Italy Massing Troops Near French Frontier Report
Paris reports of Italian troop concentrations in Catalonia and other frontier zones stir French concern. Italian forces, possibly 250000 across Libya and border regions, edge closer to France as Franco-Italian tensions rise. Daladier Bonnet discussions with Ribbentrop yield no concrete steps.
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Paris
France
Spain
Germany
Italy
Tunisia
Corsica
Tunis
Albert Lebrun
Daladier
Pyrenees
Francisco Franco
Catalonia
Italo Balbo
Libya
Balbo
Nault
Sinaud
Gadames
Ialy
Tripolitania
Granjerg
Rome
Piccolo
Hitler
Great Britain
Georges Bonnet
Joachim von Ribbentrop
London
Adolf Hitler
Rain Gives Way to Snow Flurries in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids weather saw rain followed by snow flurries as temperatures moved from 30 at 7 am to 32 at 10 am and down to 29 by 2:40 pm. Precipitation reached .24 inches by 2:40 pm.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambares Inskeep Company
Acts of Friendship Across Worlds and Times
Editor recalls striking tales of friendship from Lord Haldane visiting a dying friend in Edinburgh daily for months to Samuel Butler funding a sick friend’s recovery in England and years longer, and a witch doctor carrying a leper boy nine months to meet a former employer. The piece extols devotion and humane acts as enduring human virtues.
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Lord Haldane
Edinburgh
Haldane
Edinbugh
House of Commons
Samuel Butler
Pauli
New Zealand
Butler
England
Australia
Kancubina
Roper River
Smiler
Charles Kingsley
Work Relief Outlay Nearly Doubled Since Last Year
Treasury data show August through December cash spending on work relief topped 1 billion dollars with Works Progress Administration expenditures reaching 1 002 642 023 versus 556 768 520 a year earlier. Congress set 1 425 billion for eight months, but allowed presidential cut to seven months. Administrations officials weigh shortening the period and seeking more funds.
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Washington
Treasury
Works Progress Administration
Congress
Italy to Back Demands, Boosts Military Budget
Rome reports the Italian government will officially support fascist demonstrations seeking concessions from France. The Giornale d Italia says Italy’s military budget rose by about 20 percent to 64.451 million dollars while Premier Mussolini ally Virginio Gayda states Italy’s Mediterranean aims will receive Nazi Germany’s solid backing.
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Rome
France
Giornale d’Italia
Italy
Mediterranean
Virginio Gayda
Benito Mussolini
Gayda
Germany
Tunisia
Corsica
Screen players wed in whirlwind romance at license bureau
Henry Wilcoxon and Joan Woodbury, noted screen players, rushed to obtain a marriage license on Wednesday in Hollywood. The fast moving romance culminates in a sudden public union as the couple completes the legal formalities.
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Hollywood
Henry Wilcoxon
Joan Woodbury
Screen Players
Pan American delegates near unanimous accord at Lima talks
Secretary of State Cordell Hull reported near unanimous agreement among leading Pan American delegates in Lima on major items, aiming to mirror Buenos Aires private consensus. Hull arrived to push for a hemispheric order based on peace and welfare, meeting Peruvian officials in Callao before the conference opens. German press and propaganda ministry representatives were in Lima, noting South American calls for stable leadership to avert turmoil.
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Lima
Peru
Cordell Hull
Hull
Buenos Aires
United States
Callao
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Mount Vernon Woman In Critical Condition After Fall
Mrs Roy Low about 50 of Mount Vernon is in critical condition at Mercy hospital after falling down a basement stairway in the Ford Hopkins drug store around 10 am She suffered a crushed skull brain concussion and a fractured left clavicle The Grill operator was in Cedar Rapids on a shopping trip and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
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Cedar Rapids
Roy Low
Mount Vernon
Mercy Hospital
Ford Hopkins Drug Store
Ford Hopkins
Low
Cedar Rapids Waltz Team Advances to New York
Cedar Rapids dancers Betty Lindahl and Johnny Mehegan won the Omaha midwestern finals of MGM's Great Waltz to reach a December 12 performance at New York's Waldorf Astoria. They earned a three month MGM contract if victorious in New York. They proceed to Chicago for an Aragon Ballroom exhibition before joining twelve zone winners for the trip to New York.
