Byrd exile diary and wartime politics in one week
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd vows a crusade against war after months alone at Advance Base in Antarctica. Sir Hubert Wilkins postpones a polar submarine expedition due to shipyard demand for warcraft. Moody centennial celebration and calls to save civilization appear in Chicago. Senate plans judiciary reorganization hearings with Supreme Court members likely invited. Censorship debate follows Pearl Buck and Dr. Newton. Iowa faces dire insane asylum care with 6600 patients and few physicians, urging reform.
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Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Byrd
Hubert Wilkins
North Polar
Battlecraft
Union GM strike talks resume Monday
Detroit United States news wires report Governor Murphy as mediator saying differences between General Motors and United Automobile Workers are nearly solved. The crisis prompted a White House call with Knudsen to Roosevelt and Perkins speaking with Lewis Mortimer and Pressman. Talks continued through the afternoon and into the evening with renewed hope for a negotiable conclusion.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Frank Murphy
White House
United Press
Murphy
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Frances Perkins
U.A.W.A
Union
James F. Dewey
Donaldson Brown
John Thomas Smith
Knudsen
John
Legislative inquiry must review hospital commitments too
The piece argues that a New York legislative probe of hospital conditions should include the laws governing commitments of the mentally ill. It cites questionable circumstances in several cases where people were sent to Independence for reasons a competent inquiry would not sanction, alleging the state is made the scapegoat in such family driven commitments.
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Overnor Kraschel
Iowa
Independence State Hospital
Half Ton Chicken Prepared for GM Sit-Down Dinners
In Flint Michigan more than a half ton of chicken was cooked Saturday night for Sunday dinners of hundreds of sit-down strikers at three General Motors plants. The meal was prepared in a United Automobile Workers kitchen led by Mrs Dorothy Krause wife of Henry Krause editor of the Flint Auto Worker.
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Flint, Mich
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Dorothy Krause
Henry Krause
Flint Auto Worker
Spirituality and the vision of life’s values
A reader argues that spirituality is not mere warm emotion but a vision of life’s values. The mind that is spiritual prioritizes first things, aligning money science art and sport with proper purpose and place. The piece cites Jesus on seeking the kingdom and promises added concerns.
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Stanley Jones
God
Jesus
Elihu Root Dies After Two Weeks Ill at 91 in New York
Elihu Root America's oldest statesman dies at home in New York following a two weeks illness of bronchial pneumonia He would have turned 92 on Feb 15 Root long served in two presidential cabinets and led in arbitration efforts He was secretary of war secretary of state senator and head of Wilson mission to Russia His passing was marked by family at his tenth floor apartment in New York Harbor with relatives and Ulysses S Grant III present.
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New York
Elihu Root
America
World Court
Permanent Court of Arbitration
The
Hague
McKinley
Edward
Ulysses S. Grant
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Flood Fears Grow As Rains Threaten Prolonged Deluge
In Memphis and across the Mississippi, rains threaten to worsen the flood that has already killed 414 and displaced over a million. Army engineers battle sand boils near Cairo while patrolling levees with 500 in Memphis and 1,000 in the Cairo district ready for emergencies. Levees remain firm with sandbagging at risk points and the Cairo stage at 59.30 feet.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cairo
Mississippi River
F. H. Faulkner
Faulkner
Sit-Down For Love staged as publicity gag in New York
A faux playlet from Exelsior Springs Mo titled Sit-down For Love toured New York venues as a press agent stunt. Romeo, portrayed as a sit-down suitor, wins the contest for the heroine who plans to say yes on a nationwide radio broadcast after a rehearsed, prankish battle that ends with journalists snickering at the fourth estate.
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New York
Excelsior Springs
Romeo
Harold Hulen
Love
Widow Alleges Forced Flight In Northwest Crash
Washington AP reports affidavits by Mrs. Lorna Livermore and Roy H. Warner claim Northwest Airlines pilot Joe Livermore was forced to fly under adverse conditions. Northwest rejects the charges as hearsay and says the other accusation was dismissed for inefficiency.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Air Safety Conference
Joe Livermore
Northwest Airlines
Lorna Livermore
Roy H. Warner
Livermores
Croil Hunter
Weather outlook for Chicago February 8 to 13
The period features generally fair conditions in the north with occasional precipitation south early in the week. Unsettled weather returns later, temperatures rise at the start and end of the period, and a colder spell appears in the middle.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Two Act Play Shines at Cedar Rapids Daily
A syndicated page features W Tommy and Jiggs in a two act play at Cedar Juste Two Rapids police station with notes on the script’s first publication. Readers glimpse a girl reporter discovering bargains and a silent Hour Of Silence interview with Mr and Mrs Purple Finch.
