Open House Observes National Hospital Day at Washington County
Washington County Hospital in Camorrow hosts National Hospital Day with open house from 10 am to 4 pm, nurses home 10 am to 10 pm, X-ray and laboratory demonstrations, and a 2:30 pm address by Hazel Spencer Schaus on parenting attitudes. Weighing at 3 pm by Drs Mc Laughlin Stewart Mahin and Fry. 101 babies born in 1930 and 1931 invited. alumni serve refreshments. 8 pm program at nurses home with music, readings, and a Riverside comedy sketch.
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National Hospital
Washington County Hospital
Camorrow
Washingtonn County
Margaret Hales Rose
Hazel Spencer Schaus
Child Welfare Department
State Board of Health
The
County Hospital Nursing School
Janet Jennings
William Stewart
Helen Alcorn
Frances Kephart
Rose Mannion
Riverside
E. K K. Blythe
Martial law invoked in Madrid amid riots and fires
Madrid. Martial law was imposed after rioters set fires to churches and convents during a weekend of disorder. One man was killed and several wounded as monarchist blame followed a pastoral letter. Provisional president Niceto Alcalá Zamora toured the streets as authorities re arrest Berenguer and investigated the council’s actions.
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Madrid
Council of Ministers
Spain
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Operetta Cast Named for Junior High Presentation
The eighth grade operetta The Mysterious Master by Clark and Carrington will be staged Friday May 16 in the junior high auditorium with 25 cent admission. Mrs George Frost waters directs assisted by junior high teachers, with the junior high orchestra opening. Cast includes Master Roger F Bicher Housekeeper Rachel Johnston Butler Elwyn Gardner and others. Duster Dance and multiple choruses feature eighth grade girls and boys with a long list of named performers.
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Clark and Carrington
George ) Restwaters
Freshwaters
Master
Roger Fbicher
Rachel Johnston Butler
Elwyn Gardner
Lee Wallace Gardner
Homer Darnell Cook
Virginia Shannon
Rastus
Clair Norton
Ophelia
Mary Virginia Elgar
Adelia
Catherine Masson
Cornelia
Beulah Harvey
Pierre
Robbie Barclay
Jacques
Max Allen Jean
Allen Hampsher
Sleuth
Donald Minick
Merrett
Louis Thornton Gumshoe
Donald Davis
Pirate Joe
Julia McElhinney
Chorus
Decorators
Detectives
Gene Crossett
Junior Wells
George Masson
Garald Mitchell
Charles Thompson
Richard Johnson
Elsie Brock
Harriett Bey
Petty Haven
Ena Lewis
Charlotte Ward
Louise Null
Georgiana Scott
Mary Nickerson
Verna Rickel
Demons Triumph in Three Events at Fairfield Meet
In the district track meet at Fairfield, the Demons earned three event wins and 19 points led by Washington with other points from Bowes and Crone. Results include Stutsman winning the mile for Washington and Frederick taking the discus, with Keokuk, Ottumwa and Fairfield scoring behind as Ames awaits the state meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington High School
Fairfield
Keokuk
Burlington
Oskaloosa
Washington
Ottumwa
Ft. Madison
Centerville
Mediapolis
Keota
Air Field
Ames
Jim Shultz
Bob Stutsman
Dale Kiesey
Carl Frederick
Irwin
Freeman
Selbers
Wapello
Brewers
Hynd Fairfield
Cole
Randolph
Davis
Ft Madison
Schmidt
Bonaparte
Brewer
Bland
Farmington
Deam
Crayne
Albertson
Garrison
Craine
Hemingway Keokuk
Dooley
Play Nights Set for Washington High Auditorium
Nights for the school play are Thursday and Friday May 21 and 22 in the Washington high school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington High School
