Germans deny intentions to seize Danzig amid European tensions
Berlin blasts France and accuses Soviet Union of paying French journalists to spread rumors about Danzig. The Reich denounces claims of plans to annex Danzig as Soviet deception and criticizes Austria and Schuschnigg. Officials defend German-Polish stand and flag wider European interference concerns.
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Berlin
INS
Germany
Austria
France
Soviet Union
Reich
Danzig
Tabouis
Jew Pertinax
Echo de Paris
Pertinax
Genevieve Tabouis
L’oeuvre
Paris
Poland
France demands end to intervention in Spanish Civil War
Paris presses for swift setup of enforcement to halt aid to Franco as Blum warns Italy and Germany. Corbin heads to London to renew neutrality talks while Portugal’s frontiers and potential blockade plans are debated amid fears for French African communications.
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Paris
France
Europe
Leon Blum
Italy
Germany
Charles Corbin
London
Corbin
International Non-Intervention Committee
Franco
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Portugal
Socialist National Council
Blum
Lum
Great Britain
Spain
Palestine Development Tells Rotarians of a Jewish Homeland
Rabbi David Polish of Temple Judah spoke at the Rotary club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Monday. He described conditions during his visit to the Land and outlined plans for a future settlement where hundreds of thousands of Jews would gain freedom from fear and oppression to advance language literature science and art.
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Palestine
David Polish
Temple Judah
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Hotel
More Flood Relief Donations From Linn Towns
The Linn county chapter of the American Red Cross reports flood relief gifts totaling 21 791 10 by Monday noon. New contributions include 53 from Central City to reach 320 38, 18 25 from Walker to 179 80, and 49 82 from Coggon to 67 04 with 15 from a Coggon theater benefit, 14 82 from a Legion card party, and 5 each from several church groups and auxiliaries.
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Linn County
American Red Cross
Central City
Walker
Coggon
Coggon Theater
American Legion Post No
Ladies Aid of the
Church of Christ
American Legion Auxiliary
Ladies Aid
The
Coggon Methodist Church
Bethany Circle of the
Methodist Church
One Bid Placed on Old P. D. Building
The bidding for the Old P. D. Building attracted a single bid as officials from the procurement office and Admiral Christian Peoples oversee the process. A treasury appraisal remains confidential unless bidding actions require disclosure for price comparison purposes.
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P. D
Admiral Christian Peoples
Treasury Department
Anderson Guards Hold Line as Workers Return to GM Plants
In Anderson Indiana National Guardsmen patrolled GM plants Guide Lamp and Delco Remy after martial law followed a Saturday shooting incident. About 8 000 workers returned at Delco Remy and 2 200 at Guide Lamp with no disturbances reported.
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Delco Remy
South Side
Old Post Office Structure in Cedar Rapids Reassessed
W R Boyd, then postmaster, notes the old post office is well built. A wreck would net less than its materials sold, valued site at 79 287 94, with remodeling making it a three story edifice by 1910. The original two story building cost 105 814 06 on 24 185 94 site, later expanded with a 55 102 site addition and 111 foot extension. Total building cost reached 273 854 38.
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W. R. Boyd
Cedar Rapids
Cummings Attacks Supreme Court Powers Over Roosevelt Plan
Cummings scoffs at fears of dictatorship and rails at inferior court rulings and “reckless use of the injunctive power.” He argues the push is to keep a favorable bench and urges democracy to work. Roosevelt to speak tonight on coast-to-coast radio amid support from Sen Minton.
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Roosevelt
Cummings
Mr. Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Sen
Sherman Minton
Ind
Death Toll Mounts In Manchukuo Theater Fire
ANTUNG Manchukuo AP Every available carpenter and lumberjack pressed into service to coffins for 800 Chinese burned to death in a theater fire sparked by a candle behind a screen at the Manchu Wutai playhouse. About 1 500 people crowded inside when the blaze began Saturday night and a balcony collapsed.
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Antung
Manchukuo
Japan
Manchuria
Manchu Wutai
Iowa House Approves Change In Jury Verdict
The Iowa House approved a constitutional amendment to let nine of twelve jurors render civil case verdicts and passed nine minor bills. A bill to keep a 2 percent sales tax with bread and milk exemptions and a system of tax tokens was introduced by Rep. Ed R. Brown. The amendment moves to a public vote in 1938 if the senate concurs.
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DES Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
Ed R. Brown
House
General Assembly
Senate
Supreme Court and Congress Clash Over Judgment Power
The piece warns that Congress can alter the number of justices to alter outcomes and fears evasion of constitutional limits. It argues that only public opinion can deter such manipulation, stressing the people’s wisdom as the ultimate safeguard against revolutionary distortion of law.
