Fascist Press Lashes Out as Ties Strained
Rome reports the Giornale d Italia vows Malians will march on France if needed as Italy-French tensions rise over colonial bids. France and Daladier crack down on strikes while Ciano’s remarks spark Franco-Italian discord. Labor unrest expands across Saint Nazaire, Le Havre, and ports with thousands protesting.
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Rome
Giornale d'Italia
France
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Tunisia
Corsica
Nice
Galeazzo Ciano
Andre Francois-Poncet
Giornale d'Iulia
Virginio Gayda
Leon Jouhaux
Confederation
Bank of France
Jouhaux
Pierre Lemard
Emile Jarrigion
Railroad Workers’ Union
National Railway Board
Saint Nazaire
le Havre
Worry Done Right Like Joan Blondell’s Rock Habit
A 1938 essay discusses limiting worries to a single place and time, using Joan Blondell’s front yard rock as a metaphor. It contrasts coping with worry through planned, focused sessions with those who find happiness in anxiety, citing Hazlitt and Goethe to illustrate varied life arcs.
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Joan Blondell
DR. Newton
Hazlitt
Goethe
Rain Adds To Gloom Of Cedar Rapids Weather
Cedar Rapids faced a dismal weather day with rain mist and a heavy sky. Temperatures ranged from 32 at 4 am to 36 by 2:30 pm, while rainfall reached .490 inches mid afternoon per the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Air crash near Mexico City kills eight
An eight people perished when a passenger plane from a Mexican Aviation company crashed into a mountain peak eight miles from Mexico City. The victims included a woman and her two children. all those killed were Mexican.
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Mexico City
INS
Mexican Aviation Company
Government intervention justified in certain economic cases says Dr Thorp
Washington Dr Willard Thorp an economist from the department of commerce told the federal monopoly committee that some economic situations have sufficient public importance to warrant government intervention He argued about form size function and interrelations of business enterprises and noted no simple answer to living standards gains Lubin urged income redistribution as a path to higher living standards and bigger markets Thorp noted ongoing changes in economic structure driven by technology
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Washington
Willard Thorp
Department of Commerce
Federal Monopoly Committee
Thorp
Dun and
Bradstreet
Isador Lubin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
America
Death toll rises in Salt Lake bus train disaster
Twenty three victims identified after a Denver to Utah Freight train struck a crowded school bus ten miles south of Salt Lake City. Sixteen youths injured and three critically, with remains too mangled for full identification. Driver Farrold Silcox killed, survivor Marjorie Groves described the scene as snow blocked the bus windows.
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Salt Lake City
Here
Salt Lake General Hospital
Denver
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Midvale
E.L. Rehmer
Farrold H. Silcox
Marjorie Groves
Silcox
Rehmer
Alfred Elton
Millionaire Poisoning Fears Subside After Hospitalization
An 86 year old Los Angeles millionaire, removed from home amid poisoning fears, showed marked improvement in hospital. District Attorney Baron Fitts said the development supports relatives’ suspicion he was given daily doses of cumulative poison.
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Los Angeles
Baron Fitts
Cost Of Keeping Up Joneses Shown By Hop Baer
Newspaper satire notes the expense of maintaining status through credit with a quip about a 24.75 fare from Los Angeles to New York and a child’s ride on a mezzanine scooter. It jokes that Johnny bought a winged vacuum swooper on installments.
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Hop
Baer
Los Angeles
New York
Johnny Jones
Johnny
New Streamlined Infantry Regiment Approved by War Dept
A new streamlined infantry regiment with 2,431 officers and men, 1,492 semi automatic rifles, and greater mobility is approved. Three regiments will test in Texas as a smaller division, with plans for motorized movement and reduced horse use, under General Malin Craig and Major General George A. Lynch.
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Washington
War Department
War Woodring
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Congress
Texas
Malin Craig
George A. Lynch
Public Power Plan Approved To Buy Private Nebraska Utilities
Secretary Ickes approved a bond adjustment enabling two Nebraska public power districts to buy private utility properties. The plan allows the Central Nebraska and Loup River districts to issue bonds to finance purchases of Nebraska and regional utilities, tying hydro and steam facilities into a statewide public power network.
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Washington
Ickes
Nebraska
PWA
Loup River
Nebraska Power Company
Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Company
Central Power Company
Public Works Administration
Boy Whose Mother Opposed Removal To Hospital Dies
Patchogue New York three year old Johnny Beck died after a court ordered removal from his mother. He had been put in an oxygen tent while treated for pneumonia when blood poisoning developed, ending his battle despite doctors progress.
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Patchogue
N. Y
INS
Johnny Beck
Johnny
Germany Fortifies Canary Islands Says Loyalist Sources
Loyalist sources report Germany fortified the Canary Islands with airfields and submarine facilities at the Franco-Spanish frontier area near Hendaye. The claim cites battlefield communications and the presence of German military activity in the Atlantic theater.
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Hendaye
Germany
Canary Islands
Perkins Opposes Revision of Wagner Act
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins stated she does not favor revising the Wagner Act. The remarks came during Friday statements from Washington.
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Washington
LLP
Frances Perkins
Czech Premier Beran Leads New Czech Cabinet
Emil Hacha names Rudolf Beran as premier heading a permanent cabinet. General Jan Syrovy steps down as premier after serving in acting capacity since the September crisis that followed the Sudetenland cession. Syrovy becomes defense minister, Frantisek Chvalkovsky is foreign minister, J Kalfus is finance minister, and Sidor becomes minister without portfolio in Slovakia.