Y's Men Elect W F Bickel Governor of Iowa
The Y's Men district convention in Ottumwa elected W F E Bickel Washington as governor with Lead Smith Ottumwa Lyon Des Moines Miller Waterloo and Lewis Warren Washington as lieutenant governors and secretary treasurer. Richard McCleery installed the officers at the Y's Men convention banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y’s Men's Club
Ottumwa
W. F E. Bickel
Washington
Lead Smith
Ottuimwa
Lyon
Des Moines
Miller
Waterloo
Lewis Warren
Richard McCleery
Y's Men's Clubs
Jesse J. Miller
Washington Club
Allan A. Campbell
Ottumwa Y. M. C. A
A. A. Campbell
Lee Hors
Max Marble
Harland Mead
Clarence Miller
Mary Minick
Milburn McKay
Anna Marie Anderson
Norman Sage
Ted Brown
Foster Bick
Leigh Soule
Accidents Take Big Toll Across Nation This Weekend
United Press reports a deadly weekend with 25 known deaths from cars airplanes fire hail and gas. Iowa saw five fatalities including a university students crash in Lawrence Kansas a six member family killed in Texas and a woman burned in North Dakota. California’s Merced bus crash raised the week’s toll to seven with other airplane fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
United States
Iowa
Lawrence
Kans
Kansas University
Alvord
Tex
Williston
N. D
Merced
Calif
Suicide death of Mrs J E Myall in Lexington area
Mrs J E Myall aged 50 killed herself with strychnine at home on West Madison Street after a year of ill health affecting her mind. Husband Mr Myall grieving, with medical help sought. Funeral set for 2:30 Wednesday at L A Jones funeral home, burial Elm Grove cemetery. Anna May Hoxworth born June 12 1880, daughter of Charles and Susan Hoxworth, married to J E Myall February 12, 1902, survived by mother, daughter Mrs Don Applegate, brother I B Hoxworth, sister Mrs Bessie Speheger.
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J. E. Myall
Madison Street
Myall
L. A. Jones
Elm Grove
Anna May Hoxworth
Lexington
Charles
Susan
Fabrington) Hoxworth
J .E. Myall
Charles Hoxworth
Don Applegate
I. B. Hoxworth
Bessie Speheger
Life of Christ shown to 50 youths at church
A United Presbyterian church union meeting screened Christ in art before about 50 youths. Rev D Fulton lectured on lantern slides featuring works by Hoffmann Raphael Millet with group singing led by Velda Parcell and Dave Fulton. Mary Pauls read scripture. The event was organized by the interchurch council.
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Christ
United Presbyterian Church
D. ©. Fulton
Hoffman
Raphael
Millet
Velda Parcell
Dave Fulton
Eva Diller
Mary Pauls
Young People’s Interchurch Council
Rural Life Sunday Highlights Farmer Church Roles
Lloyd Walker of the Washington County Farm Bureau spoke on what farmers expect from the church and vice versa. Dr A W Henke urged rural and city churches to support ministry, education, and worship while noting farmers’ essential parish role and virtues. Mothers Day events at the Baptist church followed with poems, solos, flowers, and a sermon on Mothers tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Walker
Washington County Farm Bureau
A. W. Elenke
Henke
Ile
Church
Baptist
Norman Sage
Charles [Long
Whisler
Della Blanchard
Dorothy Davidson
Darlene Young
Darwin Vacha
Billy Arnold
Wilma Harold
Merle Walker
R. L. Grimes
Tucson hailed as humane town with high life expectancy
Rogers extols Tucson, praising its climate and university, then cites a New York dinner of prominent women to highlight America’s high child birth death rate at sixteen thousand annually, suggesting travel to distant lands for safer childbirth.
