09 May 1938
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1938
Page
1
Margaret Layton editor from London visited Des Moines to study Iowa agricultural conditions and voiced a view that housing conditions for the nation's lowest third lag behind England.
Officers of the laws division of the American Association of University Women were elected at the Cedar Rapids convention closing Saturday. Named were Mrs George Fowler of Ames as first vice president, Mrs S H Start of Cedar Falls as president, and Mrs John R Battin of Cedar Rapids as secretary.
About six hundred Rotarians and Rotary Anns attended the annual conference representing 40 of 79 clubs in the district. Delegates will ballot for the district governor, with William Brandon of Davenport the retiring leader.
Des Moines cars of the Iowa highway patrol are chartered as official mobile units of the American National Red Cross. John Hattery says the vehicles will bear Red Cross emblems and carry trained personnel in first aid. The mobile units will not replace regular medical care and will be directed to nearest doctors and hospitals for emergencies.
San Diego preacher Pr. Dan Gilbert blasts U S colleges for spreading a new philosophy he calls socialist and communist taint. He says only a few schools avoid this influence and crime rises as a result.
Four prominent Iowa P E C members from Mt Pleasant were injured when their car ran off Highway 59 east of Hancock and overturned. Katherine Mann 69 executive secretary suffered a fractured left collar bone. Myrta Gilfillan 51 suffered a fractured right ankle. Thelma Carden 30 and Dora B Johnson 65, matron of the P O home, escaped with bruises.
Ames High School boys and girls attend the homemakers and agricultural congress to swell Veishea crowds at Iowa State College. The two day program features music rehearsals talent tryouts achievement events forums business sessions and elections as students visit campus.
A republican luncheon is invited for men and women on Wednesday May 11 at 1 p m in the Presbyterian church. Former Senator L J Dickinson of Algona will attend with Martha McClure of Mount Pleasant and Mrs Carrie Snider of West Liberty. All county office candidates are urged to attend.
The 63 member Washington high school marching band led by director Maurice Brayton and Major L. Te Saul earned a superior rating at the state music festival in Iowa City. The group impressed with six abreast formations and a long oblique maneuver, plus a unique gun signaling device. New members Max Haifley Wayne Wilson and Wendell Baker joined just before the contest after illness and grades forced others out.
Judge P. J. Siegers of Newton will split April and May between Sigourney and Washington district courts. He plans to return Thursday for a day or two of court, then begin two weeks of Keokuk county court starting next Monday, staying here briefly next week per his tentative two county schedule.
A fire truck was dispatched this afternoon around 1 30 to extinguish a blaze and secure the scene. Fire crews arrived promptly and worked to control the fire and prevent spread.
President Roosevelt, after a nine day cruise, reviews the legislative outlook with Vice President Garner Speaker Bankhead Senate Majority Leader Barkley and House Majority Leader Rayburn. They plan to press the wage hour bill, spending bill, and tax bill conference report in the coming days as Congress nears adjournment.
The Playground committee led by Harry Sizer seeks 200 for a two month supervised playground with plumbing. Contributions total 32 from 25 donors and more gifts are expected. Planned handicraft activities will support a rainy day program and teach worthwhile skills. A girls' program leader has not yet been named.
In Chicago on May 9 a committee of ten specialists voted to operate on five weeks old Helaine Judith Colan after a malignant tumor blinded her left eye. Dr. Robert H. Goode performed the removal at Garfield Hospital to halt cancer and preserve the right eye. Parents Dr and Mrs Herman Colan were present along with a rabbi and an attorney.
In a collision between two street cars at a residential city intersection, thirty people were injured, several seriously. One car overturned on its side.
Mary Elizab eth Atchison named valedictorian for the 1938 senior class with a 95.3 grade average, narrowly ahead of Mary Westphal who is salutatorian. Both receive scholarship pins for sixteen or more A grades and have active roles in orchestra Girl Reserves and Forensic club. Cool, unsettled May weather continues with 40 to 52 degree highs and light weekend rainfall across Iowa.
Postmaster M C DeLong announces air mail week at the Washington post office featuring a local cachet for air mail letters. Special air mail stamps and envelopes will be available, with stamps selling from May 15. Aiming to boost mail from Washington on Thursday May 19, air mail received by 2 30 pm will be driven to Columbus Junction to board a plane.
A car fire on the north side of the J C Penney store was limited to a distributor problem with minimal damage. Firefighters responded quickly and contained the blaze.
H W Mineart announces candidacy for member of the Washington county board of supervisors. The term begins January 1 1939 and he runs in the June Republican primary. A Brighton township farmer for twenty years he also spent eighteen years as a building contractor. He and his wife have eleven children.
Mothers were honored in Washington churches with special sermons on motherhood and its role in civilization and religion. Florists reported heavy Mother Day business as Wolf flower shop and Oetjen's drew crowds for blooms and potted plants. At A M E Church a mothers day service featured talks by Mrs. Cecil Ballew Mrs. H R Crayton and Mrs. Emma Black.
Mr Mineart announces his candidacy to balance the east side of the county where he says Brighton township deserves consideration amid a crowded field of candidates.
A two pound four ounce baby girl born last Tuesday to Mrs Lester Ventling in Davis City is thriving at home. The preterm infant, two months early, is fed every two hours with an eye dropper and remains under careful observation by family and doctors.
Shanghai dispatch reports Chahar province forces crossed the Great Wall during the Sino Japanese conflict. One column attacked south of Changting, twenty two miles northwest of Pieping, while another column stormed the walls near Yanelinehineg, nn miles west of Tientsin, signaling a mobile push.
Walter Longer and family were driving west on primary road No 2 when William C Buch of West Point attempted to pass without a clear view, sideswiping Zeiglow sky and Longer's cars. Three vehicles were damaged and passengers suffered injuries including Ethel Churchill who lost teeth. Buch was fined $10 and costs after pleading guilty to passing without a clear view.
Russell Bell of Seventy-six township filed nomination papers as a Democrat for supervisor term starting January 1940, completing a 23-candidate primary slate with 18 Republicans and five Democrats. Emma B. Richardson filed for renomination to the country hospital board on the Democratic ticket, the sole hospital board candidate. Four members will be elected, likely two Republicans and two Democrats to keep the board non partisan. The hospital board ticket will be settled at party conventions after the primary unless enough write-in votes nominate at the primary. Other candidates filed through Saturday afternoon were listed in the Journal.
George Rudiger left stage day for Neola Iowa to spend Mother's Day with his mother Mrs Dora Jones. He is expected home tomorrow.
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