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Prague
INS
Emil Hacha
Czechoslovakia
National Party
Rudolf Beran
Beran
Jan Syrovy
Milan Hodza
Sudetenland
Germany
Syrovy
Frantisek Chvalkovsky
Munich
J Kalfus
Sidor
Slovakia
Two Convict Slayers Of Warden Executed In California
At San Quentin and Folsom prison in California two inmates Albert Kessell aged 29 and Robert Lee Cannon aged 30 were executed by lethal gas for the murder of Warden Clarence Larkin. These were the state’s first Has executions.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
INS
California
Folsom
Clarence Larkin
Albert Kessell
Robert Lee Cannon
Shells Save Lives in Booneville House Fire
Louis Baum credited a box of shotgun shells with triggering the alert that woke him as explosions shattered a dresser drawer. He woke his wife and children and led them to safety as his home burned, sparing them injury or death.
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Booneville
Ind
Louis Baum
Christmas Want Ads Sell Used Items Fast in Gazette
Many eastern Iowa readers place inexpensive Want Ads in The Sunday Gazette to sell items before Christmas. Ads reach over 42 000 families. three day placements save 25 percent per day. A sample ad shows a used tuxedo selling quickly.
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the Gazette
Iowa
Sunday Gazette
Recent Gazette
Son to be charged with slaying of clergyman in Chillicothe
Ross county prosecutors said Robert Bready 29 will face murder charges for killing his 62 year old father Dr Russell W Bready pastor of Cambridge Methodist Episcopal Church. The elder man was found shot near the parsonage with blood and damage noted inside the home.
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Chillicothe
INS
tTesfer S Reid
Ross County
Robert Bready
Toledo
Russell W Bready
Camnbridge Methodist Episcopal Church
PWA
Reid
Bready
Bryan
Robert
Bainbridge
New York
Dr. Bready
New Yorkers Snub WPA City Tour Start
The WPA planned a 9:30 a.m. Friday tour to cover New York City from Battery Park to Columbia University. A female WPA guide stood outside the office at 9:32 a.m. then said, I guess we can't have a tour. Nobody in New York wants to see New York. Nobody came, nobody at all.
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New York
WPA
New York City
Federal Writers’ Prospect
the Battery
Columbia University
Robert Brooks Awarded 3500 In Injury Suit In Cedar Rapids
After six hours of deliberation a jury returned sealed verdicts in no accident suits against Paulson Electric Construction. Robert H. Brooks 16 received 3500 for injury and his father Homer H. Brooks 981.06 for expenses. The actions arose from an May 13 bicycle accident on Third avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets SE.
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Conrad R. Paulson
Paulson Electric Construction Company
H. C. Ring
Nellie M Brooks
Robert H. Brooks
Homer H. Brooks
Third Avenue
Fifth and
Sixth Streets
Brooks
Paulson
Woman Convicted in Des Moines Stabbing Case
Annie Garnette, 44, was convicted of manslaughter for the stabbing of her sweetheart, Harry Wells, 45, during a quarrel at Garnette’s home. Garnette said the wound was accidental.
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DES Moines
INS
Annie Garnette
Harry Wells
Miss Garnette
Rescue of Allen F Rose Crew After 12 Days Afloat
The schooner Allen F Rose, ablaze and waterlogged, drifted 12 days off Newfoundland. The Mormacsun rescued its captain and four crew, transferring them near St John’s. The stern held by wire and counter weld kept the vessel together amid heavy seas.
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New York
Allen F. Rose
Newfoundland
Mormecsun
Cape Race
Benjamin Benedetti
Mormacsun
Radio Corporation of America
Allen F Rose
St John’s
St. John's
Boy Hit By Car Near Cedar Rapids On Palo Road
Jimmie Kelseys, S year old son of Mr and Mrs Hem Kelsey of Vinton road NW, injured Thursday afternoon when struck by a car driven by Robert McAllister of Palo three and one half miles west of Cedar Rapids near Stony Point schoolhouse. Driver said child ran into road. boy taken to St Luke's hospital with a severe wound above the eye and facial cuts. X ray showed no skull fracture. condition listed as fairly good.
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Cedar Rapids
Jimmie Kelses
Hem
Kelsey Vinton
McAllister
Kelsey
St Luke's Hospital
Windsors Invite Workman Family For Christmas Visit
London reports that a unnamed English working man and his wife with two children will spend Christmas at Chateau La Croe Cap d Antibes with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Details withheld for secrecy as the royals choose a normal holiday.
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London
INS
Duchess of Windsor
Riviera
Evening Star
Chateau la Croe
Cap d’Antibes
Abduction Foiled. Girl Freed After 80-Hour Absence
Mary Brown, 18, reappeared at her Oxon Hill home after an 80 hour disappearance. She described three men who abducted her near her farm in Prince Georges County, kept her in a hut, and burned her clothes. Her father William Brown, a Bureau of Printing and Engraving employee, said ransom was demanded but declined after she explained he could not pay. Doctors reported she was not harmed beyond exhaustion and a sedative helped her rest. The case remains under police investigation with the three suspects at large.
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Oxon Hill
William B. Brown
Mary Brown
Brown
Mars
Hansan Branch
Marvo
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Washington
Elmer F. Munshower
Marsland State
Munshower
Mary
Lucy
Prince Georges County
Robert L. Manning
Washington den
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Gauda
Francois-Poncet
Edouard Daladier
Great Britain
Haly
Daladier
General Confederation of Labor
Socialist Party
Cedar Rapids News
Ventihed
Millionaire
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
U. S. War Department
Perkins
Hart Schaefner & Marx
Insane Asylum
Abraham Lincoln
Robt. Brooks
Marky Brown
Palo Road
Windsors
Maryland
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