Ironside Visit and Peace Rumors Shape Poland Danzig Crisis
The report covers British General Ironside’s Warsaw visit amid rumors of a Danzig peace, Britain’s hard stance to defend Poland, and Chamberlain’s appeasement posture. It also notes WPA wage-strike fallout, Gov. Loren Dickinson’s controversial year, a Louisiana corruption probe, and indictments tied to Huey Long era politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Prussia
Danzig
Albert Forster
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Warsaw
Germany
London
Berlin
Poland
Britain
Edmund Ironside
General Ironside
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Nevile Henderson
Hitler
Fleet Street
Adventurous Americans: Peter Pond and Others
A Western Newspaper Union summary of explorers and adventurers. Peter Pond, born 1740 in Milford Connecticut, became a major fur trader after serving in the British army and later expanding trade in Detroit Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. Thomas Phelan, Irish-born in 1837, pursued Civil War service, Fenian activity, and Dreyfus affair notoriety. Thirty Thirty Jack Black, born 1872, moved to Alaska as a multi‑talented frontier figure in Wrangell and Nome, later returning to Chicago and deserting derby hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Pond
Pathmaker
Phey
Milford
Lord Howe
Sir William Johnson
General Amherst
Canada
Michillimackinac
West Indies
West
Prairie du Chien
Green Bay
Wis
Mississippi Valley
Peace River Country
North West Company
Hudson's Bay Company
Alexander Mackenzie
Pacific
Pond
Thomas Phelan
Bremerton
Wash
Dumas
Phelan
America
Kansas
John Brown
Osawatomie
Jackson County
Quantrill
Alfred Dreyfus
Devil’s Island
Count Esterhazy
Dreyfus
Jack BlAck
Jack Pratt
Alaska
Wrangell
Jack
Nome
Tex Rickard
Rex Beach
Robert ‘Wv. Service
Texas Guinan
Jack London
Chicago
Heifetz to star in film amid Goldwyn pursuit
A detailed sketch of Jascha Heifetz finally agreeing to a Hollywood contract, driven by producer Sam Goldwyn as well as backstage influences. The piece recalls his screen aversion, his wife Florence Vidtor, and a playful midtown club performance. It also notes Paul Robeson in a separate project and a tale from his Rutgers days shaping his career path.
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York
Jascha Heifetz
Samuel Way
Goldwyn
Sam
Heifetz
Hollywood
Florence Vidtor
Danny Boy
Sam Goldwyn
Vilna
Redding
Conn
Maxine Elliot
Geraldine Farrar
Aul Robeson
Sam Byrd
Bishop
Paul Robeson
Roark Bradford
John Henry
Jacques Wolfe
Paul
Rutgers
New Jersey
Robeson
Foster Sanford
Sanford
North Jersey
South Jersey
Consolidated Features
WNU
Tyrol Sees Tug of War Over Nationhood and Tourism
Pictorial report shows Austrian German-speaking farmers in the Italian Tyrol resisting Italianization or repatriation. Mussolini orders foreign eviction affecting a thriving tourist trade, while Italy denies plans to lease or cede the area to Germany. In the Pacific, Soviet Japan tensions in Manchukuo shrink as a new Sakhalin dispute emerges over leases on coal and oil. Russia holds half of Sakhalin. Japan protests a $112000 fine on concessions to Russian workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italian Tyrol
Germany
Mussolini
Tyrol
Hitler
Italy
Manchukuo
Lake Bor
Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin
Russia
Japan
Tokyo
Clean Hand Traps Beggar in Court
In Cleveland Ohio Sam Modrich faced vagrancy arraignment as Patrolman Ladimir Masek testified his left hand was cleaner than his right due to bandages from an earlier arrest for begging. The judge Frey sentenced him to 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Sam Modrich
Ladimir Masek
Rich Gold Deposit Found and Lost Near Blind River Ontario
Patrick Trainer, 21, a prospector, was lost 48 hours in bush 14 miles north of Blind River. He found a six foot wide vein of gold quartz and plans a return expedition with John Fisher and Ed Furland. Food was scarce. mosquitos and bears challenged his escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blind River
Ont
Patrick Trainer
John Fisher
Halton Beach
Ed Furland
Toronto
Trick Alarm Snags 13 Church Poor Box Thieves
Chicago story about Jerry Plisec the church night caretaker who rigged a burglar alarm for the St Jerome Catholic church poor box. The device wired through church property and a bell at terminals has allegedly helped catch 13 suspects after two transients were found with 1 73 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jerry Plisec
St. Jerome Catholic
Plisec
I'm a Thief Sign Lands Father in Court
New York. Joachie Hubert 31 and his son Joachie Jr 12 were led to magistrate's court after a showy punishment backfired when a sign reading I am a thief I stole my mother's money sparked a scuffle with police. The boy kept the school but the father received a suspended $5 fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willo Sheridan
Miss Mchigan Aviation
Willo
Manhattan
Dickinson
New York
Lansing
John B.corliss Jr
Corliss
Joachie Hubert
Joachie Jr
Hubert
Man Charged with Reckless Driving in Five MPH Incident
Oklahoma City police filed reckless driving charges against a man moving five miles per hour who failed to yield the right of way to a vehicle on a boulevard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Bucyrus Police Chief Retires After 41 Years
In Bucyrus Ohio 82 year old former patrolman Philip Trautman who started as a temporary worker to tide him over during a plastering career has quit after forty-one years on the force becoming police chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucyrus
Ohio
Philip Trautman
Convicts Gather Stamps at Folsom Exhibition
Four hundred stamp collectors have formed an exhibit at Folsom prison in California. All are inmates serving second offenses, showcasing their stamp collections within the prison grounds.
Share-a-Husband Plan Wrecked on Rocks of Discord
In Chicago 1933 to 1935 a wife and widow fought over a man they planned to share with alternate nights and a birthday schedule. Mrs. Petersen gained divorce. Petersen jailed six months for missing temporary alimony payments amid a dispute over a supposed legal marriage ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mary Petersen
Nelson Petersen
Carolina Bertram
Caroline
Mary
Nelson
Petersen
Rudolph ¥. Desert
Mrs. Petersen
Hugh R. Porter
Bertram
Porter
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Joseph W. Labine
Ironside
Western Newspaper Union
Europe
WPA
F. C. Harrington
Harrington
Congress
Michigan
Sin
Loren D. Dickinson
Frank Fitzgerald
National Conference of Governors
LaGuardia
Nebraska
R. L. Cochran
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
James Monroe Smith
Smith
LSU
George Caldwell
E. N. Jackson
Clarence A. Lorie
State Medical Society
U. S
U. S Treasury
Department
Huey Long
Dr. Smith
Seymour Weiss
J. Emory Adams
Monte E. Hart
Electric Company
Louis Lesage
Gerald L. K. Smith
Sir Ironside
Miss Michigan Aviation
Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Isakhalin Island
COREA
Wife
Galvez
Galveston
the Galvez
Chas, A, Schlotter, Mgr
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