The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 17

NOW! More Than 300,000 Circulation! FIVE IOWA NEWS FECIAL CEREMONIES PLANNED THOUSANDS OF 'EM Feeds Pet Fish by Hand owa i owns to Honor War Veterans PES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, MAY 29, 1938. S200 RECEIVED FOR CHINA AID Buys 'Wooden Nickel' EMORIAL DAY PRO AMERICA SERVICES SET ORGANIZER HERE Polk Red Cross Has Goal of $1,400. Contributions to Polk county's $1,400 share of the $1,000,000 being raised by the American Red Cross for the relief of civilians In China war areas, are being received at Red Cross headquarters In the Flynn building In Des Moinea. William Watson, county chairman, reported Saturday that $200 had been raised. drive Is to close June 15 when all national funds are to be forwarded to Los Angeles, Cal.

Fear Epidemics. Red Cross authorities at Shanghai, China, Mr? Watson said, have estimated that at least one mil Mrs. Carpenter Will rst Observance Was in 1865. Meet G.O.P. Women.

IT'S HOBBY OF IOWAJARMER Spring-Fed Pond Stocked 6 Years. By Staff Writer. NORWALK, IA. They don't have just one or two old pet fish to feed by hand at the Ivan Zeliadt farm, 21-2 miles southwest of here. They have a pond filled with Urouehout Iowa today and Mrs.

Harry Carpenter, Billings, Way, Memorial day, men am vm. came to Dea Moines last week to organize state and county units of the National Association marine corps will honored service they rendered to of Pro America, a national ration ot Republican women. tuition in time of war. 1. 1 a The first meeting will be Fri Vost communiuea, irom day, June 3.

at Tounker'a tearoom, with discussion following a thousands of them. Mllest to me capiuu my or Holnes, will observe Memorial ith some eort of a cere- lion orphaned and homeless chil The crapplea, blue gills, bull noon luncheon. dren are wandering in provinces heads and channel catfish have spawned and prospered In the a dozen of program. where surveys have been made. One dollar, he added, would care for one of these children for one Founded In 1933.

Pro America was founded in 1933 at Seattle, Wash. Mrs. The pond for tlx years, and only the ft thousand! of Iowane, how- niluid will month, and $18 would care for older and lazier ones fail ta respond to hand feeding. k-f. av i I- odore Roosevelt, is honorary an adult refugee for' one year.

irlmariiy president of the National associ Epidemics in war territory are feared by medical authorities with ation and Mrs. Carpenter, second tug the choree oi -L, world. Business establlah-lL. rjools, profeaalonal of- kiln hnlMlnva vice president, is also a member ot the national organization Uijnout the state wui do It is in fact, to tee a whole school of assorted isA scrapping for the same piece of bread when it is held just above or slightly in the water by Mr. Zeliadt or one of his children.

Since the pond is a natural one, Lss first Memorial day ob- II 1.1 was at nupKiuwu, u. 25 1865, when a monument the approach of hot weather, and lack of funds makea preventive measures Impossible. Civilian refugees outnumber war wounded eight to one, Mr. Watson said. No Workers In Polk.

The money pledged by the American Red Cross, according to Mr. Watson, will be pooled with funds already collected by Red Cross organizations of other countries and by Chinese not living in their native land. Since no workers are being used in Polk county, Mr. Watson men of that community who In the UVU war wu aeai an lei That waa uemrm jnajr the fish do not depend on this method for all of their feeding. aa the aaie.

.1 According to fish experts, this la fiie following are among ine unusual because most instances of Km a a clues wntris uuosh.bi Lduled, on Monday unlesa oth- "Pro America," Mrs. Carpenter said, "is a national movement dedicated to preserve the American Ideal of government by awakening Americans to the Individual responsibility of Informed and active citizenship. No Paid Organisers. "It Is Pro America's high aim to uphold the constitution ot the United States, with its American traditions and Ideals, and combat all destructive Influences which will Imperil the sacred heritage of liberty bequeathed us." Mrs. Carpenter said the group has no paid organizers and that It is operated independently of the Republican 'national committee, from which It receivea no financial aid.

hand feeding for fish are devel oped In aquariums where food said Saturday that donations will must be provided from outside Wise noted: I Speakers. F. Sleverdlng, Grundy Cen Rtflittr Stiff Phot. Fifth In Ivan Zelladt'a farm pond take their lunch straight from the bos. Here Zeliadt holds a piece of rye bread no cheese for a hungry bull head that's "kicking up a wave." be received in person at the Flynn the pond.

building, or may be mailed to the The pond measures about 10 by Red Cross offices there. 40 yards, and is about 10 feet deep. A spring feeds It, and a steep bank prevents the entrance THEATER MEN TO TICNIC. former atate commander the American Legion. will aK today at the Iowa aoldlera ae at Marshalltown.

i replica of the tonb of the Where Plane Will Be Rtguttr aut Photo. C. W. Anderson, president of the City bank of Madrid, UH and the Mid Summer Daya celebration there, ta shown as he purchaaed the first "wooden nickel" from Ruth Cedarquist, queen of the 1937 Swedish festival. These tokens are good In trade at any Madrid store and can be redeemed at the bank.

