Hitler aims to block Soviet Germany rapprochement in purge
Paris dispatch reports Adolf Hitlerions purge of the German army command to cement control and prevent any rapprochement with the Soviet Union. It cites von Fritsch and other generals favoring a Rapallo-like link with Russia, while conservatives weaken after the Rhineland move and Stalin’s purges, signaling shifts in foreign policy and leadership.
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Kollter
Paris
Ins
Soviet Union
Germany
Werner von Fritsch
Reichswehr
Hitler
Red Army
Tuchachevsky
Italy
Japan
Russia
Europe
Nazi Party
Fuehrer
Rhineland
General Staff
Stalin
von Hindenburg
Communist Party
von Fritsch
Hitler Moves Von Reichenau to Leipzig and Weakens Czech Defenses
The transfer of General Von Reichenau from Munich to Leipzig signals a strategic push toward Czech invasion. Hitler's purge in 1934 cemented army support, while France and the Soviet Union hedge against new German boldness as Goering and Goering’s era of obedience under the Fuehrer persists.
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von Reichenau
Munich
Leipzig
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Japan
Red Army
Ernst Boehm
Army
von Fritsch
Fuehrer
UAW seeks million weekly relief for Michigan workers
UAW president Homer Martin urged President Roosevelt to provide a direct relief of one million dollars weekly to prevent starvation among Michigan’s unemployed. The appeal followed a mass rally of over 100,000 in Cadillac Square as auto plants ran on reduced schedules and more than 250,000 were jobless.
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Detroit
Michigan
Roosevelt
United Automobile Workers Union
Homer Martin
UAW
Cadillac Square
Man Held On Suspicion Of Stolen Tools Offered For Sale
Morrison 39 of 126 Thirtieth Street Drive SE was arrested Saturday noon at a local hotel by Detectives Marshall and Bailey. He is being held on suspicion of possessing stolen tools he offered for sale. The tools include a $25 screw driver and a $35 half inch drill. Morrison gave varying stories on ownership and found the items behind a city market signboard.
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Mirl Morrison
Marshall
Morrison
Ohio
Bailey
Earl Stanley
Iowa
Swims Thirty Feet Under Ice To Save Boy From Drowning
In Minneapolis an 8 year old boy was saved from drowning in the Mississippi River after an under ice swim of about thirty feet. Frank Broszak a 27 year old laborer pulled the boy to shore and he was hospitalized for exposure. Juris is the rescued boy and his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Juris.
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Minneapolis
Mississippi
Robert Juris
Paul Juris
General Hospital
Frank Broszak
Goldwyn Opposes Double Features in Chicago Fight
Samuel Goldwyn, prominent Hollywood producer, aligns with Chicago Parent Teachers' association opposing double feature screenings in motion picture houses. He joins the effort to curb extended showings and preserve audience standards.
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Hollywood
INS
Samuel Goldwyn
Hollywood Film Producers
Parent-Teachers’ Association of Chicago
City Clerk Prepares For March School And City Elections
With three elections in March Cedar Rapids vote registrations must be updated for changes of address name or eligibility. Registrations close March 4 with a three day open period March 16-18 before the March 28 city final election. School board candidates may file February 14 for two vacancies.
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L. J. Storey
Storey
Cedar Rapids
State of
Iowa
Dorsey Hedberg
Board of Education
H. H. Hoadley
Frank G. Kanak
Fourth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Bever Park
Government attack opens chances for advances in south
Government sources say a successful attack on the Granada front creates new possibilities for advances in southern Spain. Government forces captured Pena de la Mata, a dominating height about 12 miles from Granada, enabling a junction of lines from Jaen to the north and Murcia to the east.
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Hendaye
France
Granada
Spain
Pena de la Mata
Jaen
Murcia
Insurgent Columns Push Six Miles in Alfambra Sector
Salamanca Spain insurgent columns advanced more than six miles in the Alfambra sector 16 miles north of Teruel as loyalist defense lines collapsed at several points. More than 1,000 enemy losses were reported, according to insurgent headquarters Saturday night.
