Gas blast wrecks Cedar Rapids home. three injured
An early morning natural gas explosion at the Dorland residence 2514 A avenue NE Cedar Rapids injured three men and destroyed the bungalow valued at 5500. Vance Gardner Leo Dorland and Virgal McKasson suffered burns and lacerations with Gardner listed as the most seriously hurt. Firefighters contained the fire and the gas leak after the blast.
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Cedar Rapids
Marie J. Dorland
Avenue NE
Dorland
Vance Gardner
Leo Dorland
H Avenue NW
Virgal McKasson
St Luke's Hospital
McKasson
Gardner
Thirtieth Street
Red’ Gardner
C. W. Hiserote
Gardner Brown
Carl Dueser Gazette
Howard Heathman
A Avenue NE
British Smile At Fuehrer's Treaty Threat
British naval quarters greet Hitler’s threat to denounce the Anglo German naval pact with optimism that Britain can maintain a three to one advantage over Germany. Officials say denouncement would not be legal and Poland seeks clarity on Britain’s defense pledge, amid questions over Warsaw’s frontiers and Danzig.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Hitler
Ronald Keyes
House of Commons
Poland
London Times
Great Britain
Raczynski
Chamberlain
Warsaw
Germany
Free
Danzig
Subpoenas for Irish Sweepstake Winners Test Case
Justice officials said 72 American winners in the Irish hospital sweepstakes may be subpoenaed to testify before grand juries as part of efforts to break up a Los Angeles ring of ticket importers. The move aims to trace distributors from winners to importers and could be used by other offices if successful.
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Washington
Justice Department
Los Angeles
U. S
Benjamin Harrison
California
Harrison
Post Office
Post Office Department
Bing Crosby to Borrow to Pay Income Tax Says Brother
Hollywood star Bing Crosby, cited as among filmdoms richest men, reportedly must borrow to cover his first quarter income tax. Brother Larry says Bing has not cleared a dime in two years despite earnings up to 540000 a year and 3500 per broadcast.
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Bing Crosby
Hollywood
Filmland
Larry
Bing
California
German flyer Captain dies in test flight crash
Berlin AP reports Captain Baron Rudolph von Moreau aged 29, a German long distance flyer, was killed in a test flight crash. He served on the Condor crew that completed the Berlin to New York flight last August.
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Berlin
Baron Rudolph von Moreau
Condor
New York
Mob slays convicted killer after jail raid in Florida
Miles W. Brown, jailed for first degree murder in the Roy Van Kleeck case, was taken by four to five masked men at about 3 am and shot dead beside a country road. Van Kleeck’s body had been found in a bayou near Panama City on Jan 16. Authorities recovered $1,300 from Brown. Jailer Goodwin reported the raid and said one assailant told him the law did not do justice.
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Panama City
Fla
Miles W. Brown
Roy van Kleeck
Mercy
van Kleeck
John Scott
Brown
Johnny Goodwin
Here
Jacksonville
Goodwin
Mussolini tells Capua peasants space must be provided
Premier Mussolini told a Capua crowd that peasants lacking space for their families would need someone to provide it. He concluded a three day southern Italy tour by departing on a special train to Rome.
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Naples
Italy
Mussolini
Capua
Rome
France And England Unite To Defend Crumbs
A 1939 column by Arthur Bugs Baer argues that France and England secretly unite to defend small gains. The piece uses satirical metaphor about appetite and invasion, warning of desperation and tense World War II era tensions.
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France
England
Baer
United States Recognizes Franco Regime in Spain
The United States announced formal recognition of the Franco government in Spain. Secretary of State Hull said diplomatic relations would be established unconditionally, while Roosevelt lifted the arms embargo to Spain. Names considered for diplomatic posts included Claude G. Bowers and Jefferson Caffrey.
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Washington
United States
Spain
Cordell Hull
Burgos
Hull
Claude G. Bowers
U. S
Bowers
State Department
Roosevelt
Europe
Jefferson Caffrey
Brazil
Fernando de Los Rios
de Los Rios
Juan de Cardenas
Franco
New York
Cardenas
Paris
Congress
Russia
Hitler Wilhelms Haven speech cut off on short wave
Two sentences of Chancellor Hitler’s Wilhelms haven address were broadcast to the United States and England before the apparatus failed. London officials said the British and US networks cut the program to prevent a rebroadcast to Germany. Berlin said the interruption stemmed from a technical disturbance on German facilities.
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Berlin
Hitler
Wilhelmshaven
United States
England
London
British Broadcasting Corporation
National Broadcasting Company
Germany
Schenectady, N. Y
John Sheehan
General Electric
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
The Middle of the Road Address on Political Ditches
R Boyd of Cedar Rapids delivered a well received Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board address titled The Middle of the Road He urged avoiding political extremes and ditch fights and keeping to the middle to reach goals He cited Jesus Thoreau and Hegel to warn that history repeats itself when parties move to extremes.
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R. Boyd
Cedar Rapids
Jesus
Hegel
Thoreau
Hitler Warns Britain as Von Tirpitz Sails In 1939 Naval Threat
Adolf Hitler addressed 50,000 followers at Wilhemshaven after launching the battleship Von Tirpitz. He condemned Britain and France and linked their actions to the 1935 Anglo German naval treaty while pledging Germany will not be worn down. He warned against encirclement and touted German readiness for future conflict as he referenced the Munich pact and Poland.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Poland
North Sea
Britain
Fuehrer
France
England
Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Chamberlain
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Nuremberg
France Protests Japan Seizure of Spratly Islands
Paris officials said France would lodge a protest after Japan announced it had annexed the Spratly island group in the Pacific, a claim the French had formalized in 1933. The Spratlys lie about 700 miles from Manila.
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Paris
Japan
Spratly
Pacific
Manila
Paine and Hope Suspended by New York Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange suspended Stephen Paine for three years and Frank R. Hope for six months. Both are partners at Paine, Webber and Company, a firm with offices in 19 cities.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Stephen Paine
Frank R. Hope
Big Stock Exchange
of Paine, Webber and Company
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Cedar Rapids News
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Warm Springs
White House
German Justice
DR. Newton
New York Exchange
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