Rebels Gain Ground as Madrid Threat Fears Rise
From Gibraltar dispatches United Press reports rebels pressing toward Madrid at five miles daily while loyalist defenses crumble. Alcazar withstands attacks as government fronts collapse across multiple fronts, with reports of internal troubles in Madrid and Barcelona.
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Copsright
Gibraltar
Madrid
Santa Olalla
Toledo Alcazar
Guadarrama
Oviedo
Huesca
Bilbao
Seville
Santa Clalla
United Press
Alcazar
Spain
Barcelona
Parade Of Bright Days Continues In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids saw a warm spell with temperatures rising from 50 at 5 a.m. Monday to 81 by 2:30 p.m. Sunday’s highs reached 82 after starting at 58 at midnight. Records cited by Chambers Inskeep detail the weekend’s moderate cooling nights.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers
Zintak Withdraws Plea of Innocent
CHICAGO AP Frank V. Zintak ousted Cook County superior court clerk pled innocent to an indictment accusing him of embezzling 22560 from office funds then withdrew the plea awaiting a September 29 hearing on a motion to quash the indictment.
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Chicago
Frank V. Zintak
Cook County Superior Court
Pastor Seeks Most Horrible Sin Through Church Contest
LITCHFIELD Illinois UP Fifty slips fall into Union Avenue Christian church contest box for Rev L A Crown to pick the theme for an October 11 sermon. He notes public interest and hints at possible prize winner while warning on church attendance and communist danger.
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Litchfield
Ill
Union Avenue Christian Church
L. A. Crown
Crown
America
Arrest in Huge Bond Robbery Ring
Federal agents report the arrest of Pete Metropolis as a suspected member of a ring accused of disposing of more than 2 million dollars in securities stolen from the Bank of Manhattan Co. and United States Trust Co. of New York.
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Washington
LLP
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pete Metropolis
Bank of Manhattan Co
New York
United States Trust Co
Inquest Set for Crash Fatalities in Linn County
Dr B L Knight Linn county coroner announced an inquest into the late night crash on highway 161 near the North Western viaduct that killed F M Beltz 62 and Mrs Edward Russell 65 and injured ten. Donald Short 21 Iowa City the driver of the roadster was among principal witnesses. The inquest will be held Wednesday at 2 pm in the Linn county court house.
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B. L. Knight
Linn
Highway 161 South
North Western Viaduct
Linn County Court House
Donald Short
East Division Street
Iowa City
Short
F. M. Beltz
Twenty-second Street
Beltz
Edward Russell
Mechanicsville
Thirty-sixth Avenue
University of Iowa
Young Ickes Loses His Right to Drive
Boston AP registrar Frank A. Goodwin suspended the right of Robert H. Ickes adopted son of the secretary of the interior to operate motor vehicles in Massachusetts. Inspectors blamed Ickes for an accident on September 12 injuring five. Ickes said he would not drive in Massachusetts any longer and left his car at a garage.
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Boston
Frank A. Goodwin
Robert H. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Massachusetts
Goodwin
Ickes
Winchester
Aledo Man Denied New Trial in Youth Slaying Case
John A. Collins lost a bid for a new trial in the slaying of Roger Johnson, a Keithsburg youth. Judge Leonard E. Telleen upheld the fourteen year jury sentence and granted ninety days to file a bill of exceptions for appeal.
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Aledo, Ill
John AH. Collins
Roger Johnson
Keithsburg
Leonard E. Telleen
Collins
Legion Chief Urges U S to Prepare for War
National Commander Ray Murphy told the American Legion convention in Cleveland that America must remain prepared for defense. He warned that the peace vision of World War I days failed to prevent new conflicts and urged mass support for peacetime preparation and legislation to deter war.
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Cleveland
Ray Murphy
American Legion
America
Murphy
Legion
Copeland Sees Landon Equal Threat to Roosevelt in November
Sen Royal S Copeland of New York said Governor Alf M Landon has an equal chance to defeat President Roosevelt in November. He noted he will not campaign for the Democratic national ticket and skipped the Democratic national convention.
