Nazi Fuehrer Reported On French Front
Paris AP dispatch notes Hitler and Walther von Brauchitsch on the western front as German attacks near Saarbrucken meet stiff French repulse. Bombardment described as more intensive with heavy artillery and night fighting ongoing between Maginot and Siegfried lines.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Berlin
Hitler
Warsaw
von Brauchitsch
Poland
West Wall
Saarbruécken
Wardus
Maginot
Siegfried Lines
Saarbruccken
Saarbruecken
British Navy Ship Kittiwake Hit Mine in English Channel
London UP reports HMS Kittiwake, a 510 ton naval patrol vessel with 60 men, struck a mine in the English Channel on Sept 20. Five crew members are missing and presumed dead, two injured, while the ship returned to harbor for repairs. This is the Royal Navy’s second war casualty after HMS Courageous.
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London
H.M.S. Kittiwake
English Channel
Ministry of Information
Admiralty
Kitliwake
Royal Navy
Courageous
No Reason To Alter Policy says Mussolini
Italian premier Benito Mussolini restated neutrality policy in a speech before 130 fascist leaders in Venice. He said the cabinet statement of Sept 1 fixed Italy’s stance and there is no reason to change it despite the war in Europe and Soviet invasion of Poland.
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Rome
Italy
Benito Nussolini
Il Duce
Bologna
Venice
Mussolini
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Achille Starace
Fascist Party
Venice Palace
Europe
Nabbed For Doing 60 An Hour Loses License 60 Days
Cedar Rapids police court heard Charles Dvorak, 109 Twenty sixth avenue SW, was clocked at 60 mph on First avenue E after a chase by off duty officer Ray Murdock. Dvorak, fined $25 and costs, had the fine suspended on surrendering his license for 60 days plus costs. One car fled. the other driver escaped as Dvorak was arrested. Maximum speeding fine is $100.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Charles Dvorak
Twenty -Sixth Avenue
Thomas B Powell
Dvoral
Nineteenth Street
Ray Murdock
Tenth Street
Sixth Street
Dvorak
Murdock
Temperature Drops As Clouds Heavier In Cedar Rapids
Cloudiness increased in Cedar Rapids on Saturday afternoon lowering readings from 70 at noon to 69 by 2 pm with earlier 52 at 7:30 am and 68 at 10 am under partly cloudy skies. Friday’s high reached 81 with 66 by 7 pm and 59 at midnight. Chambers Inskeep company recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Landon Urges Roosevelt Deny Third Term Bid
Former Governor Alfred Landon of Kansas calls on President Roosevelt to declare he does not seek a third term and would not accept the nomination if offered. In a Scripps Howard interview Landon says Roosevelt's denial would be the era’s key contribution as the nation faces danger and war. He supports delaying partisan politics to focus on keeping the country out of war.
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New York
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Rooseveltt
Scripps-Howard
William Philip Simms
Landon
Roosevelt
Simms
United States
Congress
President Roosevelt Spends Hyde Park Weekend
President Roosevelt arrives by special train to Hyde Park New York and heads to his family home for a weekend with his 85 year old mother Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt. He travels from Washington to be with family over the weekend.
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Hyde Park, N. Y
Roosevelt
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Washington
Nazi Declares Campaign in Poland Ended in Annihilation Battles
Berlin reports the campaign in Poland ended with heavy battles as the Polish army of about 1,000,000 soldiers was beaten captured or dispersed. Lwow surrendered as German forces tighten their mopping up in Poland while Soviet troops push toward Warsaw from the east.
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Berlin
Poland
INS
Lwow
Germany
Sat
Lemberg
Livoy
Warsaw
Bartnowski
Baura
Russia
Bialystok
Pisa
Narew
Vistula
San
Drohobyz
Przemysl
Lublin
Vilna
Iowa Hibernation Patient Max Harlan Dies
Max Har lan 42 of Stockport died Friday at Temple University Hospital from a complete intestinal obstruction. He had gained national notice as the first Iowan to undergo the hibernation treatment for pancreatic cancer at Temple. Doctors say his death does not reflect on the treatment's overall viability.
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Fairfield
Max Harlan
Stockport
Temple University
Temple University Hospital
American Medical Society
Submarine Sighted Off Vera Cruz Coast by Ship Crew
A ship's crew in the Gulf of Mexico reported sighting a submarine about five miles off the Vera Cruz coast on Saturday.
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Mexico City
Gulf of Mexico
Vera Cruz
Senators Split Over Arms Embargo Repeal Vote Signals
An Associated Press tally shows 44 senators favor repeal of the arms embargo to Europe with 32 noncommittal or silent. Support spans Republicans and Democrats, with cash and carry and international law as complicating factors. The split hints at a tough fight as Congress opens its historic session.
