Soviet Spy Network Tied to Liberty Motor Trade
The article identifies a Soviet espionage chief Makhnikovsky operating from AmTorg premises and coordinating arms-related activities. It describes Americans purchasing Liberty motors from the War Department, dismantling and repairing them, and obtaining War Department drawings. Senate figures Capper and Pittman push amendments to extend neutrality law and curb munitions sales during civil conflicts as Congress plans new legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Motors
War Department
Capper
Peiping Drug Adicts Given One Day to Be Cured or Die
Peiping government orders narcotics users to quit by New Year or be shot. An executive order allows executions of those found smoking or dealing opium after New Year as part of a broad anti-drug drive. Officials estimate up to 100000 residents could be eligible for shooting, with initial executions possibly limited to a few hundred.
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Peiping
Hopeh-Charhar
Calvary Baptist Church to Burn Mortgage on New Year's Eve
Calvary Baptist plans a watch night service at 10 p.m. Thursday to burn the church mortgage after a 6:30 p.m. choir cooperative supper for choir families. Trustees chair Martin Hansen and deacons chair Lester Elam, plus Mary Culley and Ruth Anthony, will handle the plate and torch. The choir, directed by Dorothy Miller, will perform. A Wednesday business meeting will report mortgage progress. The church, led by Rev. Richard V. Clearwaters, faced $6,000 debt two years ago. $5,000 has been paid with $500 in the treasury, leaving $500 to raise and a possible new mortgage if needed.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Martin Hansen
Lester Elam
Mary Culley
Ruth Anthony
Richard V. Clearwaters
Calvary Baptist
Dr Mattson's Son Abduction Forces National Kidnap Probe
Dr. Mattson seeks to pay a $200000 ransom after his son was abducted in a blizzard swept area near Tacoma. G men and state officers coordinate a broad search with police, deputies, and highway patrolers observing from the outskirts as the family endures freezing weather and constant phone lines. The case echoes the Lindbergh era with a ladder found at Haddaway Hall and multiple foiled entrance attempts tied to a suspect described as swarthy and middle aged. The boy’s mother pleads for his safety while Dr. Mattson refuses outside help and plans to handle the matter personally.
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Northwest
Charles
Mattson
Dr. Mattson
G-men
Tacoma
Haddaway Hall
George Franklin
J. P. Weyerhaeuser
George Weyerhaeuser
Franklin
Charles Mattson
Mattsons
Colorado Guard Captain Dies in Plane Crash near Deertrail
The body of Capt. Charles J. Lague of the Colorado National Guard was found near the wreckage of his biplane after a snowstorm. The nationally known pilot disappeared in the storm about fifty miles east of Denver, with witnesses spotting the crash from a distance.
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Denver
INS
Charles J. Lague
Colorado National Guard
Deertrail
Colo
Lague
Troy
Ohio
Omaha Doctor Suffers Heart Attack Here
Dr. John Wells a 36 year old Omaha physician collapsed at the Union Station about 3 30 a m Wednesday from a heart attack after buying a ticket for Omaha He was taken to Mercy hospital and reported improved later in the day He was believed to have stopped here to change trains on his way to Omaha.
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John Wells
Omaha
Union Station
Mercy Hospital
Marriage License for John Dixon and Erma Hin
John Dixon and Erma Hin of Marion obtained a marriage license.
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John Dixon and
Erma Hin
Marion
Son Of Accused Mail Clerk Found Apparent death by own action
William Ross Brandt 15 a high school sophomore was found shot to death in his Sioux Falls home with a pistol in his hand Coroner M O Lanam investigated His mother Mrs William J Brandt found the body after returning from a hospital where her husband an ex local post office clerk was ill He was arrested Nov 19 held to the grand jury on a charge of stealing from the mails
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Sioux Falls
S. D
William Ross Brandt
M. O. Lanam
William J. Brandt
Tugwell Issues Gag Order For Employes
Washington AP report says Rexford Tugwell, acting secretary of agriculture, issued a gag order barring current employees from discussing business and policy with former staff. Tugwell plans to resign to become an executive for a sugar and molasses company in New York City.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Rexford G. Tugwell
New York City
Mechanicsville Farmer Lucian E. Trump Dies of Pneumonia
Lucian E. Trump 40, a farmer southwest of Mechanicsville, died at his home Tuesday night after a illness since Sunday. He married Josephine Hatcher in 1921 and is survived by two children. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Philip Van Drooge officiating.
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Mechanicsville
Lucian E. Trump
Here
Josephine Hatcher
Presbyterian Church
Philip van Drooge
County to Continue Medical Relief Plan
Linn county will maintain medical relief for indigent patients with state support resuming Jan 1 at 60 percent and $1.50 per unemployment case. The plan covers county and city prisoners, jail inmates, county home residents, venereal care, and hospital patients with medical staff in Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon. The clinic remains in the courthouse basement and a medical society board of trustees oversees operations.
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Ivins
State Relief Department
Linn County
Alice Ferber
Medical Society
B. J. Moon
L. M. Downing
B. F. Wolverton
J. S. McQuiston
Robert M. Chapman
C. H. Stark
Cedar Rapids
F. F. Ebersole
Mount Vernon
Doctors Urge Bed Rest For Flu in Cedar Rapids
With an influenza epidemic in Linn County, the Linn County Medical Society advised all persons with colds to go to bed and stay there until well. They urged rest, warmth, and free elimination with mild laxatives, soft liquids, and no sedatives or alcohol. Call a physician if worse, as pneumonia cases have appeared. Employers should keep workers with bad colds home. The Midwest sees rising flu activity amid warm, damp winter weather.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Medical Society
Midwest
Chicago
WPA Workers Protest Relief Ruling They Can't Use Their Cars
Fourteen WPA workers primarily from Mount Vernon and Marion protested the Linn county relief committee ruling that no one on relief may operate an automobile after January 1. They argued transport to WPA projects up to fifteen miles away requires their cars. Supervisors deferred to the relief committee which will review exemption claims on transportation needs after investigation. Local WPA officials said no transportation orders had been issued and the matter rests with county relief authorities.
