Political rancor in 1938 campaign across states
A critique claims FDR core New Dealers backed by federal funds shape elections in Kentucky, Iowa, Pennsylvania and more. It cites Barkley’s 100 percent support, alleged graft, court-imposed limits, and calls for local PWA WPA projects like Sioux City stadium to recapture federal money.
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Roosevelt
Kentucky
Alben” Barkley
Blue Grass
Chandler
Ohio
Georgia
Pennsylvania
California
Federal Treasury
Senator Barkley
Barkley
Harrington
Iowa
Public Works Administration
Sioux City
Ickes
Washington
PWA
WPA
Cedar Rapids
Messrs. Ickes
Hopkins
Dwyer Confesses Fear Caused Guilty Plea in Slayings
Paul N. Dwyer 19 confessed to pleading guilty under fear for his life and his mother as details emerged of threats linked to the slayings of Dr. James Littlefield and his wife Lydia. Law Guardians testified that Carroll, Barbara Carroll’s father, was alleged to have made the threats and that Dwyer feared for Barbara’s safety amid the Bergen County killings.
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South
Paris
Paul N. Dwyer
James G. Littlefield
Dwyer
E. Walker Abbott
Superior Court
Francis M Carroll
Poe
Abbott
Carroll
Dr. Littlefield
Lydia Littlefield
Barbara Carroll
Larkey
Fernando F. Franas
Francis
Sidney Verrill
Verrill
John J. Breslin
Bergen County
N. J
New Jersey
Barbara
Litlefield
Carrol
Breslin
North Arlington
Magistrate Puts Gamble Suspect On Light Sentence
Philadelphia report says Magistrate Jacob Dogole ordered Ike Thomas to roll dice during gambling charges. Thomas rolled a five and a three. “Light days in the hoosegow” the magistrate quipped. Thomas replied with “Glad it wasn’t box cars.”
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Philadelphia
Jacob Dogole
Ike Thomas
Thomas
Furnace for sale ad sparks cash buyers from Gazette
Want ad run for old furnaces draws seven responses with one sale noted. Contact 2-1121 to place your ad. Sold Hollands furnace, 28 inch, excellent condition, $50, 1255 Ind Ave, phone 2-7425.
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Holland
Ind Ave
Loyalist Flank Wiped Out In Northern Catalonia
Spanish insurgents report the government northern flank of the Catalan front wiped out in a major assault. Dispatches say 4,000 militiamen killed and as many captured, with another 4,000 unable to escape a trap. Government losses limited to Los Ants Heights north of Fayon. Two insurgent seaplanes bombed a British steamer at Palamos, injuring none of the 27 crew.
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Hendaye
France
Zaragoza
Ebro
Mequinenza
Fayon
Catalonia
Francisco Franco
Caspe
Los Ants
Palamos
Barcelona
Walter Chrysler's Wife In Iron Lung
Mrs. Walter P Chrysler, wife of the automaker, was stricken by a stroke and placed in an iron lung. Walter P Chrysler Jr confirmed the illness noting she had fallen ill two months earlier but seemed to recover before another sudden relapse Monday.
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New York
INL
Walter P Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr
Chicago Grain At New Five Year Lows
Chicago grain futures slid to five year lows as Winnipeg driven selling spurred a broad downturn. Wheat dropped about 2 percent with September at 62 cents. corn fell about 2 percent with September near 50 cents.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Temperature Tumbles as Cedar Rapids Breezes Rise
Humidity eased in Cedar Rapids on Monday afternoon as a breeze increased. Temperatures fell from 87 at 12 30 p.m. to 82 at 2 30 p.m. after a cloudy day gave way to light rain. Sunday saw sun and heat with a 72 low and 89 high. Rain measured 12 of an inch.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Frankfurter Backed by Norris for Court
In an open letter to President Roosevelt Senator George W. Norris urged the appointment of Felix Frankfurter as justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed the late Benjamin Cardozo. Norris praised Frankfurter as representing the Holmes Cardozo philosophy and called the appointment a major service to the American people.
