Romania Accepts Axis Terms Shrinks Transylvania
Peasants in Cluj protest the cession of half of Transylvania to Hungary as Romania accepts Vienna agreement with Germany and Italy. Demobilization of a 2 million man army and oil shipments to the Reich are expected, amid fears of Russian threat and political overhaul.
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Transylvania
Bucharest
Rumania
Carols
Hungary
Germany
Cluj
Regin
Romania
Soviet Russia
Red Army
Reich
Hungarians Hear Yugoslavia Would Give Up Territory
Budapest reports joy over regained Transylvania boosted by rumors Yugoslavia may cede part of the Banat along the Danube. Details describe Banat as a 3000 square mile Hungarian region south of Szeged, with 400000 Hungarians, amid post Vienna award border changes and settlement rules for minorities. Premier Teleki returns to triumph as nation eyes expanded Carpathian frontier.
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Budapest
Hungary
Transylvania
Auemania
Yugoslavia
Banat
Danube
Austria-Hungary
Szeged
Romania
Carpathian Mountains
Klausenburg
Cluj
Rumania
Paul Teleki
Vienna
Nicholas de Horthy
Teleki
Cedar Rapids Sees Temperatures Rise Through Cool Night
The Cedar Rapids weather report notes a cool night followed by a warmer day with temperatures climbing from 60 at 6:30 a.m. to 72 by 1 p.m. A Friday peak near 73 was recorded at 1:30 p.m. Substantial rain fell around midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt appoints Frank C. Walker Postmaster General
President Roosevelt named Frank C. Walker to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James A. Farley. The appointment becomes effective Saturday at the post in Hyde Park, New York.
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Hyde Park
INS
Roosevelt
Frank C. Walker
James A. Farley
Farley Leaves Postmaster General Post After 7 1 2 Years
James A. Farley of New York who led the postal service for seven and a half years announces his departure as Postmaster General. He claims the mails now pay costs with an aggregate net postal surplus of 39 638 752 while noting the prior administration’s last full year showed a net deficit of 153 million.
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Washington
LLP
James A. Farley
New York
Roosevelt
New Deal Cabinet
Farley
Two Big Days for Want Ad Results in Gazette
Sunday and Labor Day Monday are off days when many will search Want Ads for rooms apartments houses garages and used goods. Buyers will also seek home grown produce and other items advertised. Place a Want Ad over Sunday and the holiday to maximize return, dial 2 1121 before 8 tonight for the three day rate.
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Gazette
British Gunners Fire At High-Flying Jerries In Air Battle
DAN CAMPBELL reports from ENGLISH COAST as a British anti aircraft battery fights waves of German bombers and fighters. He recalls five planes shot down in two hours of continuous firing and the crew's stubborn insistence that the jerries are flying too high. The action centers around a gun site nicknamed hell fire corner with 37s blasting upward against 23 000 foot altitudes and a perilous air battle over the Channel.
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Channel
Hell Fire
Hell Fire Corner Gang
Heinkel
London Air Raid Destruction Amid Weekend Market Day
Reporter Robert G. Nixon describes a seven hour London raid with crushed flats and ruined shelters. He notes a severed block of flats, shattered furniture, and dead pets as wardens search a family killed in a shelter while residents keep up with chalk marked “Business As Usual” and Saturday market activity.
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London
INS
Hold Chicago Man For Drunk Driving
Chicago resident Harry Klinckman, 42, faces a preliminary charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a positive chemical test. He was arraigned before Justice H. R. Churchill and jailed by Highway Patrolman James Clapp at 8 pm Friday after being picked up near the junction of highways 13 and 151 east of Marion for erratic driving and forcing another car onto the road shoulder. The chemical test registered 2.4 milligrams.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry Klinckman
Chicago
Highway Patrol
H. R. Churchill
Klinckman
James Clapp
Marion
Clapp
Canadian Pact Ratified Regulating Rainy Lake Levels
The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Canada to regulate water levels in Rainy Lake and other waters in the Rainy Lake watershed, intended for emergency protection.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Canada
Rainy Lake
World Faith and Unity in Religion
Dr Hocking argues for a world faith built from the best truths of all great religions. He urges humility and study across faiths to unite, warning exclusivism risks an abyss while praising the pope’s echoed call for unity.
