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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 24, 1939

Page

10

Beauty Winner and Husband Held Over Cashing Bad Checks

Hollywood police accuse auburn tailed beauty Jette White and her husband Jack Melvin of cashing about 2500 dollars in bad checks after Christmas shopping. White had claimed the title Miss Million Dollar Legs in a Palm Springs contest last year under the Eve Carlton identity.

Hollywood INS Jette White Miss White Jack Melvin Eve Carlton Palm Springs

Norris Doubtful New World Has Right To Set Up Safety Zone

Senator George W Norris of Nebraska questioned the Pan-American safety zone, arguing no nation has authority to ban belligerent acts hundreds of miles offshore. He noted three miles as traditional, but weapons now reach well beyond that distance.

Bill Kelly St. Paul's Methodist Church Kelly Cedar Rapids Norris New World Washington George W. Norris Neb United States

City and World Briefs From The Week In Review

The document notes voters faces a choice over Italy or Germany for postwar alignment, US Christmas sales rose 10 percent from 1938, Heywood Broun dies of pneumonia, CIO reforms discussed by the labor board, University of Chicago withdraws from Big Ten football after a bad season, 136 dead and 100 injured in a German train wreck, Winnie Ruth Judd returns to an Arizona hospital after her second escape, Cedar Rapids records a 4 degree above zero start to winter.

United States New York City Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun National Labor Relations Board University of Chicago Winnie Ruth Judd Arizona Cedar Rapids

Britain to Release Officials Held in Germany

British consular officials and their families, detained in Germany since the outbreak of war, are being released, according to authoritative informants. The British embassy staff had left Berlin at the war's beginning.

London Germany Berlin

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