Danzig Leader Charges Poland War Agitation
Danzig Nazi leader Albert Forster warned Poland against war threats in a speech at Langemarkt after a Berchtesgaden meeting with Hitler. He pledged to resist any Polish attack with full German support and to reunite Danzig with the Reich. Poland warned by radio to moderate rhetoric as border tensions flare after a Polish shots incident.
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Danzig
Germany
Poland
Albert Forster
Fihhrey
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Forster
Langemarkt
Reich
Motherland
Fuehrer
Will Spenk
Herr Forster
Marshal Smigly-Rydz
Mann posts 1000 dollar cash bond after not guilty plea
Mike Mann, a race bookie, pled not guilty before Judge C. J. Haas on a pool selling charge and posted a $1,000 cash bond in Court Clerk Ed Lundquist's office. He was released from custody by police, with authorities alleging bets were taken by telephone from his hotel room for months and paid out at several service stations. L. W. Anderson denies his station at Eighth Avenue and Third Street SE was used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Haas
Mike Mann
Ed Lundquist
Mann
L. W. Anderson
Eighth Avenue
Third Street
Iowa corn yield forecast raised to record level
Iowa's July outlook lifted to 47.5 bushels per acre, up 1.5 from the prior high. The forecast harvest reaches 465 072,000 bushels, 1 percent below the 1938 crop, with 1939 acreage 3 percent below last year and district quality varying from 84 to 99 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Leslie M. Cail
Federal Agricultural Economics Statistician
Carl
Agriculture forecast shows 1938 corn crop near 2.459 billion bu
U S Department of Agriculture on Aug 1 predicts a 1938 corn crop of about 2.4598 billion bushels, down from 2.5423 billion last year and above the 1928-37 average. A marketing quota referendum could hinge on August weather and Sept 10 forecasts, with total supply seen around 2.809 billion bushels including carryover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Japs Protests Over Tientsin Interference Rejected
Asahi reports Tokyo rejects American and French representations on Japanese interference with foreign business in Tientsin. Dooman informs Tokyo that the United States seeks to protect economic interests amid the Anglo Japanese dispute. Britain is accused of stalling as Japan threatens to exit the two power conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TOKIO
Tientsin
Foreign Office
Asahi
Eugene N. Dooman
United States
America
Washington
Britain
Japan
Keeps Husband In Cellar 3 Years
In Elizabeth New Jersey a court heard John Spugani say he has lived in the basement since 1936 after being banished by his wife. Judge Waldman ordered the wife to provide a bedroom and meals for her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
N. J
Waldman
John Spugani
Jenkins Abandons 24 Hour Salt Flat Run
Ab Jenkins of Utah halted his second 24 hour speed run on the Bonneville Salt Flats due to mechanical trouble in his 750 horsepower Mormon Meteor III after a little over three hours. He had just set a new record by averaging 174.2 miles per hour over fifty miles.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
Ab Jenkins
Salt Flats
Jenkins
Iron Lung Prisoner Fred Snite Marries Ohio Bride
Fred B. Snite jr a 29 year old man who has lived in an iron lung since infan tile paralysis in China three years ago wed Teresa Larkin 25 of Dayton Ohio The ceremony at St Luke's Catholic church in Chicago was performed by Rev John W Morrison The couple plans a Niagara Falls honeymoon and Fred continues to be a prisoner in the 900 pound tank while doctors report his respiratory muscles have improved enough to allow longer periods outside the boiler with lighter equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fred B. Snite, Jr
China
Teresa Larkin
Dayton
Ohio
Niagara Falls
Fred
Larkin
Teresa
Snite
Martin Hogan
River Forest
Hogan
Miss Larkin
156 Cattle Entered for All Iowa Fair Sets Record
