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MUSCATINE JOURNAL 'AND NEWS-TRIBUNE TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1940 New Car Sales for July Up $23,043 Over 1939 "Muscatine county residents spent $72,201 for new automobiles during July or $23,043 more-than they spent for new cars during July of 1939, it was revealed today by use tax figures in County Treasurer A. J. Nicholson's motor vehicle department. Collections of the use tax, two per cent of the value of the cars, was $1,444.02, an increase of. S460.86 over the use tax collections of S983.16 during July of 1939.

Two hundred and nineteen more passenger automobiles are in operation on the roads of Muscatine county than were being driven by residents of the county a year ago, license figures show. As of Aug. 1, licenses had been issued for 7,956 automobiles. The total number of cars licensed at the treasurer's office on this date a year ago was 7,737 and two years ago on Aug. 1, 1933, the total was 7,618.

Total collections of the county's motor vehicle department during July were $9,994, with licensing of trucks providing by far the biggest revenue. Receipts were itemized as follows: Automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, trailers, $736; transfers, additional fees, and duplicate certificates, $9. Collections during July of 1939 were $2,140.50. The sharp increase in collections during the month just past are attributed to the new law that permits truckers to buy their licenses a half year at a time. Muscatine Trys Out Coo! Clime Likes It Muscatine reveled today in coolish, below-normal summer temperatures and found the climate much to her liking after some three weeks of sweltering heat.

The relief was to be of but brief respite, however, the weather man said, throwing a dash of cold water on too buoyant feelings. Warmer readings were forecast in northwest Iowa tonight and in the entire state for Wednesday. Cooling breezes which filtered in here Monday night to give local residents a good night's sleep for a change dropped the mercury to a minimum of 58 lowest seen 'round these parts in some time. By noon today, the thermometer had reached the comfortable mark of 82 degrees. Highest tempera- tire reported in Iowa Monday was Davenport's 90, while Inwood with 47 had the low for the night.

Only measurable precipitation during the last 24 hours was .51 of an inch at Keokuk, and traces at Estherville, Ames. Atlantic, Millerton, Dubuque, Malvern, and Des Moines. Permits Issued to Erect Four Homes in Month Dr. Tyler Final Rites Conducted at Funeral Home Funeral sendees for Dr. E.

K. Tyler, 81, who was a practicing physician in Muscatine for more than half a century, were held at 4 p. m. Monday at the George M. Wittich Funeral home with Dr.

L. L. Weis, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery. Members of the Muscatine county Medical society were honorary pallbearers, and the active pallbearers were Dr.

R. R. Goad, Dr. W. W.

Daut, Dr. E. H. Carlson, Dr. L.

C. Howe, Dr. C. P. Phillips and Dr.

B. E. Eversmeyer. Flower attendants were Mrs. T.

F. Bevericige, Mrs. L. C. Howe, Mrs, A.

J. Oliver and Mrs. C. P. Phillips, Mrs.

George Holliday was the organist. An total of 316X70 was spent for -the construction and repair oJ buildings in Mu during the month of Julj 5 according the monthly, summary' issued today at the office of City Engineer I. V. Howenstine. Construction of four new residences was started in the city during the month, the combined cost of which was estimated at One new commercial building, expected to cost 33,200, was started during the month, Revenue Deputy Stationed Here at Post Office D.

A. Brown, deputy collector of internal revenue, will be at the post office here three days this week and five days next week to give advice and assistance in social security taxes and other federal tax problems. His office will be in room No. 1 in the basement of the post office. He will be at the office between 10 a.

m. and 2 p. m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week and on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week. SVisiting Future a Farmer Groups Make Tour Here and the erection of two new garages wag begun at an estimated total cost of $250.

Repairs to residence buildings expected to cost approximately $1,970, was started during the month. in the city Prochaska to Interview Local JC Students Lindley B. Hoopes, Muscatine Frank J. Prochaska, Muscatine junior college faculty member, will be busy during the month of August interviewing and arranging preliminary details for high school graduates and others interested in attending the local junior college during the 1940-41 school term. Mr.

Prochaska will maintain headquarters throughout the month at the board of education office in the city hall, where he be available for interviews. At various times during the month he will also visit towns and cities in this vicinity for the purpose of conferring with prospective students. Mr. Prochaska is prepared to assist prospective students with high school vocational agriculture instructor and Future Farmer club advisor, spent Monday playing host to several visiting groups of Future Farmer club members and their instructors, and supervising tours of places of agricultural interest in this vicinity. During the morning, Mr.

