Manchu Restoration Rumors Alarm Chinese Officials
Chinese officials warn Japan seeks to crown Pu Yi emperor of a Manchukuo empire beginning January first. They cite Japanese and Manchukuo troop seizures near Chahar and Jehol as proof, while Tokyo denies plans to interfere in Manchukuo affairs. Pu Yi, famed former boy emperor, would gain imperial status if restored.
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Peiping
INS
Japan
Henry Pu-Yi
Chahar Province
Chahar
Manchukuo
Jehol
Ho Ying-Ching
M. Shidayama
Pu-Yi
China
Celestial Empire
Hsuan Tung
Tientsin
Legion Membership Drive Extended to January Meeting
Hanford post of the American Legion reported strong progress in its membership campaign. Campaign workers requested an extension to January 9 post meeting to carry over past the holidays.
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Hanford Post
The
American Legion
MaKibben Party Attends Dodge Corp Meeting in Chicago
MaKibben head of MaKibben Motor Company with Ray Rutherford and local staff attended a Dodge Corporation meeting in Chicago on Saturday. Announcements covered the 1934 Dodge Brothers car. McKibben praised the new models and predicted a big season.
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FE. L. MaKibben
MaKibben Motor Company
Ray Rutherford
The
Gazette
MaKibben Company
Dodge Corporation
Chicago
Dodge Brothers
McKibben
Renewed Interest In Farm Lands Reported At Realty Board Session
Cedar Rapids real estate officials reported renewed interest in farm lands and rental property at the annual Cedar Rapids Real Estate board meeting held Monday night at the YMCA. About forty members attended the dinner and program, featuring humorous talks by Henry Ely and Frank Buser and a tax discussion by Paul N. Clark. Malcolm V. Bolton A. E. Childs C. M. Doolittle and Floyd H. Knapp were elected to the board of governors for three years.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Evergreens on Federal Building Lawn Lighted for Christmas
Evergreens on the federal building lawn will be lit with Christmas lights starting Tuesday night. Uncle Sam provides no funds for trimming, but trees were planted and decorations were purchased by Postmaster Franklin with contributions from every tenant of the federal building.
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Federal Building
Uncle Sam
Franklin
Silent Songstress in a Rough Tone and Cracked Clues
Puzzle clues reference a female singer with hints about her name and career. The grid lists various across and down definitions including musical terms and objects like helmet shaped part and silkworm. The challenge weaves biographical hints with wordplay, asking to identify the singer by clues such as first appearance in Lucia and Paris Conservatory study.
Warn Against Christmas Fires By Red Cross Section
The Linn county American Red Cross first aid division urged residents to guard against Christmas house fires. A sun parlor with seven window candles near lace curtains prompted the warning and officers advised smothering flames with rugs or heavy drapes and to roll on the floor if clothed in flames.
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Linn County
The
American Red Cross
Fresh shipment Jones sausage advertised at Hladky's
Laura Meadow left Monday for St Joseph Texas. Frank Krebs recovering after appendectomy at St Luke's hospital. Hugh Orchard to speak on The Season's Greetings at Shrine luncheon club. Turkeys and other holiday fowl advertised in Want Ads for Christmas dinners. Mrs Walter J Euken recovering from triple operation at St Luke's hospital. John Albert Baker to spend holidays in Salem Missouri Civilian Conservation corps camp. Knights of Columbus Council 909 set meeting with cribbage and pinochle prizes. Paul Ray to sing at Kiwanis meeting with entertainers.
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Shrine
Walter J. Euken
Eighth Avenue
J. Luke's Hospital
H. M. Buitsch
Seventh Street
John Albert Baker
Civilian Conservation Corps
Salem, Mo
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Council 909
K. C. Hall
First Avenue
Paul Ray
Coe College
Kiwanis Club
Montrose
Christmas Time Trains Run In Two Sections This Week
Christmas mail and express service will split Nos. 8 and 12 eastbound and No. 11 westbound into two sections this week with the first section carrying passengers and the second delivering mail and express. Police court fines include Ellis Brown 50 for intoxication and disturbing the peace, Russell Eddles and Louis Brennan 25 and 25 for intoxication and disturbing the peace, and Sherman Osburn 37 fined 10 for intoxication. Mrs. Ray L. Clapp has been moved from St. Luke's Hospital to a home after injuries.
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Ellis Brown
Ninth Avenue SE
Russell Eddles
Fourth Street
Louis Brennan
Third Street
Sherman Osburn
Costa
Ray L. Clapp
First Avenue E
Local Collision Leaves Mother Hospitalized and Child in Recovery
An automobile accident on November 13 left a mother hospitalized and then sent home to confinement for a long period. Her daughter, Miss Virginia Clapp, remains in the hospital with hopes she can return home by Christmas Day.
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Virginia Clapp
Court House News: Defamation and Damages Sought in Two Suits
In district court, Rose Farrell faces two suits seeking a total of 10 000 dollars with 3 000 dollars in actual damages and 2 000 dollars in exemplary damages for alleged false defamatory statements on four occasions near Fairfax between July 19 and Aug 30. Anna Tickalin sues Frank Zid for 9 000 dollars in damages for wages from April 1, 1932 to July 1, 1933 at an acreage east of Cedar Rapids. Mary McKnight seeks 3 050 dollars against her husband Walter G. McKnight for support money payments of 25 dollars weekly under a May 29 1930 separation agreement.
