Debates over Neutrality Policy and Holt’s Political Fight
The piece notes the President can embargo war materials but excludes civil war shifts and reports the state dept approved a 2 777 000 shipment of used airplanes and engines to Spain amid protests. It profiles Senator Rush D Holt opposing relief politics and facing loss of patronage before the new Congress convenes.
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State Department
France
England
Hitler
Spain
Vandenberg
Enator
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia
Holt
Capitol
Senate
Nye to seek State Dept details on Spain airplane sale
Senator Gerald Nye requests all information the State Department has on the license issued for shipping nearly three million dollars of American airplanes to Spain. Nye plans to forward the inquiry and aims to identify the seller, saying he wants the full record.
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Washington
INS
State Department
Spain
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Nye
Senate Munitions Committee
Senator Glass declines post to preserve appropriations chair
Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, nearing retirement, will not take the banking and currency committee chair to keep his hold on the appropriations panel. The piece lauds his principled stand and notes the year 1935 saw unusually small gifts to churches and charities amid tax pressures. Berlin headlines react to U.S. arm shipments to Spanish loyalists, signaling possible shifts in the Spain crisis.
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Carter Glass
Virginia
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Committee On Appropriations
Glass
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Charles V. Vickery
National Committee For Religious and Welfare Recovery
Hitler plan to rebuild war machine and Mideast propaganda
Berlin reveals steps by the Hitler regime to strip Germans of basic needs while expanding the military. Goebbels propaganda inflames anti world sentiment as France and other powers seek to delay war. Shirer notes Hitler aims for economic independence to avert collapse and challenge world peace.
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Berlin
Hitler
Goebbels
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Shirer
Reich
France
Land
Britain May Seek US Halt on Spanish Arms Shipments
London reports Britain will ask the United States to prevent shipment of American arms and aircraft to Spain if an international blockade or stronger non intervention is agreed upon. Washington has approved one such shipment and powers study a French blockade proposal. The British foreign office is disturbed by the publicity.
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Berlin
INS
American State Department
Spain
United States
Adolf Hitler
Britain
France
Hitler
Germany
Derfuehrer
London
Great Britain
Washington
Foreign Office
Roosevelt May Seek Fast Bill For Export Embargo On Spain
Roosevelt may ask Congress next week to fast track a bill granting him power to embargo arms and munitions to Spain factions. The move follows a $2,777,000 shipment of airplanes and parts to Bilbao by Robert Cuse, challenging neutrality. Congress and administration officials warn of further export requests and urge penalties for Americans joining foreign wars.
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Washington
LLP
Roosevelt
Congress
Spain
Robert Cuse
Jersey City
N. J
State Department
Bilbao
House
Senate
Sam D. McReynolds
Department of Justice
Rey Pittman
William E. Borah
Foreign Affairs Committee
Denies Planes Are For War Purposes
Robert Cuse in Jersey City denied that airplanes and engines he plans to ship to Spain will be used for war. He had a license from Washington to ship 2,777,000 dollars worth of planes and engines to Bilbao, a Loyalist port.
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Jersey City
N. J
Robert Cuse
Vimalert Company, Inc
Spain
Cuse
State Department
Washington
Bilboa
German ship freed as cargo remains held in Bilbao
The German freighter Palos was freed by Basque authorities in Bilbao on demand of the cruiser Koenigsberg, but part of its cargo and one Spanish passenger were retained for war material and papers. Berlin pressed for full release while German ships proceed toward the Bay of Biscay to enforce the demand.
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Bilbao
Koenigsberg
Bay of Biscay
Koeln
Spain
Reich
Bilboa
Probe Into United Airlines Crash Kills Twelve
Investigators planned to begin a formal probe today into the Sunday United Airlines crash that killed all twelve aboard. Officials focus on instrument failure and radio issues as rescuers recovered eight men and four women from Rice Canyon near Saugus and faced dangerous, darkness-filled conditions.
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Los Angeles
United Airlines
United Air Lines
Department of Commerce
Boeing
Rice Canyon
Saugus
Ed Blom
San Francisco
Blom
Burbank
California
Eighty Year Club Reflections On Aging And Giving
A 91 year old writer, acting president of an Eighty Year club, shares thoughts on aging and the value of deeds over years. He cites a poem about life being giving, not getting, and treasures the wisdom found in elder members’ experiences and kindness.
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DR. Newton
Brother
Eighty Club
Pedestrian Hit By Car In Cedar Rapids
J. C. Kephart, 924 Fourteenth Avenue SE, suffered a fractured right leg and forehead laceration after being struck by Marvin Prohaska, 1700 Hamilton Street SW, at 7 10 p.m. Monday on Sixteenth Avenue near B Street. Prohaska, who drove east, stopped, aided the man and drove him to Mercy hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
J. C. Kephart
Fourteenth Avenue
Marvin Prohaska
Hamilton Street
Sixteenth Avenue
B Streets
Prohaska
Mercy Hospital
Kephart
Hitchcock Named Norbeck Successor in South Dakota
AP reports Governor Tom Berry appointed Herbert Hitchcock of Mitchell to succeed the late Peter Norbeck as U S senator. Hitchcock will take office January 5 when Leslie Jensen also assumes a seat. The appointment runs until the 1938 general election.
