Cold Wave To Bring General Snow Across Iowa Area
Frigid northwest winds from Canada push a broad winter storm into Iowa with snow general across the state. Temperatures fall to 10 below zero in the north and near zero in the southwest by Monday night as winds rise to 38 mph at Sioux City and 32 mph at Council Bluffs.
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Des Moines
INS
Canada
Iowa
Federal Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Towa
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Prospect
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Plains
J. R. Lloyd
Missouri
Ohio
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Mackenzie Basin
Lloyd
Northwest
Murphy calls cabinet rumor about future post mere gossip
Detroit AP report says Gov Frank Murphy dismissed talk he would become attorney general of the United States as speculation and not based on facts he knows. He left a Christmas gathering saying he has not been approached for the job.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
Mercury Rises As Snow Falls In Cedar Rapids
Early Monday Cedar Rapids saw rising temperatures despite forecasts of colder weather. The thermometer climbed from 19 at 8 a.m. Sunday to 32 by 9:30 a.m. Monday as snow began, with Sunday peak temperatures at 26 from noon to midnight.
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Cedar
Rapide News
Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Humility Through Growth and Self Knowledge
A traveler recalls a host who links humility to continuous learning. The discussion covers pride, the Divine standard, Cromwell, Keats, and Carlyle, concluding that humility is seeing one’s distance from heaven and striving to be our best without boastfulness.
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Paderewski
Telstoi
Cromwell
Carlyle
Keats
Governor Earle In Plane Crash Near Norristown
Gov George Earle wife and two guests injured when plane nosed over on landing at Wingsfield Norristown. Earle and wife treated for knee hurt. two guests James McKenzie Jr and Dixie Moore hospitalized with more serious injuries. Plane overturned after undercarriage wheel broke in soft field landing.
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Haverford
INS
George H. Earle
Wingsfield
Norristown
Philadelphia
James A. McKenzie, Jr
Dixie Moore
Washington
Riverview Hospital
Harrisburg
Earle
Bryn Mawr Hospital
McKenzie
Moore
Newton Square
State Aeronautical Commission
Santa Robs Dover Store in Whimsical Heist
A six foot Santa Claus wearing whiskers entered A. B. Sykes variety store in Dover New Hampshire on Sunday and asked for a list of needy families. He struck the grocer with a tonic bottle when bending to write names, stole $150 from the cash drawer and fled the scene.
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Dover
N. H
Santa Claus
A. B. Sykes
Sykes
Santa
Eccles Denies Spending Peril To 0 5 Credit
Washington reports Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board rebutting Senator Harry Byrd’s anxiety over deficits. In a letter, Eccles defends government credit amid New Deal spending, rebuking Byrd’s stance and warning of economic setback from rapid cuts.
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Washington
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Harry F. Byrd
Eccles
Senate
Byrd
Boston
Mass
Confession Tied to Minneapolis Murder in Spokane
Spokane AP report says James Lee Smith confessed to the Laura Kruse killing in Minneapolis two years earlier. Deputy prosecutor Les Carroll and Detective Markwood ruled the confession genuine after questioning. Smith, 40, is jailed on drunkenness charges after giving details while intoxicated.
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Spokane
Wash
Les Carroll
Lee Markwood
James Lee Smith
Laura Kruse
Minneapolis
Smith
Minnesota
Carroll
Markwood
Deny Sabotage In Army Bomber Crash Report
Montgomery officials said U S army investigators found no sabotage in a large bomber crash that killed seven servicemen. An Army inquiry continued as officials emphasized the incident was an accident and not a deliberate act.
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Montgomery, Ala
INS
Christmas Baby Kidnapping Ends With Safe Return
In New York on Christmas morning a 29 day old infant, Julius Witt, was reported missing from his crib. Police arrested Andrew O Rourke 37 after detectives found him entering a taxi with the crying baby. O Rourke is charged with kidnapping and held on bail.