The celebration will be held June 22, 23 and 21 and will Include parades, games, May pole dances and historical pageant. The 1938 queen wlU be selected June 20. of aurface water. ELDORA, IA. Seven hundred members and their families of the Allied Theater Owners assocla Just a Hobby.

Each year, Mr. Zeliadt seines fnown soldier will be conatruct' for ceremonies at Clinton, la. She will be In the city through' out the week and la staying at tion are expected to attend the annual picnic at Pine Lake state park June 13. Hotel Savery. 4 lames I.

Dolliver, of Fort kge, Iowa department com-Jnder of the American Legion, hi give the Memorial day address out many of the larger fish and turns them Into a nearby stream. Next week, he said Saturday, he la going to clean out as many large ones as possible and dump them In the lake at Ahquabl state park near Indianola, la. ALTHOUGH RANKS THINNING FAST- 1 Waterloo, la. IXTER-John S. Greene, Colfax attorney, to speak and Baxter tand to present concert at 1:30 'Boys in Blue' Join in Services Today m.

Monday. DONE Frank Rltter, 90, only kemaining civil war veteran In Boone county, will be honored at The Zelladts have had no more than three or four messes of fish out of the pond for meals during the six years it has been stocked, Mr. Zeliadt said, i The pond is Just a- hobby, and not even neighbors are allowed to take fish out of it. IVRE CHAPTER IS HOST TODAY UNTIL BLUFFS Loca national guard to parade with patriotic societies. Rituals in of Ivre organization, will preside.

Z. W. Rosenbaum is In charge of arrangements, assisted by Mr. Levich, Chapman, Aubrey Fisher, Ben Sherman, Jake Kaplan, Jack Levensky and Harold Leener. tere of the organization today and Monday at Hotel Fort Des Moines.

About 100 delegates are expected from Sioux City, Omaha, and Lincoln, chapters. Al Levich is In charge of entertainment. Henry Rise, national president ONLY 299 LEFT ON IOWA ROLLS Nelson, Risley Have Died This Year. The Des Moines chapter of Ivre, national Jewish social fraternity, will be host to three midwest chap- rayliss park. Program Mon da ifternoon at Elks' building fol lowing parade.

lOU GROVE W. Earl Hall, liason City editor, to speak at Surviving Iowa Civil War Veterans Railroad park, after which WIFE STABBED, i HUSBAND HELD' James Smith, 30, of 1148 Enoa was arrested Saturday after noon in connection with the stabbing Friday night of his wife, Beatrice, 25. Mrs. Smith Is at Broadlawna The ranks of the "boys In parade will march to Rose Hill blue" of the Grand Army of lemetery to graves. JTHEBVILLE There will be the Republic are thinning fast many have died since last Memorial day.

This map of the municipal airport, S. W. Twenty-first st. and Army Post road, Indicates (by arrow) where the United Air Hues sleeer-type plane will be stationed for public exhibition today and Monday. Story on Pagn 1.

iht usual parade, and a pro rim at Riverside park band helL General hospital recovering from deep head lacerations. Inspector of Only 299 veterans of the civil JENWOOD -Services to be held Detectives Jack Brophy aaid Mrs. Smith accused her husband of slashing her with a knife. In armory at 11 a. m.

J. LARGE EXODUS war are now known to be' living In Iowa, a mere remnant of the thriving G.A.R. ranks of 70,000 Iowans in the years following the capitulation of the south at Appomattox in 1865. past exalted ruler of a and past commander of the aha American Legion, to FROM THE CITY weak, pPMNTON Hopklnton to re Grundy Elias B. Ernes.

Guthrie John Palmer. Hancock Aaabel A. Johnson, Llewellyn Lewis. Harrison George M. Howe, Sylvester Pokett, Nicholas Yochum, Cyrus E.

Cross. Henry Joseph T. Ingrlm, Joseph R. Coffin. Jackson James H.

Sutton. Jasper Hugh A. Pease, Edward O. Williams, James K. Williams, William M.

