Train HITS auto in First Street NW Cedar Rapids
Rock Island railroad foreman Claus Lueders 54 of 517 Riverside Ave NE was killed when his car failed to clear an eastbound Chicago and North Western train at First Street and Avenue NW Saturday at 1 30 am. Crossing flagman Ed Tubbs stood on the west side and failed to stop the car as it swerved into the locomotive. The train was moving about 18 mph. Lueders died at the scene. funeral arrangements pending.
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Claus Lueders
R Avenue NE
Rock Island Railroad
Chicago and North Western
First Street
Avenue NW
Lueders
B. L. Knight
Luchers
Tubbs
F. A Houseman
E Avenue NE
F. G. Clastman
Clinton
J. D. Hopkins
Hopkins
R. A. Hook
Teahen
United States
Sweden
Camden
S C
Cummings
Christmas Tree Wiring Blamed For House Fire
Fire in Cedar Rapids blamed on defective Christmas tree lights. James Hadad home at 029 Eighth Avenue SE suffered damage about 1000 dollars after fire gutted the front room and caused smoke in the rest. A bus passenger alerted by pulling a fire alarm at 9 53 p m. Fire engines from stations 4 6 and a ladder company responded and limited the blaze within 37 minutes. Insurance covered the loss.
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James Hadad
Eighth Avenue SE
Hadad
Cedar Rapids Temps See Wide Swing After Snow Flurries
Temperatures in Cedar Rapids rose from a frigid 6 degrees at dawn to 18 by noon as the sky cleared after morning snow flurries. By afternoon readings dipped to 15, with earlier highs around 23 and evening lows near 12 as the day progressed.
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Cedae Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Edison Named Navy Secretary by White House
The White House announced Charles Edison will be nominated as secretary of the navy. Edison, son of Thomas Edison, has served as acting secretary since the death of Claude A. Swanson, ahead of Congress convening next week.
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Washington
White House
Charles Edison
Navy
Roosevelt
Senate
Congress
Edison
Thomas Edison
Claude A. Swanson
Reich Faces Decisive Year As Hitler Sets War Aim
Berlin reports Hitler declares 1939 a year of testing for the German armed forces and predicts a hard battle ahead for the nation's existence. He praises rapid gains in the east after Poland and calls for victory with the people’s confidence. He also says Europe must be freed from England’s threat.
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Berlin
Germany
Reich
Poland
Hitler
Europe
England
Finnish ski patrols sever Russian rail link in Karelia
Report from Helsinki says Finnish ski patrols 50 miles inside Russia severed the Leningrad Murmansk railway. The era's first major battle appeared imminent as Red troops replaced conscripts under heavy artillery while mutinous units faced Soviet counters.
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London
INS
Leningrad
Murmansk
Reuter
Helsinki
Finland
Karelian
Mannerheim
Russia
K. A. Meretskoff
Democrats Invite GOP Leaders To Jackson Day Dinner
Washington The Democratic Party invited Senate Republican Leader Charles L. McNary War ren R. Austin and House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr to attend the Jackson Day dinner at the Mayflower hotel on Jan 8 1940. President Roosevelt’s speech was promised to be non-partisan as Democrats seek to fund the 1940 campaign.
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Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Homer S. Cummings
District of Columbia
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Warren R. Austin
Vermont
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Cummings
Mayflower
Hopkins Says Ud. Promise 5 Unlimited' Hopkins Says Ud. Promise 5
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins called on business labor and government to fulfill America's unlimited promise. He urged price policy readjustment, restraint on wage growth, and government action to prevent economic downturns. He argued home market growth is limitless and noted housing and electric rate reforms could unlock vast investment opportunities.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
America
Congress
Hopkins
Deny Vote To Old Folk In Second Infancy
PHILADELPHIA UP Dr Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins proposes a voters age limit beyond which people are too foolish to vote. He cites “second childhood” of the very old and warns of economic and political shifts from aging populations during a speech at the American Statistical Association. He notes workers per 1000 have fewer dependents now than in 1840 and contrasts Allied and German birth forces in war prep.
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Philadelphia
Raymond Pear
Johns Hopkins University
American Statistical Society
Dr. Pearl
Germany
Austria
England
France
America a City Upon a Hill in a New World Mission
The piece recalls Hegel’s exclusion of America from history and argues America must spur a fresh start. It cites John Winthrop’s city upon a hill vision and warns that failing to provide an economic and spiritual basis for liberty and law would imperil humanity and the race.