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Tommy
Jiggs
Cedar Juste
Two Rapids
Iowa
Purple Finch
University of Iowa
Mother and Child Rescued After 15 Days in Blizzard
A 20-year-old mother and her 2.5 year old daughter survived 15 days trapped in a stalled automobile in a Lake Tahoe snowstorm. Earl Lanear, believed dead, left Leadville Colorado to visit California relatives. Four carpenters found the car and rescuers brought mother and child to safety. the family had eaten mustard and oatmeal and melted snow for water.
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Carson City
Nev
Lake Tahoe
Earl Lanear
Lanear
Mountain Pass
Leadville
Colo
California
J. L. Hogan
Joplin
Alameda
Calif
High Mountain
Here
Highway Department
Buffalo Police Seek Suspect in Mary Ellen Babcock Slaying
Buffalo police asked the state to arrest a 25 year old man driving a 1930 Ford sedan for questioning in the murder of 18 year old Mary Ellen Babcock. The Medical Examiner said she died from multiple stab wounds and a crushed skull, likely while defending her honor.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Pretty
Mary Ellen Babcock
Rocco N. Dedominicis
South Buffalo
Oley in Denver Mint Robbery Plot Suspect
District Attorney John Carroll planned to question Francis Leo Oley over a claimed plan to rob the Denver mint where vast gold reserves sit. Mint employees who knew Oley via an alias helped arrest him after spotting his photo in a detective magazine. Carroll linked Oley to the Arsenal Gang tied to the O’Connell kidnapping and a 1934 Brooklyn armored car holdup.
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Denver
John Carroll
Francis Leo Oley
O’connell
New York
U. S. Mint
Mint
Oley
Detective Story
Carroll
Arsenal
John J. O’connell, Jr
Albany
N. Y
Brooklyn
Local Man Fractures Skull in Stairway Fall
Alfred Linder, 60, of 1645 B Avenue NW, was brought to St Luke's Hospital at 10 15 p m Saturday in critical condition with a basal skull fracture after falling down a flight of stairs at 121 First Avenue East He was unconscious late Saturday.
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Alfred Linder
B Avenue NW
St. Luke’s Hospital
First Avenue E
HERRING GILLETTE SPLIT ON COURT PLAN
Iowa delegation in congress likely to split 5 to 4 in the House and divided in the Senate over Roosevelt judicial reform. Senator Herring supports the plan while Gillette opposes it citing fears of packing the Supreme Court. Representative Eicher comments on broader constitutional reform debate.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
C. L. Herring
Guy Gillette
Supreme Court
Herring
Senator Gillette
E. C. Eicher
Senate Group to Battle Plan of Roosevelt
Washington leaders mobilized in both houses to back Roosevelt’s bid to expand the Supreme Court and overhaul the federal judiciary. Republican and some Democratic opposition forms, with Carter Glass leading a Democratic bloc, as hearings are set this week. Six new justices possible if retirements stretch six months. The court prepares to hear Wagner Act arguments as party lines sharpen.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
van Nuys
Indiana
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Washington
Senate
William E. Borah
Idaho
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Carter Glass
Joseph Robinson
Ark
William B. Bankhead
House
Judiciary
Glass
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Willam H. King
Utah
Josiah Bailey
North Carolina
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
High Tribunal
Linn County Red Cross sends 20000 for flood relief
The Linn County Iowa Red Cross chapter sent 20000 to St Louis for flood relief. The final 1000 was remitted Saturday to Red Cross regional headquarters as executive secretary Metta A Burd reported a 2445 balance. Major single contribution came from Penick and Ford 142.61 with several local groups giving smaller sums.
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Linn County
American Red Cross
St. Louis
Metta A. Burd
Mechanical Department of
Penick and Ford, Ltd. Inc
Dairy Dale Pta
Hubbard Ice and Fuel Company
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Bezdek
Troy Mills Consolidated School
Cedar Rapids Chapter
National Sojourners
Quaker Oats Milling Department
Quaker Oats Watchmen
Ebecker Club
Ask Judge To Decide If Child Bride Is Woman
A Watertown court weighs whether Leona Roshia Backus, claimed to be 18 by her mother, is legally a adult or a child. The hearing began with her listed age of 12, raising questions about the legality of her marriage and the rape case against her husband, Stanley Backus. Detective Samuel Roberts disputes the 18-year claim, citing health department records and police statements that list her age as 12.
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Watertown
N. Y
Leona Roshia Backus
New York
Leona
New York State
Stanley Backus
Samuel Roberts
Roberts Orp
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Edward Rickenbacker
Air Commerce Bureau
Air Commerce
Eugene Vidal
Vidal
Col. E. S. Gorrell
Air Transport Association
Secretary of Commerce
J. Monroe Johnson
Gorrell
Johnson
Bureau
Valentine
Cedar Rapids
Shucks
Aan
Fred C. Henson
Wally Simpson
Jeanette Beyer
Gazette
Ames
Buffalo Police Hunt
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Cedar Rapids News
ED Hadley
Gazette Washington Correspondent
Borah
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