Squalus Lifted Toward Shallow Water After Deep Salvage
The sunken submarine Squalus was raised 76 feet and leveled 164 feet below the surface as salvage crews north of Portsmouth New Hampshire prepared to move it to shallow waters. Ten pontoons surrounded the vessel, operated under reduced air to lift gradually and reduce danger to workers and nearby boats.
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Mary Chilton
Portsmouth
N. H
United Press
Navy
Isle of Shoals
Cyrus W. Cole
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Japs End Anti British Campaign In Hankow
Japanese military authorities ordered the anti British campaign in Hankow to stop following Britain's surrender of four alleged Chinese assassins to Japan at Tientsin. The reversal by Japanese police appeared linked to the Chinese suspects teslim.
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Hankow
China
INS
Britain
Tientsin
Roosevelt names Young to commerce bureau post
James W. Young of New Mexico was named by President Roosevelt to lead the federal bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in Hyde Park New York on Friday.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
James W. Young
New Mexico
Roosevelt Friday
Federal Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
G O P Must Name Progressive To Win Nye Says
Senator Nye of North Dakota warned the Republican Party must name a progressive candidate for 1940. He urged a forward looking platform that preserves New Deal advances and opposes do nothing leadership. Nye favors making the arms embargo a campaign issue and plans a coast to coast lecture tour. He has no personal choice yet.
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Washington
Republican Party
Nye
North Dakota
Perkins Enters Armour Strife
The CIO Packing House Workers Organizing Committee says Frances Perkins will meet 21 PWOC delegates from Armour plant cities in Washington to discuss the dispute. The union threatens a strike against Armour and possibly the other big four firms Cudahy Wilson Swift if national contracts are not negotiated. protests over terminations continue at Armour plants in Chicago Denver and Fargo with Denver and Chicago reinstating workers but Fargo unresolved.
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Chicago
Packing House Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Frances Perkins
Armour and Company
Don Harris
Nationale Pwoc
Armour
Washington
Cudahy, Wilson
Swiftc
Chicago, Denver and Fargo
Denver
Fargo
Gladiolus Show Delights Flower Lovers In Iowa Exhibits
The Iowa Gladiolus Society and Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society hold their tenth annual exhibition at Memorial Auditorium. Thousands of spikes fill containers before unpacking is complete. Notable entries include Helen Louise and Peggy Lou with a Monarch King spike among a coast to coast display of seedlings.
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Naomi Noerei
Iowa Gladiolus Society
Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society
Memorial Auditorium
Helen Louise
Jos. R. Libal
Cedar Rapids
Third term demand looms at Young Democrats convention
The Young Democrats at Pittsburgh move toward a resolution endorsing a Roosevelt third term. McNutt urges liberal leadership as 6,800 delegates hear pro New Deal speeches and debate whether Roosevelt or McNutt will be the 1940 nominee.
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Pittsburgh
Young Democrats
Roosevelt
McNutt
Congress
Robert H. Jackson
U. S
Aubrey Williams
Joseph Guffey
Ousted Tenant Chooses Next White House Tenant
Columnist Arthur Baer jokes that Roosevelt will pick his successor via a phone booth, implying the evicted tenant dictates future White House occupants. He quips the White House is the only apartment where rent rules who moves in next. The piece satirically cites Constitution Declaration and a playful Gypsy dream book as charters of the administration.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Roosevelt
White House
Hawkeye Downs Beehive Opens as Fair Gears Up
Feverish preparations fill Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids on the eve of the All Iowa fair. Cattle arrivals, stock trucks and nightly shows mark a bustling prelude. Admission details and schedule sit alongside festive preparations as the grounds near opening.
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Hawkeye Downs Beehive
Hawkeye Downs
Wood Azeltine
LaPorte City
Ivan Pollock
Mt Auburn
Mighty Sheesley
Fain
Fight Ambassadors
C D. Moore
Cedar Rapids
Positive faith for youth in American ideals
In a Youth Congress debate readers are urged to move beyond denouncing alienisms and adopt a clear positive stance. The piece cites Lincoln and Gettysburg as inspiration, urging affirming American faith based on Jefferson Lincoln and Jesus to guide action and unity.
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Youth Congress
Congress
Thackeray
Trooper Steele
Jefferson
Lincoln
Jesus
Republic
Gettysburg
United Feature Syndicate
Inet
Soviets and Japanese Sign Sakhalin Accord
The Soviet government said Russian oil workers and Japanese concessionaries signed a collective agreement on Sakhalin island amid a dispute between Moscow and Tokyo over fuel source operations.
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Moscow
Sakhalin Island
Tokio
Egyptian cabinet resigns amid health issues of premier
Cairo reports the cabinet of Mohamed Mahmud Pasha resigned on Saturday due to his prolonged illness. Mahmud had led the government while battling poor health.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mohamed Mahmud Pasha
Mahmud
Linn Officials Tighten Rules On Linn County Roadhouses
County officials move to require roadhouse permits for all wayside inns in Linn county. Sheriff Smith found six of 13 tested establishments lacked permits, prompting County Attorney G K Thompson to seek two nightly closure hours and zero tolerance for violations, with township trustees urged to enforce.
