Baltic States Stand to Win Military Guarantees From Allies
London and Paris move toward a formal protocol naming Latvia Estonia and Finland as recipients of military guarantees under the Anglo French Soviet defense pact. Britain and France may accept automatic joint action against aggression, with Moscow to approve. Baltic neutrality fears may delay full inclusion.
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London
INS
Latvia
Esthenia
Finland
Paris
Moscow
Russia
Baltic
Poland
Rumania
Greece
Britain
France
William Strang
V. M. Molotoff
Baltic States
Soviet Union
Jailed On Charge of Drunk Driving
Cedar Rapids man Wendall Bain, 27, of 1919 Wilson avenue SW, remained in the city jail Saturday on a drunk driving charge. Patrolmen Bruce and Dyson arrested him at 3 p.m. on Third avenue near Eighth Street SW after his 1929 Buick touched fenders with another car and he drove erratically. Captain Jesse Clift said Bain was intoxicated when brought to headquarters.
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Cedar Rapids
Wendall Bain
Wilson Avenue
Bruce and
Dyson
Bain
Third Avenue
Eighth Street
Jesse Clift
Temperature climbs to 93 degree peak in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids experienced a hot spell Saturday with bright sun and scattered clouds. The day began at 61 degrees at 5 am and rose to 93 degrees by 2 pm before easing to 90 by 6:30 pm and 68 by midnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Weekly Forecast for Chicago Upper Miscasinet Valley
The period June 26 to July 1 1939 will see frequent local showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures will be near or somewhat above normal.
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Chicago
Miscasinet Valley
Set Man's Age In America At 10 000 25 000
Milwaukee UP report says Harvard scientists Kirk Bryan and Louis L Ray dated the Lindenmeier site in Colorado to 10 000 to 25 000 years ago. Based on Smithsonian excavations, they tie this to the end of the Wisconsin glacial substage when ice retreated. Evidence describes shaggy skins, stone tipped weapons, and a now extinct bison species.
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Milwaukee
Harvard University
North American
Colorado
North America
Kirk Bryan
Louis L. Ray
Lindenmeier
Wisconsin
Smithsonian Institution
United States
America
Nazi Press Voices Mistrust Over Chamberlain Offer
Germany’s press dismissed Neville Chamberlain’s Cardiff speech urging talks with reasonable people. The semi official Deutscher Dienst mocked the idea of easing tensions and warned England against claiming a peace front or attempting to shape German policy through alliance rhetoric.
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Chamberlain
Berlin
Germany
Neville Chamberlain
Deutscher Dienst
Cardiff
Wales
England
Camp Good Health Promotes Fun and Fitness for Youth
Children at Camp Good Health enjoy a noonday dinner of creamed chicken mashed potatoes green beans bread and milk with Frostiks for dessert and a big cake for supper. Sunday plans include morning church services at the camp for all except Catholic staff and campers who will attend Cedar Rapids services with Century Cab providing transportation for the season.
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Cedar Rapids
Century Cab Company
New Dealers Hope to End Senate Tieup
Senate action sought to break a six day western bloc filibuster as Pittman’s silver amendment heads for a Monday vote. Barkley urged timely action on relief and monetary bills to prevent WPA expiration and maintain stabilizing powers.
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Senate
Washington
Pittman
Treasury
Barkley
Majority
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Works Progress Administration
Convicted Of First Degree Murder In Hitchhike Slaying
AKRON Colo AP Ellsworth E Medberry was found guilty of first degree murder in the hitch hike shooting of John T Gray Jr a 32 year old Colorado Springs soap salesman in a rural school garage on March 10 The jury recommended life imprisonment after four hours of final arguments and the defendant showed no emotion during verdicts reading
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Akron
Colo
Ellsworth E., Medberry
John T. Gray
Fond ‘du Lac
Wis
Gray
Colorado Springs
Secret Czech Legions Vow Overthrow of German Rule
Chicago report says undercover Czech legions in Nazi-ruled homeland drill with arms to liberate Czechoslovakia. Letters circulated by the Czechoslovak National Council of America urge ten commandments for patriotism, armed readiness, and spreading the fight by a fivefold chain.
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Chicago
Czechoslovak National Council of America
Adolf Hitler
Council
Joseph Martinek
Eduard Benes
Thomas Masaryk
Martinek
Grandstand Collapse Harms KY Officials at Shelby County Fair
Twenty six people injured when a wooden grandstand section collapsed at the Shelby county fairgrounds during Lieut Governor Keen Johnson and Dan Talbott's appearance. Johnson escaped with bruises while Talbott was taken to King's Daughters hospital in serious condition. Five others were seriously hurt amid debris as about two hundred spectators were knocked down. The collapse occurred as Johnson opened his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
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Shelbyville
INS
Keen Johnson
Dan Talbott
Shelby County Fairgrounds
Johnson
Richmond
Talbott
King's Daughters Hospital
Emma Guy Cromwell
Ralph Gilbert
Clarence Nichols
Allie Young
Joseph Robinson
Gilbert
Alben W. Barkley
A. B. Chandler
U. S
Paris Louvre Theft Faked by Anonymous Painter Claim
An anonymous letter signed Amateur Painter confessed to stealing Watteau’s L In difference from the Louvre as revenge for losing a government suit and said he threw the masterpiece into the river. The claim was received by police Saturday in Paris.
