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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1936
Page
1
Des Moines column notes Ross Ewing, state executive council secretary, ordered a New Year holiday for state house employees after a resolution to close on Thanksgiving and Christmas days. He stated he would close it anyway and would welcome an investigation.
The 6 weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Irving Mussett underwent an operation to create an opening into the stomach for feeding. The procedure was reportedly successful and the baby has been fed by subcutaneous injections since birth.
Five men start the ice harvest at Crystal Lake three miles southwest of Sioux City. Central West Public Service Co. reports 20 000 tons left from last year and 80 700 tons will be stored during the 10 day harvest. Workers toil in shifts of 250 day and night. The Jake ice serves packing houses, not homes.
Assistant attorney general Harry Garrett states finance companies with conditional sales contracts may repossess and relicense cars when owners lose both car and driver licenses for unpaid judgments related to automobile accidents. The ruling applies to owners who have not paid off notes secured against them.
A statewide rise in teachers salaries is noted in the 1925-36 Iowa educational yearbook compiled by the state department of public instruction. Des Moines schools show the sole decrease in pay among reported districts.
Des Moines reports Governor states he is sick and tired of liquor seals. He complains that he cannot even look at a postage stamp without a shudder.
United Press reports 1986 began with a high spending spree as restaurants hotels and bars stayed busy. New York alone saw over 2.5 million in sales and total US spending pegged at about ten million with curfews lifted and many venues open all night.
A busy Washington New Year mood marked by parties late into the night and bright greetings to friends. Ralph Pratt at the State theater hosted a full house for a Warner Bros musical "Broadway Hostess" with balloons caps and noise-makers, signaling a hopeful start to 1936.
Victor Hampton a 2 percent radio amateur long bedridden since a 1928 school fire drill injury endured severe hiccoughs and a fever of 106. Doctors report only brief sleep in six days and Hampton remains bedfast with paralysis for years. He later led the American Research and Engineering Co., a group of young inventors.
Assistant attorney general Clair Hamilton treats a young audience by attempting a sled run, promising to go down standing up. He travels about three feet before nose dives, followed by a bandaged knee and a mishap, showcasing a playful mishap.
Des Moines reports the 24th cavalry division headquarters of the National Guard approved by the Secretary of War. Adj. Gen. Chas I of Iowa notified as the first nationwide approval of a National Guard division headquarters after a year of work by town officials and others in states with divisions.
Mrs. Howard Huston along with Jack and Craig visited a shop in Columbus Junction. Details of their visit or purpose are not provided in the fragment.
Price grows potatoes for a family sized meal. From one hill he gathered 45 potatoes weighing 60 pounds in total. The report notes each tuber was large enough to feed an average family.
A compact retrospective lists key 1935 headlines: Mary Pickford divorce, Earhart Pacific flight, Akron dirigible disaster, Hauptmann trial verdict, Versailles Treaty scrap, relief bill passage, Ochs death, Stresa talks, India quake toll, King Edward Silver Jubilee, Supreme Court decisions, naval war games, Bolshoi air and sea events, Italo Ethiopa conflict, Roosevelt neutrality, League actions, Greece, Kingsford Smith records, Philippine Commonwealth inauguration, Antarctic flight, and multiple political shifts and disasters.
A weather report notes December 1935 had six subzero days and a high of 43 degrees. The coldest day was December 26, and Christmastime stayed near five degrees above zero. Eleven inches of snowfall occurred with 1.53 inches total moisture, near normal for the area.
Bert Johnson 22 of Yorktown Iowa is held for the murder of his father Elmer Johnson eight miles west of Clarinda. He says the father upbraided him for ditching the car on a Marysville Missouri trip and threatened him with a wrench before the youth fetched a shotgun to kill.
Washington January 1 Roosevelt will deliver his annual congressional message to Congress in person Friday night marking the first time a president speaks to Congress in a high level session. The announcement stirred political speculation about the administration's agenda and priorities.
County officials resume duties for 1936 as Fred Bauer starts a new three year term after earlier filling a vacancyleft by Roy Mapel. At five o clock yesterday the board counted cash in courthouse offices as required by law before year end.
Sheriff Harold M. Putnam retrieved the John Lemmon automobile near Town City after it was abandoned in Iowa City. The car was unharmed with only enough gas to reach a station. Missing items included Christmas package wrappings, a jointed fishing rod, and a new corn cob pipe once in the car. The find was reported to Sheriff Don Me. Comas of Johnson County.
Thurman Briggs prepared for a hunting trip when a small snake hidden in a boot bit him in the heel at Lexington. He reported the incident and sought medical attention for the bite.
British and American aviation groups near agreement on a round the world air transport service. Lindbergh may represent Pan American in talks with Imperial Airways to link US Europe routes via Bermuda and the Azores. Imperial and Pan American study connecting services from Hawaii to New Zealand and Australia to New Zealand.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said he will remain in England for at least six months. He indirectly acknowledged fears of another kidnapping attempt and spoke about the death of his son, answering questions via W. H. Gregory of Morgan Bank.
Three young men died in Milford Connecticut when their car crashed into a trailer truck and gasoline ignited, spraying fuel over the vehicle and causing a large fire. In East St Louis Illinois a separate crash with a Pennsylvania train killed two men and a woman while another woman was seriously injured. victims’ identities and license plates could not be learned immediately.
Herman C. Kroes named district supervisor, with 62 enumerators to canvass eleven counties. Census offices to open in Ft. Madison. four staffers to handle work. Enumerators sworn to confidentiality. reports cover 1935 operations across hotels, banks, contractors, real estate, trucking, and more. Results will be tabulated in Philadelphia to show numbers of firms, total volume, payrolls, and employment.
Bedford Iowa dispatch reports two people died and six were seriously hurt in a weather related automobile crash 138 miles north of Bedford. The dead are Walter Van Houten 52 Lenox attorney and Jane Jostes 8 of Chicago.
The Imperial Airways flying boat City of Khartoum went down in the sea off Alexandria late yesterday. The admiralty reported twelve missing, including nine passengers, among them an American, an Italian, two British women, and two Greeks.
A gas leak caused an explosion in a Buffalo tenement killing three people and seriously injuring four. At least three others remain buried in the wreckage as the three story building loses its rear wall.
Incensed Swedes abandon celebrations as reports claim a Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia suffered nine deaths and 24 injuries from Italian bombs. Authorities bolster security at the Italian legation as Rome defends the bombardment as justified after Italian aviators were killed.
Emperer Halle Selassie protested to the League of Nations against the bombing of a Swedish hospital unit yesterday. Similar protests are to be prepared and forwarded to the United States and France.
An unusually heavy crop of spiders of all varieties appeared in Cape Girardeau Missouri this year. Officials believe the eggs were blown in from the southwest.
The first day of the year brings an open house program at Washington D M A with hundreds of visitors expected. Secretary Leigh Soule and Custodian Ed Squire led prep work this morning. Afternoon events include a volleyball game and swimming exhibition followed by two basketball games in the gym in the evening.
Ernst Jergens a German instructor at Washington junior college was born and raised in Germany. He came to America ten years ago and has relatives near Davenport which is why he is visiting Iowa.
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