Hoopes conducted 11 members of the Winfield and Columbus Junction high school Future Farmer club chapters and their advisors on an inspection tour of several projects i now being carried out by numbers of the Muscatine high chapter. They visited the homes of Donald Stange and Robert Richardson, both in Bloomington township, and Marvin and Herbert Hetzler in Sweetland township. Advisors accompanying the vis- iting groups were Raymond Benecke, instructor of agriculture at Winfield high school, and Mar- I vin Jedley, Columbus Junction agriculture instructor. Thirty members of the Guthrle Center high school Future Farmer club and their advisor, Harold Beane, who are now engaged in a six-day tour to various parts of the state, visited here Monday afternoon and were taken on a tour of places of interest by Mr. Inquiry Sought Into Appeal for Campaign Funds Washington (ff) Sen.

Byrnes (D-SC) asked the senate campaign committee today to investigate the circumstances of an appeal to employes of the S. S. Kresge Corp. in' Detroit for contributions' to aid the republican presidential campaign of Wendell L. Willkie.

Byrnes had read to the senate a letter which he said was addressed to Kresge employes by C. B. Tuttle, who signed the appeal as trustee but whom Byrnes identified as vice president and treasurer of the corporation. At the same time, Byrnes charged in a letter to Chairman Gillette of the campaign committee that "While Mr. Willkie is piously professing that he wished to restrict contributions, his corporation friends are coercing their employes." The South Carolinan.

told Gillette that he was informed that the money appeal was sent to more than 600 employes in the Kresge administration bulding in Detroit and presumably "has been or will be distributed to the approximately 40,000 em- ployes in the more than 700 stores of this corporation." "When the vice president and treasurer asks 'what is it worth to the employes know that it is worth their jobs to refuse to contribute," Byrnes continued in his letter. "They believe their chancss of promotion depend upon" the amount they-pay Tuttle. "Your committee is directed to investigate and make -recommendations as to legislation. While this is the only corporation as to which I have proof, I fear others are resorting to similar methods. I therefore suggest thst vou investigate and consider recommending legislation at this time." Byrnes interrupted a speech by Sen.

Hatch (D-NM) to make his investigation demand. Byrnes told the senate that it was "more than a su.spicion" that republicans Intended to evade the terms of the law in raising campaign funds. The Tuttle letter set out that the appeal for donations to support Willkie was not to be considered as a demand upon the employe. Willkie, it asserted, "will not be in a position to demand a week's salary from everybody on the government payroll." Individual contributions will be needed to carry on his campaign, the letter said. "Yoii ''knew," the letter said, "corporate contributions -are illegal and we obey the law." Byrnes told the senate that in his belief this chrase revealed an intention to obtain from employes contributions which otherwise could not be paid into the republican campaign fend.

Tuttle noted in his letter that he personally would head the contribution list with a $1.000 donation and would double this if necessary. City Briefs Hoopes. The group visited the McKee Grain elevator, the Heinz factory, the high school building, the Muscatine Island Shippers' association headquarters, the Maplecrest Turkey farm and the Muscatine Island experiment station. The visiting club members were conducted through the McKee elevator by Clifford McKee, and were taken through the Heinz factory by Ed Burns and Claude Gifford. Mr.

and Mrs. "Austin Bain, of Muscatine, and Mr. and Mrs. E. O.

Markham and 'Raymond, of Atalissa, have returned from a fishing Lake George, Minn. Mrs. Lucille Stanton and daughter, Martha Annett, of Marengo, have returned to their home after visiting with, Mrs. Stanton's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

James Essex, of Letts, and relatives in Muscatine and Atalissa. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beitel, Irene and George, of St. Petersberg, are houseguests at the home of Mr, and Mrs.

August Blaesing, 1211 Iowa avenue. Mrs. Mary Bobbins Big-elow and son, John, of. Toledo, 0., arrived Monday evening for a visit with Mrs. Bigelow's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. A. Bobbins, Dr. Bigelow will, arrive Friday. Mrs.

Mae Pentaush of Cedar Rapids, and Mrs, S. E. Busby, of Marion, are guests at the Jack Ellis home, 107 Lord avenue. Mrs. Busgy is the mother of Mrs.

Ellis and Mrs. Pentaush, an aunt. Approximately 200 young- people of Muscatine county, participated in the roller skating party held at the roller rink in West Liberty Monday evening. Patients admitted to Bellevue hospital were Mabel Nash, 314, West Sixth street; Genevieve Thede, 506 East Ninth street; and Mrs. Arthur Jackson, 1309 East Fifth street.

