France Eyes German Colonies as Hitler Crisis Deepens
The piece argues France may trade colonies to ease worries over Hitler, while warning Germany’s militarization in Spain risks triggering a broader war with Russia and possibly drawing England in. It notes France’s disillusionment with Hitler and the likelihood war remains unresolved despite delays.
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Germany
Hitler
Russia
France
England
Berlin
Old World
Pope Pius XI Slips Toward Paralysis in Vatican Crisis
Pope Pius XI in a greatly aggravated condition with left side paralysis feared as a three stage illness unfolds. Vatican officials report nerve inflammation and imminent risk of total paralysis amid mounting pain and a shift toward a possible fatal phase.
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Vatican City
Pius
Pius XI
Rome
Vatican
Papal
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Amanti Milani
New Cuban President Promises Honest Government
In Havana Frederico Laredo Bru pledges honesty in government at the first cabinet meeting after the ouster of Miguel Mariano Gomez. The new cabinet vows to prosecute defrauders appoint officials by merit and dismiss workers only for inefficiency. Col Fulgencio Batista endorses the new government after conferring with the president and supporting sugar tax funding rural schools.
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Havana
Cuba
Frederico Laredo Bru
Miguel Mariano Gomez
Fulgencio Batista
Gomez
Simpson and Temple in Gazette's New Year Survey
In Today’s Gazette a impartial survey highlights Simpson affair and Shirley Temple’s new teeth. Chapter 1936 pictured on page 8 section 2. Hollywood milestones marked on page 5 section 1. Des Moines crowd for Cherry Sisters on air. Cedar Rapids youth finds paradise in Capri on page 4.
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Hollywood
Cherry Sisters
Des Moines
Iaa Claire
Cedar Rapids
Capri
Harry Boyd
Iowa
Washington
Ed Hadley
O. O. McIntyre
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Home Institute
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Mary Manners
Gazette Pattern Service
Queen Mother Mary Hospitalized by Cold at Sandringham
London AP reports Queen Mary is confined to her home at Sandringham House by a slight cold. The palace announced Saturday that she remains at Windsor but unaffected in health.
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Mary
London
Sandringham House
Vets ill after meals at Sandusky home
More than 300 residents of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home near Sandusky fell ill with food poisoning or a similar illness after Saturday night’s dinner. Most were treated on site, with no one in serious condition, as investigators including Dr. F. M. Houghtaling probed possible causes.
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Ohio Soldiers
E. T. Thorson
Thorson
F. M. Houghtaling
Erie County
John Volka
Columbus
Ohio State Reformatory
Houghtaling
Sefton confesses to wife slaying in Vandalia
Glenn Sefton aged 22 admitted near Vandalia Illinois on Saturday night that he killed his wife Erma Sefton 21 claiming she threatened to leave him. He said the act was committed to prevent her departure.
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Vandalia, Ill
Glenn Sefton
Erma
Son Of Chinese General Enrolls At Coe College
Yu-Ping Wang of Hartikow China, son of I-Cheh Wang, arrives to enroll at Coe college Cedar Rapids for the second semester. He predicts exile for Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, a former Manchurian warlord, and says Chiang Kai-Shek has united Chinese support. Wang, 23, can read and write English with tutoring and aims to speak fluently soon. His father commands the 67th army and is close to the Nanking government.
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Joe McCormick, JR
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Manchuria
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanking
Yu-Ping Wang
Hartikow
China
Wang
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Inn of Year's End Reflections On A New Year Journey
William Marion Reedy sends a New Year wish about money not curing spiritual ills and the soul’s sickness. The piece muses on life as a journey with inns along the road, urging lighter baggage, releasing grudges, and embracing service, love, and faith as the year begins.
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William Marion Reedy
Michael Fairless
Bodies Found Of Two Northwest Pilots In Idaho Wreck
Northwest Airlines division superintendent A R Mensing said a woodsman in Kellogg Idaho viewed the wrecked mail plane on a north Idaho mountainside and saw the bodies of Pilot Joe Livermore and Co pilot Arthur A Haid. Two search parties will leave Calder and Kellogg to reach the site.
