Cedar Rapids janitor’s jail shock after late night crash
Henry Vyskocil, a 20 year Cedar Rapids library janitor, is jailed after a late night car crash. He says he swerved to avoid another vehicle, then drove away. Charges later shifted from leaving the scene to driving while intoxicated. He denies being drunk and laments public disgrace.
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The
Gazette
Henry Vyskocil
Cedar Rapids
Vyskocil
OGPU
Henry
Hirp
Prrytt
Enry
Roosevelt outlines bold new foreign policy for world leadership
President Roosevelt outlined a dynamic foreign policy to be presented with the regular congressional session on January 3. He seeks aggressive leadership of democratic nations, a large naval and army build up, and a possible moratorium on legislation that could hinder foreign policy. The plan hinges on Japan's response to Hull’s protest over the Panay sinking and may include a quarantine concept for aggressor nations.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Woodring
Hull
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Alf M Landon
Chicago
White Christmas Likely For Midwest Says Meteorologist
AP reports meteorologist C A Donner warned not a definite forecast yet but snow is likely to start Friday and continue through Christmas in the north central states. Snow was already falling Thursday in North Dakota and parts of Minnesota as a low pressure system moves southeast. Christmas Day is expected to be cold with temperatures well below freezing though recent weather changes mean caution for snow certainty.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
C. A. Donner
North Dakota
Minnesota
Donnel
U S Reports Confirm Story of Ship Attack
The State Department drafted a new protest to Japan over the Panay bombing and sinking in the Yangtze, citing reports from Panay commander J J Hughes and embassy official George Atcheson that the attack was not accidental, to be conveyed through Ambassador Grew.
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Washington
State Department
Japan
Cordell Hull
Yangtze River
Joseph C. Grew
Tokio
Roosevelt
Orient
J. J. Hughes
Panay
George Atcheson, Jr
Nanking
Japan admits survivors were machine gunned in Panay incident
Tokyo acknowledged that survivors from the Panay and other ships bombed on December 13 were fired upon as they fled toward shore. The army briefing by Lieut. Colonel Yoshiaki Nishi called the shootings a mistake after wartime observers reported the incident.
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TOKIO
INS
Japan
Panay
Yoshiaki Nishi
Washington
Four Bulldogs Kill Man in Wichita Falls Attack
In Wichita Falls Texas four bulldogs mauled 71 year old L G Brown on a highway. He fought with a pocket knife and killed two dogs before a farmer arrived, but Brown died at the hospital.
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Man
Wichita Falls
Tex
L. G. Brown
Brown
Kreisler Tax Claim Settled for 23088 Dollars
Washington AP reports Fritz Kreisler, renowned violinist, won a $23,088 settlement from a $100,405 income tax claim after the board of tax appeals approved the amount. The panel also withdrew a tax rate against Kreisler's wife HARRIE.
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Washington
Board of Tax Appeals
Fritz Kreisler
Kreisler
Harrie
Samoan Clipper to Launch Transpacific Air Service
A new air link from the United States to Australia and the South Seas was announced with the Samoan Clipper beginning preparations for service on December 29. Captain Edwin C Musick and seven crew left Pearl Harbor for Kingman Reef en route to Pago Pago Samoa and Auckland New Zealand. The service will start as mail and express only, with no passengers, and operate bi weekly for now.
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United States
Australia
South Sea Islands
New Zealand
Pan American Airways
Sea Flyer
Edwin C Musick
Pearl Harbor
Kingman
Pago Pago
Samoa
Auckland
N. Z
Great Britain
Ocean Flying Organization
Imperial Airways
Sydney
Russians may stay on Arctic floe until May
Professor Otto Schmidt said four Russians stationed on a drifting Arctic ice floe could stay until April, possibly into May, before being removed.
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Moscow
Otto Schmidt
Arctic
Democrats of House 100 plan budget balance conference
Rep. Martin Dies announces a January meeting of 100 House Democrats to pledge support for a balanced budget through economy. He warns liberals to back restraining measures while protecting essential programs and highway funding. A committee will be named to draft a concrete budget-balancing plan.
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HOUSE
Washington
Ins
Roosevelt
Martin Dies
Texas
Dies
Congress
Roosevelt Ready for Rough Battle in Congress Ad Clash
Evidence mounted that President Roosevelt, guided by his special session exposure, was bracing for a hard fight with Congress over the ad dispute and related issues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
118 Families Still On Christmas List At YMCA Exchange
One day before Christmas 118 needy families lack volunteers to provide food or gifts while 86 more await investigation at the YMCA based Council of Social Agencies exchange. The drive had already matched 473 families with helpers, and a box of country delicacies arrived for two shut ins to share a Christmas dinner.
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Ym.c.a
Council of Social Agencies
Exchange
Y.M.C.A
Wes Meyers
Mount Vernon
Sadie Warner
Do Men and Women Share Minds in This Town Debate
A reader asks if men are smarter than women and is met with a parade of opinions. The column argues both sexes show differing intelligence, with women often more realistic and suited to household work, while men are seen as overly romantic.
Blame Alcoholism For Party Girl Death In Hotel
Rose Ault 29 known as a party girl died in a downtown Pittsburgh hotel room last week. County chemist F C Buck found 82 percent alcohol in her body, far above lethal levels, according to coroner William J McGregor. The unclad body was found on a bed in a seventh floor Fort Pitt hotel room shared by four New York delegates to a steel workers convention.
