Martial law proclaimed across the Netherlands in decree
The Hague AP reports that martial law was proclaimed throughout the Netherlands by royal decree effective immediately after Premier De Geer announced to anchor the government. External and internal tensions prompted the move to deter foreign intervention, with safeguards to minimize civil administration disruption and to empower rapid military response. De Geer rejected accepting protection from outside powers and said talks with any belligerent would be out of the question.
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Martia
Netherlands
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Omeland
de Geer
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S.uch
Maria
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Hague
Holland
Accused Of Faulty Brakes After Crash Injuring One
Police charged T Wolfe 39 with driving with faulty brakes after a crash at Second Ave and Second St SW at 1015 pm Friday injured Carl Schillig 4 of 505 Ninth St SW. Schillig said Wolfe's northbound car struck his westbound vehicle. Highway Patrolman Clapp, who investigated, tested Wolfe's brakes and found them in bad condition. Mrs Ruth J Hodge 73 of 713 11th St SE suffered a minor ankle raise after her daughter Mrs Durland 26 and Charles H Young 61 collided near the police station. Neither driver was held.
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Second Street
Carl Schillig
Ninth Street
T. Wolfe
Eighth Treet
Schillig
Second Avenue
Wolfe
Parolman Clapp
Vicnity
Accient
Ruth J. Hodge
11Th Street
Mis
Jer Durland
Charles H. Young
Colin Hotel
Conch Avenue
Police nab Anamosa man for reckless driving
Anamosa man Jorge Knutsen, 21, faces reckless driving charges after police spotted him speeding on C Street SE between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. He was arrested at 10 55 a.m. after not posting $105 bail. A companion, H E McLaughlin, not held.
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Jorge Knutsen
Anamosa
Sixth Avenue
Third Street
Apt
Steve Stolba
Knutsenad
Funcke
Parris
C Street
Eleventh
Twelfth Avenues
Kmnutsen
Iowans Vote For Logan-Walter Bill
In Washington the Iowa delegation largely supported the Logan-Walter uniform procedure bill with a 280 to 97 tally. Gilchrist was not recorded as voting.
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Washington
Iowa
Rep
Gilchrist
House
Deacons Demand Specifics From The Colored Church Pastor
The deacons of a colored church pressed their pastor to resign citing vague sermons. The minister argued his rights, while the deacons urged concrete, actionable preaching. The piece critiques broad crusades and calls for precise, local accountability in sermons.
Gypsy Fortuneteller’s War End Claim Partly Correct
Arthur Bug Baer notes a gypsy fortune teller once predicted the war would end by October and states she is partly right. He mocks the guess, comparing it to building a dinner from a wishbone, and comments on democracy backed by a strong navy and pari mutuel machines.
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Gypsy
Navy Bill Passes Senate Paving Warship Build Up
The Senate approved a 963 million navy appropriation to start two 45,000 ton super-dreadnoughts and 17 other warships. Passage was 63 to 4, with only Capper Danaher Johnson and Reed voting no. The bill funds aircraft and facilities for Hornet, four battleships feared for Japan, and calls for an eventual broader naval expansion to keep a 5-5-3 balance among US Britain and Japan. The measure returns to the House for acceptance.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur Capper
Kan
John A. Danaher
Conn
Edwin C. Johnson
Colo
Clyde M. Reed
House
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Japan
Navy
Stark
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Congress
United States
Great Britain
Vinson
Hull Denies All Political Aims
Washington AP Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated that he is not a candidate for any political office. He urged friends and associates to avoid actions suggesting otherwise and reaffirmed his position of staying out of the political race. Hull previously denied seeking political advancement.
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Washington (Ap
Cordell Hull
Hull
Press Editor Warns Contempt Ruling Affects Freedom
Ralph Coghlan editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch warned at the 18th annual editors’ meeting that if his contempt conviction is upheld it could trigger a nationwide drive to curb press freedom. He criticized court powers as European in origin and urged reform of judiciary and criminal law to lessen journalistic criticism.
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Washington (Ap
Ralph Coghlan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri
Coghlan
American Society of Newspaper Editors
St. Louis
California
James M. Thomson
New Orleans Item-Tribune
Louisiana
Huey
Soviet Leaders Fear Allied Attack Says Deuel
United Press staff correspondent Norman B. Deuel told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that Soviet leaders fear a potential Allied attack while covering the Russo Finnish war. The remarks hint at strategic concerns amid wartime tensions and ongoing alliances.
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Washington
Norman B. Deuel
United Press
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Rugg Books Flayed In High Twelve Club And D.A.R. Talks
In Cedar Rapids and other cities, Textbooks by Harold O. Rugg are assailed by High Twelve club members at the Roosevelt hotel. The critique, by Harry E. Boyd, questions the authors’ emphasis on change and the darker side of American history, urging open adult discussion before teaching children.
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Rugg
D.A.R
Harold O. Rugg
Cedar Rapids
High Twelve Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Harry E. Boyd
The
Gazette
Boyd
Spending for Presidential Hopefuls Probed by Senate Panel
The Senate campaign investigating committee ordered inquiries into complaints of excessive spending for presidential aspirants. Chair Gillette said sources described money spent in several states, with Nebraska noted for inadequate specifics. A Missouri patronage claim may trigger subcommittee hearings. investigators already sent to Kansas.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Investigating
Gillette
Senate
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Druggist Recoups After Matt and Jeff Robbery
E R Hayes of Council Bluffs recovers all but a dime from a Matt and Jeff robbery. Detectives say Harold Strauser and Louis Hofer admitted stealing about 45 dollars from Hayes and 8.50 from an Omaha drug store and refunded the money after capture. A bank draft for 45 dollars was sent to Council Bluffs police, and 8.50 to Omaha police. Hayes calls the total loss ten cents, the price of the bank draft.