Pastor 29 Marries 14-Year-Old Bride Then Returns West Virginia
Norfolk dispatch notes Rev. Frederick Steel 29 takes new wife Alice Marian Hewitt 14 to West Virginia hills for pastoral duties. Ceremony performed in Elizabeth City North Carolina due to Virginia law. Alice plans to play piano in Steel's Pentecostal Church of Christ at Matewan while he leads singing.
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Norfolk
Lank
Frederick Steel
West Virginia Hills
Alice Marian Hewitt
Hewitts
Steels
Virginia
Elizabeth City
N. C
Justice of the Peace
Alice
Steel
Rev. Steel
Pentecostal Church of Christ
Matewan
W. Va
Denies British Plan Action On Colonies
London reports that Britain will not pursue unilateral action to meet Hitler’s colonial demands. Viscount Cranbourne, under-secretary for foreign affairs, rejected the rumor in the house of commons in a emphatic statement.
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London
INL
Great Britain
Hitler
House of Commons
Viscount Cranbourne
Pope Pius Suffering New Leg Pain Unable to Leave Bed
Vatican report says Pope Pius the twelfth remains abed with renewed leg pain following his walking experiment. He slept well but was not moved from his bed chair as in recent days.
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Vatican City
Inl
Pius Monday
Rhodes Confesses Owa City Murder in Dynamite Plot
Rhodes admitted plotting the slaying for two months and bought dynamite to load a shotgun shell. He told officers of discussing divorce to marry another woman. Coroner notes shotgun pellets found. Rhodes previously linked to quarry work near Cedar Rapids. Funeral services were held in Tama after his arrest.
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Johnson County
Akers
Rhodes
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Marilyn
Nancy
W. L. Brown
Tama
Helen
Lois
Leah
Cleveland
Capitalist De Witt Gains Control of General Stockyards
John De Witt a Chicago and New York investment banker gains 51 percent of General Stockyards for about 1 million dollars by buying 32 000 shares from Phillip D Armour and Leslie Armour. He plans to offer the remaining stockholders the same price and may exchange into United Securities upon two thirds acceptance. General will retire its preferred stock and be dissolved, with holdings in St Paul Sioux City Fort Worth and Toronto poised for United control. Leslie Armour chairs the board and J A Shoemaker is president. General's stake in St Louis National Stockyards will be liquidated.
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Chicago
INS
John de Witt
New York
General Stockyards Corporation
Phillip D
Leslie Armour
de Witt
Armour Brothers
DeWitt
General Stockyards
United Stockyards Corporation
United
General
United Securities
St. Paul
Sioux City
Fort Worth
Toronto
J. A. Shoemaker
Denver
Zion Ill Preacher Gets Six Months For Mann Act Violation
The Rev Finis Jennings Duke of Zion Illinois surrendered to federal authorities to serve a six month sentence after pleading guilty to taking a 16 year old Kenosha girl on trips to Illinois. He was jailed locally before removal to the house of correction and had told his flock he was the hap piest man this side of Heaven after renewing contact with divine authority.
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Milwaukee
Finis Jennings Duke
Zion
Ill
Heaven
House of Correction
Kenosha
Illinois
Japan Parliament Confronts Army Cabinet in Policy Debate
In Tokio the lower house halted for an hour as a member was expelled amid questions for Premier Senjuro Hayashi on his new cabinet's policies. Hayashi pledged constitutional rule, East Asia stability, peaceful ties with China and Soviet Russia, cautious handling of the Germany accord, and continued friendship with the U.S. and Britain. Naval non-aggression remains unchanged.
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Gen. Hayashi
East Asia
China
Soviet Russia
Japan
Germany
Gen
Hayashi
United States
Great Britain
Mystery sky writer drops Soviet symbol over Vienna
In Vienna a sky writer released a smoke hammer and sickle over the city then fled, prompting a chase by Austrian air forces. The planelike message disappeared toward Czechoslovakia at high altitude, raising diplomatic tensions and suspicions of Soviet origin amid regional fears of air power reach.
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Vienna
INS
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Russia
Czech
City Briefs and Personal Notices Summary
Boatswain William FE White visiting Cedar Rapids with U S Navy and visiting C C Hudnall head of local navy recruiting. Judge George C Scott cancels naturalization certificate for Jouzapas Mainelis who returned to Lithuania in 1933. Homecrafters club meets at H H Kemper workshop with Cecil Seger of Marion to present a demonstration. Fire damages carburetor of a MaKibben Motor Co car at 114 First Street NW. no other losses reported.
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William FE. White
U.S.S. Robin
San Diego
Calif
Cedar Rapids
C. C. Hudnall
Navy
George C. Scott
Sioux City
Jouzapas
Mainelis
Lithuania
H. H. Kemper
Edgewood School No. 2
Cecil Seger
Marion
MaKibben Motor Company
First Street NW
City Council OKs Craemers Dry Goods alley bridge plan
At a brief Monday session the city council approved on its third reading an ordinance granting Craemer's Dry Goods permission to erect an enclosed bridge from the rear of its store across the alley to either the current building on the south or a proposed new building under discussion.
