1938 World News Dominated By Hitler Rise And Crises
United Press selects twelve top news stories of 1938 with Adolf Hitler and Nazi policy shaping the year. Leading items include the Munich pact Sudeten crisis and Germany’s union with Austria, plus events from the New England hurricane to Orson Welles’ Martian broadcast and Whitneys confession.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Germany
World News
United Press
United States
South America
Earl J Johnson
Johnson
Lindbergh
Paris
Roosevelt
Austria
Douglas Corrigan
Ireland
New England
Orson Welles
John Ward
Richard Whitney
Hankow
Howard Hughes
Joe Louis
Max Schmeeling
Ammany Tender Hines
Mexico
Palestine
Negro Slayer Gets His Fifth Reprieve
Attorneys for Robert Nixon 18 prepared an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court to block his death in the electric chair for the May 27 slaying of Chicago housewife Florence Johnson Acting Gov John Stelle granted Nixon a fifth reprieve to allow the appeal Dec 16 is set for the execution date Nixon had been scheduled to die Friday
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Chicago
Robert Nixon
State Supreme Court
Florence Johnson
John Stelle
Nixon
Kaiser Wilhelm’s monthly allowance cut by Nazi authorities
LondonDaily Express reports former Kaiser Wilhelm’s allowance reduced from 14000 to 3500 dollars monthly. The cut cited restrictions on German currency exports as the reason.
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London
INS
London Daily Express
Karpis Harborer Faces New Term
Grace Goldstein of Hot Springs was sentenced to five years for Mann Act violation after a previous two year term for conspiracy to harbor ex criminal Alvin Karpis. The jury also convicted her of transporting a niece from Blossom Texas to Hot Springs for immoral purposes. appeal planned.
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Little Rock
Ark
Grace Goldstein
Hot Springs
Alvin Karpis
Blossom
Texas
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Real Estate Transfers in Cedar Rapids Area
Listing of multiple property transfers dated 1938 involving Vance Coleman Leonard Costello Dale Kelly Frank Kratoska Mary Ainsworth C L McDonnell Witwer Grocer Co Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery and Forest Lawn items with consideration of $1 and recorded covenants restrictions and lot descriptions in Belmont and Dean's additions and surrounding parcels.
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Vance J. Coleman
Leonard A. Costello
Belmont
Cedar Rapids
Dale M. Kelly
Frank
Emma Kratoska
Dean
Mary Lucy June
Chester G. Ainsworth
C. L. McDonnell
Witwer Grocer Co
Cedar Memorial Pk Cemetery
Assa
H. W. Liver
Cedar Memorial
Scandinavian Country Crossword Puzzle Clues
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Canada Won’t Pay Volunteers’ Fares
Loyalist authorities announced that 276 Canadian members of the international brigade demobilized from the royalist army had received word the Canadian government declined to cover their travel home. They must stay in Spain unless private funds pay their fares.
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Barcelona
Spain
International Brigade
Four Die in Dutch Airliner Crash by Schiphol Dyke
Four people were killed when a Dutch airliner struck a dyke near Schiphol airport and caught fire Friday.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Schiphol Airdrome
Mike Thomas Elected Head of Cedar Rapids Ahepa Chapter
Mike Thomas was elected president of Cedar Rapids chapter No. 194, Order of Ahepa, at a Tuesday night meeting. James Chukas was named vice president, with William Shlaritakis secretary and Louis Chipakas treasurer. John M. Costas heads the board of governors, including George Zeangos, John F. Currell, Tony Sianis and Jim Bellas. Further officers will be appointed at the next meeting.
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Mike Thomas
Cedar Rapids
Order of Ahepa
James Chukas
William Shlaritakis
Louis Chipakas
John M. Costas
George Zeangos
John F. Currell
Tony Sianis
Jim Bellas
Christmas Gift Ad Offers Low Cost 10 Sou
Small want ad announces Christmas gifts for sale at a tiny 10 sou price. Advertisement notes affordability and brief availability in the classifieds.
Mother learns of daughter’s life and slayer’s crime
In Oakland California Mrs. Leonard Wright forgives and questions herself after her daughter Leona Wright is killed by Rodney Greig. The father brands Greig a rat and a police lieutenant calls him a sadist who stabbed her to death for thrill.
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Oakland
Cali
Leonard Wright
Rodney Greig
Francis Carroll
Greig
Leona Wright
Pierson Says Nazi Trade Bid In Latin America Faces Resistance
Warren Lee Pierson president of the Export-Import Bank said Germany’s bid to gain Latin American trade through artificial currency tricks is meeting resistance and need not alarm the United States. He noted the U S maintains a dominant position in the markets of the American republics and is their top customer, despite European and Asian competition after a two month tour of South America.
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Washington
Warren Lee Pierson
Export-import Bank
Germany
Latin America
United States
Pierson
South America
Inter-American Center
George Washington University
Picked Four Spot in Los Angeles Court
Bert Guest, an elderly retired farmer, fell asleep in the jury box of a municipal court. The judge found him intoxicated and he began serving a five day jail sentence for contempt.
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Los Angeles
INS
Bert Guest
Guest
Guild accuses police of aiding Hearst guards to break picket line
The News Guild filed a formal complaint with the Senate Civil Liberties Committee alleging Chicago police conspired with “Hearst thugs” to disrupt a picket line of Hearst papers. Nine guild members and non-striking workers were arrested or cited. bail set at 25 to 100 dollars. Publisher Merrill C Meigs blamed picket disruption on police clearing sidewalks as workers loaded trucks.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Guild
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Hearst
Evening American
Morning Herald
Examiner
Guild
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Merrill C Meigs
the American
American Federation of Labor
Santa Claus phone mix up ends as number changes
Elgin residents laugh at a Christmas mix up when a local department store used 1938 as Santa’s call number. Charles F. Gieseke complains that the old number belongs to him and that he tires of explaining Santa does not live at his house.
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Elgin
Santa Claus
Charles F. Gieseke
Roy Johnson Elected Royal Vizier at Ardekan Temple Dokies
Roy Johnson was elected royal vizier of Ardekan D O K K temple No. 234 on Wednesday night. Other officers elected include Grand Emir Bruce Lindsay sheik W Lansing mehedi Joe Stoddard secretary W A Wilson treasurer Ed Gable satrap M Millian sahib W Vaverka and trustee J I F Currell for a three year term. Installation will occur at the first January meeting.
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Roy Johnson
Ardekan
D. O K. K Temple
Bruce Lindsay
Sheik
W. Lansing
Mehedi
Joe Stoddard
W. A. Wilson
Ed Gable
Satrap
M Millian
Sahib
W Vaverka
J. IF. Currell
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Mann
Syndicate
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Mark Twain
Varbo
Kaaly
Phoenix
Wilson
Sanita
Brunel Sport Town
Parenciamn Grenadines
Hansen
First Avenue
Turkey
Arrogate
George
M Cohan
Canada
News Guild
Ardekan Temple
Dokies
the Syndicate
Tom Sawyer
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