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Washington
INS
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids Camp Fire Girls A Teen Group With Character
A Cedar Rapids test asks which description fits the Camp Fire Girls organization. Options include a business women club tied to a marshmallow maker or a teen group for character development. The passage notes 516 members and 2025 meetings last year focusing on crafts in home health handcraft nature camp business and citizenship.
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Cedar Rapids
Political rancor through the ages and a call for plain talk
A 1936 reflection notes that current political mudslinging echoes harsher eras. It contrasts today’s refined rhetoric with earlier insults aimed at Jefferson Lincoln and others, arguing abuse harms both sides and that truth outlives heated campaigns.
New Tropical Storm Forms In Atlantic
A tropical disturbance northwest of Puerto Rico has formed in the Atlantic. The system brings squalls and moderate gales as it slowly strengthens. A severer storm last week impacted the U S coast from North Carolina northward with damage and loss of life.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Porto Rico
United States
North Carolina
Pan American Flights Approved for Pacific Passengers
The Department of Commerce granted Pan American Airways temporary approval to carry passengers across the Pacific with plans for the first flight on October 21. Inspectors flew Pan American’s Clipper routes from Alameda to Honolulu to Midway to Wake to Guam to Manila as part of the approval process.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Pan-American Airways
Pacific Ocean
Pan-American
Alameda
Honolulu
Midway
Wake
Guam
Manila
Department
J. Carrol Cone
Pan- American
Trotzky Accused in Belgium Plot to Foment Revolt
In Brussels police seized documents from the Socialist Party HQ alleging Leon Trotzky participated in a plot to form a fourth international and foment unrest in Belgium. The raid followed charges that Trotzky acted under his aegis to spark revolt.
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Brussels
INS
Leon Trotzky
Fourth International
Belgium
Socialiste Party
Trotzky
Roosevelt Visits Hyde Park For Mother's Birthday
President Roosevelt arrived from Washington and breakfasted with his mother Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt at the summer White House in Hyde Park N Y on her eighty second birthday. He will be joined later by Mrs Roosevelt who is recovering from grippe and will preside at a dinner for his mother. He plans to carry out his regular office routine at his home.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Part Of Palisades Dam Returns To The River
Palisades state park sees the central portion of the incomplete dam across the Cedar River breached by high water. The east and west reinforced sections remain intact while the center, built with smaller stone and ten foot piling, shows damage. Park custodian Charles Meyers says funding shortfalls left an unfinished island gap. WPA labor filled the center with stone, and officials believe the larger foundation slabs will endure if floods persist.
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Palisades State Park
Cedar River
Charles Meyers
Meyers
WPA
Ethiopian Delegates Rejoin League Conferences at Geneva
Ethiopian delegates to the League of Nations resume participation in conferences at Geneva after a protest from Italy as the assembly reconvenes after noon. Credentials remain under review with a decision pending.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Italy
League
Ethiopian Crisis Sparks Assembly Showdown Over Credentials
Haile Selassie travels from London to Geneva to argue against excluding Ethiopian delegates as six minor powers and the Soviet Union join Italy in shaping the credentials committee. A pro Ethiopia minority report seems likely, with Selassie set for a floor plea.
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Geneva
INS
League of Nations Assembly
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
London
Assembly
Italy
Soviet
Russia
Ethiopia Seating Question Divides League Session In Geneva
The League of Nations opened its seventeenth session with Italy threatening to quit if Ethiopian delegates are seated as “men without a country.” A nine member credentials committee was formed to decide the Ethiopian seats while diplomats debated avoiding an open floor vote. Everett Colson, longtime American adviser to Ethiopia, arrived to assist Haile Selassie.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Italy
League
Ethiopia
Manuel Rivas Vicuna
Peru
Great Britain
France
Russia
Netherlands
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Turkey
New Zealand
Everett Colson
Addis Ababa
Al Smith to Open Anti Roosevelt Speeches at Carnegie Hall
Former Gov Alfred M Smith will launch a series of anti administration speeches at a mass meeting in Carnegie Hall New York on October 1. The Independent Coalition of American Women announces the event, backing Landon and Knox with a cross party group of voters.
