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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1945
Page
1
Mrs Agnes Lea Leamer, 74, of Ashton, died in a Sheldon hospital after a Friday crash on highway 33 three miles north of Sheldon. Slipping on slick pavement, her car skidded, rolled into a ditch. Her daughter Mrs Hans Bongert, also of Ashton, escaped with bruises and knee stiffness.
Services for Chase Bannister who died at his home Thursday night will be held at 3 30 p m today in the Lester Jay funeral home. He was a partner in a Washington hardware store and later ran a plumbing and heating business in Ottumwa for 17 years. He served on the old Commercial association board and for 12 years on the Y M C A board. Surviving are his wife two brothers Dr Murdoch Bannister Ottumwa and Robert J Bannister Des Moines attorney and a sister Miss Woith Bannister Ottumwa.
United States Senator George A. Wilson, recovering well, met Gov. Robert D. Blue and Iowa lawmakers in Des Moines on his way back to Washington after a Rochester Minnesota medical checkup. He planned to depart for Washington that morning. The doctors called his condition entirely satisfactory.
Elmer Williams, a Blakesburg area farmer, was crushed to death Friday when his car toppled from a jack while changing a tire near Blakesburg Auto Co. No witnesses. His son Hugh, a former teacher at Parnsons College Fairfield, Iowa, is due home Monday on furlough. Mrs. Williams and his daughter survive.
Mr and Mrs Thomas F Sullivan received invitations to attend Roosevelt’s inauguration and a White House pass in Washington on Saturday but did not travel due to Mrs Sullivan’s ill health. They are the parents of the five Sullivan brothers who died serving in the navy.
Des Moines reports that 15 year old Don Smith served 18 days as a private at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. He returned home with G I clothing in a barracks bag and a $100 mustering out check for under 60 days of service. He plans to keep payments on his $10,000 government life policy.
Reverend George Kerr, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, departed last night for Oakdale Illinois. This brief notice records his travel as part of church duties and community ties.
German armored forces pushed eight miles north of Strasbourg beneath heavy snow as they thrust toward the Vosges high ways linking the city to its Saverne gap, amid reports of strengthening forces in a prestige battle to recapture Strasbourg. Allied units held lines around the shrinking Ardennes pocket while weather hampered air support and German reinforcements massed to strike from a bridgehead north of Strasbourg.
Gen MacArthur's troops push toward Tarlac 65 miles north of Manila on a 10 mile front. Spearheads advance beyond Santa Ignacia and Paniqui along paved highways after crossing a major bridge on the Agno River. American air strikes reported heavy damage to the Kansaki engine plant.
A neighborhood group of eight farmers in Highland township held its second meeting to discuss soil conservation with leader H L Campbell. Petitioners include Milford McCreedy William Wulf Herbert T Campbell Erwin Wulf Elmer Wulf BE Lee Conry BE McCleery and Wm A McGinnis. Paul Boettcher, a farm planning tech, has met with the group to outline practices like contouring grassed waterways and strip cropping. A soils specialist will survey each farm and map soil type topsoil loss slope and drainage to guide individual plans.
Soviet forces mass along a 60 mile German border and advance into East Prussia from the south while aiming for Danzig Poznan and Breslau as part of a winter offensive. Reports place units near Chorzele Gilgenburg Ketno Breslau and Czestochowa amid a widening campaign.
Hugo Saggan of Denison Iowa state commander of the American Legion spoke at the county Legion meeting at the Knights of Columbus hall. He urged a postwar balance wheel to guide public welfare and sound legislation and led with the Legion’s role in promoting thoughtful policy. Attendees included numerous Legion posts and auxiliaries leaders with brief introductions and remarks.
Three Washington county rationing board employees leave to join Utah based Army Air Service command at Hill Field. Dorothy Melinsky Marjorie Carlson and Mrs Margar et Hazen depart for Ogden with Mary Katherine Red- to begin new government war service in general office work.
Franklin D Roosevelt sworn in as U.S. president for the fourth time on the White House south portico before about 7000 invited guests. He urged peace through trust and cooperation, warning against suspicion and fear and calling for shared responsibility in postwar world.
Funeral services for Mrs. F. C. Witzigman of Oelwein will be held at 1 30 tomorrow afternoon at the Oelwein Methodist church. Burial will be tomorrow afternoon at 4 30 at Mt Vernon, the Wit zigmans former home, preceded by a short service at the Neff funeral home. Mrs. Witzigman died Thursday morning after long illness and strokes. Dr. Witzigman was pastor of the local Methodist church from 1931 to 1935 and the family moved to Oelwein from here, where he remained as pastor of that church.
Linger, already with C. V. Crull real estate and insurance, will also serve at the air field. Mrs Braden said Ferne Minick replaces Jewell Carris as clerk of the pricing panel, Carris resigning to join the county selective service board. Minick has begun her duties.
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