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Tucson
Ariz
America
U.S
Mexico
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Hoover
Lindbergh
Sloan
Kermit Roosevelt
Safety Lane Tests 550 Cars With 22 Perfect Passes
In a three day Safety Lane event, 550 cars were tested and 22 passed perfectly on the first try. The event, sponsored by Leon Beatty post, Mayor John W. Applegates, and the city police, distributed free gasoline from Washington Oil Co to the successful drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Ol Company
Washington Oil Co
Washington
Leon Beatty Post
John W. Applegates
Eminent Attorney Near Death in Council Bluffs
Emmet Tinley 67 a noted Iowa attorney lay unconscious and near death at his Council Bluffs home as his wife Mrs Tinley died yesterday from heart disease believed worsened by a bedside vigil. Tinley who defended the University of Iowa during a recent legislative investigation collapsed after the inquiry and had been critically ill with heart obstruction.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Emmet Tinley
Tinley
Play to Show Work in Sewing at Washington High
A sewing themed play will be performed at 4 30 Thursday afternoon May 14 in the Washington high school auditorium to showcase home economics work. Mary the lead is played by Doris Clow and Jean Moore with Hattie Morgan as The Spirit of Good Taste. Miss Helen McCleery directs the production with nearly all home economics students participating.
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Washington High School
Mary
Doris Clow
Jean Moore
Hattie Morgan
Helen McCleery
Quartet Delivers Mother's Day Number by Grimes Marsh Thompson Sage
A quartet featuring R. L. Grimes Terry Marsh Milan Thompson and F. R. Sage performed an appropriate Mother's Day number in a local concert setting highlighting the ensemble's coordination and period style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Grimes
Terry Marsh
Milan Thompson
F. R. Sage
Burke Gang Suspect in Washington County Sheriff Killing
Iowa authorities push fingerprint checks on six East St. Louis gang members as the search for Sheriff Fred Sweet and Marshal Aaron Bailey killer widens. Two alleged accomplices, James M. Clark and Walter Deltrich, are reportedly serving life terms in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Sweet
Aaron Batley
Washington
Fred Burke
East St. Louis
Chicago
James &. Risden
Iowa
Illinois
Risden
Sweet and Bailey
Ottumwa
Indiana
George’. F. Morrison
Quinlan
Des Moines
J. R. Quinlan
Morrison
Gamg
Aaron Bailey
Washington County
J .K. Risden
Bureau of Investigation
Walter Bk. Deltrich
Des Moines Hosts Visit to Scout Veterans Hospital Site
Col John J Phelan engineer for the federal board of hospitalization arrived in Des Moines to survey Iowa sites within 50 miles of Ames for a new veterans hospital. He will review 14 locations and may extend to towns beyond the radius before recommending locations to superiors.
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Des Moines
U.R
John J. Phelan
Federal Board of Hospitalization
Iowa
Veterans Hospital
Phelan
Ames
Washington
Iowa American Legion
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Frederick M. Sackett
Germany
S. S. Europa
Berlin
Damasco Berenguer
Supreme Council of War and Navy
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Ning
I. Rothschild
Joe Falk
Florence Peterson
Olds
Marie Landau
Mt. Pleasant
Sented
Tay
Lor Directs
Washington High Schoo
Philip Barry
Charlotte Winslow
Bernice Adrian Oliver Winslow
Grant McKune
Mark Winslow
Raymond Witting Augusta Winslow Martine
Alan Martin
William Masson
Martha Winslow
Marjorie Robertson
Richard Winslow
William Sartor
Nancy Blake
Cherie McElhinney
Evelyn Anderson
J. A. Taylor
Stutsman
Frederick
Fairfeld
Bickel
Y’s Men
Ren
Towa
James Cannon, Jr
Nye Committee
Ada L. Burroughs
Richmond
Churchman’s
Senate
Washington, D. C
ED Myale
Eral
Union Young People’s Meet
Stanley. Heffner
Pomona
Frank Wells
Iowa City
Marie Jackson
Kalona
Mason City
West Va
Mich
Washington University
St. Louis
Windsor
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County Barm
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Rev
Vinz
Will
Rogers
India
Africa
McNevadt Syntiwote Lim
Burke
U.S. Hospital
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