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Betty Lindahl
Johnny Mehegan
Cedar Rapids
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Omaha
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mehegan
Paramount Theater
Des Moines
New York City
John Mehegan
Grande Avenue
Lindahl
H. J. Sindahl
Fourteenth Street
Chicago
Aragon Ball Room
MGM
Aged Father Foils Son Plot To Murder Him For Estate
Ralph Myers 45 confessed to planning to kill his 73 year old father George M. Myers to inherit a $75 000 estate in Reinsealer Indiana. Police set a trap with officers posing as killers and arrested Myers after he looked to pay an intermediary with a $75 check. The elder Myers who learned of the plot helped police and saved his life. Myers faces conspiracy to commit murder charges with up to 25 years in prison.
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Myers
Rose
Lemler
Peoria
Kankakee River
Chicago
James Bartell
Francis Vogel
Dodd Charged With Hit and Run in Va Incident
William E. Dodd former ambassador to Germany faced a warrant on hit-and-run charges after a Monday accident near Hanover Courthouse Virginia involving Gloria Grimes a 4 year old who was hospitalized in Richmond in critical condition Dodd said the child darted into the road about 30 feet ahead while he drove about 45 miles per hour and he claimed he braked and then drove on believing the child had escaped He also said he reported the incident to the Richmond motor vehicles division and spoke with a Loudoun County officer.
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Hanover
William E. Dodd
Germany
Gloria Grimes
Richmond
Dodd
Division of Motor Vehicles
Loudoun
Radio Priest Files A 2 Million Libel Suit Against Paper
Father Charles E. Coughlin, pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower, filed a $2,000,000 libel suit in Wayne county circuit court against the Detroit Free Press. The action seeks $1,000,000 actual and $1,000,000 punitive damages over a news story about his radio addresses on Jews in Germany.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Shrine of the Little Flower
Detroit Free Press
Wayne County
Milburn and Semmes
Free Press
Father Coughlin
Germany
Labor Party Votes Beat Dewey In New York Election
Albany reports official canvass shows Gov. Herbert H. Lehman reelected with 1 971 307 Democratic ballots plus 419 979 ALP votes. Thomas E. Dewey received 2 302 505 Republican ballots. Election results released by the state board of canvassers.
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Albany
N. Y
American Labor Party
Herbert H. Lehman
Thomas E Dewey
Dewey
Lehman
State Board of Canvassers
Agreements Reached By European Nations Appear Too Violent
The piece mocks postwar diplomacy with a harsh analogy to brutal bargains. It compares European powers negotiating to a butcher trimming fat, implying ruthless, unchecked concessions in a sharp opinion by Arthur Baer published in 1938.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Anna Hahn Executed for Poison Crime in Ohio
In a prayerful moment Anna Marie Hahn thirty two died in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary for one of four murders in which she was accused Her attorneys made a last minute federal appeal then she rose from her cell and walked to the death chamber escorted by counsel and matrons as twelve other condemned men waited nearby
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Columbus, Ohio
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio Penitentiary
Anna Hahn Buried After Federal Execution
Anna Marie Hahn was buried privately in Mt. Calvary Cemetery Columbus after execution. The service was led by Rev. John A. Sullivan and Hahn wore blue pajamas as she collapsed at the execution chamber door and cried to Warden Woodard.
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Columbus
O (Ap
Anna Marie Hahn
Mt. Calvary
John A. Sullivan
Ohio Pententials
Moonlit Savings Spark Woburn Street Light Policy
Woburn Massachusetts mayor William Kane ordered street lights out when the moon is full to cut costs. He cited glare and budget fears, offered 250 watt bulbs for porch use, and warned of possible state fines tied to school salaries as officials face a grand jury.
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Woburn
Mass
William E. Kane
U S Business Leaders Hear About Farmer
At the Congress of American Industry in New York, W W Waymack of Des Moines urged that democracy rests on a secure middle class led by farmers as farm owner-operators decline, while W W Shoemaker emphasized the farmer-manufacturer price balance and production control. Chester urged stronger sales promotion and merchandising, and Dr David Frias cautioned against rapid price rises and continued government control. Senator Joseph C Mahoney argued for regulated competition to preserve opportunity.
