Britain weighs Soviet entente proposal amid conscription delay
Britain debates a Soviet five to ten year triple entente offer brought by Ambassador Maisky. The cabinet will study extending guarantees to Lithuania, Estonia and Finland in exchange for Russian pledges to defend Belgium and Switzerland. A conscription bill is to be introduced, while Northern Ireland draft plans are postponed to avoid a clash with Eire.
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London
INL
Great Britain
Moscow
Ivan M. Maisky
France
Romania
Hitler
Germany
Britain
Roosevelt
Poland
Rumania
Greece
Russia
Lithuania
Esthenia
Finland
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Néville Chamberlain
Northern Ireland
Eire
England
Scotland
Wales
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Eamon de Valera
Foreign Office
Sir Nevile Henderson
Reichstag
Fuhrer
Henderson
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Maisky
Viscount Halifax
Income Tax Proof in Crooner Crosby
Arthur Bugs Baer notes Bing Crosby demonstrates the rule that a savvy businessman borrows against next year’s income to settle the prior year’s tax. The column recalls Crosby’s 1939 payment and earlier jokes about his 1926 borrowing to cover taxes.
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Crooner Crosby
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Bing Crosby
Bing
Hitler vows Danzig return as NATO pact ends
Berlin reports Hitler proclaims the Versailles treaty invalid and Germany free to reclaim Danzig after denouncing the Polish non aggression pact. He meets with Hungary's Teleky and Csaky at a state dinner as Poland readies a diplomatic reply amid security concerns.
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Berlin
Poland
Britain
Hungary
Germany
Europe
Paul Teleky
Stephen Csaky
Hitler
Warsaw
Danzig
Spurned suitor frees girl unharmed after kidnapping alarm
Pittsburgh AP reports Charles C. Conkel, 25, the rejected suitor who drove Ruth Luck across western Pennsylvania on Saturday night, returned the stenographer unharmed to her home after police in seven states sought him on kidnapping charges. Luck said Conkel told her he wanted to talk the whole thing over and she screamed during the car ordeal but was not harmed.
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Pittsburgh
Ruth Luck
Pennsylvania
Charles C. Conkel
Miss Luck
Conkel
U S Post Office Department Having Its Best Year Yet
Washington announces a boom year for the U S Post Office Department with March receipts at 66,289,470, a record for the month. Nine months into the fiscal year total revenues reach 561,532,197, another all time high, while permit postage sales run 11,000,000 ahead of last year.
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Washington
INS
United States Post Office Department
Farley
Postal Service
Cedar Rapids Man Breaks Nose After Car Sideswipe
Carl Van Antwerp of Cedar Rapids fractured his nose when two cars driven by Earl H. Owens and Kathryn Brady side swiped on highway No 151 four miles east of Marion at 8 10 p m Saturday. Van Antwerp riding with Owens was treated by a Marion physician. No injuries were reported in the Brady car.
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Cedar Rapids
Carl van Antwerp
Earl H. Owens
Fifth Avenue
Kathryn Brady
Fourth Avenue SE
Marion
Harlan Snyder
van Antwerp
Owens
Brady
Newspaper merger ends six month strike shutdown
Wilkes Barre AP reports the Times Leader and Evening News, two area afternoon papers, announced a merger after a six month guild strike that closed both papers. The publications resumed about a month ago.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Times-Leader
New Deal clash looms over Democratic control in 1940
Wall Street leaders predict open conflict between business interests and the Roosevelt administration as Democratic convention delegates are shaped. The plan for cooperation dubbed appeasement stalled, with Henderson’s SEC vote seen as pivotal to tilt influence toward the New Deal. Notables summoned to Washington after May 15 include J P Morgan’s George Whitney and Edward R. Stettinius of U S Steel, Kuhn Loeb’s Elisha Walker, AT&T’s Walter Stifford, Consolidated Edison’s Floyd Carlisle, Wendell Willkie, Sun Oil’s J Howard Pew, Morgan Stanley’s Harold Stanley, and ex Guaranty head Joseph Swan. The effort centers on guiding the SEC probe of big-time financing. Hopkins’ illness is cited as hurting recovery efforts.
