Parents of Five Children Convicted of Second Degree Murder
Lee Coleman and his wife were found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Knoxville Night Marshal Bert Conrey after a seven hour jury deliberation. They claimed self defense during the March 17 altercation as officers attempted to arrest them on intoxication charges. The couple, who farm on an island in the Des Moines river near Tracy, are jailed in lieu of $20,000 bond. A motion for a new trial is due by June 15 before sentencing set for 2 p.m. that day unless granted.
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Knoxville
Lee Coleman
Bert Conrey
Norman Hays
Coleman
Conrey
Des Moines
Colemans
Tracy
Dickinson To Speak At Commencement Of Upper Iowa U
The Gazette reports Upper Iowa University will hold commencement exercises on May 31 at 10 30 a.m with former Senator L J Dickinson as speaker A Luther at Upper Iowa baseball game is set for 2 30 p.m and the alumni association and board of trustees meet May 28 Rev Thomas Anderson will give the baccalaureate address on Sunday at 10 30 a.m.
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Fayette
Upper Iowa University
L. J. Dickinson
Luther
Upper Iowa
Board of Trustees
Thomas Anderson
Funeral services for Decorah businessman Baker
Funeral services for G. F. Baker were held at Decorah Congregational church with Rev. Ralph B. Noyce giving the eulogy and Dr. James P. Burling delivering the prayer. A loudspeaker broadcast reached an overflow crowd outside, while a second service aired at the nearby Methodist church. Attendees came from Minneapolis, Mason City, Cresco, Waukon, West Union, Lansing, Calmar, and Ossian.
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Cavette Decorah
G. F. Baker
Decorah
Congregational Church
Ralph B. Noyce
James P. Burling
Des Moines
Baker
Methodist Church
Minneapolis
Mason City
Cresco
Waukon
West Union
Lansing
Calmar
Ossian
Woman Shot In Foot Near Center Point
Mrs. Americus Trimble aged 49 living half a mile south of Center Point was accidentally shot in the left ankle and foot by her son Hubert 22 while he fired a 410 gauge shotgun at a rat under a milk house at 8 am Tuesday. She was taken to St Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids.
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The
Gazette
Center Point
Americus Trimble
Hubert
Elkader Hotel Sold To Garnaville Man
Harold Schulte of Garnaville purchased the Bayless hotel in Elkader from RH Hagensick and will take possession June 1. Schulte will also manage the Echelon hotel in Garnaville, with Mrs. Schulte to run it. the Hagansick family owned the Elkader property since 1900. Center Point brief notes Virginia Sarchett and Milo Castek wed in Dubuque with attendants and future plans. Calmar church First Holy Communion class of sixteen listed names.
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Elkader
Tharold Schulte
Garnaville
RH. Hagensick
Hagensick
H. H. Hagensick
C. W. Vincent
Schulte
Center Point
Virginia Sarchett
Cato Sarchett
Milo Castek
Cedar Rapids
Center Grove Methodist Church
Dubuque
Elza Sarchett
Vivian Sarchett
Raymond Klima
Elzo Sarchell
Castek
Center Point High School
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Twentieth Century Manufacturing Company
Calmar
St. Aloysius Church
Helen Gehling
Valeria Barr
Shirley Rhode
Donna Lou Frana
Rose Hageman
Marilyn Huber
Rose Marie Hauber
Joan Rothmeyer
Norma Jane Becker
Patricia Yerkovsky
David Hosper
Louis Hageman
Alvin Timp
Kenneth Leezum
James Yerkovsky
Clarence Kruchek
Maquoketa Obituaries and Community Notices Chronicle
Funeral services for Miss Bianca Reel 80 held in Harrison Funeral Home with burial in Mount Hope cemetery. She died after a stroke and was born July 13 1857 living in Jackson county all her life. Surviving relatives include a niece and several grand-nieces and nephews.
