08 Nov 1939
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1939
Page
1
Mrs. A. D. Richards, 75, of Algona, died in a local beauty shop while preparing to get a permanent wave. Coroner R. A. Evans ruled the death caused by a heart attack.
About 4000 Newton water customers will receive a 6 percent refund on their 1936 bills. The city council approved the total refund, estimated at roughly $6,000, to be issued.
Rev. J. J. McGregor pastor of St Marys McGregor Rev P J Takin Elkader and W H Walter Wikader completed an eight day deer and elk hunt in the South Dakota Black Hills. They bagged two elk and three deer.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority approves an aviation training school for Ottumwa and port improvements. Financial aid totaling 11 284 dollars for the training school has been asked from the National Youth Administration.
MOINES The Iowa conservation commission refused to rescind its order closing the mink and muskrat trapping season this year. The action sustaining its original stand came after petitions from several southern Iowa counties protesting the ban.
Cedar Rapids officers disguised as hoboes captured John Foreman, 35, of Red Oak, who had escaped from the Cherokee state prison camp. Acting on a tip, Detectives posed in old clothes and found Foreman in a jungle camp along the Rock Island railroad yards. Foreman, unarmed, did not resist and said he had saved seven months of a one-year term for forgery.
SIGOURNEY Members of the farmers' evening school discussed war effects on farming for next year. They found little encouragement for expansion due to European surpluses, on-hand supplies in Europe, and tight credit, leading to expectations of no significant rise in prices.
OTTUMWA H A Cohen brought to district court by Jefferson county officials was sentenced to 60 days in jail by Judge CC Wennerstrum for cheating by false pretenses. Cohen, a fortune teller, told clients there was treasure buried on their farms and planned to retire from fortune telling to move to New York after serving his sentence.
In Des Moines a 7% pound girl was born in an automobile trailer to Mr and Mrs Arthur Fisher. The mother and baby were reported doing fine. Mrs Fisher delivered the baby with help from Mr Fisher and two neighbor women. This was the Fishers fifth daughter, with the other children aged 4 to 9 staying with a neighbor during the birth.
Iowa health officials urge hunters to avoid shooting inactive rabbits and to wear rubber gloves when handling wild game amid a early surge of tularemia. Five July, seven August, four September, three October, and six cases reported this month, with improved reporting partly blamed.
At Keota high school gymnasium 655 attendees celebrated an average corn yield of 118 bushels per acre among 108 local farmers with Harold Palmer winning top honors. Wallace's Farmer editor C V Gregory urged neighbors to help each other and consider land-use shifts for beef cattle and sheep production.
At Leon Beatty post 82 meeting, the American Legion voted to contribute 681006 6 to a public school milk fund while reporting membership exceeded 100 and anticipated further growth. Ives McKay won the $8 attendance prize. Legionaires plan to husk 18 acres of corn near Kay Steele, hospitalized in Des Moines in stable condition. Armistice Day programs proceed in schools with flag and Lincoln picture presentations and speeches by Legion members and guests.
Washington county launches an intensive Red Cross drive aiming for 2,000 members by Thanksgiving. Mrs. Rose Reid, longtime roll call chair, leads about 200 workers across towns and schools to seek $1 donations and Red Cross buttons. A dining-room dinner at the Presbyterian church kicked off the drive with appeals from Dr. F W Eastwood and Ralph Bain outlining expanded relief work and safety programs.
Mrs Gleede Dold a Red Cross worker reported Coppock school is 100 percent for the Red Cross with five board members and the school teacher joining. Mrs Amandas Schulty, a Lexington neighborhood resident, was the first county member to join and Mrs Reid, roll call chair, noted the contribution of five dollars from the Lexington Ladies Aid society.
California voters rejected a weekly thirty dollar pension plan and Ohio voters defeated the Bigelow plan offering monthly benefits to seniors. Supporters vow to bring back the proposal next year and recall Governor Olson. New York approved pari mutuel betting at race tracks.
MEMPHIS Tenn Nov Four hundred men women and children in a colony of barrel stave shacks near Poplar Bluff Mo will die this winter unless they receive federal aid J R Bettler president of the southern tenant farmers union said he told Dr W W Alexander federal farm security administrator that 175 children face starvation and death from exposure in the makeshift dwellings The colony comprises remnants of 1500 cotton pickers who wandered Missouri highways after eviction last January Butler said.
Edward J. Richards 79 died this afternoon at his daughter's home 603 North Avenue Funeral plans await word from distant relatives He served as Ainsworth cemetery sexton and was a past master of the Ainsworth Masons and active in the Woodman lodge Born December 25 1860 near Galesburg Illinois Married Mary Louisa Clay in Woodhull Illinois in 1884 He moved with his family to the Ainsworth community in 1903 and had been staying in the area
Washington community campaign to fund the Y M C A for the next year raised $4085 on day one, $467.40 above last year. Leaders say the full $5500 budget demands continued broad effort with strong pledges from all wards and remaining appeals.
The drive for V M A memberships and contributions in rural areas near Washington has not started yet while the town campaign proceeds. Farmers are busy with corn husking and will not be interviewed until after this farm work is finished. A country campaign will be organized a little later.
The obituary notes a local man lived with his daughter for months and lists several surviving sons and daughters. It promises more life facts and definite funeral time to be published tomorrow.
The offices at the court house will be closed Saturday November 11 in observance of Armistice Day.
Winston Churchill warned of a long, unrelenting struggle against German U boats noting Germany is turning out two new submarines weekly and up to 100 may be available by January. He said Allied losses average two to four per week and Britain has tripled anti submarine forces since the war began.
In Philadelphia the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an NLRB order requiring Republic Steel to reinstate about 5,000 strikers and pay lost wages totaling roughly 7,560 dollars. The ruling also affirmed actions against company dominated unions and barred methods to crush CIO affiliates, with a caveat on 40 workers from the 1937 Little Steel strike.
Republic Steel officials said they will appeal to the Supreme Court a Philadelphia Court of Appeals order directing restatement of 5,000 striking workers. The move follows the staggered wage and labor dispute affecting the company in Cleveland and broader industrial tensions.
In London on November 8 an official described crackpot submissions to the ministry of supply from Britons seeking wartime aid. Proposals included anti air shells with trailing wires, radio anesthesia or a death ray, a magnet disruptor for compasses, and a claimed “secret weapon” withheld for humanitarian reasons.
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