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Salamanca
Spain
Alfambra
Teruel
Hardisty Divorce Granted by Default in Reno
Mrs. Ethel Staunton Hardisty former wife of William E Waterman of the Fountain Pen company was granted a secret divorce decree by default Friday from John T Har disty Atlanta Ga revealed Saturday
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Reno, Nev
Ins
Ethel Staunton Hardisty
William E. Waterman
The
Fountain Pen Company
John T. Hardisty
Atlanta, Ga
High Court to Ponder Holding Company Act Case
The Supreme Court weighs the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act requiring holding firms to register with the SEC in a case brought by Electric Bond and Share. The government expected to prevail as justices prepare for arguments next Monday amid shifting court dynamics and prior Roosevelt court battles.
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Washington
Administration
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Public Utility Holding Company
Securities and Exchange Commission
EBS
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Stanley F. Reed
Hugo L. Black
Senate
India would face imperial risk if Britain seeks Far East war
The text argues India cannot be used as pawns in a potential Britain Japan clash. It notes India’s 70 000 British troops and 250 000 Indian soldiers, all under British officers, would need replacements if sent abroad. It concludes Britain would struggle to recruit, fund, or replace forces, making a Far East war unlikely.
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India
Japan
Far East
Great Britain
Britain
Whale Trapped in San Francisco Bay Threatens Ships
A 60 foot gray whale, stranded in San Francisco Bay, hazards trans bay navigation as lookouts on ferryboats warn and harbor authorities track its movements. Mariners describe it as old and disoriented, barnacle covered and prone to ramming vessels if approached.
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San Francisco Bay
San Francisco
Marliners
Golden Gate
Louis L. Lane
Marine Department of the Chamber of Commerce
Bay
California
Lane
North Pacific
Noe In Condition To Quit Hospital
Rev Israel H Noe who fasted 22 days and collapsed on January 24 is in condition to leave Baptist hospital after gaining from 100 to 137 pounds and starting solid foods. Doctors say no plans have been made to transfer him to a Florida friend’s home for recuperation.
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Memphis
Tenn
Conley Sanford
Israel H. Noe
Baptist Hospital
Noe
Florida
U S Plans for Bigger Battleships Could Loom If Limits Rise
Washington AP reports the navy has draft plans for larger battleships and 18 inch guns if the 35 000 ton treaty ceiling is abandoned. A 43000 ton super dreadnought with a dozen 16 inch guns could cost up to 100 million dollars. Months would pass before keel laying as thousands of plans are prepared and canal clearance considered.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
France
Panama Canal
North Carolina
Congress
Congress Protests Naval Spending Amid Foreign Policy Debate
Congressional protests against federal armament expenditures threaten the 800 million navy building program. Senator La Follette demands administration clarification on foreign policy before approving changes. Senator Borah may join the conflict. In the House, 15 to 20 congressmen met to form a 9 man steering committee to seek full information on American foreign policy and naval expansion needs.
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Washington
Robert M. la Follette
Wis
William E. Borah
Ida
Capitol Hill
House
Henry C. Luckey
Neb
U S Representative to Visit Mrs Rubens to Probe Spy Case
A United States embassy official will meet with Mrs Ruth Marie Rubens in Moscow on Monday to pursue questions about her trip to Russia and her arrest on espionage charges. Soviet authorities agreed to the visit but scheduling was delayed by the Sunday holiday.
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Moscow
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
Russia
Prohibition Plan Adopted by United Methodist Council
Four thousand delegates at the United Methodist council final session unanimously adopt a five point crusade program with chief aim to reestablish national prohibition. The plan enlists all church members to abolish liquor traffic gambling racial prejudice war and economic injustice.
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Chicago
United Methodist Council
Methodist Church
Committee On Review
Anamosa Man Arrested On Intoxication Charge
Ed Beneshek, 45, of Anamosa, arrested at First avenue and Fifteenth street E at 7 p.m. Saturday. He was charged with intoxication after two civilians stopped his car for erratic driving. Police found two picnic bottles of beer in a bag in the vehicle. The civilians refused to testify, and police noted prior arrests in 1936 with fines and costs totaling $150.