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New York
Wall Street
U. S. Senate
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Securities and Exchange Commission
Henderson
SEC
National Economic Committee
George Whitney
J. P. Morgan and Company
Edward R. Stettinius
U. S. Steel Corporation
Elisha Walker
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Walter Stifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Floyd L. Carlisle
Consolidated Edison Company
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
J. Howard Pew
Sun Oil Company
Harold Stanley
Morgan, Stanley and Company
Joseph Swan
Guaranty Company
Humanitarian Award To Father Flanagan
Detroit AP reports Father Ed ward J Flanagan founder of Boys Town Neb was chosen Saturday night by the National Variety club as the person with the most outstanding humanitarian contribution in the United States during 1938. John H Harris of Pittsburgh national chief barker said the selection starts an annual club award in entertainment circles devoted to charity.
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Detroit
Edward J. Flanagan
Boys Town
Neb
National Variety Club
United States
John H. Harris
Pittsburgh
Barker
Weekly Forecast for Chicago May 16 Week
Weather outlook for the upper Mississippi valley shows possible local showers in the first half and again toward the end of the week. Cooler conditions expected Monday or Tuesday in northern portions with mostly seasonable temperatures thereafter, and temperatures mostly normal or above in the southern area.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Grounded Soviet Flyers Refuse Rescue After Crash
Soviet pilots Kokkinaki and Gordienko crash land on Miscou Island while en route from Moscow to New York for the world fair. With 98 gallons of fuel and damaged planes their decision to stay with the Moscow marks a delay as rescuers guard the aircraft.
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Miscou Plains
N. B
New York
Moscow
Lonesy Island
Vladimir Kokkinaki
Soviet Union
Mikhail Gordienko
Peter Baranov
Marcel Therriault
Royal Canadian Mounted
Constantine Oumanski
United States
New Brunswick
Oumanski
Miscow
Kokkinaki
L. S. Specter
Moncton
Gordienko
Miscou Island
New Peace Appeal From Roosevelt To Hitler Considered
Washington sources report Roosevelt may respond to Hitler with a new diplomatic peace plea. The proposal would seek concurrence from the 21 American republics though the State Department has no plan under consideration. Roosevelt anticipated a Hitler rejection and has prepared groundwork with the Americas for a further step, though the plan remains tentative.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
North
South America
State Department
Hitler
Police Extend Aid To Man Refusing To Drive While Drunk
Cedar Ranids News reports that local police aided a drunken man who called for help to park his car instead of driving. Assistant Chief Al Mikota dispatched a radio car and praised the man for having more sense than many drunks.
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Lishen
Garash
al Mikota
Roosevelt Scion Welcomes Eight-Pound Son in Philadelphia
Mrs Curtis Winsor, formerly Elliott Roosevelt’s wife, gave birth to an eight-pound son at Hahnemann hospital on Saturday. The infant’s father is a socialite, son of a Philadelphia investment banker.
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Philadelphia
Hahnemann Hospital
Curtis Winsor
Elliott Roosevelt
Methodists formally united after unification vote
Delegates at a Methodist conference in Kansas City decided the three branches of the church had already united, with unification dated April 25, 1938, when the Episcopal South merged with the other groups. The issue centered on consecrating two Protestant bishops, Dr. James Henry Straughn and Dr. John Calvin Broomfield, under the single church.
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Kansas City
Uniting Conference
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal South
Episcopal Church, South
General Conference
James Henry Straughn
Baltimore
John Calvin Broomfield
Fairmont
W. Va
Arab leaders meet in Cairo on Palestine settlement proposals
Arab heads of state from Palestine Egypt Iraq Saudi Arabia and Transjordan gathered in Cairo to study the latest British plans aimed at resolving the Palestine problem.