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Maquoreta
Bianca Reel
Harrison Funeral Home
H. H. Dill
Mount Hope Cemetery
Miss Reel
Jackson County
Otha Johnson
Onslow
E. L. Miller
Iowa City
Doris Budde
Clarence Dallager
Jack Keck
Gertrude Rasmussen
Beatrice Rosenberg
Beverly Snell
Mary Ann van Beek
Maquoketa
Hubert Fairman
John Goodall
Ray Hayes
Glen Henton
Kenneth Smith
Forrest Clark
Ralph Murray
George Tompkins
Strawberry Point
Guy Horsefall
Lancaster
Wis
Stella Horsefall
Elkader Congregational Church
Norges O. Bartholomew
Lois Horsefall
Japanese Alumnus Sends Symbolic Gift To Cornell
Dr Enji Tsukasaki of Fuku Shima Japan, a Cornell graduate in 1922, sent a fifteen foot bag fashioned carp to Cornell athletic department via Prof McGaw. The emblem, tied to Japan's national boys symbol, aims to ease war era animosities and flies at Ash Park meets. Tsukasaki, now a physician, lived in Mount Vernon during high school and previously worked in Utah as a house servant.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell
Enji Tsukasaki
Fuku- Shima
Japan
Cornell College
F. M. McGaw
Tsukasaki
Ash Park
China
America
United States
Utah
Kenneth
Ken, Karabe
Boston University Medical School
Chiba Medical College
Marengo STudents Set for Record Class Graduation
Marengo high school begins commencement week with baccalaureate led by Rev. George Hunt on "Living a Life" and class day on Wednesday. Commencement Thursday features Lt. Gov. John K. Valentine addressing a historic senior class listing 60 plus names including Rosetta Ahrens, Marion Allen, Dorothy Baker, and many others.
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Marengo
George Hunt
High School
John K. Valentine
Iowa
Rosetta Ahrens
Marion Allen
Dorothy Baker
Dorothy Bartusek
Michael McGivern
Peter McGivern
Carroll McKusker
Joyce Meyers
Lloyd Milling
Earl Misel
Lucille Mittelbach
Gene Morse
Harriet Morse
Margie Jane Paulson
Ethelmay Riley
Richard Schmidt
Wilma Seckel
Robert Simmons
Wilma Slaymaker
Helen Smith
Leo Sponar
Hermedine Taylor
Ralph Thomas
Marjorie Thompkins
Muriel Wort
Darlene Wagner
Marjorie Whitehead
Richard Wilson
Virgil Young
Memorial poppy contest winners named in Manchester
Beverly Mae Hickman won first place with Don Miller second and Betty Hansen third in the memorial poppy contest held in Manchester. The event was sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary and judged among sixth grade pupils.
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Manchester
Beverly Mae Hickman
Don Miller
Betty Hansen
American Legion Auxiliary
Iowa GOP Sets July 15 for State Convention in Des Moines
Iow a Republicans choose July 15 for the state convention and July 23 for the state judicial convention both in Des Moines. Iowa's 99 counties will send 3276 delegates to each convention with each county allocating 12 delegates at large plus one per 250 votes for the Republican governor candidate in 1936. Delegates to the conventions will be named at county meetings on July 2.
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Des Moines
INS
Carl Cook
Iowa
E. H. Birmingham
Democratic State Central Committee
Osceola County
Polk
Franklin Littell to Speak at Washington Anti War Congress
Mount Vernon native Franklin Littell, Cornell graduate and son of Dr and Mrs C F Littell, is among five keynote speakers at the National Anti War Congress in Washington D C. He chairs the youth division of the Keep America Out of War committee and recently testified before the House Naval Affairs Committee.
