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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
1
Cedar Rapids speaker George Sokolsky of the New York Herald Tribune warned at a Town Hall lecture that the United States is heading toward totalitarianism, as Russia and Germany did after World War I.
The annual Clear Lake ice harvest starts with 75 men employed as 14 inch thick ice is cut. The supply will fill local ice houses in Clear Lake and Mason City and be shipped to north Iowa and southern Minnesota destinations.
Des Moines 15 year old Hugh Johnson a North high school sophomore received admission to the British Astronomical Society for his self built telescope research. He is among 45 American members and is noted for charting planet motions especially Jupiter. Dr D W Morehouse president of Drake University is the only other Des Moines member Hugh knows.
DES MOINES Des Moines announces new officers of the Iowa Veterinary Medical association women's auxiliary. Mrs. C. C Franks Grimes is president, Mrs. W. E. Luithly Richland becomes vice president, and Mrs. Joe Patterson is secretary.
Mrs Peter Leseth aiding pancake distribution fell through a trap door into a basement where thousands queued. She sustained a severe ankle injury.
Des Moines reports a proposed Iowa House bill named the Iowa community preservation act would tax chain stores with sliding licenses from 10 to 550 dollars and aim to raise 300000 to 400000 annually. The plan mirrors Louisiana law and would be debated by Representative Robert Blue of Eagle Grove. A separate measure by Senator A Claire Dewey would require state agencies to publish a full employee directory including residences and salaries.
Grant Wood, Iowa artist and State University of Iowa faculty member, will begin two oil paintings. One depicts George Washington as a boy cutting down his father's cherry tree. the other illustrates the Capt. John Smith Pocahontas tale. He describes George as a “real little 6-year-old kid” who must look smug.
Des Moines reports Gov. George Wilson stopped a $19,500 payment approved by the outgoing Democratic administration for repairs and supplies for the state dredge boat. The dredge, bought about a year ago by former Gov. Strasches with emergency conservation funds at $21,000, had been used at Fort Madison and later moved to Storm Lake for another project.
DES MOINES Four Iowa farmers Allan B. Kline of Vinton F Irwin of Lake View H W Buck of Greenfield and B C Neal of Mount Vernon received Master Farmer awards for farm operation community leadership and family stewardship. The Wallaces Farmer honor marks a renewal of the program after years of discontinuation.
Dr Howard Gray of the Mayo Clinic outlines quick bedside cues to distinguish appendicitis gall bladder attack and ruptured stomach ulcer by patient ability to climb stairs reach pajamas or remain on the ground, describing a practical diagnostic approach to Sioux Valley Medical Association.
About eighty men attended the Methodist church meeting and heard Rev. Ed Voigt discuss deception in modern life in a talk titled Popular Fallacies. He, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Iowa City, split deceptions into three main classes: Self preservation, Everybody Is Doing It, and Human Nature.
Governor Bricker Republican asks legislature in Columbus to enact a lasting anti graft code. He calls for removal from office of any official who awards contracts to other than the lowest and best bidders. The event features remarks at a public meeting with remarks by Rev Voigt and club leaders.
Sheriff H. M. Putnam issues permits for carrying firearms only to proven needful cases. About 100 yearly, 49 already out in 1939, with strict in person applications and revocable rights. Weapons may be carried openly or at home but not concealed, with penalties up to five years or $1000 fines for violations.
Ed Jayne, a farmer near Audubon, Iowa, trains a seven month old Hampshire hog to run his milk cow herd. The hog accompanies the cows through the pasture and, at 6 pm or before milking, guides the herd toward the barn.
The House Appropriations Committee cut relief funding and other deficiency requests by 26 percent reducing the general deficiency bill to 9.979 million dollars from 13.529 million. The measure, the session's second appropriation, went to the House floor for debate with passage expected tomorrow. Roosevelt asked Congress to pass legislation ending tax exemptions for future government salaries and bonds.
The Washington Federal Savings and Loan association re elected J Jungpiath Orr and Ralph W Thompson to three year terms on the board. C C Wilson L H Orr and C R McCutehen were named officers as president view president and secretary respectively. Secretary McCuehen reports a 100000 asset gain and 3.5 percent dividend for the year with 101 new loans totaling 150500 and loans outstanding exceeding 272008 within a 50 mile radius from Washington. James Brown of Kalona shopped locally.
The Washington county home inventory lists 4,075 quarts of canned fruits and vegetables, 112 bushels of potatoes, 350 chickens, 23 milk cows, and farm machinery valued at over 3,000 dollars. Total items value 20,058.88, up from last year, with household goods making up over half the value.
Dr John Brauer from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry spoke on children's dentistry at the Washington County Dental Society gathering last evening in the Congress hotel private dining room. A dinner for ten preceded the meeting and committees were named for executive, ethics, auditing, and program duties.
The War Department authorizes a 174 member increase for Iowa units of the National Guard under a 5 000 man expansion. New men join the 126th medical regiment service company 24th infantry division, the 24th cavalry division signal troop, and the 57th cavalry brigade headquarters troop with small officer and enlisted complements.
Iowa reported by state emergency council headquarters a total federal relief and work relief expenditure of 9.63 billion since April 1935, with Iowa's share totaling 100,424,252 across categories such as highways public buildings and conservation projects.
Administration committee chairs push bills to authorize twelve new naval bases including one at Guam as bargaining leverage with Japan. Japanese sources denounce Guam fortification as interference while Roosevelt disclaims approval and Vinson argues for Guam and other new bases amid Western Pacific strategy.
An explosion behind Hawneys private hotel in Tralee at 3 am shattered hundreds of windows. Frank Chamberlain, son of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, was asleep but unharmed. A blast left an eight foot hole in the wall. police found a time bomb fragment, suggesting IRA agitators likely involved.
Grant Geyer of Wellman reached a $5,000 settlement with Sumner & Sumner of Grinnell Dave McClure and Robert Brefiel of Lake Park after a district court trial began in Montezuma. Geyer sued for injuries from being crushed between a truck and a hay rake on a farm near Wellman on June 19 1937. His attorney was I J Kehoe of Washington.
In Des Moines a household unit split funds with two wives each drawing $3.50 daily as secretaries to their husbands in the legislature. The group of 84 other secretaries, or committee clerks, had no general assembly marriages.
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