A record 1 156 cattle have been entered for the All Iowa fair opening Sunday, nearly doubling last year’s total. Cattle arrive Friday from many regions. 612 head are in junior livestock and 411 club divisions. Holsteins lead dairy entries with 123, followed by Jerseys and Shorthorns at 105 each. Top exhibitors include Alfred M Paper, E S Baughman, Irvin F Meyer, Wesley Azel tine, Howie Lang and Sons, Harry Cornick among others. Judging dairy cattle runs Aug 14 to Aug 17 with species listed per day. Junior beef heifers and baby beeves judged Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junio
Alfred M . Paper
Stockton
E. S Baughman
Bloomfield
Irvin F. Meyer
McGregor
Wesley H. Azeltine
LaPorte City
Howie Lang
Seize Slot Machines on Davenport Ferry Raid
Davenport police under Chief Reed Phillips raided the Davenport Rock Island ferry on the Iowa side. Anthony Catalino of Rock Island, proprietor, was arrested for possession of gambling devices after six slot machines were seized. He was released on a $500 bond as more than 100 people watched the raid on the upper deck during a bingo game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Reed Phillips
Catalina
Plans Sub Strato Flight From New York To Paris
Howard Hughes former world flyer has applied to the civil aeronautics authority for permission to attempt a sub stratosphere flight from New York to Paris. The request was learned from an authoritative source Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Howard Hughes
Texas
Civil Aeronautics Authority
New York
Paris
The Sorrow of Youth and the Healing Power of Experience
George Eliot and Kipling anecdotes frame a reflection on youth sorrow and adult resilience. The piece argues youth suffers acutely, but patience and shared experience help endure and transform pain into understanding, with adults guiding youth through tact and sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Eliot
Kipling
Wat Feature Syndicate
Three Die In Auto Train Crash West Of Dayton
Three people were killed instantly when a car collided with a Chicago and North Western motor train at a grade crossing two miles west of Dayton Iowa. Victims included Elmer F. Davis of Fort Dodge and Mrs Elsie Welch and her son William Welch from Evansville. Coroner J Robert Forbes cited tall corn obscuring the vehicle’s view of the tracks. Dayton lies about 20 miles south of Fort Dodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Chicago and North Western
Here
Elmer F. Davis
Fort Dodge
Elsie Welch
Evansville
William Welch
Welch
Davis
O JT. Davis
Des Moines
Webster County
J. Robert Forbes
Dan Knuppenberg
Idaho
Italy bans Time magazine over Mussolini article
In Rome officials ban Time magazine until further notice over a July 24 article on Countess Edda Ciano daughter of Mussolini and wife of Foreign Minister Count Ciano. Ban also applies to Esquire Collier's and the New Republic for similar alleged anti fascist content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Time
Italy
Edda Ciano
Mussolini
Count Ciano
Ministry of Popular Culture
Esquire
Collier's
The
New Republic
Child Tumor Victim Dies After Seeming Recovery
Seven year old Joan Menzel of Oldham South Dakota died in New Rochelle hospital as the second Wilm’s tumor patient to succumb after deep X ray therapy gave apparent recovery. She was brought to the hospital May 27 and returned July 24 for further treatment after neighbors schoolmates and a Dover Delaware manufacturer helped provide airplane passage.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Joan Menzel
Oldham
S D
Wilm
Dover
Del
Armament Order Placed Exceeds One Hundred Million Dollars
The War Department awarded contracts totaling more than 100 million dollars for expansion of U.S. forces. The package includes 85.98 million dollars in airplanes and engines, with 21 million in four motor bombers. Major contracts went to Consolidated Aircraft, Boeing, Glenn L. Martin, and North American Aviation, among others. The army plans to raise air corps strength to about 5,500 planes in two years.
