Finland Prefers Neutral Path Amid European Tensions
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkko emphasizes neutrality and readiness to defend it, noting plans to fortify the Aaland islands as a practical defense. Public opinion shows mixed views on anti aggression pacts with Germany and distrust of Russia, while trade and sentiment tilt toward Western powers.
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Helsinki
Finland
Europe
E. O. Erkko
Erkko
Aaland Islands
Russia
Germany
Moscow
Prague
Elms Form Natural Arch Over Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids residents transformed Second Avenue into a green arch of elm trees. Planting began in the early 1890s as homes expanded, creating a durable, shaded boulevard now famed as one of eastern Iowa’s most picturesque residential scenes. The 1500 block extends west along Second avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secondavanna
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Second Avenue
Ruling Grants Coal Miners Unemployment Pay for Holiday
Circuit Judge J. Q. Smith ruled 5 000 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad workers qualify for 350 000 to 500 000 in unemployment benefits after a seven week mine holiday. The decision credits the company with causing the shutdown rather than unions, despite union attorney statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
J. Q. Smith
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
U. S. Steel
Yelverton Cowherd
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Smith
James A. Simpson
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Alfonso XIII Won't Abdicate Ready to Return to Spain
Paris dispatch reports Former King Alfonso XIII refuses to abdicate and remains ready to resume the throne after a Lausanne monarchist meeting. He backs a constitutional monarchy with Franco as el caudillo, and opposes a Carlist return led by Xavier. socialist moderates support restoration to pacify Spain and allow exilees to return.
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Alfonso
Spain
Paris
Alfonso XIII
Lausanne
Switzerland
Prince Xavier
Don Juan
Xavier
Franco
Julian Besteiro
Gen
Segismundo Casado
Primo de Rivera
el Caudillo
Mussolini
Italy
Zaragossa
Quinones de Leon
Romanones
Duke of
Alba
de Luca de Tena
Finance
Garnica
Falangists
Ramon Serrano Suner
Smith rules unions entitled to seven weeks benefits
In a pair of decisions, Judge Smith held that members of the CIO and AFL captive mine union are entitled to seven weeks of benefits. The appeal came from the state department of industrial relations after a June ruling favored the miners. A separate note describes a mongrel dog at a station then at the hospital where a woman later died.
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Ets
Smith
CIO
American Federation of Labor
Board of Appeals
State Department of Industrial Relations
Psychic Dog Coincidence Puzzles Suburban Police
Police in a Chicago suburb reported a puzzling case centered on a small dog linked to a series of coincidences. Authorities say the events appear accidental, though the unusual connection has attracted local attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Deering
Probe wealth of Czech leaders investigation
The official national unity party decided Saturday to investigate the wealth of political and economic leaders in Bohemia and Moravia under German protection and in the former Czechoslovakia, aiming to root out corruption and increase transparency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
National Unity Party
Germany
Bohemia and Moravia
Czechoslovakia
Trouble in Voyage To N W Passage Near Alaska
Coast guard cutter Morris heads from Seward to aid the grounded 38 foot Pandora off Cape St. Elias in southeastern Alaska. Dr H F Kellems and five companions aboard are believed safe though the vessel sits in water. The crew includes Viviannne Kellems, Cecil J Brooks, A Y Owen, Ira Jones, and Leo Clark.
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Seward
Alaska
Coast Guard
Morris
Gulf of Alaska
Pandora
Cape St. Elias
Cape
H. F. Kellems
Oklahoma
Cordova
Kellems
Seattle
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic
Roald Amundsen
Vivienne Kellems
University of Oklahoma
Cecil J. Brooks
Cook
A. Y. Owen
Ira Jones
Leo Clark
Oklahoma City
Little Girl Injured After Car Crash in City Street
Darla Marie Hicks, 14, suffered a cut on the back of her head at 3 30 p.m. Saturday when she fell from her car after an accident on First street SE between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Benjamin McLain, 33, of 310 First Avenue W, drove into Hicks car as Mrs Hicks backed from a parking space. The door swung open and Della Marie fell from the back seat onto the pavement.
