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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1937
Page
1
Frantic Iowa City mother Mrs. M. E. Kinkaid located her daughter Nideen, 8, who had gone to the cinema to see Theodora Goes Wild at noon and stayed through four showings. Nideen said I liked it.
William White aged 62 is jailed in Council Bluffs after 12 years on the run. He faces charges of running off with 4000 dollars entrusted to him as a bank messenger while authorities traced him across Arkansas where he claimed to have farmed during the fugitive period.
A damaged eagle, weighed at about 25 pounds and two feet high, from Denison resident John F. Holst Jr. was treated at a local site and sent to Ledges State Park after recovery from an injury.
Workmen decorated the Iowa Statehouse rotunda with evergreens in preparation for the Thursday inauguration of Nelson G Kraschel as governor amid a possible house deadlock delaying the new term.
Everett Wadsworth of What Cheer arrested in Keswick after a What Cheer cafe incident. He was charged with assault and battery for striking his wife and shoving her through a cafe window.
Cherokee neck of the woods reports eight homes quarantined for smallpox down from eighteen before Christmas. Officials attribute the drop to wholesale vaccination of children and adults, curbing spread.
Ten classmates and an instructor volunteer to donate blood for Karl Lamoree a 19 year old Osceola junior college student with influenza related anemia. Two transfusions have been given and his condition remains critical.
DES MOINES Health Commissioner Dr. Harry E. Ransom warns influenza victims to rest and protect themselves after recovery. He says people push to work hard and stay up late, risking reinfection or pneumonia by exposing themselves to cold and fatigue.
SHENANDOAH Billy Burke a student at Iowa State College in Ames will go to San Diego Massachusetts in March to attend the Ryan School of Aeronautics. He has wanted to be an aviator since age eight. He attended Kemper Military Academy at Ho onville Missouri for one year. He is the son of W A Burke a prominent businessman.
An air compressor tank explosion damaged the Christensen garage and contents to about 1500 dollars but caused no injuries. Attendant Larry Dearth was nearby. The blast shattered plate glass and partitions and damaged machinery and autos, felt over a wide area and woke morning sleepers.
M. L. Crowder, 3, a University of Iowa chemistry graduate student, is the sole declared candidate for Iowa City mayor as the filing deadline nears. Crowder, from Huntington, West Virginia, says he is eligible after voting in Iowa City last November.
St Pauls Evangelical Church of Washington plans extensive remodeling with costs between 3000 and 3500 dollars. The new entry will be added at the southeast corner, interior redecorations, a larger pulpit platform, improved basement access, and a new roof to be started after awards next Wednesday.
Judge Frank Deechly impaneled the January term grand jury for Washington county district court. Charles Kennedy of Washington township designated foreman with Robert Kieper Iowa township Ed Swank Brighton township Howard Altenbernd Dutch Creek township O W Schmitter Clay township H M Stewart Crawford township W Munro Seventy-six township serving. Five 1937 panel members not drawn are Howard Anderson Washington Louis Eckhart Wellman John Jones Oregon township Charles Schiebel Franklin township F D Walker Marion township. All twelve members names listed.
A Washington county board meeting heard nearly 50 residents from Washington and Marion townships urge repairs on the eight mile Washington Coppock road from Red Brick school corner. They ask for grading surfacing with crushed rock and a new Crooked creek bridge, hoping inclusion in 1937 county improvements. Supervisors pledged consideration when compiling the road program.
Petty jury members, fifty drawn for the term, are to report for duties at the afternoon session though no jury case is expected today. Judge Beehly granted a divorce decree in Marguerite Skola Pierce versus J B Pierce.
President Roosevelt asked Congress for a 790 million dollar deficiency appropriation to run the WPA from February 1 to June 30. He told Speaker Bankhead the winter would require about 2.58 million unemployed to be aided, a figure nearly 800,000 fewer than last month due to the prior summer drought's impact on relief administration.
The Davenport Chamber of Commerce holds its first monthly meeting of the year Thursday at 6 30 p m at the Y M C A Guest night allows each member to bring one guest Speakers include Bob Willits Davenport and George Dempsey Washington with George McDaniel also on the program A radio drama is promised and Harry Ramseyer will preside O E Schmitt takes charge of preparations with the secretary post now held by him
Slick spots on highways across Washington County over the last two to three days have sent several cars into ditches or overturned. No injuries reported, yet vehicle damage common as drivers struggle on the icy surface. Ainsworth truck mishap involved Redman truck from Ottumwa colliding with a car driven by L W Herr. both drivers remained unhurt. Winter recreation thrives on icy slopes, with Sunset Park and the country club drawing crowds for sledding and skating despite slick main roads.
French charges of a German invasion of Spanish Morocco met denials from Spanish rebel leaders and skepticism in London. The British foreign office viewed the report as exaggerated while Germany protested. Britain moved to curb enlistment of volunteers in Spain and France was expected to follow. Italy hailed the gesture though cooperation among Italy, Germany, and Russia remained uncertain. Moscow planned a note to Britain rejecting a one sided agreement and urged a real control system possibly an international blockade.
Oskaloosa Iowa January 11 WPA worker Joe McNel aged 60 was killed instantly when two trucks collided on a curve amid packed snow on the road shoulders. Six others were injured including Fred Bishop Charles Wymore Dowling Eber Smith Frank McChuling Hardy Smith with Dowling Bishop Wymore in serious condition.
George Townsend world war veteran died Sunday at the veterans hospital in Des Moines after an illness of months. He was born June 22 1896 in Mt Hope Wisconsin and lived much of his life in Ainsworth Nebraska. Townsend served in the 6th division engineering unit from 1917 to 1919 and married Lillie Norris in 1920. He is survived by his wife, his father, a half sister Alice Stewart of Ainsworth and Harold Townsend of Elgin Illinois. He was a longtime resident of the Ainsworth area and a member of the American Legion.
Everett January 11. Snohomish County Chief of Detectives Ray Ryan announced that the body of a ten year old boy believed to be Charles Mattson, kidnapped son of a Tacoma physician, was found today in the woods six miles southwest of Everett near the Edmonds highway.
Iowa's district and miscellan eous court costs reached 1 192 342 in 1935, up 153 966 from 1934. Polk county led expenses at 144 172, with per capita costs of 83 cents, while Keokuk 95 and Woodbury 44 cents topped the state. Washington county stood at 5 105 total and 26 cents per person.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock at the Methodist Church in Ainsworth. Rev E J Shook will preside.
In Des Moines the Iowa House, evenly split 54 Republicans to 54 Democrats, endured six ballots and comic bickering over clerk and speaker posts. Democratic Leroy Mercer and Republican Roy Sours faced a deadlock as Lloyd Woods crossed to aid a Democrat for temporary clerk, while constitutional power shifts also unfolded in the Senate.
Reservations for the Company K reunion are coming in early, with more newcomers than usual. The event Friday January 16 at the American Legion hall in Columbus Junction features a catfish dinner by Bill Knott. Major L J Saul and Major Haig are invited guests, Hill Billies quartet to entertain, and officers will be elected. George Oakes heads the organization as captain.
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