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G. W. F. Hegel
Germany
America
Europe
Hegel
John Winthrop
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
British battleship torpedoed reaches harbor safely
London dispatch says a British battleship torpedoed by a German submarine Thursday arrived under her own power at a British harbor with repairs needed and a noted loss of four lives.
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London
INS
Admiralty
Gunman Held Up Miller for 218 Dollars in Car Sheds
A masked gunman forced M J Miller of Wilder Grain at 501 Twelfth Ave SE to hand over 218 dollars in bills at 5 25 p m on a Friday. Miller described the assailant as about 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, likely familiar with his habits. The stickup occurred in a dark car shed near a train switching area and the thief fled toward Fourth Street.
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M. J Miler
Wilder Grain Company
Twelfth Avenue SE
Miller
Ellis Boulevard
Fourth Street
Twelfth and
Fourteenth Avenues SE
Estonia protests to Finns on raid
The Estonian government protested to Finland accusing Finnish planes of violating neutral Estonian territory by bombing the Vaindlo island raid aimed at the Soviet base there.
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Viipuri
Finland
Murmansk
Copenhagen
Salla
Kemijarvi
Estonia
Tallinn
INS
Vaindlo
Terrible Thirties Gave Us A Thirty Deal
A humorous verse by Arthur Bugs Baer reflecting on Prohibition era excess and social quirks. The piece riffs on widespread drinking, political claims, and the era’s end, with playful jokes about thirty and a nod to Republican viewpoints.
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Bugs
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Crash Results In Speed Arrest In Cedar Rapids
J H Bailey 45 of 2000 Park avenue SE was charged with speeding after his car struck Robert Reasland’s parked vehicle at 2117 Mount Vernon avenue SE. Bailey sustained facial injuries, admitted traveling 30 to 40 mph after drinking with friends. Bailey fined $10 and costs. Reasland ordered to report to the highway patrol for driving without a license.
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Cedar Ranlds News
Mount Vernon Avenue
J. H. Bailey
Park Avenue SE
Bailey
Robert Reasland
Second Street
Reasland
Highway Patrol
Executed By Man Who Led List He Marked For Death
AYEGATE Mont AP Sheriff E L Dolve led a list of 16 persons marked for death by Lee Simpson a 51 year old rancher. Simpson was hanged after he killed Deputy Sheriff Arthur Burford in a gun battle at the Golden Valley county ranch on April 14 1938. Dolve and the sheriff had gone to investigate the disappearance of two ranch hands whom Simpson admitted killing. The two ranch hands were on the list but Burford was not.
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Ayegate
Mont
E. L. Dolve
Lee Simpson
Simpson
Arthur Burford
Golden Valley
Burford
Dolve
Five Engineers Are Charged Over City Train Speed
In Wichita Kansas warrants were issued charging five engineers with exceeding the city's 15 mile per hour train speed limit after the worst grade crossing crash, in which a woman and her children died. Police Chief LeRoy Bowery said four trains were clocked between 42 and 68 mph, and Roy C Crandall was connected to the fatal incident.
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Wichita. Kan (Ap
Wichita
LeRoy Bowery
Roy C Crandall
Al Smith backs seven Democrats for nomination
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith on his sixty sixth birthday voiced opposition to a Roosevelt third term and named seven possible Democratic presidential candidates: Garner, Byrd, Ely, Bailey, Wheeler, Willkie, and Young. He criticized the New Deal and indicated he might not run or be a delegate in 1940, saying he would wait to see how events unfold.
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New York
INS
Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
John N Garner
Texas
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Joseph Bailey
North Carolina
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Wendell Willkie
The
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Owen D. Young
Smith
America
Labor Chief Bridges Escapes Deportation Ruling
A federal hearing report finds CIO leader Harry Bridges energetically radical but not a member or affiliate of the Communist party. Secretary Perkins weighs Bridges’s deportation status as Landis criticizes witness credibility and notes Bridges’ ties to communists while endorsing democratic methods.
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Perkins
Harry
Communist Party
Washington
Harry Bridges
CIO
Australia
Frances Perskins
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Bridges
Landis
Labor Department
Miss Perkins
West Coast
Federal Judge Denies Quash on 75 Tile Setters Subpoenas
Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe denied a motion to quash 75 subpoenas aimed at Tile Setters' union members as part of the government investigation of the building industry.
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Chicago
Michael L. Igoe
Tile Sayers’ Union
Want Ads Invite Listings In The Sunday Gazette
For a more prosperous new year the Gazette urges readers to place want ads before 8 o clock tonight. Sell skates retired clothing home furnishings radios guns rent spare rooms or vacant apartments by dialing 2 1121. The notice promotes revenue from classified advertising.
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Gazette
Sunday Gazette
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