Linn County relief chief succeeds veteran director
Mildred Hunt becomes Linn County relief director following Alice Kirwin who faced board pressure and an effective run of hectic years. The column argues protectors of public service must resist political turnover while noting large state tax receipts and homestead refunds impact. It cites figures on replacement taxes and Linn County tax flows, urging local boards to publish property tax fluctuation tables.
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Clay County
Linn County
Linn
Des Moines
Scott
Polk
Woodbury
Hungarians Drive Back Czechs in Frontier Clash
Hungarian and Czechoslovak troops fought near Munkacs with artillery tanks and machine guns all day. Four Hungarian officers and five soldiers were reported dead along with five Czechoslovak soldiers. Hungary ordered urgent cabinet measures and filed a protest with Prague as a four power dispute over Vienna award borders intensified.
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Budapest
Hungary
Munkacs
Bela Imredy
Munich
Oroszrev
Slovakia
Vienna
Germany
Italy
Prague
Frontier Demarcation Commission
Taxpayers Demand Better State Tax Service in Local Offices
Editors urge TiE LEAST counties to receive adequate permanent local tax offices. Linn county reports only one income tax field man and two sales tax auditors for five counties, behind in duties. They argue $845,000 in annual state taxes warrants improved service, including notarization and local payment options.
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Linn County
Des Moines
Gillette Backs Rutledge for Supreme Court Seat
Senator Gillette of Iowa said he would push to appoint Dean Wiley Rutledge of the University of Iowa law school to the next Supreme Court vacancy. He noted the west deserves representation and there is talk of Rutledge despite his lower name recognition.
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Washington
Gillette
Iowa
Wiley Rutledge
University of Iowa Law School
Supreme Court
Rutledge
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard University
Mississippi River
Dean Rutledge
Justice Brandeis
Justice McReynolds
Herring
Frankfurter
White House
No Bad Luck or Good Luck Says Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang argues that luck balances itself across life and that hardships and joys offset each other. He cites a Chinese tale of a man with a horse and son to illustrate how apparent misfortune or fortune can reveal deeper outcomes. The piece reflects on patience faith and the Bible saying trial worketh patience and patience worketh hope.
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Lin Yutang
China
DR. Newton
Hitler’s Talk With Beck Signals Nazi Push in Europe
Berlin reports say Hitler, in a 3 3 4 hour meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Beck, sounded out Poland on cooperating with Nazi plans. Observers allege Hitler aims to expand influence east of the Rhine as France and Britain withdraw after the Munich Czech oslovak agreement, with Poland as a likely objector.
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Berlin
Hitler
Europe
Rhine
Oseph Beck
Beck
Poland
France
Britain
Nazi Hopes Of U S Truce Rest In Rublee Berlin Visit
Berlin sources say Nazi leaders pin hopes on next week's Berlin visit by George Rublee and other intergovernmental committee on refugees members. They view the invitation as a gesture of appeasement signaling Germany's willingness to bridge the U S rift amid deteriorating relations and recall of ambassadors.
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U.S
Rublee
Berlin
United States
Reich Center
George Rublee
Intergovernmental Committee On Refugees
Germany
Freight cars total for week end Dec 31 hits 499 895
Washington report from the Association of American Railroads shows freight car loadings for the week ended December 31 at 499 895, down 74 567 from the prior week but up 44 989 versus the same week in 1937.
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Washington
INL
Cor
Association of American Railroads
Opium seizure after Brooklyn waterfront gun battle
Police disguised as criminals aided by coast guardsmen and federal agents trapped the smugglers at the Brooklyn waterfront in a raid that netted $150000 worth of opium from the S S Ida. Three Brooklyn men were captured and one officer was wounded amid a broad operation across Manhattan, the East River, and Hoboken.
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WEW York
Brooklyn
S. S. Ida
Italy
Federal
Ida
Hoboken
N. J
Everett Raney
Richard Brennan
Brooklyn Force
Salvatore Russi
Luigi Esposito
Frank Visciano
Paul Leiderman
Raney
Brennan
William Geoghan
John Sweeney
Washington
Sweeney
Thirtyninth Street
Brenman
Coast Guard
The
Battery
Manhattan Island
East River
Bronx
Andy Devine
A. Tana
Temperature Rises After Night In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids area saw a temperature rebound after a night drop. Readings climbed from 24 degrees at 4 a.m. to 26 by sunrise and 44 by mid afternoon as clouds cleared and sunshine returned.
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Cedar Rapids
Tam
Chambers Inskeep Company
Roosevelt Proclaims Atlantic Defense Fleet Formation
President Roosevelt announced the permanent Atlantic Ocean defense squadron of 35 warships to split the fleet into Atlantic and Pacific sections. The nucleus includes four battleships eight first class cruisers eight new destroyers and 15 older destroyers with submarines and planes to follow. A White House defense and foreign affairs meeting with senior officials discussed inter American defense and potential expansion within a year. The defense message to Congress is expected next Thursday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
Navy Department
White House
Sumner Welles
State Department
R. Walton Moore
Harry H. Woodring
Louis Johnson
Charles Edison
Naval Operations
William D. Leahy
Malin Craig
Congress
Cashier of DeWitt Bank Missing in Nationwide Search
Harold J. Kriebs cashier of the First National Bank of DeWitt Indiana is missing after leaving a Chicago hotel. Police, state and federal agents conduct a nationwide search amid amnesia fears and an ongoing bank examination to determine if any accounts are affected.