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Ed Beneshek
Anamosa
First Avenue
Fifteenth Street E
Beneshek
Funeral services for Mrs. Carl Lundine
Funeral services for Mrs. Carl Lundine, a former Cedar Rapids resident who died in Chicago on Friday, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in Turner chapel with Rev. F. J. Carlson of Saron Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Linwood cemetery. body arrives Cedar Rapids this afternoon and friends may call after 6 p.m. today.
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Carl Lundine
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Turner Chapel
F. J. Carlson
Saron Lutheran Church
Linwood Cemetery
Little Fellows Association Would Throw Out All Laws Since War Days
The American Association of Small Business Men announced itself at a White House meeting led by President M. A. Moers of Cincinnati. Moers said the group elected officers and collected 761 initiation fees, and aims to discard post armistice legislation to start a new slate.
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Washington
INS
American Association of Small Business Men
M. A. Moers
Cincinnati
Little Business Congress
White House
Moers
Japan Weighs Reply To Naval Talks Amid Watchful Waiting
Japan faces pressure to respond by February 20, giving five days for the U S navy to compile complex data. Yonai signals a watchful waiting stance on British and American naval expansion while Hirota urges improved U S relations and downplays China fighting as merely an incident.
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Japan
Navy Department
Yonai
America
Hirota
Diet
Parliament
U. S
League of Nations
China
Woman Rancher Held on Murder Conspiracy Charge
Miss Leonora Simpson, 55, a wealthy Willows ranch owner, is held on a charge of conspiring to murder. Her bail could reach up to 100000 as she along with two ranch hands indicted by the grand jury prepare to seek bail in a motion before Superior Judge Rankin. They allegedly paid 500 to hire Joe Swihart to shoot attorney H. W. McGowan.
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Joe Swihart
Oroville
H. W. McGowan
California
Glenn County
Operator of Share Expense Traveling Bureau Is Sentenced
DENVER AP Howard Steed operator of the Share Expense traveling bureau was fined 100 and sentenced to three months in jail by Federal District Judge J Foster Symes. Steed pled guilty to violating the motor carrier act of 1935 as one of 29 bureau operators nationwide indicted by a Denver grand jury.
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Denver
Howard Steed
J. Foster Symes
Steed
Protests Over Manhandling Of Yank Reporter In Shanghai
United States Consul General Clarence E. Gauss delivered a written protest to the Japanese consul after an American reporter, W. F. Meisling of the North China Daily News, was allegedly manhandled by Japanese troops while trying to photograph a scrap iron dump in Shanghai's international settlement.
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Shanghai
INS
United States
Clarence E. Gauss
W. F. Meisling
North China Daily News
International Settlement
Oil heir's former wife weds man she testified against
In Pittsburgh Mrs. William L. Mellon Jr. married John Evans Rose, the man she testified against in his first wife's divorce suit. The ceremony followed her divorce from the Gulf Oil heir, three weeks earlier, and notes that she had aided Rose's first wife Jane Murphy of Baltimore in securing a divorce in 1936.
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Pittsburgh
INS
William L. Mellon, Jr
John Evans Rose
Mellon
Rose
Gulf Oil
Jane Murphy
Baltimore
Suspension of Northwest Routes West of Chicago
The Bureau of Air Commerce announced Saturday the suspension of all passenger service on Northwest Airlines routes west of Chicago until the line meets department regulations.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Northwest Airlines
Chicago
Japanese Launch Vital Offensive Near Anwhei Front
Chinese defenses at Pengpu are praised by Chiang Kai-shek but warn that unless Japanese advances on northern or southern fronts are halted the situation could become untenable. Seven Japanese warships shelled Papan near the Pearl River, killing and wounding scores of Chinese.
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Anwhei
Chiang Kai-shek
Pengpu
Canton
Pearl River
Papan
Kilmer Country Home in Virginia Destroyed by Fire
The country home of Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Binghamton New York was destroyed by fire in Urbanna Virginia with damages about 200000. Kilmer’s horse paintings worth 100000 and Mrs Kilmer’s furs and clothing were lost. The Kilmer stables housing 100 horses half a mile away were unharmed and included Exterminator and Nedayr among its stock.
