18 Oct 1938
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1938
Page
1
Waterloo reports Kathryn Walker 19 married to Marion R. Walker in November filed for divorce alleging cruel treatment and seeking $30 monthly alimony.
Charles City Eldred Mather of Greene is hospitalized in Cedar Valley with a broken back after a 16 foot fall from a windmill. He was shocked while disconnecting a wire and lost his balance.
Six year old Koldar Alan Smith, son of Mr and Mrs Roy Smith, suffered a severe head wound when his coaster wagon collided with a parked truck. He hit his head on the running board and required many stitches.
Ottumwa magazine salesman Earl Stanley Adams, 27, pleaded guilty to forging the name of Dr. Adams on a $5.50 check. District Judge Oscar Hale sentenced him to 10 years in the Anamosa reformatory.
Harlan voters approved a $45,000 pool bond 1,042 to 530 on Monday marking the fourth ballot on the project. The city will add $13,000 from local funds with $32,000 in federal grants already awarded.
W G Makemson reports an abundance of cherry blossoms at his residence, while at Fred Marclf's home southwest of Tipton apples and blossoms adorn the trees. R. E. White's yard shows ripe raspberries being picked.
The West Union pool bond proposal of 15 000 dollars with a 45 000 dollar federal grant is resubmitted for a special election on November 7. It previously passed on September 29 by 479 to 212 but polls closed at 7 p m, short of the statutory 8 p m closing time.
In Oskaloosa a crash between a truck and a car left the car driver Harry Mincer of New Sharon injured while the truck driver Herman Larson sustained severe bruises and cuts. The car was wrecked but the truck suffered no damage.
Burlington Richardson of Lincoln Nebraska said a Rocky Mountain lines truck en route from Lincoln to Peoria was fired upon at 3 am eight miles west of Fairfield. A blue sedan traveling at high speed fired a shot puncturing the radiator.
Charles City residents report a window peeper haunting Tyle Fordyce. Fordyce borrowed a gas gun from Police Chief DeHoest and pursued the intruder Saturday night. Wind blew toward Fordyce, and he was treated at Cedar Valley hospital and later released.
Sioux City Ministerial Association passed a resolution urging city authorities to ban bank nights at theaters. Mayor David P. Popp told pastors he would support a legal department probe into the matter.
The Washington city council and Washington county board will build a joint rock road with a bituminous top to Elm Grove Cemetery using day labor, without federal aid. The 20 foot wide road will run from South Iowa Avenue to the cemetery, with a 49 foot right of way, and funds split evenly between city and county.
The 1938 Washington county corn husking contest will be hosted by Tom Swift on his A B Swift farm five miles northeast of town. Six of the county’s best huskers entered, with room for two more, and lunch will be served by St James Parent-Teacher Association.
Jessie Parker Republican candidate for state superintendent of public instruction will speak Friday evening in the county courthouse courtroom. The event, hosted by the Republican Women’s club of Washington county, aims to interest teachers and others in school welfare. Parker, from Lake Mills, has a career in education including Lake Mills grade schools principal Lake Mills high school county superintendent Winnebago county and state supervisor rural schools. She studied at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and Des Moines University, majoring in education, and has participated in the National Education Association and the International Conference of Educational Associations in Tokyo. She serves as state rural service chair for the Parent Teacher Association.
Rain began early today and total precipitation reached an inch or more by noon with .60 inches recorded by eight o'clock. Forecasters predicted cooler temperatures after the rain with near freezing expected in northwest Iowa, while southeastern areas saw continued rain and cooling.
Jay Sproatt of Town City will serve as resident engineer for the PWA in Washington connected to the new grade school building. Announcement by G E Mace of the board of education notes his years of engineering experience and ties to Washington. He will open an office in Washington as headquarters and will maintain a home in Iowa City where he currently works.
Alfred P. Sloan announced a heavy re employment schedule and wage restoration at General Motors. In the next two weeks 35,000 additional workers will be hired and salaries will be restored to pre February reduction levels. A committee, with Dr. F. F. Reed W. B. Dupuis and Lester Orr, will oversee the road project in cooperation with the supervisors and county workmen and machinery.
Washington observers and Democratic leaders in a Newsweek survey forecast a Republican gain of 52 to 60 seats in the House, with four seats in the Senate. Factors cited include the economic recession, midterm swing, and intraparty dissension among Democrats.
In four Keota area townships Keokuk and Washington counties 43 farmers on ten acre plots exceed 100 bushels per acre. J H Greiner leads with 135.53 bu/acre on a northwest Keota farm, aided by lime and manure after alfalfa last year. Other high yields include Harold Palmer at 122 bu/acre on 166 acres and Miss Lorena Peiffer at 105.22 bu/acre. The contest follows Iowa Corn Growers rules with state judging at Ames during Farm and Home Week.
A refrigeration locker project for a new Farm Bureau Service building was approved with a York Products installation for 500 lockers 17 by 20 by 30 inches. The plan includes a complete system for killing livestock processing sharp freezing and cooling. Construction on Shields land near North Town avenue begins after a 25 year lease with John Shields & Sons.
Martin Wilson72? 76 years old died at two o'clock this afternoon at his son Lyle CC Wilson's home seven miles southwest of Washington after two months of illness. He came from Cherokee Iowa four years ago to live with his son. A brief service will be held at 10:30 Wednesday at L A Jones funeral home and burial will be in Cherokee Iowa.
Graham Store in Washington celebrates its 28th anniversary this week. John Boey opened the local Graham in 1910, with the store remaining at the same location as it evolved from a five to one dollar shop to a department store. Graham’s is an Iowa chain with twenty four stores in leading shopping centers across the state. G E Binkert, current manager, announces a broad anniversary sale in this issue.
President G E Mace of the Washington board of education urged the city council to improve sewer connections on South Fourth avenue for a new grade school. Negotiations are pending and work is expected to start about the first of the year.
Sioux City October 18. The Swift packing plant began partial operation under police protection. Five carloads of back to work group members crossed picket lines while CIO union says only incidental work is being done.
Former Senator L J Dickinson renews his call to debate Senator Guy M Gillette after Gillette declined. Dickinson proposes debating the supreme court issue in one district and addressing other topics in the remaining eight districts.
Rio de Janeiro officials announced that the Brazilian government seized documents proving a new uprising was planned. The plot targeted multiple government officials, and several arrests have been made.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that imprisonment for failure to pay child support is unconstitutional. The decision voided a one year jail term and held a defendant cannot be jailed for contempt in such cases, reversing a lower court in Arley Devore's matter.
Mr and Mrs Clive Gray and their family spent Sunday in Iowa City at the Walter Brown home, enjoying a quiet family visit in the city surroundings.
Mr. Binkert thanks the community for continued patronage spanning more than a quarter of a century during the anniversary sales event.
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