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Waupaca
Wis
Roosevelt
U. S
George W. Norris
Neb
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard
United States Supreme Court
Benjamin Cardozo
Here
Bratton Urged For Supreme Court Seat After Cardozo Death
Washington reports that Senator Burke of Nebraska urged United States Circuit Judge Sam G. Bratton of the Tenth Circuit for Justice Cardozo's vacant Supreme Court seat. The move comes as a push for reform and a reshaping of the high court.
Soviet forces repulsed on Changkufeng hill in Sino-Soviet clash
The Soviet army says it repulsed a heavy engagement on Changkufeng hill on the Manchukuoan–Siberian border and began a general retreat. Moscow warns Japan of harsher action and proposes a truce framework with a frontier line from the 1886 China treaty. Shigemitsu and Litvinov plan to resume talks after considering the proposal.
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Bulletin— Tokio
Foreign Office
Changkufeng Hill
Tokio
Keiko
Korea
Russia
Japan
Siberian
Maxim Litvinoff
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Moscow
Papr
Litvinoff
Litsinoff
Shigemitsu
Changkufeng
Tass
China
Manchukuo
Shigemitsu-Litvinoff
New Deal Sees Triple Win In Tuesday Vote
Washington AP reports Barkley victory boosts Roosevelt backers as three more incumbents Barkley of Ohio Caraway of Arkansas Pope of Idaho seek renomination. Pope Clark contest noted as test of admin policy while Nebraska allocates no Senate race.
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Washington
Kentucky
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Robert Barkley
Ohio
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
James P. Pope
Idaho
Roosevelt
Pope
Rep
D. Worth Clark
Clark
White House
John McClellin
Caraway
George White
Bulkley
Marietta
Robert Taft
Arthur J. Day
Martin L. Davey
Charles Sawyer
Social Security Board
Davey
Nebraska
R. L. Cochran
Corrigan Returns With Crate From Ireland Flight
In New York a crate containing Douglas Corrigan’s Cur tiss Robin airplane arrives aboard the Lehigh. The craft lacks wings and is lashed down for the trip to Roosevelt Field for a test hop expected Thursday. Corrigan reports he rejected a $25 000 nightclub offer for the plane.
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New York
Douglas Corrigan
Ireland
Corrigan
Roosevelt Field
District Department of Commerce
Allied Industrial Picnic Draws Thousands at Cedar Rapids Park
A crowd estimated at 7 000 gathered at Ellis Park for the second annual Allied Industrial Civic League picnic. Attendees relaxed in shade by trees and water, watched games, and enjoyed a night variety show on a waterfront stage. The event featured a YMCA floats parade, a drum and bugle corps, and group singing led by Reuben F. Smith.
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Ellis Park
Allied Industrial Civic League
Diamond Ball Grounds
Horseshoe Courts
Rose Garden
Reuben F. Smith
League
Iowa
Cecil Seger
Randall H. Rodgers
Rogers
Lewis Black
George DeLay
Cliff Howe
Y.M.C.A
Barkley Widens Lead in Kentucky Dem Primary
Gov. A B Chandler concedes the nomination fight as Sen. Alben W Barkley leads by wide margins in Kentucky's Democratic primary. Barkley atop seven of nine districts with a 48,122 vote edge from 3,774 precincts reported. Chandler pledges active support in November. Republican Haswell leads among GOP contenders. Police issue warrant to Dr. J W Bryan over poisoning claim.
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Louisville
A B. Chandler
Senate
Alben W Barkley
Barkley
Chandler
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Hts
Jefferson
John DP. Haswell
Hardinsburg
Hasee Well
GOP
Andrew Ritchie
Pandueah
J. W. Bryan
John Malley
City Civil Service Board
Bryan
Kentucky First Lady Criticizes Federal Spending Influence
Mrs. Chandler says her husband’s defeat was caused by federal money in Kentucky and urges the governor to leave politics. She quips that you can’t make money in politics, calling Happy a psychopathic case of honesty.
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Frankfort
Chandler
Kentucky
Lindberghs Reach England After Fog Delays France Flight
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh arrived at Lympne airfield England after a Brittany coast departure. They had earlier left Illice and stopped at Le Havre for repairs then faced fog that diverted them to Le Bourget before resuming toward Calais and England.
