Community Christmas Aid and Seals Drive Recorded
The Cedar Rapids Council of Social Agencies reports 700 families listed for Christmas aid with 208 unassigned. Contributions to the YMCA Christmas Clearance Committee support the effort. Linn County leads the state in Christmas seal per capita sales, with 66 seals per person last year.
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Cedar ‘Rapids
Council of Social Agencies
Santa Claus
Linn County
Story County
Linn
CIO Link Targeting Wage Bill Foes in Labor Split
The CIO News editorial accuses the American Federation of Labor of allying with sweatshop employers and Tory politicians to defeat the wage and hour bill. It blames Green and a clique of officials, warns of 1938 political action via labor’s nonpartisan league, and predicts harsher independent labor voting power.
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Washington
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
House
CIO News
John L. Lewis
CIO
Federation
William Green
Green
Lewis
Labor
League
Nonpartisan League
Referendum Plan On War Faces House Opposition
Washington AP reports congressional leaders blocked a proposal to require a popular vote before war. Opposing Roosevelt and Secretary all hinder passage. supporters see slim chance of approval soon.
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Washington
United States
Exeement Roosevelt
Secretary All
Congress
Kellogg in Critical Condition After Pneumonia Rally
Dr. J A Lepak said Frank B Kellogg coauthor of the Kellogg Briand peace pact was critically ill at his St Paul home with pneumonia He had rallied Monday the physician reported the spread of the congestion had been halted and his heart action was better
Coal Miners Face Minimum Price Rules and Tax Claims
The piece describes minimum price schedules for coal, small Iowa mines selling to truckers at cut rates, and threats to raise prices or pay fines disguised as a 19 percent reverse sales tax. It notes the FTC under President Roosevelt investigating monopolies and living costs.
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Iowa
Federal Trade Commission
Roosevelt
Hesse Group Weighs Jury Release Probe Of Judge Geiger
The House Judiciary Committee will study Attorney General Cummings request to investigate Milwaukee Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger for dismissing a grand jury in the automobile financing inquiry. Chairman Sumners said a subcommittee may be named for the inquiry early in January. Geiger, 70, appointed by Taft in 1912, faces potential impeachment scrutiny.
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Washington
INS
House Judiciary Committee
Cummings
Ferdinand Geiger
Milwaukee
Sumners
Texas
Geiger
Cassville
Wis
William H. Taft
Judiciary Committee
Milwaukee Jurist
Douglas Aircraft Sitdowners Found Guilty of Conspiracy
Twenty two Douglas Aircraft sit down workers are found guilty of conspiracy to seize the Santa Monica plant during a ten month strike. Conviction follows a six week Superior Court trial. leniency recommended. Sentencing set for next Wednesday with possible penalties up to two years or a $5000 fine.
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Los
Angeles
Tingleaders
Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
Baron Fitts
United States
Douglas
Iowa youths win Rhodes scholarships in Des Moines
Four young men were awarded Rhodes scholarships. Courtney Smith 21 of Iowa City Ta a senior at the University of Iowa Edward Weismiller 22 a senior at Cornell college Mount Vernon Ia. Harry D Flory 20 Pawnee Neb a University of Nebraska student and Gerald L Brown 22 Chamberlain S D a Yale law school student will receive 2000 scholarships to Oxford University England. Weismiller home is Appleton Wis.
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Chamberlain
S. D
Yale Law School
Rhodes
Oxford University
England
Weismiller
Iowa
Cornell College
Appleton
Wis
Elks Club Custodian Dies In Muscatine Crash
William Liebbe head custodian of the Muscatine Elks club died after his car went into a ditch two miles east of Muscatine on highway 61. Passers by rescued him and an ambulance took him to hospital. Skull and neck injuries caused his death. He is survived by a wife and two children.
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Muscatine (Ap
William Liebbe
Muscatine
Supreme Court bans use of wire tapping in federal cases
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that federal officers may not use wire tapping to obtain evidence in criminal trials. The decision overturned four New York smugglers’ convictions on wiretap evidence and involved Justice Roberts delivering the majority opinion while justices Sutherland and Mc Reynolds dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
New York
Brandeis
Circuit
Joeath Sy Frank
Nardone
Austin
L."callahan
Hugh*Brown
Robert Gottfried
Owen J. Roberts
George Sutherland
James C. McReynolds
Roberts
Olmstead
Congress
Black Reverses Stand on Wire Tapping
Justice Hugo L Black joined a seven to two Supreme Court ruling banning federal wire tapping as a source of criminal evidence. The decision contrasted with earlier support for seizing telegrams from communications company files while he chaired a Senate lobby committee.
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Washington
INS
Hugo L. Black
The
Supreme Court
Alabama
Senate Lobby Committee
Senator Black
Justice Black
High Court
Keep alive by changing habits at any age
A reader near eighty urges continued effort to avoid rut and self indulgence. The piece, attributed to Dr Newton, extols trying new things and maintaining mental and physical activity to stay young, citing examples from seventy to ninety and noting age is habit, not years.