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Clinton
Chicago
Harold J. Kriebs
First National Bank of
DeWitt
George Myers
National Bank Examiners
Kriebs
Oe Sevesea
Hopkins Nomination Faces Senate Commerce Hearing
Sen Josiah W Bailey of North Carolina was appointed chair of the senate commerce committee to oversee the Hopkins nomination to become secretary of commerce. The conservative Democrat and Hopkins foe will lead the panel as it weighs the nomination.
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Washington
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate Commerce Committee
Hopkins
Commerce
Lindbergh Submits Secret Nazi Air Strength Reports
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh offered two confidential memoranda on Germany’s air power to U S authorities. The papers, drafted in longhand from Illice, describe a formidable Nazi air war machine and urge U S readiness. Roosevelt and top officials reportedly had not seen the memos.
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LINDY
Washington
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Nazi Germany
Supreme” Air
International
Lindbergh
War and Navy
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
America
Europe
Germany
United States
Illice
France
Gimp Snyder Sentenced to Twenty Years for Shooting
Los Angeles report says Col. Martin Moe the Gimp Snyder received a sentence not exceeding twenty years in state prison for shooting Myrl Alderman, husband of his former wife Ruth Etting. Superior Judge Thomas Ambrose denied a new trial and a pending-appeal request by defense attorney Jerry Geisler without prejudice.
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Los Angeles
INS
Col
Martin “Moe
Snyder Friday
Myrl Alderman
Snyder
Songbird
Ruth Etting
Thomas L. Ambrose
Jerry Geisler
Geisler
Clock Ticks Off Last Year Of Life For Stricken Girl
New York AP account portrays William Lewis a widower and WPA carpenter fearing his eight year old daughter Dorothy will die from cancer. Doctors say amputation offers a one in twenty survival chance. He wrestles between hope and money as Dorothy smiles by the Christmas tree.
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New York
Brooklyn
William’ Lewis
Lewis
WPA
Dorothy
Kate Smith
Eddie Cantor
Senate panel eyes earmarking WPA funds for state quotas
Senate unemployment committee informal talks seek a simple formula to strip the WPA administrator of discretion over state allocations. Col. Harrington warns that cutting relief to 500 million would sharply reduce spring relief employment as WPA rolls edged down from 3,112,000 to 3,075,000 while Congress weighs President Roosevelt’s 875 million request.
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Washington
Senate Unemployment Committee
WPA
Byrnes
S. C
Col
F. C. Harrington
Works Progress
Harrington
House Appropriations
Roosevelt
Adams
Colo
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Rep
Woodrum
Marriage cited as sole reason for Mrs Kirwin replacement
Linn county supervisors refused to reappoint Mrs Alice Kirwin as county relief director for 1939 citing her recent marriage. They named Mildred Hunt as successor noting the move not a personal rebuke of Kirwin’s three years of service. Chairman Elmer Seevell opposed employing married women in public posts.
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New Linn County
Mildred Hunt
Alice Kirwin
Alice Ferber
Linn County
Relief Department
Kirwin
Linn
Elmer M. Seevell
Congress to Delay Tax Boost Amid War Aid Needs
Congress plans to wait on President Roosevelt's call for moderate tax increases to fund farm aid and defense costs. The House Ways and Means Committee will review March income tax receipts before any broad tax legislation. Some members favor cutting the July 1 appropriations by about 4 percent to ease the need for new revenue. Nuisance taxes such as cosmetics and admissions may be renewed to expire next year.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Doughton
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Justice Dept Investigates Un-American Activities Probe
President Roosevelt announced the justice department would investigate alleged violations of federal law by Nazis, communists, and other groups upon Dies committee request. J. Edgar Hoover to lead FBI inquiry, with Brien McMahon supervising. Economic and defense notes followed in the briefing at the White House.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Conerence
Murphy
Department
Dies
Texas
J. Edgar Hoover
G-men
Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
al Ready
Dies’ Committee
Brien McMahon
Sumner Welles
Cummings
Communist Party
Germany
State
War
Navy Departments
Ready To Give An Elephant If We Can Sell Hay For Him
An early 20th century column by Arthur Bugs Baer jokes about trade leverage and neighborly policy. The author quips that they will trade an elephant for hay and grain, while noting fleet movements near Panama and universal concern over upcoming events.
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Byron Allen
Barney Allen
State House
Allen
Billidér
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Cedar Rapids News
U. S. Atlantic
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Hopkins’ Fee
Flyer
Frederick N. Polangin
Neville Chamberlain
Gimp” Snyder
Gladwin Hill
BOARD
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Arthur J. Hepburn
Capitol
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Panama
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