President Roosevelt urged fireside chat to spur economy
The column urges a five minute fireside broadcast from President Roosevelt to reassure business and spark recovery, arguing government efforts failed and that recovery must originate with business itself. It contrasts with Nie moeller in Germany and critiques fiscal questions raised over a Des Moines Jackson Day dinner tax.
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Mr Roosevelt
Roosevelt
United States
AY SeTnee
Washington
Leo J Wegman
Des Moines
Wegman
J. F. Ball
San Antonio
Ball
Rall
State Board of Assessment and Review
Death Takes Harvey S. Firestone
Harvey S. Firestone 69 head of the Firestone rubber empire died early Monday at his oceanfront home in Miami Beach Florida. Cause given as coronary artery thrombosis the death came as a shock to attendants who closed gates and withdrew for privacy. Funeral planned in Akron. Firestone built a vast tire business in Akron expanding to cotton mills in Massachusetts raw rubber centers in Malay and rubber plantations in Liberia as the industry grew with the auto boom.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Harvey S. Firestone
Russell A. Firestone
Harvey
Firestone
Akron
Columbiana
Ohio
Columbus
John W. Tait
Detroit
Chicago
Cotton Mills
Massachusetts
Liberia
Great Britain
Akron, O
Miami, Fla
Cardozo Showing Encouraging Gains
Associate Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, critically ill for nearly two months with shingles and heart disease, was reported showing an encouraging improvement on Monday.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Local event raises funds amid political debt debate
The text argues proceeds from a 1936 campaign fundraiser were used to retire debt of political bosses and questions a state treasury benefit of $592.50, criticizing the benefit to political job holders.
Mrs Hahn Loses Appeal to Escape Electric Chair
Cincinnati broadcast reports Anna Marie Hahn, convicted poison slayer, failed in Ohio court of appeals to overturn her death sentence. Three judges ruled she had a fair trial and no prejudicial error. Hahn, a German-born woman, was condemned for the death of Jacob Wagner, one of four elderly acquaintances, in a scheme to murder for profit. She faces execution March 10.
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Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio Court of Appeals
Four Point Program Laid Before F D R By Maverick Group
A congressional group led by Rep Maury Maverick presents a four point program to President Roosevelt. The plan calls for wage hour legislation a farm bill a tax program based on ability to pay and retention of the undistributed profits tax.
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Washington
LLP
Roosevelt
Rep
Maury Maverick
Tex
Leahy Denies Navy Has Foreign Ties Amid Questions
Admiral William D. Leahy told the House naval committee the Navy has no foreign commitments and seeks to solve defense issues without alliances. Senator Hiram Johnson introduced a resolution asking Secretary Hull to disclose any naval alliances with foreign powers. Leahy called for clearing up misunderstandings about possible discussions with Britain.
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Washington
Hiram Johnson
Calif
Cordell Hull
United States
William D. Leahy
House Naval Committee
Navy
Leahy
Robert Ingersoll
Navy War Plans
British Admiralty
Britain
Naval Treaties Replaced by Junkheap Consignees
Opinion piece by Arthur Rugs Baer mocks post treaty reality. It laments scrapping navies for lenient restrictions and imagines oversized swan boats for park use while recalling earlier disarmament. The column reflects 1938 sentiment on military limits.
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Arthur “Rugs Baer
Japan Denies 43000 Ton Battleship Plans
Tokyo officials deny planning 43,000 ton super battleships amid a firestorm of press and criticism. A foreign office spokesman pledges readiness to discuss proposals based on non menace principles while noting no decision on replies to U S and Britain. Navy ministers aim to keep naval plans secret as Parliament probes notes.
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Japan
TOKIO
Koki Hirota
United States
Great Britain
INS
Foreign Office
America
Britain
France
Navy
House of Representatives
Nichi Nichi
Washington
London
Paris
Sun Breaks Through Clouds in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids residents saw a clearing sky after a gray period caused by clouds and fog, with Monday afternoon bringing a break in the gloom. Temperatures fell over the weekend from 49 at 2 a.m. Sunday to 29 by 11 p.m. Sunday, then dipped to 27 at 7 and 10 a.m. Monday, rising to 35 by 2:40 p.m. Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Blaze Blamed On Students In Tuley High Fire
A gang of neighborhood youths allegedly seeking to quit school is believed responsible for a $150,000 blaze that partly destroyed Tuley High School and cost a fireman his life. Residents told authorities the group had threatened to "take the old joint apart."
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Chicago
INS
Tuley High School
Court Upholds Conviction Of Dr Townsend
The US Court of Appeals upheld the contempt conviction of Dr Francis J E Townsend old age pension leader. He was jailed 30 days and fined 100 dollars for leaving a committee hearing and deriding its methods. A dissent urged reversal citing rights to show alleged evil intent by the committee.
