Judge Tinley lauded as fair in death penalty case
Madison death row cases loom as the Iowa Supreme Court upholds a death sentence for a 21 year old tied to a fatal holdup. Justice Hamil land's opinion commends Tinley for a steady hand while noting no trial errors. Separate rulings postpone mercy pleas for Marlo Heinz and Jack Ratliff as more inmates seek life sentences.
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Tinley
P. Tinley
Council Bluffs
Det
Mercer
Supreme Court
Madison
Marlo Heinz
Jack 1
Immentaton
Porter
Wheaton
South Dakota
Wild Dog and Bears Family In Hollow Tree Near Mt Vernon
Special to The Gazette Mount Vernon reports a wild timber wolf like dog found sheltering in a hollow tree near the Sargent farm. Ray Rodman cared for the litter with straw food and water while Fred Sargent, banked by North Western, covered the taxes. Neighbors spread word. dog lovers offered meat milk and support amid a recent local dog poisoning scare.
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Mt Vernon
Mount Vernon
Ray Rodman
Fred Sargent
The
North Western
Rodman
Fred
Sargent
Mount ‘Vernon
Linn County Boys Named for Naval Academy Entrance
Acting on committee recommendation Rep W S Jacobsen appointed Raymond McConlogue Jr of Lisbon as principal entrant to the Naval Academy Annapolis and Donald Martin of Marion as first alternate. McConlogue, a Cornell college student, will likely enter on college credits. Martin attends Coe college.
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Gorcia
Comite
Washington
Linn County
Democratic” Central’ Committee
W. S. Jacobsen
Iowa
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Raymond McConlogue
Lisbon
McConlogue
Cornell College
Donald Martin
Marion
Coe College
Maquoketa Names New School Superintendent Miller elected
Maquoketa school board chose E. L. Miller of Lake City Iowa as the new superintendent at 2640 dollars yearly, succeeding W. C. Harding who resigned two weeks prior in Maquoketa.
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Caxette
Maquoketa
E. L. Miller
Lake City
W. C. Harding
Six Tons of Butter Barn in Track Crash
Six tons of butter traveling from Rochester to Dubuque overturned and burst into flames on highway 52 two miles north of Decorah. Drivers Clarence Brooks and Joe Kelly swerved to miss an unlit car. fumes ignited by flares allegedly caused the fire.
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Decorah
Rochester
Minn
Dubuque
H and W Company
Highway 52
Clarence Brooks
Joe Kelly
Olin Miss Evelyn Thompson Bride of Kenneth Leggett
OLIN Miss Evelyn Thompson daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy M Thompson became the bride of Kenneth Leggett grandson of James French of Wyoming Saturday evening in a wedding service by Rev Lloyd Dutro at United Brethren parsonage. The couple were attended by Miss Charlotte Swensen and Willam Ravenscroft. The bride, a 1935 Olin high school graduate, will live in Wyoming.
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Olin
Evelyn Thompson
Guy M. Thompson
Kenneth Leggett
James French
Wyoming
Lloyd Dutro
United Brethren
Charlotte Swensen
Willam Ravenscroft
Tc Wazigrad
Iowa City News Briefs Include Accident Report And Local Events
Mercy hospital described Lester Norton as critical after a single motorbike crash north of Iowa City. Other items note Grinnell Institute delegates Howard Bowen and Walker Sandbach, WSUI summer lectures on Shakespeare and music, a $14,567 damage suit, a bicycle accident involving Donald Miller, driver's license examiner visits, University of Iowa summer session enrollment expected to exceed 3,000, and the eleventh annual Iowa press law conference set for June 21-22.