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New York
America
Congress of American Industry
W. WW. Waymack
Des Moines
Waymack
W. W. Shoemaker
National Association of Manufacturers
Cnm Chester
General Foods Corporation
Debfites
Chester
Soa
David Fridas
Washington, 1 Co
Friday
Natonal Bureau of Economic Research
Joseph C . Mahoney
Wyoming
Senate
Chinese Offensive Aims to Reclaim Canton Area in South China
Chinese military officials announced a general offensive in Kwantung Province to recapture the Great Canton commercial area from Japanese forces. The move signals a major push to restore Chinese control over key economic and trading centers amid ongoing conflict.
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Chungking
China
Kwanetung Province
Great Canton
South China
Kaiser Wilhelm II Attacks Hitler Policy in Memoir Quote
New York AP reports Kaiser Wilhelm II, in a December issue of a magazine, criticizes Adolf Hitler. He derides a nation of hysterics and hermits, says Hitler creates a state over people, and laments the loss of Germany’s poets, musicians, and traditional families. He calls Hitler sincere yet out of touch and condemns the rise of a fanatical mob.
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New York
Ken Magazine
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Adolf Hitler
Germany
W. Burckhardt
Doorn
Papen
Schleicher
Neurath
Blomberg
Former Kaiser's court marshal denies Hitler interview rumor
The court marshal of Doorn Netherlands says a Ken magazine article quoting the Kaiser attacking Adolf Hitler is absolutely and entirely untrue. He states His Majesty never gave an interview and never discussed Herr Hitler with reporters.
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Doorn
The
Netherlands
Ken
Kiser
Adolf Hitler
Herr Hitler
Sid
Germany stakes and colonial glare amid zeal over German claims
Berlin reports Germany launch of the first aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin in Kiel known as Pharidas with Hitler’s circle blaming Jewish machinations for Britain’s colonial stance. A 252 to 127 Commons vote opposed surrender of colonies. Malcolm Vince Donald warned against yielding to popular sentiment amid anti German agitation. officials doubt progress for restoration, signaling Germany’s persistent claim to prewar colonies and likely intensified propaganda.
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Berlin
Germany
Wes
Kiel
Pharidas
Graf Zeppelin
Nasis
House of Commons
Malcol Vince Donald
Aeville Chamberlain
Roosevelt Reorganization Talks Hint at New Bill
President Roosevelt summoned government reorganization advisers Louis Brownlow Luther Gulick and Charles E Merrian to the White House for a conference. White House aides said the discussions were exploratory, signaling possible drafting of a new reorganization bill after the last Congress killed the earlier proposal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Louis Brownlow
Luther Gulick
Charles E. Merrian
White House
MATES RESCUE REA LINEMAN NEAR VINTON
Daniel Poorman a Benton county REA maintenance man was electrocuted by a 7200 volt line nine miles southwest of Vinton. Lloyd Rack and John Sherman of Elkhor Construction saved him by jolting him to consciousness and freeing him from his safety belt before lowering him to the ground and rushing him to a hospital where he was listed in stable condition after a restful night.
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Vinton
Here
Daniel Poorman
Lloyd Rack
John Sherman
Poorman
Benton County
Elkhor Construction Company
Contac
Rick
Ruks
Sherman
Hitler Irked At Rebuke By Slain Diplomat s Father
New York based Neue Volkszeitung reports Adolf Hitler turned pale with rage after being rebuked by Ernst vom Rath s father at the slain Nazi official s funeral in Düsseldorf. The paper says von Rath senior refused vengeance rhetoric and Hitler, angered, left the event with Joachim von Ribbentrop acting in his stead.
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Hitler
New York
Neue Volkszeitung
Social Democratic
Adolf Hitler
Ernst Vom Rath
Hivger
South
Sie
Witter
Dusseldaif
Consute
von Rath
Sid
American envoy to China recalled for consultation
The United States announces the recall of Ambassador Nelson T Johnson to Washington for report and consultation with President Roosevelt and the State Department. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles says Johnson will return to Chungking after meetings and has not been in the U S for over four years.
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Washington
INS
China
Nelson T Johnson
Sumner Welles
Welles
Johnson
Chungking
Roosevelt
State Department
United States
Far East
Mooney Counsel Seeks Final Appeal to High Court
Thomas J. Mooney's lawyer John F. Finerty filed in the U S Supreme Court a brief for a writ of habeas corpus aimed at freeing the internationally known labor prisoner. The filing described the effort as a final appeal to the conscience of the court.
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Washington
INS
Thomas J. Mooney
Supreme Court
Clooney
John F. Finerty
New York
Mooney
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Kaiser
Lloyd Rick
Garete
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