British police mobilize on record scale to thwart gun powder plot
Britain mobilizes police nationwide to protect royal families and royal palaces amid a vast gun powder plot linked to the Irish Republican Army. Windsor castle and Buckingham Palace receive tight surveillance as explosions and threats prompt closures of Parliament and security overhauls.
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London
Britain
Windsor Castle
Guy Fawkes
Ulster Intelligence Service
Scotland Yard
Buckingham Palace
House of Commons
Bank of England
Windsor
Evening Standard
Evenin Standard
Lor Beaverbrook
Viscount Halifax
Irish Republican Army
Eire
Czechs Lift State of Emergency Ends Feb 28
Prague reports the state of emergency in Czechoslovakia will end February 28 after the September crisis. The government also authorized the sale of surplus armaments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
INS
Czechoslovakia
Mining promoter gets seven years for $500000 fraud
New York Charles V. ob, a mining engineer and promoter, was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy in federal court and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for swindling investors out of nearly $500,000 in gold and silver mine stock sales.
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New York
INS
Charles V. ‘Ob
Public Morality and Private Honor in Wartime Reflections
A reader questions the clash of private virtue and public morality amid wartime lies and conquest. Dr Newton argues nations mislead, yet true justice requires honesty in both private life and public order, warning bandit empires will fail under historic moral law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Padre
Munich
Germany
Biggest Bomber Leads Mercy Flight To Chile From Virginia
A United States Army Boeing B 29 or larger aircraft began a 4400 mile mission from Langley Field Virginia to Chile carrying medical supplies for earthquake victims. Major C V Haynes commanded a crew of five officers and six enlisted men with a plan to fly via Panama Lima and Santiago subject to weather. The flight doubles as training for emergency war conditions.
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Langley Field
U. S. Army
Chile
C. V. Haynes
Panama
Lima
Santiago
South American
Miami
Haynes
Early arriving robins flood Raleigh roost ahead of schedule
The North Carolina Department of Conservation reports 1,500,000 robins have arrived from the south two weeks earlier than last year and have established a roost in Raleigh. This early migration signals an unusually early spring across the region.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Department of Conservation
Sunday Want Ad Seeks Your Listings for Cash
This notice urges readers to place Sunday Want Ads by 8 PM to sell items ranging from furniture to sporting goods and poultry equipment. It offers help from ad takers at 2-1121 and mentions Gazette office staff ready to assist downtown.
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Gazette
Rebels occupy Gerona as Loyalist government flees frontier
Spanish nationalists trap republican forces along the French frontier and the sea, seizing Gerona fifty-two miles northeast of Barcelona. Loyalist leaders evacuate Figueras as the capital shifts and Figueras suffers heavy bombing. Catastrophe threats loom as fronts collapse toward the frontier.
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Perpignan
Gerona
Ter
Barcelona
Figueras
Vich
Seo de Urgel
Catalonia
France
Spain
Accused Bondsman Faces Charges Over Prisoner Cash
Cedar Rapids reports Joseph W. Hammill ran on the farmer labor ticket for justice of the peace. He faced a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses after allegedly taking $10 to post bail that never arrived, with bond set at 500. Police noted prior similar incidents at the city jail.
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Cedar Rapids
Joseph W. Hammill
Seventh Street
Justice of the Peace
Farmer-Labor
Justice Court
Hammill
W. A. Ball
Earl Elliott
Fifth Street
Elliott
Ralf
al Mikota
Blast hurls missile through Tulsa home and devastates room
An isolated nitroglycerin magazine exploded eight miles north of Tulsa on Friday. A large fragment ripped through Gil Walters home, shattering dishes and splintering a bowl where two year old Lenore Walters was eating. No injuries reported.
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Tulsa
Okla
Here
Gil Walters
Lenore Walters
Judge Sailing South Is Ordered Subpoenaed
Federal authorities ordered subtpeonas for U S Judge Edwin S Thomas and for financier Martin T Manton as they investigate the McKesson and Robbins collapse. Thomas refused to leave his South American cruise and must appear before a grand jury in New York.
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U. S
McKesson, Manton
New York
Cristobal
C. C
Edwin S. Thomas
Grace Line
Santa Barbara
McKesson and Robbins
Busi
Washington (Lp
Brien McMahon
Martin T. Manton
Manton
Thomas
Connecticut
Wilson
Duncan Scott
Scott
Thomas J. Spellacy
Hartford
Abraham Weissman
New Haven
McKesson and
Robbins
F. Donald Coster
Philip Musica
Audit Finds $28 000 Save Plan In ECW Fund
Gov. George A. Wilson reviews an audit of the $500 000 emergency conservation works fund. The report proposes $28 000 in savings from Storm Lake dredging and Twin Lakes allocations, cites unexpended balance of $136 863, and notes prior final payments and high project costs since July 1, 1937.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Emergency Conservation Works Fund
Storm Lake
Twin Lakes
Wilson
Nelson G. Kraschel
Gov. Wilson
ECW
Barton Warner Company
Sioux City
Iowa City River
Black Hawk Lake
Okoboji Lakes
State Planning Board
Ledges State Park
Conservation Commission
ECW Fund
Adorer Punches Actress in Eyewr Punch by Pencil Seeks Autograph
An over-enthusiastic admirer punched film actress Rosemary Lane in the eye with a pencil while seeking her autograph in San Diego California Friday night. The blow required two stitches to close the wound.
