Spanish Civil War Tensions Rise Over Non-Intervention
Reports from Madrid say Spanish rebels may use poison gas in the Fiavital attack. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tells the House of Commons non-intervention pledges are not being observed and warns the conflict could widen beyond Iberia. He notes French and German volunteers in Spain and says Britain may seek belligerent status for Franco and raise the issue with the non-intervention committee.
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RIS
Madrid
London
Anthony Eden
Europe
House of Commons
Commons
Eden
Spain
Francisco Franco
Iberian Peninsula
Rebel air raids hit Madrid University City and outskirts
Rebel airplanes dropped fifteen large bombs on the University City Moncloa and residential districts as royalists launched a strong counterattack on all fronts. Loyalist headquarters claimed the offensive was successful everywhere.
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Madrid
University City
Monctoa
Rosales
Germans and French Volunteers Rally in Spain Fronts
British reports indicate about 5000 Germans who landed at Cadiz and moved to Seville may be dispatched to rebel fronts armed with sidearms rifles bayonets and Sam Browne belts many wearing Spanish uniforms. Thousands of Germans and Frenchmen have arrived to join nationalist and royalist crews as volunteers amid rising international tensions.
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London
Cadiz
Seville
Spain
Alumni Plan To Sell S U S To High School Students
Iowa City alumni discussed extending their effort to promote the University of Iowa to state high school students. Permanent officers pending. questionnaires sent to alumni statewide to gauge support. A centralized Iowa City headquarters is expected within a month.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Everyday Living Rants on a Nation of Misfits and Pigs
A reader vents at length about American society from Maine to California, condemning politicians, bankers, and opportunists. He decries immigration, consumerism, and universal cooperation while calling for a Nut-Reduction Act and better municipal bonds. Copyright 1936. DE. NEWTON.
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Urs
Maine
California
All German Youth United in Movement in Berlin
Berlin AP reports Germany extended Hitler Youth to all German youths within the reich. The law makes youth training under Nazi leadership mandatory and places the youth leader under Hitler directly. Also noted: a death penalty law for Germans who transfer wealth abroad, with Goering framing the four year plan and confiscation of wealth.
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Berlin
Hitler Youth Movement
Reich
Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
People's Court
Reach Agreement Ends 18 Day Celanese Strike
Union officials and Celanese Corporation of America announced a settlement ending an 18 day walkout by 9 000 employees over wage differences. Col Frank P Douglas conciliation officer released the joint statement confirming the closure of the strike.
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Cumberland, Md
Celanese Corporation of America
Frank P. Douglas
Department of Labor
United Textile Workers Union
Celanese
Government to consolidate housing agencies into one giant department
President Roosevelt asks Senator Wagner to draft a bill to fuse the federal housing administration the Home Owners Loan corporation the Reconstruction Finance Mortgage Corporation the housing division of the Public Works Administration and farm home building activities into a single agency. The move aims to spur industrial recovery increase employment and advance social welfare amid a need for up to ten million homes in ten years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robert F. Wagner
Federal Housing Administration
Home Owners -Loan Corporation
Mortgage ” Corporation
Public Works Administration
Farm Credit Administration
Auto Union Approves Truce Terms In Case Co Strike
The United Automobile Workers approved terms of a truce allowing Case company office and maintenance workers to return to work while a broader dispute is settled. Pickets would withdraw if the company agrees to immediate negotiations and no restart of production. The 48 hour truce could end sooner if talks break down or conditions are violated.
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Auto Union
Case Co
Racine
Wis
United Automobile Workers Union
J. T. Case Company
Case
Foreclosure denial over Lansing bridge bond issue
Federal Judge George C. Scott refused foreclosure on a $200,000 Mississippi river bridge bond issue in Lansing Iowa. The Bechtel Trust Company Davenport and A. H Schubert trustees faced claims of fraud and lack of benefit to the bridge company after more than three years of litigation.
Concealment Charge Against Vermont Governor Dropped
Rutland Vermont Governor Charles M Smith 68 president of Rutland Marble Savings Bank freed from a concealment charge tied to a bookkeeper’s thefts from the bank. The case ends with no conviction and the governor’s name tied to the bank, city, and state.
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Vermont
Rutland, Vt
Charles M Smith
Rutland Marble Savings Bank
First Social Security Account Number Goest to London Backer
John D Sweeney Jr a Brooklyn electrician 23 and Princeton graduate became the first recipient of an account number in the federal old age insurance program via the social security board His job at Royal Eastern company and his New Rochelle home place him among early participants in the new system He voted for Landon but supports the program and reacted with humor to his notoriety noting news interest but hoping not like the WW I draft case
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Baltimore
Llp
John D Sweeney
Brooklyn
Social Security Board
New York Post Office
Princeton
New Rochelle
Sweeney
Alf M. Landon
Royal Eastern Company
United Press
Secretary Ickes Plays Hitchhiker After Accident
Alexandria Virginia Secretary of the Interior Ickes escaped serious injury when his car collided with another en route to Richmond for a cornerstone ceremony at the Medical College of Virginia. He suffered a minor cut and bruised hand. his secretary E K Burlew was shaken up. The Lavietes couple from Brooklyn, occupants of the other car, were treated in Alexandria. Ickes then rode with a passing motorist to continue to Richmond.
