Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 13

Seek Cause for Anamosa Break GIVE GUARDS NO FIREARM DRILLS No Appropriation Ever Made for Target Range By JOHN H. CHAPMAN Ammotn, tjP'i en the part of both the public and responsible authorities to regard the state reformatory as being in reality as much a prison as the penitentiary at Fort Madison appeared to some observers Saturday as a possible contributing factor in 2 reformatory escapes within 13 days. The state's legislative policy may be partly to blame. In disclosing earlier this week that there never bad been a tar- 1 get range at the institution here lor the use guards, D. member the state board of control, observed: "There never has beeu an ap- I prop rial 1011 made for one, and as I-far as I know, no appropriation ever has been asked for that purpose.

There are a lot of things we I don't have that we ought to. P. F. Hopkins, another member lot the board, commented tallow- ting the New Year's day break Fthat the word "reformatory" as I-applied, to the Anamosa institu- was "probably a misnomer." A -standard dictionary defines la penitentiary as a place for the and disciplining of fcriminals. A reformatory is def scribed as an institution for the (reformation and instruction of fenders.

The general rule, laid down by legislature, is that first of- 'fenders under 30 should be sent to lAnamosa. Second offenders, re- age, go to Fort Madi- The fact the prisoners are transferred back and forth freely belt ween the 2 institutions tends to Rmake the Ajiamosa establishment penitentiary in fact, rath- than just a reformatory. There sre several reasons for A mail at Fort Madison may have a skill that is needed in industry at Anamosa. He may I be transferred at his own request I or in the judgment of the authori- tits, to get him away from some I clinue that has formed among the prisoners. He may be transferred to get I him nearer home, where he could see members of his family more After the New Year's break, in I.

which 4 men went out through a fgate in a reformatory, car, taking I the deputy; warden and a guard (las 3 guards were dis- missed 1 and 2 others reduced in I rank. Here There MASON en? GLOBI-GAZCTH JM.U.UM Riceville Mother Meets 2 Soldier Sons in Texas Happy Group Enjoys Visit at Eagle Pass to Observe Holidays One reason announced for this faction was. that-the in- volyed failed to use guns with they were in ac- jcordance with standing instruc- I tiohs. K. E.

MiUsap, one of the 3, said I he had been employed at the in- Jstitution 12'years and never had any instruction in the luse of a gun. The other 2, Don- laid O. Swa'nson and W. J. Me- iNamara, told similar stories.

I Swanson said he had been a here 4 and Mc- IXamara years. Swanson de- I clued he acquired his knowledge I of firearms durint 6 yean as a Iguard at the Fort Madison peni- Itentiary, prior to coming here." All 3 men said they had not teceived instructions here on the proper care of guns. Swanson liaid he had broken open a gun was issued to him recently lind found it had not been used so long that the shells were l-orroded. At Fort Madison, the late War- lien Glenn Haynes inaugurated regular target practice under a instructor in the 1930's. A.

Lainson, present warden, pas continued that policy. Some persons interested in l-Tuninology assert that if the institution had been ionducted. more along, the lines if instruc- lon in gun handling, target prac- ice. stronger recognition of some jf the inmates as vicious crim- nals and not youthful first of- incidents as the 2 escapes would not have occurred. Commenting on the latest jireak, meanwhile, Warden Foss Oavis said no charges would be lied against the 4 convicts who walked away from reformatory Wednesday night until in- r-estigation of the incident was fompleted.

The last 2 the 4 were re- to the reformatory Frill ay afternoon. Davis said he had talked to l.ione of the 4 and did not intend until charges had been filed. was a happy reunion, and the first in 8 years, lor Mrs. Lora Grain, 64, and her 2 big soldier sons, Capt. Harold Grain, 33, '(left), and 1st Lt.

Charles N. Grain, 38, (right), all of Riceville, when they celebrated the holidays together at the AAF Training Command's advanced flying school at Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Texas, where Captain Grain 1 is serving as school secretary for aviation cadets. Mrs. Grain, wife of the late Charles B. Crain, has been a resident of Riceville for 25 years, while her sons, Harold and Charles, departed to enter the army 10 and 15 years ago, respectively.

