Italy denies official demand for colonies amid Tunisian dispute
Paris says Italian foreign office disavowed agitation for Italian annexation of French Tunisia. Ambassador Francois-Poncet told France that Ciano warned after a firm stance. London reports Britain seeks Italy's explanation for anti French demonstration in Rome's Chamber. France will not surrender Mediterranean possessions.
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Paris
Rome
Tunisia
Andre Francois- Poncet
Francois-Poncet
Galeazzo Ciano
London
Great Britain
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Mediterranean
Joachim von Ribbentrop
France
Ciano
Munich
Francois - Poncet
Pierre Laval
Jubal
French Somaliland
Addis Ababa - Djibouti
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Mercury Stays Near Freezing in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids reports dense clouds and a steady freeze with temperatures rising from a 28 degree low to 32 by mid afternooon. Friday's high held at 35 around 1 pm and dipped to 33 by midnight as Chambers Inskeep weather station logged .65 inches of rainfall.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Tam
Chambers
St Paul fire truck front end arrives before rear
In St. Paul the front end of a fire department hook and ladder truck reached the alarm scene before the rear portion and was out of the fire station. The truck then ran to a warehouse across the street for the response.
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ST. Paul
Normandie Held By Guards as French Strike Delays Ship
Paris reports a general maritime strike at Le Havre delaying the liner Normandie for New York. Mobile guards cleared the ship, while passengers including Anthony Eden and Gary Cooper were redirected to Cherbourg. Daladier urged quick reemployment and pledged to maintain contracts and working conditions amid widespread walkouts idling 700,000 workers. Thirty four Polish coal miners were discharged as part of deportations of foreign workers.
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Paris
Normandie
la Havre
New York
Anthony Eden
Gary Cooper
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Indalecio Prieto
V. K. Wellingon Koo
France
Cherbourg
Aquitania
Daladier
Lockes
Leon Jouhaux
Labor Confederation
Bank of France
Strikes Idle 20,000 Auto Workers Across Nation
United Automobile Workers strikes idled about 20,000 workers and threatened 13,000 more as three plants halted operations. Buick Flint, Fisher Body No 1, and Nash Kelvinator at Kenosha faced shutdowns while union and General Motors officials held talks after a Friday breach claim. Reopenings were slated for Monday with local 72 members endorsing terms.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
Buick
Flint
UAW
Corporation
Fisher Body
Chrysler
Newcastle
Ind
Nash-Kelvinator
Kenosha
Wis
Fisher
Local 72
Two People Hurt In Auto Accidents
Four automobile crashes in Friday rain and fog caused minor injuries to two people. L. J. McFadden suffered a back injury in a collision with H. J. Weisley at Fifth avenue and Fifteenth street SE at 6 10 p.m. Harry Manley sprained his hip as a car passenger in a crash driven by Herbert Karr on Sixteenth street near B avenue NE at 11 a.m. Two other crashes involved Sylvia Bollott and Walter Scheurs on Sixteenth street at H avenue NE at 11 55 a.m., and Emil Siepaneck and Marvin Sojka at Twelfth avenue and Sixth street SW at 10 30 a.m.