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Urbanna
INS
Willis Sharpe Kilmer
Binghamton
N. Y
Kilmer
Exterminator
Nedayr
Inter Ocean Reinsurance expands term to 1958 in Cedar Rapids filings
Renewal and amended articles filed in county records extend the Inter Ocean Reinsurance Company of Cedar Rapids twenty years to April 15, 1958 with a $500000 capitalization. Directors include Roy E. Curray Karl P. Blaise J. W. Bollinger and others. officers list Roy E. Curray as president and Karl P. Blaise as vice president among 1950s Cedar Rapids corporate changes. Renewal for Washington Avenue Realty Company Cedar Rapids extends term to 1957 with $16000 capitalization. Nellie M. Byrnes presides with Robert C. Byrnes as vice president and Charles E. Byrnes as secretary.
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Inter- Ocean Reinsurance Company of
Cedar Rapids
County Recorder
Dempsy Jones
Inter-Ocean Concern
Roy E. Curray
Karl P. Blaise
J. W. Bollinger
Robert Brooke
L. W. Canby
Howard H. Cherry
W. H. Dunshee
James E
James &. Hamilton
R. E. Jones
E. M. Pinney
Washington Avenue Realty Company of
Nellie M. Byrnes
Robert C. Byrnes
Charles E. Byrnes
Sepa Estes
Mary Louise Covert
Two Wills Probated and Civil Judgments Entered
The will of Noah Effron Cedar Rapids religious leader died Jan 24 probated with widow as life beneficiary and children as residuary legatees executor Charles Greenberg named. Emma Kindler Marion will dated June 9 1937 probated with children as beneficiaries and George A. Kindler executor. District Judge Haas granted default judgments in note actions totaling 651.87 and 267.71 against Bert Ammeter. Harper Auto Refinishing chattel mortgage suit dismissed with costs. Divorce awarded to Caroline Reinheimer from Archie Dallas Reinheimer with custody and property settlement. Real estate commission suit Collard v Carberry Griswold dismissed with prejudice.
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Noah Effron
Cedar Rapids
George A. Kindler
C. J. Haas
C. W. Vetter
Bert Ammeter
Mary Ammeter
Yetter
Harper Auto Refinishing Company
Plaintiff
Ottumwa
Earle E. Wright
Elizabeth Graham
Caroline Reinheimer
H. C. Ring
Archie Dallas Reinheimer
Anamosa
Fred E. Collard and Company
Ruth J. Carberry
Charles M. Griswold
Reporters Fooled by Stokowski Marriage Gambit
Leopold Stokowski stunned reporters by sailing to Europe aboard the Conte di Savoia secured with a ticket under the name A. R. Allen. The move followed rising Hollywood rumors he would wed Greta Garbo, a claim he did not confirm.
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New York
INS
Leopold Stokowski
Hollywood
Greta Garbo
Conte di Savoia
Europe
A. R. Allen
Britain Wages Secret War Against Web of Spies
London reports a secret 18 month battle by the British government against an underground spy and saboteur network delaying Britain's rearmament program. The Woolwich artillery secrets case implicates four suspects as Scotland Yard widens counter espionage efforts nationwide led by Miss X who testified at Bow Street.
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London
INS
Britain
Woolwich Arsenal
Woolwich
Scotland Yard
Miss X
Bow Street Court
Chiang Kai-shek orders unity to resist Japan in war prep
Shanghai dispatch reports Chiang Kai-shek publicizes 40 000 word training notes urging officers to unite and maintain uniform thought to resist Japan. The notes warn China’s military must improve despite inferiority and push defensive buildup nationwide to exhaust the enemy inch by inch.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Russia
United States
China
Opposition Faces Final Draft of Farm Measure
Western senators oppose the administration farm bill final draft after month of conferences. Senate Chairman Ellison D. Smith and House Chairman Marvin Jones will report the finished bill Monday. Supporters predict quick approval with immediate House consideration and a debate rule likely to pass Tuesday.
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Washington
Ellison D. Smith
Marvin Jones
Senate
House Agricultural Committees
House
Jones
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von Blomberg
Imelines
Czech
Boehm
Goering
Goldwyn
High Court
Mrs. Rubens
Es Moines
W. S. Kilmer
Court House News
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Co
Stokowski
Web of
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Karpis
J. Edgar Hoover
Alvin Karpis
Public Enemy No. 1
Cleveland
Justice Department
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