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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1936
Page
1
The Shenandoah Kiwanis tour committee, which sponsored European tours in 1926 and 1930 carrying over 600 people, is interviewing steamship line representatives for a new trip to the British Isles with potential continental extension.
A 13 year old Sigourney boy confessed to robbing a lumber company office a shop and two homes in town and stealing two automobiles for joy rides. District Judge J G Patterson reserved judgment and sent the youth to jail pending further action.
Charles City resident Lewis Kamin, 63, died at his home from heart disease. He was found in a rocking chair and death was attributed to natural causes after a medical examination.
Carl Cook of Glenwood, state Republican chairman, likened President Roosevelt to Ed Wynn during a luncheon here. He said the president would be the Ed Wynn of the night and added that his statements cannot be relied upon.
Two horses drowned when ice broke under them at the west end of Storm Lake. The driver, Fred Hartjes, escaped unharmed as he used the team to scrape snow before cutting ice. The incident occurred during early winter operations on the lake.
Des Moines area invitations to a WPA administrator L. S and Hill were not warmly received. Farley’s airmail invite to the Jackson Day dinner in Washington, D C is set for next Wednesday as Democrats aim to spur a campaign jackpot. Hill noted the dinner price of 50 dollars and said he probably would not attend.
A surgeon identified as Pr. M Brush will travel 700 miles to Shenandoah to perform an operation. He plans to motor to Mt Vernon Missouri with Prof. A W Martin of Tarkio College. Prof. Martins daughter is ill there.
Vinton resident Ed Basset a wagon maker fell ten feet through an open elevator shaft at Burd hardware store. He struck his head and suffered a concussion with injuries not described as life threatening.
The state board of health reports for the last week of 1935 that 141 persons were confined with scarlet fever as the leading disease and 140 new mumps cases. Boon County accounts for 64 mumps cases, while chickenpox has 61 new cases and other diseases include 12 diphtheria cases, three meningitis, two infantile paralysis, two smallpox, and two measles.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Alliman and their family from Trenton Iowa visited the town yesterday for a shopping outing and related family trip.
The county corn-hog offices announce a schedule of township meetings across Washington county to discuss the 1936 37 program. Sessions run January 11 13 14 and 16 at various schools halls and churches with contract discussions applications and county committee elections for three members per township.
Franklin D. Wenger, born Jan 2 at 2 30 am in the county hospital, is the only newborn reported in Washington County since New Year. The Journal will finalize the awards Tuesday with prizes likely to go to the Wenger family unless other claimants file a late entry.
Jackson and Roy Coryell of Dubuque Iowa are jailed awaiting arraignment on shoplifting charges after being stopped by Sheriff Harold M Putnam following a Montgomery Ward store theft. Police found 11 pairs of women's stockings and other stolen goods in their car, including 15 pairs of gloves and two suits.
City Hall will start a WPA funded project next Wednesday to redecorate walls ceilings and woodwork and install new floors in the council chamber city clerk's office and police room. Foreman Jack Kupka will lead five to six workers for two to three weeks as a new fireproof record vault six by nine by eight feet is added south of the clerk's office with a new south wall window.
Dr Boice will address the Baptist young people on Sunday evening January 6 about the medical profession. This event is part of a series of vocational guidance meetings.
President Roosevelt challenged big forces to abandon generalities and accept New Deal standards or drop them. He framed international and domestic issues in two parts and urged no new taxes this session. He warned on peace risks abroad and noted progress from depression with rising employment and income.
Iowa City police report Joe Mulvaney and Glenn Anderson confessed to stealing a car in Mt. Pleasant, traveling to Washington, taking another car, wrecking it near Iowa City, then attempting a third theft. They spent a night in an unlocked church before being captured.
A typical Iowa resident with a 1935 salary of 1600 dollars paid 195 dollars in direct taxes and 30.59 in three point taxes. The tax box score tracks annual experience across sales, gasoline, state income, property, city polls, cigarette, old age pension, county head tax, auto license, telephone and other levies. Total direct taxes equal about 12.2 percent of income with a refund of 2.78 dollars on three point taxes.
Joe Mulvaney and Glenn Anderson of Mt. Pleasant were arrested after a stolen car and siphoned gasoline from an S. Rothschild vehicle were traced to the pair. Henry county Sheriff Klein planned to escort them to Mt. Pleasant for arraignment, with questions about additional thefts in his county.
Miss Carolyn MecCleery returns to Monmouth Illinois today after a visit. Local residents welcomed her home as she resumes her activities in the community.
Trustees of the Rock Island railway apply to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to abandon 10.27 miles of track between Iowa City and Iowa Junction northeast of Riverside. The branch connects the main line at Iowa City with the Muscatine to Montezuma line.
Johnson county farmers protested the expenditure of 50 000 in Iowa WPA farm to market road funds for beautifying No 161 between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids calling the spend foolishness. The petitions labeled the project wasteful.
Hilma Dodds is appointed deputy clerk of court and named local registrar of vital statistics for the Washington area and nearby county. She will maintain birth and death records reported to her.
A schedule change brings a Journal building second floor exhibit next week with a University of Iowa show Monday and Tuesday, then moved to the high school. A Y M C A meeting Thursday aims to form a Washington camera club. The University display features twenty enlarged works from 1934 and 1985 salons with titles and photographers listed.
From Addis Ababa dispatches report Italy expanded aerial operations in Ethiopia. Five Italian planes bombed a Red Cross station near Daggabur, with no casualty details given. Northern gas attacks killed ten and wounded fifteen near Makale, and two Italian pilots died in a crash near the Sudan frontier.
Washington county supervisors renewed for another year the contract with the county medical society to furnish medical care for the needy at 1800 dollars annually. Doctors will render care and minor operations up to a value of 2250 dollars with any excess at 50 percent of usual prices, under welfare worker orders.
Edsall Brown came back from Chicago after visiting his aunt Mrs Fay B Edsall. He brought his brother Paul and Pauls daughter Joan luggage both missed the train and are expected to arrive today.
G W Stewart reports from the Igeyasyu Shrine area as O J Baldwin and Weld leave the scene while tracks mark a chilly journey in the snow.
A. J. Rankin of the Three Quarter Century club recalls witnessing a 1872 tornado in Washington County. He was harrowing a field when a neighbor’s barn rose hundreds of feet and shattered. Rankin unhitched his team and hid by a hedge as the cyclone blew him side to side for about a minute. Debris tangled in his field required digging barn fragments free.
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