Robbery at Bohemian S&L. attacker flees with funds
An armed robber slugged Jan Hrbek, stole 562.75 from Bohemian Savings and Loan on Third Street SE, plus 45 of Hrbek’s money and his bankbook. Finnegan, 26, was identified by a witness and remains under investigation as police hunt the missing cash. Hrbek is recovering at home with fractured ribs and shock.
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Bohemian Savings’ and Loan Association
Third Street SE
Jan J. Hrbek
Loan Association
Hrbek
Charles Finnegan
Fifteenth Street
G. K. Thompson
Finnegan
Thompson
Thompson Finnegan
Wenceslaus High Bowl To Marengo Cagers 20 to 16
Marengo high school cagers beat St. Wenceslaus 20 to 16 in their best game of the season. Cedar Rapids Red Hawks trailed all night, eight points down late in the second half. Marengo girls upset St. Wenceslaus 24 to 16 with Schultz scoring 17.
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Marengo
Marengo High School
St. Wenceslaus
Cedar Rapids Red Hawks
Marengo Girls
Schultz
Marge Miller
Laura Majewsky
Cedar Rapids
Dewey “Sparky
Spargrove
Tiger
Severa
Jandle
Red Hawks
Cubs Shift Weekend Games Start Time to 2 P.M.
CHICAGO Cubs will start Saturday and Sunday games at 2 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. to allow fans an early start on evening activities. President P. K. Wrigley announced the change on Wednesday.
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Chicago
INS
Cubs
P. K. Wrigley
Ladder Wood Links Attic to Hauptmann Case
Koeler, an expert from the U S Forest Products lab, testifies ladder wood matches attic beam remnants. He links nail holes, rail alignment, and tool marks to Hauptmann and connects wood from the attic to the Bronx to Hauptmann's garage, asserting exact fits and parallel edges.
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South Carolina
Bronx
Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Koehler
Bruno
Lewis J. Bornmann
New Jersey State Police
New York Police Department
Charles F. W. Enkler
Anselm Cramer
Bornmann
Frederick A. Pope
Trenchard
David T. Wilentz
Court voids Vermont chain store tax ruling
Vermont sales tax on chain stores declared illegal by Chancellor Sturtevant in the case of Great Atlantic and Pacific and First National stores versus Erwin M. Harvey. The decision permanently enjoins enforcement of the 1933 act, with plaintiffs contending the graduated gross sales tax was discriminatory and confiscatory.
Giants And Bears Prepare For Los Angeles Showdown
The New York Giants and Chicago Bears meet in Los Angeles on Sunday to settle whether last fall's championship win by the Giants was a fluke. Both teams arrived from the coast after wins over all star squads with minimal injuries reported.
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Los Angeles
New York Giants
Chicago Bears
Giants
Bears
San Francisco
Ernie Nevers
Bandits Seize Diamonds From New York Salesman in Sioux City
Three unidentified bandits attacked Sol Roseman a New York jewelry salesman as he entered a Sioux City hotel seizing a briefcase holding about 125000 dollars in insured diamonds after a running gun battle with Patrolman John Erickson. The thieves fled north in an Illinois plated car leaving a Low overshoe behind. Roseman said the loss was insured and he did not seek publicity.
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Sioux City
North Iowa
Sol Roseman
New York
Roseman
John Erickson
Illinois
Cedar Rapids
Erickson
Sol Roseman Company
Slade Cutter Chooses Navy Over Pro Ring Career
Annapolis AP report notes Slade Cutter a Navy midshipman from Oswego Illinois who may be a future heavyweight but prefers naval service to professional boxing. At six foot one and 220 pounds he holds a perfect 18-0 college record and is praised by Spike Webb as a top potential fighter. He expects to receive an ensign rank after graduation in June.
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Annapolis
Slade Cutter
Navy
Oswego
Ill
America
Spike Webb
Gene Tunney
U. S. Army
Spike
Uncle Sam
Postville Tops Elkader in Twin Bill Victory
Postville high defeated Elkader 34-27 in the main game and the junior high squad won 23-11 in the Monday night double header. It marks Elkader’s first loss of the season.
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Postville
Postville High Dribblers
Elkader
Clarence Girls Triumph Over Welton 34 to 20 Victory
Clarence girls added to their string of wins by defeating undefeated Welton 34 to 20 Tuesday night. Clarence led 16 to 7 at halftime, Welton rallied within three before Clarence finished strong with 14 final points as Mechanicsville later beat Clarence 32 to 26.
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Clarence
Welton
Mechanicsville
Eggert
Charley Gehringer Signs With Detroit Tigers
Charley Gehringer, second baseman of the pennant winning Detroit Tigers, signed his 1935 contract on Tuesday becoming the seventh Tiger to seal terms. He had just returned from a Japan barnstorming tour. Other signees include Manager Mickey Cochrane Goose Goslin Hank Greenberg Tommy Bridges Fred Marberry and Bill Rogell. Henry Tjaden sells his local grocery stock to E. W. Gordon and plans to move to a Cass Center area farm near Anamosa.