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Hocking
Harvard
United Feature Syndicate
Boy Fights Leukemia Dies After Nine Months of Hope
ST. CLOUD MINN UP Six year old Norman Dolinsky died from acute lymphatic leukemia nine months after doctors warned he could not live. He showed moments of strength after a donor transfusion from Lorraine Olive of Minneapolis and two subsequent transfusions. Funeral plans were set for Minneapolis.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Norman Dolinsky
Norman
Minneapolis
St Cloud
Rochester
Maso
Philip Halenbeck
Dolinsky
Lorraine Olive
University of Minnesota
Hitler Angry Bloodiest Weekend of War Seen
London reports rising fury from Hitler as RAF raids on Berlin trigger retaliatory attacks on London. The piece notes escalating aerial combat between Britain and Germany and warns of a brutal week ahead with possible destruction of major western capitals.
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Hitler
Berlin
Engine orders boost plan to 25 000 aircraft goal
Washington AP reports new engine orders promising mass production to meet a 25 000 aircraft target within two years. Contracts total about 687 planes worth 100.7 million dollars, plus engine orders from Wright, Pratt and Whitney, Rolls-Royce, and Allison for large scale defense output.
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Washington
Defense
War and Navy
War Department
Department
Arms and Navy
Wright Motors
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Pratt and Whitney Motors
United Aircraft Corporation
Rolls-Royce
Packard Motor Company
Great Britain
General Motors Corporation
Allison Aircraft
Kraschel Negotiates to Acquire Mid-America Casualty
Former Gov Nelson G Kraschel and associates met with T W Garrett Jr of Kansas City to discuss buying a controlling stake in Mid-America Casualty of Cedar Rapids. The auto insurer, capitalized at 200000 dollars, is three years old with home office in Cedar Rapids and executive offices in Kansas City. The local Cedar Rapids office had no information on progress.
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Des Moines
INS
Nelson G Kraschel
Mid- America
Cedar Rapids
T W Garrett, Jr
Kansas City
Kraschel
Mid-America
Americans United By Traffic Jams Holiday Plea
Humor columnist Bugs Baer denounces disunity as he riffs on nationwide traffic jams from New York to California. He jokes about holiday travel and road courtesy while mocking authorities and warning against prohibitions on fireworks and left turns.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
United
British Planes Bomb Berlin Center in Major Assault
British war planes bombed central Berlin for the first time since the war began, raining explosives and incendiaries. The attack damaged the Siemens Schuckert factory and several buildings, while residents sheltered for over an hour. Civilian casualties were reported in the southeast sector and at the Christus church.
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Berlin
Siemens Schuckert
High Commands
Germany
Mewlly
London
High Command
England
Thames
Arknow
RAF
Thutal
Cis
Evangelical Christus Church
Piefenbach
Bethesda Hospital
Siemens Schuckert Electrical Works
West Berlin
Germans Slug Back With Four Day Attacks
German bombers pressed a rr congested air siege on London with four raids in a day as RAF defenses reported heavy losses on the German side. The air ministry said 38 German planes were destroyed, 16 British fighters lost, and several suburbs suffered bomb damage including a factory direct hit while some German pilots were downed over the Channel and southeast coasts.
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London
Royal Ai Force
Andrames
East Anglia
Thames
Air Ministry
Suberlban
Channel
Four Injured In Separate Friday Local Accidents
Four persons received emergency treatment at St Luke's hospital Friday evening. Harry Wilcox 44 chief engineer at Wilson and company suffered ammonia burns to eyes and mouth while disassembling a pump and was admitted. L A Meierkord 361 Nineteenth street SE received five stitches after a knife cut while making sandwiches at Campus Drug Store. Janet Untiedt 7 daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Untiedt 129 Eleventh street NE cut forehead falling against radiator and was stitched. Jack Hockaday 1009 Oakland Road NE cut forehead on an open car door.
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Cedar Rapids
St Luke's Hospital
Harry Wilcox
Fifth Avenue
Wilson and Company
L. A. Meierkord
Nineteenth Street
First Avenue E
Janet Untiedt
W. M. Untiedt
Eleventh Street
Jack Hockaday
Oakland Road
Italian Planes Hit British Cruiser and Units in Red Sea Egypt
A Rome communique reports Italian aircraft bombed and damaged a British cruiser in the Red Sea. It also says British mechanized units were struck in the Dar El Hambra zone in Egypt.
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Rome
High Command
Red Sea
Dar el Hambra
Egypt
Four Thousand German Planes Claimed Downed by Britain
London officials said 3,945 German planes had been destroyed since war began, against 1,012 British planes lost. The figures cover all fronts except Poland and exclude damaged aircraft not returning to base.
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London
Britain
Poland
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Dobrudja
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Robert G. Nixon
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Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Nels Kraschel
Group
Fender
California
Fire Department
Linden Street
Wilhemstrasse
Reichschancellery
Foreign Office
Tts
Messerschmitt
Dover
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