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Paris
Louvre
Gazettes Want Ad Sold Great Dane via Ad
J. P. Smith of 801 19th St SE reports selling a Great Dane advertised in The Gazette’s Want Ads. The ad’s buyer located by the notice. The dog is 1 month old and described as Crawford’s dog sister of at. Affordable price noted as 001 inh.
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J. P. Smith
19Th St. SE
As. Crawford
Lost dog Patty found by reader ad in Gazette
Mrs. Bell Hurd of 1944 A Ave NE reports a reader saw her Lost ad in The Gazette and returned her Irish setter Patty. The dog answers to Patty and was located within an hour of publication. If you have information call 803.
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Patty
White Spat
Breant
Plans To Increase Highway Patrol Districts To 14
DES MOINES AP Karl Fischer state public safety commissioner announced plans under consideration to raise the number of state highway patrol districts from 10 to 14 The change would end the eastern western split with an assistant chief per side and could create four sergeant posts from patrolmen Harry Nestle assistant chief demoted to patrolman last year said he will leave the patrol July 1 to return to private business
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Des Moines
Karl Fischer
Harry Nestle
Earl G. Miller
First Lady Helps With Czech Pavilion Gift
Eleanor Roosevelt contributed to finishing the Czechoslovak pavilion at the New York world’s fair. Her donation was described as very nice and was announced on Saturday.
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New York
INS
Eleanor Roosevelt
Olson Bobs Up In Woodland Haunts Again
Hayward Wisconsin Ray Olson 30 alias August Buelo fugitive killer of two deputy sheriffs surfaced in timberland haunts Saturday after a failed pursuit when Under sheriff James Berard and two others fired on a man who halted, Olson leaped into the Chippewa river and vanished. A Minneapolis man detailed how Olson stopped him and rode with him for twelve miles before vanishing near Ladysmith.
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Hayward
Wis
Chicago
Ray Olson
August Buelo
James Berard
Olson
Timberlands
Clipper Roars West On Final Leg Of Transatlantic Flight
INEZ ROBBY reports from aboard the Atlantic Clipper as the transatlantic round trip nears completion. The crew of twelve and seven observers expect a landing at Port Washington near New York around 7:30 a.m. CST, after a westward voyage from Lisbon via Horta. The journey, billed as the first transatlantic aerial tourist round trip, covered about eight days with celebratory events aboard and a heavy takeoff load of 82,500 pounds including fuel.
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Inez Robby
INS
U.S. A
Yours Truly
Long Island Sound
Port Washington
New York
Little Junior
Horta
Azores
Island Harbor
Lisbon
Portugal
America
Europe
William D. Culbertson
Atlantic
Rex
Culbertson
Horta Harbor
Five Bombings Rock London Center Injure Dozens
Five explosions rocked central London injuring at least 12 as terror renewed. IRA blamed, with three men questioned. Bombs hit Piccadilly Circus near a jeweler and the Strand Bank of Aldwych, Marylebone Road pillar box fire, and Park Lane bank minor damage. Time bombs used amid IRA ban out of Eire.
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London
INL
Irish Republican Army
Picadilly Circus
Bank of Aldwich
Strand
Broadway
Picadily
Marylebone Road
Park Jane
IRA
I R.A
Eire
Sues Neighbor Over Shade From Trees
Olive Corder filed a circuit court suit against neighbor Annie Street for 3000 damages citing shade from two trees a poplar and a sycamore kept crops and berries from growing and caused insect pests and stunted plant growth. She also seeks compensation for mental anguish due to the neighbor not trimming the limbs.
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Clayton. Me
Olive Corder
Annie Street
Corder
LENDING PLAN HINTS THIRD TERM QUEST
Washington AP says Republicans and some anti Roosevelt Democrats read into Roosevelt's multi billion lending plan a hint he contemplates a third term. Some see it as a tool to quicken 1939 recovery and slow anti New Deal drift after 1938 losses. Political interpretation links 1936 recovery to Roosevelt gains in 1936 and implies more New Deal stimulus before 1940.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Brazil Accepts 3000 Reich Catholic Refugees
Brazil informed the Vatican it will admit 3,000 German Catholic refugees as requested by Pope Pius. The decision followed approval by the Council for Colonization and Immigration, which handled Holy See negotiations with Brazil.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Vatican
Pius
Council For Colonization and Immigration
Holy See
Townsend plan to enter 1940 election if major parties pass it
Indianapolis dispatch notes the Townsend movement votes unanimously to pursue third party status unless either major party adopts the 200 dollar monthly pension proposal. Dr Francis E Townsend reads the creed, names his son Robert C Townsend as heir, and a new independent committee forms proposing broader democratic control. A $1,000,000 radio fund is planned to pressure party platforms.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Francis E. Townsend
Pension Movement
Convent Lion
Townsend
House of Representatives
House
Senate
United States
Dr. Townsend
Robert C. Townsend
Zog Didn't Take The Time To Let Anyone Elbow Him
King Zog may visit soon as royalty fills quotas. He resigned swiftly when Mussolini gained property. The Duke of Windsor is slated for an autumn visit after a canceled engagement. The piece notes the United States as a potential safe venue for a king to project authority.
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Zog
Mussolini
Duke of Windsor
United States
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