Cedar Rapids Police Nab Bandit Driver In Bus Hold-Up
George A Toombes 30, a former convict, was arrested after he robbed Cedar Rapids City Lines bus driver V D Andrews of over 20 dollars. He pled not guilty to robbery with aggravation and bond was set at 2500. The driver fought the attacker, who fled east on Avenue NE toward Oakland. The scene yielded a stocking cap and a bottle of gin.
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George A. Toombes
H. C. Ring
Toombes
George A Toombes
Cedar Rapids
Center Point Road
Avenue NE
Andrews
Oakland Avenue
W. D. Andrews
Bill Of Rights Hum To Tune Of Star Spangled Banner
A humorous verse by Arthur Bugs Baer suggests humming the Bill of Rights to the Star Spangled Banner tune. It jokes that the key feature is leading with the left and compares rights to a wheel joining rim and hub. The piece is a playful, satirical aside from 1998.
New York Robbery Loot Finances Nassau Trip
Two youths from New York were held in Nassau County for a $16,000 Long Island burglary. Police say they disposed of fur and diamond loot through a girlfriend, funded a Florida and Iowa auto trip, and one later married a girl in Council Bluffs. The case links to eight Nassau and six Westchester burglaries, with total loot around $30,000.
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New York
Nassau County Police
Long Island
Florida
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Nikita Talaleff
Carl C. Runyon
Harold King
Talalefti
King
Joan Donovan
Olive Anderson
Freeport
Talaleff
Nassau County
Westchester
President expects no further changes in Roosevelt cabinet
President Roosevelt said resignations of Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings completed cabinet revisions and warned against speculation on successors. He noted no decisions on successors to the attorney general or commerce secretary, effective Jan 1 and next Friday respectively, and did not anticipate further cabinet resignations. A home loan bank board vacancy will be filled soon, with no announcements on other federal vacancies or supreme court seats.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roper
Cummings
Secretary of Commerce
Home Loan Bank Board
Supreme Court
France denies Somaliland surrender plan amid Mussolini accord
Paris reports France rebuts claims by Andre Geraud alias Pertinax that Neville Chamberlain planned to trade British Somaliland for French Somaliland. Geraud alleged Italy’s gain in the Spain conflict and Berlin Rome axis pressure. Bonnet reiterates France’s alliances with Poland, Russia, and Roumania and denies any French Somaliland surrender request.
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Paris
Andre Geraud
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
France
Djibouti
Addis Ababa
Geraud
Pertinax
L’apostrophe
Chamberlain
Mussolini
Italy
Great Britain
Georges Bonnet
Poland
Russia
Roumania
Foreign Office
Soviet Russia and Poland vow to fight to hold Ukrainian provinces
Paris dispatch says Soviet Russia and Poland formally advised France they will fight, if necessary, to keep their large Ukrainian provinces within frontiers. The notice was disclosed Friday as tensions rose over territorial claims and security commitments.
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Paris
Russia
Poland
Nazis charge U. S. Britain in giant plot
German Boersenzeitung accuses the United States and Great Britain of hatching a secret plan to divide the world. It cites Hull Lima speeches, Eden’s U S visit, and the Anglo American trade deal as proof of growing cooperation and a new world order.
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Berlin
INS
United States
Great Britain
Boersenzeitung
London
The
Foreign Office
Reich
Cordell Hull
Britain
South America
Anthony Eden
Germany
George
Elizabeth
Hull
Hulls
Lima
Peru
England
Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
Why Turkey's Not Hibernating Wrestler Manager Tale
Milwaukee AP reports Arthur E. Turkey Gehrke the Watertown tavern keeper shuns his winter sleep to manage a wrestling card with Tubby Reinhardt. After a stomach ailment he resumed bowling and lost 27 years from retirement in spirit. He weighs 186 pounds and says he feels 26, not 56.
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Milwaukee
Arthur E
Gehrke
Watertown
Wis
Turkey
Wisconsin
Tubby Reinhardt
Tubby
Czechs Order Jewish Expulsion From Reich Substate
Berlin dispatch reports the Czechoslovak government ordered the expulsion of 14,000 foreign Jews from the dismembered republic. Most are German, Polish, or Hungarian citizens, with three months to depart. About 2,300 Czechoslovak Jews are slated to go to Palestine soon.
