Polish Gold In France After Risky Journey
Seventy tons of Polish gold arrived in Paris after a six thousand mile route by trucks trains and ships from War saw vaults to Romania Constanza and through the eastern Mediterranean. The convoy led by Col Ignacy Matuszewski used ordinary trucks to avoid suspicion and the gold will serve as a reserve for Poland when it is reconstituted.
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Paris
Warsaw
Ignacy Matuszewski
Matuszewski
United States Treasury
Bank of
Romania
Mediterranean
Syria
France
Poland
Story Of Christ In Pictures At Coe College
The motion picture Golgotha will be shown twice in the Coe college chapel this Saturday. A 3 PM matinee offers reduced prices for school children, and a 7:30 PM show is the evening performance. The program, presented by the Ladies Guild of First Lutheran Church and endorsed by Catholic and Protestant churches, dramatizes the passion story with Pontius Pilate, Herod, Judas, Mary, and other Biblical figures through the events from Jesus entry to Jerusalem to the Resurrection appearances.
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Coe College
Ladies Guild
First Lutheran Church
Jesus
Jerusalem
Christ
Pontius Pilate
Herod
Judas the Betrayer
Mary
Golgotha
What Prize and Prize Crew Mean
New York AP explains prize in international law as property including vessel and cargo captured by a belligerent at sea under war laws. A prize crew is the crew placed aboard the captured vessel to navigate it to port.
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New York
Foursquare Churches Open Iowa State Convention
The three day Iowa state convention of the Foursquare Gospel churches opened Tuesday at 609 First Avenue W with Rev. Paul Roger of Kenosha Wis a former Cedar Rapids pastor as guest speaker Sessions run daily at 10 30 a m 2 30 p m and 7 30 p m The Rev Waren Koon of Omaha a former local pastor speaks Wednesday night Dr Howard Courtney of Urbana Ill closes Thursday night Public invited by local pastors Rev Mr and Mrs Malcolm E Hall.
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Iowa
First Avenue W
Paul Roger
Kenosha
Wis
Cedar Rapids
Waren Koon
Omaha
Howard Courtney
Urbana
Ill
Malcolm E. Hall
Corwin Weighs City of Flint Case on Russia Germany Ties
Princeton based authority Dr Edward S Corwin says if a German prize crew boarded the American freighter City of Flint and took it to Murmansk Russia the move could clarify Russia Germany relations He notes if the cargo is contraband Germany may seize the ship and the US may seek Russia’s position The expert cites historic neutral harboring of prizes in the US and a 1828 Prussia treaty to bring prizes to American ports
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Princeton
N. J
Edward S. Corwin
Flint
Murmansk
Russia
Germany
United States
England
France
Prussia
Finns Seek RFC Deal to Acquire U S Farm Products
Finland, a regular payer of war debts to the United States, seeks a reconstruction finance corporation loan or credits to obtain agricultural commodities in the United States. Cotton, wheat and cottonseed cakes are among items discussed in a sounding out phase with no amounts fixed. The RFC can lend against U S agricultural exports.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
United Press
RFC
British Bid For Italian Neutrality At Belgrade Parley
London reports Britain will push for Italian neutrality at a Balkan conference set for Belgrade in mid November. British officials expect a strong reaffirmation of neutrality and deny plans to curb Italian influence in the Balkans or the Mediterranean amid Allied Turkish pact suspicions.
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Great Britain
Britain
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Mediterranean
Milwaukee Service Club Runs Special Train to Maquoketa
The Milwaukee Road service club plans a Wednesday special train from Cedar Rapids to Maquoketa for a district meeting with clubs from Cedar Rapids Marion Monticello Strawberry Point Dubuque Davenport Savanna and Clinton. Train departs around 5 15 p m arriving for dinner and Legion hall entertainment. About 150 guests including Milwaukee employees and spouses are invited. reservations to be made in Cedar Rapids or Marion. Chicago officials are expected.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Road Service Club
Maquoketa
Monticello
Strawberry Point
Dubuque
Davenport
Savanna
Clinton
Milwaukee
Legion Hall
Chicago
Chicago Fascists Admit Breaking Jews Windows
Chicago police said the reputed Silver Shirts leader Dr Homer Maerz age 25 and associates George Heppner 35 and Joseph Schimpp 45 admitted smashing windows at a Goldblatt Brothers store. FBI agents questioned them on extortion letters sent to wealthy Jewish merchants seeking 50000 dollars under threat of shootings and bombings. They were held incommunicado on an open charge after four plate glass windows were broken.
