hans Alder shot Claude Donnelan James R. Taylor John Howard placed at Ottumwa. Mt Pleasant sub station adds B Bentzinger Harley Strader Carl Carlson. James Gildroy moves from Iowa City to Tama sub station covering Washington.
Hollywood, California. August 6. Mrs Ruby Zioncheck fired two shots through a window at a suspected intruder. Police rushed to the widow of former Congressman Marion Zioncheck's home and conducted a thorough search of the exclusive section but found no trace of the intruder.
Samuel S. Buser 72 of Riverside dies at home after a long illness. Funeral at Conesville Reform Church with Rev. Thompson presiding. Burial in Conesville. Survived by widow Mary A. Rose Buser and six children, plus brother Jonas Buser and 21 grandchildren. He was born April 1865 in Oskaloosa and spent years in Louisa and Washington counties.
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