Des Moines mechanic slain. car linked to suspect
Des Moines 20 year old John LeClair was found murdered with a shotgun. Police report a similar car was seen at an Anamosa gas station four hours after his body was found. Investigators tied a dark complexioned man with a mustache to the weapon and sought the fleeing suspect along with reports of threats from bootleggers.
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DES Moines
John LeClair
State Department of Investigation
Anamosa
LeClair
Guthrie
Hubbell Avenues
al Haight
William Arthur
William Carpenter
Former Grinnell Woman Missing At Sea From Taiyo Maru
Clara Millerd Smernae Smertenko a Grinnell College graduate and former Grinnell faculty member is reported missing from the Japanese liner Taiyo Maru in the Yellow Sea. She disappeared July 22 while traveling with an Oregon party that boarded July 20. Smertenko taught Greek and Latin at the University of Oregon for ten years and held Phi Beta Kappa honors.
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NEL Gazette
Grinnell
Clara Millerd
Smernae
Grinnell College
Yellow Sea
Smertenko
University of Oregon
Oregon
Objection Filed to Maquoketa Will by Heir Snoddy
Earl Snoddy of Davenport objects to the probate of Matthew Snoddy’s 1934 will. The document left him $1, a sister Georgia Snoddy Price $1, and the rest about $7,500 to be shared by four siblings or their heirs. John Snoddy of Alliance Nebraska and James Snoddy of Olin Mississippi are named, along with Kate Snoddy of Maquoketa and Ella Edleman of Davenport. The objector claims unsound mind and undue influence by Miss Kate Snoddy. John and Mrs Edleman have died since the will.
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Earl Snoddy
Davenport
Matthew Snoddy
Georgia Snoddy Price
John
Alliance
Neb
James
Olin
Kate Snoddy
Ella Edleman
John Snoddy
Edleman
Number Of Canning Plants In Iowa To Double This Year
Commissioner Frank Wenig said Iowa will see more than double the canning plants operating this season. Sixty one plants will begin, up from 29 last year, with employment estimated at 7 500 to 10 000. The 61 plants will need 50 652 acres of vegetables, up from 35 000 in 1934, not including a large Muscatine plant. Eastern Iowa sites include Columbus Junction Grinnell Marengo Tipton Wapello West Liberty Cedar Rapids Dyersville Dysart Independence La Porte City Monticello Shellsburg Toledo Vinton Belle Plaine Center Point.
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DES Moines
Frank Wenig
Iowa
Weing
Muscatine
West Liberty
Cedar Rapids
Dyersville
Dysart
Independence
la Porte City
Monticello
Shellsburg
Toledo
Vinton
Belle Plaine
Center Point
Six Tama Accident Victims Recovering
Six youths injured when their car overturned after passing a truck near Tama show improvement. Harold Voergler Burnell Clark Joan Booth and Marilyn Storm have regained ability to be up and around Patricia Murdough is improving after a basal skull fracture Eldridge Clark remains in serious condition though better. Earlier reports blamed Burnell Clark for driving. later found Harold Voergler was the driver.
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TAMA
Harold Voergler
Burnell Clark
Joan Booth
Marilyn Storm
Patricia Murdough
Eldridge Clark
Burnell
Clark
Father Jailed For Striking Daughter In Iowa
Webster City Iowa AP police arrested George Willson at his home Tuesday and hold him for investigation over injuries to his 17 year old daughter Mary after she said he struck her in the stomach with a broom. Mary was taken to a hospital with a ruptured spleen.
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Webster City
George Willson
Mary
Scattered Showers Offer Momentary Relief Across Midwest
Gray clouds covered Des Moines as oppressive heat persisted in the Midwest. Scattered showers brought limited relief but increased humidity. The Weather Bureau noted continued warmth with several heat related fatalities across Iowa Missouri and Illinois. Charles City had rain and Sioux City recorded .06 inch while Carroll hit 103 degrees and Council Bluffs reached 100.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Middlewest
Missouri
Chica
Iowa Weather Bureau
Charles City
Sioux City
Carroll
Council Bluffs
Grinnell Woman Chosen for WPA Regional Staff
Florence S. Kerr of Grinnell Iowa was named by Harry L. Hopkins to the WPA field staff in charge of women's activities for Region Four. The educator and author will oversee programs across Illinois Michigan Indiana Missouri Wisconsin Iowa Kansas Nebraska Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota and may base headquarters in Grinnell.
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Florence S. Kerr
Grinnell
Works Progress Administration
Kerr
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
Gulf States
Red Cross
Grinnell College
WPA
Bequests To Onslow Church Maquoketa Congregational School
Miss Lottie Neelans wills Jackson county court that Onslow Presbyterian Church receive 1000 dollars as a memorial to her parents. A 1000 dollar trust fund goes to Maquoketa Congregational Sunday School for annual prizes to pupils with perfect attendance. Additional bequests include 2000 to Mr and Mrs Hugo Staack Maquoketa and 4000 each to Raymond Watkins and sister Ethel Orinston. Executors named F W Gibson. Estate valued at 1000 real estate and 17500 personal property.
