Editorials warn of free press erosion across nations
The piece notes a wave of editorials sparked by Carl Ackerman’s world press survey warning that freer media shrink as dictators rise. It argues U S editors fear muzzling, urges fearless reporting, and critiques government influence on radio and press accountability.
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Iowa
Carl W. Ackerman
Columbia University
School of Journalism
Dean Ackerman
Dean
NRA
United States
Soviet Troop Report Sparks Far East Alarm
Shanghai dispatches claim forty thousand Soviet troops entered Outer Mongolia amid rising Sino Japanese tensions. The reports cite a mutual aid pact with Outer Mongolia and possible Soviet air support to China as Japan tightens defenses and suppresses potential aid channels.
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Shanghai
INS
Outer Mongolia
Tsingtao
Tsining
Shantung
Mongolia
China
Far East
Hankow
Soviet Union
Japan
Japan launches secret naval rearmament to challenge US
International News Service reports that Japan has secretly begun a vast naval rearmament drive intended to erase American superiority at sea. If war reached Japanese waters, Nippon's fleet could match or surpass the United States in strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Japan
America
International News Service
United States
Nippon
Hold Couple For Slugging Robbing North Liberty Man
A North Liberty man, Ted Miller, was slugged and robbed of 70 dollars after Tuesday evening. Police arrested Elmer Briles and Omas See on Wednesday night on robbery with aggravation charges. Both suspects, ages 28 and 39, were taken on warrants after Miller told County Attorney Thompson what happened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Miller
North Liberty
Elmer “Speed” Briles
Fruitland Boulevard
Omas See
Thirty-sixth Street
Helen Miller
Briles
Miss See
H. R. Churchill
Miller
G. K. Thompson
Cattle in Iowa Feed Lots Up by 20 Percent
Iowa cattle feeders had about 20 percent more cattle in feed lots on January 1 than a year earlier, with sharp gains in western and southern Iowa where drought hit supplies in 1936. Other regions were near last year’s levels as corn stocks improved and feeding rose in less-stressed areas.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago
Federal Agricultural Department
Leslie M. Carl
Federal Agricultural Statistician
North Central
Central
East Central
Carl
Agriculture Department
Fatal disruption ends wife trading divorce hearing in Salem
In Topsfield divorce case over alleged wife swapping a stepfather collapsed on the witness stand and died soon after in an anteroom. Judge Edward B. O'Brien halted proceedings as Lyman G. Smith 59, stepfather of Raymond S. Lee, fell ill while about to testify. Esther A. Davis testified that an agreement seemed to exist among Calvin M Watson and Raymond S Lee’s spouses.
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Salem
Mass
Topsfield
Edward B. O’brien
Lyman G. Smith
Raymond S. Lee
Esther A. Davis
Calvin M. Watson
Watson
Lee
Falls in Love with Daughter Kills Her and Himself
Westmoreland County coroner reports a Redstone Township man, 47, killed his 17 year old daughter Nellie after revealing a romantic relationship and then took his own life. The double tragedy, found in the daughter's living room, was ruled murder and death by own action based on letters found in Nellie's purse confirming the forbidden bond.
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Scottdale
Westmoreland County
H. A. McMurray
Redstone Township
Nelson Meese
Nellie
Meese
McMurray
Jesse
Abandonment of Panay Salvage Effort Announced
United States naval authorities said on Thursday that salvage operations for the American gunboat Panay, sunk by Japanese bombs on the Yangtze River December 12, were abandoned after the ship's safe and official papers were recovered.
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Shanghai
United States
Yangtze River
Bond Sales and Tax-Gathering Prove Expensive
Washington AP records show two administration activities, baby bonds and social security tax collection, cost unusually much. Kilby says small denomination bonds cost about 3.6 million from 1935–37 and about 6.1 million projected next two years, while Evans says social security tax collection costs 1.44 per 100. Quarterly filing may save about 4 million yearly. Morgenthau defends use of social security funds as required by law and act.
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Washington (Ap
Congressional
Administration
Edwin L. Kilby
The
Treasury
Public Debt Service
House Appropriations Committee
Kilby
Frederick I. Evans
Internal Revenue Bureau
Rep. Ludlow
Morgenthau
Highway workers injured by taxi on Route 151 near Marion
Walt M. Willis and T. J. Risden, state highway employees, were clearing snow on Route 151 when a taxi driven by Fat Gallagher struck Willis, injuring him with a fractured left leg. Gallagher, charged with reckless driving, posted bond and pled not guilty. Ed Wild and Mrs. Wild were not injured. three cab passengers escaped harm.
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Walt M. Willis
Ninth Avenue
Marion
Fat Gallagher
Fifth Street
Highway 151
James H. Smith
Ed Wild
Viola
Willis
State Highway Commission
T. J. Risden
Wild
St. Luke’s Hospital
F. A. Peterson
Larry Condon
Gallagher
H. R. Churchill
Risden
Condon
Don Steggall
Sixth’ Avenue SE
H. D. Sheehy
Springville
Marvin E. Chisman
Cancer as a social cancer in world mind says Maude Royden
The essay argues cancer symbolizes unchecked selfishness in humanity. It links cellular selfishness to national and religious divisions, warning that unity is essential for society’s survival as diseases like cancer spread through isolation and discord.
