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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1943
Page
7
Washington Oil Company advertises Lubrigas gasoline claiming 20-cent mileage savings and excellent motor performance for wartime use. Located at 673.
Chicago markets show hogs steady to 10 cents lower with 13 000 head traded and tops at 14 75. Cattle 8 000 with fed cattle steady and prime offerings active with several loads over 17.00. Sheep 7 000 with western lambs steady to strong and ewes scarce amid high demand. tomorrow’s estimated totals: hogs 11 000 cattle 10 000 sheep 7 000.
North Carolina State College extension specialist Ellis V. Vestal advises a mineral mix for hogs. If steamed bonemeal is unavailable, use 10 lb ground limestone and 2 lb salt. if available, use 10 lb limestone, 10 lb steamed bonemeal, and 5 lb salt. Keep minerals dry and accessible to hogs.
Stuttgart is described as the Detroit of Germany and the birthplace of the German automobile industry. In Unterturkheim the Daimler plant grew from the 1885 motorcycle and the first car built in 1886 by Gottlieb Daimler.
Chicago cash grain market report lists corn with multiple lots described as mixed and yellow varieties at 107 to 123 1/4 cents and white at 115 1/2 cents. Oats show mixed and white bids around 66 cents with several lots noted.
Chicago grain table shows May 4 values for Wheat Corn and Oats across open high low and close. Wheat around 145 to 148 close. Corn around 105 to 105-1/2. Oats around 62 to 63 with steady quotes. Seasonal bids and commodity quotes reflect typical trading ranges.
Divers recovered ten tons of gold bars worth ten million dollars from the sunken Niagara liner after a 428 foot descent off New Zealand. Royal Australian navy help aided operations. the haul sets a new deep sea salvage record and ranks among the most valuable aboard a sunken ship.
Carl Fulton Byars, 23, a robber who escaped with a killer, surrendered to Huntsville prison after a revival meeting where evangelist B. D. Clifford prayed with him. Byars said the Lord told him the wrong he was doing and he chose penitentiary life again.
A convict from Ar racuara’s Southern penal colony won a brief freedom by clinging to a pontoon of a military seaplane delivering mail. He rode nearly 200 miles before the crew spotted him. The plane landed on a river to remove him.
Francisco Rubiales, a bull fight news anchor for Mexico City station XEQ, balked when questioned about including the claim that jailed murder suspect A. Rodriguez Lozano attended the bull fight. He urged asking the warden rather than discussing the matter.
Middlebourne, Huntington, W V town officials returned a $31000 WPA grant to the federal government. Mayor Orren L Jones said the grant for street and alley improvements was appreciated but not needed now. The township acted to aid the war effort.
An Arab man with a dancing bear at Basra attracted attention. investigation showed the bear to be an enemy agent in a bearskin, verified by an American officer.
Fort Wayne resident John F. Wing, age 89, wrote Mayor Harry W. Baals requesting a civilian defense post. He boasted he could “see to hit a Jap at a thousand yards” and was added to the city’s honorary defense volunteers list.
G B Leigh told the rationing board a rat ate 13 coupons from his medicine chest. He killed the rat and hid it awaiting a post mortem or affidavit as officials ordered him to bury the rodent.
Leonard D Williams, 44, quit the army after 28 days and eight moves for sleep at Fresno coast camp. His loud snoring, linked to a childhood ailment, disrupted fellow recruits, led to hospital observation, isolation ward placement, and multiple relocations before a discharge for chronic asthma.
Des Moines Iowa Charles Wallace city jailer booked Elof H Nelson a 30 year old farmer for intoxication He patted the bulging billfold and joked about it then opened the zipper to reveal hay stuffed inside Nelson said he carried hay to absorb perspiration while at work
Benjamin B. Maloney was sentenced for bigamy after Judge Amedee Monet called the case a mental one. The court heard he had been married four times and the judge said no man in his right mind would take on four marriages.
Stockholm reports the Oslo department of finance states all Norwegian Jews will be declared bankrupt and Jewish concerns and estates liquidated. Receivers will be drawn from Quisling ranks. Refugees from allied countries have already had property relief.
A concise maxim teaches that those who decide on important matters should not be swayed by hatred friendship anger or compassion. The quote admonishes objective judgment free from personal bias.
Washington business, C. W. Lindquist, shuts down the South Fourth avenue plant due to inability to recruit enough competent workers. He expects to move to Ottumwa where he has a new job and plans to sell the Washington laundry with hope of reopening if staffing improves.
Coal is an important source of material for the plastics industry. The prospects for a tremendous increase in the volume of plastics production will render the future for coal derivatives extremely bright, if every effort is made to maintain research, reduce basic cost of manufacture, increase yields, and produce a varied and flexible number of intermediates.
ASI reported from Istanbul that Dutch patriots abducted the daughter of Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Holland’s Nazi commissar, and seized 47 Dutch traders for execution. Four of the hostages have been shot. the girl, held as a hostage, is unnamed and reportedly a teenager.
Midway Sale Co Columbus Junction runs weekly journal sales every Wednesday while the Community Sale takes place every Friday at Whittaker sale barn. A May 8 closing out sale lists household goods at 414 South Second Avenue starting 1 30 PM honoring Mr and Mrs Alvin Walker.
London May 4 Prime Minister Winston Churchill said retaliatory action would not be undertaken until positive evidence of gas warfare is obtained. He expressed confidence Britain would receive true information from Russian allies.
In Egypt weight lifting stands as a culturally significant sport in ordinary times, reflecting its status as a standard athletic pursuit and a point of national pride.
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