Japan seeks peace with Russia over Changkufeng clashes
Tokyo announced a diplomatic initiative by vice foreign minister Horinouchi to halt hostilities on the Siberian frontier. Japan proposed a neutral zone near Changkufeng with both sides withdraw and until demarcation by a commission. If talks fail, Japan warned of extended action and possible air attacks. Russia had not yet replied.
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TOKIO
Japan
Russia
Siberian
Foreign Office
Kensuke Hornouchi
Constantiny Smetanin
Changkufeng Il
Horinouchi
Smetanin
Moscow
Eishiro Itagaki
War Office
Fontier
Five Rescued As Sanitarium Fire Ravages Building
Five patients were rescued Thursday as flames swept a Rocky River suburban sanitarium for mental cases. Firefighters from Rocky River Fairview and Maywood arrived, with all patients safe. The three story building was likely a total loss, caused by torches used to burn paint off the sides.
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Cleveland
INS
Rocky River
Fairview
Airewood
James
Lull in Politics, Mid-Summer Sarcasm Pranks
Arthur Bugs Baer notes a national political lull in midsummer marked by playful sarcasm between party chairmen. The piece describes front page claims and second page denials, framed as light, cooperative jabs until real news returns.
Railroads and unions seek federal mediation in wage dispute
In Chicago representatives of railroads and 18 railroad brotherhoods abandoned direct talks on a 15 percent wage cut and moved to seek federal mediation. George F. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen said a vote would be held on joining the mediation request, while Enochs urged a joint application for the mediation board’s services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
H. A. Knoths
Carriers’ Joint Conference
George F. Harrison
Railway Labor Executives Association
Brotherhoods
Brotherhood of Railway
Harrison
Enochs
70-Year-Old Man Nabbed On Drunk Driving Charge
John De Walt, 70, of 111 Twenty sixth street drive SE, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The arrest occurred on Third avenue at First street SE after H. J. Rupperle followed an apparently intoxicated driver to Cedar Rapids from Fairfax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Roaids News
John de Walt
Twenty-sixth Street Drive
Third Avenue
First Street SE
H. J. Rupperle
E Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Fairfax
Record Grain Harvest Seen Worth 2.5 Billion Dollars
Chicago AP reports the 1938 U S grain harvest exceeding 4.58 billion bushels has an estimated market value near 2.5 billion dollars. Analysts base forecasts on six Chicago experts with August summaries. Corn valued at 1.343 billion, wheat 645.84 million, oats 254 million, rye 24.38 million. overall value trails last year by about 500 million but tops six-year benchmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Relief Expenditure Split Proposed by Mayor Burton
Chicago report cites Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland urging a division of relief burden between federal and local governments. He proposes federal aid for unemployed employables while local governments fund permanent programs for the needy unfit for work, with a middle group to be managed locally. He estimates five to 15 percent fall in relief load and urges industrial recovery to reduce relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland
Republican Program Committee
Burton
New York Prepares for Doug Corrigan Welcome
New York readies a record crowd for aviator Doug Corrigan’s return highlighting a Broadway ticker tape parade and city hall ceremony with Mayor LaGuardia. A truce ends Manhattan Brooklyn reception feuds as tall ships, Irish festivities, and a packed itinerary unfold across a week of celebrations.
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New York
Douglas Corrigan
Columbus
India
America
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
James McGurrin
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Douglas
Broadway
City Hall
East River
Floyd Bennett Field
Fame
Borough Hall
Bay
Corrigan
Jack Dempsey
Jim Braddock
Jimmy Walker
Corrigans
Fraser Langford
Los Angeles
Flying ace Corrigan greets press aboard Manhattan
Douglas Corrigan, famed avoider of the U S letters, welcomed a press flood aboard the S S Manhattan as reporters photographers and newsreel crews swarmed aboard from two cutters after foggy Nantucket lightship approach.
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S. S. Manhattan
INS
Douglas Corrigan
New York
Manhattan
Nantucket
Corrigan
Kraschel faces political backlash over Newton factory reopening
James Carey, president of the United Electrical workers union, says Maytag's factory reopen under military rule will not settle the strike and calls Kraschel's order unfair and illegal. He argues the governor oversteps authority and risks political death by action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Carey
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Maytag Washing Machine Company
Newton
Carey
Nelson G. Kraschel
National Guard
National Labor Relations Board
Pearl White Silent Film Star Dies in Paris Hospital
Paris AP Pearl White renowned as the daring heroine of early thrillers and serials including the Perils of Pauline Exploits of Elaine and others died Thursday at the American hospital in Paris after a liver ailment. She was 49 and had spent years in Paris and Deauville before living quietly in later years. Continued on Page 2 Column 5.