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DR. Newton
Gladstone
Morley
Rawlings Plans Grand Jury Review of Liquor Evidence
Woodbury County Attorney Maurice E. Rawlings said he will present liquor evidence gathered by federal and state agents to the Woodbury county grand jury in January. The conference with liquor commission officials covered the Sioux City $62,900 illegal liquor sales case and the Hartley incident linked to Arrow Distillery.
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DES Moines
Woodbury County
Maurice E. Rawlings
Grand Jury
Liquor Commission
Rawlings
Woodbury County Grand Jury
Sioux City
Hartley
The
Dakotas
Commission
Bernard E. Manley
Arrow Distillery Company
Peoria
Ill
Bodies Recovered From Coffer Dam Disaster
The bodies of three of eight men killed when a coffer dam collapsed in Port Stanley Ontario were raised from icy waters Monday as 200 spectators watched a diver. The rescue paused when diver Pelee Monture damaged his equipment.
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Port Stanley
Ont
Pelee Monture
Unemployment Payments Seen Limited Relief in 1930s Aid
Washington officials doubt unemployment compensation will ease relief rolls soon as the program expands. By mid 1939 all states should be covered, with payments averaging 15 weeks and up to $15 weekly, but many workers remain ineligible and WPA rolls may stay high while reforms unfold.
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Washington
INS
WPA
District of Columbia
Wisconsin
Congress
Works Progress
A. T. and T. Officer Eugene S. Wilson Dies
New York report states Eugene S. Wilson 58 vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph for 17 years died Sunday of a heart attack.
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A. T
New York
Eugene 5S. Wilson
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Samples as Recession Cures Hint at Hoover Plan
Arthur Baer riffs on wartime style economics, noting samples as relief and Hoover’s five point plan to replace the current administration. The piece mocks political rhetoric and ponders fate in 1940 with a sardonic tone.
Americans Flee As War Clouds Near Hankow
Three hundred American and British women and children fled Hankow aboard the Woosung river steamer with the Gnat and Capetown in sight of advancing Japanese forces. embassy preparations for evacuation were reported as the Yangtze valley faces renewed drives into Anhwei and Chekiang.
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Shanghai
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Capetown
Yangtze
United States
Yangtze Valley
Nanking
Iwane Matsui
Anhwei
Chekiang
Tsingtao
Shantung
Here
Canton
South China
Bias Bay
Hong Kong
Cops Work Probe After Robbery Slaying Of Benjamin Mullen
In Rockford Illinois a gold salesman Benjamin Mullen was killed by a policeman during a robbery call. Officers J C Lapinski and Roy Lowl were suspended pending inquiry. The shooting happened as Mullen, manacled and gagged, could not raise his hands.
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Rockford
Benjamin Mullen
J. C. Lapinski
Roy Lowl
Robert E. Nash
Mullen
Lapinski
Lowl
August Bargren
U S Forces to Stay in China Hull Says
Secretary Cordell Hull states American gunboats and troops will remain in China while the current situation lasts. In a reply to Senator Smathers he cites long standing US commitments and the need to protect lives and property of American citizens. Hull notes differing opinions on protection levels and recalls centuries of Americans in China.
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Washington
INS
China
Cordell Hull
Smathers
New Jersey
Hull
United States
Frederick Steiner
Ore
Communist Takeover Shifts Power in China Amid War Strife
China’s ruling communist party ousted six top Kuomintang leaders after disintegration of the Nanking government. Chou En Lai and Mao Tse Tung moved toward Hankow while Chiang Kai-shek retained military leadership. Japanese strategists delayed campaigns in South China as the new regime reorganizes and prepares for resistance against Japan.
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Shanghai
China
Communist Party
Nanking
Kuomintang Party
Hankow
Chinese Republic
Japan
Panay
Red
Taingtee
Yuan
Kung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Communist Group
Central Political Council
Wang Ching-Wei
Jet
Chen Li-Fu
Chou En-Lai
Nanking War Council
Mao’ Tze-Tung
Red Army
Chou_En-Lai
Mao Tze-Tung
Yennanfu
United Front
South China
Canton
Upper Iowa student injured in chemical mixture explosion
Keith Knos an 18 year old freshman at Upper Iowa was severely burned when a chemical mix of red phosphorus and potassium chlorate exploded in a chemistry lab. Fellow student Max Miller 17 sustained minor injuries from glass and a watch crystal blown from his wrist. Authorities said the incident was not part of regular laboratory experiments.
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the Gazette
Fayette
Keith Knos
Upper Iowa University
Max Miller
Knos
Heiress Barbare Field Weds Anthony A Bliss in NY
Barbare Field a wealthy young heiress marries Anthony A Bliss from an influential old New York family in a Monday ceremony. The union links two prominent lineages in the city’s society circles.
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NEW York
Barbare Field
Anthony A. Bliss
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