Herring Named in Suit Over $425000 Note
DES MOINES AP The Bankers Life Co filed in district court for $582403 on a 1922 note by Gov Clyde L Herring Also seeks foreclosure of a mortgage on the Ewing apartment building as security Defendants include Iowa Des Moines National Bank and Trust as trustee Dean W Trick and H L Horton The note was dated June 15 1922 for 425000
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Bankers Life Company
Clyde L. Herring
Insurance Company
Ewing
Governor Herring
Iowa Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Dean W. Trick
H. L. Horton
Woman Believed To Be Miss Butterfield Jumps From Hotel
A woman who identified herself as Elizabeth Butterfield of Minneapolis leapt to her death Tuesday from the Hotel Barbizon Plaza in New York after leaving a note saying her right name was Butterfield. She had registered as Margaret Canfield and eluded a Greenwich Connecticut nurse last week before fleeing a private nursing home.
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New York
Elizabeth Butterfield
Minneapolis
Barbizon Plaza
Margaret Canfield
Miss Butterfield
Greenwich
Pope Pius XI condition worsens as Vatican seeks recovery
Vatican sources report Pope Pius XI in very serious condition with circulatory stagnation spreading over four weeks. Despite dire outlook, officials note he may live days or months and plan to forgo most New Year ceremonies while continuing to withhold medical bulletins at his request.
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Vatican
Pius XI
Holy Father
Amanti Milani
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
St. John Lateran
Headlights Fail On Streamliner City of Portland
North Western railroad streamliner City of Portland westbound north of London loses headlights and a searchlight. Engineer George W. Toccsh, 61, of Belle Plaine, sustains hand burns and is treated at St. Luke's hospital, later released. Tr ain delayed about 30 minutes as temporary lights and repairs were made. City of Denver arrival times slip.
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Belle Plaine
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
North Western Round House
Portland
Denver
Inheritance tax set for Ida E. McBride estate
Des Moines reports the state treasurer's office announced an inheritance tax of 283.63 dollars on a 2836.25 dollar taxable estate of the late Ida E. McBride of Cedar Rapids Indiana.
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Des Moines
INS
Ida E. McBride
Cedar Rapids
Wallace Allocates 200 Million for Highway Improvements
Secretary Wallace assigns 200 million dollars in federal grants for highway work for the 1937 fiscal year. Funds cover federal aid highways 125 million farm to market roads 25 million and grade crossings elimination 50 million. Texas and New York receive the largest shares with state totals listed.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Texas
New York State
New York
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Iowa Unemployment Law Approved by Board
The social security board in Washington approved unemployment compensation acts for Iowa Michigan Minnesota and South Dakota affecting 268000 1103000 325000 and 48000 people respectively. The Iowa measure sets a 15 week 15 per week maximum benefit funded by employers with eight or more workers and a $5 minimum weekly payment.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
South Dakota
Des Moines
Federal Board
Clyde L. Herring
World's champion liar chosen in Burlington contest
Three judges selected the 1936 Burlington liars contest winner in Chicago. Entrants from around the world offered tall tales from hair tonic making rugs nap to flying fish eating mosquitoes. William Kindberg of Maumee Ohio described a nap causing rug fibers to lie flat and a lawn mower to trim the nap to ankle depth.
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Chicago
Burlington
Wis
Daniel Boone
Izaak Walton
O. C. Hulett
Burlington Club
Montana
William Kindberg
Maumee, O
Kindberg
Desperate search for kidnapped Charles Mattson in Washington woods
In Tacoma a large police force pushes into snowbound woods near Commencement Bay seeking 10 year old Charles Mattson said kidnapped. Officers risk exposure and possible harm to the boy as they hunt the kidnapper. Dr William W Mattson, the boy’s father, reports he cannot reach the kidnapper to pay the $28 000 ransom.
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Tacoma
Wash
INS
Washington
Commencement Bay
Charles Mattson
Charles
William W. Mattson
Ladder clue ties Franklin home to Mattson kidnapping case
Tacoma police studied a ladder seized from Mr and Mrs George G Franklin Jr amid claims the same ladder was used in failed kidnap attempts on a 6 year old neighbor. Officials emphasize safety of Charles Mattson and remain cautious about pursuing a single suspect theory while noting conflicting views among authorities.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
George G. Franklin, Jr
Franklins
Haddaway Hall
George Hunt Weyerhaeuser
Mattson
Franklin
Los Angeles
W. W. Mattson
Charles
Harold Bird
Mattsons
Seattle
Weather Stays Dreary as Temps Hover in Dismal Sky
Cedar Rapids endures drab conditions with fog and misty drizzle. Temperatures hold near 32 to 33 Monday night, rise to 35 Tuesday morning, 39 by midmorning, and reach 44 by 2:30 p.m. Rainfall totals 0.04 inches according to Chambers Inskeep graphs.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
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