Washington letters on arms embargo mail flood
The Gazette reports Ed Hadley asking Senators Herring Gillette and Rep Jacobsen if they read their mail about the proposed arms embargo repeal. Herring says mail is forwarded unopened, Gillette and Jacobsen note propaganda campaigns, with Cedar Rapids copies and signatures. The piece notes war news from dismembered Czechoslovakia and Nazi retaliation, and England's wartime aims.
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Gazette
Washington
Ed Hadley
Herring
Gillette
Jacobsen
Hadley
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Czechoslovakia
Paris
London
Hitler
Gestapo
Germany
Bohemia
England
Opinion on arms embargo repeal and traffic woes in Chicago
The piece argues Congress must decide on ending the arms embargo, urging Washington action to reflect majority neutrality. It recalls Toronto Telegram criticisms of U S restraint and notes motoring hazards in Chicago’s one way traffic, recounting a Kenmore Bryn Mawr near-crash experience.
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Chicago
Sheridan Road
Sheridan
Kenmore Avenue
Bryn Mawr
Kenmore
Foes of Arms Plan Seek Speedy Action
Opponents of the administration neutrality program seek a quick Senate showdown within a month. They offer to limit speech and not obstruct committee action in exchange for no night sessions and no extraneous matters. Leaders discuss moving the measure through the Foreign Relations Committee and to the floor by mid week.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
Jay C. Hormel
Minnesota
Packer
Nye
N. Vandenberg
Mich
Shipstead
Minn
Pittman
Schwellenbach
Wash
Troop Movements Amid Polish Red Army Occupation
Soviet and Hungarian troops formalized contact in the Carpathians ending a phase of occupation in eastern Poland. Moscow said all mobilized Russian troops would stay under arms indefinitely, as Moscow consolidates gains and maps show no Polish rump state. Turkey and Estonia also engage Moscow as Baltic access and Black Sea influence become strategic issues.
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Hungary
Carpathian Mountains
Red Army
Poland
Moscow
Germany
Sulkrn Saracoglu
Turkey
Partitioned
East Prussia
Warsaw
Berlin
Russia
Black Sea
Saracoglu
Ankara
Great Britain
France
Esthenia
Karl Selier
Esthonia
Baltic
Tallinn
Gulf of Finland
World War II Polish fighting casualties denied by French report
Washington insiders say a French official report claiming Germany incurred 150000 casualties 400 to 600 planes and 700 aviators killed in three weeks of Polish fighting is propaganda. Neutral military experts dismiss the figures.
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Washington
INS
Germany
Roosevelt declines Landon third-term appeal
President Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to comment on Alf Landon’s call for him to publicly renounce any desire for a third term. He spoke only to say he could not comment without reading the text and to protect himself, while pacing the Roosevelt estate with his mother and granddaughters nearby.
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Roosevelt
London
Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Sara
Kate
Washington
Freud Dies as Founder of Psychoanalysis at 83
London reports Sigmund Freud, world renowned founder of psychoanalysis, died at his Hampstead home after a coma. He fledVienna last year amid Nazi persecution and had been in poor health since his exile. His daughter Anna continued his work and his influence on psychology endures.
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Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
London
Hampstead
Jung
Adler
Stekel
Freud
England
Vienna
Germany
Austria
United States
Anna
No Revolt denied by Czech leader Hacha amid shortages
Prague reports from Emil Hacha deny a Czech revolt while the Czech news agency cites violent clashes at Skoda Pilsen. He says Bohemia Moravia progress orderly, no Czech soldier fights for Germany. Food rationing starts next week as lines form. some Czechs seek Poland or France to join opposing armies.
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Paris
Bohemia
Moravia
Skoda
Pilsen
Prague
Emil Hacha
Bohemia and Moravia
Ministry of Information
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Little Republic
Hacha
Bohemia and
Protectorate
Poland
France
No Dictator Bucks Echo Out‑talks Him In Switzerland
Arthur A. Baer humorously notes Switzerland as hilly and stable, a place dictators fear because their own echoes would out-talk them. The piece portrays Switzerland as safe and unthreatening despite surrounding trouble, likening it to parsley served with fish and to a general on tour.