Cowman. Jefferson Joseph Alverson, Francis M. Isenhart, John Smithline, Elliott P. Taylor, William H. Wilson, Henry Bacon, Michael France.

Johnson Joseph Balr. Jones James S. Lawson, Mark H. Morse, Nelson Reade, James fcew claim of having been first Harris Cole. A.

T. Colson, John L. Gardner, Rollln E. Gardner, Peter J. Carver, John Geil, Joseph Geil, Jonathan C.

Haynes, Shuball M. Hurt, Emerson Lovejoy, James G. McCoy, James M. McHargue, Thomas Milliken. Henry J.

Miller, Jacob J. Neumann, James J. Now-els, John Skinner, Perry Sterrett, Albert B. Walker. Pottawattamie Sylvester Flum-mer, William H.

Foster, Charles F. Hart, Lewis D. Lockwood. Poweshiek George Billick, W. L.

Johnson, Burdette A. Stowe, Charles Van Doren, Thomas J. Noll. Ringgold Ferdinand B. Soles, Eugene B.

Teal. 8ac William Moad, George Maths. Scott Cornelius Clark. SIOUX John H. Huyck, William H.

Smith. POOL TO OPEN ON WEDNESDAY The summer swimming season at the Jewish Community center, 801 Forest will begin Wednesday. Supervised swimming will be offered for three terms, from June 1 to July July 1 to Aug. town in nation to obserye Me- Some Leave by Boat Nelson, Risley. Several of Iowa'a most prominent survivors of the civil war have died aince the 193? Memorial day, including Oley Nelson of a ponal day.

Each year Lenox kollege students gather around monument erected In 1865 in for Weekend. Prospect of fair weather and an fnemory of soldiers and sailors DtANOLA The Rev. Paul AJ- and Aug. 1 to Sept. 7.

extra day's vacation over the Slater, former national G.A.R. commander, and John P. Risley of pery, atudent minister and paS' weekend lured large numbers of REOPEN LIBRARY. MAQUOKETA, IA The Ma- Des Moines residents from the city Des Moines, Iowa commander, 51 for of the Ackworth church, to eliver the Gettysburg address quoketa public library, which Saturday by rail, plane, bus, automobile and even boat. veterans have died since Jan.

1. But despite their thinning ranks, pi uoid Star Mothers' plot Mon-pay. JWA CITY Prof. Harrison Although the Increase In out was closed for a month during installation of a new celling and new roof, has opened again for regular library hours. going travel was noted by trans if 17 i I pornton of State University of Story William Albright, Wil pwas history department to portation lines Friday night, the peak was reached Saturday afternoon as many persons working liam H.

Butler, Charles Hamilton, Wilson T. Houghham, Fred C. Ppeak at ceremonies in Oakland pmetery. Services at graves of only Saturday morning left the mmm porn war veterans will follow The Iowa G.A.R. department records list the following surviving civil war veterans in the state.

As it is probable there are other civil war veterans now living in the state of which the department has no knowledge, this list may not be entirely complete. By counties, the veterans are: Adair Romanza A. Jackson, Lewis Lawson. Adams Cyrus D. Cooper, Henry Dick, Samuel T.

Kerns. Appanoose Curry O. Reed, William J. Shuck, Edward Streepy. Audubon John C.

Bonwell, William H. Jay, Wesley H. Jay. Benton Albert M. Stanger, Dr.

William A. Vincent. Black Haw(t Henry. Bray, Joseph Clingerman, Davis A. Fin-ley, John C.

Good, David Hallett, Joseph L. Holcomb, Cyrus M. Lichty, William H. Wilson, Peter Woodring, Henry Woore. Boone John Boone, K.

Latchaw, Frank Ritter. Buchanan George W. Kays, Nathan Lannlng. Buena Vista Charles Mat-son. Butler Thomas Anderson.

Calhoun Washington Grimes, Joseph I. Hippie, Roy D. Hippie, F. G. Patterson, J.

W. Patterson, Elza Sanders. Cass Albert Bishop, Charles Freeling, Robert M. Murray, Edwin Perry. Cedar Blair Wolf.

Cerro Gordo Joseph C. Ready, Nathan G. Thorn, Rockwell Whipple, John R. Williams. Cherokee William C.

MarsB, Nicholas T. Wells. Chickasaw John N. Coleman, Truvil Collins. Clarke Hiram A.

Wirick, Theodore F. Yetts. Clinton John Avery, Thomas C. Bartow, Jacob W. Lieber.

