Franco Takes Dictatorial Command in Nationalist Government
Gen Francisco Franco assumed supreme authority as dictator and commander in chief of all Nationalist forces at Burgos. Virgilio San Miguel Cabanellas handed power to Franco in a formal ceremony as Madrid faced a six month siege and strategic moves to sever communications with the capital.
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Burgos
Francisco Franco
Virgilio San Miguel Cabanellas
Franco
Gibraltar
Madrid
Aranjuez
Toledo
Madrid-Alicante
Madrid-Valencia
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
London
Mediterranean
Great Britain
First thoughts versus second thoughts, a call to action
Dr Newton argues that our initial impulses are generous and bold while second thoughts restrain us with caution. He warns hesitation kills noble plans, comparing first thoughts to the lower house and second to a calculating senate. Those who act on primary insight may seem foolish but reach the kingdom of heaven on earth.
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Congress
Senate
Kingdom of Heaven On Earth
Landon Education Stance Labeled Purely Political Outside Kansas
Cedar Rapids newspaper reports Dr. Frank E. Mossman of Southwestern College, a Landon cousin and education advocate, says attacks on Alf Landon’s Kansas school policy are political and originate outside the state. Mossman cites teacher pay, school closures, and transportation as misunderstood, noting broader fiscal strains and the governor’s limited local influence.
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Frank E. Mossman
Southwestern College
Winfield
Kan
Mossman
Iowa
Morningside College
Sioux City
Dr. Mossman
Landon
Kansas University
Baker University
Baldwin
Alf Landon
Bilbao violence erupts between anarchists and Basque nationalists
Street fighting erupted in Bilbao as anarchist bands of about 150 men moved through the city in cars to disrupt a Basque women’s peace demonstration. Many injured and several killed. The clash followed the d emonstration demanding surrender in the arena.
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San Sebastian
Bilbao
October Opens With Bright Weather in Cedar Rapids
October starts bright in Cedar Rapids with light clouds and a crisp fall tang. Temperatures ranged from a 45 morning low to 60 by mid-afternoon, recording 57 at 1 15 p.m. and 47 at 9 p.m. per Chambers Inskeep company chart.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Barrel voyage begins on Lake Erie with Ernest Biegajski
World war veteran Ernest Biegajski set sail in a barrel from Buffalo toward Cleveland and then England. Coast guards along Lake Erie rescued the craft during its first attempt. He later resumed, planning an Atlantic journey from Battery Park in mid October, carrying beer water sausage bread and coffee.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Ernest Biegajski
Cleveland
England
Lake Erie
Ohio City
Coast
Biegajski
Niagara
Battery Park
Du Pont Roosevelt Banns Expected After Election
Washington gossip says engagement announcements may come soon after the election. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. has shown marked interest in Miss Ethel du Pont of Wilmington Delaware and they have been seen together in New York after her Europe trip.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Miss du Pont
Eugene du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Europe
Roosevelt
New York
Community Chest drive reports rapid early fundraising progress
The Community Chest campaign in Cedar Rapids shows $40,504.63 pledged of $85,752.24 at noon Thursday with 104 of 394 firms reporting. Carl G. Helming’s Sales Army rode a fire truck to mark $40,600 on the red feather, leading the drive with $343.50 of a $565 quota. Public and city employees exceed their quotas, including county employees with $722.75 and city workers with $751.85. The educational group has $1,522.25 pledged, and institutional totals from the Challengers and after-school divisions are listed as the drive continues.
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Montrose Hotel
Carl Helming
Sales Army
Community Chest Progress
Community Chest
Carl G. Helming
Leslie Crabbs
Hoyt Thomas
Henry Gundling
Gurney Day
Ray Pollock
Fred Fluegel
F. D. Maher
Helming
Robert M. Vesely
Frank Hahn
P. W. Shive
State Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids Business College
Coe College
Robert Little
R. H. Pickford
Ed Lowe
Industrial
Robert W
Five Are Injured In Auto Collision
Five people were injured Wednesday at 11 22 p m when cars driven by Myron Henry Jr and Dr Fritz Bentz collided at Fifth Ave and Third St SW Frank Long escaped serious injury in the crash and was treated and released. Henry and Bentz described crossing the intersection as their vehicles collided with Bentz’s car mounted on a curb. Frank Farrell rode with Bentz. others were in Henry’s car.
