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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1941
Page
1
Sioux City report discusses a legal battle over parking meters. Lester C. Davidson sued the city claiming finder’s keepers penalties apply to found coins. District Judge Browning ruled the coins were not lost under Iowa law and dismissed the case.
Harry D. Smith of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics warned Iowa City peace officers to target transient addicts and enforce federal drug laws vigorously. He said the war has cut foreign narcotics, tightening domestic supply and pushing addicts to travel, deceive doctors, and commit theft and murder to obtain drugs.
Clarinda report states Ralph Putnam of Decatur pleaded guilty to aiding an inmate to escape from a state institution. He received five years at Fort Madison penitentiary, then parole. The state said Putnam helped Robison Moore, a patient at the state hospital for the insane, escape in a taxicab on June 28. Moore was recaptured and returned to the hospital.
A. L. Birch of Marcus predicts the U S house of representatives will move quickly on the Gurney bill to refund 262 million dollars of processing tax money to American sugar raisers. Birch promoted the bill in Washington after Senate passage. Northwest farmers could receive about 900 dollars each if refunds are granted. Hog Tax Process Recovery solicitors seek memberships with four percent down and a percentage of claims paid to the association from refunds.
Oskaloosa district judge J G Patterson signs an order suspending Mahaska County Auditor Byron F Evans from office pending a removal petition filed by County Attorney William Spencer The petition cites failure to pay quarterly settlements and other county payments failure to report office fees failure to account for transfers and failure to keep a proper road record or assessment book
A Vichy government communique says France via the United States is negotiating an armistice with Great Britain to end the war in Syria. Talks were authorized by Vichy and began at Beirut Tuesday with General Henri Dentz directing negotiations through the U S consul general after a month of fighting between Free French and Vichy troops.
Contributions reported by Washington residents total $744.46 in four wards and the town business district. The county fund, now $1 207.98, supports recreational and social privileges for US defense personnel near army camps and defense centers.
Two drivers sustained head and facial cuts in a collision three miles southwest of Wellman. Drivers were Gilbert Fritz and Harold Steiner of Wellman. Fritz drove a car owned by Mrs. George Hesseltine. Both vehicles suffered extensive damage.
Carl R. Oldfield, longtime chairman of the Washington county AAA committee, was named by Secretary Claude Wickard as chairman of the Washington county defense board. The board will coordinate farm production with USDA agencies to aid farmers, with members from AAA, Farm Security Administration, Soil Conservation Service, and others.
Iowa oats crop largely in shock with late planted corn cultivated for final time. Federal meteorologist Charles Reed reports in weekly crop bulletin that a AAA plan speeds harvest by allowing cutting and binding slightly before full maturity for feed.
The damaged and injury to the two machines was estimated at about $450.
President Roosevelt said he will ask Congress this week for supplemental lend lease and military appropriations possibly totaling 5 to 6 billion dollars. Two requests will be filed: one to expand the existing multi billion army navy and maritime commission funds and another to extend the 7 million dollar lend lease operation appropriation.
A nine day strike at National Automotive Fibers Inc called by the United Automobile Workers CIO to force wage increases closed three Chrysler plants in Detroit employing 12,500 workers.
Dr. Andrew H. Woods retires as head of psychiatry and director of the psychopathic hospital at the State University of Iowa effective July 1. He will be 69 on August 25 and plans a vacation before announcing future plans. Woods has served 13 years at Iowa after arriving in 1928 from Peking China where he practiced neurology and taught.
Chief of Police George Baker today lauded local riders for cooperative attitude toward the new bicycle ordinance enacted by the city council and effective since yesterday. He noted sidewalk bans near the square and Central Park, with volunteers monitoring behavior and plans for angled parking stalls as an alternative to racks. The city is printing 500 copies of the ordinance for riders and interested residents.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill advised the United States that details on troop movements revealed by Senator Burton K. Wheeler could endanger British soldiers. The dispatch to President Roosevelt stressed concern, not a protest, as U S forces moved toward Iceland. Wheeler challenged Roosevelt to seek a declaration of war, pledging support if Congress acted.
Officials report efforts to enforce the recently enacted rules across agencies. The push targets compliance checks and oversight to ensure adherence by businesses and institutions under the updated framework.
The Joe Louis Billy Conn fight pictures will be shown this Thursday Friday and Saturday at the State Theater. The complete story of the whole fight is shown in this round by round blow by blow picture.
Thirty men were injured in a confrontation between 500 bootleg miners and special officers at the Correale colliery in Donnau don, Pennsylvania. Officers fired as miners stormed a steam shovel amid a lengthy strip mining controversy in the anthracite region.
The latest census shows five southern states with more than one thousand nine mills each. North Carolina 1,879 Alabama 1,573 Mississippi 1,277 Georgia 1,083 Virginia 1,008.
The Iowa Supreme Court receives a petition for rehearing of Ivan Sullivan’s death sentence for the year old prison guard killing during a failed escape. Filed by attorney Phil Roan of Fort Madison, the petition delays execution and may push a new date to the September term. Sullivan escaped June 22 with two accomplices before the fatal incident.
Two Des Moines brothers face breaking and entering charges after a home made burglar alarm trap indicated their suspected activity. Police recovered tools and evidence at the scene.
Moscow reports Red Army tank battles against German blitz on central and Pruth fronts while Berlin cites Ostrov gains. London says Iceland occupation aids Britain’s war goods flow to Russia, with British supplies now en route under new aid negotiations.
Washington experienced a warm spell with the temperature at 94 degrees by 1 45 PM. Yesterday reached a high of 84 while the night low fell to 66.
Two of three youths who escaped from the Iowa state reformatory work camp at Oakdale Monday night were held in Ottawa Illinois on charges of stealing an automobile at Triumph Illinois. The suspects are Steve Lepovitz twenty eight Madrid and Robert Mathew twenty two Des Moines. The third escapee Joe Yeager twenty seven Davenport was not with them. The car theft occurred while farmers attended an open air movie at Triumph.
Floyd Ridout 28 and Dale Ridout 25 plus John Port 52, a grocer, were involved when Port said he caught them burglarizing his store at 4 am. Port had rigged an electric bell system that rang at his home next door when the store door opened.
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