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Craemer’s Dry Goods Company
Fraudulent Check Spotted At Local Stores
A spurious check drawn on Merchants bank payable to Ed Eilers and signed Louie Burgess surfaced after J. F. Nixon of the seed store reported a man bought a radio battery for 1.19, paid with a 9.85 check, and received 8.63 change. The bank returned the check as no account. West Side Sewing Machine Company also cashed a similar bad check for the same amount on Saturday.
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Merchants Bank
Ed Eilers
Louie Burgess
Palo
J. F. Nixon
West Side Sewing Machine Company
39th anniversary of the Maine explosion observed by lodge
The Maine lodge of the Odd Fellows marks the 39th anniversary of the Battleship Maine explosion with an evening program at 838 First Avenue East. Impromptu talks recall ship souvenirs and the ill fated vessel. the lodge will confer the second degree on a class of candidates.
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Maine
Havana Harbor
Maine Lodge of the Odd Fellows
First Avenue E
Rogers Cheating Case Dismissed in Central City Court
A charge of cheating by false pretenses against Othel E. Rogers, slated for a Wednesday hearing in Justice Churchill’s court near Central City, was dismissed at the complainant David S. Thomas’s request and county attorney’s recommendation. Rogers was arrested Friday by Constable William J. Fleming. The case stemmed from an automobile deal with the Handler Motor company.
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H. R. Churchill
Othel E. Rogers
Central City
David S. Thomas
Rogers
William J. Fleming
Handler Motor Company
Memorial service for Mrs Douglas set for Feb 28
Announcement of a memorial service at the First Presbyterian church on Sunday February 28 at 4 pm honoring Mrs George B Douglas who died in January. The program will be musical with participation by the First Presbyterian church choir Coe college choir and the Cornell college string quartet. Public and members of her associated organizations are invited.
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First Presbyterian Church
George B. Douglas
Coe College
Cornell College
Driver Cleared of Unauthorized Vehicle Charge in Cedar Rapids
Andy Dyrland 40 of Cedar Rapids saw charges of operating a motor vehicle without owner's consent dismissed in Justice A S Reed's court at the witness's request. Dyrland was arrested Monday at 7 15 am on a warrant and the truck in his possession was registered to Joe Hadsell.
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Andy Dyrland
Cedar Rapids
A. S. Reed
Joe Hadsell
Dyrland
Justice Reed
Hadsell
Two Die in Mexican Agrarian Clash near Mexico City
Two persons were killed and about forty injured at San Jose seven miles from Mexico City in a clash between agrarian elements. Red Cross aides said Monday.
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Mexico City
San Jose
Red Cross
Vicks Plan for Better Control of Colds
A vintage Vicks advertisement outlines two steps to prevent and relieve colds. It recommends fresh air rest liquids and Vicks Va-tro-nol for prevention, then VapoRub for overnight relief with chest massage and a warm cloth. The plan claims fewer and shorter colds from a large clinic study.
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Vicks VapoRub
VapoRub
VICKS
Knights Crusade Topic To Be Discussed In KC Meeting
Joseph P. Gockel of the Knights of Columbus supreme council will discuss The Knights Crusade at a Cedar Rapids council 909 gathering. Attendees include state and local council representatives from Iowa City Amana De Witt Marengo and Monticello. Gockel will describe the international movement to strengthen anti communist and anti atheism efforts. Grand Knight Ward Loftus invites all members as guests of the council.
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Knights’ Crusade
Joseph P. Gockel
Knights of Columbus Supreme Council
New Haven
Ward Loftus
Order
Don Spaight
W. H. Redmond
Edward McPartland
Sam Stohl
Joe McCormick
Kidneys Must Clean Out Acids
Advertisement promises a guaranteed Cystex cure for kidney and bladder disorders with a Bank of America deposit guarantee. It claims to detoxify acids and wastes in 48 hours and restore vitality in a week, urging readers to call their druggist.
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Bank of America
Los Angeles
Calif
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Schuschnigg
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Et Mens
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Yerskine Johnson
George Scarbo
NCE
SOCAL
High Sho News Paper
Broun Howard
Brown Har
Bluelyes
Ohio
Real Nave
Sohn Cox
Atri
Linn
Anderson
Iowa
Congress
Johnson
Grant
Supreme Court
Hills
Pope
Owa City
George D. Callahan
May
Mays Tea Room
Check
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K. C
Pacific Mutual Check
John
Pacific Mutual
Oscar J. Larson
Higley
Dial
Sea Oy Serael Company
Iesas Ri
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