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New York
INS
Tillie Witt
Griffiths
O'Connor
Julius
Simpson Street
O’rourke
Slain In Theft To Get Money For Daughter
In Los Angeles on Christmas Eve two men fled a laundry robbery after taking $35. One man Leo Fisher 39 was killed and Wharton Carsley 31 wounded in the escape. A letter from Fisher’s daughter Betty Jean Fisher Kansas City requested $50 train fare clothes and other items, suggesting the motive was money for his child. Police identified the dead man and described the wounded suspect as seriously injured.
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Los Angeles
Leo Fisher
Wharton Carsley
W. H. Zarsky
Fisher
Betty Jean Fisher
Kansas City
Daddy
Wheeler Warns Hysteria Pushes U.S. Toward War Brink
Washington senator and chair of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee decries a wave of hysteria sweeping the nation. He criticizes broadcaster Neville Miller for opposing programs inciting hatred and defends free speech amid calls that could edge the country toward war with Germany.
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Washington
LLP
Wheeler
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
United States
Neville Miller
National Association of Broadcasters
Miller
Montana
Father Coughlin
Coughlin
Germany
Christmas Greeting Saves Lives At Kansas City Reunion
KANSAS CITY Kansas AP timely arrival of a telegraphed Christmas greeting saved 14 persons from asphyxiation at a family reunion. The messenger warned of a burning smell and Gaston rushed relatives to the yard. He and Forest V Atwood found an open gas burner in the basement.
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Kansas City
Kan
Claude Gaston
Gaston
Forest V. Atwood
Income gains show broad recovery in November
The Commerce Department reports November income payments rose for the sixth straight month with an index at 85.0 of the 1929 average, about two percent below November 1937. Total income for January–November reached 58.24 billion dollars, with projections near 65 billion for the year.
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Washington
Robert Nathan
Commerce Department
Nathan
Publisher Invites Striking Workers To Christmas Party
Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader publisher Col. Ernest G. Smith invited striking employees to attend the annual Christmas party, held in the news room, while the strike by the American Newspaper Guild continued. Stanley Kupstas, guild president, was also invited but could not attend.
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Wilkes-Barre
INS
Wilkes- Barre
Times-Leader
Ernest G. Smith
Times- Leader
Colonel Smith
Stanley Kupstas
American Newspaper Guild
Peruvian Plans Tour From Rochester With Family
Manuel Mujica Carassa a 62 year old Peruvian mining magnate convalescing after surgery was to depart Rochester Minnesota with his wife and two sons for a cross country tour of the United States.
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Rochester, Minn
Manuel Mujica Carassa
United States
Politics Now Big Factor In World Trading
Washington AP reports that foreign trade experts say political factors now dominate global markets for surplus farm products. Germany subsidizes wheat to cut imports, boosting domestic prices, while cotton markets shift to synthetic fibers. US exports of surplus wheat incur losses near 20 cents per bushel.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Germany
Italy
Economists Urge Roosevelt to Preserve WPA Funds
Sixty nine university economists urged President Roosevelt to oppose cuts in WPA rolls. They warned reductions would push millions into destitution during winter and threaten the economic recovery by reducing direct wage payments and related expenditures. Signers included Paul H. Douglas Harvard S. E. Harris Columbia Arthur R. Burns Stanford and others.
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Cambridge
Mass
Roosevelt
Paul H. Douglas
University of Chicago
Harold Hotelling
Arthur R. Burns
Columbia
S. E. Harris
Harvard
T. J. Kreps
Stanford
Colston Warne
Amherst
Robert R. Brooks
Williams
Decline in Women Legislators Prompt Call to Action
The National League of Women Voters reports a decade drop from 150 women in 38 state legislatures in 1929 to 127 in 27 legislatures in 1939 and congress seats fall from 9 to 5. President Marguerite M. Wells urges greater female participation in government.
