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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1932
Page
6
Nearly six hundred shopmen on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad are ordered to return to work Monday after a brief layoff. Officials are optimistic the stoppage will be in permanent or quickly resolved.
In Sioux City a New Year’s Eve party ended in tragedy for Fritz Elfring 43 of Watertown D and an unnamed woman. Elfring visiting relatives attended a chicken shack celebration and after dancing with his companion he drove her to relatives’ home. The pair were last seen yesterday morning and were not heard from since.
Local report: two bodies found in a parked car in a garage with carbon monoxide evidence. Warranted by police, the investigation notes ambiguity over whether one death was accidental or self-inflicted. William Rettberg, 56, was found dead at his home 12 miles southeast, with head and shoulders submerged in a water barrel, raising questions about the cause.
George S. Wright a respected bachelor attorney of Council Bluffs notes women and whiskey resemble in strength and impact. He expects leap year attention as he turns 64 this month and plans to take women in mild doses, echoing his joke about strong effects.
Four railroad employees were shot and several others jailed after a court found them negligent in a train wreck near Khabarovsk. The verdicts were announced today by the Soviet regional court, with prosecutors arguing failure to follow safety procedures led to the disaster.
Chicago faces a desperate tax crisis after a court ruled levies from the past two years fraudulent and void. The city now presses for immediate legislative action to secure relief and stabilize finances.
Tens of thousands of northern Mississippi residents fled as flood waters rose along the Tallahatchie River. Levees failed and three towns Miamimi, Stone, and Curtis were evacuated, marking a major relocation as the flood worsened.
Snow sleet and high winds paralyzed telegraph and telephone lines in Ontario towns. Fruit areas suffered damage as the storm disrupted traffic and commerce across the province.
Lincoln Neb Jan 2 Traffic resumed on main highway arteries in eastern and central Nebraska after the heaviest snowstorm of the season.
Ten years ago today a horse and buggy collided with a Ford at the southeast corner of the square Sunday evening. Neither driver saw the other until too late. No injuries occurred and the horse was unharmed though the buggy was badly damaged.
A local druggist GEO L McDANIEL advertises washlights from 0c to $2.00 and promises quick film developing in a few hours. Weather forecast notes cloudy tonight and fair Sunday.
Forty members of the Harmony club attended a full day event at Mrs. James Brooks home. A pot luck dinner preceded a program titled indoor chautauqua with music, fiddling, a men's quartet, and other entertainment led by Mrs. W. M. Montgomery. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Shaw Grace Shaw Fred Shaw and Will Cherry.
Fourteen guests attended the New Year’s Day goose dinner at the C P Essley home served at noon. The gathering included the Harmons, Nicolas, McCleerys and Essleys. It marked the final holiday festivity for this relatives group this season.
The forecast covers Jan 4 to 9 for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the Northern and great plains. Expect rather frequent precipitation with temperatures normal or below for most of the period.
Forty five Japanese sailors were removed from the distressed freighter Tamaho Maru south of the Probleff islands by the Steamer Reigo Maru. The abandoned ship was left to founder after the rescue.
Paris January 2 General Gerald Pau a famed World War I hero died at his Paris home today at age 83. The veteran officer led key campaigns and became a symbol of French military leadership.
Ames Iowa Jan 2 The Iowa state highway commission called for bids today on 12.8 miles of paving in four counties The bids will be opened Jan 5 Dallas County has the largest single project with 13.778 miles of primary road No 7.
The Rockefeller Foundation offers fellowships in graduate medicine and public health. Fellowship decisions are made on a case by case basis with no fixed system and no public announcements.
Reportedly connected bomb plotting spread across multiple cities as investigators probe mysterious packages. Authorities guard prominent Italian-American figures in Chicago and Newark while a New Haven package undergoes chemical testing for potential contents.
Cottage prayer meetings will be held each morning next week at 9 30 except Saturday The deaders on Monday morning will be in each ward division at specified homes with leaders named The subject is Prayer for Safety in and Loyalty to a Conquering Christ Eph 3 14 21
Walter Bray worked on wood this past week for several neighbors. James Vestal ground feed for local residents including Carlos Watson H C Jones and Jalen Hoskins. Mrs Albert Jones and daughters Wilma and Vanetta visit her parents in Des Moines. Teachers and students are home for Christmas and New Year. The Palmers Union family gathered at the Prank Pacha home with most members present. The next meeting will be with the Joe Pacha family on Jan 1932.
A lengthy Chicago roundup nets thirty arrests as investigators say a Midwest kidnapping ring tied to gamblers liquor operators and other businesses operated like a formal racket. Victims John J. Lynch and James Hackett linked to the gang with earlier arrests and releases. Units extend to Peoria and St Louis with hideouts near Chicago suburbs and ransom schemes run through a Chicago headquarters.
Braden Henry Hunt Homer Hunt Carey Long and Lewis Herring traveled to Washington on business Wednesday. Mrs C M Maxwell and son Leland visited Chas Sitrothman’s home near New London on Tuesday. Mrs Delbert Maxwell also spent the day with Mrs Maxwell.
Francis Haney begins work at Welch Moore shoe co in Washington. Herman Eagle and Leona Bales apply for a marriage license. Donna Joan Garret born December 24 to Mr and Mrs Garret on East Second Street. Marian Anderson returns to Chicago to resume studies at Bryant Stratton. Tom Montgomery visits Washington then Davenport. Dahlia roots dug December 30 survive winter. bulk story claims record. Reverend Millis Taylor broadcasts from KDKA.
Five morning prayer meetings are scheduled from Monday to Friday at nine o’clock at the Y M C A. Each session will last about thirty minutes. All men in the community are invited to attend.
Mason officers at Washington Lodge were installed for the year with G. E F. Mace named master and others including H. J. Turner senior warden Shirley Clark junior warden William Bealer senior deacon Robert Patterson junior deacon Tom Carson senior steward Francis Skipton junior steward C. J. Sloat tyer George McDaniel treasurer and A. W. Yard secretary. Christmas dinner held at Frank Hesseltine home. Pauline Smith of near Washington visited CC Maxwell home. Delbert Maxwell and Grover Booths hosted relatives near Ainsworth. Leland Maxwell visited Rex Smith home west of Ainsworth.
Mrs W W Matthess reports Christmas and holiday visits in Lexington with extended family. R D Anderson and daughter Betty Jo visited the Everet Fleming home. Wade Gardner and son Jerry traveled to Washington. Ed Kleenburs and son spent Christmas at Mrs Lampert’s east of Ainsworth. Charlene Matthess stayed with her grandmother in Washington. O Patterson hosted children and grandchildren on Christmas Day. Milford Anderson and wife at FE Young home. Ernest Strum and family visited Sam Oldfield. Warren Matthess and Charlene joined Mrs J T Schully. John Patterson was a Kalona visitor.
An old superstition that sleeping in moonlight causes insanity is asserted to have no scientific support. The claim is dismissed as lacking evidence.
Mrs Esta Birney returns from Kalona where she visited her daughter Mrs Roy Krotz.
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