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Myron Henry, Jr
Sixth Avenue
Fritz Bentz
Quasqueton
Fifth Avenue
Third Street
Jean Clemens
C Avenue NW
Rose Karlik
C Street
Clare Nelson
Hinkley Avenue
Frank Long
First Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Long
Forrest Andrews
Frank Farrell
Bentz
Henry
Dr. Bentz
Names Added to Cedar Rapids Chest Honor Roll
The Community Chest honor roll at 6 p m Wednesday lists numerous companies and schools reporting over subscription to quotas for employees and all school building staff. Included are Barron Motor Company Instant Auto and Tire Krebs Dairy Foods Cranmer Dry Goods Chandler R D Hunting Lumber Shores Terry Durin Cedar Rapids Bottling Works International Harvester Western Grocer Petersen Baking Co Coe College Johnson School Kenwood Taylor Tyler Iowa State Employment Service Perpetual Savings and Loan N W Mutual Life Farm Loan N W Mutual Insurance State Auto Insurance Central States Electric Postal Telegraph Cedar Rapids Life Insurance Dearborn Brass Quaker Oats New Process Laundry Chamber of Commerce Cedar Rapids Food Products Y W C A Paris Beauty Salon Hayes F S Mitralsky Blue Valley Creamery Morris Sanford Garfield Iowa Theater Pla Mor Kenmore Golf Buchanan Mckinley High Cedar Rapids Bakery Jackson School.
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Community Chest
Barron Motor Company
Instant Auto and Tire Company
S and W Tenth Street Service
Krebs Dairy Foods
Cranmer Dry Goods Company
Hall-Ekfelt Company
Johnson Gas Appliance Company
Killian Company
Chandler Company
R. D. Hunting Lumber Company
Shores Company
Terry -Durin
United Airlines Adds Winter Schedule From Cedar Rapids
United Airlines unveils a new winter schedule with an eastbound daily flight departing Cedar Rapids at 1 09 PM. Passengers can reach Chicago by 2 28 PM, Cleveland by 5 54 PM, and New York City by 8 43 PM. The 1 PM service replaces the 7 45 AM early flight, offering daytime arrivals and improved winter reliability.
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United Airlines
Cedar Rapids
Points East
Chicago
Cleveland
New York City
Boeing
Vancouver
Salt Lake City
Landon Denounces Attempts To Misrepresent Racial Bias
At Topeka press conference Governor Alf M. Landon condemned efforts to exploit prejudice while addressing racial and religious intolerance. He signaled Democratic parties may be involved in misrepresentation as Herbert Hoover’s train neared Topeka for a visit.
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Hays
Kan
Herbert Hoover
Alf M. Landon
Topeka
Democratic Party
Landon
Sergeant Hughes Struck Directing Traffic in Mechanicsville
Sergeant Gordon Hughes of 1519 Hinkley Avenue NW was bruised and cut when a car driven by F. C. Decious struck him at the Third Street East and Engeee Avenue intersection at 4:55 p.m. Wednesday. Decious, who said he watched lights and did not see Hughes, was arrested and fined $25 with costs after Hughes gave first aid at the police station.
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Cedar Rapids
Gordon Hughes
Hinkley Avenue
F. C. Decious
Mechanicsville
Engeee Avenue
Third Street
Decious
Second Avenue
Hughes
Nalien
Roosevelt opens stump tour in East and West
President Roosevelt presses conservation in West Virginia and kicks off his re election campaign with a two day schedule. He plans speeches in Pittsburgh and Syracuse with Knox and Smith on national networks. The journey includes stops at Bikins and Forbes Field amid mining and industrial regions.
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Roosevelt Special
Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Frank Knox
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Forbes Field
C. S. T. Knox
Smith
Bikins
W. Va
White House
Stolen Terraplane May Have Caused local crash
Alden Haldeman Jr of Cedar Rapids reported a 1934 Terraplane sedan with license 82 12045 forced him off the road three miles north of Iowa City. He chased the car about a mile to a ditch where four young men fled the scene. Sheriff Don McComas investigated theft linkage in Davenport.
