Confessions in Hedrick shooting case implicate hitch-hikers
Glen Jones of Ottumwa and Mrs. De Los Derr of Stockton Iowa signed statements admitting Derr shot R L Scott a 65 year old solicitor from Hedrick Ia Scott was wounded in the neck after picking up two hitch hikers near Ottumwa The pair were arrested in Columbus Junction after Scott’s car was found and later identified by a garage owner from a police radio tip Derr denies shooting and claims the car was given by a stranger Jones says they intended to steal the car and drive to Chicago Sheriff Pickard will decide charges based on Scott’s condition and evidence from the statements
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Keosauqua
Roy Pickard
Glen Jones
Ottumwa
de Los Derr
Stockton
R. L. Scott
Hedrick
Scott
Jones
Pickard
Derr
Illinois
Winfield
W. S. Letts
Columbus Junction
Clell Hawkins
Louisa County
Glenn Hawkins
Clell
van Buren County
Batavia
Seeit
Wales Team Shows Iowa Girls How To Play Hockey
A Wales girls hockey team defeated the University of Iowa 11 to 0 in Iowa City. The Welsh attackers outplayed the Hawkeyettes in every phase as Iowa failed to threaten the goal. The Wales defense held strong and kept their own net clean.
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Wales
Iowa
Iowa City
University of Iowa
United States
Hawkeyettes
Bennett Church Presents The Challenge of the Cross Pageant
Seven Bennett Evangelical members will present a pageant titled The Challenge of the Cross at Wheatland Evangelical Church on Sunday evening with roles played by June Bentrott Blanche Rixe Helen Gottesch Hilda Leck Martha Motz Leora Conrad and Verna Rixe.
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Bennett
Bennett Evangelical Church
Wheatland Evangelical Church
June Bentrott
Blanche Rixe
Helen Gottesch
Hilda Leck
Martha Motz
Leora Conrad
Verna Rixe
Corn Monument Lights at Iowa Homecoming
Iowa City readies for the twenty fifth annual alumni celebration with a giant pep meeting and a forecast crowd of up to 40 000 for the Iowa Illinois game. The engineering college erected a corn monument in the form of the Empire State building using about 25 bushels of corn and red ear lettering.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Illinois
Empire State Building
Engineering College
Johnson County Families Receive Rehabilitation Aid in 1936
Twenty four Johnson county families totaling 136 people farming 3000 acres received rehabilitation loans in 1936. Floyd Beck, rehabilitation supervisor for the resettlement administration, announced the loans carry five percent interest and are secured by liens on livestock and equipment. Farmers must repay like other loans, often choosing loans to avoid quitting farming.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Floyd Beck
Resettlement Administration
Beck
Rains Push Macbride Lake Toward Spillway Reach
Lake Macbride in Macbride state park rises about one inch daily after recent rains. It nears its permanent 28 foot depth at the dam, projected to reach level within three weeks as spillway approaches.
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SOLON
Macbride
Macbride State Park
Rally at St. Pauls Reformed Church draws regional delegates
The Young Peoples league of Wheatland hosts about 300 delegates from Eastern Iowa Evangelical and Reformed churches and the County Interdenominational Union for a Rally Day at St. Pauls Reformed Church. Attendees come from Rock Island Muscatine London Clarence Tipton Lone Tree Wilton Junction Conesville Bennett Maquoketa Monticello Wheatland and Clinton.
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Wheatland
Young Peoples League of
Evangelical and Reformed Church of
Iowa
County Interdenominational Union
St. Paul’s
Wendel Lohmann
Ruth Bicknese
Paul Riedesel
Elmer Homrieghausen
Indiana
H. G. Homrieghausen
Donald Peterson
Kathryn Guenther
Three Hurt In Crash At Mechanicsville
Three people were injured in a head on crash on highway 30 near Walshire corner east of Mechanicsville at 4 p.m. E. G. Craft of Kansas City and Val DeWald of Mechanicsville drove the colliding cars. Passengers Bertha Eggert of Clarence sustained skull lacerations and arm fracture. Both drivers had chest injuries. All injured were taken to St Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids.
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Mechanicsville
Walshire
Highway 30
Here
E. G. Craft
Kansas City
Val DeWald
Bertha Eggert
Clarence
DeWald
Craft
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Couple At Monticello Observe Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Dan Smith celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on a Wednesday with a family noon dinner. They are Virginia natives, married October 14 1886, lived in Dayton and Augusta before Iowa, then Viola, then Monticello since 1889. The couple has six children: Mrs George Cartright Monticello. Mrs Jerry Roubinek Omaha Neb. William Smith Cedar Rapids. Mrs Ernest Ratliff Marion. Mrs Alvin Vaverka Cedar Rapids. Galen Smith Monticello.
