Iowa Murder Confession Ties 15-Year-Old Slaying to Waterloo Case
Edward Squires confessed to Peoria police that he killed his friend George Anthony in Waterloo Iowa fifteen years ago after a drunken argument over a girl. He signed extradition papers to face Iowa authorities. The confession follows prior crimes including drunkenness and a prior extortion sentence.
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Iowa
Peoria, Ill
Ins
Edward Squires
George Anthony
Waterloo
Squires
Anthony
Peoria
Squires Receives Five-Year Term for Attack in Cedar Rapids
Police records show Squires with a long criminal history dating to 1932 was sentenced to five years at Fort Madison from Cedar Rapids on September 20, 1939, for attempted murder stemming from a July 29 hammer assault at the Friends Dine and Dance on old highway 30. Bernice Vaverka, in charge of the club, was struck after being handed perfume and powder and lured into a posing gesture before a hammer blow. Squires fled but was later arrested in Lockport, Illinois.
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Squires
Fort Madison
Cedar Rapids
Bernice Waverka
Old Friends
Old Highway 30
Miss Vaverka
Miss Vaver
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL GAZETTE
Special to The Gazette lists new Legion auxiliary officers in Atkins and a new manager for Spahn and Rose Lumber in Maynard Tammy Tammand. It notes remodel work in Maynard, a Boise Idaho wedding, OpA settlements in Oelwein, and memorials and weddings across several towns with dates and growing local ties.
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Maynard
Tammy Tammand
Parkersburg
Spahn and Rose Lumber Company
George Buenneke
Ralph Pleister
Maynard Cafe
Former Shellsburg Man in Fortress Shot Down by Japs
Ralph Hayenga, son of the Rev I F Hayenga formerly of Shellsburg and Coggon now of George Iowa, served as radar navigator on a B 29 shot down May 29 over Yokohama. The bomber was hit by flak, two motors failed, bomb bay doors opened, the plane broke apart upon water impact. Hayenga suffered a broken shoulder and, with six crewmen, climbed onto a raft that capsized several times before rescue.
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Shellsburg
Ralph Hayenga
I. F. Hayenga
Shellsburg and Coggon
George
Yokohama
Hayenga
Prisoner Riley Crawford Home on 60 Day Furlough
Cpl. Riley N. Crawford, held by Germans for 26 months, is on a 60 day furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crawford in Shellsburg. He entered service in April 1941 and went overseas February 1942, taken prisoner February 1943 at Faid Pass North Africa. His brother Pfc. Joe Crawford has been overseas six months.
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Shellsburg
Riley N. Crawford
Charles Crawford
Cpl
Crawford
Faid Pass
North Africa
Pfc
Joe Crawford
Rosalee Musical Comedy Presented at Cornell Summer Theater
Mt. Vernon reports Rosalee a musical comedy will be staged Friday and Saturday at the Cornell college summer theater. Lyrics by theater director Al Johnson and music by Dick Head, a G.I. in training with army show experience, based on the Cornell Ginko tree legend. Cast includes Baritone Al Morissey Betty Laughlin Hines Trainee Frederick Branch and 30 navy unit members plus 25 civilians.
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MT. Vernon
Rosalee
Cornell College
al Johnson
Dick Head
Jacques Jolas
G.I
Cornell
al Morissey
Frederick Branch
Navy
Waterloo Man Leaves Million Dollar Estate
Waterloo D J Walker 76 founder of the Walker Remedy company died May 2 leaving an estate of 1 038 029 67 in a preliminary inheritance report filed in district court Records show it as one of Black Hawk counties largest estates
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Iowa
Johnson County
Waterloo
D. J. Walker
Walker Remedy Company
Black Hawk County
Reformatory inmate to be questioned in 1937 murder case
Minneapolis district attorney says he and two detectives will go to Anamosa Reformatory to question Harry May 25 about the 18 year old Laura Kruse murder in Des Moines area. May, serving life for a rape murder in Council Bluffs, was in Minneapolis when Kruse was killed.
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Minneapolis
M. J. Dillon
Iowa Men’s Reformatory
Anamosa
Harry May
Laura Kruse
Kruse
May
Dwight Bender
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Bender
Pearl Wetherill
Council Bluffs
Allamakee County Treasurer Resigns
Waukon W C Grangaard resigns after nine years as Allamakee county treasurer to join Waukon State Bank. Deputy Leon Henderson will act as treasurer until the supervisor board appoints a successor. Grangaard takes a bank vacancy created by Willard Kiesau, who leaves for Standard Oil in Mason City.
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Waukon
W. C. Grangaard
Allamakee
Waukon State Bank
Leon Henderson
Board of Supervisors
Grangaard
Willard Kiesau
Standard Ou Company
Mason City
Bartender Slain At St. Paul Former Decorah Resident
A St. Paul shoe repairman Thomas E. Magee 39 formerly of Dallas Texas faces a first degree murder charge after confessing to slashing bartender Fred T. Thompson 50 in a late Saturday night attack Thompson a Decorah Iowa native died from loss of blood after his throat was cut Magee was arrested in a shoe repair shop where a leather cutter knife was found and identified by police as the murder weapon
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St. Paul
Decorah
ST. Paul, Minn
Charles J. Tierney
Fred T. Thompson
Thomas E. Magee
Dallas
Texas
Strument
Thompson
Decorah Veteran Fred Thompson Remembers Family Ties
Decorah native and World War I veteran Fred Thompson died after moving to St Paul three years ago. He is survived by five sisters including Mrs E Y Gillette of Decorah.
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The
Gazette
Decorah
Fred Thompson
St. Paul
E. Y. Gillette
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