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Paris
Pearl White
Pauline
Young
America
Elaine
United States
Deauville
Cedar Rapids Plans Expanding Two Grain Elevators
Cedar Rapids officials confirm plans to expand storage capacity at two grain elevators. Wilder Grain will add about 100000 bushels at its 501 Twelfth Ave SE plant, built by John S Metcalf and Co. Honeymead Products seeks similar facilities tied to its ongoing expansion, with contract details due by Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
Wilder Grain Company
Honeymead Products Company
Wilder
John S. Metcalf and Company
Quaker Oats Company
Penick and Ford, Ltd
Twelfth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids Grain Company
Honeymead
Twelfth Avenue
Police Guard Youth Shot By Detective Near City Market
Marvin Null, 16, was shot in the upper right leg by Det. Al Wilson as he attempted to flee near the city market at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday. Null, wanted for questioning in boat house breakins near Ellis park, was taken to St. Luke's hospital in fairly good condition and guarded by police. The detective says the bullet ricocheted off a rock and he did not aim at the youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Null
J Avenue NW
al Wilson
Wilson
Jim Bailey
Null
St. Luke's Hospital
Ellis Park
Bailey
Mercury Soars After Cool Night
Cedar Rapids journal reports a heat wave keeping Cedar Rapids in a hot spell. Temperatures rose from a 66 degree low at 7 a.m. to 92 by 2 40 p.m. The previous day reached 95, then cooled to 89 in the evening and 73 at midnight, according to the Cham bers Inskeep recorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Probe of Farm Marketing to Be Undertaken
Washington report notes a wide ranging probe of the agricultural marketing system will be proposed as part of an anti monopoly inquiry. Rep. Edward Eicher Iowa says the inquiry could run with unemployment studies and focus on labor impact and market dynamics including the wheat pit and speculative markets.
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Washington
Ins
Edward Eicher
Iowa
Eicher
Department of Commerce
Oil Samples Give No Leads To Fate Of Missing Plane
U S navy chemists report oil found near the Hawaii Clipper’s last position is not dense enough to prove the oil came from the missing flying boat. The Clipper with 15 aboard vanished Friday between Guam and Manila as searches covered a vast Pacific area with no trace found.
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Manila
P. I
U. S. Navy
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Philippine Archipelago
Veracity Of Dwyer Center Of Maine Case
In a sensational Carroll murder trial in South Paris Maine 19 year old Paul Buddy Dwyer admits killing Dr James G Littlefield and his wife Lydia for a slighting remark about his sweetheart Barbara Carroll He then pleads life in prison and now accuses Francis M Carroll of the double murder He says Carroll beat and strangled Littlefield and later strangled Mrs Littlefield as Dwyer watched in the car on Turkey Hill route with the car trunk holding the husband’s body The confession Dwyer signed in North Arlington NJ is read but did not implicate Carroll He says Carroll warned him to keep silent after returning to Maine The case continues on page 2 column 6
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Paris
Paul “Buddy” Dwyer
Carroll
James G. Littlefield
Lydia
Dwyer
Barbara Carroll
Francis M. Carroll
Drr. Littlefield
Dr. Littlefield
Mrs. Littlefield
Turkey Hill
North Arlington
Maine
Guardsmen hold CIC organizer Sentner after peace made
William Sentner CIO regional director in St Louis was arrested by military authorities at a Maytag plant mass meeting and jailed for action by a military court. He faces a civil syndicalism indictment and contempt of court conviction tied to a district injunction on picketing. Sentner and two others were ordered to jail for six months and fined $500. cases on appeal await Iowa Supreme Court in September.
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Newton
William Sentner
St. Louis
CIO
Maytag
Sentner
Homer A. Fuller
Iowa Sypreme Court
Mathew Tinley
National Guard
Rackets Grow From Political Tolerance, Dewey Aide Says
An assistant to Thomas E. Dewey, Francis E. Rivers, told the Republican committee that rackets develop only with political tolerance. He urged Republicans to deny racketeers party shelter and warned that corrupt politics nurtures rackets while enlightened politics destroys them. Rivers argued party control of government helps pump racketeering into business and farm programs.
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Chicago
New York
Thomas E.dewey
Republican Program Committee
Francis E. Rivers
Dewey
Republicant Party
Rivers
America
CIO Union Reopens Maytag Plant After Protest Vote
CIO union members voted 378 to 161 to return to work at the Maytag washing machine plant under protest as 500 national guard troops stood by for the reopening. The move, described as a truce, preserves operation at full strength while signaling a continued union campaign and dissent over an immediate 10 percent wage cut.
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Newton
CIO
Maytag
National Guard
Tre
Nelson G. Krasehel
CNO
John Connolly
Maytag CIO Men Bow To Edict But Flag Coercion Method
NEWTON AP text of a Maytag CIO mass meeting resolution condemns military coercion and urges union members to return to work without a contract other than legal bargaining rights. The statement denounces strikebreakers and the use of force while affirming collective bargaining as the true power.
Newton workers aid back to work drive in Maytag strike
Albert Gove, Maytag veteran, testified at an NLRB hearing in Des Moines that he collected a little over $300 from Newton business and professional men to finance the back-to-work movement during the Maytag strike. He said the fund-raising was done openly and that the company denied backing the effort.
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DES Moines
Albert Gove
Maytag
National Labor Relations Board
Newton
NLRB
Federal
Sanctuary
Nelson G. Kraschel
Military
Iowa
Jasper County
Gove
D. Wormhoudt
Newton Bank
Thurlow Smoot
Edward W. Ford
Madison Hill
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Cedar Rauids News
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N. G. Kraschel
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Judas Iscariot
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