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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1938
Page
8
Gerald P. Nugent Jr. 10, son of the Philadelphia National League Baseball Club president, received extortion threats. Special guards were stationed at the boy’s Philadelphia home to protect him after the threats.
Black ducks camouflage nests with weeds and hide them in swamps or brush, found only accidentally. Parents keep young on reedy swamps, rarely venturing on open water. They feed at dawn and dusk and retreat to the river or lake center or flee the area when danger nears.
June brides are celebrated nationwide while grooms feel the pressure of the wedding hour. The piece cites Jack Haley from a film as illustrating groom angst, from nerves to asserting control, against a backdrop of marriage expectations.
A Paterson New Jersey man, Albert Warzenbach, reportedly went berserk after a brain operation left his head bandaged. He is alleged to have killed his two children with a hammer.
In Washington Millard W. Rice of the Veterans of Foreign Wars urged broader pension relief. A Senate Finance sub committee approved a bill raising the minimum monthly pension from 30 to 40 dollars for disabled former service members.
Prosecutor David Evans and former District Attorney Herman Salen faced indictment alongside Sheriff Walter Liskowitsz for conspiring to evade laws and permitting slot machine gambling after a boomerang inquiry into slot machine vice and liquor conditions began last November.
A traveling unit promotes foot relief at Harwood's Shoe Store with Dr Scholl factory experts from Chicago. The June event features X ray guided fittings, Dr William M Scholl shoes, and a range of foot comfort remedies to aid those with unique foot shapes and high arches.
West Sunset notes from May 27 recount Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Barr hosting dinner with Ola Alter in Mt. Pleasant and numerous visits and weekend gatherings at homes in Washington Wayland Kalona Crawfordsville and Ainsworth. Communities share meals calls and brief visits among neighbors and relatives in a typical rural ledger of social activity.
James Warner Crabb sits in Pekin Missouri court listening to Willis Crabb Pekin banker testify in the manslaughter case over the death of Crabb's wife shot in the banker's home.
Memorial day services will be held Sunday afternoon May 29 at 1 30 in Hillcrest cemetery. The Brighton band leads the parade from the Legion hall at 1 o'clock with ex service men boy scouts and students. Program includes invocation music reading Gettysburg Address by Norman White address by Rev R W Fillmore readings In Flanders Field by Lillian Kraemer Benediction by Rev Meier and taps by Otto Lamansky.
The Chinatown sage Hi Ho remarks that men create new laws easily yet struggle to enforce them. He notes the same old difficulties in compelling obedience persist despite changes in rule making.
Crawfordsville May 2 Mrs Jane McElroy who has been ill for several weeks shows a slight change and more nourishment with less drowsiness. Raymon Webster sr and jr left for home in Massachusetts after a visit at Rev Norman Water's home. Evelyn Thompson accompanied them for a summer visit. The Womens Foreign Missionary Society of the Method Church met at the church Thursday afternoon with Mrs Pearl McNett leading devotions and Mrs Howard as program chair on Community Citizenship.
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