Daladier Resists Italian Claims on Corsica and Tunisia
Paris AP Premier Daladier flatly stated France would not cede any territory in response to Italian demands for Corsica and Tunisia. He urged calm amid demonstrations, warned against surrender, and signaled France’s intent to defend territorial integrity by any means while facing domestic Le Havre strike disruptions and a looming Ribbentrop visit.
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Paris
Daladier
France
Corsica
Tunisia
Maly
Susa-Tunisie
Tunis
Ajaccio
Bastia
Germany
Italy
le Havre
Normandie
Car Slips Brakes and Ends at Taraval Police Station
Jack Wesenfeld reported a missing car to Taraval police. Officers found the vehicle had rolled down a hill after brake failure and crashed into the police station, concluding the incident with the car located at the scene.
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SAN Francico
Jack Wesenfeld
Taraval
Falls Out Of Soaring Plane Yet Lands It
Otis Cleveland, 24, fell from his plane while leaning out to photograph school buildings Sunday. He was saved by a safety belt across his knees, hauled back into the craft, corrected the tailspin, and returned to East Boston Airport to land. He did not obtain the pictures.
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Boston
Otis Cleveland
Cleveland
Earth
UAW GM Fisher Walkout Settlement Reached
Fisher body plant No 1 workers remained on duty with no production as union members prepare to ratify a late Sunday strike settlement between the United Auto Workers international officers and General Motors management. Buick plant in Flint to reopen Tuesday. New Castle probe continues. Kenosha Nash Kelvinator Seaman Body workers return after settlement.
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Flint
Mich
Fisher Body
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corporaton
Detroit
General Motors
Buick
Fisher
New Castle
Ind
Henry County
Nash-Kelvinator Company
Seaman Body Company
Milwaukee
United Automobile Workers Union
Japan Sympathizes With Italy's Mediterranean Aims
In London news dispatches, a Tokyo foreign office spokesman said Japan supports Italy's legitimate aspirations in the Mediterranean as Italy is the region's sole anticomintern power. He added Japan need not back Italy in its current dispute with France.
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London
INS
Japan
Italy
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
Tokio
Exchange Telegraph
France
Ford Patent Policies Favor Competition Says Edsel Ford
Edsel B. Ford told the monopsony patent hearings that Ford did not charge royalties or sue for infringements, defending policies as promoting competition in the auto industry. Thurman Arnold outlined anti trust aims linking enforcement to efficient mass production and fair distribution while examining administration gaps and case by case methods.
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Washington
Llp
Edsel B. Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Thurman W Arnold
Arnold
Justice Department
Nellie Dalrymple, 92, Undergoes Third Teething Ordeal
Lyons Nebraska reports Mrs Nellie Dalrymple 92 began cutting a tooth today. She long ago lost her adult teeth. Counting her baby set the new molar marks the third teething episode she has experienced in her lifetime.
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Lyons
Neb
INS
Nellie Dalrymple
Daladier Survives Yet Another Weekly Forty Hour Crisis
By Arthur Bugs Baer the column jokes about French premier Daladier escaping a weekly forty hour political crisis amid tensions with Germany on the Rhine and Italy’s Tunisia aims. It mocks French leadership and includes humorous asides about caution and weather vanes.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
France
Germany
Italy
Tunisia
James Roosevelt joins Goldwyn as vice president in Hollywood
James Roosevelt son of the President breaks a White House precedent by becoming vice president of Samuel Goldwyn Inc Ltd in Hollywood. The 31 year old former White House aide shifts from a $10,000 secretariat post to a reputed $50,000 role as Goldwyn’s right hand man. He will learn the film business under Goldwyn while maintaining public duties.
