Kidnaper's List of Film Stars Puzzles Police
Los Angeles dispatch reports Luella Pearl Hammer and her former convict fiancé W. P. Howard confessed to abducting Mary B. Skeele. A list of film stars' names appeared in Hammer's handwriting in a hidden “mystery house.” Names include Jackie Coogan and Mary Pickford among others. Howard plans to plead guilty. Hammer sought an insanity defense.
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Los Angeles
INS
Luella Pearl Hammer
W. P. Howard
E. H. van Dorn
Miss Hammer
Mary B. Skeele
University of Southern California
Howard
Jackie Coogan
Adolphe Menjou
Mary Pickford
Lottie Pickford
C. E. Erickson
Jack Pickford
Harold Lloyd
Mary Philbin
Constance Talmadge
Buster Keaton
Anita M. Baldwin
Lucky
Iowa City elects Reichardt to fill unexpired Alderman term
Iowa City council by unanimous vote elects Herbert J. Reichardt to fill the vacant alderman seat following G A Kenderdine resignation to join the secretary of state's staff. Independence district court names C Gunzenhauser administrator of Katie Wehr estate valued at 1750 with cash deposits and Rowley real estate. heirs listed. La Porte City veteran Clifford Brokaw marks 37th birthday with 13 guests and 13 candles. posts service in WWI unit 118th infantry. Postville body of John Lawrence Lien arrives for funeral. survivor list includes mother and brother. servicemen attend. Mount Vernon Cornell College junior Josephine Eyestone to present organ recital. Grundy Center monoxide gas incident endangers three men in Buckeye garage. Manchest er counts 90 teachers at county study center. Ottille confirms May Day program. Mount Vernon Wanahama Camp Fire girls host Valentine party. Ainsworth home declamatory contest winners announced ahead of county contest. High and low records: Boulder Rep Bixler introduces one measure. Rumbaugh sets record introducing 93 measures.
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Herbert J. Reichardt
G. A. Kenderdine
Kenderdine
Alex Miller
Postville
John Lawrence Lien
Chicago
Presbyterian Church
R. F. Galloway
Grant Bollman
Decorah
Mr. Lien
Halver H
Jane A. Lien
Postvile High School
Barrett Company
Iowa
Rodney Lien
Waterloo
Florence Andrees
Otto Brandt
New York
Louis Cremalla
Leonard Pearson
Victor Otley
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Railroad
Mount Vernon
Josephine Eyestone
Cornell College
Miss Eyestone
H. A. Miller
The
Conservatory of Music
J. Bruce Eyestone
Bertram
Stanwood
Grundy Center
Buckeye
Otto Winters
Virgil Luttschwager
Henry Werliga
Winters
W. A. Ottille
Iowa State Teachers College
C. F. Becker
the Guardian
Opal Stearns
Geraldine Bryant
Margaret Keyes
Mary Alice Crew
Virginia Fussell
Mary Gail Hull
Delores Wherry
Eleanor Gough
Dorothy Fisher
Alma Moots
Bernice Gil
Ellen Forest
Faith Baker
Bernice Becker
Richard Busenbark
Franklin Littell
Ralph Bowman
Ward Swift
Robert Hartung
Charles
Ainsworth
Curley Guy May Testify In His Own Defense At Trial
Long Beach Calif INS the handsome athlete William J Curley Guy may testify in his own defense in a murder trial. Close hours before verdicts a shift in strategy could place Guy on the stand as the principal witness. His alibi places him at the Glendale home of aviator Edward Delarm thirty miles from the yacht Carma where Capt Walter Vanderwell was killed. The state plans rebuttal to destroy the alibi with Delarm and family testimony and other witnesses.
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Long Beach
Calif
INS
William J. “Curley
Guy
Walter Vanderwell
South Seas
Edward Delarm
Glendale
Vanderwell
Seize 2 Suspects In Mail Robbery Near Chicago
Federal authorities hunted three more suspects in a $211,424 Chicago mail robbery after arresting William Golden of Chicago and Jean Edna Stenger in Springfield. Golden tried to sell a stolen $1,000 R E A bond. Stenger, wife of an elderly Osage Indian millionaire, is among those questioned as guards searched rail hubs and highways. The robbery occurred within 100 feet of the Chicago federal building and five gunmen fled in an automobile.
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Springfield
INS
Chicago
William Golden
Jean Edna Stenger
Golden
C. R. Frant
D. J. McCarthy
Idaho Youth Waives Extradition In Bond Theft Case
Roy Winger, 19, a school student, waived extradition to Idaho to face charges for stealing 230000 in state bonds. He admitted the theft from a printing company that produced the bonds for the state, forged signatures of the governor and secretary of state, and said he obtained samples by writing officials. He was arrested after trying to sell a stolen bond and said he was ready to face his punishment.
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Oqmaha
INS
Roy Winger
Idaho
Winger
Deaths Mount in Maniac Gun Battle in Denver Auction House
Four people are dead after a gun battle in an auction house in Denver. Gay Rice, 50, went on a spree as police attempted to question him. Victims include Charles Lewis, 75, a bystander, and detectives John F. Den, 61, and George P. Schneider, 53.
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Denver
Colo
Gay Rice
Charles Lewis
John F. den
George P. Schneider
Lewis
Rice
Student flyer falls near Council Bluffs after crash
Robert Edwards, 28, a student aviator, survived a crash that fractured his skull during an attempted forced landing when his motor failed 500 feet above ground. He struck a power line and crashed on a road near the airport.
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Council Bluffs
INS
Robert Edwards
Edwards
Lindberghs Reportedly Plan Europe Residence Focused in France
A Central News dispatch quotes Elizabeth Morgan stating Col Charles A Lindbergh plans to make his future home in France undecided between the Riviera or the Basque country. The report cites no confirmation from Lindbergh or spokesman Breckenridge and notes persistent rumors after the abduction and death of their son.
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London
INL
Charles A. Lindbergh
France
Central News Dispatch
Lone Eagle
Elizabeth Morrow
Riviera
Basque Country
Elizabeth Morgan
Lindbergh
Nice
New York
INS
Henry J. Breckenridge
Lindberghs
United States
Hopewell, N. J
Gazette Want Ad Rates and Instructions
Classified notice outlines rates per agate line for varying ad durations, minimum two lines, and a 34 cent minimum charge. It notes a limit on a single incorrect insertion for multi day ads and provides operating hours 7:30 to 5 daily except Saturdays until 2. The instruction explains how to respond to blink ads using box numbers or blind addresses.
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Gazette Want Ad Department
Ad Department
AD Headquarters
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