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Switzerland
Family ties land three Varners in Linn County jail
A Cedar Rapids police report shows George Varner 30 Wes Varner 59 and Kenneth Varner 36 were jailed after a collision near Linn Junction. George faced driving without a license while Wes faced intoxication. Kenneth was already serving a 60 day sentence for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
George Varner
C Avenue NE
Wes Varner
Sixth Street
Kenneth Varner
Varners
Linn Junction
George
Ernest Miller
Miller
James I. Smith
Varner
George Warner
Buckingham Man Killed When Hit By Car At Traer
Toby Peterson 60, farmer near Buckingham, was killed Friday night when struck by a car at the south edge of Traer as he crossed with another man. Bernard Fulkerson of Gladbrook drove the southbound car. three Gladbrook youths rode with him. Peterson survived by his wife and daughter Marion. Funeral set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Traer Methodist Church. Burial in Lincoln cemetery. An inquest decision had not yet been announced.
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Traer
A. J. Wentzien
Harry Sharp
Toby Peterson
Buckingham
Peterson
Marvin Richmond
Richmond
Bernard Fulkerson
Gladbrook
Fulkerson
Lester Lege
Gilbert and
Gilman Dahims
Marion
Traer Methodist Church
Lincoln Cemetery
Germans Press Western Front As Hitler Seen At Front
Paris reports German forces intensified 60 mile western front attacks as Adolf Hitler and Walther von Brauchitsch were said to be at the line. Observers questioned timing while Berlin denied Hitler’s presence, noting battles from Saarbruecken to Lauterbourg with heavy fighting in the Blies valley and renewed German waves against French positions.
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Walther von Brauchitse
Fuehrer
Germany
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Poland
Warsaw
Berlin
War Office
Propaganda Ministry
Hitler
Saarbruecken
Bienwald Forest
Rhine
Laterbourg
Blies
Russia
Autumn Arrives In Cedar Rapids With Chilly Dip
Cedar Rapids welcomed autumn with a sharp temperature drop after a 70 degree noon high. By 3 pm it read 66, drizzle formed briefly, and by midnight the mercury fell to 51 degrees as residents pulled out blankets.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chicago Weather Outlook for Week of Sept 26
AP forecast for the upper Mississippi valley expects little precipitation and temperatures normal or above average for most of the week starting Sept. 26. No significant storms anticipated.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Last Chance To Surrender Warned By Nazi Broadcast
German radio from Warsaw urged Warsaw defenders to surrender or face annihilation as bombs hit the city. Budapest residents noted damage to the Warsaw link and refugees streamed into Hungary. Prime news: Hungary named envoy Joseph Kristoff to Moscow to pursue restored Soviet relations.
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Budapest
INS
Warsaw
Hungary
Poland
Moscow
Soviet Union
Joseph Kristoff
British navy Seizes Coffee Meant for Hitler in Arabian Sea Route
Two tons of coffee intercepted at sea and seized by the British navy on a voyage from Aden in the Red Sea to Hamburg. The contraband committee ordered seizure and held for examination by Britain's prize court to determine if the cargo is contraband.
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London
INS
Germany
Adolf Hitler
One Killed Seven Hurt In Nashua Car Crash
A two car collision east of Nashua left Alfred Daddow 40 of Loup City Nebraska dead and seven injured four seriously. Daddow drove one car and was found tangled in a fence near the wrecked vehicle. Five of the injured were in his auto.
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Nashua
Alfred Daddow
Loup City
Neb
Daddow
Germany declares end of Polish war and claims success
Berlin reports final communique from the German high command announcing the destruction of Poland's army of over a million with Soviet aid and the war end. It claims massive Polish losses, captures, and prisoner numbers as German forces reach decisive victories on both fronts.
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Berlin
Nazi
Germany
Poland
Russia
Supreme Command of
Vieforms
Red
Cist
France
Britain
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Iowa Senators Battling Flood of Mail in Embargo Debate
Gazette reports Senator Guy Gillette Senator Clyde Herring and Rep. W S Jacobsen flooded with letters amid embargo debate. Jacobsen reads as many as possible and forwards most to Clinton. Herring relies on one clerk to sort and forward. Evidence points to a coordinated drive with mass-typewritten duplicates from Cedar Rapids and Dubuque.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Iowa
Guy Gillette
Clyde Herring
W. S Jacobsen
Gillette
Jacobsen
House Committee
Clinton
Pat Kehoe
Herring
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
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