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Joan W. Henderson
Washington
Associated Press
Europe
France
England
Germany
English novelist lauds American campus beauty then critiques wives
S B Mais praises Healthful, vigorous American college women at Stanford and peers at Vassar Smith and Bryn Mawr. He contrasts affectionate American husbands with English husbands who rule the roost, noting possessiveness in American wives but labeling a bore as one who talks foolishly.
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Earth
S. B. Mais
Stanford
Vassar
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Newton
United Features, Inc
Hungary and Soviet Russia Resume Diplomatic Ties
Budapest reports the resumption of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia after they were cut earlier in the year. The move comes as Soviet troops occupy Hungary’s Ruthenian frontier and follows Hungary’s January pledge to sign the anti Comintern pact led by Germany Italy and Japan.
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Budapest
Hungary
Russia
Germany
Maly
Japan
Seamen refuse to sail Polish liner as arms carrier
In New York 200 crew members refuse to sail the 16 000 ton Polish Innervatory bound for Canada as an arms carrier. A 100 crew stay aboard headed for Halifax after the mass walkout prompted by the unexplained removal of Captain Eustazy Borkowski who led the ship during wartime service.
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New York
Canada
Halifax
Pride
Hudson River
Henry S Murphy
Yonkers
Murphy
Eustazy Borkowski
Borkowski
Franciszek Szudzinski
High Court Judge Butler Reported Very Sick Man
Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler, 73, is described as a very sick man due to a bladder ailment. He was readmitted to Garfield hospital after a three week prior stay for the same ailment and has shown limited improvement, with an uncomfortable day reported. The illness fuels retirement rumors ahead of the court’s October term.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pierce Butler
Butler
Garfield Hospital
French Academy Awards Sacrifice Prize to Widow of Lecum
Paris reports the French academy awarded a heroism prize to Mme. Bessed widow of Lecum in Upper Savoy for sacrifice in France. She has ten sons serving with the army, highlighting a family deeply committed to the war effort.
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Paris
French Academy
Mme. Bessed
Lecum
Upper
Savoy
France
Scions Should Keep Selves In Cold Spot During Extra Session
The Capitol doctor advises legislators to stay calm during the extra congressional meeting. He urges avoiding loud talking and prolonged thinking and recommends a cool dry place and a morning park walk to stay ordinary in an extraordinary session.
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Scions
Capitol
Chamberlain
Senate groups push cash and carry neutrality bill
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans swift action on a cash and carry arms bill. Chairman Pittman and Democratic leaders expect a committee report Monday and a Senate floor vote by Wednesday. Supporters say it enacts six neutrality goals with a new provision blocking belligerent cargo.
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Washington
INS
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Pittman
Nev
Roosevelt
Secretary of State
Garner
Congress
Feum
Vandenberg
Mich
White
Reynolds
N. C
Gillette
Herbert Hoover
Henry Ford
Charles A Lindbergh
Phillip da Follette
Wisconsin
Borah
Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Sleepyheads Have Their Day Sunday
New York AP reports that about 30 million Americans in daylight saving areas will regain the sleep hour lost last spring when clocks were set forward. Those who forget to turn back at 2am may arrive at church an hour early.
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New York
Rumor Says Nazis Massing Near Romanian Border
Reports from Bucharest say Germany may be concentrating troops on the Slovak Hungarian frontier within striking distance of Transylvania. The rumor, unconfirmed, heightens nerves as Romania enforces a blood purge after Premier Calinescu’s assassination and pressures over Transylvania with Hungary’s claims.
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Bucharest
Rumania
INS
Iron Guard Organization
Germany
Rumanias
Transylvania
Ning Care
Armand Calinescu
Wis
Calinescu
Buenana
Carol
George Argesanu
Tumania
Hungary
Romania
German War Leader Von Fritsch Killed Near Warsaw Front
Reports from Amsterdam and Berlin state Colonel General Werner von Fritsch was killed in action near Warsaw while probing enemy lines. Berlin announced a state funeral and honors as the army mourns his loss.
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Berlin
Baron Werner von Fritsch
Warsaw
W. W. Chaplin
INS
Germany
Sunkers
von Fritsch
Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Poland
Amsterdam
Werner von Fritsch
Ampsterdam
Reds Spur Pole Peasants To Nab Property Owners
Moscow radio reported eastern Poland confiscations of businesses and recruitment of peasants to seize landlords storekeepers and kulaks. It said Vilna plants were seized to publish Vilenskaya Pravda praising Molotovs speech and Stalin. Local peasant squads hunted landlords and Polish policemen were targeted during house to house searches.
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Moscow
Poland
Vilna
Moscow Radio
Vilenskaya Pravda
V. M. Molotofff
Red Army
Red Command
Rovno
Bartshevo
Sapteovka
Ukraine
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Bugs" Baer
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