Rumors of U S Budget Gap and International Tensions
The article notes an expected federal revenue of about 5.665 billion for the current year but warns actual spending exceeds receipts. It cites WPA funding debates, unknown treasury expenditures, and calls for accountability, alongside international coverage from William Shirer on Germany and broader social issues including traffic-related crimes and a Seattle kidnapping case details.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Harry Hopkins
Treasury
Kidnapping of Tacoma Doctor’s Son Demands $28,000
Police said Charles Mattson, 10, son of a prominent Tacoma surgeon, was kidnapped from home. The ransom note, left with the boy, demanded $28,000 for his safe return and bore the kidnapper’s fingerprints.
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Tacoma
Wash
INS
W. W. Mattson
Charles
George Weyerhauser
Dr. Mattson
Seattle
Mattson
Puget Sound
Sound
Charles Mattson
Traffic Logjam on Fourth Street Needs Action
City and county law enforcement are urged to curb repeated traffic blockages at Fourth street. A recent Saturday near 6 p m saw a long freight train halt traffic across Second Third and Fifth avenues. Call for mandatory railroad cooperation and possible arrests to ensure the rails clear the business district.
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Fourth Street
Second
Third
Fifth Avenues
Senator Vandenberg Pitches Cash and Carry Neutrality Plan
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan argues neutrality should bar loans credits and munitions to belligerents and require cash and carry for non prohibited trade. He says the policy may hurt cash registers but protects American sons and aligns trade with peace. He notes dangers of belligerents pulling the United States into war despite neutrality law.
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Vandenberg
Michigan
Sam
Gas Main Explosion Feared Fatalities In Varese Street
A gas main exploded under a crowded street in Varese Italy. Many were believed killed and wounded as blast shatters windows and hurled pavement. The blast was heard for miles and struck bystanders.
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Varese
Italy
Sentenced To Adventure Serge Zola Biography
A vivid profile of Serge Zola a Russian refugee whose life reads like a series of adventures He fled Russia joined the Hudson Bay Company served as a policeman became a smuggler sailed the South Seas and worked as a reporter The piece argues life itself is an adventure depending on attitude and perception and cites Chesterton and the Prodigal Son to reinforce the idea
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Serge Zola
Russia
Hudson Bay Company
Canada
America
South Seas
DR. Newton
Amy Micollison
Montreal
Gilbert Chesterton
Jesus
Two Minn. Teens Arrested in Cedar Rapids Trailer Theft
Clarence Wolff 22 of Olivia and Fred Hansen 17 of Bemidji were arrested on First Street SW driving a Chevrolet pulling a house trailer reported stolen from Keokuk. The trailer belonged to Tench Gammon of Keokuk who, with Keokuk police, recovered it and returned the pair.
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Cedar Rapids
Tench Gammon
Grande Avenue
Keokuk
Gammon
E. C. McPherson
Wolff
Earl Stanley
Minnesota
McPherson
Hansen
Hansen and Wolff
Los Angeles
Administration studies federal labor standards expansion
The Roosevelt administration weighs state led labor standards to avoid a new NRA. Congress faces session start as Democrats expect the President to outline broad plans on employment and purchasing power. Some favor federal reach only where interstate or national issues arise.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
NRA
White House
O’mahoney
Wyo
Securities Commission
Roper
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Temperatures Ease Into Seasonal Readings in Cedar Rapids
Overnight and Sunday temperatures fell from 53 at midnight Saturday to 27 by Sunday night, then rose to 28 by 9 am Monday under cloudy skies. The cool spell marked a deflating weekend as Cedar Rapids residents tracked shifting readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Body found on peak after hanging by rope hill climber
William Christie 25-year-old climber perished when he fell from a 3000-foot peak in Glencoe Scotland. Five rescuers braved danger to recover the body after more than 24 hours suspended head downside. Doctors deemed the death likely instantaneous on impact.
