The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 3

DES MOINES REGISTER Book Week Attracts Young Readers Seek Change Take Chills NOV. 11, 1916. with Thrills Pass Cooper In Big Sale Of Furniture I if i yjt' 1. Wki I t.XTT kr o- Honor 171st Year Of Marine Corps Seventy-five persons Sunday at Hotel Kirk wood attended a dinner honoring the 171st anniversary of the organization of the marin corps. It was sponsored by the Des Moines detachment of the Marina Corps league.

John Morenus, who enlisted in the corps 42 years ago, and Marjorie De Young, a member of the women's reserve, cut th birthday cake. Representative Paul Cunningham, of the fifth congressional district, was the main speaker. The following officers were installed: Frank O. Markun, commandant; John 11. Short, senior vice-commandant; J.

Carron, junior vice-commandant; Paul Welton, adjutant and paymaster; Corwin Bennett, judge advocate; David Hogendorn, sergeant-at-arms, and Elmer Baker, chaplain. YM.C.A. Report Meeting This Noon The first report meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association annual membership campaign will be held following a nooii luncheon today at the Y.M.C.A. Dr. Clifford Bacon, pastor of First Methodist church, will speak.

Gerald Jewett, campaign chairman, will preside. Siwxiv 1 t' 'ft 'J By (iporgp Mill. RrftlMrr Stuff Writrr. FOHT MADISON, I A. Floyd Cooper, the state director of industries, was "short circuited" in the placing of the largest furniture order in the history of Madison penitentiary.

The penitentiary's furniture factory is completing' an order calling for 5,280 pieces of merchandise. All is going to the State University coopKK. of Iowa, Iowa Ktate college and Iowa State Teachers college. The furniture is being used in the dormitories and rooms occupied for the most part by G.I. students.

Ordinarily Cooper is the one with whom orders for prison-produced furniture are placed, lie gets a commission on furniture nold to outsiders but not on that which goes to other state institutions. Commissions. His commissions run $12,000 or $14,000 a year. He pays sales expenses out of that income, however, including office rent and pay for salesmen when he has them. Iiermrt here said Cooper showed little interest In placing the order from the Mate institution.

The, result was, the state board of education directly contacted Warden I. A. Iaiuson and made arrangements for the order. Cooper's contract with the state comes to an end Jan. 1.

How the business will be handled after that has not yet been decided. Cooper, who lives in Wood- 3 Tlii" scene at the Des Moines city library will be repeated at libraries throughout the country this week as this nation, along with 39 other countries, observes Book week. More than 100 classes from Ies Moines schools will view displays of new books in branch libraries. An exhibit of original illustrations from new books and a collection of 200 new volumes for readers from pre-school through high school will be displayed at the main library. Here Dennis Dale Fetters, 5, and brother, Donald Dwight Fetters, 8, of Carlisle, get a preview.

Book week was started In 1917. In Route of Storm Sewer By Don Allen. A change in the course of the west end of the University avenue storm sewer, under construction for seven years, will be recommended to the city council Tuesday. Engineers estimate the change will save from 9 to 12 months time and about $25,000 In completion of the job. Surface drainage results, the engineers say, will be as satisfactory as under the original plan.

The change involves these three principal things: 1 Instead of continuing the five-by-five-foot concrete tunnel to Twenty-fourth street, it would be turned north on Twenty-first street to Carpen-. ter avenue. 2 Two large catch basins would be built near Twenty-first and Carpenter to- drain away storm waters which collect at this point from the surrounding "natural drainage area." 3 Unconnected sewers between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets on University would be tied in with a new line running north on Twenty-fourth street to Carpenter and connecting with a 48-inch brick sewer built in 1904-06. The new plan has been worked out by City Engineer John Tip-pee and Assistant City Engineer Karl Kastberg, who has been supervising the sewer job. Cut Tunnelling.

One major advantage, they said, would be to eliminate about two blocks of tunnelling 40 feet below the surface. The shaft through which dift is removed and materials lowered to the tunnel is now so far from the face of the works that progress has been reduced to a few feet a day. It isn't possible to sink a new shaft nearer the face of the tunnel. The connection along Twenty-fourth street between University and Carpenter avenues won't have to be tunnelled. It can be laid by surface excavation, which is fast er and cheaper.

Engineers said that catch basins proposed at Twenty-first street and Carpenter avenue could not be connected with the brick sewer there because it is too small. Water from the Carpenter avenue sewer, which is a combination storm and sanitary line, eventu- aly males its way into an inter cepting sewer which follows the river to the sewage treatment plant. Will Kecommend I'lan. The University avenue sewer, started as a WPA project, cmp ties directly into the river. Streets Commissioner John Budd said he would recommend the change in plans.

At a later date, Budd said, the University avenue sewer can be extended to Tweny-fourth street as proposed. Day of Bitter Memories Of 'War to End All Wars' JSy Flomiee Swihart. This is Armistice day the twenty-eighth anniversary of the end of World War I. No formal observance is planned in Des Moines and While the less hardy were content to sit home by the fire, a crowd of football fans braved the raw temperatures Sunday afternoon to witness a grid game in Valley stadium, West Des Moines. Wearing heavy coats, blankets, gloves and wishing they had fur boot were Dorothy Henry, 1071 Twenty-second left; Midge Thomas, 810 Harding road, center, and Vera Brenton, of Villisca, Cold readings are expected again today.

Adult Night Classes Wont Meet Tonight Classes sponsored by the adult education department of the city schools will not meet tonight, due to the Armistice day holiday. Monday night classes will be extended one week beyond the normal term or an extra lesson will be given at a convenient time. Classes not held in school buildings will meet as usual. Order by Phone ft 3-6191 Cut Flowers and Itoses $2.00 to $8.00 ii i ii i 0Hi sets, 500; chests of drawers, 650; occasional chairs, 536; side chairs, 300; bedside tables, 400; swivel chairs, 30; mattresses, 1,200. Iowa State Teachers college Dinette sets, 72; occasional chairs, 72; rockers, 72; chests of drawers, 300.

