Roosevelt linked critic fights for intellectual integrity in senate
A column praises Walter George as a gentleman and scholar facing pressure to align with Roosevelt's views. It rebukes attempts to intimidate lawmakers who vote their conscience and calls out a separate case of a man who returned welfare checks to his mother, labeling exploitation of the aged as a racket. The piece also notes Farm Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt defending crop control policies and critiques the railway of political manipulation during wartime. It ends with a report on German aviators proving future air links and警察 warning of Nazi influence in the US.
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Roosevelt
United States
Walter George
Walter
William Niehaus
Edwardsville
Ill
Byron G. Allen
Iowa
Wallace
Barnesville
Washington
AAA
Spy Net Big Aim Of Band PROBER TELLS HOUSE UNIT
John C. Metcalfe, investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee, testified that Field Marshal William Zachary of the Silver Shirts ordered armed stockpiling to resist a communist revolution. He said the group planned for trouble after a strongman like John L. Lewis asserts dictatorship. He cited 500000 members or sympathizers as the movement’s core.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Washington
John C. Metcalfe
House Committee
William Zachary
Silver Shirts
United States
Metcalfe
Silver Shirt
John L. Lewis
House un-American Activities Investigating Committee
German-American Bund Leader Claims Nazi Support in U S
Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund, told Dies committee that Hitler’s government officially backs the Nazi movement in the United States and that he helped remove German ambassador Hans Luther. He said Kuhn could compel removal of any German consul who did not cooperate with him.
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United States
Metcalfe
Bund
National Guard
Imllinois Guard
Washington
INS
Germany
Fritz Kuhn
Dies
John C. Metcalfe
Kuhn
Hans Luther
Ieader
Holy Land Haven Found For Jews Marooned On Tugboat
PRAHA AP reports a haven was found for 51 Jews stranded on a French tugboat in the Danube since April 15. Britain reportedly granted entry to Palestine while Hungarian authorities ordered them out of Hungarian waters. No other nation offered refugee entry. locals supplied food.
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Praha
Danube
Great Britain
Germany
Palestine
Czechoslovakia
Tomato ad prompts buyers and sales through Gazette Want Ads
R Prochaska of Covington Road NW reports 35 calls and 50 bushels sold from a Gazette Want Ad under Good Things to Eat. Others sell apples, sweet corn, vegetables, and spring fries for cash via Gazette Want Ads. Call 2-1121 to place an ad.
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R. Prochaska
Covington Road
Gazette
Jap Official Fired On By Soviet Guards
Tokyo reports a Japanese member of parliament shot at by Soviet frontier guards in Saghalien Handazawa. One deputy from his party wounded. Soviet GPU guards blamed. Incident joins stalled talks in the Korean Manchukuo Siberian frontier and pressure over demarcation talks. Diplomatic impasse contrasts with Shigemitsu proposal for new material in negotiations.
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Tokio
INS
Handazawa
Saghalien Island
GPU
Saghalien
Foreign Office
Maxim Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Moscow
Decree No Surgery On Colan Child Is Needed At Present
New York AP report states the New York Academy of Medicine told Mrs. Herman Colan that no operation is needed now to save the life and sight of her four month old daughter Helaine Judith Colan who has a cancerous growth in the remaining eye. The child has undergone radiation therapy and shows marked regression. her general condition is good and further radiation treatment is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York (Ap
New York Academy of Medicine
Herman Colan
Helaine Judith Colan
Academy
Nixon to chair death sentence in Chicago slaying
Robert Nixon an 18 year old Negro convicted of one murder and accused of four others in Chicago and Los Angeles was sentenced Friday to die in the Cook county electric chair on October 21.
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Chicago
Robert Nixon
Los Angeles
Cook County
Social Security Act Costs and Revenues after Three Years
Washington AP reports on the three year cost and revenue figures for the Social Security Act. Roswell Magill released detailed totals showing $1,232,558,598 in federal outlays and $887,946,271 in revenue, with extensive allocations for state grants and the old age reserve fund.
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Washington
Federal Treasury
Roswell Magill
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Social Security Board
Man Kills Woman Then Burns Farm Before Suicide
In Pickford Michigan John Babuska 55 enraged by rejection of his suit due to religious beliefs set fire to Sophia Bondyk 50’s farm buildings, killed her, and then died by suicide. Coroner John Quinnell reported Friday.
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Pickford
Mich
INS
Sophia Bondyk
John Babuska
John Quinnell
Consul refutes Hitler claims to justify invasion
Dr. Frantisek Pavlasek, Czechoslovak consul general at Montreal, told 300 at the C S P S hall that an alert army would defend Czechoslovakia until wiped out if attacked by Germany. He warned that minority Germans’ discontent could bring imminent war, while neighbors pursue safe politics and aim to preserve peace.
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Cedar Raunds
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Frantisek Pavlasek
Montreal
C. S. P. S. Hall
Europe
Dr. Pavlasek
Hitler
Balkan States
Danube
France
Damage Delays Return of Brandenburg from Berlin to New York
The 19 ton German plane Brandenburg suffered minor propeller and engine cowling damage delaying its homeward flight after a record west east crossing. Captain Alfred Henke said the damage was trivial and the crew could have departed, but they preferred to stay a day in New York to receive the warm welcome.