Another son, Raymond, is a service station manager in Hice- ville. Prior to his coming to Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Captain Crain had been stationed at Kelly Field, Texas, then an advanced flying school, for 9 years. Serving as an enlisted man, he rose to the rank of master sergeant in the 60th' School Squadron and was chief clerk in the training department headquarters. June 4, 1942, he received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant; his promotion to 1st lieutenant came as a Christmas present on December 24, 1942, 'and on September 21, 1943, he was made a captain; Captain Grain's wife is the former Irma Scholz of San Antonio, Texas. I Lt.

Crain, since July, 1943, the acting commanding officer a military police company stationed at the -McLean, Texas, internment camp for German prisoners of war, is an army, veteran of over 15 years. In his backlog of experience is the rather unusual one of having served as 2st sergeant of a military police company at St. Johns, Newfoundland. Commissioned in September, 1942, he was promoted to 1st lieutenant in March, 1943. 2 NEW TEACHERS FILL VACANCIES Instructors to Begin Work Monday Morning Iowa new teachers have been named to fill vacancies in the Iowa Falls school, C.

M. Bartrug, superintendent, has announced. Mrs. Bemice Hanson of Sioux City will be mathematics instructor -in the senior high school succeeding Robert Young, who leave soon to join her husband, Lt. Robert Young, stationed at March Field, Cal.

Mrs. Hanson, a graduate of Morningside college, has had year's -experience at Carroll, Merrill, and Washta. Mrs. Doris Eckert will teach kindergarten classes at the Blanche Stoddard and Julia O'Neil schools; she succeeds Mrs. J.

E. Cook, who resigned. Mrs. Eckert has had special training in the child development department at Iowa State college, and plans to complete her work for a B. A.

degree at Drake university in kindergarten and primary training during the summer. Both of the new teachers wUl begin their work in Iowa Falls Monday morning, the beginning of the new semester. men from this community went to Mason City Tuesday to start a course of instruction in the C. A. A.

program. Sara Izzui'd is in Rochester for examination and medical treatment, suffering with asthma and flu. Ed Cooper returned to her home at Fergus Falls, Wednesday after visiting at the Charlie Button and Mrs. Lola Weigle homes. New Lt.

Tim Donovan is from duty on an Atlantic convoy ship for a short leave with his wife and 2 sons. chapter No. 201, O. E. S.

installed officers at the regular meeting Tuesday evening. local woman's club will meet in the committee room of the- public library Tuesday C. will leave Monday for Washington, D. where she will visit her grandmother, Mrs. Ida Ballard, and 3th er relatives, Earl Turpln pf Des Moiiies, the former Miss Helen Halvorson, who taught the 3rd grade several years, Tuesday to visit friends and former students.

Gunhus left Wednesday evening for Texas to visit his son, Norman Gunhus, who is stationed at Camp Fannin. Judy Bolen- 5er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bolender, entertained several of her girl friends and her teacher, Miss Sarah Kjerland, at a dinner and theater party Monday evening in honor her 10th birthday. Brlstow Seynolds, Mrs.

Frank Roberts, Mrs. 1 a Letter Tells How War Hits Family Life Osage News from Aberdeen, Scotland, comes to Margaret Hendry, employe at the Home Trust and Savings bank in Osage, con- Welden Heads 'ourth Loan Campaign Iowa Falls Richard Welden Jias been named chairman of the victory loan drive in Iowa i'alls. Hs will be assisted by £wart Hall, L. L. Welden and C.

p. Warnock. Headquarters will be in the Cuplin building on I.Vashington avenue beginning ICuesday, and afternoons during remainder of the week. The quota for Iowa is and a house-to-house Canvas will not be' ifeade if the quota can be raised without it JSveryone is urged to stop at head- Iquarters make his pledge. WILL CLOSE EARLIER loua Iowa Falls have decided to close Itheir stores at 9 p.

m. Saturdays luntil April 1. Most of them have closing at 10 p. m. for several DAVID LESTER, CLARION, DIES Services for Former Railroad Man Monday services will be held Monday at 2 p.

m. at the Eyler funeral home and at 2:30 p. m. at the United Presbyterian church for David Lester, 79, who died at his home Friday morning following a long illness. Tho Rev.

