Readers debate school favoritism and editorial rights
A West Side reader questions school board equity citing East Side facilities while another postcard criticizes editorial writing. The column discusses freedom of speech, the Iowa criminal syndicalism law, and a U S Supreme Court ruling on Whitney v California with focus on limits to incendiary advocacy and due process.
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West Side
East Side
United States
Iowa
CIO
Des Moines
Supreme Court of the United States
NITS
California
Charlotte Anita Whitney
Iona
U. S. Supreme Court
Whitney
Debate limits blocked as Reynolds links Athenia sinking
Washington isolationists blocked the administration move to curb Senate debate on the arms embargo repeal. Senator Reynolds charged Soviet Russia caused the Athenia sinking, arguing Russia sought to divert Britain and Germany, allowing expansion in the Baltic and Asia while Britain fought Hitler.
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Washington
Senate
Robert R. Reynolds
N. C
Soviet Russia
Athenia
Barkley
Kentucky
Garner
Chamber
Reynolds
Russia
England
Germany
Baltic
Asia
Britain
Hitler
Poland
Baltic States
Persia
Afghanistan
India
Europe
Andrews
Fla
Belgian Ex-Premier Van Zeeland Seeks US Mediation
London sources report Paul van Zeeland, former Belgian prime minister now in America, hopes to discuss US mediation in the European war with President Roosevelt. Zeeland says his trip is unofficial and tied to refugee problems, while Berlin denies peace talks.
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London
Paul van Zeeland
America
Roosevelt
United States
Zeeland
New York
International Committee On Refugee Problems
van Zeeland
Cordell Hull
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Fuehrer
Maginot Line
Oslo
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Belgium
Holland
Washington
Europe
Berlin
Britain
France
Germany
Nazis Reds Agree On Trade Measures
MOSCOW AP report says an agreement in principle with Germany on trade measures was reached. About 300 Germans charged with espionage against Russia in 1936 were released. Rumors say Germany promised Turkey Mosul oilfields after the war if Turkey stays out of the Allied pact.
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Moscow
Germany
Russia
Turkey
Mosul
Hitler's Pal Recovering in Munich Hospital
The Hon. Unity Freeman-Mitford, ally of Chancellor Hitler, is recovering after a serious illness in a Munich hospital, information released Saturday.
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London
INS
Unity Freeman-Mitford
Hitler
Munich
New Poland To Have Only Poles Faces Heavy Debt
Berlin dispatch reports plan a Poland confined to Poles with a smaller size than pre 1914 Russian Poland. It would keep Czestochowa and Krakow as centers, include a Jewish state area near Lublin, and bear huge debts to reimburse Poles displaced by German annexations.
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Poland
Czestoia
Kraow
Hitler
Pomorze
Posen
Upper Silesia
Gauleiter
Forster
Danzig
Reich
Baltic States
Gdynia
Gotenhafen
Germany
Soviet Russia
Russia
Stanislawow
Lwow
Luck
Pinsk
Bialystok
Nowogrodek
Kalisz
Kalisch
Ciechanow
Zichenau
Woman and child rescued after fall from ferry
New York reports Mamie Gunderson 40 a frail passenger leaped from the Tremont ferry half a mile off Staten Island to save her 9 year old daughter Eleanor who had fallen overboard. The mother and child floated for about 15 minutes until tug Norfolk deckhands George and Nick Nelson spotted them. They were brought aboard unconscious but revived by artificial respiration.
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New York
Mamie ‘Gunderson
Eleanor
Eastern Steamship Line
Norfolk
George Nelson
Nick Nelson
Drunk Driver Arrested After Near-Collision in Cedar Rapids
A pedestrian summoned Patrolman Milke after Elmer McCaw 47 of 31915 First avenue E drove from an alley onto Second avenue SE nearly hitting cars. McCaw was arrested for driving while intoxicated at 8 45 p m and admitted drinking whisky and beer at the police station. A passerby delivered McCaw’s car to the station.
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Cedar Rapids x
Milke
Elmer McCaw
First Avenue
Second Avenue SE
First
Second Streets
McCaw
Gustav Adolf torpedoed near Shetland islands
The Swedish steamship Gustav Adolf was torpedoed off the Shetland islands on Saturday. The 19 crew members were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Biscay.
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Stockholm
Gustav Adolf
Shetland Islands
Biscay
Football Score Highlights From College Showdowns
Dozens of games feature close results across the nation. Notable scores include Ohio State 23 over Minnesota 26, Notre Dame 14 over Navy 7, Drake 71 over Iowa State 6, and Duke 33 defeating Syracuse 8.
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Doe
Cornell
Ohio State
Minnesota
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago
Indiana
Illinois
Purdue
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Navy
Nebraska
Baylor
Oklahoma
Kansas
Drake
Iowa State
Penn
Harvard
Holy Cross
Brown
Yate
Army
Duke
Syracuse
Grinnell
Cole
Coll
Tennessee
Alabama
Federal raid seizes assets of ham and eggs pension plan
U S revenue officers raided the California Retirement Annuities Association state headquarters in Hollywood to secure $10,000 in social security taxes. Judge Cosgrave earlier ordered the promoters to pay taxes like other employers despite their protest. Willis Allen said $10,778.49 would be paid under protest, with a suit to follow.