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Tin Gasette
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Lester Norton
Hospital
Here
Iowa City Peace Council
Howard R. Bowen
Walker O. Sandbach
Decorah
Grinnell Institute of International Relations
Grinnell College
Bowen
Sandbach
University of Iowa
WSUI
Hardin Craig
Phillip G. Clapp
George W. Paul
William F. Morrison
Harold L. Evans
Donald Miller
F. Mack Miller
Louis Glick
Secretary of State's Office
Eugene A. Gilmore
Edna Patzig
Ruth Updegraff
Iowa
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Girl Describes Kidnapping by Four in Iowa
A 14 year old Margaret Garner told Clinton police she was abducted near Akron Ohio on May 8 and held hostage by four hoodlums. She escaped at DeWitt Iowa and said captors kept her in a room at a farm home somewhere in Iowa. Akron police reported her parents, Mr and Mrs Laurence Garner, left for Clinton.
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Clinton
Akron
Margaret Garner
DeWitt
Iowa
Laurence Garner
John G Keck sells pioneer Wapello business to Jamison and Dudgeon
John G Keck has sold his furniture and undertaking business in Wapello to George Jamison of Wapello and Ross Dudgeon of Fairfield. The sale ends the Keck family 78 year hold on the business started in 1857. Jamison has served as clerk and embalmer for fourteen years.
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Perial
Ganette
Wapello
John G. Keck
George Jamison
Ross Dudgeon
Fairfield
Mr. Keck
John Keck
Bavaria
Germany
New Orleans
Port Louisa
Mississippi
Air Line
Owa
Keck
Main Street
van Buren Avenue
Fred Keck
Keck Brothers
Jamison
Iowa Use Tax May Yield $1,100,000 in 1937
Des Moines AP report shows county treasurers sent $144,500 to the state in May from use tax on automobile purchases. The 95 of 89 counties data indicates yearlong auto sales may surpass $1.1 million, with May 1936 figures planted as baseline. Tax, 2 percent, aims to curb out-of-state purchases and boost Iowa merchants. County tallies listed for Allamakee to Winneshiek.
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Des Moines
State Board of Assessment and Review
Iowa
Tgne
Allamakee
Benton
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Clinton
Delaware
Fayette
Towa
Ore Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk
Linn
Louisa
Governor Promises State Cooperation On Lakes Plan
Gov Nelson Kraschel pledged state cooperation to restore Iowa natural lakes during a Storm Lake Chamber of Commerce picnic with Iowa lawmakers. He noted the 1937 legislature allocated 20000 for Storm Lake improvements and estimated more funds will be needed to restore the lake. A survey of Iowa resources is guiding civilian conservation corps funding for the next two years.
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Storm Lake
Iowa
Nelson G. Kraschel
Saverhoe
Civilian Conservation Corps
Laura Griffith of Greeley Dies at 63
Laura Whipple Griffith, 63, lifelong Greeley resident, died Sunday at her daughter’s home in Freeport, Illinois. Born in Edgewood, she taught in Edgewood and Earlville after attending Upper Town University. She married George Griffith in 1903, who predeceased her. She leaves her daughter, a brother Clair Whipple of Cedar Rapids, and a sister Mrs John Hilsenbeck of Greeley. Funeral services are Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Griffith home. She was a member of the O E S and the Methodist church.
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Mescie
Gazette
Greeley
Laura Whipple Griffith
David Aurand
Freeport
Edgewood
Upper Town University
Fayette
Earlville
George Griffith
Clair Whipple
Cedar Rapids
John Hilsenbeck
Griffith
O. E
Methodist Church
Reunion of Shake Rag and Orchard Grove teachers held in Louisa County
A reunion of former Shake Rag and Orchard Grove school teachers and pupils and their families gathered at the Community House in Columbus Junction. Mrs Minnie Knight presided over a kettledrum dinner and program featuring writings by former students and memories from early teachers including L F Girard and Eva Woodruff. Oldest attendee was 86 year old Matilda Wykert. Eldon McGraw was the youngest. Officers were Mrs Kate Ament president, Mrs Raymond Schaper treasurer, and Mrs Minnie Knight secretary.
