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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1938
Page
8
The W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co paid a 7 percent vacation bonus to all employees, totaling nearly $50,000, based on earnings for the six months ending June 1. The firm notes more workers are employed now than in 1929, with about 1,000 at the plant.
The War Department authorizes resumption of regular army recruiting after a funding gap. Fort Des Moines near Des Moines will gain authorized strength with vacancies in the 14th Cavalry and 80th Field Artillery Motorized. Eligible: 18 to 35 year old single men in good health. Recruiting stations: Des Moines Cedar Rapids Mason City.
H Sater, postmaster at Danville, reports a stalk of timothy measuring 6 feet 2 inches. He calls it New Deal timothy and says it is the tallest he has seen, with normal height about four and a half feet. He grew the stalk on his own Danville acreage.
Hearing resumes in the case of B. F. Freeburger 69 Mason patient at Cherokee state hospital relatives allege a skull fracture from attendants beating. Freeburger a former attorney was in the hospital as an inebriate. State board of control heard relatives lawyers and Dr a hospital superintendent.
A broken hearted brother and sister, among 26 children moved to other institutions after the Iowa Lutheran Children’s Home near Ottumwa was ordered closed. The siblings, now separated and unaware of each other’s location, pleaded with social workers to keep them together. The home had been in operation for more than 50 years and was closed in a May Ottumwa meeting.
In Bismarck on July 1 political observers expect Governor William H. Langer to oppose Gerald P. Nye as an independent this November after losing the Republican Senate primary. Nye won by about 6,000 votes as Langer conceded. Nye's running mate Thoresen lost the gubernatorial race to John Hagan by about 5,000 votes, a selection Langer had endorsed.
Floyd C Johnston, chairman of the Louisa county board of supervisors, was named secretary-treasurer of the state association of county supervisors at Sioux City. Rev Robert N Chord Joyce Gilkey Leona Delzell Marian Pugh and Juanita Hendrickson attended the Iowa Synod of the Presbyterian church at Ames midweek.
The body of John Lidgard, 66, was found hanging from a tree in Dodge park by a passerby after workers failed to notice it for about an hour. Coroner Tom Belford said he had been dead less than two hours.
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