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Erman Aviation
Hitler
Berlin
New York
Floyd Bennett Field
Germany
America
Brandenburg
Atlantic Ocean
Alfred Henke
United States
Henke
Cedar Rapids Seeks PWA Grant for Incinerator Project
Cedar Rapids asks the PWA for a 62690 grant to help finance a municipal sewage sludge incinerator with total cost 149000. Mayor F K Hahn sent the application to Omaha after a council meeting directed action. The plant will be built on the disposal plant site with a brick building gas furnace sludge dryer and will use 80000 cubic feet of gas daily. Designed by Howard R Green and Company engineers.
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Cedar Rapids News
PWA
Omaha
F. K. Hahn
Howard R. Green and Company
Bride Of Four Hours Dies In Husband Arms After Crash
In Monroe Wisconsin Mrs Frank Kirkwood 26 and newlywed bride died in her husband’s arms minutes after their car overturned on a curve near town. Kirkwood 29 a Milwaukee WPA worker was unhurt. three other occupants had minor injuries. The couple had eloped to Dubuque Iowa for the marriage.
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Monroe. Wis
Frank Kirkwood
Milwaukee
Here
Kirkwood
Milwaukee Wpa
Dubuque
Maybe Economists Can Take A Lesson From Mother Nature
An essay by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks economists and farmers alike as grain and chaff, noting nature shapes markets. It lampoons gold-free treasuries, bumper crops, and cheap wheat while joking about paying for apple sauce. It playfully treats Mother Nature as a caretaker of the present and future, ignoring past details.
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Copyrisht
Roosevelt targets Yes men in southern tour
President Roosevelt returned to Washington after a five week trip in which he openly attacked two conservative Democrats seeking renomination. In Greenville South Carolina he named Sen Walter F George of Georgia and hinted at opposition to Sen Ellison D Smith of South Carolina, urging defeat of the rivals. He was introduced by Gov Olin D Johnston amid a large crowd, and noted his brief remarks on economic and social issues facing the South.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walter F George
Georgia
Ellison D
Cotton Ed
Senator Smith
George
Greenville
S.C
Smith
Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
Pacific Coast
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Barnesville
South
Senate panel to collect anti CIO affidavit evidence
The La Follette committee ordered its investigators to gather affidavits from 12 named individuals alleging CIO violence and intimidation during the 1937 little steel strike. Public hearings closed amid CIO testimony and steel firm accusations. Patriot Patton and La Follette plan to decide which affidavits to include in records.
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Washington
INS
Senate la Follette Committee
CIO
Republic Steel Corporation
Tom M. Girdler
Patton
Lia Follette
Girdler
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Paroled convict nabbed as suspect in series of thefts
Cedar Rapids officers arrest 28 year old Cedar Rapids man Everett Robinson on a prowler report near Commonwealth apartments. A parolee with prior break in and larceny history, he is held on a technical charge while investigators weigh parole revocation and new charges. Police link him to recent grocery store and filling station thefts.
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Everett Robinson
Simon
Stusak
Robinson
Fifth Avenue Market
First Avenue
Fourteenth Streets
Commonwealth Apartments
Gertrude Myers
Commonwealth
Earl Stanley
Cedar Rapids
Lawl
Weather Update Cedar Rapids Sees Cooler Trend
Relief from the heat continues in Cedar Rapids with a cool period as readings hold at 57 early and rise to 85 by 2 30 pm. Thursday's high reached 82 with a 79 evening low and a 62 midnight low. Clear skies persist through the period.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
James Roosevelt Reveals Five Year Income Totals
New York AP James Roosevelt published his income tax returns for 1933 to 1937 showing total earnings of 172978.03. The article notes annual figures from 21714.31 to 49167.37 and his shift from insurance to a political role with a salary of 10000. Roosevelt invites anti New Deal scrutiny and explains tax implications of dividends versus salary.
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James Roosevelt
NEW York (Ap
Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Walter Davenport
Collier's
Saturday Evening Post
Alva Johnston
Dave
Nport
Boston
Roosevelt and Sargent
John Sargent
Massachusetts
Washington
Kraschel Orders Troops Out of Newton Iowa
Gov Kraschel orders end to martial law in Newton after 25 days of military action at the Maytag plant. Writs of injunction and indictments to be dismissed. civil courts to be presided by regular Newton district judges. Cost of troops cited at over 15000 dollars. withdrawal likely by Sunday as negotiations progress.
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Rom
Kraschel
Newton
Jasper County
Military Commission
G. W. Kirtley
Harlan Canner
Kirtley
Peace and Harmony
Des Moines
Maytag
Gov
Nelson G. Kraschel
Adj
Charles Grahl
Wraschel
Homer A. Fuller
Mount Ayr
Frank Bechly
National Guard
National Labor Relations Board
Maytag Companys
Grahl
Maytag Company
Union
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