Shuttles Envoys 10 Stop Dictator Gains Washington
The state department announced travel orders sending American ambassadors to London Berlin Paris and China as part of a drive against Nazi anti Semitism. Ambassador Johnson to China and Kennedy home from London are noted with Bullitt to sail for Paris January 7 and Wilson off on a Florida vacation signaling extended Berlin stay.
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Washington
INS
State Department
London
Berlin
Paris
China
William Phillips
Rome
Haly
Welles
United States
Joseph P Kennedy
Johnson
Chungking
William C Bullitt
Roosevelt
Phillips
Hugh Wilson
Wilson
Florida
Oscar Hahn Goes Back To Cincinnati
The body of Anna Marie Hahn, Ohio's first woman executed in the electric chair, was buried in Mount Calvary cemetery. Her son Oscar, 12, and her husband Philip Hahn did not attend. the boy was taken to Cincinnati by defense attorney Hiram Bolsinger. Plans for the boy's future were uncertain and he may live with Philip Hahn's parents.
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Columbus
Ohio
INS
Anna Marie Hahn
Cincinnati
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Oscar
Notice of Appointing Executrix in Linn County Iowa
On December 8 1938 Georgia Humphreys was duly appointed Executrix of the estate of L N Humphrey deceased of Linn County Iowa. All debts must be paid promptly to the executrix and all claims filed properly with Carl F Jordan attorney in the Linn County District Court.
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Linn County
L. Ns
Humphrey
Iowa
Press Fights Over Pay As You Go Armament Plan
Washington reports friction between officials and the press over Roosevelt’s armament funding. The president hinted at pay as you go for a 1.5 billion defense program but budget clarifications muddied the issue. White House secretary Stephen T Early stressed year by year funding without tax increases while noting other budget adjustments.
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Stephen T. Early
White House
Clarifier Early
Early
Roosevelt
Armament Tax Debate Aims At Treasury Officials
Off the record chatter at the treasury hints the President favors an armaments tax or a broader tax raise to fund defense. Some officials believe the armaments tax would pass, with 2 percent income tax or a sales tax floated as possible options. Others insist the President promised no tax increases and see treasury planners promoting their own readings of his stance.
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Treasury
Roosevelt Budget Scheme Through RFC Moves
The piece argues the President may use RFC liquidations or asset transfers to the treasury to finance armament growth, with a hidden pay-as-you-go style. It claims deficits could be offset by recoverable assets and improved taxes from rising business, while press scrutiny grows and officials seek new political leverage.
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Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Treasury
Congress
Three Vehicle Crash Near Cedar Rapids Injures No One
At 5 p.m. Thursday a three vehicle collision occurred on highway No. 30 ten miles east of Cedar Rapids. W G Nagler of Stanwood reported his eastbound car slowed for a slow moving truck. Drake of Clarence, also eastbound, swerved to avoid, causing a side swipe. All drivers escaped injury.
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Cedar Rapids
Roy Radebaugh
W G. Nagler
Stanwood
Clarence Drake
Clarence
G. A Andreas
Meadowbrook Drive
Nagler
Drake
Andreas
J C Penney Reports November Sales Rise Slightly
The J C Penney company posted November sales of 27,196,166 dollars, up 0.3 percent from 27,102,928 dollars a year earlier. For the first eleven months, year to date sales are down 7.7 percent versus the 1937 period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. C. Penney Company
Milk Trust defendants plead not guilty in Chicago case
Dr Herman N Bundesen former head of the Chicago board of health a union attorney and two others pled not guilty to Sherman anti trust charges in milk distribution Forty three individuals and 14 corporations won continuances as Judge Charles E Woodward set January 7 for preliminary motions The case targets conspiracy to fix milk prices and curb competition in the Chicago milk shed with indictments against milk dealers public officials union leaders and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Chicago Board of Health
Charles E. Woodward
Jaw 23
Thurman A. Arnold
Lou McIntosh
Associated Milk Dealers, Inc
Arnold
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
Associated
Bundesen
William J. Geurin
Paul Kreuger
David A. Riskind
American Federation of Labor
Dan Gilbert
Thomas J. Courtney
Drivers’ Union
Woodward
Douglas challenges NLRB to call vote at factory
Douglas Aircraft chairman Donald W Douglas denounces the NLRB ruling to reinstate 32 sitdown strikers with back pay as absurd and calls for an election at the Santa Monica plant to choose a union. He argues lawlessness harms national defense and opposes violence and destructive strikes in aircraft plants.