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Hollywood
James Roosevelt
White House
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc Ltd
Roosevelt
Elliott
Goldwyn
Congress
Joint Legislative Executive Committee
National
Jimmy
Boston
Will Hays
Warren G Harding
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
Britain warns Italy demonstrations may prove detrimental
Prime Minister Chamberlain said Britain will keep plans for his Rome visit on January 11. He cited assurances from Italy that it did not support territorial protests against France. He noted the Anglo Italian agreement does not alter obligations to France and affirmed automatic British aid to dominions under attack, while each dominion may choose to enter war.
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London
Chamberlain
Monda
France
Rome
House of Commons
Earl of Perth
Galeazzo Ciano
Britain
Sudetens Endorse Hitler's Conquest By Wide Margin
Unofficial final returns from Reich encampment show 98.79 percent of Sudeten Germans backing Adolf Hitler in the vote on annexation of the Sudetenland. Of 2,183,965 voters who participated, 2,125,759 supported the measure while 26,497 opposed. Spotted ballots totaled 5,212 among 2,211,895 eligible voters.
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Berlin
INS
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Reichenberg
Reichsfuhrer
Hitler
Germany
Munich
Effort To Obtain Integrated Bar In Iowa Discontinued
Des Moines reports the Iowa Supreme Court dismissed without prejudice the Iowa State Bar association petition to create an integrated bar in Iowa. The petition, filed April 5, 1937, was dropped at the association’s request after Iowa Lawyers Inc. resisted. A state poll showed 1,255 in favor and 1,295 against. The bar association had warned they would not pursue the plan without a strong majority.
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DES Moines
State Supreme Court
Iowa State Bar Association
Iowa
Towa Lawyers Inc
High Court
The
Bar Association
President Roosevelt at Carolina confab draws 100,000 crowd
President Roosevelt spoke from the state house steps in Columbia recalling World War I allies and noting Sen E D Smith did not attend the breakfast with state Democratic leaders. The governor said invitations were sent. Roosevelt planned to visit Chapel Hill for an honorary degree after a Sanford to North Carolina train stop.
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Columbia
S.C
Roosevelt
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
South Carolina
State House
Washington
Warm Springs
Garry Roosevelt
Executive Mansion
E. D. Smith
Smith
Olin D. Johnston
Jim Murray
Johnston
Sanford
N C
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
White Collar Strike Hits Two Hearst Papers in Chicago
American Newspaper Guild editors and commercial workers walked out at the Chicago American and Chicago Herald Examiner. Hearst papers struck Monday in protest of alleged anti union actions, mass firings, and failure to negotiate. The Examiner printed as scheduled while the American issued a revised first edition. Richard Seller, guild international rep, cited “seventeen months of assault upon trade unionism” as the trigger.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Guild
Chicago American
Chicago Herald-Examiner
Hearst
Examiner
American
Press Times
Richard Seller
Guild
New Spending Record Seen For Congress
Washington AP reports lawmakers foresee the 1939 Congress spending at least 10 billion dollars, potentially matching last year's peacetime peak. Defense, relief costs, veterans benefits, and social security are cited as driving expenses, with a House subcommittee starting on independent agency appropriations and debate on farm support, tax measures, and new policy options continuing.
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Washington
Congress
Roonsevelt
House
Rep
Woodrum
Roosevelt
Boy Sent To Boys Town From Kansas City
Dale Ward a Negro boy arrived in Omaha from Kansas City with a note saying he was bound for Boys Town. Police and Boys Town officials seek his parents who reportedly planned to move to New York. The boy stayed at Father Flanagan's home while authorities try to locate his family.
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Omaha, Neb
INS
Boys Town
Dale Ward
Kansas City
Neb
Omaha
New York
Dale
Father Flanagan
Mild temperatures erase light snowfall near Christmas
A light snow flurry announced the holiday season in Cedar Rapids but quick warmup wiped it out. Temperatures rose from a 28 degree low at 5 am to 31 by 1 30 pm. Sunday’s low reached 32 at midnight, then climbed to a high of 40 between late morning and afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Decree Moves to Force Jewish Asset Liquidation in Berlin
Walther Funk, the German minister of economics, issued a decree empowering authorities to compel Jews to liquidate their businesses real estate and other property. The move marks intensified state seizure of Jewish assets in Berlin under Nazi policy.