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London
INL
Illiec
Brittany
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lympne
Early Start Social Security for Baby Dixon
In Hertford North Carolina Herbert Newby Dixon Jr was issued a social security number only six hours and fifty five minutes after birth His father listed the infant as unemployed in the official record indicating an early administrative milestone.
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Hertford, N. C
Herbert Newby Dixon, Jr
Herbert
Maytag Suspected Action Aimed at Breaking Union
Thurlow Smoot of the national labor relations board charged that Maytag Washing Machine Co backed a Newton business group and a back-to-work movement to break the union. The hearing was recessed to allow peace talks, with district judge Fuller and a Maytag attorney involved in a cited contempt record as part of the dispute. Jasper County officials described governor Krashel's concerns about deputizing a thousand men to restore order to avoid bloodshed.
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Willliam Sentner
St. Louis
Newton
Sentner
CIO
National Guard
Maytag
DES Moines
INS
Maytag Washing Machine Company
Thurlow Smoot
National Labor Relations Board
Madison Hill
Smoot
Nomer A Fuller
Keith Hammel
Edward W. Ford
Ford
Nelson
Kraschel
Jasper County
Luther Carr
Krasche
Earl Shields
Carr
Street Widening Project Referred To City Planners
City council closed session referred the Third avenue FE widening in the business district to the city plan commission. The plan aims to widen between the Third avenue bridge east line and Fourth street. Don Hines cites a major-street change under city ordinance. A 1925 report by Harland Bartholomew guides whether the plan remains valid. In August a petition with 600 names protested the change due to street car track removal.
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City Plan Commission
Third Avenue Bridge
Fourth Street
Don Hines
Harland Bartholomew
St. Louis
Hines
Planning Board
Queen Mary Breaks Sea Crossing Record Westward
The Queen Mary of the Cunard White Star line set a new westward Atlantic crossing record from Europe to New York. She completed the journey in 3 days 21 hours 48 minutes, surpassing the Nor mandie’s previous mark by 1 hour 14 minutes. The ship passed Ambrose channel lightship at 12 32 a.m.
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New York
Cunard
White Star Line
Atlantic
Ambrose Channel
Europe
Normandie
Bishop's Rock
Quints Shelved By Throat Infection
The Dionne quintuplets in Callander Ontario will cancel daily public appearances due to a mild throat infection. Officials expect to resume activities within about a week.
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Callander
Ont
Two Missouri Bandits Shot. Patrolman Wounded
Two bandits wounded a highway patrolman near Mineola while stopping them for questioning. They fled toward Iowa with a stolen car, later linked to Dan O Davis wanted in a Minden bank holdup. Patrolman Frank Hagan identified Davis in a photo from a Terre Haute newspaper found in the abandoned vehicle.
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Mineola
Iowa
Missouri Boundary Line
Marvin Casteel
Frank Hagan
Montgomery City
George White
Louisiana
Dan O Davis
Minden
Davis
Terre Haute
Hagan
Charles Gillman
St. Louis
Gillman
Fugitives Hamilton and Walters Sought by FBI in Midwest Bank Robbery
FBI in Des Moines warns Iowans to watch for Floyd Garland Hamilton and Huron Ted Walters both heavily armed and dangerous. They fled after robbing Wood River bank for $34,000 and abandoning a stolen car near Colfax then taking another car in Adel. second vehicle later found in Arkansas. Hamilton is 5'10" 155 pounds with blue eyes and light brown hair. Walters 5'8" 160 pounds with gray brown eyes and chestnut hair.
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Des Moines
AIM
Federal Bureau Cof
Monnay
Walters
Henry
FBI
Colfax
Adel
Arkansas
Hamilton
Wood River
Corrigan Makes Atlantic Look Like Damp Cellar
Aviation satire notes that Corrigan and others practice inverted Atlantic flights in a cellar with an ironing board and fan. The piece pokes fun at Eddie Rickenbacker and predicts absurd world flight regulations, dated 1938.
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Corrigan
Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Eddie Rickenbacker
Paris
Eddie
Hong Kong
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Say
Walter Chrysler
Frankfurter
Norris
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Allied
Hoe
Alben Barkley
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Lindys
England
Cedar Rapids News
Bank
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
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