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Wapello
Shake Rag
Orchard Grove
Columbus Junction
Wignty
Ord Grove
Atlas
Louisa County
Minnie Wykert Knight
L. P. Gillette
L. F. Girard
Minnie Knight
Geneva Schaper
Raymond Schaper
Eva Woodruff
George Foor
Mamie Ball
Rachel Grauwinkel
Henry Mohlie
Vinnie Winter
Genie Smith van Horn
Atalissa
Lyle Rada
Conesville
Ruth Woodruff Chandler
Josephine
Iris Knight
Clintha Sanders
Albert Knight
Josephine Knight
Hal Longshore
Minnie Ball
Frances
Harry Crammond
Matilda Wykert
Bride Phyllis Hill Weds Robert Hanlon at Stanwood
In Osage the wedding united Miss Phyllis Hill daughter of Mr and Mrs Clinton Hill with Robert Charles Hanlon son of Mr and Mrs Charles L Hanlon of Stanwood Sunday. The couple planned to live in Burlington after a reception at Hotel Cleveland.
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Stanwood
Osage
Phyllis Hill
Clinton Hill
Robert Charles Hanlon
Charles, L. Hanton
Cleveland
Hanlon
School of Nursing
University of Iowa
Stanwood, High School
College of Engineering
Triangle Fraternity
Iowa State Board of Health
Burlington
Blairstown Pioneer C A Heinrich Dies at Home
C A Heinrich of Blairstown died after a two day illness at his Blairstown home. Born near Berlin September 4 1849 he lived in Australia before immigrating to America. He farmed northeast of Blairstown then moved to town about thirty years ago. Survived by wife Susan Wolf Dee three daughters Mrs Franklin Luce at home Mrs J D Springer Ames and George A Heinrich Osceola and one great grandchild Marylou Springer of Ames. one daughter died earlier. Funeral at Evangelical church Blairstown with Rev McClelland and Rev Lang. burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
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Reed H. Maley
Mechanicsville
Bandas
Little 3Ork
Washington
Mary Maley
Emma Colby
Mechanics
Ce- Rapids
Verner Armstrong
Chi
Willard Maley
Mars
van Goge
Rose +Hill
Tipton
W. C. Walton
Wilton Junction
Elvin “Stump” McQuillen
Arthur ‘Potter
E.C. Gillam
Dewitt
Margaret Verstraete
Camiel Verstraete
Moline
Raphael J. Naughton
John Naughton
St. Joseph's Church
Thomas J. Loftus
Rita Naughton
Raymond Verstraete
Tiburtius
Gerald Naughton
Ambrose Naughton
Blairstown
Heinrich
Berlin
Germany
Frederick
Charlotte
Australia
America
Benton County
Susan Wolf Dee
Franklin Luce
J. D. Springer
Ames and
George
Tipton Couple Wed In Quiet Methodist Ceremony
In Tipton a quiet ceremony was held at the ae Methodist prorek of Tipton Saturday evening. Miss Marie Johnson of Alta, assistant home making instructor at Tipton High School, married Paul F Hill of Cedar Falls, science instructor at Tipton Quaire High School. Rev. William Crossley of Tipton officiated. Mr. and Mrs. BE Chamberlain of Tipton attended.