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Chicago
Silver Shirts
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Homer Herman Maerz
George Heppner
Joseph Schimpp
Goldblatt Brothers
Convict Gridder Dies From Prison Football Injuries
Philadelphia AP reports a convict who had served two years of a 25 to 50 year sentence for robbery died Tuesday from internal injuries sustained in the first prison football game of the season.
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Philadelphia
Notice of Probate of Will and Codicil in Linn County Iowa
Notice is given that instruments purporting to be the Last Will and Testament and Codicil of Zofie Macek late of Linn County Iowa deceased will come for hearing before the District Court for proof and admission. Hearing set for October 28 1939 at 9 o'clock A.M. Presented by attorney es et Lundquist and V. Shonka.
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State of Iowa
Linn County
Zofie Macek
District Court
Red Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Youth Dies After Friday Football Injury
Glenn A. Williams Jr. of Roosevelt High Cedar Rapids died from a fractured skull suffered in a Friday game with West Waterloo High. The Iowa High School Insurance Co will pay policy benefits for injury related costs and possible operation, with total claims and insured athlete figures given by Secretary George A. Brown.
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Des Moines
Glenn A. Williams, Jr
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Iowa High School Insurance Co
George A. Brown
Brown
Williams
Roosevelt High
West Waterloo High School
Iowa High School Athletic Association
Iowa
Wisconsin
Great Manpower Needed For Any Gain On West Front
Col Otto Mull a former German officer and long time US reserve spoke to the South Side Civic club and Sixteenth avenue Commercial club about Western Front conditions. He said impregnable fortifications like the Maginot and Siegfried lines would require vast manpower for any drive with reserves to cover counterattacks. Over 100 people attended as Lumir Struesky welcomed George Kosek.
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Maginot
Otto Mull
Cedar Rapids
South Side
Western Front
Col. Mull
Lumir Struesky
South Side Club
George Kosek
Named to Boy Scout National Council
Harry W. Fraser of Cedar Rapids, vice-president of the Order of Railway Conductors and longtime Cedar Rapids Scout area executive, has been named to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The 100-member national board is chosen from Scout leaders nationwide and sets national Scouting policies each year.
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Harry W. Fraser
Cedar Rapids
The
Order of Railway Conductors
National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
National Scout
New York
N. Harold West
United States
County Teachers Exam Schedule At Courthouse
Uniform county teachers examinations will be given at the office of County Schools Superintendent Walter A. Shupp in the courthouse on Wednesday Thursday and Friday from 8 to noon and 1 to 1. The schedule lists subjects by session including rural school management orthography reading geography U S history home economics manual training arithmetic physiology agriculture music grammar penmanship civics governance constitution algebra English composition elementary school methods and general science.
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Walter A. Shupp
United States
They Say by International News Service
Eleanor Roosevelt urges Girl Scouts to safeguard liberty and uphold civic duty. Lieutenant Colonel Philip Fleming promises fair wage hour administration and avoidance of overreach. New York University Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase says universities should embody democratic processes in a democracy.
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Philadelphia
Eleanor Roosevelt
Girl Scouts
Washington
Philip Fleming
New York
Harry Woodburn Chase
Sixteenth Avenue Club Considers Riverfront Lighting Plan
The Sixteenth Avenue organization discussed forming committees to cooperate on a Christmas lighting program for the South Side. Charles Kosek proposed the scenic and recreational potential of riverfront improvements below the Sixteenth Avenue Bridge. They explored developing the area as a playground.
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Sixteenth Avenue
South Side
Charles Kosek
Sixteenth Avenue Bridge
Angell Says Intellectual Neutrality Is Impossible
Chicago philosopher Dr. James Rowland Angell argues that intellectual neutrality cannot be maintained, asserting bias shapes inquiry and judgment in modern scholarship.
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James Rowland Angell
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