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Hollywood
Pension Plan
California
Nat Rogan
George Cosgrave
Rogan
Willis Allen
Pension Group
Film Producer In Jail On Charge Of Illegal Entry
Alfred J. Goulding aged 53 veteran film producer and director faced an immigration hearing after being charged with illegal entry. He was remanded to county jail on $500 bail while he seeks counsel. Goulding arrived from Melbourne in 1912 and has since worked on Laurel and Hardy projects including The Champ at Oxford.
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Los Angeles
Alfred J. Goulding
United States
Henderson
Goulding
Melbourne
Australia
England
Hollywood
New York
Oxford
Cedar Rapids Sees 70 Degree High Before Cooling
Moderate Cedar Rapids temperatures prevailed Saturday as the day reached a high of 70 degrees by 4 p.m. and then cooled to 62 by 6:30 p.m. Skies stayed fair with a low around 42 at 7 a.m.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
U S Safety Club Chief Is Fined For Highway Violation
Robert Thomas, 51, of New York, president of the Safe Driving Club of America, was fined $10 and $6.50 costs in Danbury traffic court on a road rules violation. He had been charged with reckless driving after allegedly passing four cars in a row and forcing one off the highway.
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Danbury, Conn
Robert Thomas
New York
Safe Driving Club of America
Thomas
Lloyd Davis Injured After Colliding With Wire at Coe Field
Lloyd Davis 19 of 1815 Fourth Street NW suffered pelvic injuries when he ran into a wire stretched across Coe field after a football game against Cornell. He was taken by ambulance to St Luke's Hospital at 4 30 pm. bone fracture status was unclear. Davis is a Franklin high school senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Davis.
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Cedar Rapids News
Lloyd Davis
Fourth Street NW
Coe-Cornell
Coe
Davis
St Luke's Hospital
Harold Davis
Franklin High School
Baby Boy In Path Of Freight Train Saved By Firemen
Little Frank Console 20 months old was saved when a freight engine passed over him on a B and O tracks in Springfield TI. Fireman Hartford Lewis of Indianapolis crawled from the cab and knocked the child flat between the rails as Engineer Obed Clark applied the brakes. Trainmen rushed to the scene and found the boy terrified but unharmed.
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Springfield
Ins
Frank Console
Hartford Lewis
Indianapolis
Ind
Matthew Console
B. and O
Obed Clark
Lewis
Frank
War over Rose Bowl bid looms in playful wartime column
Arthur Bugs Baer jokes that the prize is a Rose Bowl bid. He notes sugar bowls and orange bowls instead of pepper bowls while claiming Americans could field enough players to beat the world. He quips Europe can keep front lines if it yields sideliners.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
United States
Europe
Hitler Accelerates War Drive with Navy and Air Attacks
Berlin reports Hitler ordered intensified naval and air strikes on Allied convoys in all oceans to cut British trade. He conferred with Franz von Papen and summoned Nazi district leaders for consultations amid plans with Rome and Moscow. Repeated reconnaissance flights foreshadow new bombing raids on the British fleet.
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Great Britain
France
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Rome
Moscow
Germany
British Isles
Hitler
Slovakia
Berlin
Poland
Fuehrer
Europe
von Papen
Ankara
Maly
Russia
Britain
Roosevelt Son of Theodore Roosevelt Receives British Second Lieutenancy
London reports Kermit Roosevelt son of the late President Theodore Roosevelt has been granted a second lieutenant commission in the British army. He served as a captain during World War I and had been linked to a potential British citizenship path for a port in the new shipping ministry.
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London
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ministry of Shipping
Army
German patrol ship Esta sinks after mine explosion near Denmark
In a swift disaster, the German naval patrol ship Esta with 71 crew perished when it struck two floating mines and exploded within moments near Denmark. Four survivors clung to a raft for six hours, while a fifth made it ashore after a ten hour swim. The loss comes as Allied and German forces clash as bombers attack a British convoy in the North Sea.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Esta
Esse
Moen
Baltic
Schuster
Lieut
Kind
Gehring
Reich Already Turns To Inflation To Finance War
The Commerce Department reports Germany will rely on currency inflation to finance war as taxation lags. August currency in circulation rose to 13.303 billion marks, while Reichsbank borrowings surged to 2.5 billion marks. Food rationing is used to spread scarce stocks evenly during the expected extended conflict.
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Reich
Washington
INS
Germany
Commerce Department
Department
Reichsbank
Weekly Forecast for Chicago Upper Mississippi Valleys
Weather forecast for Oct 16 to 21 calls for generally fair conditions with some precipitation late in the period. Cooler with below normal temperatures on Monday and Tuesday plus unsettled conditions for the remainder of the week.
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Chicago
Mississippi
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