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al Smith
New York
INS
Alfred M. Smith
Carnegie Hall
Independent Coalition of American Women
Landon
Knox
Mary Pickford and Rogers Will Wed Soon
Hollywood AP reports Mary Pickford admitting she is not engaged yet while friends predict she will marry Charles Buddy Rogers, the orchestra leader, within three weeks. The couple has sparked widespread speculation in the movie colony.
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Hollywood (Ap
Mary Pickford
Movie Colony
Charles “Buddy” Rogers
Cedar Rapids Toll for 1936 Auto Accident Totals
A historic Cedar Rapids record notes 1936 toll from auto incidents listing numbers of accidents and injuries and deaths. Details reflect early traffic safety context and municipal concerns during the period.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Orders Push On Drought and Crop Insurance Plans
President Roosevelt endorses an immediate push for an ever normal granary crop insurance system and a long term drought and land use program for the Great Plains. He names two committees to draft plans for Congress and directs rapid action with storage reserves urged.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Plains
Hyde Park
N. Y
Congress
Wallace
Morris L. Cooke
A. G. Black
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
H. R. Tolley
Wayne C. Taylor
the Treasury
Ernest G. Draper
Commerce
High Court halts new graft probe in Sioux City
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice J. M. Parsons granted a temporary stay to Woodbury County Attorney M. E. Rawlings halting a special grand jury investigation of gambling and liquor protection in Sioux City. A Sept. 28 hearing will decide if the stay becomes permanent and whether Fred Free may continue before the grand jury.
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DES Moines
J. M. Parsons
Iowa
Miles W. Newby
Free
Woodbury County
Grand Jury
Sioux City
Newby
Ed O’connor
O’connor
Richman and Merrill Land in New York After Atlantic Flight
Harry Richman and Dick Merrill landed the monoplane Lady Peace at Floyd Bennett field New York at 2 16 p m Monday completing a round trip to England. They left Harbor Grace Newfoundland at 4 18 a m Monday after a 30 mile gale canceled their Sunday departure. A week of tensions followed the trip with a gasoline dump over the Atlantic prompting repairs by Eddie Rickenbacker who also helped mediate. They planned to fly to New York together after public statements about the incident.
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New York
Harry Richman
Dick Merrill
Atlantic
Richman
Musgrave Harbor
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Airlines
Merrill Works
Rickenbacker
Merrill
Newfoundland
Landon backs crop insurance ahead of Des Moines speech
Gov. Landon urged congressional action on federal crop insurance as relief for American farmers. He disclosed the proposal before his Des Moines address, saying farm leaders have long pushed it and noted insurance now covers risks once deemed infeasible. He voiced approval of any well considered approach and outlined a Midwest campaign tour with editors, lawmakers, and farmers as guests.
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Topeka
Kan
INS
Alfred M. Landon
Des Moines
Kansas
Landon
Roosevelt
Louis J. Taber
The
Grange
Midwest
Congress
Lacy Haynes
Kansas City
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Richard Lloyd Jones
Tulsa
Okla
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
John B. Harris
Hutchinson
Frank Boyd
Phillipsburg
William T. Lambertsen
Frank Carlson
J. H. Harzfeld
Frank Thompson
Wakarusa
Lyle Jackson
Nebraska
Pennsylvania Man Appointed To Labor Relations Board
The White House announced the appointment of Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania to the National Labor Relations Board to fill the post vacated by John Carmody’s resignation. Smith’s term expires in August 1938.
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Washington
White House
Donald Wakefield Smith
Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board
John Carmody
Carmody
Smith
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