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Cedar Rapids
Council Bluffs
E. R. Hayes
Matt
Jeff
Omaha
Harold E. Strauser
Louis Hoter
Earl Stanley
Stanley
Fort Street
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Strauser
Hofer
Hayes
C. A. Bangs
John Psznowski
Suspend Girl Who Balked At Shower
In Alhambra California 16 year old Joan Lawrence was suspended from Mark Keppel High School for refusal to undress and bathe in communal showers with other girls. Principal Lawrence B White cited continued willful disobedience and open defiance of teachers for not taking part in physical education and showering afterward.
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Alhambra
Calif
Joan Lawrence
Mark Keppel High School
Lawrence B. White
Propaganda Danger Warned by Mrs Emery at D A R Congress
Mrs Imogen B Emery of Cedar Rapids national defense chair for the D A R warned at the forty ninth Continental Congress that the U S must defend against peace propaganda as well as against war propaganda. She urged vigilance against subversive groups aiming to disband ROTC CMT C and CCC and urged examination of all organizations and church peace policies. She said citizens must be educated about their background and the meaning of citizenship beyond price, and noted we are in a war not of our making requiring rearmament to defend our life and freedoms against totalitarian regimes led by Hitler and Stalin. The article notes the piece continues on Page 2 Col 4.
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Colored Church
United Feature Syndicate. Inc
Boyd
Rugg
Washington
United States
Harold Rugg
Columbia University
Archibald FE. Stevenson
New York
National Defense
Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Imogene Emery
Cedar Rapids
Imogen B. Emery
Daughters of the American Revolution
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CCC
Hitler
Stalin
Trondheim
Norway
Oslo
Aamar
Elverum
Glommen
Tangen
British War Office
Noreway
Norwegian consul E H Hobe dies in ignorance of war
E H Hobe, 80, Norwegian consul in St Paul, died Friday unaware his homeland had become a battleground. Heart ailment kept family from informing him of the war news.
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ST. Paul
E. H. Hobe
Welcome Spring Weather Returns in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids enjoys springlike warmth with skies clear and temperatures rising from 34 at 6 am to 54 by 10 am. The day peaks near 64 afternoon before dropping to 42 by evening, per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Polish Sub Orzel Sinks German Troop Transport
London dispatch reports the Polish submarine Orzel, which fled an Estonian port at the outbreak of war to join the British fleet, is credited with sinking the German troop transport Rio de Janeiro in Norwegian waters with an estimated 150 lives lost.
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INS
Germany
Orzel
Rio de Janeiro
Oberlin Dean Prospect For SUI Presidency
Oberlin college dean Carl Wittke, 47, of Oberlin Ohio, is named as a possible successor to Dr Eugene A Gilmore as president of the University of Iowa. Shenandoah state board officials interviewed Wittke after trips east, with other candidates including Albert Jorgenson of Connecticut. Wittke has served as Oberlin dean and professor since 1937 and was a former lecturer at Iowa in 1924 and 1925.
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INS
Carl Wittke
Oberlin College
Oberlin Ohio
Eugene A Gilmore
University of Town
WW. Keenan
State Board of Education
Albert Jorgenson
University of Connecticu
Wittke
University of Iowa
Two Nabbed Here For Marengo Theft
Two men admitted to police that they took and later sold a heavy-duty drill from the Malcolm Chevrolet company in Marengo. Dudley Bauman and W. C. Starr were arrested by Detectives Condon and Marshall and turned over to Sheriff Chris Engelbert to answer larceny charges. The drill theft was linked after a caller reported a similar sale under the name W. C. Cooper.
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Feria
Muarenen
Dudley Bauman
Oakland Road
W.C. Starr
Seventh Street
Condon and
Marshall
Chris Engelbert
Iowa
Malcolm Chevrolet Company
Marengo
Engelbert
Detective Bureau
W. C. Cooper
Starr
Bauman
Nazis Ready To Observe 51st Anniversary Of Hitler
BERLIN (OP) Germany will observe the 51st birthday of Adolf Hitler with flags on buildings and a reserved program. Rudolf Hess will address German youth from a Berlin factory, urging devotion to the war effort. Gifts to the fuehrer will be scrap metal melted for arms). Hitler remains in apparent good health, exercises little, and endures strict rations. His popularity is hard to gauge though his image drew applause at a cinema showing the invasion of Poland.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Hitler
Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Poland
Soviet Ship Seizes Jap Fishing Boats
A Russian patrol ship fired on four Japanese fishing boats near Seishin in northern Korea and seized them. No casualties were reported.
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TOKIO
Domei
Seishin
Korea
British forces claim gains in Narvik and Trondheim fronts
British expeditionary forces reportedly drive back German detachments on two northern fronts in Norway with reports of a landing near Trondheim and British containment near Narvik. Stockholm dispatches indicate German movements toward Namsos from Trondheim, while Oslo defenses hold north of the capital.
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Stockholm
Narvik
Namsos
Trondheim
Peter C Rhodes
United Press
Luleaa
Sweden
Bodoe
Dag=ens Nyheter
Leandon
Exchange Telegraph
Tromsoe
Berlin
War in Brief Clashes Mark Norway Front
AP dispatches report a first clash between British and German forces in Norway with simultaneous signs of broader engagement. British expeditionary forces move toward Trondheim as Germany hints at naval and air actions near Narvik and potential submarine losses. Germany faces Balkan suspicions while Holland denies outside aid as martial law spreads.
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Germany
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