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Ntn
Bee Ereeti
Alexandria
Virginia
Interior
Ickes
Richmond
Medical College of Virginia
E. K. Burlew
D. P. Lavietes
Brooklyn
Manslaughter Charges Filed Against Death Car Driver
Special to The Gazette Iowa City Manslaughter charges were filed against Oliver Seering 21 of Iowa City driver of a car involved in a July 12 crash near here that killed Dr Paul W Hogan's wife and Margaret Dunbar 18 of Glenwood. Seering held on 3000 bail after grand jury secret indictment.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Don McComas
Oliver Seering
Seering
Paul W. Hogan
Margaret Dunbar
Glenwood
University of Iowa
CCC
Here
Hogan
George Messner
Louise Brenon
McComas
Wisconsin Marshfield boys win crop judging at 4-H congress
Matt Britton and Wilmarth Draheim earned first place in the national 4-H crop judging contest at Chicago for grading corn oats potatoes alfalfa hay and wheat. Howard Bostrom and Levine Olson placed third for Vinton Indiana. Donita House and Mary Myer won 4-H food contest scholarships and trips to the congress.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Matt Britton
Wilmarth Draheim
Marshfield
Howard Bostrom
Levine Olson
Vinton
Fame and Fortune
Donita House
Dayton
Ind
Mary Myer
Portland
Ore
Roosevelt calls united front against war at Inter-American Conference
President Roosevelt opened the Inter American peace conference in Buenos Aires urging twenty one republics to act in solidarity to deter aggression abroad, promote economic cooperation, and pursue interdependence while denouncing economic madness and trade barriers that fuel war. He warned that warlike policies hurt nations and pledged a hemisphere ready to consult for mutual safety and peace.
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Buenos Aires
Roosevelt
Americas
Cercl
Wenger
Mr. Roosevelt
Montevideo
France Hesitates on War Debt Settlement
France signals willingness to negotiate a new war debt settlement with the United States but offers no definite proposals or specifications. Reports in Paris suggest a potential three-nation arrangement with Britain, to be repaid as annual installments over 20 to 25 years with no extra interest.
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Washington
France
United States
Moore
Yvon Delbos
William C. Bullitt
Paris
BARTS
United ‘States
Chamber of Deputies
Cedar Falls Women Injured in Icy Highway Crash
Slippery pavement on highway 30 four miles west of Cedar Rapids caused a collision Tuesday at 4 45 p m involving a Petersen Baking truck and a car driven by Mrs Grau. Mrs Clara North 57 and her daughter Mrs Gladys Gray 29 of Route 3 Cedar Falls were treated for injuries at St Luke's hospital.
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Clara North
Gladys Gray
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Grau
North
Petersen Baking Company
J. R. Wise
Third Avenue SE
Six Champions Named In 4-H Health Contest
Six youths from agricultural regions were named the healthiest 4-H club members after medical exams found three boys and three girls nearly perfect. Winners: C A Abbott Jr Blairs Va Ray Graves Porter Okla Jerry Cowan Rogersville Mo Margaret J Topovski Wooster Ohio Mary Flynn Sellers Setohatchee Ala Martha A Ekberg Wisconsin Dells Wis.
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Chicago
C. A. Abbott, Jr
Blairs
Ray Graves
Porter
Okla
Jerry Cowan
Rogersville
Margaret J. Topovski
Wooster
Ohio
Mary Flynn Sellers
Setohatchee
Ala
Martha A. Ekberg
Wisconsin Dells
Wis
Corn King Stays In Indiana At Livestock Show
Buddy Curry of Tipton Indiana won the corn king title at the International Livestock Show for the third year in a row, with his Reid Yellow Dent entry yielding 86 bushels per acre on a 40 acre plot. Ed Lux of Waldron Indiana took reserve. grand champion steer went to an Aberdeen Angus from Oklahoma A M College Stillwater.
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Stillwater
Okla
Curry
Indiana
Ralph
Robert
Harlan C. Meal
Manilla
Ind
Carl Dienst
Somonauk
Stanley Meal
Prince
Chicago
G. Page
King
Oklahoma A
M. College Farm
Wyoming Ranch
Cheyenne
Wyo
Local business men hurt in route 30 rollover near Cedar Rapids
Frank C. Waples president of Midland Mortgage and H. N. Boyson vice president of Merchants National Bank were bruised when their car driven by Waples skidded off highway 30 near Newhall road eight miles west of Cedar Rapids. A passing truck did not stop and the car overturned into a soft shoulder ditch.
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Frank C. Waples
Midland Mortgage Company
H. N. Boyson
Merchants National Bank
Waples
Highway 30
Newhall Road
Keystone
Cedar Rapids
Heat Treatment Proposed for Leprosy by Dr. Muir
English physician Dr. Ernest Muir reported a new heat therapy for leprosy using a hot air box raising patients to about 105 Fahrenheit. Trials are under way at the University of Rochester medical school and the U S Marine Hospital in New Orleans. He stressed the method may boost general health rather than kill the germ, and called it worth trying.
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Howard
W. Blakeslee
New York
Ernest Muir
International Leprosy Association
University of Rochester School of Medicine
U. S. Marine Hospital
New Orleans
Muir
Baldwin Plans to Quit as King Faces Marriage Crisis
London reports Baldwin plans to resign as prime minister unless King Edward VIII abandons his marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson. The cabinet debates whether to resign with him or accept the king’s decision, with coronation plans possibly postponed amid the constitutional crisis.
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London
England
Stanley Baldwin
Edward VIII
Wallis Simpson
Edward
Upeveral Binet
Baldwin
Simpson
Iowa Breeders Win Honors At Livestock Show
Awards in stock judging included junior yearling heifer carved from 1935 stock, with top honors for The Allen Cattle Co of Colorado Springs and W C Anderson and son of West Liberty Iowa. Belgians aged stallions from Dygert Brothers Manchester finished third, with four year olds also placing third and fifth.
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Chicago
Allen Cattle Co
Colorado Springs
Colo
W. C. Anderson and Son
West Liberty
F. W. Hubbell
Des Moines
Dygert Brothers
Manchester
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