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Glencoe
Argyllshire
Scotland
William Christie
WPA Worker Drowns At Palisades Dam
Clifton Cavanaugh a 32 year old WPA worker drowned when a ladder across the Palisades dam spillway fell into the swift current. His body was recovered about two hours later in five feet of water. Coroner Dr B L Knight said no inquest. Survived by wife Nellie five children and several siblings. Funeral arrangements pending at Solon.
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Clifton Cavanaugh
Ely
WPA
Palisades
Cavanaugh
Ivanhoe Bridge
James H. Smith
B. L. Knight
Dick Payn
Larry
Nellie
Clifton, Jr
Ralph
James B
Inez May
Yvonne Marie
LaVada
John Schmidt
Earl Stahie
Solon
Wilma Ormsby
Story City
William Cavanaugh
Muskegon
Frank A. Brosh
Board May Approve Iowa Security Law At Tuesday Meeting
The social security board said the Iowa and South Dakota unemployment insurance laws will likely be approved at a board meeting on Tuesday. The measures passed in special sessions and align in major respects with model bills. Governor Clyde L. Herring and the Iowa senator-elect were expected to push for early approval ahead of the December 31 deadline.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Iowa
South Dakota
Clyde L. Herring
Poor Fish Peddler Leaves $100000 Estate
New York police said 70 year old Christopher Hassett died on Christmas Eve after three years in a $2 weekly room leaving about $100000 in cash. Police seek relatives. His landlady noted he peddled fish twice a week and had no visitors.
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New York
Christopher Hassett
Hassett
Leaps To Death With Pet Terrier
Mrs Vivian Smith 39 leaped from the Castle hotel fifth story window in Omaha while holding her pet terrier. The death occurred early Monday and was reported by the press.
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Omaha
INS
Vivian Smith
Castle Hotel
Hitler ready to aid Spanish armistice efforts with Britain and France
Berlin reports Chancellor Hitler is willing to cooperate with Britain and France to seek an armistice in Spain and resolve the volunteers issue if London and Paris guarantee end of Soviet intervention. Germany rejects pressure while diplomatically preparing for negotiations amid fears of broader war.
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Mary
France
England
Russia
Germany
Derfuehrer
Spain
William Shirer
Cedar Rapids
Universal Service
Berlin
INS
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
London
Paris
Britain
Palos
Europe
Reich
Iberian Peninsula
Bilbao
Hitler
Italy Suspends Volunteers to Spain in Civil War Talks
Italy has halted shipments of volunteers to Spain amid negotiations for a general pact to bar dispatch of men to either side of the civil war. Government sources say Count Rossi, commander of Italian contigents in the Balearic Islands, has returned for Christmas and his whereabouts are unclear.
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Rome
Italy
Spain
Count Rossi
Balearic Islands
Collision After Driver Swerves To Miss Dog Injures Six
A rear line of traffic avoidance to miss a dog led to a head on crash twelve miles north of Mount Pleasant at 1 p.m. Sunday. In the wreck Glen Lewis of Selma and Ira Lewis were among the drivers. six people, including Mary Alice Forsythe and Eldridge Calhoun, were injured and hospitalized at Memorial hospital in Mount Pleasant.
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Mount Pleasant
Mary Alice Forsythe
Eighteenth Avenue
Eldridge Calhoun
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Calhoun
Glen Lewis
Selma
Forsythe
Memorial Hospital
Lewis
Gordon Hughes
Medar Rapids
Ira Lewis
Glen
James Lewis
Leon Hennessee
New London
Woman Held In Death Of Wet Found On Track
Fresno detectives detained a woman as a material witness in the death of Emory Parr 38 a World War veteran found on a railroad right of way. A note alleged Carmain Switzer’s responsibility and Parr may have been killed before being placed on the track. Thelma Switzer used multiple names and gave conflicting statements.autopsy indicated death by foul play and partial scalping. The investigation linked a blood stained hatchet to the crime.