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Berlin
Walther Funk
Spit and Spat Between Men and Women
Dr Joseph Fort Lawton notes Gertrude Atherton and Maude Roxden provoke gender envy and petty spite. He argues such muttered insults come from both sexes, not from nature but from mean jealous souls, and that men gossip as women do. The piece proclaims cooperation between genders is needed to meet life’s challenges.
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Gertrude Atherton
Knights of the Pen
Maude Roxden
City Temple
London
Thor
Ford Defended After Coughlin Attack on Nazi Persecution
Harry Bennett of Ford Motor Company defended Henry Ford’s statement on Nazi persecution as accurate after Father Coughlin accused Ford and Rabbi Leon F. of Temple Bethel of distorting comments. Bennett said the text was read beforehand and reproduced as written. Coughlin said the incident was a trap and faulted the press for not facing his issue. Franklin urged Ford officials to respond to Coughlin.
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Detroit
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Charles E. Coughlin
Coughlin
Leon Franklin
Temple Bethe
Ford
Germany
Bennett
Franklin
Father Coughlin
America
Alexander Kerensky
Mundelein Believes Average Italian Opposed To Pogrom
New York. Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago, said on returning from the Vatican that average Italians oppose Nazi campaigns against religious and racial minorities. He noted Italians he spoke with expressed strong sympathy for President Roosevelt’s denunciations of the campaigns in Germany.
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New York
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Italy
United States
Vatican
Roosevelt
Germany
Supreme Court limits labor board over intrastate firm
Washington The Supreme Court ruled that the National Labor Relations Board has jurisdiction over a company selling products interstate but operating in one state. The decision covered Consolidated Edison Co of New York and limited the board’s authority to abrogate collective bargaining contracts with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Justices differed on full ownership of the board order, with some upholding it and others seeking broader limits. The ruling also touched on habeas corpus for Thomas Jo Mooney and reorganization of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance case, with mixed participation and outcomes.
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Washington
Upreme
National Labor Relations Borth
Comcmerce
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc
Labor Board
National Labor Relations Act
Hughes
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
The
American Federation of Labor
Reed
Black
Roosevelt
Butler
Vic Reynolds
Consolidated Employes
Thomas Jo Mooney
Mooney
van Sen Quentin Califorison
Refuse Review of Iowa Wisconsin Bridge Bond Invalidation
The Supreme Court denied Phoenix Finance corporation's petition for review of the Eighth Circuit ruling that invalidated Iowa Wisconsin Bridge bonds. The $185,000 issue, tied to the bridge over the Mississippi at Lansing, was originally voided for fraud and upheld by the circuit court. Phoenix argued lack of federal jurisdiction since both entities are Delaware corporations.
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Washington
LLP
Supreme Court
Phoenix Finance Corporation
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Iowa-Wisconsin
Compiis
Mississippi River
Lansing
Iown
Federal District Court
Circuit Court
Finance Corporation
Bridge Company
Delaware Corporations
Car Hits Culvert Injuring Chicago Man Near Cedar Rapids
William Abernathy of Chicago suffered severe head and face cuts when the car he rode in struck a culvert on U.S. Highway 30, six miles east of Cedar Rapids. Driver J Walsh of Chicago said he fell asleep at the wheel and the passenger was taken to Mercy hospital, with reports Monday that Abernathy was improving.
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Cedar Rapids
William Abernathy
Chicago
U.S. Highway 30
J. Walsh
Mercy Hospital
Abernathy
Taft Not Reading Self Out Of Race
Senator elect Robert A Taft of Ohio said he is not a candidate for the 1940 Republican nomination but he is not ruling out the convention. He argued the party must nominate a liberal to win the 1940 race.
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Washington
INS
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Waft
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Wallace
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Joseph Fort Lawton
DR Newton
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OTATE
HUH
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CIO
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