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Baldwin
Anker Kieis
Chris Tamm
G. H. Busch
Nashville
Art Weirup
Buckhorn
Herman Heneke
Delmar
Louie Buck
Elwood
Dick Busch
Lloyd
Monmouth
Bock
Milrock
William Bock
Milton Bock
Harry Bock
William Durkop
Jerry Sanger
William Alden
Emeline
Julia Wulf
Lloyd Wulf
Arnold Wulf
Louie Wulf
Elmer Wulf
John Kuchel
Beulah
Millard Kuchel
Lost Nation
William Wulf
DeWitt
Glen Kuchel
Iron Hill
Ethel Bock
Davenport
Barbara Wulf
Beulah Kuchel
Millrock
Amana
Amana High School
Palisades-Kepler State Park
Park Lodge
Marie Ratzel
Henriette Moershel
Wilma Moershell
Emma_ Leichsenring
Adolph Schmieder
George Erzinger
Ed Fritsche
Carl Kippenhan
Carl Moershet
Billy Moershhel
Raymond Baumgaertel
Harry Leonhardt
Cole
Keswick
Tipton
Ae Methodist Prorek
Mise Marie Johnson
Alta
Tipton High School
Paul
F. Hill
Cedar Falls
Tipton Quaire High School
Wiliam Crossley
A. BE. Chamberlain
Deserted hill death ends in reform school sentence
Bert Johnson, 22, of Page county, was ruled to serve eight years in the Anamosa reformatory for the shotgun death of his father Elmer on New Year’s Eve 1935. The case arose after a Maryville sale trip when the car stalled on a hill and an argument ensued leading to a fatal shot. Johnson claimed self defense and defense of his mother. He was convicted of manslaughter after an initial first degree murder indictment.
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Des Moines
Bert Johnson
Page County
Anamoca
Johnson
Elmer
Maryville
Bert
Frank Keenan
Keenan
Anamosa
Federal Pension Tax Evasion in Iowa Employers Ignoring Charges
DES MOINES, Iowa, reports show penalties from 5 to 28 percent on unpaid federal old age pension taxes. About 25 percent of Iowa employers fail to file reports or pay, with 12,500 of 50,000 employers not reporting. The confounding issue is confusion with unemployment tax, though the 1 percent old age pension levy is owed under the federal state cooperative plan.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Charles D
Huston
Internal Revenue
Town
South English officials quit over municipal policy dispute
Three South English officials resigned on Monday including the mayor and street commissioner amid differences with town council and employees over municipal policies. Mayor Don Buchanan had been the latest to be appointed.
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South Engelish
Don Buchanan
Carol Rowe Recovering After Blood Clot Surgery
Des Moines report says Carol Lynn Rowe, three, who was unable to see due to a blood clot pressing a nerve, is in good condition following removal of the clot. Doctors expect her to regain sight, with parents hopeful.
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DES_ MOINES
INS
Carol Lynn’ Rowe
Wold Wapello Men Reported In Sawmill Incident
Tuesday accusers from Letts accuse two Wold Wapello men of an incident at a local sawmill. Investigators probe claims and identify possible witnesses as the case develops.
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Pottaie
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Naval Academy
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Solon
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Anna” Sevcik
Joseph ‘Novotny
J. R. Novotny
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William Novotny
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Garrison
Otto Kleppien
Joe Caslavka
Joe Sevcik
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Fred Hushak, Jr
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Henry ‘Popper
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Anna Popper
Roger Hober
Jerry Stejnka
Mary Margaret ‘Neiers
E. G. Beley, Jr
E. G. Beley
Olympia, Wash
M. A. Mullan
Immaculate Conception
George Ward
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James Horichek
Tabor
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Catholic Workmen Order
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Thomas Vopatek
John W. Roubinek
Lillian Axler
Genevieve Kucera
Mildred Nachazel
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Margaret Zmolek
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Fred el
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Winona Claussen
Vera Karkosh
Dorothy Mareda
Charles Stejskal
Jimmy Dale Seda
Wilma Ann Kucera
Conroy
Eugene Jacobs
Carl Schaefer
Hjalmer Helgeson
Grant Olson
Maynard
J. N. Becher
Independence
Fayette County
C. J. Barnes
C. J. Meyer
Doris
Henrietta
Harold Meyer
A. J. Meyer
Herbert Meyer
Henry Meyer
Evelyn and
Fred Plaster
Elaine
Traer
Wood Center
Colesburg
Perry Rulon
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W. E. Albert
Fish
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chtons.State Park
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Robert C. Hanlon
C. A. Heinrich
Carol Rowe
Wold Wapello
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