Dallas Charles H. Curler, Isaac Hoch, Nye B. Hopkins, Albert Miller. Davis Benjamin S. Armstrong, city.

Tama John Bard, Edward Railroads reported an Increase parade downtown, ri Doglas, James W. Willet. Taylor Benjamin F. Akers, fnivauu Dedication of new merican Legion building Mon- John W. Haigler, Daniel W.

Stahl. as high as 50 per cent over normal and the Rock Island said its Rockets out of Des Moines were running full. imsm C7' Union William R.Bell, George pkshalltowN At leaat W. Lamasters, Emory P. Smyth.

the "boys In blue" will take part in numerous Iowa Memorial day observances today and Monday. Soldiers Home. At least five of the eight civil war veterans at the Iowa soldiers home at Marshalltown, will take part in the Memorial parade and services to be held at the home Sunday and at Riverside cemetery Monday. Hundreds of civil war veterans once lived at the home. Of the eight now there, the youngest Is 90 and the oldest is 99.

A special automobile, escorted by a group of Sons of Veterans, will transport the veterans during the holiday activities. Of Iowa's 99 counties, there are 22 in which there rre no longer living any civil war veterans known to the Iowa department. There are more than 30 other counties with not more than fve of the eight Civil war vet Van Buren William Britensteln, One bus line ticket agent said he was "so busy I haven't even time to talk now." at the Iowa soldiers home Martin H. Corns, Ell W. fin take part in the Memorial ade and services at the home Three persona were forced to Wapello Noah AJbertson, gway and at Riverside ceme ry Monday.

watch the United Air Unes' east-bound Trip 8 take off from the municipal airport without them Thomas J. Arihood, John W. Fuller, Charles King, Leander Mc-Canta, Jamea P. McDonough. pADA-Paul Cunningham of Saturday afternoon when the Boe Ing 10-passenger plane was filled Moines will apeak Monday Fternoon.

Members of patriotic pieties and Boy Scouts will fold flag raising ceremonies In Warren Charles Hester, Anthony Snyder. Washington Lewis F. Siga- after seven persons had been seat' ed here. fooae. A number of boats from the Des Moines Power Boat club left for the weekend Saturday for Murray's camp, 25 miles up the Des Wayne William P.

Allred, H. Earnest, Fred Fisher, fWTON-The Junior V.F.W fum and bugle corps and mu- two known survivors. Perry W. Holcomb, Robert W. iu neaa paraae rotn courthmiM Moines river.

Huff. George A. Sens, Eli Smith. HUSSEY DENIES DRIVING CHARGE P.Union cemetery. The Rev.

Webster Thomas Ashton, Jo Filling stations experienced an unusually heavy trade, particularly late Saturday afternoon and 4P ntszs ti (X1 i qa; ir a Ixffl! I a eta nuns Spencer. Keokuk James Williams, William H. Young, Robert Braden, Johnson Graves. Lre Charles F. Dunn, John Drain, T.

H. Goldsberry. Linn Eugene Allen, Solomon B. Humbert. William J.

Pentz, Andrew E. Yates, Harrison C. Bartle-son, Samuel C. Beck, George S. Bushnell, James H.

Goodhue, John Gregg. Lucas William Humphrey, Robert Killen, Henry A. Newhouae, Asa N. Callahan, Richard W. Dever.

Lyon George W. Lyon. Madison Luke A. Smith, Aaron E. Cleveland, W.

M. Doop. Mahaska Jeremiah King, James Mateer, Robert Rhine, Jacob Watland, Henry A. White. Marion John M.

Undsey, Robert A. Millen, Dennis Terry, James K. P. Van Fleet, William E. Vernon, W.

H. H. Barker, Isaac Currant-Marshall Sanford S. Hover, Charles L. Howard, Silas Parker, William H.

Powers, David B. Sisk, Benjamin M. Crookshank, Alfred N. French, Benjamin JE. Glass, Marvin T.

Grattan. Mills Marion T. Davis, Alfred D. French. Mitchell Gayen Kennedy.

Monroe David C. Kenworthy, Harvey A. Bloomfield. Montgomery David B. Miller, August Peterson, Israel M.

Wick-ersham, Hiram Flnley. Muscarine Joseph H. Miller, Joseph N. Piatt, Joseph Boston, Jamea C. Corbln, August Eichoff, Fred Geisler.

O'Brien Jasper Marsh, James P. Martin. Pa'ge John Humphrey, Charles Sim. Matthias Baker, Shelby Bertram, John M. Gudgel.

Plymouth Andrew Crouch. Polk John C. Ash, Minor M. Avery, John Banks, John J. Bell, Philip Berger, Russell B.

