Toledo undertaker to give blood for gravely ill priest
James R Clegg a 58 year old Toledo undertaker will travel to New York to donate blood to Jesuit priest Rev. Jeremiah Twoomey gravely ill from streptococcus viridans. Clegg recovered from the infection in 1935 and has donated blood to others without pay. Doctor Harold Connolly notes Twoomey’s condition remains grave but slightly improved. $100 traveling expenses will be covered.
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New York
INS
Toledo, O
Jeremiah Twoomey
WSPD
Toledo
James R Clegg
Clegg
Father Twoomey
Harold XX Connolly
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Helen
Connolly
Virginia Koerber
Brooklyn
Larry Ruben
Coney Island Hospital
Dunwoodie Seminary
Dropping Bridges to Success in Indecision
Ette Davis shares plain truths on decision making. She argues indecision wastes energy, while acting builds success. She advises trying choices on small matters first, accepting some wrong outcomes to avoid paralysis.
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Ette Davis
Winnipeg Man Plans Vancouver Trek Despite Blizzard
Jean de Vaudreuil, a 71 year old Belgian war veteran missing an arm, vows to walk from Winnipeg to Vancouver despite blizzards and sub zero winds. He says he has roamed the globe and logged 53,677 miles across Europe Asia Australia New Zealand and the Americas.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Jean de Vaudreuil
Vancouver
B. C
Europe
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Americas
They Play Marbles With Cannon Balls In Europe
Cartoon caption style summary describing European tensions as France and Italy clash over a peace treaty. The piece uses a boyhood marbles metaphor to note France resisting Italian actions while planning firm countermeasures.
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Europe
Baer
France
Italy
Germany expands wheat storage amid 1938 crop reserves
Washington reports Germany is rapidly filling wheat bins with home grown grain and imports for storage. The Nazi government builds up large wheat stocks citing future developments. Britain and Italy also amass reserves as global food security interests rise.
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Washington
INS
Germany
Agricultural Department
Great Britain
U. S
Italy
Purse Snatcher Takes $12.50 From Woman
Grace Frost of 420 Sixth Street SE reported a purse snatching on Sixth Street near her home at 1130 PM. The thief took her shopping bag containing a purse and $12.50 in cash. She could not provide a description of the suspect.
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Cedar Rapids
Grace Frost
Sixth Street
Wolves kill four villagers in Romanian Carpathians
A Brusturi village report says wolves, driven by hunger after heavy snow, attacked the village stables and killed four residents in a Carpathian mountains incident.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Brusturi
Carpathian Mountains
Miller to Pick Gunley as Head of Road Patrol
Secretary of State elect Earl G Miller said he will appoint E A Conley as acting chief of the state highway patrol when he takes office next month He plans to appoint Tom Pettit chief later if the legislature leaves the patrol under his office Conley is a Democrat and was among those dismissed after election Bird named securities commissioner in place of Warren MacHenry with MacHenry becoming deputy commissioner Wessels appears to win short term secretaryship as independent against Democrat Robert E OBrien OBrien contest pending tribunal
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Des Moines
Earl G. Miller
E. A Conley
Marshalltown
State Highway Patrol
Miller
Conley
Tom Pettit
Pettit
Davenport
Warren MacHenry
MacHenry
John W. Wessels
Robert E O'Brian
O'Brian
Bird
Internal Revenue
Emily Anderson
Mount Pleasant
Earl R. Stephenson
Donnellson
Margaret Thompson
Lucille Woodward
Sioux City
Hattie E. Ruth
Decorah
Frank Reed
Ottumwa
B. Jeanne Shaw
New Hampton
Josephine Birdsell
Fort Dodge
Velma Porter
Creston
Lloyd Smith
Roland
Esther Williams
Cresco
Clarence Beattie
Adelphi
Rex Holgate
Guy Finch
Newton
Bernstorff in Shock After Col. House Death
Geneva reports Count Johann von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, was stunned by the March death of Col. E. M. House and has remained ill since. He suffered a stroke the day House died, and has not recovered, living in a Geneva nursing home.
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Geneva
Johann von Bernstorff
United States
Col. E. M. House
Woodrow Wilson
Bernstorff
von Bernstorff
United Press
Colonel House
White House Debut of Miss Eleanor Roosevelt Recalled
Washington UPI Miss Eleanor Roosevelt daughter of Hall Roosevelt of Dedham Massachusetts made her White House debut the first since 1910 and 28 years. The East Room ball followed a small dinner with the Roosevelt family and hundreds from Boston New York and Philadelphia. President Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt presided as guests danced the Virginia reel and Eleanor glide. The party included Secretary Wallace and Morgenthau children among official family members with festive Christmas room decorations and gowns described.
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Washington
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hall Roosevelt
Dedham
Mass
White House
Helen Taft
William Howard Taft
Miss Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ther
Alice
Capital Society
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Maynus Chaney
Jean Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Henry
Robert
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Mrs. Roosevelt
Conciliation of Nazis Reported Lithuanian Aim
In Kovno Lithuania Premier Vladas Mironas government reportedly begins a broad policy of conciliation with Nazi Germany. Casimy Enkirpis will open talks with Berlin while Stasys Lozoraitis may travel to Germany for detailed discussions. Lithuania seeks balance with Poland and Russia amid shifting regional power dynamics.
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KOVNO
Lithuania
Vladas Mironas
Germany
Casimy Enkirpis
Stasys Lozoraitis
Berlin
West Virginia
Memel
Poland
Soviet
Russia
Three Injured In Icy Street Accidents Reported
Three people were injured in accidents blamed on icy pavements in the last 24 hours. Ralph Hoskins of Forty-ninth street NE suffered a back injury when thrown from his car in a collision with a machine driven by Frank Sullivan of LaGrange at E avenue and First street NW. His injuries were not believed to be serious. Two boys, Jack and Jerry Lundin aged 12 and 14, sons of H. B. Lundin of Bever avenue SE, suffered minor cuts when their father’s car collided with an auto driven by Allan Ross of Chicago at Bever avenue and Eighteenth street SE at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday.