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A. R. Mensing
Northwest Airlines
Joe Livermore
Arthur A. Haid
Idaho
Fred Cunningham
Kellogg
Mensing
Calder
Plane dispatched to Upton after faint distress call from missing airliner
Salt Lake City reporters say a commerce department plane was sent to Upton eighty miles east after airport workers picked up a faint radio appeal claiming survivors of Western Air Express transport missing twelve days earlier. Marines and an Army aircraft continued a regional search between Milford and St. George.
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Department of Commerce
Upton
Here
Western Air Express
Wasatch Mountains
Los Angeles
Marine Corps
Utah
Milford
St. George
Knoxville men killed in Hayesville plane crash in pasture
J H Waldrop of Knoxville Tennessee died and his pilot Johnnie Camp of Knoxville was seriously injured when their Taylor Cub monoplane crashed in a Hayesville pasture on Saturday.
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J. H. Waldrop
Knoxville Tenn
Johnnie Camp
Knoxville
Duke of Windsor Hosts Enzesfeld Christmas Party
In Enzesfeld Austria the former King of Great Britain the Duke of Windsor led a village Christmas celebration. He averted a possible fire by spotting a candle near the wooden ceiling and urged its extinguishing. The event at the village gymnasium featured Austrian folk songs and the village anthem sung by schoolchildren. Presents circulated with many donated by the duke. Rumors persisted that he would wed Mrs Wallis Simpson after her divorce becomes final, with a chapel ceremony planned at Enzesfeld Castle and conducted by Rev C D H Grimes.
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Austria
Duke of Windsor
Great Britain
Eugene de Rothschild
Rothschild Castle
Wallis Simpson
Enzesfeld Castle
Exking
Grimes
Edward
Weather Outlook for Chicago Dec 28 to Jan 2
The period covers Dec 28 to Jan 2 for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys plus northern and central plains. Expect mostly cloudy unsettled conditions with frequent precipitation and above normal temperatures, with colder readings possible in the far north toward the period’s end.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Britain Frowns On French Offer To Yield Colonies
Paris reports that France and Britain proposed to end the European armaments race by offering Hitler access to African colonies and large credits if he agrees to reduce German armaments and aid to Spanish nationals. Britain refused direct cession of colonies. France would return Togoland and the Cameroons. A general disarmament conference would be called.
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France
Britain
Hitler
Germany
Universal Service
United States
Reich
Togoland
Cameroons
Great Britain
Penalty plan targets Americans fighting in foreign wars
Washington reports reveal a push in Congress for drastic penalties under a neutrality law. Proposed measures would strip citizenship from Americans who join foreign conflicts and curb fundraising to aid belligerents such as in Spain. Senate leaders study dual citizenship as a tool to halt foreign enlistment.
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Congress
Spain
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
New York
Senate
Wenn
Three Waterloo Residents Hurt in Highway Crash
Three Waterloo residents were injured in a head-on collision on highway 218 three miles west of Waterloo late Saturday. Earl R. Hunter, 38, suffered fractured ribs and a torn left knee cap with possible lung complications. Mrs. Arthur S. Michael had a fractured left thigh. Walter Siegersewards of the eastbound car sustained severe chest injuries.
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Waterloo
Highway 218
Saturn
Earl R. Hunter
Arthur S. Michael
Hunter
Walter Sieger Sewards
Germany Threatens Navy Action Over Palos Seizure
Berlin declares necessary measures to secure release of the Palos and its crew from Valencia Reds. Hitler signals possible naval force at Bilbao if Spain’s socialist government does not free the vessel, three passengers and cargo amid tensions in the Spanish civil war.
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Hitler
Europe
Spain
Bao
Valencia
Germany
Pales
Bilbao
Continent
Earthquake Destroys Niijima Town in Tokio Prefecture
The Domei agency reports Niijima, a 4000 resident island near Oshima, destroyed by a severe sea centered quake at 9 15 am. Landslides followed as houses collapsed and casualties are not yet known. The meteorological bureau calls it one of Japan’s strongest quakes.
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Domei
Niijima
Tokio Prefecture
Oshima
Chiba Prefecture
Official Meteorological Bureau
Japan
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