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Mount Vernon
Franklin Littell
C. F. Littell
Cornell College
National
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers of America
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Frederick J. Libby
National Council For the Prevention of
Hubert C. Herring
Congregational Christian Council For Social Action
Union Theological Seminary
New York City
Littell
New York
Johnson County Pupils To Graduate At Commencement
148 Johnson County rural eighth graders will receive diplomas at a Wednesday night graduation in the Methodist church. University of Iowa history professor H J Thornton will give the commencement address. County Supt Frank J Snider will award honor letters to 23 top scholars including John Opfell Alma Novotny Phyllis Franta Gordon Crain Ethel Mae Bowman Bernice Malatek Dean Williams Walter J Yoder Lois Breese Ralph Worrel Betty Smith Allan Sefovy Elaine Hopp Leo Kalous Gladys Fountain Jack Brown Gerald Schwimley Miriam Sleichter Ray Siegling Orianna Buchmayer Viola Fuhrmeister Ruth Schintler Pauline Fouchek. In Wyoming Elizabeth Marshall 16 daughter of Lyle and Mrs Marshall graduates tonight with attendance by great grandfather A N Reade 95 who also attended class night exercises Friday.
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Spreint
Iowa City
Johnson County
H. J. Thornton
University of Iowa History Department
Frank J. Snider
John Opfell
Alma Novotny
Phyllis Franta
Gordon Crain
Ethel Mae Bowman
Bernice Malatek
Dean Williams
Cattle rustler held in Vinton case linked to multiple states
Arthur Johnson of Sioux City, 39, jailed in Vinton for stealing nine steers from a Keystone area farm and confessing to thefts in five Iowa counties and four Illinois counties. Authorities say the spree began March 7, 1936 and extended to a Chicago arrest on May 14. His family accompanied him briefly. police from both states and state agents investigated.
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Bpccia
Gazette
Vinton
Arthur Johnson
Sioux City
Rudolph Niebel
Keystone
Iowa
Illinois
Leland A. Fry
Woodbury
Sac
Ida
Carroll
Benton
Whiteside
Bureau
Henry
Lee
Johnson
Finois
Chicago
Mercury Tumbles to 34 in Decorah as Cold Snap Hits Iowa
Des Moines AP reports frost during the night at Waterloo with warmer temps expected later. Unsettled Iowa skies Wednesday. Tuesday morning overcast except southeast. Light rain in southeast Iowa. Monday high reached 70 at Inwood. Low fell to 34 in Decorah Monday night.
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Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Waterloo
Iowa
Bureau
Inwood
Mercury
Decorah
Eight Selected For Torch Honor Society At Cornell College
Mount Vernon eight junior women at Cornell college were named to Torch honor society for senior women based on scholarship and leadership in activities. New members include Ethel Brown Edith Chambers Frances Porter Phyllis Hoffmann Gertrude Ann Holmgren Elizabeth Isaacs Jeannette MacDonald Betty Mount and Margaret Hedges among the graduating class.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Ethel Brown
Edith Chambers
Frances Porter
Oak Park
Phyllis Hoffman
Freeport
Gertrude Ann Holmgren
Davenport
Elizabeth Isaacs
Gillespie
Iowa Centennial Stamp Planned by Officials
J. R. Bahne of Eldora, head of the Iowa centennial committee, said he received a telegram from Sen. Clyde Herring indicating the Postmaster General Farley had directed issue of a stamp for the centennial with President Roosevelt's approval. He sought design ideas.
Oelwein Girl Edits UJU 1939 Peacock Yearbook
Margaret Hall of Oelwein was elected editor in chief of Upper Iowa University’s 1939 Peacock yearbook by the junior class. Staff selections include Wallace Oldfather business manager, May Dawn Smith literary editor, Lowell Lyford photo editor, Burdene Livingston art editor, Mary Williams class editor, Marjorie Pelton activities editor, Helen Brink athletics editor, Earl Harmon humor editor, and Dorothy Kasten humor editor among others.
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Fayette
Margaret Hall
Oelwein
Peacock
Upper Iowa University
Wallace Oldfather
Marion
May Dawn Smith
West Union
Lowell Lyford
Manley
Burdene Livingston
Janesville
Mary Williams
Fairbank
Marjorie Pelton
Aurora
Helen Brink
Earl Harmon
Hampton
Dorothy Kasten
Spring Valley
Minn
May Get Places On Election Boards
DES MOINES AP The attorney general's office issued an opinion stating the former labor party is eligible for representation on Iowa election boards in precincts where it won the largest or next largest vote in the last election.
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DES Moines
Labor Party
Iowa
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