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Ralph Hoskins
Forty-ninth Street
Frank Sullivan
LaGrange
Hoskins
E Avenue
First Street
Jack
Jerry
H. B. Lundin
Bever Avenue
Allan Ross
Chicago
Eighteenth Street SE
German air mail stationery marked Made in Germany is noted
The Lima Pan American conference reports air mail stationery with a watermark reading Made in Germany. The item was observed in Panama on Wednesday.
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Panama
Lima
Germany
Second Cold Wave Sweeps Toward U S
United Press reports a second Arctic cold wave moving south with forecasts of zero temperatures for the Missouri valley and plains states. Edmonton records 51 below zero while Montana sees the front reach and Toledo averts water shortages as deaths from exposure rise to at least fifteen.
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United Press
Kid Cold
U. S
J R Lloyd
Chicago
Arctic Circle
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Lloyd
Plains States
Missouri Valley
Mississippi River
Toledo
Maumee River
Lake Erie
Most Unpopular Of Senators Kansans Forecast Self
Kansas Senator-elect Clyde Reed predicts he will be the most unpopular senator ever after six years. He plans to be free and independent, work with Republicans but make his own decisions, and criticizes wartime spending while signaling support for some Roosevelt era policies. Reed cites railroad expertise and a history in public regulation.
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Washington
Clyde M. Reed
Kan
Kansas
George McGill
White House
Transportation Division
Post Office Departments
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reed
Congress
French Naval Movements Tighten Tense Mediterranean Climate
Paris dispatch reports the destroyer Epervier sails to join D Iberville at Djibouti amid wider warnings of European arms buildup. Mussolini accelerates Italy's military program while Daladier trims Corsican visit. Paris eyes border demarcation with Ethiopia and troop reinforcements in French Somaliland.
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Paris
Ministry of Colonies
Epervier
D'Iberville
Djibout
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Mussolini
Daladier
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Ethiopia
Cairo
Hubert Dechamps
Halians
Ialy
Somaliland
Italian East Africa
Cantor Compromise on 1933 Income Tax Amount
Eddie Cantor reached a tax settlement with the board of tax appeals agreeing he owed Uncle Sam 3253 dollars for 1933 instead of 15371 dollars as claimed by the Internal Revenue Bureau. The figure was based on Wednesday agreement by Cantor's counsel and the tax board.
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Washington
Eddie Cantor
Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue Bureau
Cantor
Board of Tax Appeals
Roosevelt weighs nonpartisan county relief boards
President Roosevelt considers creating nonpartisan county boards to hear complaints of politics in relief and to review WPA discrimination claims. Boards would be unpaid and handle appeals while federal agencies retain relief administration. Congress would refine details and funding for WPA through July 1.
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Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Congress
White House
United States
Hatch
Byrnes
Adams
Cole Charman
Subcommittee On
Senate Fmd House
Tonsevelt
Journal de Moscou warns Germany over Ukraine moves
The Journal de Moscou declares any attempt by fascist intelligence to advance in Soviet Ukraine will provoke war and a crushing blow to the initiator. The French weekly, reflecting Soviet foreign office views, dismisses German press campaigns on Polish and Ukrainian issues as cover for Western Europe and Mediterranean ambitions. It says Western governments risking Germany's crude maneuvers invite their own trouble, while the Soviet Union remains indifferent to the so called Ukrainian problem.
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Moscow
Journal de Moscou
Soviet Ukraine
Ukraine
Europe
Mediterranean
Germany
Soviet Union
Ballahoo
Fugitives Rounded Up By Minimal Effort At Bethany
In Bethany Missouri a truck driver crashed into a deputy's car and was arrested. A fugitive parked across from the sheriff's office and was recognized and arrested. Two runaway girls from Des Moines Iowa were picked up after attempting a ride with state patrolmen.
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Bethany
Des Moines
Puzzled Kidnaper In Mental Hospital
New York police report Andrew O Rourke a 37 year old WPA worker abducted one month old Julius Witt on Christmas morning. He told Magistrate Abeles he could not explain his actions and was sent to Bellevue hospital for mental observation.
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New York
INS
Julius Witt
Andrew O’rourke
WPA
Abeles
Marvin Lewsman
O'Rourke
Bellevue Hospital
Witness Death Ties Coster Blackmail Scandal to McKesson Robins
Federal authorities report a key witness died under mysterious circumstances just as he was to be taken into custody in the McKesson and Robbins case. Three alleged blackmailers are in custody, with more suspects sought, as details unfold on the pre war fraud and stock schemes surrounding the aging drug firm.
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New York
Donald Coster
McKesson
Neath
Coster
Philip M Musica
Musica
Fivinewil
McKesson and
Robbins
McKesson and Robbins
Certan
Consolidated Investment Corporation
Consolidated
International Vitamin Corporation
Jacob Roggen
Attorney General’s Office
Brooklyn
Adelphi
Walter H. Cragg
Joseph Brandino
Mary Brandino
Brian McMahon
Cragg
Mercury Warmth Returns After 8 Below Midnight
After hitting 8 below at midnight Tuesday the temperature rose with sun. By 7 a.m. it was 4 below and 2:30 p.m. saw 22 above. Tuesday peaked at 1 above between 2 and 4 p.m. and 2 below by 7 p.m. Roads remained icy in extreme eastern Town toward Chicago.
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Chambers Inskeep Company Recorder
Chicago
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