Border clashes flare as Mongol Manchukuo frontier tenses
Reports from Tokio and Peiping describe Outer Mongolia border friction escalating with 5 000 Manchukuo troops massing for an advance into Suiyuan and Chahar. Soviet and Inner Mongolian forces reportedly repulsed a Manchukuo attack near Alahodka by Lake Buir as tensions rise along the Russo Japanese border.
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TOKIO
INS
Alahodka
Lake Buir
London
Sojet - Controlled
Outer Mongolia
Reuters
Dairen
Manchukuo
Peiping
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Suiyuan
Chahar
Nanking
Hopei
Fu Tso- Yi
Suiyan
Mon-golia
Missing Sioux City Man Ends Life in Furnace
Sioux City resident Charles B. St. John 56 was found Friday partially cremated in his home furnace after a note threatening suicide prompted a citywide search. He had returned earlier in the week from Omaha. Dr. Joe Kingston county coroner and police investigated. cremation reportedly lasted two to three hours with severe bodily damage.
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Sioux City
Charles B. St. John
St. John
Art Meyer
Omaha
Joe Kingston
Kingsten
No Trace Of Imprisoned Dog Found In Cave
Six men in freezing weather searched a rock crevice in Landisburg Pennsylvania Friday night for two weeks imprisoned fox terrier Dan. No trace was found beyond a few white hairs, and rescue leader Charles Wilson speculated Dan crawled back into the dark underground recess and died.
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Landisburg
Dan
Charles Wilson
The Hidden Self and Our Unseen Depths
A 1936 reflection on instinct and character using a factory fire anecdote. It argues that people reveal depths beyond self awareness in moments of danger and that intentional training of the hidden self shapes thoughts and life toward a chosen plan.
Deficiency Bill 13 Sent To White House
The House adopted the conference report on the $367 million deficiency appropriation bill after brief debate. It moves to the White House after the Senate accepted the report. The measure funds the new social security program, soldier bonus administration costs, and AAA benefits contracted with farmers prior to the 1938 decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LLP
House
White House
Senate
Schwinn challenges RFC in Dawes bank loan suit
Ignaz Schwinn through attorney John E. Hughes argues the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act violates the 9th and 10th amendments. He asserts RFC power to buy stock could expand to controlling industry via loans and mortgages. Schwinn among 3,000 stockholders in the Central Republic Bank and Trust case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Ignaz Schwinn
John E. Hughes
Hughes
Schwinn
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company
New Deal Dealers Seek 200 Million to Rescue WPA
Washington reports Friday discussion of extra 200 million dollars in loose funds to support the Works Progress Administration through July 1. Roosevelt says money would come from slow-moving agency allocations. total relief spending for the year not to rise. WPA employs about 2.93 million, with CCC at 300,000.
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Washington
New Deal
Works Progress Administration
Roosevelt
Congress
WPA
Civilian Conservation Corps
Milwaukee Road Plans 4.8 Million Equipment Upgrade
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railway announced a 4.8 million dollar RFC financed program to build 1 500 freight cars and 37 passenger cars in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The project will sustain 850 jobs for eleven months and include a streamlined steam locomotive from American Locomotive Company.
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Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway Company
Milwaukee
W Is
Hiawatha
American Locomotive Company
Schenectady
N. Y
RFC
Iowa Commission Proposes Store Up Food For Lean Years
The Greater Iowa Commission urged a central warehouse system to buy and store farm products in good years and market them in famine. The plan, sent to Secretary Wallace, aims to protect producers and consumers, curb prices, and halt surplus dumping abroad. It cites 1935 import value at 750 million dollars and seeks wide political support.
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Iowa Commission
DES ‘Moines
INS
Greater Iowa Commission
Henry A. Wallace
Otto S. Muntz
Department of Agriculture
Muntz
Roosevelt
Herring
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Norris
Nebraska
Dan Turner
Chamber of Commerce
Prospect Of Work In la Mines Today Bases Coal Crisis
DES MOINES AP Receipts of delayed shipments and 80 percent production in Iowa mines on Saturday eased the coal shortage slightly though dealers report supplies remain low and households rely on dwindling stocks. Eastern coal moved in as railroads resume normal schedules after snow. Iowa miners ignore Gov Herring's 48 hour week appeal while state and national unions approve Saturday work.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Eastern
Great Lakes
Herring
Austrian Police Launch Drive On Nazis
Vienna reports a nation wide offensive by police against nazis and communists in Austria aimed at officials. Thirty two nazis were arrested including Dr Robert Kauer assistant state prosecutor and several postal and tax officials. Twenty communists were arrested at Gmunden with similar arrests nationwide.