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Iowa City
Don McComas
Alden Haldeman, Jr
Cedar Rapids
McComas
Haldeman
Davenport
Coughlin Criticizes Effort to Misrepresent Movement
Chicago AP report says Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Social Justice weekly blames last week’s actions on misrepresentations to Detroit Bishop Gallagher about Congressman Lemke’s money program. The publication includes two telegrams from the bishop correcting reports of his remarks.
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Chicago
Social Justice
Charles E. Coughlin
Weekly Review
Gallagher
Detroit
Lemke
Coughlin
Esse
Politics on the air schedule from Associated Press listing
Radio program listings by network and host for Thursday and Friday show speakers including Roosevelt Knox and Norman Thomas. Times are given in Central Standard. The schedule spans CBS NBC WEAF WABC WOR and WJZ with Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, and Norman Thomas featured.
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THE
Associated Press
CBS
Wm. Hare
John R. McCarl
WJZ
NBC
Col
Frank Knox
WEAF
WABC
WOR
Pres
Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
World Series game postponed by rain officials say
The second game of the World Series was called off due to wet grounds. Commissioner Landis announced the postponement after a conference with Ford Frick, Joe McCarthy, and Travis Jackson.
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New York
K. M. Landis
Ford Frick
Joe McCarthy
Yankees
Travis Jackson
Giants
Reed to Speak in Cedar Rapids October 15
Former Senator James A. Reed of Kansas City will address Cedar Rapids at the Memorial coliseum on the evening of Thursday October 15. The speech will be broadcast over a network of Iowa stations. Reed, a lifelong Democrat turned critic of the new deal, is a former Cedar Rapids resident and wartime Senate figure who opposed U.S. entry into the league of nations.
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James A. Reed
Kansas City
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Coliseum
Iowa
Reed
Congress
Jim” Reed
Wilson
League of Nations
United States
League
Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senator Reed
Strike Riots Injure 21 at Berkshire Knitting Mills
In Reading Pennsylvania 21 persons were injured as 3000 pickets patrolled the Berkshire Knitting Mills. Bricks rained on buses and trolley cars carrying workers to the mill, smashing windows and causing serious injuries.
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Reading
Berkshire Knitting Mills
French Deputies Approve Franc Devaluation Plan
Paris reports the chamber of deputies approved the franc devaluation with price fixing provisions by 354 to 217. The senate also passed the bill in a form satisfactory to Premier Leon Blum, sending it to the chamber for agreement with limited social measures and new authority to curb price rises and labor disputes.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Leon Blum
Chamber
Blum
Browder Aids To Sue Terre Haute Chiefs
Earl Browder, communist candidate for President, and four associates released from jail. Chicago attorney David J. Bentall said he would seek damages for false arrest and imprisonment. Suit to be filed against Terre Haute Mayor Samuel Beecher and Police Chief James C. Yates.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Earl Browder
David J. Bentall
Chicago
Bentall
Browder
Samuel Beecher
James C. Yates
Reporters aboard Hindenburg start world air race
Three New York reporters H. R. Ekins Leo Kieran and Dorothy Kilgallen travel on the Hindenburg from New York toward Frankfort on the first leg of a 22,000 mile air race around the world aiming to beat the 1928 record of 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes. Weather delays pushed takeoff to 11 15 p m. The plan routes include Rome Manila Hong Kong and Manila before returning to New York.
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Frankfort
Germany
New York
Newfoundland
Lufthansa
Rome
H. R. Ekins
Scripps Howard
Leo Kieran
North American Newspaper Alliance
Dorothy Kilgallen
New York Journal and International News Service
Asia
Pan-American Airways
Manila
San Francisco
Hindenburg
Kieran
Miss Kilgallen
Brindisi
Imperial Airways
Hong Kong
Hindenburg Journey Opens With Fast Track Across Ocean
Dorothy Kilgallen reports aboard the Hindenburg en route from Frankfurt to New York that the trip promises 22,000 miles across three continents. She meets fellow reporters Leo Kiernan and H R Ekins as the air voyage begins with smooth sailing and high hopes for beating time on the around the world itinerary.
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Leo Kiernan
H. R. Ekins
Rhine
the Main
Posthaste
Far East
Nellie Bly
Hindenburg
Continents
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Almadebar
DR Newton
Cedar Rapids News
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Evans Clark
Twentieth Century Fund
Sergeant Hughes
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