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Pittsburgh
Rose Ault
F. C. Buckmaster
William J. McGregor
Miss Ault
Fort Pitt
New York
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
May Appeal Stork Derby Decision To British Court
Detroit attorney Arthur Birnkrant says the Canadian Supreme Court ruling upholding the Stork Derby will of Charles Vance Millar may be appealed to the British Empire’s highest court. Birnkrant represents Miss Arabella West and other Millar relatives seeking to break the will claiming it is capricious and against public morals.
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Detroit
INS
Supreme Court
Fifty Years for Slaying of Brother-in-law in Missouri
LANCASTER Missouri AP Matt H Troops 47 a Clark county farmer was found guilty of second degree shotgun murder of his bachelor brother in law Elmer Lee 52 and was sentenced to fifty years in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City after failing to prove insanity before the Schuyler county jury.
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Lancaster
Schuyler County
Matt H. Troops
Clark County
Elmer Lee
Jefferson City
Psychology Of War Attacked By Senator Borah
Senator Borah condemns a war psychology amid the Panay sinking saying the U S can protect interests in China without war. He argues for keeping America on guard and avoiding entanglements while Wheeler calls for troop withdrawal and votes on war. Wheeler backs referendums on foreign policy.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
America
China
Japan
Panay
Wheeler
Mont
Z. Wetsy
United States
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Landon
Motorist escapes when car door struck during icy road incident
At 10:30 p.m. Wednesday Sylvester Woods, 26, of 97 Thirty-third Avenue SW, narrowly escaped when his car, stalled in the road with the open left door, was struck by Charles Bradis of Hollister California, tearing off the door and bruising Woods’ shoulder. Bradis did not see the open door due to a blanket over Woods’s headlight in the icy conditions.
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Cedar Ratins News
Sylvester Woods
Thirty-third Avenue
Charles Bradis
Hollister
Calif
J Street
Woods
Bradis
Bradys
Charles Gibson
Grande Avenue SE
Lyman Benton
H Avenue
Third Avenue
Second Street
Benton
Gibson
Bennett Denies Labor Board Charges Point By Point
Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, from Dearborn, saysFord will defy a labor board order to stop efforts to deter union growth unless an appeal to federal court succeeds. He vows quick legal steps to overturn the decision as 87,000 workers at River Rouge plant observe holidays and 300 UAWA members march to distribute union material near restricted areas.
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New York
ULP
Hnaarry Hi. Bennett
Ford Motor Company
United Press
Dearborn
Mich
Labor Board
United Automobile Workers of America
Bennett
River Rouge
UAW
Washington
UAWA
Secret fleet moves target mystery fishing vessels
United States authorities launched covert actions off the west coast to seize fishing boats operating under dummy American registry. The first seized vessel, the Nancy Hanks, valued at 25000 dollars, was owned by a Japanese national but sailed under U S registry. Navy patrols at San Diego aided the operation by inspecting crews and papers on boats of all nationalities.
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Los Angeles
CUP
United States
Federal Poverneer
Nancy Hanks
San Diego
Bluejackets
Mexico orders tightening of patrols on Japanese fishing vessels
Official orders issued to Mexican gunboats off Lower California and Sonora to monitor Japanese fishing ships. Hydrographic experts accused of disguising as fishers to take soundings in Mexican harbors. Coast guard vessels told to remain alert to prevent piracy.
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Mexico City
INS
Lower
California
Sonora
Coast Guard
Soviet Ousts Forest Chief and Executes 14
Moscow reports another top Soviet official V I Ivanoff, timber industry commissar, removed for forest production failures. Fourteen more enemies are sentenced to death amid a purge targeting alleged internal foes. Prosecutors denounce Ivanoff as traitor and accuse him of aiding a rightist group linked to foreign fascist agents.
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Moscow
V. I. Ivanoff
Ivanoff
Archangel
Orers
Express agent dies after Christmas rush in Joliet
Edward Neltner a 45 year old express agent in Joliet told clerk Walter Miller he could not cope with the Christmas rush. After leaving the office a shot was heard and Miller found him dead with a pistol by his hand and a wound above the right ear.
Ford denounces NLRB ruling, vows appeal in Wagner Act case
Ford Motor Company issued a strong denial of the National Labor Relations Board ruling accusing it of violating the Wagner Act. Ford attorney Louis J. Colombo called the decision biased and incorrect and said the company will appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals from the River Rouge plant.
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Dearborn
Mich
Ford Motor Company
National Labor Relations Board
Louis J. Colombo
Ford
Colombo
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
William J. Cameron
Henry Ford
River Rouge
Washington
United Automobile Work’ers Union
Committee For Industrial Recitation
Ford Motor Co Hit By NLRB Over Union Busting Claims
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Ford Motor Co violated the Wagner Act and must stop actions to discourage UAW membership at River Rouge Dearborn. The board ordered reinstatement with back pay for 29 workers and barred intimidation, domination of a rival Ford group, and disseminating anti union propaganda.
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Henry Ford
NRA
Supreme Court
Labor Board
Ford Company
UAW
River Rouge
Dearborn
Mich
Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc
Ford
Martin Asks Parley With Bennett Ford Personnel
Homer Martin president of the United Automobile Workers calls for a conference with Harry Bennett at Ford Motor Co in Kansas City to promote industrial peace and labor relations. He denies belief in force and cites Ford's challenge to a Wagner Act ruling.
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Kansas City
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers Union
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Company
Martin
Bennett
National Labor Relations Board
Two Men Burned To Death In Shack Fire In Chicago
Police say two unidentified men died after a fire destroyed a small shack in Chicago. Authorities believe the victims were transients living there temporarily.
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Chicago
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