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Santa Monica
Calif
INS
National Labor Relations Board
Douglas Aircraft Company
Donald W Douglas
Douglas
Radio Programs Friday Evening New Orleans Station Schedule
Radio listings detail NBC WJZ WEAF CBS WABC and other chains with concentrations of orchestras and hosts. Numerous artists including Morin Sisters Angie Bolognini Artie Shaw Jack Haley Frank Black Leighton Moule Abe Lyman Stan Brook and groups perform across time slots from 6 PM to midnight with featured broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera and various orchestras and bands.
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Morin Sisters
NBC
WEAF
Artie Shaw
WJZ
Angie Bolognini
Lunn
Abner _forsi
WABC
WBBM
KMOX
Jack Marshard
Weaf Chain
INBC
WJZ Chain
Jack Haley
Cie
CBS
Woc
WCCO
Emery Deutsch
Oscar Shumsky
Frank Black
Wliaf Chain
Warden Lewis E. Lawes
Royal Canadians
Natl Ass'n of Manufacturers Convention
Grand Central Station
Uncle Ezra
Jack Merch
Chain
Andy
Wabc and Chain
Lima
Peru
Dick Greparre
Wd4
Leighton Moule
N. H
Gray Gordon
Abe Lyman
Les Brown
Dick Barrie
National Farm and Home Hour
Enoch Litht
Orchestra
America Presents
Ray Kinney
Metropolitan Opera Company
Siegfried
Cha
Bill" Krenz
Rakey's Orchestra
Teele Strings
Isaltenmeyer
WJZ Ain
Alberta Hunter
Lee Brown
Bob Trout
Wanbc and Chain
Goodwilt Mission
Saturday Radio Schedule Highlights and Guest Lineup
NBC and CBS programs fill morning into noon with music talk and drama across WJZ WEAF WABC WEAP and other outlets. Notable entries include Swing Maker Morning Club Fiddler's Fancy Katherine Lenroot and Vaughn de Leath, plus Norman Gloutier Orchestra and American Education Forum.
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Svening
del King, Inc
NBC
WEAF
Message of Israel
WJZ
Swing Club
CBS
WABC
Chno
Adrian Rollins
Orchestra
Ricardo
Jor E. Brown
WBBM
KMOX
WOC
WCCO
Erasmus
Barry Mckinley
Baritone
Vox Pop Neg Weaf
WJZ Chain
Wabc and Chain
Arthur Rodzinski
Condr
W. CC. Fields
Ween
WEBM
Wwoccco
Spitally
Weaf Chain
Francis Cradg
Glen Miller
GBS
Lou Breeze
George Crook
Gnagies Bouts
Jan Suvi
Ray Kyser
Les Brown
WEAP
Rudy Vallee
Paul Pendarvis
ABC and Chain
Joaquin Gili
Omar_ Nforth
Montan Slim
al and
Lee Reiser
WEA
Charioteers
Katherine ‘Lenroot
Florence Hale
American Education Forum
Hull Calls Any Menace to Western Peace a Global Concern
U S Secretary of State Cordell Hull told Lima that any threat to Western hemisphere peace concerns all Americas. He outlined a three point program for world peace economic cooperation and stronger international law ahead of the Pan American Conference. Hull praised Peru for open trade policies and noted growing U S Peru commercial exchange.
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Lima
Peru
U. S
Cordell Hull
Americas
Hull
United States
Hult
American Statesman
Western Hemisphere
Oscar Benavides
Linn and Jones settle children's care case in Iowa
Linn and Jones county officials announced a $2,250 settlement to Linn county for about $3,000 spent for several years of care of four children at the state home in Davenport. Linn county had claimed the children's parents were legal residents of Jones county.