W. A. Muir will officiate. David Lester was born Feb. 5, 1864 in Gibson, Mahaska county, He was united in marriage to Ella Francis Piersel, Dec.

1G, 18B9. To this union 2 children were born, Beulah, now Mrs. Stanley Anderson, of Clnrion and Loren, who was drowned when 19 years old while fording the Grand river, Colorado, on horseback. Mr. Lester engaged in farming while in Iowa, and in 1907 the family moved to Palisades, where Mr.

Lester had a fruit ranch. In 1915 the family moved to Clarion which has since been their home. After coming to Clarion, Mr. Lester was employed at the Chicago, Great Western roundhouse until failing health forced him to retire. He united with the United Presbyterian church and was'a member of the Modern Woodmen of America for 50 Others surviving besides his wife and daughter are 1 sister, Mrs.

O. Kelling of Goldfield; 3 brothers, William of. What Cheer, Clark of Rose Hill, and John of Goldfield. cerning -her relatives and their war activity work. Mary Robertson, 70, writes that as at headqarters of the W.

V. S. and in charge of enrollment of all services. "We are grateful to you Americans for the help you have sent us for all our civil defense services through your Bed Cross and other organizations which have sent quantities of clothing, bedding and food," she states. She states there have been no bomb raiders recently.

"Our food has been well organized," the letter states. "There are no luxuries, but arc not rationed for bread. We have a half pound of-sugar a week, 2 ounces of butter, arid 4 ounces of margarine. We do well without the sugar, but most of us miss our peacetime butter, but all are marvelously well-fed under the circumstances, everyone agrees." The family is a true war-time one. One is In a hospital In North Africa, wounded in Italy.

He says he wishes she might have some of the fruits he has in Africa, for dried fruits, even, arc scarce in England and Scotland. Another is in service 5n England. Another was killed when he went back on a torpedoed ship, whose" bulkhead gave way and sank in 2 minutes, causing the death of 4 engineers. Another is in South Africa, and a girl, a Wren, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thayer and children and Mrs.

3emice Hex and child of LaFayette, arrived Thursday morning to be present at the funeral services of their father, Edwin G. Graham. Hazel Freese the AC concluded her fur- with her mother. Mrs. Anna Freese, aiid other relatives and returned to Tuscon, Thursday.

Gail Burnn returned home Thursday afternoon from Iowa City where she had been in the hospital for several weeks. J. J. Corbett, local Bed Cross sewing and knitting chairman, reports 8 hospital gowns and 100 army kits were sent from here the past week to the county chapter at Charles City. H.

Drury, who, with his wife, has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. iarl Drury, for several days has returned to Camp Polk, La. Lyle Morford, Ft. Dodge, arrived Thursday at the A.

N- Morford home to join the 'family who will attend the iuneral of Dale Minehart, husband of Neva Morford Minehart, it Waterloo Sunday. Garner The Ellington township Farm Bureau held its annual meeting at the Ellington Center school Thursday evening. Officers were elected. and Mrs. Ben Adams received word that their son, Willard, Pvt.

Jim of the medical corps, of Camp Mackall, N. has beeu transferred to Hawaii. Donald Jackson and 2 small children left recently for Greenville, N. to join Mrs. Jackson's husband, who is a corporal at the air base nt that location.

Little Cedar Mrs. Clifford Evans and infant son. Ronald Alan, went to their horns east of town after spending 10 days at the maternal Eugena Barker home. Waucoma ding, local Paul dentist, H. Bel- returned Civic Groups Solicit Recreation Materials A.

Phillips, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, presided at a meeting Thursday afternoon, the purpose of which was to establish public relation contacts between town civic and fraternal organizations and the prison camp. They wen asked to solicit furniture, pianos, victroUs, or any equipment that could be used for the 7 recreation centers at the camp. CLOSES CAFE Strand, who operates a stock sales yard and filling station hero, has discontinued the operation of the cafe. Due to the many restrictions- and shortage of help, Mr. Strand thought it advisable to close the cafe.

