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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1941
Page
1
Barbara Sullivan 10 and her mother were in a car that stalled on a hill, rolled back, hit a culvert, and toppled down a four foot embankment. Barbara was freed by county engineer Harry Hansel and Fr. M Sackett using a fence rail. Barbara suffered cuts. Mrs. Louisa Friend also injured. Driver Mrs J J Sullivan had exited before the car broke loose.
The Iowa Star Route Mail Carriers association met at Hotel Fort Des Moines and voted to back legislation to abolish private contracting for star routes. They seek civil service status and steady pay rather than operating as independent contractors in the U S mail distribution system.
A Postville area blaze on a 24 acre dairy farm owned by Irving Deering caused about 15000 in damage. The fire destroyed two dairy barns, two silos, livestock including 11 head of beef cattle and three Holstein bulls, plus hay fodder oats and barley, and a feed mill. Insurance covered the loss. Deering and family were away when motorists alerted the fire dept. The cause was hot barned.
Sioux City Wes tern league game officials offered free admission to any woman bringing an aluminum pan or utensil. A total of 331 women availed the offer, and one participant even contributed a polished cocktail shaker as part of the fundraiser.
A crash near Reinbeck left two people uninjured when a small plane piloted by Glen Dirks veered off course and landed in a corn field. Leila Hale of Peoria Illinois rode as a passenger as the throttle jammed during approach, causing gear damage and a bent propeller.
W. M. Nason of Fairfield on federal parole is held on a driving while intoxicated charge. He is identified as part of a group recently convicted in a cattle fraud ring and on parole for using the mails to defraud.
Washington firemen answered two calls over the weekend. A spark from a passing Milwaukee locomotive allegedly started a blaze in an oats stubble field near Elmer Guenther’s farm one mile east of Washington. the fire was slow to burn and quickly extinguished with water. Earlier Saturday at ten p.m. a fire at the northwest square area involved a trash pile sparked by an overturned flare near a building under reconstruction for the Penney store.
Carl Oldfield announces three events in Iowa next week with Dr. Robert Montgomery and Wallace to discuss agriculture’s role in national defense and wartime policy. Montgomery speaks Correctionville and Chariton. Wallace headlines Burlington events including a 9:30 p.m. address at Memorial Auditorium and a national network broadcast.
Ainsworth becomes first Washington County town to organize an aluminum collection for defense needs. Mayor S B Sands announces collection will occur Thursday afternoon July 24 with Mr Pressly visiting homes to gather old aluminum. County Chairman BE Bauer enlists mayors to lead drives and Crawfordsville plans a local receptacle at Shaffer Hensa hardware for discarded aluminum.
Charles C Owen 74 longtime resident of West Chester and Washington counties died at home 204 East Seventh Street after two years and seven months illness Funeral services Tuesday at 2 pm at the Methodist church conducted by Rev R C Keagy Burial Elm Grove cemetery L A Jones funeral home in charge He was born March 14 1867 in Clark County Illinois married Anna Davis August 25 1890 in Lexington Surviving wife son Dr Eugene Owen of Washington DC
United Press reports heavy Luftwaffe pressure on the Russian front with Berlin and Moscow not confirming major shifts. Stalin names four new vice commissars of defense as part of a defense restructuring. Royal Air Force conducts nonstop bombardment of targets in northern France. Soviet and German sources dispute the extent of recent frontline changes near Smolensk with reports of a division wiped out and another surrounded.
Galen Gavvy, 41, of Des Moines and worker at Winger Manufacturing in Ottumwa, suffered third degree burns to legs and arms after touching a 2 300 volt wire while cleaning a second wire with his elbow. He was treated at an Ottumwa hospital where his condition was listed as fair.
Japan bans the New York Times Sunday magazine section for June 8, citing its content. The ban was announced on July 21.
Dean Harland Mead of Washington junior college announced special sound pictures for aviation students to view at the high school Wednesday evening. The programs Theory of Flight and Problems in Flight will be shown at nine o clock in room 2 with north entrance. Training for pilot licenses continues this summer for a class of ten. Carl Klein soloed for the first time today.
Washington officials said the United States aims to broker peace between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese communist forces to prevent American aid to China from fueling a civil war.