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Maquoketa
Lottie Neelans
Jackson County
Onslow
Hugo Staack
Raymond E. Watkins
Ethel Orinston
Henry Neelans
Jack Watkins
Cora Kaney
F. W. Gibson
Hearing Delayed in Cash Register Case
In Des Moines the suit by National Cash Register Co. against the Iowa liquor commission for 78000 dollars over 100 cash registers was postponed due to illness of Walter Maley III, assistant state attorney general and counsel for the liquor commission. The commission says the machines, obtained at the state's May 1934 liquor monopoly, were leased not purchased and the commission asserts a right to cancel further rentals.
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DES Moines
National Cash Register Company
Iowa Liquor Commission
Walter Maley
Maley
The
Liquor Commission
Iowa City School Budget Inflation With No Tax Increase
The Iowa City board of education unveils a next year budget rising by 28 439 to 222 165 while city taxes stay flat. Expenditures grow from 193 726 to 222 165 due to school improvements salary restoration and plans for a new high school with 12 600 outside income and surplus from back tax collection to cover the rest.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Board of Education
Maquoketa River Reservoir Planned In Jackson County
Army engineers study a proposed 2.366 million dollar reservoir on the Maquoketa river in Jackson County Iowa for inclusion in a Mississippi flood control plan. The project near Spragueville would lie six to seven miles from the river mouth per the Mississippi River Commission recommendation.
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Washington
Army
Maquoketa River
Jackson County
Iowa
Mississippi River Commission
Spragueville
Dwarf Bascomb Held After Shooting of Waitress
Osage sheriff reports Bascomb a three and a half foot dwarf confessed to shooting Miss Marie Meggett, 24, a case waitress, at her home after she told him she did not want to see him again. Meggett was hospitalized with a bullet wound near the heart.
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Osage (Ap
Marshal Bascom
Charles W. Kathan
Marie Meggectt
Bascomb
Miss Meggett
Iowa Relief Reduces Load by Nearly 9000 Cases in June
Iowa relief figures show June totals down from May across multiple programs. Relief administrator J. C. Pryor reported 47,209 June cases versus 56,169 in May with 9,658 transient bureau recipients, 1,540 rural rehabilitation cases, and 1,228 client advances. The student relief program aided 1,155 college students. emergency education aided 337 teachers. Unemployment relief totaled 189,120 with 184,598 in families and 4,22 single persons. The relief case load continues to fall from a January peak of 67,037.
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DES Moines
Iowa
J. C. Pryor
Iowa Transient Bureau
Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
Carnival Of Comedy Opens Thursday On Campus At Cornell
The Cornell summer theater presents Carnival of Comedy Aug 1 2 3 featuring Goldoni The Mistress of the Inn and Moliere The Doctor in Spite of Himself with cast led by Leta Thompson Verne Klimo Robert Hartung and others. A matinee for children follows Thursday with a later Shrew and Love and Geography on Friday.
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Mount Vernon
Goldoni
Moliere
Cornell Summer Theater
Cornell
Albert Franklin Johnson
Bertha French Johnson
Carlo Goldoni
Leta Thompson
Mirandolina
Verne Klimo
Cavalier
Robert Hartung
Stuart Frazier
West Newbury
Mass
Marquis
Howard Emerson
Fabricus
Cecil Boyer
Mason City
Alice Lubbock
R. T
Lubbock
B Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
John Ross Winnie
Clear Lake
Martine
Bjornson
Iowa State Teachers College
Hazel Strayer
Police recapture mail truck taken on ride by drunk
In Des Moines a drunken driver seized a United States mail truck with eight pouches of letters. After a half hour chase through town by police and postal staff the vehicle was recovered intact a half mile away.
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Des Moines
United States
I. M. Curry
Ida Wilson
Ietter
Pottawattamie Medical Society Extends Indigent Care Contract
The Pottawattamie County Medical Society in Council Bluffs extended for ten days the contract to care for indigent relief after a meeting with Dr. T. C. Denny, state medical relief director. Doctors complained of pro rata pay, red tape, and the check-up system that prompted their July cancellation.
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Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie County Medical Society
T. C. Denny
Des Moines
Jury to Decide Sanity of Boy Slayer Dane Heinz
In Dubuque AP Marlo Heinz, 29, faces a sanity trial in October over the death of 6-year-old David Fox, his nephew. District Judge Patrick J. Nelson ordered the sanity hearing after alienists reports and relatives testimony raised reasonable doubt. If found insane he will be committed to an asylum. if sane, sentencing follows a case review.
Pete Torrez Dies After 25 Hour Heart Miracle
Pete Torrez a Mexican man died Tuesday after doctors marveled at his heart beating for 25 hours following being pierced by two .38 caliber bullets He remained rational and conscious until his death in Council Bluffs AP report
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Council Bluffs
Pete Torrez
Chown Family Reunion Sets 1936 Lone Tree Date
Columbus Junction notes the Chown family reunion at Foster cottage on the Cedar River with Carl Foster of Muscatine as president, Mrs Ernest Chown of Conesville as vice president, and Maxine Green of Columbus Junction as secretary treasurer. Dale Foster and R H Geertz led sports. 1936 reunion slated for the last Sunday in July at Lone Tree.
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Chown
Foster
Cedar River
Carl Foster
Muscatine
Ernest Chown
Conesville
Maxine Green
Dale Foster
Mildred Wolford
R. H. Geertz
Lone Tree
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