Abduction and Robbery At Cedar Rapids Service Station
Karl Smith 19, an attendant at Standard Oil in Cedar Rapids, was abducted and robbed by two bandits who left him bound after taking 75 dollars. They fled in a 1988 Ford V-8 with California plates, heading toward DeWitt before separating at a gravel road. Smith escaped, alerted Davenport authorities, and the station manager. Local police broadcast a suspect car description.
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Karl Smith
Standard Oil
First Avenue
First Street
DeWitt
Smith
California
Iowa
Mississippi
Davenport
J. W. Tubbs
Thirty-fourth Street
Tubbs
Cedar Rapids
Sunmen
Forgiveness and Adjustment in Intimate Relationships
A 1936 reflection urges forgiving people for who they are and what they do to avoid hidden tensions wrecking marriages. It argues that learned forbearance and mutual adjustment sustain harmony, noting that domestic friction harms both mind and body and that living together is a refined art requiring real skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OR Newton
Lehman to Charge Geoghan in Malfeasance Case
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman will prosecute Kings County District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan for malfeasance. An extraordinary grand jury accused Geoghan of negligence in three murder prosecutions, links to bribery inquiries, and associating with ill repute. Geoghan filed a 133 page denial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Herbert H. Lehman
William F. X. Geoghan
Kings County
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
James J. Walker
Geoghan
Lehman
Sixteen Soviet Plotters Sentenced to Death
Moscow AP reports sixteen confessed conspirators against the Soviet state were sentenced at dawn by firing squad. The court declared them guilty of plotting with exile Leon Trotsky to assassinate Stalin and other top leaders, marking a rare use of death for revolution era leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Supreme Court
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
Rainfall and Heat Hit Cedar Rapids Weekend
Weekend rainfall eased drought in Cedar Rapids but heat persisted with temperatures reaching 101 in the afternoon. City readings show Saturday night and Sunday brought about 1 inch total rainfall, a small tornado damaged farm buildings near the southwest edge, and the Jirsa farm structure lost its chicken house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Sito
F. H. Jirsa
Sixth Street Road
Germany Joins Arms Embargo Against Spain
Moscow reports Russia joins non intervention drive in Spain as Maxim Litvinov and Pean Payart sign a joint pledge to bar export of war materials to Spain or possessions. Germany pledges immediate arms and aircraft embargo, joining Italy, with Franco rebels warning French volunteers.
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Moscow
Russia
Spain
Maxim Litvinov
Pean Payart
Germany
Portugal
Italy
Madrid
France
Rebels Advance Toward Madrid From Pamplona
Gen. Emilio Mola ordered a mysterious troop concentration in Pamplona on Monday that may signal the northern rebel army preparing a southern push toward Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pamplona
Spain
Emilio Mola
Madrid
Madrid fears rebel march toward capital amid political turmoil
Reports say President Manuel Azana sent baggage by truck to Valencia as Madrid fears a southern rebel advance via Badajoz toward the Tagus valley and Toledo. Officials also worry anarchist militiamen may be ready for a Madrid jail killing of about 2000 rightists.
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Madrid
Hendaye
France
Manuel Azana
Valencia
Badajoz
Tagus River
Toledo
Rebel air squadron bombs Getafe air drome
Madrid reports that after prior denials a rebel air squadron bombed Getafe air drome on Sunday, with confirmation issued Monday. The attack marks a significant escalation in the conflict near Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Getafe
Cedar Rapids Man Killed In Auto Accident
Edward Grim 30 of Cedar Rapids was killed when thrown from a car driven by John V. Jakoubek 23 as it left Highway 30 and hit a ditch near Keystone road. Jakoubek was hospitalized and deputies planned further inquiry into the crash. Grim was survived by wife Margaret Koza two children siblings and parents with funeral plans announced.
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Cedar Rapids
Edward Grim
Third Street
Here
John V. Jakoubek
Keystone Road
R. O. Burrows
Belle Plaine
Grim
Jakoubek
St. Luke’s Hospital
Earl Mulford
Winthrop
Mulford
Burrows
Clarence
Myrtle Mae Grimm
Margaret Koza
James William
Ruby Ann
Josephine Henderson
Versailles
Lulu Robertson
Anamosa
Ruby Wells
Des Moines
Armilda Roadenhizer
Maxwell
Lewis
Fire exchange as suspect is shot during Landon talk
In Conneautville Pennsylvania a state police corporal fired three shots at a suspected pickpocket as Governor Alf Landon finished a street talk. The crowd heard no injuries. Corporal Blocker arrested Thomas M. Delmonico, 26, of Pittsburgh, who carried $50.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conneautville
Alf M. Landon
Erie
Landon
Blocker
Thomas M. Delmonico
Pittsburgh
Navy radioman asks to be hanged for girl murder
Winston B. Gardiner a 23 year old naval radioman confessed to strangling Muriel Lucille West 19 in her apartment. He said let me hang then said he killed her after coming ashore from the U S S Maryland. Gardiner held on suspicion of murder pending inquest.