RECEIVES WINGS Vernon Stnder. son ef Mr. and Mm. John L. Stnder of Wesley, received his wings Jan.

7 when he was graduated as 2nd lieutenant from IIic Marfa, AAF pilot school. The new pilot, a former resident of Wesley, completed, a caone in in twtt-eniine He is a tenser Vitt- Wednesday night- from Miami, where he was on the east coast dental society program. Dr. Bel ding made the trip from Chicago by plane. and Mrs.

Carl Wilson of Austin, Texas, spent a few days with the latter's mother, Mrs. Minnie Eden. Frank Burwell is spending the week -with her daughter, Mrs. Clarke Edgington, at Clear Lake. Girls' Interest group held its regular meeting at the home of Miss Elva Baber Monday evening.

Garner Pvt. Merle Shaver, whose home is in Mason City, and who is stationed in a camp in Kansas, spent Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Shaver, and with other relatives here. large group of friends gathered at the church parlors Thursday afternoon for a post-nuptial shower on Mrs.

Stanley Nelson nee Ruth Thovson. Grosz of Brock, Canada, is visiting the home of his brother, George and family, and other relatives and friends. Masonic lodge held installation of officers at its regular meeting Monday night. Lucille Voshman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Voshman, was feted at a miscellaneous shower at the home of Mrs. Henry Okterman, Thursday. Miss Voshman will be married Jan. 22, to Clarence of New Hampton. Fred Banner, is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Fred Madison. All of her children were here the past week. Weber, who was to be inducted into service Jon. 20. hns received a 10 day deferment whilu he helps invoice the stock of the lumber company with the new manager, Fred Kennedy, of Rudd.

Fred Scott entered Mercy hospital at Mason City for treatment. Statement of Condition MUTUAL FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN ASS'N. Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association 19 First Street N. E. AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1943 ASSETS Mortgage Loans Share Loans 778.50 Real Estate Sold on Contract 1,025.18 Real Estate Owned 8,561.88 U.

S. Savings Bonds 185,000.00. F. H. L.

B. Stock 7,500.00 Accrued Interest 56.25 Prepaid Insurance 704.99 Cash on Hand in Banks 79,667.10 Office Building 23,212.87 Furniture and Fixtures 1,600.94 Tax Certificates 525.25 Accounts Receivable 230.00 i $921,278.94 LIABILITIES Savings Shares $628,656.14 Investment Shares 260,300.00 Incomplete Loans 234.33 Miscellaneous Income 184.42 Uncollected Interest Reserves. 518.51 Office Building Reserves 1,652.17 Federal Insurance Reserves 10,418.12 Real Estate Reserves 128.43 Contingent Reserves 9,734.45 Undivided Profits After Paying 3 9,452.37 E. H. WAGNER, President L.

A. MOORE, Vice President L. R. BOOMHOWER Attorney H. E.

IRUCE Manager of Standard Oil of Indiana DR. G. M. CRABB President Park Hospital and Clinic J. E.

DECKER Director of First National Back J. C. HANES TelUnd and Stationery Supplies wd Equipment OFFICERS J. C. HANES, Vice President C.

A. PARKER, Treasurer DIRECTORS J. W. IRONS Secretary Mataal Federal Savian an! Loan H. M.

KNUDSON President Klipto Loose Leaf Company 0. A. MERKEL President and General Manager The Merkel Company L. A. MOORE FresUnt L.

A. Later $921,278.94 J. W. IRONS, Secretary C. A.

PARKER FmMent First National I. A. MacDONALD Tiee President and Muuctr Js'orthweitem States Portland Cement Company CHAS. E. STRICKLAND Frnldint and General Manacw CM sad Electric Cosmpaar E.

H. WAGNER Dfereeter First UTTER KZTURN SAVINGS SAP ELY A institution with plenty of money to loan on Mason City homes at attractive interest rates. OUR INSTALLMENT THRIFT SHARES.