Inflation Threat and Planned Economy Debate
A discussion on governmental spending and inflation references Kurt Ludecke and Hitler era, warning that federal outlays and taxes jeopardize earners and savers. It argues for broad action by workers and employers to resist planned economy and advocate for balanced budgets and job-creating investment. The piece cites undivided profits tax and corporate taxation as factors harming payrolls and expansion.
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Germany
Washington
Unemployment Census Sees Over Five Million Partly Jobless
John T. D. Biggers reports 3,209,211 registered as partially unemployed on Nov 20 with the tally believed only 57 percent correct suggesting up to 5,630,192 may have been partially unemployed. Earlier figures ranged from 7,822,912 to 10,870,000.
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Washington
John TD. Biggers
Roosevelt
Biggers
Census shows over half a million women marking partial employment
Washington report notes that more than 500 000 women registering as unemployed indicated they were only partly employed. States tally 3 000 000 plus registrants with Iowa contributing 50 337.
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Washington
INS
Iowa
Government estimates on November unemployment figures
Biggers signals a forthcoming detailed employment report before the Senate committee investigating unemployment and relief. He cites 16.5 million seeking work in November and at least 1 million job losses since then, with data to cover age color residence and weeks worked to aid reemployment plans.
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Biggers
Senate
William Green
American Federation of Labor
William. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Siamese-link Operation Joins Two Negro Children
In Washington a 16 year old boy and a 13 year old girl were joined by a graft of 18 inches of flesh to become one person. The operation, performed by Dr. R E Moran at emergency hospital, aims to enable skin grafting on the girl burned in North Carolina over a year ago. Both children were reported doing well.
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Washington
John Melvin Bonner
Clara Howard
North Carolina
R. E. Moran
The glory and failure of Elijah Lovejoy
A 1938 essay contrasts success stories with failures using Elijah Lovejoy as a case study. It argues that fame can mask real outcomes and that apparent failures may bear enduring value, likening Lovejoy to Jesus in eternal significance beyond worldly praise.
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Elijah Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Colby College
Illinois
Alton
United States
Jesus
Murder by mistake theory grips South Bend case
In South Bend Indiana detectives pursue a theory that 16 year old Melba Moore was slain by mistaken identity. Lawrence McCarthy 37 of Sanderson is jailed on secret information from Mrs Cecil Hawkins who says McCarthy killed the girl to silence her after she learned of garage thefts at a barn she shared with him and his men.
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South Bend
Ind
MNS
Lawrence McCarthy
Sanderson
Melba Moore
Granger
Cecil Hawkins
McCarthy
Moore
Republicans To Have Plenty Of Time For Forgetting Platform
A 1940 political column by Arthur Bugs Baer jokes that Republicans have two years to forget their platform. It mocks party records as aphasia in thirty days and envisions an ideal platform built on crop control by will power and weather rules by amendment.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Shanghai confrontations flare as Japs clash with foreign police
Cornell S. Franklin protests Japanese handling of international settlement police after a French officer is struck. British and French officials filed protests as Japanese troops face French and British forces near the Shanghai international settlement. Chinese forces reportedly destroy facilities at Haichow as Lunghai railway battles intensify in Shantung.
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Shanghai
Cornell S. Franklin
Paris
France
Haichow
Kiangsu
Lunghai
China
Nantao
International Settlement
Japan
London
Daily Express
Britain
Foreign Office
Reuters
New Asia Hotel
Lunghai Railway
Tsonhsien
Shantung Province
Counsel Asked To Rule On Legality Of Double Feature
Chicago report notes Alderman Lindell asked Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes to rule on whether double features are legal. The city council subcommittee considers banning long shows as potentially unhealthful for children.
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Chicago
INS
Barnet Hodes
Arthur G. Lindell
Charles H Swab 80, Cedar Rapids Hardware Pioneer
Charles H Swab, 80, lifelong Cedar Rapids resident, died at his home at 428 B avenue NW after a brief illness. Born Oct 27, 1857, to Bohemian parents, he ran a hardware business for 46 years before retiring in 1926 to travel the world, including a 1926 27 trip. he lived most of his life on the B avenue corner.
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Charles H Swab
B Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Mr Swab
Bohemia
Mr. Swab
B Avenue
Second
Third Streets
First Avenue
Swab
World
Mattern Plans Nonstop Round World Flight From Paris
Gar land Lincoln says Jimmy Mattern aims for a spring nonstop round world flight. He will take off from Paris and land there, with mid air refuelings in northern Canada Russia and two other European points.