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Los Angeles
Winston B. Gardiner
Muriel Lucille West
Gardiner
Miss West
Maryland
Hawaiian
Ted Deering
Fire Department
Palmotor Squad
Stanley M. West
Landon Targets Roosevelt State During Transit to Campaign
Gov. Alfred M. Landon opened a campaign swing in New York and Pennsylvania, delivering speeches in Chautauqua and Buffalo on education and administration. He planned drought talks in Des Moines with Roosevelt and other governors. His visit traced his birth region, stopping at Conneautville and Ripley as he returns toward the Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Alfred M. Landon
Roosevelt
White House
Chautauqua
Landon
Buffalo
Middle West
Des Moines
Gov. Landon
Sharon
Greenville
Ripley
Conneautville
Gov
New York
Pennsylvania
West Middlesex
William Mossman
Mary
Mollie” Baird
Mr. Roosevelt
Valley
Minnesota
Floyd B. Olson
Herring
State Capitol
United States
Guy, Bak
Braska
Guy
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
London
Muelian
Austria Braces as Storm Troops Reportedly Mobilized
Vienna reports indicate police and Chancellor Schuschnigg's Catholic storm troops ordered to state of alarm. 200 soldiers moved near government buildings amid fears of a putsch by anti Nazi elements as Heimwehr leaders push for Fey reinstatement and Starhemberg’s private army.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Catholic Storm Troops
Emil Fey
Fey
Heimwehr
Ernest von Starhemberg
Austria
Germany
Italy
Schuschnigg
Engelbert Dollfuss
Prince von Starhemberg
von Starhemberg
Nazi Germany
Hapsburg
Otto
Negro Convicted Hints Revelation In Clevenger Case
Martin Moore, a 22 year old Black former hotel worker, condemned for killing Helen Clevenger, hinted on Monday he would soon reveal something important about the case while plans proceed for an appeal of his death sentence. He did not specify the nature of the information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
Martin Moore
Helen Clevenger
German Conscript Service Extended
Berlin report says Germany extends military service in the new conscript army to two years from one year, effective immediately. The change affects all draftees and broadens training and reserve obligations nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Son of Minister Given Life for Killing Friend
Laverne Marks 19 from Clintonville was sentenced to life in Waupun for the slaying of his friend Robert Bernstein of Janesville. He had been in a Washington state prison serving 20 years for highway robbery and pled guilty to first degree murder in Circuit Edgar Werner's court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawano
Wis
Laverne Marks
Clintonville
Waupun State
Robert Bernstein
Janesville
Marks
Washington State Prison
Edgar Werner
Nazis Behead Traitor in Berlin Public Execution
Berlin reports an execution after Wilhelm Blessig, 42, convicted of high treason, was beheaded by a silk-hatted executioner on Monday. The event underscores harsh wartime measures and the Nazi regime's apparatus of punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Wilhelm Blessig
Civil War veteran J A Hildebrand dies at 92 in Cedar Rapids
J A Hildebrand 92 a Civil War veteran and former city and county assessor died at his home 1726 Third Avenue SE at 2 30 a m Monday after ill health since July 5 Born in Baden Baden Germany July 5 1844 he enlisted in the Fifteenth Michigan Infantry 1862 and re enlisted in the Thirtieth Michigan Infantry serving till the war's end Survived by two sons a granddaughter and a great granddaughter burial at Oak Hill cemetery Major fraternal and service memberships noted with funeral Wednesday at 4 p m at Beatty chapel
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J. A. Hildebrand
Third Avenue SE
Baden-Baden
Germany
Niles
Mich
Mr. Hildebrand
Fifteenth Michigan Infantry
Vickspurg
Michigan Infantry
Marion
Ristine and
Palmer
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
B. C
E. W. Hildebrand
Lucille West
Darlene West
Hollywood
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church
Cedar Rapids Lodge No. 141, I. O. O. F
Foresters of America
Court Cedar
Star of West
K. P
T. Z. Cookpost
Beatty Chapel
Oak Hill Cemetery
Blanton Eliminated in Texas Democratic Runoff
In Dallas, Rep. Thomas Blanton loses renomination in the 17th Texas district to Clyde Garrett, a former section hand, as eight of twelve counties report results. Garrett led 31,202 to 16,938 with Garrett stressing budget balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Thomas Blanton
Congress
Texas
Blanton
Clyde Garrett
Garrett
W. D. McFarlen
Wichita Falls
Edward Gossett
Albert Thomas
Houston
Oscar Holcombe
Thomas
Joe Eagle
Morris Sheppard
Ernest O. Thompson
State Railroad Commission
Thompson
Frank S. Morris
Nine Russians Executed by Manchukuans in Manchukuo
Nine Soviet Russians were executed by firing squad in Hailar on Monday for attempting to organize "soviet storm troops" in Manchukuo. Five other Soviet citizens were sentenced to life imprisonment and thirteen received shorter penalties, per the Japanese continental army headquarters announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hsinking
Manchuria
Mns
Hailar
Manchukuo
Moscow
Roosevelt to give Des Moines radio address on drought tour
President Roosevelt plans a Des Moines radio address on September 1 after a drought conference with Alfred Landon and Midwestern governors. The trip includes a luncheon with Landon aboard the presidential train and non political, press barred events across Iowa.
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Des Moines
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred M. Landon
Landon
Iowa
Iowa State Fair
Atlantic
Shenandoah
Roosevelt
London
Herring
Shenandoah, A
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Iran
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Columbia
WJZ National Broadcasting Company
Dynetna
Aussia
Negro
Clevenger
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Clyde Herring
Hannibal, Mo
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