Hitler Holds All Armed Forces Command As Shakeup Deepens
Reichsführer Hitler summons all generals to the presidential palace and declares the army’s primary duty is defense of the Reich. A broad purge across the army air force foreign office and diplomacy follows with retirements and reshuffles signaling tighter Nazi control and possible economic moves.
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Hitler
Reich
Berlin
INS
Foreign Office
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Army
Air Force
Karl von Jarwitz
Ministry of Economics
Werner von Blomberg
Werner von Fritsch
Fritsch
Baron Blomberg
Cabinet Ministers Meet Over European Crisis
Britain’s key cabinet ministers were hurriedly summoned to the foreign office to discuss the rapidly changing European situation caused by Germany’s drastic government shakeup and the new outbreak of Mediterranean piracy.
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London
Britain
Foreign Office
Germany
Premier Massy Jim Congratulates Reichsfuehrer Hitler
Rome dispatch reports Premier Massy Jim telegraphed congratulations to Adolf Hitler on his assumption of supreme command. The message signals official recognition from Italy amid shifting wartime alignments.
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Rome
Ins
Massy
Jim
Book Keepers and Borrowers In Moral Ledger Reflections
A reflective essay contrasts two kinds of book keepers: those who balance records and those who borrow and mislay books. It lorefully cites Sir Walter Scott and John Wesley notices as examples, notes human error in keeping personal ledgers, and ends with the idea that God holds the final balance when books are opened.
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Heaven
Walter Scott
John Wesley
Georgia
Savannah
England
Thornton Wilder
God
Detective Bandit Gunfight Toll 153 in Columbus Shootout
Detective Robert R. Cline died from abdomen wounds after a 15 minute gun battle with four bandits suspected in two bank robberies within 48 hours. Two suspects, Vincent Grinkowitz and an unnamed man called Mac, were killed. the other two Cleveland men Tony Ambers and Stephen Figuli were captured or charged. Detective William J. Danner was wounded but to survive, and Detective Leo Phillips was treated and released. The gang allegedly robbed the Hilltop Ohio National Bank of 3500 and the Lorain Street bank of Cleveland for 5000. Ambers also used the alias Carl Boettcher.
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Columbus, CO
INS
Robert R. Cline
Vincent Grinkowitz
Cleveland
Mac
Tony Ambers
Stephen Figuli
William J. Danner
West Side
Mount Carmel Hospital
Leo Phillips
Hilltop
Ohio National Bank
Robert Cooke
Bertie Fisk
Figuli
Lorain Street
Ambers
Carl Boettcher
Interstate tariff decision blocks coal rate suspensions
Washington AP reports the Interstate Commerce Commission voted not to suspend tariffs that raise freight rates on coal from southwestern states to Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska, allowing the higher charges to stand for those routes.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Reputed Jap Plot to Seize Canton Foiled in 700 Arrests
Reports from Canton under martial law detailed a roundup arresting about 700 Japanese agents. A Japanese backed administration on several offshore islands was also alleged. Police raided a pawn shop headquarters with a wireless station as planes circled Canton waiting for a coup signal.
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Hong Kong
Kwangtung
Canton
South China Province
Japan
Li Sze- Hao
Peking
Ford Co Coerced Workers at Somerville Plant, NLRB Finds
An NLRB trial examiner's findings allege Ford Motor Co interfered with, restrained, and coerced employees at the Somerville plant. The report cites United Automobile Workers Local 440 claims that foremen spied on workers in union meetings and that nonmembership in unions was implied to protect jobs.
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Boston
Ford Motor Company
Somerville
Howard Myers
National Labor Relations Board
James C. Batten
NLRB
United Automobile Workers of America
Fourteen Steel Gear Firms Face Price Fixing Charge
The FTC said fourteen steel office furniture and equipment manufacturers, plus allied trade associations and five dealers, fixed prices to raise consumer costs and create a monopoly. The firms account for about 85 percent of U.S. steel office furniture and equipment production. If hearings confirm the charges, the FTC can seek court restraints to stop ongoing practices.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Allied Trade Associations
United States
Plans Motion To Shelve Lynch Act
Washington AP Major ity Leader Barkley of Kentucky signaled on Saturday he would move to lay aside the anti lynching bill next week. He argued he is unwilling for the session to be wasted in futile discussion.