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Rose Farrell
Woody
McKee McQuerry
Luther McQuerry
Fairfax
Anna Tickalin
Frank Zid
Zid
Cedar Rapids
Mary McKnight
Avalon
Walter G. McKnight
Partition Actions Placed Over Real Estate In Cedar Rapids
Two partition actions filed seek to confirm shares in Hawthorne's First Addition eight lots at one half between Bessie Lash and James H. Johnson. Josephine Cach seeks partition and state shares in four properties from her late husband Anton Cach estate with multiple heirs listed. Mary Nowadsky sues the City of Cedar Rapids for $750 claiming injuries from a raised concrete sidewalk slab on Ninth Street NW during repairs on November 4, alleging severe injuries to elbow and knee.
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District Court
Partition Action
Hawthorne
Cedar Rapids
James H. Johnson
Josephine Cach
Anton Cach
Mary Nowadsky
Repai
Ninth Street
Novak Sues City Over Hole Cover Injury Settled
Marie C. Novak filed a $5,000 personal injury suit against the City of Cedar Rapids for injuries after a man hole cover collapsed under her on Washington Avenue and Sixteenth Street SE last January 7. The case was settled and dismissed with prejudice in district court before Judge A B Clark. Elizabeth D. Heins seeks a $240 judgment against C M Umholtz in a lease action.
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Marie C. Novak
Cedar Rapids
Washington Avenue
Sixteenth Street
A. B. Clark
Elizabeth D. Heins
C. M. Umholtz
Platform Crash Kills Twelve in South African Mine
In Johannesburg an industrial platform failed on Tuesday, fatally dropping two Europeans and ten Africans into a deep mine shaft. Rescue crews recovered the bodies as security and safety officials investigated the collapse.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Kellogg Warns Nations to Avoid War at Nobel Fifty
Frank B Kellogg urged staying out of conflicts as Europe and Asia face the risk of war He joined Nobel laureates Einstein Lewis Langmuir at a New York dinner marking Alfred Nobel’s birth centennial Kellogg urged diplomacy arbitration and judicial settlement as paths to lasting peace Lewis amused photographers by abandoning his table then later returned to join the group
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Anne Morgan
Dr. Einstein
Will Rogers Says to Shame Banks With RFC Loans
Beverly Hills column recalls editor Will Rogers urging redistributing finance to loan to industry to shame banks. He predicts banks will borrow from Jesse Joyce's RFC to fund loans, arguing bankers cannot be shamed even a big one.
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Calif
Jeese Joyce
RFC
Redistribution Finance Corporation
Jesse
Warns Against Sale of Illegal Beer in Linn County
County Attorney G. K. Thompson warns Linn County beer dispensers that selling beer with 5.5 to 6 percent alcohol violates the 3.2 percent beer law. He notes illicit high alcohol beer is being sold, stresses it avoids taxes, harms compliant dealers, and will be prosecuted.
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Linn County
Dels
Thompson
Iowa
Fraser Named President of Canopus Club at Roosevelt Luncheon
Harry W. Fraser, Cedar Rapids chief clerk of the Order of Railway Conductors, was elected president of the Canopus club at its annual luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt. Stanley C. Moore became vice president and James E. Patterson was chosen secretary and treasurer.
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Order of Railway Conductors
Cedar Rapids
Canopus Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Stanley C. Moore
James E. Patterson
Community Chest Falls Short of Goal by Cedar Rapids Drive
The Community Chest reports it is $766 short of its $65,000 goal with teams still incomplete. Campaign executive secretary R Hawkins said the shortage may be offset as firms pledge through headquarters outside Cedar Rapids.
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R Hawkins
Cedar Rapids
Paraguay and Bolivia Agree Armistice in Chaco War
Paraguay and Bolivia agreed to halt fighting in the Gr an Chaco Boreal until at least the end of the Christmas season. The armistice would begin at midnight with talks to follow in Montevideo to negotiate terms of peace and security.
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League of Nations
Paraguay
Bolivia
League
Gran Chaco
Montevideo
Juan Antonio Vuero
League of Nations Peace Commission
la Paz
Chaco Boreal
Boys of Y M C A Pioneers Sell 32 25 Worth of Seals
The Y M C A Pioneers sold 32.25 dollars worth of Christmas health badges in a Saturday drive to aid Public Health Nursing. Lyle Fuller led with 49 sales, Harold Green followed with 32, and 17 boys will receive Gov. Herring signed certificates for 10 or more sales.
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Public Health Nursing Association
Seal Gate
Aick
Lyle Fuller
Christian Shelton Club
Harold Green
Trinity Club
Gov. Herring
J. 5
Ely
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank
Coe College Girls
King's Daughters
Mercury Rebounds to 42 After Slow Start in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids shoppers faced cloudy skies as temperatures rose from a Monday low. The thermometer fell to 21 at 7 am and climbed to 42 by 2:30 pm after a slow start.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Washington High Girl's Purse Stolen During School Hours
Dorothy Simon daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore Simon 615 Eighth Avenue SE reports her pocketbook stolen from her typewriting desk on the third floor of Washington High School between 4 and 4 05 p m Monday. The $5 purse contained keys 16 cents a $7 50 fountain pen $15 glasses and a library card with her name and address. Her father is secretary of the police department.
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Dorothy Simon
Theodore Simon
Eighth Avenue SE
Washington High School
Miss Simon
Police Department
Prison rules limit inmate sweaters to subdued tones
Kansas officials at Lansing prison warn that Christmas sweaters sent to inmates must be in subdued colors to avoid drawing attention. A loud sweater might provoke jealousy among prisoners and encourage showing off.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas State Penitentiary
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