The factory, which employs nine supervisors and 173 convicts inside the walls, is hampered right now by a "glue bottleneck," Warden iainson said. Sandpaper, Too. The sharp decline in slaughter of livestock in the packing plants caused a drastic cut in the supply of glue, he explained. That situation also has caused a shortage of sandpaper. The chair division of the factory now Is turning out about 30 chairs a day.

The men work about six hours daily. They go to work at 7 a. in. and quit at 4 p. m.

with an hour off for lunch. Periodically, the guards call a halt and count the prisoners during the day. That procedure takes considerable time. Dainson hopes the furniture factory can develop a market among county and city governments as well as state institutions. Knough Business.

"That would produce enough business to keep us going all the time," he said. The factory was shut down for the lack of business In 1939 when Cooper took over. Much of the factory's production then had to be sold on the open market. The penitentiary also lias a sizable textile industry which has 8 supervisors and 192 Inmates on its rolls. This industry processes cloth all the way from the raw cotton stage into dentin, shirts, underwear, towels and other similar Items.

The production goes to other state institutions besides supplying penitentiary needs. The penitentiary shoe factory, which is turning out about 100 pairs a day, is employing two supervisors and 44 inmates. In the brush and broom industry are one outside employee and nine inmates. "These industries are absolutely necessary for these men," Lainson said. "We've got to have something for them to do." i ward, has been sales director for the Fort Madison factory since J939.

The factory has enjoyed good business since he took the job. Institutions Order. Here's the order th factory is filling for the state educational institutions: State University or Iowa Dinette sets, 730; chests of drawers, 418. Iowa State college Dinette field, Hawaii, on that hellish morning in 1911 when the Mack Japanese bombers swooped without warning. He was the first Iowan known to be dead in World War II.

There are two monuments to Merlo Hay. One, erected by the state, is in the little cemetery at Glidden where his body now rests. The other, on the crest of a road from Dea Moines to Camp Dodge, dedicates that road to him. None for Cashen. There is, as yet, no monument to Malachi Cashen.

The end of the worldwide holocaust that cost his life is, perhaps, too recent. And If there were, would It signify this man had died to bring to a war-weary world aught but another armistice? The city hall, courthouse, principal offices in the federal building, state house offices, banks, schools and the state liquor stores here will be closed today. Downtown stores and many offices will remain open. Representative Thomas E. Martin, Iowa City, will speak at the main ceremony of the day at 11 m.

at the statehouse. Martin Is a member of the house military affairs committee. More than 65 flags and guidons carried by national guard units from 35 cities in in World War II will be returned to the state at this observance. One residential mail delivery will be made this morning and two in the morning in the downtown business district. There will be no rural mail delivery.

1 JERREMS HATS 2 jJV JERREMS HATS arc modeled in dis- 5 5 tVj linctive styles with crown and brim 2 3 'c'? "Jj proportions to suit individual fea-' -rVvA)l turcs- Unusual and in quicr, good 2 taste, these styles are of enduring Vy'V vll quality. Members of thejerrems fam-' 3 a NJj 'y 'iat trcc TTRil imponer of Gentlemen' Aiiir 50 WALNUT STKKKT lowa-Des Moines Huilding only a few will even observe it as a holiday. i no longer is any feeling of jubilation over the end of that war which was a conflict to end all war. memory flirt, far more I devastating, is utill too vivid. True, the day A will have sig-nificance, a' bit- amikn.

ter significance, for some parents --such as Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Hay of Glidden. They will rememljcr although It has been 29 years since that November day in 1917 when they received a message from the war department telling them their son was dead.

Merle Hay, just 21, uns the first lowan and one of the first three American soldiers to die in France. The young Iowan had enlisted Just 'fix short months before. Three weeks later he was on his way to France. Then he was one, in his young manhood, shot diwn cn sentry duty while trying to stop a raid by 500 German soldiers. Merle Hay, young, spirited, fired with patriotism, had fought that men might not have to fight again.

Sacrifice in Vain. liut his sacrifice was not to save the life of Malachi Cashcn 24 years later on Dec. 7. MalachJ Cashen. Si-ycar-old rmy air corp corporal from Waterloo, died at Wheeler CRASH VICTIM'S SIGHT IN PERIL A Des Moines man who lost his left eye and may lose sight of the other as a result of an automobile accident at Lamoni was in serious condition Sunday night In Iowa Methodist hospital.

The man, William L. Jackson, 25, of 1140 Euclid ave was reported suffering from a fractured skull, fractures of the nose, collarbone, shoulder blade and of several ribs, and cuts about the head. Kye Destroyed. The left eye was destroyed when pieces of glass were driven into it, cutting it severely. Con dition of the other eye is unknown, Jackson's physician re ported.

The crash occurred as Jackson, driving a car In which there were four passengers, struck a tree in attempting to avoid hitting another car that came onto the highway from a side road. Mrs. Jackson, 23, suffered a brain concussion and cuts about the head and chest. Other. passengers were Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Wright. 1212 Garfield and their daughter, Martha, 2. Wright, 33. was cut about the head.

His wife, 36, and the child were bruised. The crash occurred Saturday night on Highway 69 as the party was returning to Des Moines from Kansas City, Mo. Three persons were Injured slightly in a Des Moines auto accident early Sunday at Third street and Keosauqua way. They were Arthur Crouthamel, 26, who reported his address as 247 E. Eighteenth cut on arm; Jean Lundberg, 27, who gave her address as 3612 Fifth head cut, and Mrs.

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