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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1938
Page
1
A Clarinda column recalls Mrs Nellie K Leffler once with the Prow Leffler auto firm and now serves as El Monte California's sole woman mayor after a recent election. The item highlights her pioneering municipal role in southern California.
Polk County's annual old age pension expense climbs since the 1934 inception and is estimated to reach nearly one million dollars this year per the Des Moines Bureau of Municipal Research.
Fragle Grove Clarinda and Maple Grove High School commercial teams competed in the Town Commercial Contest Association event at Hotel Fort Des Moines. The two schools will share custody of the gold trophy for six months each.
DES MOINES The United States supreme court has settled part of the Iowa dispute over filled milk sale. A recent Illinois case decision upheld the federal filled milk law and prohibits interstate shipment of the product.
More than 500 persons attended the opening sessions of the joint state convention of Master and Journeyman Barbers in Waterloo. The gathering was augmented by about 100 cosmeticians.
Twelve University of Iowa men were named to the A F I honorary senior men organization. They were elected by this year's outgoing members and will be initiated Wednesday evening. Membership honors scholastic ability and outside activity participation.
Iowa City Kappa Alpha Theta and Theta Pi won the women’s and men’s divisions of the University of Iowa’s third annual Singfest. Finals featured sorority fraternity and dormitory choruses on the Fine Arts steps with audiences on the river front lawn as a torchlit canoe quadrangle floated downstream.
The Waterloo convention of World Christian Fundamentals adopted a resolution urging retention of the present Supreme Court status. More than 4,000 attendees joined sessions of the international conference with Fundamentalist church representatives from 85 states and 10 foreign countries.
The Secre taries of the Town Chambers of Commerce hold their annual spring conference in Mason City on Tuesday and Wednesday with representatives from 40 cities expected. Arthur F. Brayton, manager of the Des Moines convention bureau, will be the principal speaker.
A Des Moines picnic caravan headed to Ledges State Park near Madrid to inspect a proposed artificial lake project. Cars and boats gathered from Perry Boone Madrid and Woodward, with 88 motor boats leaving the Des Moines Power Boat clubhouse and eight cruisers led by Commodore Fred Sillick joining later.
The state executive committee of the W. Co. A. business and industrial clubs will meet here next Saturday and Sunday to lay plans for the fall conference of the clubs here.
Washington high school's marching band, one of two in its class to earn superior ratings at the state contest, plans a performance at Case Field tonight at eight. Tickets at 25 cents aid a trip fund to Minneapolis next Saturday, with a gate sale if any remain. A four o'clock check will tally sold tickets and cash on hand. The band's tag day, led by Mrs. Ruby Stewart, raised nearly $50 last Saturday.
Two ex convicts are being hunted in Des Moines for a ransom plot against Douglas West ten year old grandson of Fort Madison warden Glenn C Haynes. State agents James Mc Donald and Joe Burke lead the investigation after a Davenport trap failed and the suspects fled when spotted by a detective.
Two prisoners escaped from Page County jail in Clarinda while a guard was overpowered. Escapees are Glen Clark of Clarinda and Bill Black of Red Oak, both held on robbery and check charges respectively. they fled through the sheriff's residence seeking liberty.
A shelter house built from native limestone opened at Crawford-Armstrong Park in Fort Dodge. The project was funded by a bequest from the late Mrs. Alice A. Granger, part of her gifts to Fort Dodge schools churches and the art gallery.
Des Moines reports a period from May 16 to May 21 with generally fair conditions in the northern Mississippi and Missouri valleys and northern to central Great Plains. Showers probable midweek in southern areas, then fair again later in the week with temperatures near normal or a bit below.
Local sports groups push state purchase of 6000 acres of marsh lands along the Mississippi in Green Bay district. Petitions circulated in southeastern Iowa urge the land be set aside as a fish and game refuge and sent to the Iowa Conservation commission.
Mr and Mrs Carl Nenzil and their daughter Kathryn of Iowa City visited with Mrs Kathryn Jartosky and Mrs Mayme Purieh. They drove to Pella to view the tulips together.
Mrs Joe Knotek and Arlene arrived home after a weekend in Chicago for business. They visited Mrs Knotek's brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Louis Reller and spent Sunday at Brookfield Zoo to see the famed panda.
President Roosevelt told the big four congressional leaders he favors a federal reorganization bill this session but avoided calling it must legislation. Sam Rayburn briefed reporters after leaving the White House with Garner Bankhead and Barkley. The Senate suddenly passed a bill to create a civil aviation authority with the power to remove any director for any reason.
Paul Wittiig of Elkhart Indiana was ordained to the ministry at Prairie Street Mennonite church in Elkhart. He formerly worked for Washington National Bank about two years and in Crawfordsville bank. He will move to Inlay Michigan in June to serve as pastor.
Death of James Lester Sigmund of Cedar Rapids announced in West Chester. Born January 22 1888 in Thurmont Maryland he lived in West Chester and Wellman 32 years and worked road maintenance for township and county. Survived by wife Mabel Pell and three daughters plus siblings. Funeral arrangements pending.
Republican leaders meeting in Chicago endorsed a national referendum to gauge voter opinions on major issues for shaping the 1940 party program. The survey aims to sound out constituencies and guide platform decisions, with committee members including J. Sam White Glenn Frank and others.
Will J. Crozier, 69, of Washington, died at 12 30 p m Sunday at Washington County Hospital after eight weeks of illness while serving as assessor for Washington township. He had been a prominent local figure, township clerk for twelve years, and a substitute rural mail carrier. Funeral services Tuesday at the Baptist Church with burial in Ainsworth Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, three brothers, and one sister.
The census data show 11 young men and 3 young women aged 15 to 24 in emergency work still seeking private jobs. An additional 13 men and 6 women in the same age group are totally unemployed but want work. Over 25, six men and eight women are jobless as new workers, many previously self sufficient. The rise of women in this group signals households where the male breadwinner cannot fully provide. No one in this group had emergency work from government agencies.
Air Mail Week nationwide urges Washington residents to boost air route mail, with post offices tracking daily air mail totals. A special push is planned for Thursday to speed items to Columbus Junction, using a pilot for rapid transfer. Air mail stamps envelopes and cachets mark letters from Washington during the event.
Mr and Mrs J B Bedell of Farmington visited yesterday and will spend the week with their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs H J Bedell.
A funeral service will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the L. A. Jones Funeral Home in Madrid Iowa, with burial to follow in Keota Cemetery.
A deadly hotel fire in Atlanta kills twenty four. Firefighters and convicts search the tangled ruins using torches as bodies are recovered and some victims perish after leaping from upper windows. Four family members among the dead remain unidentified.
A sermon will be delivered Tuesday evening at the Louisa Center church southeast of Columbus Junction. Rev. C. B. Riddington of Burlington will preach.
Westmoreland General James A. Farley, head of the national Democratic committee, endorses Thomas Kenney for governor and George Farle for senator in Pennsylvania’s tight Democratic primary. Kennedy, aligned with CIO leader John L. Lewis and UMWA ally Joseph Guffey, backs the ticket amid party divisions and fears of defeat after forty years in control.
Burlington secretary Leslie Vennard of the Iowa Illinois Amateur Radio Club says a convention of Iowa members of the American Radio Relay League will be held June 11 and 12. He expects nearly 60 operators with invites sent to others in western Illinois and northeast Missouri. A technical clinic exhibit and series of addresses by nationally known radio men will highlight the event.
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