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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1938
Page
1
Des Moines reports a jump in Iowa rural electric mileage from 13 969 to 15 267 miles in the last year and a rise in assessed valuation for taxing purposes from 8 024 791 to 8 855 395 dollars for 1937.
Frank Zaracki of Omaha announced a plan to prepare waiting covers bearing the Iowa centennial stamp from Des Moines to Council Bluffs. He will be in Des Moines August 24 when stamps are issued and will mail the first covers to stamp collectors.
A $300 cash prize awaits the best rural women's chorus in Iowa. Through preliminaries organized by the women's department of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, the 12 top choruses will be chosen and brought to the state fair to compete. Two choruses perform daily for six days, with the final championship announced on closing day.
Governor Kraschel said four railroads will favor special intra state freight rates for hauling lime for agricultural use. He announced after meeting with emergency conservation works coordinator Charles Housh and railroad officials from Co. B. and Q. North Western, Rock Island, and Milwaukee in Chicago. Lime is used in southeastern Iowa limeing projects and recently in northern Iowa counties.
Newton Jasper county supervisors set the 1939 tax levy at 441000 dollars, a rise of 19500 over last year due mainly to court expenses and bonds. Proposed expenditures total 651000 dollars with a relief levy of 38000 dollars. budget hearing is scheduled for August 2.
Blencoe wheat producer Cyrill Jovely will head a farmers committee to study a bakery strike and investigate how 60 pounds of wheat yield 40 loaves while 12 rolls cost a peck of wheat. The group plans independent inquiry and to inform local farmers.
Professor Florizel von Reuter, celebrated violinist, will give a concert at the Methodist church in Washington next Sunday evening at 7 30. Mrs. K P Histine of Mt Pleasant will be his accompanist. Admission is free with an offering. The artist has played about 4000 concerts and received high praise from critics including the Daily Telegraph after a London performance.
Governor Kraschel declared martial law in Newton and Jasper County after a riot at the Maytag factory. 250 national guardsmen were sent in as the plant remained closed. Troops faced rioters while 1 hospitalized and about a dozen injured, with several workers assaulted amid a sit down strike and attempts to return to work.
Ten men died and nine were burned or injured when dynamite exploded in the Montebello Lockroven water tunnel project in Baltimore. Twenty workers were present underground 65 feet when the blast occurred as they prepared to lower explosives into a shaft. One survivor was thrown five feet by the blast.
Invitations were sent to over 200 members of the Journal’s Three Quarter Century club for the annual fifth yearly meeting. The event on Saturday July 30 includes a noon dinner at the Washington country club, a program, and time for visiting. Members asked to confirm by July 28.
A Justice of the Peace hearing conducted by J B E Boe or ähnlich was held yesterday evening. Details are limited in the fragment, but the event references a local judicial proceeding and a formal session conducted by a magistrate.
Newton and Des Moines reports state Governor Kraschel will keep the Maytag factory closed until a settlement secures peace. The state continues martial law under Major General Tinley with no clear reopen orders. A Wagner act charge hearing for Maytag is postponed pending military maneuver clearance.
The Chinese embassy announced that 1200 people were killed or injured in yesterday's air raids on Hankow Wuchang and Yanyang. The casualty toll reflects a major attack in central China reported from London.
Melvin Chorpening was fined five dollars under section 330 of the Iowa motor vehicle laws for passing another car at an unsafe distance.
George Mohr, president of Washington County Safety Council, says a Bicycle division unit will be started in Washington, possibly the first in the state. The county council will sponsor, 25 members to start, ten cent membership, with receipts serving as bicycle licenses. Members must obey traffic rules, ride straight, and not carry passengers.
West Cheater resident C Ferguson announces a Benson School reunion half a mile south of Havre near Pleasant Hill on Wednesday August 10. All former pupils invited for a noon basket dinner and afternoon program. focus on 1860 to 1900 alumni including Al Anderson over 80. Former teachers Mrs Matthews and Mrs Wooley will attend with other notable former pupils named.
Congressman Edward C. Eicher who withdrew from reelection will speak briefly at the district convention to nominate his successor on the Democratic ticket. The program includes a turkey luncheon hosted by Mr and Mrs Eicher after the nomination and before the closing address. The convention opens at 10 am with delegates from all counties present and voting to nominate candidates with ten minute speeches for nominees.
School officials outline plans for the next academic year as summer work continues. Repairs and cleaning are underway at the high school and junior high as new rooms are prepared for manual and fine arts instruction. The north town district faces adjustments after 72 of 91 families signaled they would not return to the Heights school. Grace Randel returns from Fort Collins with plans to keep the home making course aligned with federal aid standards. Imvid Temple of Rubio visited Washington yesterday.
Des Moines July 20 Iowa AAA committee begins administration of the new government Wheat loan program with no guiding precedents. About 10 998 000 bushels of 1938 are eligible for loans under the program.
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