Those dismissed were Alice and Beverly Danner, Illinois City, and Mrs. Arthur Toyne, route 4. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Carter, 308 Monroe street, announce the birth of a daughter at Bellevue hospital Monday.

Mrs. Kay Whlttaker, 318 1-2 East Second street, who has been a patient at Bellevue hospital for the past several weeks, is reported steadily improving. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Fisher and Mr.

and Mrs. Don Sander have returned from a vacation trip to Chicago. A meeting of the Settlement Evangelical Aid society will be held all-day Thursday at the home of Mrs. Albert Koeppen. Marriage licenses were issued here 'to Eric A.

Schomberg, 21, and Dorothy Wingstrom, 18, Chicago; and to Kenneth P. 37, Emerson, and Dorothy! Owens, 30, Henderson, la. Miss Rita Berry, 108 West Third street, has returned from a three weeks' vacation after visiting at St. Paul, Duluth, Grand Morais, Mille Lac Lake and other points of interest. A special meeting- of the Hawkeye Button Workers Local No.

289 will be held at 8 p. m. Wednesday at union headquarters on Iowa avenue. Mr. and Mrs.

William Swansick and daughter, Myrtle, of Hayward, arrived Sunday to visit at the home oj Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Gable, 1203 Filmore avenue.

Dr. and Mrs. Lee Gardner and -daughter, Virginia, who were week-end guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. B.

E. Eversmeyer, 600 Walnut street, left Monday for Cornell, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer G.

Newton, 508 East Fourth street, announce the birth of a daughter Sunday. Jean Funck, of Kansas City, is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Funck, 317 West Sixth street. Admittances to Hcrshcy hospital were Geraldine Sehoemaker, 714 Sampson street, and Donna and Otis Freyermuth, route 1.

An executive session of the Muscatine city council will be held at the city hall tonight at 7:30 H. H. Hanson, city recorder, announced A special eye witness report of Red Cross war relief activities from London by Ernest noted war correspondent arid author, will be carried over the National Broadcasting company's Cage Court Will Receive Complete Reconditioning The basketball court in the Muscatice. high school field- house, used last season for the first will be completely reconditioned when the next basketball season rolls around. Plans for breaking the original seal on playing court and.

replacing' it with a new seal have virtually been completed 'by local school officials. Work of'sanding the playing court will start Monday. A new and improved surface season will then be placed on the court, it was announced. The entire job is expected'to be completed in ap- proximatelythree weeks. Meanwhile, a -of WPA workmen is busy at the Junior high 'school building, washing the interior woodwork and painting both the interior and the exterior.

Improvements are also being made in the wiring at the junior high building. The renovation program has also been extended to Franklin school, where washing and painting work is -now in progress. As soon as the work is, completed at the junior high, workmen will begin washing the interior of the Jefferson school building. Approximately 150 Attend Rally for Young People Approximately one hundred and fifty young people participated in the youth rally held at the Zeigler Memorial Lutheran church at New Era Sunday. The afternoon program, in charge of Grace Petersen and Harland Hetzler, games and contests.

The main address of the program was 'given by the Rev. Emory Erlander, who recently became the pastor of the Calvary Luthem church of Moline, Other young people taking part were Dsnforth Sauer, New Era; Betty Close, Durant; Harriet Jacobson, Rock Island, Lenore Munn Durant; Violet Anderson, Rock Island; and Eleanor Reimers, Moline. Special music was offered by Mrs. Fred Hailing and Shirley Jean Henke, playing a piano and organ duet, "The Holy City." A vocal duet, "Alone," was offered i by Mrs. Roger Kretschmar and Margaret Rahif.

Harland Hetzler sang a vocal solo entitled, Jesus Thou Art Standing." Committee Visits Corn Plots of Future Farmers A five-man committee, early made a preliminary inspection tour of the 10-acre corn plots which seven members of the Muscatine high school Future Farmer have entered this year in the junior corn growers' The committee, composed 'of Lindley B. Hoopes, Chet Morris Legler, Herschel Hintermeister, and Lyall, Paul, visited plots at the homes of Donald Kranz, in Rock Island county, Herbert Hetzler, in Sweetland township; Donald Stange, Raymond Garvin, George Shield and Gene Middaugh, all in Bloomington township; and Eugene Coder, i nLake township. At each place, members of committee studied the various hybrid varieties of corn 1 being grown by the club members. The contest will not end until later in the fall. blue network from 8:45 to 9 o'clock tonight.