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Washington
Barkley
Kentucky
Runaway Boy Wins Fight To Escape Mother
New York dispatch reports 12 year old Howard Frankel won custody battle, ending his fourth disappearance. Brooklyn children's court ordered him to live with his great-uncle Henry M Cooper after a five hour hearing before Justice Herbert O'Brien. Howard had lived with his mother Rose Frankel after previous custody actions, and expressed animosity toward her family, preferring to stay at the children's society where he was held as a guest before the court decision.
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New York
INS
Howard Frankel
Brooklyn Children's Court
Brooklyn Bridge
Children’s Society
Charles H. Warner
Society
Herbert O'Brien
Children's Court
Howard
Warner
Rose Frankel
Julius Frankel
O'Brien
Peter B. Hanson
Henry M. Cooper
The
Kids’ Society
Plane tests new equipment on experimental hop
CHICAGO AP Benny Howard United Air Lines research engineer landed an equipped transport plane after an experimental flight from Los Angeles at 10 31 p m Friday The two new supercharged motors powered the craft after a 9 hour 56 minute crossing The flight abandoned a distance record plan at Denver to change radio frequency Howard praised the full feathering propellers for safer flight by allowing pitch adjustment to reduce vibration
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Chicago
Benny Howard
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
Denver
Colo
Murphy Agrees To Call Session For Relief Financing
Detroit protestors demand 100 percent relief increase and mortgage debt moratorium as Governor Murphy commits to summon a special Michigan legislature session if needed to raise extra relief funds. Demonstrators threaten rent strike unless city rents are cut, casting pressure on Detroit council.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
Cadillace Square
Michigan
Small Business Man Fails To Practice What He Preaches
Arthur Bugs Baer recalls a petty Washington episode where a so called small business advocate fled after a brief two day stint in the capital. The piece mocks his theatrical display and lack of staying power in the "third house" and the crowd's quick desire to "throw that bum out" as he exits under his own steam.
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Washington
Soviet agrees to allow Mrs Rubens visitor
The Soviet government agreed Saturday to allow a United States official to visit Ruth Marie Rubens, an American jailed in Russia on espionage suspicion. Charge d’Affaires Lou Henderson reported Moscow’s consent after long American demands. The visit could occur Saturday or Sunday, as earlier requests sought access without delay.
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Washington
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
Russia
Lou Henderson
Hull
Moscow
Henderson
Angus S. Ward
Rubens
Donald Louis Robinson
Nab Man On Charge Embezzling $30,000 From Mrs. Ida Foy
Cedar Rapids report says guardian A W Bass seeks extradition of Robert B Jibb from Florida to New Jersey. Jibb allegedly embezzled about $30,000 from Mrs Ida E Foy of Cedar Rapids, widow of C H Foy, with money formerly paid as lifetime income.
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Ida Foy
Cedar Rapids News
Ida E. Foy
Cedar Mapids
C. H. Foy
A. W. Bass
Guardian
The
Robert B. Jibb
Orange County
Florida
Essex County
New Jersey
H. C. Ring
Bass
R. S. Milner
Cedar Rapids
Jibb
Essex County Grand Jury
Foy
Milner
Denies Criticism Of Ickes At Probe Meeting
Washington AP report says Interior Secretary Ickes left hearings unscathed as Senator Smathers clarified his remark about needing a new secretary, stating no criticism of Ickes was intended. He said the aim was to question whether Senator Pittman showed evidence supporting a secretary’s replacement.
