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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1937
Page
1
Violet and Leo Seefeldt of Red Oak remarried in Columbus, Nebraska, just 24 days after their divorce was granted. The couple plans a west coast trip mirroring their original wedding journey from years ago.
Three boys aged 11 to 13 in Clarinda confessed to breaking into the Chait junkyard and stealing a 21 pound crankcase. They sold it for $3 and used the money to buy fireworks before arrest.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union of Shelby county protest the Fourth of July rodeo planned in HARLAN alleging it desecrates the Sabbath. The event opens Saturday and runs through Monday with opposition from local activists.
W. Smith, a Van Cleve farmer, was nearly mutilated when his leg became caught in hay making machinery. He was rushed to a Marshalltown hospital where doctors feared the limb could not be saved.
Due to insufficient appropriation the University of Iowa hospital will reduce free treatment by 18 percent this year. Hospital administrator Robert E. Neff notified county clerks relief directors and county medical society secretaries of the plan to cut admissions for each county's sick.
Fireworks sales outside Red Oak city limits led Mayor W. S. Kelley to demand the resignation of city dump master Clifford Page. Pace admitted selling explosives but faced dismissal as the city enforces fireworks restrictions.
Richard Abe Porter and family visit a tourist cabin named Life Rooms in Davennor while touring the country. They plan to stay two more weeks before resuming their journey. The couple has a son born to Mr and Mrs Abe Porter and another daughter two years old.
Operations at the Midwest Stampine Co. halted indefinitely after a mass picket by Des Moines workers who failed to enter the plant. A fracas left three workers with serious cuts and bruises as unionization efforts began.
Five municipal employees in Iowa City had not been paid for three months after the new city council took office. City clerk rover C Watson issued the overdue pay Friday as he began his duties. Former clerk Bill Condon had refused to release the pay following a state comptroller's advice amid a dispute over the spring election.
The Journal observes two holidays a year by not publishing. This year the Fourth of July falls on a Sunday, so Monday July 5 will be observed as a holiday with no paper issued.
A tabulation by assessors reports 91 autos and 8.8 trucks per 100 farms in Iowa. On January 1, 1937 there were 193,241 autos and 18,766 trucks, down from 1936 by 2,445 autos and 171 trucks. Monona and Cass show the largest county declines. Winnebago posts the biggest increase.
Des Moines health officials urge caution for Fourth of July observers citing auto accidents and drownings as major fatal risks. Dr. Walter L. Bierring notes autos caused twenty deaths in five years with last year five. drownings also claimed several lives. He prescribes supervision of fireworks, slow driving near play areas, and supervised swimming to reduce injuries.
Dr Thomas L Curran reports 1936 agriculture data show 39.4 percent of Iowa's 212 376 farms have tractors and 60.3 percent have radios. There were 13 821 more tractors used in Iowa last year than in 1935, a 19.8 percent gain the greatest since 1917. 83 656 farmers used tractors in 1936 up from 69 835 in 1935 and 4 363 twenty years ago.
The summary notes a slight decline in 1931 and 1932 with county figures for Washington showing 1 019 tractors in 1936 and 852 in 1935 as well as 1 427 radios in 1936 and 1 150 in 1935.
A citywide disruption sparked by a general holiday among 25 000 truck drivers tied up trucks, halted taxis and newspapers, and threatened business. The A F of L and John L Lewis clo clashed over jurisdiction, with ballots to decide which organization represents drivers in bargaining. In Detroit Henry Ford challenges labor board probes and defends anti union pamphlets amid May riots at the Ford plant.
London reports an emergency British cabinet meeting scheduled for next Monday as three battleships prepare to reinforce the Mediterranean fleet after the collapse of the non intervention plan for Spain.
Des Moines July 3 The state tax board mailed letters to chambers of commerce banks and county treasurers urging vigorous collection of the new use tax described as the most difficult to collect ever enacted in Iowa. The letters state everyone who makes a purchase outside the state for use in Iowa must report the sale and remit a two percent tax.
Mr and Mrs L Robbins and brother Robert Reed relocate from Keosauqua to West Chester and will open a general store in the Ferguson building within a week. They will stock groceries hardware and assorted goods and will reside in an apartment above the shop. The Ferguson building has stood idle for over a year after R C Ferguson ran a store there for 29 years.
Sheriff H M Putnam returned from Wheatland and other northeast Cedar Rapids points seeking traces of three men linked to the Sands drug store theft at Ainsworth and the theft of two Washington county cars. Trail waned after they left Wheatland on a train. Flynn's car was recovered after a broken axle repair. One man talked while the others kept distant and turned away.
Otto Mowa men Fred J. La Rue and Charles W. Wheatley, both about 25, were sentenced by Judge P. J. Siegers in Newton to not more than ten years each for grand larceny. They pled guilty to stealing a few dollars' worth of property from a car and a Shell station truck, with hearings moved from Oskaloosa to Newton due to the judge’s absence. They will be taken to Anamosa for confinement after the county jail period.
Lee Young aged 75 died at 7 30 pm at his home three miles east of Ainsworth after two years of declining health and a month of serious illness. Funeral services set for Monday at ten at Sherman’s funeral home with Dr F W Eastwood of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial in Pleasant Prairie cemetery Muscatine county. He was born February 14 1862 in Illinois and raised in Fairport Muscatine county. Survived by wife Bertha Carpenter and ten children: William in Buffalo IA Ralph Elmer and Leonard of Washington Mrs Della Williams Davenport Mrs Myrtle Teufel Davenport Mrs Gladys Williams Ottumwa Mrs Josephine Borders Yarmouth IA and Esther at home. There are 21 grandchildren one great grandchild and a sister Mrs Clara Hayes of Ramsey IL.
The daily supervised playground sessions will be omitted Monday due to observance of a holiday.
Mrs. Isabelle Hall the evangelist at the Four Square Gospel church will close the revival series Sunday evening. Morning and evening services will be held as usual.
The county issued its first July marriage licenses to Clarence Karl Babcock and Fosie Louie Hudson of Donnellson and Richard C. Disney and Ena Aline Lewis of Washington. A second pair followed for Marvin R. Buckwater and Melba McAvoy of Washington and Dale W. Loeffler of Keota and Darline June Glasgow of Washington.
The evening service will include a special illustrated sermon, offering a visual presentation to accompany the message.
SOS signals heard across the Pacific sparked hope that Amelia Earhart and navigator Capt. Fred Noonan might be alive after their plane ran low on fuel. A naval flying boat and a coast guard cutter joined the search near Howland Island as amateur radio operators picked up Earhart’s call letters before static faded.
John Roth, a Washington filling station figure, has leased the Sinclair station on North Maron Avenue. He leaves Brown's Super Service after two and a half years and announces Roth's Sinclair Station as the new name. The former owners were Joe Wehr and Vere Goff. The station will offer Sinclair gasoline, Sinclair Pennsylvania motor oil, and a small auto accessories line.
A Pan American jet with Capt Harold Gray at the helm and six crew members began the first leg of an Atlantic crossing. The flight, a precursor to regular passenger service, will stop at Shediac New Brunswick and Botwood Harbor Newfoundland before heading to Ireland.
Moscow reports a complete settlement of the Russo-Japanese dispute following the Amur river gunboat sinking. Ambassador Shigemitsu and Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov confirm withdrawal of Soviet detachments from disputed islands and gunboats from the Amur river once assurances are given that no Japanese vessels remain, though none were sent.
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