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Cedar Maples News
Linn
Jim Smith
G.K Thompson
Smith
Thompson
Officials baffled by bomber crash at Langley field
An army board of inquiry sifted through the charred ruins of a Douglas twin engine bomber at Langley Field Virginia. Nine army flyers were killed when the aircraft suddenly plunged after takeoff on a practice flight. Officials were baffled and some said the cause might never be known.
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Langley Field
Army Board of Inquiry
Army
Air Corps
Japan Rejects British Plan to Settle Tientsin Rift
Tokyo rejects New British policing proposal as basis for talks on the Tientsin dispute. Britain’s plan would meet Japan’s requests but Japan says talks may continue only if England bans the circulation of the Chinese national dollar the fapi. Japan also demands Britain release Chinese silver herd holdings.
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TOKIO
INS
Tientsin
Japan
Robert Leslie Craighe
Britain
England
China
Satomatsu Kato
Hitler and Axis Minsters Hold Berchtesgaden Conference
In Berchtesgaden Adolf Hitler hosted Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop for a Rome Berlin axis policy conference after a luncheon. Yugoslavia mobilized 500000 for border maneuvers as tensions over Danzig and Polish corridors surged, while anti Polish sentiment rose amid reports of raids and casualties.
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Berchtesgaden
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Rome-Berlin
Fuehrer
Hitler
Galeazzo Ciano
Salzbure
Berghof
Fuehre
Joachim von
Ribbentrop
Ciano
Mussolini
Chino
Salzburg
Berlin
Danzig
Hungary
Verbal War Rages Between Bridges and Legion Officials
San Francisco reports ongoing exchanges between Harry Bridges and American Legion leaders led by National Commander Stephen Chadwick. Debo r tation proceedings against Bridges are adjourned as Bridges denies calling for purges and ridicules Legion leaders as bankers' mouthpieces while proposing a veterans labor league.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
American Legion
Stephen Chadwick
Chadwick
Bridges
Henry Watters
California
Legion
Veterans’ Labor League
Weather rises to 84 amid passing clouds in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids sees clouds mix with sun as a brief forenoon shower leaves .06 inch of rain. Temperatures climb from 62 at 6 am to 71 at 10 am and 84 at 1 30 pm. Humidity remains high with Friday’s high of 80 at 5 30 pm.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Trains Collide Near Denver Kills One Injures Dozens
A collision between Santa Fe Train No. 6 and Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 1 near Denver killed one man, identified as KR S Mack of Pueblo, conductor of the northbound train. About 33 to 35 people were reported injured as five ambulances responded. A southbound Rio Grande train was the other section in the wreck, affecting the Denver to Salt Lake route via Pueblo and the Royal Gorge.
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Denver
KR. S. Mack
Pueblo
Jenkins Breaks 7 Speed Marks At Bonneville Salt Flats
Jenkins and relief driver Rex Mays push toward a 1 hour endurance attempt at the Utah Bonneville Salt Flats. Amid carbon monoxide exposure they recover to set new speed records including 2000 kilometer 1694 mph and 3000 kilometer 1687 mph, while extending several six to twelve hour marks.
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Utah
UPI
Jenkins
Mert
Tne
Rex Mays
Atpbine
Capt G
OT Eyston
England
Esston
Britain to Send Fifteen Warships to Singapore
Twelve British submarines the depth ship Medway the destroyer Westcott and the aircraft carrier Eagle will arrive at Singapore soon from European waters. The dispatch of the 15 warships is tied to an empire wide plan to strengthen strategic bases. Upon arrival Singapore’s naval concentration will be the strongest in its history.
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Singapore
Medway
Westcott
Eagle
Britain
Flyers vanish after unsanctioned New York to Ireland attempt
New York flyers Alex Loeb and Dick Decker, in an old Ryan monoplane, vanished after an unsanctioned Atlantic hop from Nova Scotia toward Ireland. With 500 gallons aboard and no wireless, fog and mid Atlantic weather hindered search efforts near the Irish coast.
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Ireland
British Isles
Britishi Aur
Douglas Corrigan
New York
Dublin
United State Department of Commerce
Lee and Decker
St Peters
Bldam
Cst
Loeb
Palestine
Atlantic
Charles Backman
St Johns
Stockholm
Sweden
Thomas Ho Smith
Old Orchard Beach
Europe
Athintu
Corrigan
Leebane Decker
Sydney
N. S
Point Michaud Beach
Decker
Floyd Bennett Field
Jealous Suitor Shoots Socialite in Long Island Party
Socialite Carolyn Greve Caldwell was shot and wounded at a Long Island party by jealous admirer Lawrence Sprague who then killed himself. A state trooper was wounded attempting to aid her at Mrs Madeleine Waterman Higgins's summer home on the North Shore. Caldwell's father William Greve, former Prudence Bond president, was in Bermuda and planned to fly in. she was taken to Southside Hospital Bayshore.
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Smithtown Branch
N.Y
Long Island North Shore
Charles la Forge
Elizabeth Greve Caldwell
Carolyn
Delafield Farm
Noroton
Cann
la Forge
Lawrence Sprague
Shirley E. Sprague
New York City
Madeleine Waterman Higgins
Charles Higgins
New York
Higgins Ink Company
Tracy Higgins
Greve
William Greve
Prudence Bond Company
Brooklyn
Bermuda
Southside Hospital
Bayshore
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Cedar H Rapids
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Yugoslavia
Poland
Wihehnstrasse
Olsa
East Prussia
Alex Loes
Bonnevible
Nova Scotia
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