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San Diego
Calif
Rosemary Lane
Canine Decoy in New Castle Causes Dogcatcher Dilemma
Mayor Charles E. McGrath ordered Dogcatcher Jack Young to leave his dog at home when he’s out dogcatching. Complainants say Young’s police hound lured unwary pups and the dogcatcher used his lasso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Charles E. McGrath
Jack Young
Young
Wilson & Co Ask Ruling On Strike For Closed Shop
Philadelphia AP Wilson and company meat packers seek a federal ruling on the legality of a strike aimed at forcing a closed shop. Former Judge James C. Cooney urged a preliminary injunction to stop AFL unions from picketing the plant and using violence to obtain a closed shop contract. Judge Kirkpatrick reserved decision noting the issue's major importance in labor pressure tactics to coerce employers.
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Philadelphia
Wilson and Company, Meat Packers
William H. Kirkpatrick
James C. Cooney
Chicago
Concern
American Federation of Labor
Kirkpatrick
Reich Eases Up In Anti Jewish Drive
London reporting that Germany will take no further measures against Jews while negotiations by the inter governmental committee for refugees continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reich
London
Germany
Inter-Governmental Committee For Refugees
France Proceeds In U S Plane Program
Washington reports that the French government appears to continue its program of extensive purchases of American made military aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
U.S
Washington
Valley Flood Warnings Spread Across Ohio Valley
The Ohio River flood scare broad and rising as melting snow and rain push levels toward flood stage from Pittsburgh to Cairo. Officials mobilize relief, bridges and roads faced repair, while health authorities urge typhoid shots and volunteers prep.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Monongahela
Allegheny
Mississippi
Ohio
West Virginia
American Legion
Portsmouth
Kentucky
St. Patrick's
Robbery at Chicago Real Estate Office
Three armed men entered Abraham Clenitz's Chicago real estate office demanding money. Clenitz claimed his money was at home while a gunman guarded. The trio then sent two attackers to his house and took $100 from Mrs. Clenitz.
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Chicago
Abraham Clenitz
Clenitz
Michigan State investigates undulant fever outbreak at East Lansing
Health officials at Michigan State University seek the outbreak source after a student dies and 21 others fall ill in East Lansing. Dean Ward Giltner notes the trail centers on a third floor lab housing the fever culture collection, with the basement vaccine factory not implicated.
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East Lansing
Mich
Michigan State College
East Lafising
Dean Ward Giltner
Veterinary Science
I. F. Huddleson
J. Huddleson
Dean Giltner
Huddleson
Don W. Guda
A. Arthur Goldberg
Newark
Robert S. Shaw
German Press Rejects Roosevelt Denial On Rhine Frontiers
German papers led by Lokalanzeiger and the National Zeitung ridiculed Roosevelt's denial of a report that his senate committee remark placed American defensive lines in France. They criticized his handling of the issue and warned that U.S. policy could push Europe toward war. The Volkischer Beobachter echoed a desire for peaceful trade amid criticism of American views.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
Rhine
Lokalanzeiger
Senate
France
Hermann Goering
National Zeitung
Essen
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Europe
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Britain to Buy 250 More U S Airplanes
London reports the air ministry will add 250 war planes to U S orders. Fifty are Lockheed general reconnaissance aircraft and 200 are North American Aviation trainers. The sale, not involving latest fighters, comes as delivery prospects improve on prior U S orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Air Ministry
Great Britain
United States
North American Aviation Company
Washington
Louis Johnson
War Department
Johnson
Extra Week To Learn If Peace Or Slow Fuse
A 1939 USA magazine column notes umbrellas as diplomat standards and jokes about Hoover Chamberlain and cautious habits. It humorously asks if the pause means peace or a slow fuse, promising another week to decide.
Senate faces clash over neutrality act amid foreign policy split
In Washington two rival senatorial blocs form to reshape the neutrality act before its May expiry. Isolationists led by Johnson and Borah push for a strict approach, while administration supporters demand broader presidential powers to respond to a fast changing world. Amid hearings and debates, President Roosevelt travels Feb 15 to observe fleet maneuvers as critics accuse him of misrepresenting remarks on aiding democratic nations.
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Washington
Senate
America
Woodrow Wilson
United States
League of Nations
Roosevelt
Johnson
California
Wilson
Borah
Idaho
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Capital
Rhine
Bridges
N. H
France
Mother And Her 4 Children Die In Fire In Kentucky
Earlington, Ky. AP Mrs Gracie Faulk 25 and her four children aged 5 3 2 and 9 months all ill in bed were burned to death Friday when their home burned. Neighbors heard no outcry and think they were asleep as flames started from a faulty chimney. Father Charles Faulk worked a Barlington mine.
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Earlington, Ky
Gracie Faulk
Kenneth
Helen Joyce
Jimmy Carroll
Beatrice
Charles Faulk
Barlington
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Slough
DR. Newton
Conservation Fund
Wilson & Co
Ask
Waters
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Hoover
Ask Solons
Vanguard
Italy
Rome
Il Popolo di Roma
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