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Johnson
Welles
China
United States
Britain
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Tokio
Linn
Jones County
Linn County
Davenport
Robert M. Vesely
Treasury notes holders accept new securities over cash
Secretary Morgenthau announced that more than 97 percent of holders of 941,613,750 dollars in treasury notes maturing next March 15 elected to take new securities instead of cash, confirming broad acceptance of the swap offer.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Widow 84 pleads to keep hospital job for son care
In Cleveland Mrs. Mary McCarthy 84 sobbed to hospital officials to allow her to skip retirement so she can continue earning for her semi invalid son Joseph 54. She has worked 40 years in the supply room and says retirement would leave them unable to pay medical bills and living expenses.
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Cleveland
Mary McCarthy
George P. Bugbee
Joseph
Hopkins Likely to Enter Cabinet Next Year
Roosevelt plans to promote WPA Administrator Harry L Hopkins to a cabinet post in the new year with strong bets on him becoming secretary of war or possibly head of the commerce department. Senate sentiment is reportedly favorable for swift confirmation, barring corruption concerns.Observ observers link the move to Hopkins continued pump priming of rearmament and relief programs.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Harry H. Woodring
Kansas
Commerce Department
Daniel C. Roper
White House
Senate
Capitol Hill
Army
Iowa Boiler Contract Work Seeks Bids for Five Installations
Public notice invites proposals from boiler contractors to furnish materials equipment and labor for five boiler installations at state institutions in Iowa including Oakdale Training School for Boys Eldora Mount Pleasant State Hospital and Independence. Bids due by 2 00 PM December 20 1938 with 5000 bid guarantee and 150 day completion.
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Oakdale
Iowa
Eldora
State Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Independence
Board of Control
Iowa State Board of Control
Saidate
Henry J. Liebbe
Board of Control of State Institutions
State House
Des Moines
H. C. White
F. M. Stevens
E. H. Felton
Hopkins to seek more WPA relief funds from Congress
WASHINGTON AP Harry L Hopkins administrator of the Works Progress Administration said he would ask Congress for a deficiency appropriation to finance work relief from March 1 to July 1 He avoided naming an exact amount but believed current funds would cover WPA through March 1 as requested by President Roosevelt He estimated WPA rolls would fall about 150000 monthly due to not replacing workers absorbed by private industry
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
Congress
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Hitler snubs Pirow in colonials talk at Berchtesgaden
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler halted talks with South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow after demanding authorization for concrete colonial offers. Pirow, sent to sound out possibilities, returned to London with a pessimistic report to Britain.
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London
INS
Adolf Hitler
Oswald Pirow
Fuehrer
Pirow
Hitler
Berchtesgaden Mountain
Typhoon Kills 20 in Philippines. damages rise
A severe typhoon sweeping Albay and Samar provinces left at least twenty dead as trees toppled and floods followed the winds. Torrential rains accompanied the storm, with damage estimated at 750000 dollars as it moved into the China Sea.
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Manila
P. IL
Albay
Samar
China Sea
Mexico to Seize More Land Tracts in Sinaola
President Lazaro Cardenas announced another agrarian reform move by expropriating vast tracts in the state of Sinaloa, with immediate effect and including some lands owned by foreigners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Sinaloa
Industrialists urge program of cooperation
The National Association of Manufacturers approved a 1939 platform calling for cooperation with the government. The 11 points urge labor, industry, and government to share responsibility, restore jobs, boost production, regulate rather than control, and pursue foreign trade with safeguards for the home economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Resolutions Committee
Securities and Exchange Commission
Merckens Dies at Des Moines Home
W C Merckens 56 longtime state official and former secretary of the state executive council under Gov Hammill died at his Des Moines home Wednesday night of pneumonia He was born in Fairfield Ta and had held various state posts including superintendent of the cigarette tax department He was a salesman at the time of his death Funeral services are planned for Saturday.
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Des Moines
W. C. Merckens
State Executive Council
John Hammill
Fairfield
Merckens
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Kinx Features Syndicate, Inc
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J. C. Landenberger
Third Street SE
Milk Trust
NLRB
Western
Linn and Jones
Philippines
Forch
Sanford
Third Avenue
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