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Berlin
INS
DNB
Prague
Palestine
Everyday Living on being needed in times of trouble
A husband and wife discuss Jane's letters and the value of being needed. The wife argues happiness lies in feeling essential to others, not in trouble free life. The piece reflects on human longing, support networks, and the impact of perceived indispensability in 1938.
Mussolini presses for Tunisian concessions through Popolo D Italia
Rome (INS) Premier Mussolini via his Milan paper Popolo D Italia demands territorial concessions in French controlled Tunis. He argues the time has come to redeem Sicily, the Italian section of Tunis, which he says has long been exploited by France.
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Rome
INS
Mussolini
Popolo D’ Italia
Milan
Tunis
Sicily
Il Duce
Mercury At 34 Under Cloudy Sky
Cedar Rapids report notes a partly cloudy afternoon with temperatures rising to 37 after a low of 24 early morning. Records show 34 at 2 45 and Thursday’s high of 32 by 2 pm, dropping to 27 by 7 pm and 26 at midnight on the Chambers Ins keep company thermometer.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Living Gifts Bring Happiness Throughout the Year
A Gazette Want Ad story notes that pets like a playful puppy or a cheerful canary make ideal Christmas gifts. Co S Kapple reports selling a young Pekingese within 48 hours after advertising. Call 2-1121 between 8 A.M. and 8 P.M. Saturday to place Sunday Want Ad.
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Gazette
Co. S. Kapple
34Th St. NE
The
Adtaker
Kennedy Says He Has Usable Refugee Plan
Ambassador Joseph Kennedy returns from London with a workable plan for Europe’s refugee problem and urges the United States to stay out of European affairs. He says England will provide resettlement land and envisions international funding, while pressing for precise refugee numbers and cooperation from Hitler. Kennedy plans two months of rest in Washington and Palm Beach after reporting to Roosevelt.
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Kennedy
New York
INS
Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph Kennedy
London
Europe
United States
Great Britain
England
Thtler
International Commission
United States of America
Palm Beach
Vandenberg Urges Scrapping Of Age Pension Tax Hikes
Sen. Vandenberg urges Congress to cancel scheduled increases in old age pension taxes. He says the 1 percent employer and 1 percent employee taxes will take about 40 billion dollars from American pay between now and 1980. The law plans gradual hikes to 3 percent for both sides, building a large reserve. He argues current 1 percent taxes suffice with government support for ultimate cost.
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Vandenberg
Washington
Congress
Mich
America
Italian Jews Ordered to Register Property in Rome Decree
The cabinet approved a decree forcing Italian Jews to register all property. Excess above set limits will be handed to a government agency, liquidated, and returned as 4 percent bonds. The move follows a Nov. 17 decree banning ownership of high tax urban real estate, taxed farmland and large-employment businesses. The cabinet also annexed four Libyan provinces to Italy and granted special citizenship to Libyan Muslims.
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Rome
Italy
British freighter Ridley proceeds toward Nagasaki after SOS
The British freighter Ridley struck a submerged object off Loochoo island on Friday and sent an SOS. It was reported to be proceeding under its own power toward Nagasaki with the assistance of the Japanese steamer Cheribon.
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TOKIO
INS
Loochoo Island
Nagasaki
Climax in McKesson Robbins case ends in suicide
U S attorney reports seized correspondence at Bridgeport plant linking F Donald Coster to Harry McKenzie a Connecticut political leader. Coster shot himself at his Fairfield home after rearrest orders amid securities act charges. Fingerprint findings reveal his alias Philip Musica and ties to the Musica family scandal.
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Donald Coster
Top
McKesson and Robbins
Philip Musica
George Vernard
Center
Arthur Musica
Philip
George Dietrich
Bot Team
NEW York
F. Donald Coster
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Fairfield
Conn
Coster
United States
George E. Dietrich
Musica
Philp
Antonio
Costers
Melesson
Robbins
McKesson and Robbin’s Cedar Rapids plant to stay open
Walter K. Roth vice president of the Cedar Rapids division said on Friday the wholesale plant will continue operating and assets of the company are ample. Reorganization steps are under way.
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Walter K. Roth
Cedar Rapids
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Frauds and misrepresentation alleged in Canadian agents case
Testimony indicates Smith and company received 150000 dollars yearly in commissions though no sales records could be produced. The witness described Coster as posing as a Heidelberg graduate for over a decade, boosting the corporation through a manipulated merger with seventeen. Continued on page eight.
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Ning and Company
Smith and Company
Coster
Heidelberg
Seventeen
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