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Washington
Court of Appeals
Francis J E. Townsend
House
Townsend
Circuit Court
Justin Miller
Dr. Townsend
Harold Stephens
Dr.Townsend
Portland Man Considering Appeal After Contempt Sentence
Dr. Francis Be. Lownsend, ordered by the U.S. Court of Appeals to serve 30 days in jail and pay a $100 fine for contempt of the House, said Monday he is seriously considering an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
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Portland, Ore
INS
Francis BE. Lownsend
U. S Court of Appeals
Washington
House of Representatives
International News Service
United States Supreme Court
Engineer W H French Dies From Carbon Monoxide
William N French 42 of 845 Avenue NE Rock Island engineer died Sunday after being found unconscious in his car in a garage at his home. Deputy coroner Dr J J Terrall said preliminary findings indicate accidental death. An autopsy found no foul play.
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Cedar Rapides News
William N. French
Avenue NE
Rock Island
Pam
J. J. Terrall
French
John French
Terrall
FTC seeks Supreme Court review of Goodyear tire price order
The Federal Trade Commission asked the Supreme Court to review a Sixth Circuit ruling that dismissed its order prohibiting Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co from selling tires to Sears Roebuck at prices lower than those charged to other dealers.
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Washington (Lp
Federal Trade Commission
Supreme Court
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Sears-Rochbuck and Co
Capone Appeals to Supreme Court in Tax Evasion Case
Al Capone, the Chicago gangster, appeals to the Supreme Court from an 11 year federal term for income tax evasion. He faces an additional year in Cook County Jail and a $20,000 fine after Alcatraz serving his main sentence. His lawyers claim double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment.
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Washington
Alphonse Capone
Chicago
Supreme Court
Capone
Cook County
Alcatraz Island
Abraham Teitelbaum
United States
Footprints and bullets in rector's death on St Simons Island
Dr Charles H. Lee, 72, rector of Christ Church, was shot at his vacation home on St Simons Island. Rain footprints and two 88 caliber bullets linked the night attack, with one slug lodged in a wall and another in his brain. Coroner delayed inquest to Tuesday.
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Charles Lee
Vice
ST. Simons Island
Charles H. Lee
Historic
Christchurch
Robert I. Lee
Georgia
Island Recreation
J O Baldwin
L. C Godwin
G. C Durand
Sea Island School
Lee
Jee
Glynn County
Peare
St. Simons
Sea Island
See
Charlestown
W. Va
Christ Church
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Henry Ford
Fort Frederick
James Edward Oglethorpe
England
Carolina
Spanish
Florida
John Wesley
Charles
Divorce Splits Mollison Air Team Founders
London A famous aviation pioneer Amy Johnson Mollison was granted a preliminary divorce from James Mollison after she faced adultery charges. Married in 1932 the Mollisons flew the Atlantic together and set records England to Australia and England to South Africa.
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London
INS
Amy Johnson Mollison
James Mollison
Mollison
Atlantic
Connecticut
Mollisons
England
Australia
South Africa
Birthday of Dickens Noted for Humor and Humanity
Dr Joseph Fort Newton praises Charles Dickens for revealing life’s romance and squalor, celebrating his humane power to laugh and uplift. He notes Dickens’s vivid characters from Uriah Heep to Micawber, and declares Dickens made Christmas a festival of joy. Copyright 1938.
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Dickens
London
Pickwick
Guppey
Uriah Ices
Micawber
Toots
Mrs. Wiitter
Babyland
Hamelin
Vandenberg Proposes Limits on Social Security Taxes
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg introduces a three point amendment to the social security act. The plan caps payroll taxes at one percent for workers and employers until reform is studied and uses reserves to reduce federal debt. It also calls for automatic payroll tax deposits to the old age reserve and limits new bonds tied to debt reduction.
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Wasilington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Congress
Vandenberg
First Volunteer To Sink Merrimac Dies
Lowell Massachusetts report says Lieut George Charette U S N retired died at 70 after brief illness He was first enlisted man to volunteer for the Merrimac sinking in 1898 and armed with the fuse before ignition He was taken prisoner and held three days at Moro Castle before release in a prisoner exchange
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Lowell
Mass
U.S.S. Merrimac
Santiago Harbor
George Charette
U.S.N
Charette
Morro Castle
Labor feud escalates as CIO expelled unions
Miami report says the AFL executive council expelled three CIO affiliated unions and saw William Green resign from the United Mine Workers. The action targets 680000 members and heightens intra labor war between CIO led by John L Lewis and the AFL. Further moves pending.
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Miami
Pla
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
Federastion Three Committee For Industrial Organization
William Green
Federation
United Mine Workers Union
CIO
John L Lewis
Council
United Mine Workers Wuoen
Lewis
Green
Federation of Flat Glass Workers
International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers
UMW
Greens
Miners’ Union
A. F
F. of L
James Dewey
Labor Department
Washington
Fleeing convict caught by dog in Arizona escape
A collie captured Earl Williams after he scaled a prison wall during a burglary escape at Florence Arizona. Williams was wounded in the leg and captured about 300 yards from the yard by the dog and held until Yard Captain Te Lopas arrived. Elms and Davis escaped unharmed but were later apprehended.
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INS
Arizona
Earl Williams
William Elms
Rex Davis
Elms
Davis
Williams
Te .B. Lopas
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