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Los Angeles
Garland Lincoln
Jimmy Mattern
Alaska
Mattern
Paris
France
United States
Canada
Russia
Foreclosures Drop 17 Percent in 1937 Nine Months
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board reports non farm real estate foreclosures for January through November 1937 fell 17 percent from the prior year, totaling 141 717 versus 170 822 in 1936. Large cities led the decline with Detroit down 75 percent, while Iowa showed a 5.8 percent rise.
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Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Detroit
Iowa
Mercury Dips To Four Below In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids endured the coldest stretch of winter with the mercury at four below from 6 am to 9 30 am on Saturday and rising to four above by 1 45 pm The streak followed a low of one below on December 8 per Chambers Inc readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inckeep Company
Lindbergh Reward Decision to Be Announced Monday
In Trenton New Jersey Gov Harold Hoffman will reveal the winner of the 25000 dollar Lindbergh reward Monday afternoon following days of speculation. The governor stated the decision would end the suspense and name the recipient.
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Trenton
N. J
INS
Harold Hoffman
Accused Check Artist Baack Captured After Accident Arrests
Cedar Rapids painter Otto H Baack 38 confessed to being a long sought check forger after reporting a car crash at the police station Friday night. Sheriff James H Smith said Baack admitted he was the man wanted for widespread forgeries in Cedar Rapids and vicinity for nearly two years. The case outlines a pattern of small forged checks totaling more than 117 dollars, with many endorsements listing vacant lots as addresses and payees including multiple local firms.
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Otto H Baack
Cedar Rapids
Baack
James H. Smith
Henry Vyskocil
I Avenue NE
First Avenue W
Joe V. Zastera
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Smith
Ed Holden
Ed Beckmann
Orlo Baker
George Fuller
Howard Miller
Ed Eilers
Charles Becker
Leo Adams
George Davis
George Blake
Charles Hogan
Duster Brothers
A. H. Rundquist
Barge Pharmacy
Ben Lastuvka
Cedar Rapids Hardware Company
Small’s Pharmacy
W. Heynen
Rowell Hardware Company
Sioux City
Anamosa Reformatory
Linn County
Wallace Says 10 Year Crop Control Needed
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace urged likely ten year crop control as the reciprocal trade approach lags. He spoke at the Iowa Jackson day dinner and discussed foreign trade deals to restore markets, noting Britain now buys only 6 or 7 percent of US pork.
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Des Moines
Henry A Wallace
Cordell Hull
Wallace
Iowa
Great Britain
America
United States
Senate
House
Chinese Reds Meet To Map Resistance
In Hankow China the seventh national congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened Saturday to plan strengthened cooperation with the government in resisting Japan. The agenda calls for mobilizing China's vast labor class to participate in the war effort.
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Hankow
China
National Congress
Chinese Communist Party
Japan
New Deal Will Pay Homage to Jackson
About 1,000 loyal New Dealers will gather in a Washington hotel for a $100 plate tribute to Andrew Jackson and hear President Roosevelt discuss the forces behind the current business recession. The speech will be broadcast on major radio networks.
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Washington
INS
Andrew Jackson
Roosevelt
Jackson day dinners and Roosevelt address set for Des Moines radio broadcast
Secretary Henry Wallace and Iowa Governor Nels Kraschel plan Jackson day remarks in Des Moines tonight broadcast by KSO from 9 to 9 45 p m with Farley introducing from New York where 1200 dine at 50 dollars a plate. Prices for smaller cities range five to ten dollars and millions will listen at home. Roosevelt’s forthcoming address aims to outline tax, wage, crop and purchasing power policies as leaders expect hard critique of large corporations.
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Des Moines
Jackson Day
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Nels Kraschel
Iowa
KSO
James A. Farley
New York
Big Jim Farley
Mr. Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Vandenberg Faults Policy as Cause of Recession Clash
Senator Vandenberg charges that a real cooperative plan by business labor and government cannot work until the administration abandons mixed signals and repeals the surplus profits tax. He denounces the Roosevelt Ickes Jackson speeches and warns the New Deal faces paradoxes while urging consistent long term action. Meanwhile a Senate committee proposes a temporary program to halt the recession through higher federal spending tax revisions and closer business government cooperation.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Midh
Vandenberg
Roosevelt
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Jackson
Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee
Byrnes
South Carolina
Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck
Robert H. Jackson
Ickes
Murray
Montana
America First Bill Targets Citizens Joining Nazis
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina unveiled a four part America First program in the Senate aimed at naturalized citizens who join Nazi or communist movements. The measures include deportation for those advocating subversive principles, criminal penalties for racial or religious discrimination, a one year immigration pause for permanent residents, and deportation of habitual criminals alongside a defense boost to safeguard rights.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Reynolds
North Carolina
America First
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Otto H. Baack
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