12 May 1938
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
1
The Jefferson city council raised the local beer license from 100 dollars a year to 250 dollars, adjusting the fee amid municipal considerations.
The board approved raises totaling 30000 annually for Cedar Rapids teachers with each teacher receiving up to 200 more per year.
The Sioux City theater board of review adopted a resolution protesting motion picture producers against liquor drinking shown on the screen.
Palo Alto county fair board announced county officials have donated twenty acres at the southwest edge of Emmetsburg for a county fairgrounds. The fair committee will meet to plan building construction as soon as possible.
Cedar Falls resident Harold M. Jensen 27 was convicted of driving while intoxicated and sentenced to 60 days in jail. He received a second parole for a drunken driving case within five years, pleading that his "clumsy driving" rather than drunkenness caused the trouble making a turn.
Sioux City resident Sioux City Maude TM. Coop er was chosen to succeed Ada J. Klinger as president of the Iowa chapter of the P E E O sisterhood. Pearl N. Eb Cedar Rapids retires as organizer and becomes first vice president with Katherine Hughes Storm Lake as second vice president and Loretta H. Jones Clin ta as organizer.
Cedar Falls Dorothy McCutchen of Des Moines, a blind senior at Iowa State Teachers College, is among 28 seniors honored on Recognition Day. She ranks in the top 3 percent of about 800 graduates since 1937 and will receive a bachelor of arts degree at graduation exercises this month.
A Black woman named Ruby Jeu, 82, was found shot to death in Des Moines. Frank Brown, 29, a Black man, was seized as a suspect after neighbors reported a disturbance near her home and police conducted a brief but swift search.
Maquoketa District Judge William W. Scott told Iowa Electric Co of Cedar Rapids lawyers he will not grant an injunction to halt enlargement of Maquoketa's municipal power plant funded by a 95000 Federal Rural Electrification loan. The expanded facility will serve the Maquoketa Valley REA cooperative operating in Jones Jackson and Dubuque counties.
Council defeats civil service commission in James Morris case as the panel rules lack of jurisdiction. Morris, ousted street commissioner, seeks reinstatement and the council calls for two commissioners to resign for not serving the city’s interests.
Mount Vernon Cornell college prepares its fortieth annual May music festival opening this evening with Albert Spalding the violinist and composer in a solo concert. Ernest Hutcheson of Juilliard will perform at the Cornell chapel Friday evening. The Chicago Symphony, on its 36th campus visit, will be conducted by Frederick Stock for Saturday matinee and evening concerts.
Campaign for Washington summer playground shows sharp gains in donations with Washington Parent Teachers Association leading a bake sale expected to raise about 50 dollars. Y's Men and individual contributors supply most of the day’s receipts while officials push for 120 by Tuesday and 200 by week’s end to begin the program in June.
In Chicago on May 12, about 8 000 families, nearly half the relief roll, have names in the last half of the alphabet from mil to Z. Funds run out by May 17 as the emergency relief commission writes checks from A onward. Leo M Lyons notes no plan exists to aid tail-end families in distress.
Japanese pincers advance toward the Sunghai railway in south Shantung reportedly capture several villages. Chinese authorities express grave concern over continued progress while western Shangsi reports claim Pushien fell after Japanese forces retreated.
Ticket sales continue for Washington high school marching band event at Case Field Monday night as 1 500 tickets priced 25 cents aim to send the group to the regional contest in Minneapolis May 21. Director Maurice Brayton says 15 minute performance time is allowed, with an Iowa block letter formation and the Iowa Corn Song.
The Journal misprinted Ruth Sorrell as Ruth Saul in yesterday’s band photo. Sorrell is in the percussion section beside John Saul in the front row, a misreading likely from similar sounding names.
Mr and Mrs Delmer Miller have married Saturday and relocated to 1117 East Main Street in a new apartment. The brief item notes the couple’s marriage and change of address.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull stated the United States will not recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. The League of Nations, by a 10 to 4 vote, authorized nations to decide recognition, closing the Ethiopian question. New Zealand China Bolivia and Russia opposed.
Word was received here today that Lucille Morrow about 20 years old was killed in an automobile accident in Colorado last Saturday. She was the daughter of Roy Morrow reared in this community and with several cousins here. She studied at a college in Fort Collins where the family resides. Details of the crash were not learned.
In Hendaye May 12 insurgents advanced six miles on the Castillon front and took three more villages as government troops suffered heavy losses, according to a Salamanca communique.
Jesse P. Robertson known as the singer of psalms will present a program titled Song Hits of 14 BC featuring timbrel psaltery ram's horn lute shepherds flute desert violin and other early oriental instruments at the United Presbyterian church Friday at eight. The young people's society sponsors the event with no admission charge but a freewill offering will be received.
J F North of Washington was awarded authority to operate coal shipments under the motor carrier act from Middlegrove Illinois to Washington. He must prove prior similar operation as of June 1 1935 for grandfather clause eligibility and may stop at Ellisville as an off route point but cannot carry goods from Washington to Middlegrove.
Ford Motor counsel wins a preliminary victory in Covington Kentucky federal appeals court by blocking the NLRB from withdrawing its case record. The move challenges the NLRB's December finding Ford guilty of Wagner Act violations and cites a Supreme Court ruling requiring both sides to be examined.
Former Senator L J Dickinson of Algona told a Republican luncheon at the Presbyterian church that Iowa voters are ready to check the New Deal and reject liberal reforms. He argued against NRA and federal relief, urged local control of relief, and predicted steady Senate resistance for Republicans in the next two years.
The House, by 196 to 39, rejected a Republican amendment to require states to pay 25 percent of relief costs and assume the relief administration. The vote signals a strict party line split as Democrats push the recovery bill toward final passage.
Cedar Falls Iowa May 12 Tragedy struck during recognition day at Iowa State Teachers College when Dorothy McCutchan a 23 year old blind Des Moines senior and former Vinton state school student learned that her fiancé Tarleton Briggman 21 of Manchester Miss had been killed in an automobile accident Brigman who was nearly blind met McCutchan at Winton and they planned to marry
President Roosevelt directly urged Senator William G. McAdoo to seek re-election to the Senate. The call was announced at the McAdoo headquarters in San Francisco on May 13 according to INS dispatches.
Berlin reports a pact will be signed immediately to recognize Manchukuo, Japan's puppet state in Manchuria, formalizing diplomatic relations between Germany and the Manchukuo regime.
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