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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
1
John son 41 a service foreman for the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. died after 2 300 volts passed through his body while at a downtown telephone pole transformer. Fellow workers ambulance attendants city firemen and a company doctor tried to revive him for three hours.
The JW Keystone Burial association with 1100 members in Benton, Poweshiek and Tama counties filed a district court motion Monday to challenge the attorney general's authority to prosecute for embalming without a license. The case is set to be heard in Benton county district court. Clarence Nichols of Vinton represents the cooperative and will ask to challenge court jurisdiction.
Denison sheriff N P Cavett said the body of a woman found Sunday along the North Western railroad tracks east of Denison had been identified as Mrs. Anna Craig 72 of South Bend Indiana. She was traveling with her granddaughter Mrs L L Chamberlain from Los Angeles to South Bend. They were in a pullman and the grandmother was missed after departing Carroll. The body in pajamas and a black velvet jacket was found by a westbound passenger train crew stopping in Denison.
About seven cases of liquor with Nebraska tax stamps were seized Sunday night during a Creston raid at R. L. Mulwee's living quarters. Mulwee waived a preliminary hearing Monday and was bound over to the grand jury under a $1,500 bond.
Betty Virginia Raines ten year old daughter of Charles Raines suffered severe back injuries after riding a bicycle into a car driven by Allen Headley in Ottumwa. A second collision occurred at a business district intersection when a Gray vehicle struck by Harriet Keck. Mrs. Gray went on to a hospital.
President Roosevelt replaced Chester C. Davis with Judge Marvin Jones as War Food Administrator after Davis refused to back price rollback subsidies. Davis offered to stay until 1944 production goals met. Deputy William Byrd Jr. also resigns as the administration reshapes wartime food policy for healthful diets.
Davis says he cannot support a program to hold down living costs and resigns. He reiterates opposition to subsidies for food price rolls and argues the Office of Price Administration lacks power to ration and set prices. He tells the President he has assumed public responsibility while authority over daily actions is exercised elsewhere.
The June 1 condition of most spring seeded crops in Iowa was lower than a year earlier and prospects depend on future growing conditions. Corn stood at 17 percent, the lowest since 1925, with late planting and only 87 percent sown by June 1. Replanting may be limited by unfavorable soils, especially in 1943, while northern districts fared comparatively better. Continued notes reference ongoing coverage.
City band presents a program Wednesday at 6 30 P M in Central Park featuring God Bless America The Star Spangled Banner and marches including The Old Popular Scarlet and Gold Wings of the Army and Moonlight and Roses The program cites selections from Maytime and Maytime Footlifter with composers and performers Bagley Holmes Huffer Goldman Yoder King Romberg Fillmore Lemerve and others.
Allied air fleets conducted a two front assault with 100 Flying Fortresses striking the Italian port of Leghorn and a major Royal Air Force raid on Cologne. The strikes targeted port facilities refineries and ships while Hamburg received a secondary blow as RAF bombers dropped over 2000 tons of explosives.
Two men escaped serious injury when their empty livestock truck ran off Route 218 near Ainsworth and struck an Iowa Southern Utilities pole on the high line. Driver James Owens Monts and companion from Tupelo, Mississippi, suffered only scratches as the truck, owned by W. L. McClellan, sustained about 70 dollars in damage. The pole and three live wires were broken. repairs and a new pole were planned.
Jack Mace a P T student at Muscatine spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Cienu Mace.
District courts in Iowa prepare to enforce new rules of civil procedure set by the Iowa supreme court, effective July 1, to speed cases. Washington county briefs include motion days before terms, 20 day appearances windows, and aims to cut court delays with updated procedures and district discussions among judges and lawyers.
Temporary officers for the Amalagamated Clothing Workers of America are to be elected at a Wednesday meeting at the Knights of Pythias hall on the east side of the square. All button workers at the American Pearl Button company plant should attend as the meeting is open to interested persons. Floyd Murphy will chair, Ed Schulthies and other union officers will instruct workers on forming a local.
Temperatures in Iowa ran below normal with a night low around 51 degrees. Daytime highs struggled past 85 degrees yesterday and were not expected to rise higher today.
This week the city uses a state owned sweeper borrowed for cleaning loose gravel from street edges. The unit pushes material toward the center of the surfaced road where traffic will grind it in as surfaces soften in hot weather. Driver is Skeet Miller and sweeper operator is Delbert McDole.
Washington June 29 The Senate advanced the Labor Federal Security bill worth 1.288 billion dollars to meet the appropriation deadline. It restored 47.8 million for the National Youth Administration continuation for fiscal 1944.
District judges signed an order directing clerks in several counties to prepare motion calendars for use by presiding judges on each motion day. The calendars list case title nature of motion and filing date for civil and probate matters. The order also fixes remaining motion hearing dates for the year.
The Rev John Bright Pollock aged 75 veteran pastor resident in Washington died at 6:30 this morning at 707 South Marion avenue after a heart attack last March and long illness. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 PM at the Washington United Presbyterian Church. He was born April 12, 1868 in Washington Pennsylvania and is survived by his wife Katherine Craighead and children James Pollock Sara Pollock Martha Combs and sister Mary A. Pollock.
Vice President Henry A. Wallace as BEW chairman charged Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones with false testimony and obstructionist tactics toward the board of economic warfare. He said Jones failed to create adequate stockpiles of scarce materials and drugs and urged freeing BEW staff from bureaucratic hindrance. The statement followed testimony before the economy committee and criticisms by Senator Kenneth McKellar.
Mr and Mrs Justin Lester face a string of disasters on their Wyoming farm. Their house burned, their baby swallowed a safety pin and was rushed to a Billings hospital, their only work horse drowned, another borrowed horse died, and their car was destroyed by fire.
The U S court of appeals in Chicago reversed the conviction of six defendants accused of harboring Nazi spy Herbert Kraupt. The judges ruled the defendants were deprived of a fair trial and remanded the case to the lower court. The defendants included Hans Traupt, his wife Erna, and his parents.
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