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Cedar Rapids
L. J. McFadden
Fourteenth Street
H. J. Weisley
Twenty-sixth Street
Fifth Avenue
Fifteenth Street SE
Harry Manley
Twelfth Street
Herbert Karr
Seventeenth Avenue SE
M. E. Tanner
Thirtyfourth Street
Sixteenth Street
B Avenue NE
Ars
Sylvia Bollott
J Avenue NE
Walter Scheurs
E Avenue
H Avenue
Emil Siepaneck
Twentieth Street
Marvin Sojka
Sixteenth Avenue
Twelfth Avenue
Sixth Street
Borah Blasts Armament Race and War Vote Call
Senator Borah of Idaho warned that continued world armament buildup could force a constitutional amendment giving citizens a vote on war except in defense. He urged a voice for the people while others urged stronger defenses, including air defenses, and Rep Ludlow announced plans to seek an immediate House vote on his war-declaration amendment.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
United States
Congress
Taylor
Cole
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Ludlow
Rep. Ludlow
Ind
House
Roosevelt
Hull
Rep. Maas
Minn
Navy
Maas
Army
House Naval Affairs Committee
Three Roumanian Fascists Killed in Escape Attempt
In Bucharest three more Iron Guard members Josef Fagad aru Ananie Ghica and Andria Petru were shot and killed while allegedly attempting to flee police after their arrest in the attempt to assassinate Dr Francis Stefanescu Goanga rector of Cluj University. The killings come as government communiques reveal concessions to anti Semitic factions and news that King Carol II discussed the Jewish problem during a recent overseas trip and promised sincere measures.
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Bucharest
Iron Guard
Josef Fagadaru
Ananie Ghica
Andria Petru
Francis Stefanescu-Goanga
Cluj University
Carol II
Berlin Decree Bars Jews From Major City Areas
Berlin police announced a permanent ban on Jews from key streets and buildings including Wilhelmstrasse Unter den Linden and theatres museums and baths. The decree targets German Jews and threatens a ghettolike segregation amid the national solidarity day.
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Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse
Unter den Linden
Count Helldorf
War Memorial
Leipzigstrasse
Kurfurstendamm
Death ends 00 mile spree of insane man in Indiana
Leonard Fritz 27 of Michigan City escaped from Logansport State Hospital Thursday night armed with a rifle and ice pick. He drove a taxi to Marion, fired at a cab driver and a detective, then fatally shot himself in the courthouse yard as bystanders watched during Friday rush hour.
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Marion
Ind
Indiana
Leonard Fritz
Michigan City
Paul Williams
Logansport State Hospital
Fritz
Chester Guinn
Peru
Logansport
Guinn
Gavin
Lester Andrew
Gavnn
Typhoid Fever Control Report Issued for Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids statement from Linn County Medical Society and the city board of health cites forty known typhoid cases, all isolated and traceable to sources except the latest. It says water milk and food supplies did not transmit the disease and public life remains safe with prompt case tracing and contact isolation.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Medical Society
City Board of Health
Gazette
Board of Health
Josselyn Named Consul General At Vancouver
Josselyn, son of Mrs H S Josselyn of Radburn New Jersey and former Cedar Rapids resident, is appointed consul general at Vancouver. He previously served as consul general at Hankow China since 1934 after a 24 year tenure in the state department in the Orient. The Josselyns have three children and last visited Cedar Rapids in 1936.
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Cedar Rapids
Paul Reider Josselyn
H S. Josselyn
Radburn
N. J
Vancouver
Associated Press
Washington
Hankow
China
State Department
Orient
Tientsin
Canton
Chungking
Peking
Shanghai
Josselyn
George S. Josselyn
Twenty-third Street Drive
Standardized U S War Machine Urged
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson urged standardizing U S fighting equipment and creating manufacturing data for mass production. He spoke to motor and equipment wholesalers noting shortages in artillery tanks combat cars airplanes machine guns rifles and other items. Johnson cited 20 000 motor vehicles across 28 passenger models and 143 truck models in use when he joined the War Department 17 months ago.
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Chicago
Louis Johnson
United States
Johnson
War Department
Britain’s Ace Chef Glorifies Humble Hamburger Dish
England’s top chef praises the independent American hamburger as the world’s most succulent dish. He extols filet mignon to Lord Horder, while plans push for chuck wagon sirloin as a golden pheasant dish. Emile of the Dorchester promotes All-American meat ball with croquette, paired with champagne.