Urbana July 21 A government spokesman urged Midwest farmers to increase production for defense with a guarantee of average prices for dairy, hogs, chickens and eggs. The speaker was M Clifford Townsend former governor of Indiana and now director of agricultural defense relations for the Department of Agriculture.
Vice President Henry A. Wallace will address a National Defense Day event in Burlington Iowa on July 31 to mark the Iowa ordnance plant’s opening. Senator Clyde L. Herring will introduce him and the speech will be broadcast nationally. The first shell from the $30 million plant will be presented to the city.
Alf M. Landon, former Republican presidential candidate, gave his reluctant support to retaining selective service soldiers and national guardsmen. He spoke in Topeka Kansas on July 21. The stance signals cautious approval of the draft system amid wartime concerns.
Raymond Bell of the Jackson Boys 4-H club departs Tuesday for Ames as one of about 100 youths to attend a six week farm boys and girls course at Iowa State College. Funded by Bankers Life Insurance Co of Des Moines with 4000 dollars, the program provides instructors and facilities. Bell, chosen for Washington County, has seven years in club work and recently won the Thomas E Wilson award at the Iowa State Fair. The course runs July 22 to August 28.
Nineteen new vehicles were licensed in Washington County last week boosting total 1941 license plates to 6,723 and year to date truck licenses to 818. Names include Mrs Joe Dougall, G E B Mace, Carl Havel, Everette Tobin and others with makes such as Ford Mercury Pontiac Studebaker Chevrolet and ties to towns Washington Ainsworth Wellman Crawfordsville Kalona Riverside and Wellman.
Hundreds filled Central Park for the third annual Sunday evening union service with speakers from four Washington churches. Rev Alfred Trenerry preached on Four Facts praising God Bible church and Christ while music by Charles Murdock led the choir. Next week Rev Ivan Riess of the Christian church will speak.
Two hitch-hikers described as well educated stopped C R Schildtknecht of Springfield Missouri about four miles east of Chariton on highway 34 and robbed him of 21 dollars. The older man wore a surveyor uniform and the younger in khaki. They carried a suitcase with a Columbia University pennant on the sides.
A gravel truck owned by Emil Olson & Sons crashed yesterday afternoon seven miles southwest of town near Walnut creek bridge. Driver Francis Hiller of Washington, 20, suffered a head cut and pelvic fractures. passenger Art Madson of Brighton injured a shoulder. Both were taken to the county hospital. vehicle damage estimated at 150 dollars.
Funeral services for 13 year old Allen Cline fatally injured when struck by a car on the Iowa river bridge on Highway 92 were held this afternoon in the Fredonia Methodist church. Burial was in Swank cemetery. J C Richie in charge. Born February 29 1928 in Iowa City he was the son of Mr and Mrs Albert Cline. The family moved from Iowa City to Fredonia years ago and then three years ago. Surviving are his parents a brother Clayton and a sister Eileen.
The official weather observer notes a rise in temperatures after several cool days. By early afternoon the thermometer shows 93 degrees, signaling another warm spell for mid July.
A consent injunction was entered in federal court requiring Hawkeye Pearl Button Company to comply with the federal fair labor standards act. The firm operates plants employing 300 workers at Muscatine and Keokuk Iowa and Canton Missouri.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to declare a limited or full national emergency to keep selectees, national guardsmen, and reservists on active duty. He warned that demobilization would collapse army strength and delay readiness by about a year, and pressed a radio appeal to the nation to support retention for the duration.
Massachusetts officers held a 16 year old boy in one rape murder and sought a fiend in connection with another. Raymond Woodward, a junior high student, was linked to Constance Shipp’s killing whose nude body was found in the Reading parsonage kitchen. Frances Cochran’s body was found in a tangled thicket. investigators said Woodward had nothing to do with that slaying.
Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said the United States promised full assistance to Bolivia if its expulsion of the German minister leads to an international incident.
Miss Mary Lynn Heilman has been named navy editor of the Evening Journal. She provides information for young men interested in joining the navy and invites five Washington county youths to call at the Journal office for detailed information.
Fort Meade Maryland July 21 An undisclosed number of selectees were confined to camp and quarters for writing letters to two United States senators in protest against legislation to extend the service of citizen soldiers for the duration of the emergency. The men from Company A 74th Quartermaster Battalion faced bar racks confinement or were forbidden to leave the camp boundary.
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