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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1938
Page
1
A Rock Island main line freight car carrying steel rails derailed near the Muscatine business district after a damaged truck toppled from the car. The incident halted freight and passenger traffic for about three hours as the car tore up ties for several hundred feet before stopping.
Tarzan charged the Legion farm near Sidney as Ed Reavis Fremont county sheriff and deputy Clem Maher practiced target shooting. Maher fired but Reavis escaped a tree with a skinned arm and torn shirt.
Florence A. Fallgatter, chief of the federal home economics education service, was named professor and head of economics education at Iowa State College. She will replace Cora B. Miller, who since 1919 headed the department and is retiring as head but will remain a professor.
Denison reports Black Hawk Lake has been restocked with bullheads and catfish. The state dredge has removed silt, raising water levels several feet and restoring the lake as a popular resort and fishing ground for western Iowa residents.
Des Moines reports 33 770 WPA workers received 1 666 580 dollars in June wages. Average check 49 40, with 105 hours worked per person. State administrator George J. Keller notes at least four percent of salaries went to laborers from relief rolls.
Fort Des Moines announces scholarship awards for five C.M.T.C. students. Recipients include Coe College Cedar Rapids $100 per year Missouri Military Academy Mexico $300 for a high school senior aiming prep year Wentworth Military Academy Lexington $300 Kemper Military School Booneville $100 Scabbard and Blade scholarship $100 to aid college education in chosen school
A narrated menu shows meals for thirty days at the Des Moines camp. Breakfast features cereals milk oranges fried pork links and breads. Lunch and dinner include fried chicken giblet gravy mashed potatoes beans celery tomatoes and ice cream with bread and butter.
Des Moines officials seek $15 000 from the state to support the observance of Iowa territorial centennial year at Council Bluffs next month. A Pottawattamie county committee conferred with Gov. Nelson G Kra schel, who said the state is powerless to provide financial aid for this undertaking.
Edward Widmer, 44, of Stringtown, dies of injuries from a threshing machine accident at Carl Molander farm near Noble. He leaves wife Edna and eight children. Alex Dorsch of Noble is injured on a Frank Bailey farm threshing run. he cuts a heel and other cuts and will be unable to thresh this summer. Both incidents remain under local notice.
Washington dispatch reports Republican chairman John Hamilton and WPA official Harry L Hopking asserting FDR will seek a third term in 1940. Hamilton ties relief rolls to political support while Hopking claims millions on relief may influence votes toward Roosevelt.
John Engstler 28 of Garner died when the second hand roadster he drove overturned near Clear Lake. Two companions escaped injury. Engstler had owned the car only two weeks.
Noted violinist Florizel von Reuter, who has given 3000 concerts across Europe, South America and North America, will appear at the Methodist church next Sunday evening at 7 30. The concert is free with an offering to be received and the community expects large attendance in Washington.
Irma McDowell departed today for her home in Salem after a visit since Sunday with Adrienne Wauerus.
Dorothy Jean Dunbar 12, daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Dunbar of farmers east of Brighton, died in Washington County Hospital after an illness that began Monday. Doctors suspected a blood clot and awaited University of Iowa diagnostic results. She injured her leg ten days earlier and complained of leg pain last week. Funeral services will be at 10 a m Monday at Jones Funeral Home in Washington.
Douglas Corrigan, arriving from New York, says he rejects money offers and has no plans for marriage, quipping he never takes a chance. The Irish flyer claims his Atlantic flight was a mistake and keeps a humorous stance despite widespread attention.
London reports the Daily Mirror claims one million Soviet troops under Marshal Bruecher near the Manchukuo border with more moving from Moscow. It says 280 Soviet aircraft ordered from Kharbarovsk to fly to the frontier. Tokyo notes Soviet fortifications at Chengkufeng hill and a squadron of destroyers reaching Possiet Bay near Siberia.
Harvest hands in Lexington, July 20, report hay making complete and oats ready for threshing and combining. Scarcity of help and cat damage complicate work, with many men and boys pressed into service and some workers holding two or three jobs for good pay. New combines owned by James Murphy, Ralph Tadlock, and Everett Huber. Social notes include visitors from Iola and Wellman, a Lexington circle meeting, and plans for the Lexington Ladies Air event.
Milo T. Sorden directs a program including Don Boyer as soloist with pieces such as The Foothitter Over ture The Admiral and On a Little Bamboo Bridge. Fillmore Russell performs Sweet Leilani and My Bonnie March along with Heroic Novelty and Church in the Wildwood. Sousa selections include El Capitan and Wave the Flag.
A Studebaker dual control teaching car was on display in Washington today thanks to Ray Cox and Harland Mead. Darwin Dragetrem of South Bend demonstrated two steering wheels and full left and right side controls for pupil instruction. The program plans a school course at the high school and junior college next year under Dean Mead’s leadership with local safety council backing.
Iowa City officials announce replacement of the hand operated clock at the stadium with an electric timepiece. The clock, to be housed in the field house for basketball, will sound a siren at quarter end and display red and green lights to indicate time and play. The upgrade aligns with Big Ten rules requiring electric clocks in major stadiums.
Melvin Hillery departed today for Norway Kansas to spend two weeks visiting relatives including Mrs Hilery and son Milton who have been there recently.
Weather bulletin notes yesterday afternoon and last night brought .15 inches of rain in Washington. The high reached 85 degrees and the low fell to 62 degrees overnight.
Mrs Eva Crawford left for Davenport today after visiting her son Corbin Crawford and family near Ainsworth and with her sister Pearl Gardner. She came up from Ainsworth yesterday to visit Miss Gardner.
Reports placed a settlement of the Maytag strike for next week as a military investigation into the riot of Wednesday moves forward. Judge Advocate Frank B. Hallagan led the court, listing witnesses and urging Sheriff Shields to secure their testimony. Wounded worker James Butcher, 30, remains in hospital and may identify attackers. Maytag attorney Edward Ford traveled to Des Moines amid talk of talks with CSO lawyer John Connolly.
In Madrid on July 22 an air raid killed 32 people including women and children after a device struck a shelter near Jerica eight miles northwest of Segorbe. Two women were fatally hurt in Can dia where fifty hazardous devices dropped on the British port city.
Iowa City drum and bugle corps from Iowa City entertained Washington crowds yesterday afternoon with marching and evolutions through business streets. The group advertised an exhibition program to be held in Iowa City on August 5.
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