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Darla Marie Hicks
Benjamin McLain
First Avenue
Hicks
B Avenue NW
First Street
Fourth
Fifth Avenues
Della Marie
OAKLAND GUARDIAN COMMENTS ON CURTS RETURN
Bes tor Robinson, guardian of William Bardwell Curts, says the young man is “very, very glad” to be returning to Oakland after a brush with the Nazis in New York. He hopes Curts will keep the sober frame of mind and reflect on his conduct along the way home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Bestor Robinson
William Bardwell
Curts
New York
Robinson
Plan to widely expand relief stamp program
U S officials say the surplus food relief stamp plan, tested in Rochester Dayton and Seattle, will expand to about 100 cities this year. The scheme issues orange dollar stamps and blue surplus stamps to relief recipients, redeemable at cooperating grocers, with Des Moines named as a likely fifth city.
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Washington
Ap)—Administration
Rochester
N. C
Dayton
Ohio
Seattle
Wash
Wisconsin Pastor Jacobs to Lead First Congregational
The Rev. William A. Jacobs, current pastor at Menasha’s First Congregational Church, is appointed to lead the First Congregational Church in this city, succeeding the Rev. Nelson C. Dreier. Jacobs and his wife will move to Cedar Rapids around September 1 and will reside at the parsonage at Washington Avenue and Seventeenth Street SE. He is a Culver-Stockton and Chicago Theological Seminary graduate, and serves as moderator of the Winnebago association, president of the Fox River Valley Ministerial association, and vice-president of the local Rotary club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Jacobs
First Congregational Church
Menasha
Wis
Nelson C. Dreier
Colorado
Denver
Jacobs
Cedar Rapids
Washington Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Mr. Jacobs
Culver-Stockton College of
Canton
Chicago Theological Seminary
Winnebago Association
Fox River Valley Ministerial Association
Rotary Club
Government moves to curb stamp misuse by grocers
Officials argue regulations are needed to prevent stamps being used for non listed goods or bought from clients for profits. In each city grocers self police, with Rochester grocers seen boosting relief client business by at least $1 million annually under the plan.
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Congress
Agriculture Department
Frederick V. Waugh
Rochester Grocers
Fire crews answer two calls Friday evening
Fire early Friday damaged the roof and hay in a barn behind F. E. Breneman’s farmhouse on Old Marion road near the Aviation Country club, likely from spontaneous hay combustion. About 100 people watched as Cedar Rapids and Marion departments rushed to the scene. Earlier, a garage fire behind O. B. Nelson’s home at 1544 B avenue NE was confined to the structure after 6 15 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Breneman
Old Marion Road
Aviation Country Club
Cedar Rapids
Auditor loses safe combination memory after WPA scrub
Columbus Indiana AP reports county auditor Leonard R. Thayer kept the court house safe combination on the side for easy access. WPA workers cleaning the courthouse scrubbed the safe and wiped out the note, leaving Thayer unable to open the safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ind
Leonard R. Thayer
WPA
Thayer
Right of changing mind costs money
A committee of experts reports that women’s right to return goods raises department store costs. Returns and allowances in 1936 reached 14.5 percent of sales in large stores and 7.7 percent in smaller ones, with many customers buying on approval and returning items.
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New York
The
Twentieth Century Fund
Reputed Scion Is Mysteriously Slain
William Modrock 55 reputed scion of a Cleveland family died in an Elgin hospital after a mysterious hotel room attack where he lived as Jack Adams. Four men unnamed were picked up for questioning.
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Elgin, Ill
William Modrock
Cleveland, O
Elgin Hospital
Jack Adams
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Second St. NE
DIAL
N. W. Passage
Des Moines
Philip Maguire
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Iowa City
Kart
China
Wisconsin
First Congregational
Charles E. Harner
Veterans Foreign Wars
Old Circus
12Th Ave
4Th St
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