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Fresno
Calif
C. A. Tarr
Emory Parr
Carmain Switzer
Parr
P. S. Lindsey
Thelma Switzer
Tarr
Carmel
Carmel Molino
Thelma Williamson
Thelma de Lima
Lindsey
Charles Nixon
Bernard
Jack” Smith
Los Angeles
Woman Injured In Cedar Rapids Hit and Run
Mrs. Ruby Sawyer 31 of 896 Twelfth Street NE sustained a side injury when the car she rode in overturned after a rear hit and run struck it at 6 30 p m in front of 2103 Johnson Avenue NW Darrel Sawyer 31 of the same address drove west on Johnson and signaled to turn left when a Missouri license plate car bearing 344 862 approached One plate dropped off Belle Plaine and Vinton authorities were asked to watch for the Missouri car Mrs Sawyer was taken to a physician.
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Ruby Sawyer
Twelfth Street
Darrel Sawyer
Johnson Avenue NW
Sawyer
Johnson Avenue
Missouri
Belle Plaine
Vinton
Roosevelt to Read His Message January 6
President Roosevelt will deliver his annual message in person to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday January 6. House Speaker William Bankhead announced the mid afternoon address after electoral college ratification, marking the first time a president appears in person before inauguration due to the Norris lame duck amendment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
William Bankhead
Bankhead
House
Houses
Senate
Boy Strangled By Tail Of A Horse
Ten year old Douglas Hopper died at Toys Hill in Sun day county Ontario after a horse tail tightened around his throat. The coroner ruled the death accidental with the horse’s tail forming a noose. the father found the boy hanging.
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Winchester
Ont
Douglas Hopper
Toys Hill
Sunday County
Ontario
Disappointment Ends Father During Spelling Contest
In New York Morris Fenyes, 34, collapsed and died after his daughter Edith, 10, struggled through a spelling round in a $5 contest. The announcer halted as Fenyes clutched his side and died at the scene.
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New York
Morris Fenyes
Edith
Fenyes
Believed All 12 Aboard Die In Liner Crash
A United Air Lines transport with nine passengers and three crew crashed two miles east of Saugus. Pilot Ed Blom was attempting an emergency landing when the wreckage occurred. All 12 aboard were believed dead, with four nurses and two physicians dispatched to assist. Names listed include Edwin W. Lom and Robert McLean among others.
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Los Angeles
INS
Saugus
United Air Lines
Sheriff's Office
San Francisco
Union Air
Ed Blom
Union Air Terminal
R. E. Dickensen
Santa Paula
J. M. Dickensen
J. M. Dickenson
Orv Mohler
University of Southern California
National Guard
Mohler
Frank Nance
Los Angeles County
Detroit nurse engaged to Michigan graduate pilot missing plane
Yvonne Trego 24, a stewardess aboard United Air Lines transport plane missing on the Pacific coast, is from Hastings Michigan. She is a graduate nurse from Buttersworth hospital in Grand Rapids and engaged to Detroit resident Charles D. Kelly, 22, University of Michigan graduate.
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Detroit
Yvonne Trego
United Air Lines
Pacific Coast
Fred Trego
Hastings
Mich
Buttersworth Hospital
Grand Rapids
Miss Trego
Charles D. Kelly
Kelly
University of Michigan
Spokane pilots' bodies returned from crash site
The canvas-wrapped remains of Northwest Airlines pilots Joe LiverMore of Spokane and A A Hard of Seattle, killed in the December 18 crash, were being returned to Spokane on Monday from the Sea of Early Creek in the Idaho panhandle.
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Spokane
Wash
Joe Livermore
A. A. Hard
Seattle
Northwest Airlines
Sea of Early Creek
Idaho Panhandle
Desperate search for missing Western Express plane
In Salt Lake City a small group of searchers trudged through deep snow drifts looking for the Western Air Express plane with seven aboard. The effort, born of sheer desperation, continued Monday as the hunt stretched on.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Ins
Western Air Express
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