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Washington
War Department
U.S. Iastars
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Boeing Aicraft Company
Seattle
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
North Amerian Aviation Inc
Ingleswood
Calif
Army Air Corps
Army
North Amercan
Vultee Atrcraft Division
Aviae Vion Aanufacturing Corporation
Downes
Catit
Stearman
Wichita
Kan
Lockheed
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Burbank
California
New York
United Aircral Corporation
Pratt and Whitney
Thattford
Department
Air Corps
State and City Dedicate Eighth Avenue Bridge Opening
Traffic flowed over the new Cedar River span as Lieut Gov Hickenlooper accepted the dedication of the Eighth Avenue Bridge. City and state officials attended a brief ceremony with Local 301 engineers and Local 89 ironworkers protesting nonunion hiring. About 300 people heard Randall Melson present the bridge, with 136 cars crossing after the event. A luncheon at the Roosevelt followed, praising highway cooperation and projected cross state traffic relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Avenue
Cedar River
Hickenlooper
Engineers Union
Ironworkers Union
The
Highway Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Randall Melson
Humboldt
Hickenlooper Melson
A. A. Hurst
Maquoketa
R. B. Laird
Sidney
Fred White
Ames
Clare Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Highways Committee
Soldier shoots sweetheart then suicide at Chicago armory
A Milwaukee area soldier shot and killed his 24 year old sweetheart at the Watfalda artillery armory in Chicago Wednesday and killed himself moments later. Police found Frank Joupesnki, 47, behind the stables after daybreak. Her father Avnew said the couple had dated for months and had family tensions.
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Chicago
Wathfalda Artillery
Frank Joupeynski
Vaiss
Dodi
Avnew
Cartherine Breda
Fisie
Breda
Jepovnskis
Chaldich
Jipesnskis
Pole
Atiss Doulewerdt
Rhodes Selected To Donate Blood For Fellow Inmate
Walter Dusty Rhodes on death row at Iowa prison was chosen to donate blood to W. J. Fair a leukemia patient in the hospital Fair a Marengo native serving 25 years for incest Rhodes one of 60 volunteers after blood matching tests two transfusions have already aided Fair Dr Thomas Younan hospital head noted Rhodes awaits a new trial on the murder of his wife Mabel Feb 9 1937 ordered by the state supreme court last November
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Walter
Dusty” Rhodes
Iowa City
W. J. Fair
Marengoki
Fair
Rhodes
Thomas Younan
Mabel
State Supreme Court
Weather notice Cedar Rapids drizzle cools after warm morning
An overcast day in Cedar Rapids brought light rain and falling temperatures. Morning low reached 55 at 6 am, climbed to 78 by 10:30 am, then eased to 68 at 2:40 pm. The previous day’s high was 83, with evening readings near 77 at 7 pm and 59 at midnight on the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company Recorder
Kidnapper Confesses Slaying Miami Teens in Boca Raton
A self proclaimed entertainment scout Herbert Goddard 34 captured Thursday confessed the murder of Frances Ruth Dunn 17 one of two Miami high school girls he abducted Monday by luring them with a promise of movie careers. Det Lieut E Weele said Goddard who used the alias Charles Jetterson kept the girls hidden in an isolated area and at times tied to trees while planning to extort money but no ransom was paid. The two girls had disappeared after leaving Miami with Goddard for photographs in Palm Beach. Police faced a potential mob as crowds gathered at the county jail following the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami, Fla
Herbert Goddard
Hollywood
Frances Ruth Dunn
Jean Bolton
Boca Raton
Fla
Lieut E.weele
Miami
Herbert Willard Dorder
Dean Bolton
Goddard
Palm Beach
Goddar
Here
Mian
Melchen
Oman
Tomvi
Palms Beach
Miss Bolton
Miss Dunn
Fire
K. Platt
Boca Ratonie
Congressmen Roar Despite Return Home
A satirical piece notes Congressmen are back but continue vocal opposition to the New Deal. It highlights continued debate and partisan baritone shouting as they prepare for the next session.
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Kamienica
Kartuzy
Jit
Gdynia
Cedar Rapids News
U.S
U. S
Fred Snite
Iron Lung
Fred B, Snite, JR
Catalino
Strato N
Dr, Newton
Time Magazine
8Th Ave
Kalls
Poser
Denver
Tom Cocrane
Steatt Walham
Lawrence
Wet Pol Beach
Arthua “Bugs
Baer
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