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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1943
Page
1
The Pella tip festival will be a one day event on May 13 with a 1 pm coronation of the queen and Gov. Bourke B. Hickel–looker. An afternoon pageant Four Freedoms at 4:30 pm, plus street scrubbing Dutch dances and street singing. Scholte museum open for antiques. tulips bloom after May 10.
Albia city council votes to ban music in establishments that sell beer, following a proposal by the Albia Ministerial Association. Only two juke boxes will remain in cafes that do not sell beer.
Donald Holdoegel Iowa chief counsel for OPA announced a plan to nominate judges and lawyers across the state as commissioners for the office of price administration in rationing cases. Appointments will be voluntary with no compensation. The plan decentralizes enforcement of rationing rules, replacing the need to call in commissioners from distant locations.
A. J. Loveland Iowa AAA chairman told a Hampton mass meeting that weather is the only hurdle left for a 1943 record in food production. He cited 8 percent of Iowa farmers with production agreements and said farmers will meet the challenge with shifts in crops and strong livestock output.
Washington May 5 price administrator Prentiss M Brown said east coast gasoline stocks are at wartime lows and pledged a tough enforcement drive. He will revoke B and C ration cards of drivers using occupational gasoline for pleasure, with enforcement at race tracks and parks.
President Roosevelt backs the War Labor Board’s jurisdiction in the coal mine dispute with John L. Lewis. The outcome now hinges on potential concessions the board will make to miners’ wage demands under the wage stabilization order.
Thomas Webster Brown 63 died at Washington county hospital after an 18 month illness. He lived in Washington and Centerville most of his life, married Grace Arthur in 1904, leaving a wife, three daughters, one son in the army, his mother and five brothers. He worked on the Rock Island as roadmaster and maintenance engineer and was considered a popular employee. Funeral plans were set for 9:30 Friday at St. James Catholic church with burial at Elm Grove.
County records show last week’s war bond sales at 155,442.08 dollars as part of the second war loan drive, adding to April totals and nearing the 820,000 county quota. Series E, F, G and other bonds contributed, with local Knights of Columbus units exceeding their April target by about four times, reaching 19,081.25 dollars under Ed Sullivan.
A fire heavily damaged the Rock Island Motor Transit company office and shop in Des Moines this afternoon. The blaze began from the backfire of a truck and endanger nearby structures.
Stewart and Lincoln elementary pupils led by Helen Harrison and Zenta Powell perform tomorrow at 6:80 at Stewart School. Sponsored by Fort Nightly Club Music Department in observance of National Music Week. Admission free. Activities include songs and dramatizations by first through sixth graders and a combined choir performing selections such as Three Little Puppies Dear Flag of Our America The Home Road and more.
Kalona led the county scrap drive with 683 854 pounds 342 tons of iron for war use. County chairmen say farmers collected large amounts recently and suggest more obsolete farm machinery remains. A steel Marion Township bridge is to be sold intact to a salvage firm.
Washington announces a 24 concert summer series in Central Park starting June with 14 Saturday and 10 Wednesday programs plus services on Memorial Day. Ralph W. Young named band director, replacing Milo Sorden, as the Municipal band rebuilds after wartime losses.
Tickets were on sale today for the annual Y M C A meeting to be held next Monday at 6 30 PM in the Y community room. Andy Woolphies of WMT Cedar Rapids will speak on his recent sojourn in England with Rotary Y's Men joining in the event. Tickets for dinner and entertainment are 60 cents.
The American Legion post led by Leon Beatty plans to raise membership from 162 to at least 196 by June 30 and exceed last year’s total. Fairfield district commander A. E. Turner district adjutant Ben Blakely and Arthur Woods, membership chairman, attended the meeting. Turner spoke on membership and child welfare, noting over 11 million dollars spent nationally last year. The district meeting June 16 at Washington country club will be an evening event with elections, a business session and entertainment. Fred Downing was named to represent the post at the district gathering.
Allied forces push toward Bizerte and Tunis as RAF bombers strike Dortmund and Cologne records. American units reach 10 miles from Bizerte and Tebourba within six miles, threatening Ferryville and Eddekhila while Luftwaffe losses mount amid a large Soviet front buildup for a summer campaign.
A message from the adjutant general in Washington informs Ralph Shannon that Captain Robert Shannon died May 3 in the European area due to an airplane accident. The secretary of war conveys deepest sympathy to the family and a letter of details is forthcoming.
Crawfordsville prepares a Red Cross surgical dressings project with community women making sponges for army and navy hospitals. A patriotic societies meeting at the Legion rooms plans Memorial day observance led by R. R. Noonan, general chairman.
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