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Monticello
Dan Smith
George Cartright
Jerry Roubinek
Omaha, Neb
William Smith
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Ratliff
Marion
Alvin Vaverka
Galen Smith
Fall Coloring Holding Up In N E Iowa Hills
Hundreds of visitors are coming to McGregor to see the fall colors. With no wind or killing frost, foliage holds unusually well and the hills should stay vibrant for a week or more. Iowa residents are driving to Prairie du Chien to view the Mississippi bluffs from both sides. A trip up the Yellow River valley to Waukon with a detour to Luster Heights offers twenty miles of Mississippi views.
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the Gazette
Mcgregor
Prairie du Chien
Mississippi River
Yellow River
Waukon
Luster Heights
Mississippi
Postville Commercial Club names officers and committees
Officers elected for the coming year include President C C Searls Vice President C C Hoth Secretary Milo Meyer and Treasurer L O Beucher The meeting lists committee members across Boy Scout Civic improvement conventions publicity entertainment housing industries membership speaking rural co operation roads special days celebration solicitation and Christmas decorations with numerous local names.
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Postville
Commercial Club
C. C. Searls
C. C. Hoth
Milo Meyer
L. O. Beucher
R. J. Carroll
H. D. Cole
A. J. Palas
M. W. Kiesau
C. D. Lowell
Ralph Allen
Willard Schutte
Elmer Sander
T. R. Collins
Roger Hubbell
W. A. Kneeland
Earl Henry
Boies Capper
L. L. Hill
Dr. R. F. Topliff
Louis O. Koevenig
Edgar Riser
Charles F. Reincke
Earl Abernethy
Bert Tuttle
J. B. Steele
Burr Cook
Charles Boucher
C. A. Riveland
Lloyd Bruce
W. J. Klingbeil
Ed F. Schroeder
J. T. Humphrey
George Hein
L. O. Boucher
J. L. Gregg
F. H. Luhman
F. J. Miller
George Kohlmann
Leon Birdsell
John Falk
Leonard Casten
C. C. Dravis
Erwin Klingbeil
H. E. Roberts
J. S. Steele
J. A. Schroeder
Kenneth Schultz
Ira E. Smith
R. M. Hecker
J. C. Weihe
M. C. Deering
L. D. Walter
Frank Severn
J. W. Myers
W. J. Clark
Louis Schutte
Gustav Dietsch
A. C. Webster
Fred Miller
Lover C. Schultz
C. C. Sander
Bert E. Tuttle
H. B. Thomson
Joe Hecker
E. A. Hoth
William J. Klingbeil
E. C. Marston
W. H. Burling
Edward Kozelka
Lee Bowers
L. W. Thoma
L. F. Putnam
Kenneth Sanders
Independence Woman Named State Nurse Leader
Mrs Nellie Holmes of Davenport superintendent of nurses at St Luke s hospital was named first vice president and president elect of the Iowa State Association of Registered Nurses. Sister Mary Thomas of Council Bluffs was elected second vice president with Mrs Margaret Stoddard Parker of Independence as secretary and Miss Frances Pedersen of Dubuque re elected treasurer. Canada produced 321 753 tons of salt during 1934.
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Council Bluffs
Nellie Holmes
Davenport
St. Luke’s Hospital
Iowa State Association of Registered Nurses
Alma E. Hartz
Des Moines
Mary Thomas
Mercy Hospital
Margaret Stoddard Parker
Independence
Frances Pedersen
Dubuque
Wilson outlines two year program for Iowa governor race
Republican candidate George A. Wilson presented a two year plan including tax relief on homesteads in towns and rural areas, compulsory use of Iowa coal in state institutions, lower farm mortgage rates, local relief, and general tax cuts. He attacked the current administration as scandal ridden and pledged to halt exploitation if elected. He cited Sioux City corruption, $125000 waste in state warrant sales, liquor commission issues, and liquor seal giveaways. Speech in Carroll featured supporting figures and party organizers.
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Wilson
Sioux City
State Liquor Center Commission
Iowa Weather Forecast Sets Stage for Saturday Football
The weatherman urged large attendance for Saturday games with a forecast of partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures. Iowa reported partly cloudy conditions with highs near 78 in Sioux City and Omaha, about ten degrees above normal.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Omaha
Farmer John Bishop Hangs Self Near North English
Special to The Gazette reports John Bishop 35, a tenant on the Virgil Wil e son farm four miles west of North English, hanged himself in a garage Thursday. Neighbors found the body after a search. No reason was learned. Bishop is survived by his wife.
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John Bishop
Virgil Wileson
North English
Bishop
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