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Britain
Arthur
Bugs
Baer
England
Lord Horder
Emile
Hotel
Henderson Outlines Plan for National Economic Guidance
Econimist Leon Henderson outlined a plan for guiding the temporary National Economic Committee as it studies concentration of power in industry. He list thirteen study lines covering concentration, price systems, government policy effects, anti trust reform, mergers, corporate practices, distribution laws, and data needs. The discussion followed Thorp's note that a tiny fraction of corporations control a large share of assets and employees.
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Washington
WPA
Leon Henderson
National Economic Committee
Henderson
Bureau of Industrial Economics
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Commerce Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Sen Borah
Ida
Willard Thorp
Friday
Thurman Arnold
Probe into bus crash mystery opens in Salt Lake City
Interstate Commerce Commission examiners head to Salt Lake City to investigate why a school bus with over forty children turned onto railroad tracks and was struck by a speeding train, killing all twenty two children and the driver. Parents arrange private funerals as plans for a mass Mormon temple service are rejected. The victims were children of Latter Day Saints farmers.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
INS
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Religion in Everyday Life Brings Hope to Listeners
A reader urges more religion in daily words, not church talk, praising plain speech that connects faith to life. The column argues Jesus taught life through religion, translates church ideas into familiar, direct language, and notes modern anxiety, loneliness, and the search for meaning.
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Jesus
Church
Sun Confesses He Killed Minister in Bainbridge
Robert Bready, 29, pled first degree murder, admitting to shooting his father the Rev. Russell H. Bready, 62, a Methodist minister, in Bainbridge. He said he was drunk, walked with his father, grabbed a bottle, then fired four shots, killing him in the street. The minister opposed divorce, war, and harsh discipline.
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Bainbridge
Russell H. Bready
Robert
Lester S Reid
Missing Designer and Companions Safe After Paris Flight
London reports Capt. E. W. Percival, noted British airplane designer, and three companions went missing after departing Heston for Paris to attend an aeronautical exhibition. They were found safe after landing at a military airdrome near Versailles, dispelling fears for their safety.
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London
MNS
E. W. Percival
Heston Airport
Paris
Versailles
Italian government bars Italians from foreign news work
The Italian government issued a decree prohibiting Italian journalists from working for foreign news agencies or newspapers effective January 1. The move targets those who would take positions outside the domestic press, reflecting state controls on media employment.
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Rome
Des Moines attorney fees tied to Wegman permit case
The Iowa executive council approved 2842 dollars in attorney fees for Leonard J. Wegman son of State Treasurer Leo J Wegman amid a dispute over payment. Deputy State Comptroller C Fred Porter withheld payment pending an opinion from the attorney general on legality. The Des Moines attorney billed for 645 hours at four dollars each plus expenses for reviewing ten thousand corporations permit status and aiding three other lawyers in the matter.
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DES Moines
Towa
State Executive Council
Leonard J. Wegman
Leo J. Wegman
C. Fred Porter
Wegman
Porter
John H. Mitchell
Young Weeman
Attrortiey
Iowin
Weeman
Executive Councils
Comptrollers
Ross Ewing
Council
Charles W. Storms
Secretary of Agriculture
Thomas L Curran
Secretary of State
C. L. Snyder
F L. Moody
Leroy A. Rader
Nelson G. Kraschel
Robert E. O'Brian
Curran
Glamorous Chinese Spy Lily Lee Freed on Bail
Lily Lee known as Pei ping Lil, a famed dance hall hostess nicknamed the Chinese Mata Hari, was released from jail on bail and departed to Hongkong by air. She had been repeatedly arrested on espionage charges amid rumors of execution during custody.
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Chungking
Lily Lee
China
Peiping Lil
Hongkong
Want Ads Offer Quick Cash for Used Goods
Local Gazette Want Ads promise extra cash for used items like toys trains clothing furniture and instruments. Mrs. R. A. Wilkinson reports about 30 buyers responded to her studio couch ad. Call 2-1121 to place a Sunday ad before eight o clock.
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the Gazette
R. A. Wilkinson
Nd Ave
the Sunday Gazette
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