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WPA
Mount Vernon
Marion
Board of Supervisors
Linn County Relief Committee
Relief Committee
Chang Hsueh-Liang Ordered To Stand Trial
Nanking AP reports rebel marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang is ordered to face trial before the Nanking military commission Thursday for mutiny at Sianfu Chiang Kai-shek will preside After two weeks of captivity officials say verdicts are not being treated as routine and outcomes seem determined
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Nanking
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Sianfu
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chang
North States Hit by Snow Rain and Ice Storms
A storm system brought heavy snow and cold in the north while the south saw rain and fog. Duluth and Twin Cities area roads iced over as freezing rain glazed highways. North Dakota records subzero lows with Minot at 20 below. In Aberdeen South Dakota sleet crippled power and communications isolating thirteen towns as lines iced and poles fell.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Duluth
Twin Cities
North Dakota
Minot
Aberdeen
S. D
North
South Dakota
Iowa City franchises postponed by county supervisors
Johnson county supervisors delay action on Iowa City Light and Power company requests for franchises to build electric lines on highways 1 6 and 161 east and north of Iowa City after talks with supporters and opponents. The move ties to a broader plan for about 200 miles of line for 600 farmers in the county.
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Iowa City
Johnson County Board of Supervisors
Iowa City Light and Power Company
Here
County Rea
Downey
Orpha Jacobs
C. C
Holmquist Sheet Metal Company
Bennett
Oracle
Jay Smith
Mabel Groth
Bertha Denneny
Lizzie Chapman
Christine Reidesel
Helena Paulsen
Inner Sentinel
Helena Leck
Amanda Bannick
Louis Rees
Selma Bachus
Decorah
Julian Moe
LaCrosse
Minnesota
North Liberty
White Marble
Masonic Lodge
St. John’s
Masonic Hall
Verna Harris
Mervyn Green
Inez Anderson
Bruce Adams
Kathryn Meyers
Elizabeth Adams
Bruce Young
J. A. Worrell
Harris
Mr. Green
Delta
North Western Railroad
Atwood
What Cheer
Faces False Check Charge In Auto Deal
Leland Rouse, 24, of 1008 Third Street SE, was jailed after a Saturday arrest on uttering a false check. He faces arraignment on the charge, connected to a car purchase from Milroy Uniziert. A prior coal theft case from Merveaux Coal Co. remains pending.
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Leland Rouse
Third Street
Rouse
Justice A. S. Reed
Milroy Unzeitig
Merveaux Coal Company
Shaver Road
Unzeitig
Boy with Broken Arm Undergoes Elbow Operation
James Brundrett twelve of 1138%4 Fifth Street NW underwent an operation on his left elbow at St Luke's hospital Tuesday. His arm fractured a week earlier when he fell from a bicycle and surgery was delayed due to swelling and a Christmas day cold. He remained in the hospital.
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James Brundrett
Fifth Street NW
St. Luke’s Hospital
Brundrett
Bandit with Revolver Robs Phillips Station
A man with a nickel plated revolver robs the till of about 35 dollars at the Phillips gas station at Fifth avenue and Tenth street SE around 5 50 p m Tuesday. Attendant Charles Cejka notes the suspect is 25 to 30, 5 8, 180 pounds, wearing overalls and a hunting cap. Police questioned one suspect but cannot ID the bandit.
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Phillips
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street SE
Charles Cejka
Cejka
French Move to End Penal Colonies in Guiana
Paris AP reports France seeks to reform its penal system and abolish Devil's Island by permitting the Guiana prison colony to extinguish itself. About 3,000 inmates would not be freed outright. they would be pardoned, serve remaining terms, or die as the colony winds down.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
French Guiana
Devil's Island
Guiana
Vandenberg Opens Battle To Block Florida Ship Canal
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan renewed his drive to block reconsideration of the $168,000,000 Florida ship canal. He attacked a favorable army engineers report in a letter to Maj. Gen Markham, chief of the army engineers, as Congress weighs the project.
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Washington
INS
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Florida
Congress
Markham
Army Engineers
Army Board of Engineers
Ghosts of Ambulance Racket Exposed in Chicago
West, a former auto parts salesman, describes a scheme using a bruise machine to stage accidents and file fake claims. He names a doctor and a lawyer who allegedly profit from ambulance chasing amid a citywide uproar after a fatal elevated train crash.
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West
Clarfene
Chicago
Wests Associates
Coe Football Player Undergoes Knee Operation
Alfred Sammet a 22 year old Coe college football tackle of 2025 D street SW underwent an operation on his right knee at St Luke s hospital Wednesday. Sammet was injured November 13 in the Grinnell game and has been under treatment since. Two years ago he suffered a similar injury to the same knee requiring another operation.
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Alfred Sammet
Coe
D Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Sammet
Grinnell
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Vic
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Haakonyi
King Features Syndicate, Inc
World Rights
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Feg Murray
Tugwell
Cedar Rapids Auto
North States
Iowa News
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Vandenberg
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