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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1938
Page
1
A Keokuk column notes the Keokuk Lee County jail was empty for the first time in history per long time residents. The piece reflects on changes in local law enforcement and community impact.
The Iowa commerce commission schedules March 28 as the hearing date on Natural Gas Pipeline Company of Chicago request for a one year extension from March 19 for its Washington county lateral pipelines.
Officials in Marshalltown conclude hundreds of dead fish in the Iowa River near the north edge result from suffocation due to heavy ice in shallow water, not sewage. The icy conditions reduced oxygen levels, causing the mass die-off.
Spencer Arthur Chapman a Terril Iowa farmer who vanished from a Spencer shopping trip on February 5 is reported back at home. A Spirit Lake doctor said he treated him for amnesia and confirmed his return.
The Harry Bohnvack farm near here reports a quintuplet birth. The mother and all five children are said to be thriving. Uniquely, the five arrived not from a human midwife but the stork delivering to a nanny goat.
John Kelly and Vern Anderson failed to reach the grand slam as they faced Mrs. Mary Reed and Mabel Haack at the Phi Delta Theta house. The opponents went seven spades, adding insult to injury.
Spencer-Relief officials urged rapid emergency response to Peterson after a leak appeared in the Little Sioux river dam. The Spencer office agreed to mobilize 25 men if materials and transportation could be supplied by the endangered community.
In Council Bluffs a man from Omaha, William Nelson, 45, admitted forcing an automobile off the highway. He was charged with reckless driving and fined 50 dollars after Patrolman Roy Platner and two other motorists testified that he pushed two wheels onto the highway shoulder. Platner made the arrest.
Des Moines reports officers under Chief John Hattery began arresting operators of Iowa cars with 1937 registration plates. The deadline was extended to March 15 by the motor vehicle department. Sheriffs may seize highway vehicles for 1937 plates and sell them to cover taxes and costs.
Harvey Austin Graham, 69, merchant known through the state, died at his home in Ottumwa after an illness dating from June. With his brother C. L. Graham, who died in 1926, he founded the Ottumwa Mercantile Co and established a chain of Graham stores, serving the company as president.
Des Moines Iowa Safety Council data place the town among the top states for home accident deaths. The Des Moines area shows 68 fatalities in 195? representing 46.8 per 140,000, with 150,900 to 900 population bands. Deaths in 1926 totaled 65, 44.7 per 100,000.
In Washington county soil conservation headquarters the 1938 farm program allotments are set for general crops and corn. Wayne Norman notes corn allotment drops about 47 percent from last year while other crops fall about 2 percent. Claude R. Wickard outlines three aims of the act to stabilize farming, corn use, and a never normal corn stockpile. He recounts past farm legislation, warns against land depletion, and recalls wartime price pressures shaping policy.
A sheriff report lists 404 delinquent vehicle owners in Washington County Iowa for 1928 licenses or proper disposition of their cars. Deputies will mail notices urging payment or dismantled junked status and warn of arrest for unlicensed operation.
Washington County widows of World War veterans would gain about 6000 dollars in the first year after passage of a bill to grant pensions to veterans widows and dependent children. The proposal provides 22 dollars monthly per widow plus 6 dollars monthly for each dependent child.
Mr and Mrs F l Green of Cleveland Ohio are expected this evening for a visit at the Joe Falk home.
In Barcelona a sustained bombing by rebel bombers left 355 dead and many injured after over 12 hours of attacks. Additional raids later caused at least 75 more fatalities and widespread destruction as insurgents claimed advances in Africa and near the Mediterranean coast.
Funeral services for Mrs. Effie Moore will be held Friday morning at ten o'clock at the L A Jones funeral home conducted by Rev. W J Stevens. Burial follows in Elm Grove cemetery.
Bert Franklin Campbell aged 41 died yesterday at 8 40 pm at his home 626 East Jefferson street after a year of failing health and six weeks bedfast. Funeral at L A Jones funeral home Saturday after 1 30 in charge of Rev W J Stevens at the Foursquare Gospel church. Burial at Sowth English. Survived by wife Mary and children Joe Paul Campbell Ottumwa Charlotte Boyles Ottumwa sisters Ada Mowers Hood River Daisy Hitt Slater brothers Art Edinburgh Marion Peoria Harlan Alma Lee Wyoming.
Vienna reports Kurt Schuschnigg the former Austrian chancellor is to be interned in a concentration camp as anti-Nazi actions intensify. Wilhelm Miklas may soon be freed. Otto Lehmitz faces imprisonment. Aryans only may depart Austria or Germany for now. Paris and Warsaw discuss defense credits and Spain crisis. Chamberlain pressured over Czechoslovakia and Spain.
The American Youth Commission estimates 410 Washington county young men and boys aged 15 to 24 are out of school and unemployed. Dr Homer P Rainey says the figures reflect a major local economic and social problem based on surveys over two and a half years.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull set forth a middle of the road American foreign policy. He declared the United States will avoid entangling alliances while cooperating with like minded nations to foster world peace and maintain a defense system. His address to the National Press Club was broadcast worldwide on shortwave.
The Soviet Union said it had taken suitable steps amid the Polish Lithuanian frontier clashes to ensure Poland’s viewpoint. Foreign Commissar Litvinov announced Moscow would seek a special conference on German aggression inviting the United States but excluding Germany Italy Japan.
A meeting of Socony Vacuum Company employees was held Tuesday evening in the North Side Cafe dining room. Dinner was served at 7 p.m. and a business meeting followed with twenty men present from eight counties in southeastern Iowa.
James Swanson has been appointed assistant manager at the McLellan store in Galenburg Illinois after transferring from the Albia McLellan store. He and wife Kathyrn Annette, 3 months old, reside in Shellaburger Home. Swanson, a Knox College attendee, is active in local Catholic and Knights of Columbus groups. his wife belongs to the Baptist church.
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