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Maude Royden
St. Paul
Hull calls parley in Robinson case
Secretary Cordell Hull, angered by Soviet failure to answer official inquiries about Mr and Mrs Donald L Robinson, summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky to the State Department for a conference. Hull sought why the Soviet government did not reply to a formal inquiry regarding Ruth Marie Rubens identified as Mrs Robinson, who vanished from a Moscow hotel in December.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Donald L. Robinson
Alexander Troyanovsky
State Department
Hull
Ruth Marie Rubens
Robinson
Moscow
Wording changes drop written contracts in farm relief plan
Washington AP reports that ten contracts with corn and wheat growers are dropped from the ever normal granary programs as conferees draft a new farm bill. Senator Pope says the joint committee scrapped the contract provision while Smith calls the bill a mess. talks turn to offers by the secretary of agriculture instead of formal contracts.
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Washington
Pope
Idaho
Senate
Joint Congressional Committee
House
Smith
LL. C
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Idahoan
Secretary of Agriculture
Supreme Court
Midwest
Agriculture Department
Wallace
Picture Book Leads Father to Skull Injury Discovery
A distressed father bought a ten cent picture book to comfort his five year old after a Christmas Eve fall on ice. The girl later became blind from a skull fracture discovered by X ray, prompting city officials to consider aid while the family seeks medical bills.
Interior Dept Wire Tapping Probe Ties Burlew Nomination
Senate public lands committee votes to investigate wire tapping at the Interior Department as it reviews E K Burlew for first assistant secretary. Louis Glavis to testify about spying, while Burlew defends his lack of involvement in related fraud tied to CCC vouchers.
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John R. McCarl
Elliott
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Washington
Senate
Interior Department
E K. Burlew
Steiner
Ore
Public Lands Committee
Louis R. Glavis
Burlew
Pittman
Nev
CCC
Reno Stirley
National Park Service
Cardozo Weak but Shows Some Improvement
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, 67, remained gravely ill in Washington as doctors reported no change in his condition after a month of illness from shingles and subsequent heart attacks. Flowers were sent by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited with President Roosevelt.
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Washington
INS
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Franklin PD. Roosevelt
Cardozo
Treasury and Post Office Funding Slashed in House Bill
The House appropriations committee reported favorably a 1.515 billion dollar treasury and post office bill, cutting 60.8 million from current year funds. It tasks Roosevelt era economy goals, lowers 1939 year estimates by 7.9 million, and lists 725.9 million for treasury with 115 million reappropriated social security funds. Post office is set at 789.7 million, up 4.9 million from 1938 but 3.45 million below budget.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury and Post Office
Roosevelt
Treasury
Post Office
Cedar Rapids sees sudden warm up after frigid start
Clouds battled sun as Cedar Rapids temperatures spiked from 2 degrees at 4 30 a m to 31 degrees by 2 30 p m The day began with subfreezing readings and reached a high of 31 while Wednesday posted a 24 degree high and dropped to 11 by midnight according to Chambers Inskeep graphs
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Roosevelt seeks 39.75 million for sugar quota costs
President Roosevelt on Thursday sent to Congress a supplemental budget request totaling 39,750,000 dollars to cover administration costs of the sugar quota act and an additional 1,279,417 dollars for the forest service to help fight forest fires.
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Washington
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Congress
William D. Leahy
INS
Forest Service
Unemployment Survey Projects 150000 Jobs By Month End
United Press survey of all 12 Federal Reserve districts shows about 150000 jobless would find work by month end and 10 of 12 districts expect improvement before April. It notes many workers now on part time and spread the work plans, with payrolls down in line with hours cut.
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New York
Federal Reserve
United Press
Iowa
Hoover to Visit Belgium Recalling Wartime Relief Work
Former President Herbert Hoover accepted an invitation from the Belgian ambassador to revisit the wartime relief field. He will sail from New York February 8 with Paul C. Smith, San Francisco Chronicle general manager and Hoover friend. The Hoover home said the trip carries no political implications.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Washington
New York
Paul C Smith
San Francisco Chronicle
Hoover
Belgium
Recovery Subject Is Like Surgery Patient With Many Ailments
A Baer column uses a medical metaphor to argue that recovery depends on cooperation, wages, buying power, production and distribution amid political noise. The piece compares the economy to a patient on an operating table with gall stones liver trouble tumors intestinal disorders and ulcers.
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Verne Marshall
Roper
White House
Moines Tribune
Bulletin
Nantao
Cedar Rapids News
Daughter
Panay
DR. Newton
Interior Dept
J. P. Earnest, Jr
Arthur “Nugs” Baer
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