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Cairo
Egypt
Palestine
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Transjordan
Temperature swings in Cedar Rapids reach 74 then fall
A Cedar Rapids temperature record shows a cool start at 39 degrees before lifting to 74 by 6:30 p.m. The day reversed with an 18 degree drop to 56 by 8:30 p.m. Sunny skies accompanied the variable conditions throughout Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Candid camera reaches 40000 shot milestone at the Gazette
Cameramen near 40,000 candid pictures this week with an average of 2,000 daily. The pair will continue until every loop-area visitor has had a chance to be photographed. The scene shows North Liberty visitors Dorothy Ellen and her mother with onlookers and a list of local residents nearby.
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Gazette
North Liberty
Dorothy Ellen
Fred Dever
A. C. Hines
Twenty-first Street
B. G.beems
Second Avenue
Man Ends Life With Gun In Second Avenue Shooting Gallery
Lynn Hake 26 of 622 Second Avenue SW fatally shot himself in the Second Avenue shooting gallery two doors west of Fourth Street about 11:50 p.m. Saturday. He died 20 minutes later at a local hospital after being rushed by Ambulance Service. A note found in his pocket suggested a yearlong contemplation of suicide. The shooting gallery’s new 22 pistol had just been installed, and owner Rudolph Hanson noted the man had appeared earlier that afternoon and again late Saturday night after briefly visiting the nearby Virginia cafe.
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Lynn Hake
Second Avenue
Fourth Street
Frank Hake
Belmond
Second Avenue Virginia
Rudolph Hanson
Sixth Avenue SE
Shooting Gallery
Hanson
Gan
U S Tariff Penalties Extend to Italy and Japan
Washington reports indicate the treasury is studying applying penalty tariffs to imports from Japan and Italy, expanding sanctions to the Berlin Rome Tokyo axis. A 35 percent countervailing duty already targets non German goods, with neutrality law changes and cash and carry set to expire soon. Senator Norris warned of possible embargoes if proven non provocative.
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Washington
Treasury
Japan
Italy
Germany
Reichsfuhrer
Adolf
Black taxi driver killed after mob attack in Florida
Daytona Beach AP report says Lee Snell, a Black taxi driver, was struck and overpowered by two White brothers, Everett and Earl Blackwelder, while being taken to jail after Benny Blackwelder, 12, was struck by Snell’s taxi. The mob used public safety items and a car to flee.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Lee Snell
James Durden
Snell
Durden
Everett
Earl Blackwelder
Benny Blackwelder
Daytona Beach-Feland
Forden
Three Doctors Arrested In Iowa Narcotics Raids
State agents conducted narcotics raids Friday afternoon arresting Dr. Nathan B. Williams of Belle Plaine and Dr. William Wagner of Traer. A third physician, Dr. Paul Marling of Gladbrook, was arraigned Saturday night with a $500 bond. hearings set for Wednesday. Williams and Wagner were held in Tama and Benton county jails respectively, with transfers arranged between Toledo and Vinton as the case developed.
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Nathan B. Williams
Belle Plaine
William Wagner
Traer
Williams
Tama County
Toledo
Wagner
Benton County
Vinton
Paul Marling
Gladbrook
H. FP Giger
Marling
Victor D. Visquain
Charles E. Hughes
Iowa
United States
Dr. Williams
J J. de Ruad
Tyler
State Pharmaceutical Department
de Raad
the Gazette
Vilquain and Hughes
Harry P Sharp
Dr Williams
John Franklin
Des Moines
Vilquain
Hughes
Franklin
Dr. Wagner
Nile Morena
Russell Kern
Siegel seeks reduced bail in seven-violin theft case
New York AP reports Harry Siegel age 26 was charged with burglary and grand larceny in the theft of seven violins valued at 200 dollars. He asked to lower bail from 2500 to 1000 to leave Tombs prison, claiming he wished to sit for a civil service exam. The judge granted the reduction.
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New York
Harry Siegel
Tombs Prison
Siegel
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