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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1941
Page
2
Helen Fulton attended her niece Cathryn McConaughy and Lawrence Kozak's wedding in Davenport after recovering from a pelvic fracture. Various locals returned to Burlington, Ottumwa, Ames, and other towns for holidays, nursing studies, or sales meetings.
At the hospital this morning Mrs. Lester Jones and her daughter Janet Sue were discharged. Della Brookhart was also released from the hospital this morning.
The Journal prints a Christmas thank you from Mr. and Mrs. C. G. C. Owen for cards letters gifts and poinsettias received from many friends. They express sincere gratitude for all kindness shown.
Tom Pendergast leaves for Wichita to enter an aeronautical mechanics school for weeks. Mrs. Pendergast and Patty will visit relatives in West Branch. Mauree Applegate of Janesville visits her mother in Kalona. Ned Fry and others plan to fly to Miami for the All American air races January 10 11 and 12. Household socials mark New Year as Lloyd Humston hosts a party with N O C club members and pinochle winners announced.
Butler University enacted a campus weapon ban in 1876 stating students may not bring firearms, dirks, bowie knives, or other deadly weapons onto the premises. The ordinance reflects early campus safety measures and a strict prohibition on weapon possession by students.
Lizards can shed and later regrow tails when grabbed from behind. The detached tail breaks at a backbone joint and keeps wriggling to distract pursuers while the lizard makes its escape.
J L Coon of Iowa City was injured in a Monday morning crash four miles east of West Liberty on highway 6 when his car struck a Rieke Trucking truck. He suffered nine broken ribs a broken collar bone a brain concussion a severe forehead cut missing teeth and bruises. The 50 year old was thrown about 100 feet and taken to Mercy hospital Iowa City. He is a carpenter traveling from Rock Island Illinois. his wife Emma Hendrickson and daughter Mrs Clark Wagner and sister Mrs Earl Marshall are named family survivors.
Reports recount at sea heroism and harsh conditions aboard ships attacked by raiders with some survivors stating 132 prisoners were held without water. British air forces bombed Italian bases at Tiranto Naples Palermo and Cretonne during year-end operations. Greek troops push on in Albania with weather aiding advances while Petain urges France to work hard for victory in 1941.
First series honors famous Americans with stamps listing subjects, places and dates. Washington Irving at Tarrytown January 29, James Fenimore Cooper at Cooperstown January 29, Ralph Waldo Emerson at Roseton February 5, Louisa May Alcott at Concord February 5, Samuel L. Clemens at Hannibal February 13.
A local Chinatown war relief benefit plans a free cleaning of a giant Chinese flag. The flag arrived, measuring 3,375 square feet and weighing 300 pounds, claimed by its owners to be the biggest Chinese flag in the world.
Iowa officials forecast maximum participation in 1941 as 73 counties join the AAA conservation materials program. Release notes rising use of triple super phosphate and limestone. bulk contracts and deferred payment linked to soil conservation units. In 1940, 49 counties used the program, with high efficiency and strong returns from lime and phosphate investments.
Des Moines Iowa based Polk County Red Cross reports sending 200 sweaters and 1 723 other garments to England and France from September 1939 to last April. A war relief fund drive raised 42000 in Polk County last spring. Since July 1 the chapter sent 4488 garments 1610 sweaters and 17000 gauze dressings to England.
Des Moines officials of the Congress of Industrial Organizations said the CIO has not endorsed the Iowa Council for Peace and the Preservation of Democracy, an group opposing aid to Great Britain. The note followed a council meeting at the YWCA addressed by Charles McCullough, Des Moines, vice president of the Iowa Nebraska Industrial Union council.
A Brockway truck from Muscatine and formerly of the area, loaded with pig feed, caught fire on highway 92 about three miles east of Columbus Junction on Tuesday afternoon, December 31, and burned before it could be driven onto the shoulder. No injuries occurred.
In a case involving a Spanish veteran of the Araeei gig war, the widow was not awarded the veteran’s pension but was permitted to receive a separate personal pension in certain cases. The decision highlights the nuanced handling of survivor benefits and individual pension allowances.
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