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Detroit
Charley Gehringer
Detroit Tigers
Gehringer
Mickey Cochrane
Goose Goslin
Hank Greenberg
Tommy Bridges
Fred Marberry
Bill Rogell
Morley
Henry Tjaden
E. W. Gordon
Anamosa
Tjaden
Cass Center
Debates Move On Public Works Bill Amid Amendments
The House plans general debate on the Public Works Administration bill with a Thursday adjournment in mind. Speaker Byrns cites passage would stretch late, while leadership allows minor amendments to bolster Ickes and oppose extending PWA funding past June 30. Nye probes Cord absence in arms inquiry noting Cord’s Europe trip and prior kidnap threats.
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Joseph W. Byrns
Thursay
Byrns
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
PWA
E. L. Cord Tour
Want Ads Offer Awards This Week In Classifieds
Advertisement notes that many people will receive awards this week and urges readers to scan the Want Ads for their names. The message emphasizes quick checking and personal opportunity.
Deny Massacre Confession By Nabbed Bandit
Washington AP reports J Edgar Hoover denied Chicago claims Byron Bolton linked to the 1928 St Valentine’s Day massacre. Bolton linked to Bremer kidnapping, seized Jan 8. Russell Gibson killed in raid. Bolton held in St Paul on $200000 Bremer ransom case. He is a former Navy machine gunner.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Chicago
Byron Bolton
Bremer
Hoover
Chicago American
Bolton
Fred
Burke
Claude
Maddox
Gus
Winkler
Fred Goetz
Murray Humphreys
North Side
Humphreys
Goetz
Clark Street
United States
Russell Gibson
St. Paul
Edward G. Bremer
United States Navy
Mechanicsville man seeks divorce at Reno
Reno divorce suits show John RR Grunder of Mechanicsville Iowa filing against Beulah Carolina Grunder alleging cruelty. The couple married Oct 6 1920. A submerged valley has been found in the North Sea between England and Europe.
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Mechanicsville
Reno
John Rr, Grunder
Beulah Carolina Grunder
North Sea
England
Europe
Roosevelt Opposes Norris Amendment on World Court Vote
President Roosevelt voiced firm opposition to Senator Norris's proposal for a two thirds Senate vote on any action for submission to the world court. He called it a definite limitation on presidential prerogatives and noted constitutional controls on foreign affairs.
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Washington
Norris
Senate
World Court
Roosevelt
Congress
County Officials Seek Highway Board Vacancy Filled Locally
Members of the Sixth Town Highway District and Linn County officers debated a state highway commission vacancy. They propose appointing a county supervisor with secondary roads experience, sending the resolution to Governor Clyde Herring. About fifty attended as B. B. Dewey reviewed interim committee recommendations and Miss Cora Jacobs spoke on welfare report findings.
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Sixth Town Highway District County Officers’ Association
Linn County
Clyde Herring
State Highway Commission
B. B. Dewey
Polk County
Cora Jacobs
Brookings Institute For Welfare
Gets Suspended Term On Liquor Charge
Peter Karras aged 41 was sentenced to six months in the county jail for illegal possession of liquor by Judge H C Ring. He was to be released after thirty days on good behavior and must stay out of Linn county as a condition of the suspended term.
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Peter Karras
H. C. Ring
Karras
Linn County
Huey Compromises With Refineries In Louisiana Battle
Huey Long returns to Louisiana to broker a settlement with refineries ending the clash over his oil taxes. J H Hilton of Standard Oil Louisiana confirms a compromise reducing the state tax on refining from five cents to one cent per barrel and requiring more Louisiana produced oil.
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Baton Rouge
Huey Long
Louisiana
Washington
Long
J. H. Hilton
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Soviet Court Jails 12 Over Kiroff Death Failure
In Moscow the military collegium of the supreme court sentenced Feodor Medved chief of the Leningrad Interior ministry office and eleven aides to concentration camps for criminal carelessness in failing to stop the assassination of Sergei Kiroff. Baltsevitch received ten years. Medved and four others got three years. the rest two years.
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Moscow
Supreme Court
Feodor Medved
Leningrad
Interior Ministry
Sergei Maronovich Kiroff
Medved
M. K. Baltsevitch
Jailbreaker Held In Missouri Town
Jefferson City Missouri AP reports 24 year old Robert Shoemate of Centerville Iowa, a jail breaker, was captured after a long flight from justice spanning about 350 miles ending in Missouri. He faces extradition and pending charges.
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Missouri
Jefferson City, Mo
Justice
Robert Shoemate
Centerville
Convicted man Shoemate captured in Texas County
A former Missouri penitentiary inmate connected to torture robbery was seized in Texas county by State Highway Patrolman E C Brown and Sheriff C O Alexander of Phelps county and will be returned to Centerville for held charges.
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Missouri
Shoemate
Missouri State Penitentiary
Texas County
E. C. Brown
C. O. Alexander
Phelps County
Centerville
Iowa Limits In Public Works Plan
Gov Clyde L Herring says Iowa cannot borrow beyond 250000 against general revenue without a constitutional amendment, blocking a $10 million Roosevelt public works plan. He notes only a $400000 office building is contemplated and any excess would need an appropriation.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Roosevelt
Clyde L. Herring
Little Hope Held For Red Cross Head
Washington report states John Barton Payne aged 79, longtime American Red Cross chairman, is critically ill with pneumonia. Doctors fear his chances for recovery are slight as his age and illness worsen, after a week of declining health.
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Washington
John Barton Payne
Payne
R Cross
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