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Ickes
Pittman
La Follette presses for clear foreign policy stance
Senate demands more on Roosevelt foreign policy as Roosevelts navy expansion faces scrutiny. La Follette, a Wisconsin progressive ally of the administration, opposes a British alliance and questions the scope of defense sizing amid an $800 million naval build. Debate expected in the Senate, House likely to pass the bill.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Roosevelt
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
la Follette
Hiram Johnson
California
Bill
Great Britain
United States
Door Of Grocery Store Broken Open
Patrolmen Simon and Stusak found the Eaton grocery at 1507 First Avenue East had a broken front door glass with a man sized hole. Proprietor William Eaton claimed nothing appeared to be missing and nothing stolen.
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Cedar Rapids
Simon and
Stusak
Eaton Grocery
First Avenue E
William Eaton
Auto Fatalities In Sizable Drop
Washington AP reports the Census Bureau says auto mobile fatalities in 134 leading cities for the first four weeks of the year totaled 715, down 163 from 1937, a drop of 18.44 percent.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sunday Want Ad Deadline Reminder
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Confer To Map Plans Against Ship Expansion
Washington insiders report a Saturday secret session of about a score of House members forming a nine member committee to study information on American foreign policy and what navy is adequate to implement it. The vote followed Vinson saying five days of testimony showed the current navy is inadequate to defend both coasts. Democrats Luckey McFarlane Sweeney Ludlow ODay Hill Kopplemann plus Brewster Boileau Southert and others attended.
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INS
House
Vinson
Naval Affairs Committee
William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
Luckey
Nebraska
McFarlane
Texas
Sweeney
Ohio
Ludlow
Indiana
O'Day
New York
Hill
Kopplemann
Connecticut
Brewster
Maine
Boileau
Southert
Wisconsin
Reps. Pierce
Oregon
Voorhis
California
Massingale
Oklahoma
Admiral Stirling warns US war victory in Pacific unlikely
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. told the Foreign Policy Association that victory for the United States in a war with a Pacific power would be next to impossible given current naval strength. He said the U S must strive to maintain peace in the Pacific but warned war could come.
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New York
INS
United States
Pacific
Yates Stirling, Jr
U.S. N
Foreign Policy Association
Thunderstorm Adds Unusual Weather to Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids experienced mid winter thunder and lightning on Saturday with rain and misty skies causing daylight to dim. Temperatures rose from 37 to 46 degrees, ice on the Cedar River's west channel shifted but did not break up, and highways stayed largely clear of ice except north of No. 20 where slippery conditions were reported by the Cedar Rapids Automobile Club.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Cedar River
Municipal Island
Chambers
No. 20
Ag Ae
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Cotton Clause May Hold Up Farm Bill
Washington AP Agriculture department opposition to last minute changes in cotton provisions of the compromise farm bill raises the possibility of a prolonged floor fight. The Smith amendment to speed up payment of part of the 130 million dollar bonus to 1937 cotton growers who joined the 1938 program faces strong opposition and could delay the bill. Leaders expect the measure to reach a House vote in one day, with railroads and handlers subject to penalties for failing to keep prescribed records and a provision to publish the names of farm benefit recipients receiving 1000 dollars or more annually.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Smith
S. C
Congress
House
Senate
Barkley
Secretary of Agriculture
Japan naval build up in light of new Western ultimatum
The United States Britain and France delivered a joint ultimatum to Japan demanding disclosure and a halt to battleship programs beyond 35 000 tons and 16 inch guns. Tokyo has fifteen days to respond or face allied ship expansions possibly to 50 000 tons with 18 inch guns. The note offers new discussions on limits while noting Japan seeks parity with the US and Britain and has previously refused to disclose plans.
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Washington
INL
United States
Great Britain
France
Japan
London
Nippon
Britain
Tokio
Believe Excitement Of Film Was Cause Of Theater Shooting
Charleston West Virginia police questioned 25 year old Harry Sugarbowl Jones after a Friday theater shooting during a thriller film left 13 year old Mary Horne critically wounded in the back of the head. The grandchild of City Councilman Cleve Horne, she was rushed to hospital. Police said the shooter appeared excited by the movie and aimed at the screen.
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Charleston
Harry “Sugarbowl” Jones
Mary Horne
Cleve Horne
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