Bever, seph W. Brundage, William R. Lindsley, Edwin R. Somer. Clarence C.

Hussey, 46, who J. Findlay, local Presby pnan pastor, to speak. PplWAMorning and after said he lived at 2311 Clark and gave his occupation as a night. LONG WILL SPEAK. Winnebago Charles Sim.

Winneshiek Ancil O. Ash. Woodbury Amos B. Adklson, program Monday. The v- B.

J. Decker will ceiebrate jf -isa Iff 1 I plumber, pleaded not guilty Saturday night to charges of reck field mass at Calvary ceme- STORM LAKE, IA. Joe L. Long of Des Moines, executive secretary of the Iowa Taxpayers as in HlOnilnp- Inurlnn Paul Fox, Michael Hawk, William J. Hudgel, Stephen A.

Reed. James K. P. England. i'W men m-ni m.Mk Decatur Jonas Hoffhlnes, sociation, will be principal speaK less driving and driving a car while intoxicated.

Hussey was released under $800 bond after his hearing had been set by Municipal Judge C. C. FU Park In afternoon to Ot- James H. Pitman. er at the Northwest Iowa Taxpay vcuii.ery ior service Following are veterans for whom no county la listed: Walter H.

Bell, E. S. Bowser, W. A. R.

Davis, J. S. Dennis. Delaware Thomas W. Sedg ers conference here Thursday There will be morning and afternoon sessions.

wick. wide to the Market st. bridge Cooter for June 15. Patrolmen Joe Brindley and Reuben Ander son arrested Hussey Saturday Thomas Dent Chester L. Dickinson, J.

R. Fullerton, George W. Garten, P. L. Gimmel, H.

M. Gray, Des Molnea Edmund B. Davis, Albert Murray. Dubuque James A. Jackson, nowera will be strewn I the Des Molnea river in of saUor dead.

Airplane SO to Hiv. i afternoon at E. Fourteenth and Fremont streets. Almond E. Keen, Frank L.

Quade. ervices, 60 carrier pigeons Fayette John T. Gager, James I released. BEACH OPENS TODAY. (Th Rtflitefi tows Km Strrlct.) M.

Lister. LAKF Ror. Floyd William Gange, Lorenzo Lucille Zihlman. Coming as stewardess on plane. INDIANOLA, IA.

The bathing D. Huckins, William H. Kennedy, beach at Lake Ahquabl will off! i vai. state legion com- Ell M. Hutchinson.

OFFICERS Arthur a Klrlt, Pitiidtnt Jowpii Chinbrlaln, V. Prefc C. B. FUrtihtr, 8.crirv-Trea. Jonathan M.

i'ltch, Ant. iejr.Tre. DIRECTORS Joieph N. Chambcrlila O. B.

Flichr Jonathan II. Flttcher Dr John Htllman Or. Marvin J. Houghton Harold J. Howe Dr.

Lwrnci E. Kellty Arthur 8 Kirk Ltiand A. Mr Broom t. T. Mertxmh, Jr.

J. T. Vhillini cially open today, the American r-uer, to apeak. 4N'Tov. E.

L. Gregory, Charles H. Llngen-felter, James E. Manning, Slyvea-ter Manship, George Mataon. Henry Mingals, William C.

Moore, Samuel Morgan, Joseph Myers. Myron Perkins, William Pilgrim, Charlea H. Purmort Le-Roy 'Remington, George R. Richards, Samuel Richards. Addison S.

Ruby, John A. Schmidt, Michael Schaffer, David J. Shannon. Edward J. Sheriff, Benjamin Shack-ly, Aipheua Slmpklni and A.

M. Smith. Franklin L. J. Shreve.

Fremont Phineas H. Drake, Safe and Economical When you ride the street car you are safe from accident. Alsn, you enjny low post transportation. "Ride the Trolley." DES MOINES RAILWAY COMPANY uov. uan of Corning will speak "day w.hen honor wU1 1(j August Peterson.

89. and William Hydinger, Larkin Miller. REED'S ICE CREAM FOR YOUR HOLIDAY PICNIC See Page 4 Society Section Legion has announced. Ufe guards are Herman Arrasmith of Ames, Carl Zeliadt of Norwalk and Frank Zleke of Indianola. Free swims will be provided for Warren county children each Saturday afternoon.

68, b0th stan" Francis M. Strait Greene G. M. D. Arch, Adnah D.

Bullock, Robert G. Martin, George F. Mooney, Claudiua Place, Bcneauiea at nign Pool rvmn.fi.m nh AV.tfV Jll.