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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1940
Page
1
Chariton voters endorsed Central States Electric Co. of Cedar Rapids for a 25 year gas franchise by 465 to 29. If approved the utility would cut gas rates starting Monday and invest 20,000 dollars in three months for a new purifying system.
Ten Great Wesvern railroad refrigerator cars loaded with meat ran into a bridge at Lida near the North River while a Kansas City pan oil train passed. A truck on one car broke as the train crossed the bridge. The meal special train was 24 cars long. No crew injuries were reported.
Dr Charles C Smith of the National Association of Manufacturers addresses Central College students warning that untrained hands and unthinking minds threaten civilization. He calls for stronger technological training and notes the trains of America are in the middle west with fresh ozone to aid brain cells.
Des Moines referee in bankruptcy Kay C. Fountain ruled Victoria Sanatorium Colfax remains liable for taxes after 1935. Jasper County had sought instruction for the trustee to pay $4,104.14 in taxes and interest. The trustee Willard F. Dullard argued the sanatorium was charitable and exempt.
OTTUMWA residents hear German exile F Wilhelm Seilman urge a lasting peace through a coalition of nations. He argues European nations may face another war in 20 or 30 years if the defeated are humiliated, and envisions a United States of Europe to secure dawn peace.
Clyde Turkington and Wayland Hopley figure among officers as Iowa Beef Producers join three other state groups to form a livestock council. The council aims to coordinate activities and protect producers' interests across Iowa. Turkington serves as vice president, with Roy F. O'Donnell as secretary and Hopley as president.
DES MOINES Iowa becomes the middle northwest distributing point for new Ford tractors. The Ford plant will be used as a warehouse and prepared immediately to handle the tractors. The middle northwest territory includes Iowa Minnesota North and South Dakota Nebraska and part of Illinois.
The Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers board approved a four day leadership short course September 11 and 12 at Iowa State College Ames. The program will be sponsored by the state college faculty with cooperation from the State University of Iowa Iowa State Teachers College and the Parent-Teacher Congress. The board also advanced youth service work on human relationships and vocational guidance led by A J Draper of Des Moines.
The House voted against developing the Guam Island harbor citing fears it would drag the United States into a far eastern conflict and raise the nation’s danger of involvement in war.
Frank Goecke of State Center earned two of four trophies at the eighteenth annual Iowa State Corn and Small Grain show held during Farm and Home week at Iowa State College. He won the Whiting trophy for grand champion in the 10 car class and the McCulloch trophy for grand champion in the 80 car class.
Wealthy William Astor II heir to the Astor fortune is photographed on a Palm Beach Florida beach. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John Jacob Astor and a rare subject for pictures.
President Roosevelt cruised the Caribbean aboard the Tuscaloosa for a ten day fishing trip. He traveled with two destroyers for escort and withheld the destination, fueling speculation in Washington.
Betty Burt is home from a visit with relatives and friends in Oska loosa and Delta. Mr and Mrs J A MarSo and Mrs Wylie Anderson accompanied Mrs Marietta Workman to Chicago. Mrs Anderson visited until Thursday and others returned Tuesday eve ning. Mr and Mrs J D Rabenold are in Ex celsior Springs for a few days. Mrs Rabenold spent the weekend in Chillicothe with Frieda Rabel d. Mrs Florence Goble is home from an extended visit with her brother Wil Strain and Mrs Strain at Keota. The Kensington club met with Mrs Ruth Norris with eight members. Social time and needlework followed. hostess served a one course luncheon.
Leonard Beal of Belle Plaine suffers the loss of two fingers on his right hand after his fingers were caught in a truck starting mechanism at his home. The incident occurred today and left him unable to operate the vehicle.
Golf Club directors will be elected and other business handled at the annual stockholders meeting tonight at 7 50 at the YMCA. Attendance of all stockholders is urged.
Saturday in Washington marks John Deere Day with free farm events. Jim Stewart from Farmer's Implement Store invites farmers and families to attend all day of entertainment at the new Armory on the west end of Madison Street.
Fourteen barbers in Washington gathered for a dinner last evening at the North Side cafe. Tom Rickey and Ted Pratt led arrangements and plans were made for a similar monthly meeting with the next event set for March 14 under Clarence Berkhoft and Frank Shepherd. The group will follow Chamber of Commerce holiday observances.
Representatives from eight Iowa cooperative oil companies outlined plans in Ames to form the Power Alcohol Cooperative Association. The non stock firm will build a plant at the former Ford site to produce 2,500 gallons of corn alcohol daily using 1,000 bushels of corn, with further co operators joining.
Mrs Genevieve Couper of Britt leaves a daily basket of nuts and tidbits on her porch. The tame squirrels pick their preferred nuts and move them to the railing.
The Republican National Committee set June 24 as the 1940 nominating convention date with Chicago as the favored site over Philadelphia. Republicans aim to nominate President Roosevelt for a third term, arguing the New Deal undermines the American system and seeks EuropeanDictatorship planning.
District Judge Earl Peters sentenced Glenwood undertaker Frank Raynor to up to eight years in Fort Madison penitentiary and fined him $500 plus costs after a jury conviction for involuntary manslaughter. The case arose from a collision between Raynor's hearse and Edward Brewer's car, in which Brewer's wife and baby daughter Shirley died of injuries.
Dr. Charles Copeland Smith of the National Association of Manufacturers argued that cutting taxes would spur investment in capital goods, rebuilding machinery and boosting employment. He noted 1929 era high unemployment tied to tax-driven cuts in capital spending and urged readiness for a new technological age at the Farm and Home Week events at Iowa State College with about 5000 Rural Young People registering. Governor George Wilson praised progress in farming communities and spoke on town agriculture at the Farm and Home Week banquet.
Miss Marian Telford of the National Safety Council spoke on Home Safety to Farm and Home Week in Ames Iowa. She said accidents are the fourth leading cause of death behind heart disease cancer and pneumonia and warned one in four families may have an accident this year. She cited home accidents rivaling traffic in rate with falls burns explosions and poisonings as top causes and urged individuals to accept responsibility to improve home safety.
Rainfall totaled .15 of an inch overnight and this morning per the official weather observer. The precipitation is steadily melting snow on the ground as temperatures ranged from 33 to 40 degrees in the last 24 hours.
Helsinki February 16 reports a war communique that the Russian army in an offensive against the Mannerheim line has penetrated Finnish positions at three points on the Karelian Isthmus despite heavy losses.
Stockholm reports Finland pressed Sweden for military help after a major Soviet push toward Kamara and Viipuri. Sweden refuses transit of troops to preserve neutrality, while Britain authorizes Britons to serve in Finnish forces in a decree published in the London Gazette.
Paris reports Hang Kuhn a Luxembourg subject was shot after his 1940 attempt to cross the frontier with French armament plans. Clemency appeals for Kuhn and two French co defendants were denied, while German spies also had appeals rejected. A suspected female espionage agent, described as blond and titled, faced imminent trial.
Miss Bachelor, principal at Hawthorn School in Independence, saved magazines and newspapers for ten years and realized 243.40 in that time. All funds were expended for the benefit of the school children.
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