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Vienna
Ernst von Starhemberg
Paris
Austria
Starhemberg
Fatherland Front
Robert Kauer
Gmunden
Mosley Wins Slander Case Over Farthing Damages
Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader, wins a slander case against John Marchbank, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, and is awarded damages of one farthing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Iswald Mosley
John Marchbank
National Union of Railwaymen
Senator Borah Questions Farm Bill Constitutionality
Idaho Senator William Borah raised serious questions about the constitutional validity of the administration's new farm bill. He noted the temporary program resembles the outlawed AAA and warned that state cooperation for the permanent plan may falter, citing Oregon as an example. The House committee split on reporting the measure and a quorum problem delayed Senate debate amid a heavy snowfall.
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Washington
William “Edgar Borah
Idaho
Borah
Senate
House Agriculture Committee
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Oregon
Henry A. Wallace
Miners authorize Saturday coal digging amid wage talks
United Mine Workers leaders vote to extend production beyond 35 hours Saturday to relieve a fuel shortage while seeking a 30 hour week in upcoming soft coal contracts. John L. Lewis vetoes a $13,000 salary boost, urging stability. Philip Murray and Thomas Kennedy decline raises. Negotiations for hard coal start February 24 with a 30 hour week and pay increases expected. The anthracite districts approve their contract path. current agreements run to March 31, 1937.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Convention
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Philip Murray
Thomas Kennedy
New York
Former Prince of Spain Shows Recovery Hope
In Havana AP reports the Count of Covadonga, son of former King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, is slightly improved but still critical after a severe hemorrhage. He received eight hours of transfusion, seven hours sleep, and papal nuncio last rites. doctors note traces of septicemia and ongoing hereditary hemophilia complicating recovery.
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Havana
Covadonga
House of Spain
Alfonso
Victoria
Spain
Cuba
Mer
George Caruana
Rome
Ena
House of
Don Zalo
United States
Exiled Alfonso and Ena Report Strained Italian Visit
Rome dispatch notes ongoing friction between former King Alfonso and former Queen Ena amid their son’s grave Cuba illness and expected birth of a grandchild. Ena is guest at Villa Savoia with the Italian royalty awaiting Infanta Beatriz’s accouchement, while Alfonso remains at the Grand Hotel.
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Rome
Ins
Prince of
the Asturias
Cuba
Alfonso
Ena
Spain
Italy
Villa Savoia
Infanta Beatriz
Alessandro Torlonia
Elsie Moore
New York
Grand Hotel
Olson Answers Court Criticism Over Strutwear Plant Closure
Governor Floyd B Olson criticized a federal court ruling that blocked the shutdown of the Strutwear Knitting plant in Rochester. The court had said officials closed the plant wrongfully. Olson, recovering from stomach surgery, praised the ruling as upholding property rights and urged arbitration.
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Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
Strutwear Knitting Company
Thomas E. Latimer
National Guard
Rochester
Olson
Seven Point Program Aims at Wild Life Conservation
Ira N. Gabrielson outlines a seven point national program for wildlife conservation at the North American Wild Life conference. The plan seeks more land for wildlife, stricter pollution controls, expanded federal state cooperation, waterfowl habitat development, wildlife land planning, more research, and stronger protective legislation. Officials urge rapid action to expand federal and state wildlife areas and empower state game departments to manage seasons and bag limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wild Life Conference
Ira N. Gabrielson
Bureau of Biological Survey
General Wild Life Federation
Gabrielson
Ericsson
Iids
Belggard
Thersans
Frank T. Bell
Bureau of Fisheries
Congress
Cal
Spe
Robertson
Virginia
Federal witness denies Liggett threat in Blumenfeld murder trial
Clark H. Carhart testified that Liggett was not threatened by Meyer Schuldberg in a telephone call before Walter Liggett was killed. The Blumenfeld trial faced a juror’s illness causing a 15 minute recess and resumed with cross examination of Schuldberg, who described hiring Blumenfeld after a liquor violation term and his effort to go straight.
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Minneapolis
Walter Liggett
Isadore
Kid Cann
Blumenfeld
Clark H. Carhart
Federal
Alcohol Tax Unit
St. Paul
Liggett
Meyer Schuldberg
Harry Rydell
Schuldberg
Plans drafted by War Dept for Pacific coast defenses
Secret plans for a five year defense program to strengthen Pacific coast and Hawaii defenses have been submitted to Congress. The plan calls for mobile anti aircraft units around San Francisco and Oakland to protect the new bridge, plus expanded coast artillery and harbor defenses across the Pacific.
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Congress
WAR Dept
Washington
INS
Pacific
War” Department
Tilma Parks
Arkansas
Parks
Fox
House
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
San Francisco
Oakland
Calif
Army
High Command
Panama Canal
Fort MacArthur
San Diego
Coast Artillery
Army High Command
Fort Funston
Fort Miley
Los Angeles
Birds Fight For Food At Keokuk Dam Spillway
Hundreds gathered on the Mississippi bank as grey eagles gulls and crows battled for fish near the Keokuk dam spillway. Eagles seized fish from gulls, crows swarmed and wrested prey, and the feast ended with the strongest birds eating while others went hungry.
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Keokuk
Mississippi
Itoi
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Supreme Court
Milwaukee Road
Cedar Rapids
Eon
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