Explosion Glasses Cedar Rapids Home Fights Fire
An early morning natural gas explosion and ensuing fire wrecked the Dorland home at 2514 Avenue NE Cedar Rapids injuring three men Vance Gardner Leo Dorland and Virgil McKasson by noon all were hospitalized with burns Lacerations and bruises The blast blew away the front and caused the walls to bulge and collapse with the roof falling in Firefighters contained the blaze and a brick chimney toppled afterward Mrs Dorland prepared to move and recounted the incident while neighbors and rescuers saved two kittens and a Pekinese named Pogo The loss is estimated at 7500 with the bungalow valued at 3500.
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Cedar Rapids
Marie J. Dorland
Avenue NE
Dorland
Vance Gardner
Leo Dorland
He Avenue NW
Virgil McKasson
St. Luke's Hospital
McKasson
Gardner
Thirtieth Street
Red’ Gardner
C. W. Sliscrote
Nousce
Carl Dueser Gazette
Howard Heathman
Britain Boosts Confidence as Hitler Threatens Naval Pact
London AP report notes smiles in British naval quarters as experts express confidence Britain can keep its three to one advantage over Germany. London says the Anglo German treaty cannot be unlawful to denounce. Poland seeks clarification on Britain's pledge to defend Warsaw and the response to Prime Minister Chamberlain’s Friday statement remains undisclosed.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Litler
Foreign Office
Ronald Keyes
House of Commons
Poland
London Times
Great Britain
Count Raczynski
Chamberlain
Warsaw
Germany
Free
Danzig
Hitler
Subpoenas Issued In Irish Sweepstakes Case
U S Attorney in Los Angeles subpoenas seventy two Irish sweepstakes winners as part of a probe into a Los Angeles ticket import ring. Officials say winners may be asked to name sellers and, through them, reveal importers while testing a new grand jury tactic.
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Justice Department
Los Angeles
U. S
Benjamin Harrison
California
Harrison
Post Office
Post Office Department
Bing Crosby borrows to pay income tax in Hollywood
Hollywood AP report says Bing Crosby, among filmland's wealthiest, must borrow money to pay his first quarter income tax. His brother Larry says Crosby hasn't cleared a dime in two years, despite earnings of up to 540000 annually and 3500 per broadcast, with 80 percent of income going to taxes and living expenses.
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Bing Crosby
Filmland
Larry
Bing
California
German flyer dies in test flight crash
Berlin AP reports Capt. Baron Rudolph von Moreau a 29 year old German distance flier was killed when the Condor crash during a test flight Friday He was part of the Condor crew that completed a Berlin to New York flight last August.
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Berlin
Baron Rudolph von Moreau
Condor
New York
Mob frees and kills convicted murderer in Panama City
Miles W. Brown, condemned for first degree murder in the Roy Van Kleeck case, is shot dead by masked men after being taken from jail by a small group. Sheriff says four to five assailants overpowered the jailer before 3 am, body found on a country road hours later. Van Kleeck’s body was found in a bayou earlier in January. Police recovered $1,300 believed stolen from the victim. The jailer reported one attacker warned he would not see justice, but they would.
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Fla
Miles W. Brown
Roy van Kleeck
Mercy
van Klececk
John Scott
Brown
Johnny Goodwin
van Kleeck
Bayou
New Here
Jacksonville
Goodwin
Mussolini Says Peasants Need More Space in Capua
Premier Mussolini addressed a Capua crowd saying that since peasants lack space for families, somebody will have to provide it. He departed Capua on a special train for Rome after completing a three day southern Italy tour.
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Italy
Mussolini
Capua
Rome
France And England Unite To Defend Crumbs
A 1939 column by Arthur Bugs Back jokes about Franco British unity over crumbs, warns of a desperate figure behind a wall, and uses a satirical tone to compare allied defiance to a patron challenging a saloon bouncer.
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France
England
Baer
Arthur
Bugs
United States Recognizes Franco Regime in Spain
The United States announced diplomatic recognition of the Franco government in Spain. Secretary of State Hull said normal relations would be established unconditionally, and the arms embargo was lifted by President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. Names discussed for ambassadors included Claude Gowers and Jefferson Caffrey.
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United States
Spain
Cordell Hull
Burgos
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
White House
Hull
Claude G. Bowers
U. S
Bowers
State Department
Europe
Jefferson Caffrey
Brazil
Fernando de Los Rios
de Los Rios
Juan de Cardenas
Franco
New York
Cardenas
Paris
Congress
Russia
Null
Hitler Wilhelms haven Speech Broadcast Cut Off
Two sentences of Hitler's Wilhelms haven address from Saturday were aired by short wave to the United States and England before the line failed. London officials blamed Nazi fear of a Germany rebroadcast and Germany said the interruption was technical.
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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
German Justice
Great Britain
The Middle of the Road Sermon on Civic Ditches
R Boyd of Cedar Rapids delivered a Real Estate Board address titled The Middle of the Road. He warned that extremists on both sides trap society in ditches and urged sober, balanced conduct to avoid such ends.
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R. Boyd
Cedar Rapids
Jesus
Hegel
Thoreau
Hitler Denounces Naval Pact at Wilhelmshaven Rally
Adolf Hitler addressed 50 000 followers at Wilhelms haven vowing to resist encirclement and challenging Britain over the 1935 naval treaty. He defended Germany’s rearmament and warned that foes must not “tire” him out while pledging to counter any attempt to force concessions.
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Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Poland
North Sea
Britain
Fuehrer
France
England
Hitler
France Plans Protest Over Japan Seizure of Spratlys
Paris reports the French government will protest Japan's claimed occupation of the Spratly island group in the Pacific. The islands had been French possessions since 1933, but Japan announced on Friday that it had annexed them.
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Paris
Japan
Spratly
Pacific
Manila
Pair 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 major firm with offices in 19 cities.
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New York Stock Exchange
Stephen Paine
Frank R. Hope
Big Stock Exchange
of Paine, Webber and Company
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