John Davis, 13, of Hershey avenue, is recovering from a bruised right foot, suffered in a bicycle accident. The youth was said tO have been hitching a ride on thej rear of a truck driven by Walter Kopf, rural route No. 6, when the accident happened on the Conesville road just west of the city limits. Mrs. Ida LaRue arid William S.

Hammer were married at the office of Justice of the Peace Hugh JJ. Chance. The marriage was performed Saturday morning. Fund Transfer for Maintenance Okehed by Board Transfer of $11,570.01 from the construction and maintenance fund into the maintenance fund was authorized by the Muscatine county supervisors, who were in session today at the court house. It was explained that the transfer of this amount was necessitated by depletion of the maintenance fund.

-t Several other routine matters were disposed of by the board. A petition was granted for the establishment of a 66-foot road between sections 26 and 27 and between the south halves of sections 22 and 23, Fulton township. This road, which extends for a distance of a mile and a half north of highway 22, serves a number of farjn residents and while it has been in use for years, no mention of it existed in county records. The action of the supervisors in granting the petition and ordering the auditor to file it in the road record files, makes the road a duly established road and empowers the board to expend public funds for its improvement at their discretion. The auditor and chairman were authorized to execute a deed to Edward H.

Vaupel for lot 4 in block 138 for the purpose of correcting an early defect in title. Monthly reports were received and filed and the bond of William Sehoenig, member of the soldiers' relief commission, approved. A non-resident notice was ordered served on Talma Phillips, 409 West Sixth street, and bills and claims were allowed. Espionage to Be Theme of Police Chiefs Meeting Des Moines, OT Matters of espionage and sabotage will be discussed at Davenport Wednesday by federal bureau of investigation agents who called a meeting of eastern Iowa UPTOWN LAST DAY all matters pertaining to enrollment in the junior college. TONY CATALANO and his famous U-Pc.

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Muscatine, la. chiefs of police. The meeting: is one of a series being held with sheriffs and other officers, the agent in charge said. Bettendorf Youth to Face Charges for Auto Thefts Authorities said here today that James Globski. Bettendorf, who is being held in connection with the theft -of automobiles at Bettendorf, Muscatine and West Liberty, will be taken into juvenile court.

The youth, who is 17 years old, was arrested Monday forenoon between West. Liberty and City while driving a car which, had been stolen from in front of St. Joseph church in West Liberty, 'officers said. This car be-, longed to Jordan- White of lowQ City. The youth is also being held in connection with the theft of a black Plymouth coach belonging to A.

Barney, 1562 Washington, street, which was recovered West Liberty, and also for the theft of a third car at Bettendorf; according to officers. Deeds Recorded Emma F. Duffe and husband to Nettie Duffe Baker, lot 1, block 15, Marolf's addition, Wilton. TON 113 114 W. 2nd St.

NEXT TO WARDS Aug. 8 GREATEST DOLLAR DAY BARGAINS IN MUSCATINE COTTON DRESSES Voiles, Orgrandy Sizes 12 to 52. Formerly. Sold $1 COTTON DRESSES Formerly Sold $1.95. All Sizes SJ.OO SILK DRESSES Values to S4.95.

Sizes 12 to 52. $1.00 BEMBERG SILK DRESSES S19S $1.88 Washable Rayon SILK DRESSES. Were $1.95 and $2.95. Now SI Large size Bemberg Silk and Sheer Dresses. Were $5.95 and $7.95.

Now All $7.95 and $10.95 SILK LACE DRESSES. All Sizes S3.88 $14.95 SPRING COATS Black, Navy and Colors $5.00 $7.95 TOPPERS FORMALS, Pastel Colors, Values to $7.95 S2.69 MILLINERY 1 Lot WHITE HATS AND COLORED HATS. Formerly sold $1.95. Now 25c 1 Lot WHITE and DARK HATS Formerly Sold $1.95 and 50c HATS. Pastel Felts.

Values to $5.00 All our DAKK PATTERN HATS. Formerly sold $6-50 and up 50e $1 HOSE, 2 pair for All $1 BAGS, white and black and colors All $1 BLOUSES $1.00 SLACKS .351.00 CULLOTES $1.00 FARMERETTES AND SLACK SUITS $1.00 SHANTUNG SHIRTS $1.00 UNIFORMS, All Colors $1.95 FALL WOOL SKIRTS $2.95 SPORT JACKETS $7.95 All Lined SPORT JACKETS SI 50c 2'" SI SOc 69e 50c 69c SI S1.59 S2.95 BON TON Formerly Glass Millinery 113-115 West Second St. Next to Wards.