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Washington
INS
Congress
National League of Women Voters
League
Marguerite M. Wells
Czech writer Karel Capek Dies at 48
Prague report confirms Czech author Karel Capek, who coined the word robot and wrote R. U. R. a satire on machines, died Monday at age 48. Capek, one of Czechoslovakia’s best known writers, gained world fame for his 1922 stage work produced in New York.
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Prague
INS
Karel Capek
Czechoslovakia
New York
Good Will In Class Contacts Is F D R Plea
Roosevelt urges class problems settled in goodwill in a radio forum read by Secretary Hopkins. He cites the Bethlehem Christmas message of peace for all, with speakers from Supreme Court, labor and industry urging cooperation and fair play to remove friction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
United States
Shepherds of Bethlehem
America
Hopkins
The
United States News
Supreme Court
Stanley Reed
William B Bankhead
Robert A. Taft
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Charles R. Hook
National Association of Manufacturers
Harold W. Dodds
Princeton University
David Lawrence
Establish Martial Law At Strikebound Oklahoma Refinery
Santa Claus in khaki sent nearly 300 workers home for Christmas weekend at the strikebound West Tulsa refinery of Mid-Continent Petroleum. Five national guards units set a martial law zone around the plant after pickets blocked a food truck. an office employee remained inside since the strike began last Thursday as pickets continued outside the zone with no disorder.
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Tulsa
Okla
INS
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Holiday fatality toll reaches 344 this Christmas
The Associated Press reports 344 people died across the nation during the Christmas holiday period, with 263 of those deaths from traffic incidents. Texas saw 27 fatalities, New York 25, Pennsylvania 26, California 22, and Ohio 20, while nine states and D C reported no deaths.
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Associated Press
Texas
New York State
New York City
Pennsylvania
California
Ohio
District of Columbia
Baer Wishes A Happy Old Year In Light of Recession
ARTHUR Bugs Baer urges readers to end the year strong as Christmas and New Year approach. He notes optimism despite a stumble into recession and hints that better times may lie ahead for 1938.
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Baer
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Courage on the Bridge as Freighter sinks off New York
Svanhilde Larsen an 18 year old flaxen haired singer on the Norwegian freighter Smaragd kept up sailors' courage during a gale and 40 foot swells in the Atlantic. The ship foundered 500 miles southeast of New York and survivors were rescued by the Schodack near the Battery. She sang to steady the crew as jumps into lifeboats were made and a dog and a puppy survived with the crew.
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New York
Atlantic
Svanhilde Larsen
Bernard Walde Larsen
Swanhilde
Smaragd
New York’s Battery
Schodack
Ingwald Tindelund
Tindelund
Miss Larsen
Carl Bentsen
The
Larsens
Nelly
Mickey
Truck Driver Hits Locomotive In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids man M Wright, 38, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his truck collided with the side of a railroad engine on North Western tracks crossing First Avenue West. He drove past two stopped cars and crashed into engine No. 12 piloted by Durlan. Wright was uninjured. Police noted his liquor permit book showed purchases of three bottles on Saturday and 203 bottles since July 1.
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Cedar Rapids News—Co
M. Wright
D Avenue NW
North Western
First Avesnue
Wright
Durlan
Roosevelt branded as charlatan by fascist journalist
CREMONA Italy UP Farinacci in the Regime Fascista calls Faye Roosevelt a charlatan reflecting Italian public view. He attacks the American president amid German papers' strikes on U.S. officials opposing totalitarianism. Cardinal Mundelein notes Italian sympathy for Roosevelt in New York.
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Cremona
Italy
Robert Farinacci
Fascista
Faye Roosevelt
Cardinal Mundelein
New York
United States
Roosevelt
Vatican City
Soo Freight Volume Falls 54 Percent at Soo Locks
The Soo locks reported freight handled this year dropped 54 percent from 1937, reaching the lowest annual total since 1932, per the Monday summary from Sault Ste. Marie.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Soo Locks
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