Scout movement advances in Linn Benton and Jones counties
The Cedar Rapids area council reports 1938 gains in Scouts Cubs and leaders with 2,004 on rolls, four new troops and four new Cub packs, 52 troops and 18 packs total. Frank W Braden of New York City delivers the principal address at the Montrose hotel, while officers are elected and reports given.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Benton
Jones
Montrose Hotel
Area Council
Frank W. Braden
New York City
Scout
Three County
Nazis Seek Parity With Britain in Naval Strength
Great Britain received a German note Friday confirming the Nazi government's aim to match the British navy in submarines and to construct five 10,000 ton cruisers armed with eight inch guns.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Daughters Of Host Robbed Neighbors By Guests
Cleveland police say two house guests Payton Wilson 28 and Quentin Wilson 22 who wooed the Inglefield daughters confessed to numerous holdups from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Payton wooed 18 year old Lillian and Quentin dated Kathleen 21. The brothers stayed at the home for two or three days during several visits before committing robberies in Nashville Memphis and New Orleans.
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Cleveland (Ap
Julian P. Inglefield
British Air Corps
Payton Wilson
Quentin Wilson
Joseph Manley
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Lillian Inglefield
New Orleans
Kathleen
Lillian
Payton
Inglefield
Manley
Nashville
Memphis
Students Paid for Plays in Carolina Folk Plays
In Chapel Hill, UNC drama professor Frederick H. Koch’s Carolina Playmakers distributed over $200 in royalties to members whose plays appeared in Carolina Folk Plays. The fund rewards students for their classwork published works.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Frederick H. Koch
University of North Carolina
Koch
Carolina Playmakers
Helium Volume Needed to Lift 200 pounds
Approximately 3 200 cubic feet of helium at 95 to 98 percent purity is required to support a load of 200 pounds.
New Guard Keeps Calm as Death Row Inmate Demands Exit
In Florence Arizona a death row inmate shouts to be released. A new guard calms him and the warden then unlocks the cell. Reverend Lambreth E Hancock walks out after five hours of confinement.
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Florence, Ariz
Arizona Penitentiary
Death Row
Lambreth E. Hancock
James Roosevelt to Work in New York on Routine Business
James Roosevelt, the President's son, said he would stay in New York for several weeks on routine business. He arrived Thursday night by air from Hollywood.
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James Roosevelt
N., Y. Newark
N. J
New York
Hollywood
Britain Arms Police as Bomb Scare Persists
Britain arms its police with handguns amid a five day bombing campaign targeting power and water facilities. The attack injured no one, but Chancellor Chamberlain's son was unharmed after a hotel explosion in Tralee. The Royal Ulster Constabulary stepped up patrols in Northern Ireland as authorities blamed the Irish Republican Army. Prime Minister Chamberlain received an apology from Irish leader Eamon de Valera.
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London
Great Britain
Tralee
Ireland
Frank Chamberlain
British Isles
Irish Republican Army
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Northern Ireland
The
Daily Mail
Eamon de Valera
Chamberlain
de Valera
Philippines Reject Jap Request To Use Isle Iron Deposits
Manila reports the Commonwealth government flatly rejected Japan’s bid to develop the Surigao iron deposits in the Philippine islands. Tokyo offered coking coal from captured North China fields in exchange, but the offer was refused as the Philippines weighs its raw material needs during the Chinese campaign.
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Philippines
Isle Iron
Manila
P. I
INS
Japan
Surigao
Philippine Islands
China
Surigao Coal Deposits among World’s Richest
The text notes Surigao deposits at Mindanao’s northern tip described by geologists as among the world’s richest. It adds that government aid was unwilling for templated industrial projects and for making Japan’s war self paying.
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Japan
Surigao
Mindanao Island
Chinese bootlegger falls from wall while smuggling wine
In Peiping the city’s sole bootlegger Chi Yung-shan is jailed after dropping from the ancient wall while trying to scale it with a wine cargo to dodge revenue collectors at the gate.
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Peiping
Chi Yung-shan
O Nea l Praises President Roosevelt at Farm Bureau
Edward A O Neal of Chicago and president of the American Farm Bureau federation drew applause at the Kentucky Farm Bureau convention in Louisville as he called President Roosevelt the best friend the American farmer ever had.
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O’neal
D. BR
Louisville
Edward, A. O’neal
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Roosevelt
Kentucky Farm Bureau
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Kingston
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Waubeek
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Chester Johnson
B. J. Newburger
J. H. Bormann
W. J. Brown
Ray L. Short
E. M. Pinney
N. Harold West
James C. Manville
A. C. Deamer
Harry M. Gage
Martin Kehoe
L. D. Dennis
M. J. Tracy
Mark Anderson
F. Critz Hahn
Howard H. Cherry
J. Harold Horan
Henry Haegg
Stewart Holmes
Robert Moody
N. C. Dreier
Court of Honor
Fred J. Payneer
Reginald B. Figge
Harry W. Fraser
Clare
Henry Scherer
L. E. Bigger
Mount Vernon
Lisbon
W. D. Little
Belle Plaine
Karl Fischer
Vinton
M. Lanner
Anamosa
M. R. Taper
Monticello
H. 0. Williams
Center Point
Central City
Coggon
Kenneth Cornell
Marion
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Maria “Ria” Gable
Clark Gable
Nevada
Santa Anita
Univis Lenses
Dr. J. C. Landenberger Optometrist
Third Street SE
Congress
Spain
Henry Cabott Lodge, Jr
Massachusetts
Charles E. Coughlin
New Guard
Britain
Hardendorf
Stewart Warner
Filmo
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Bepshlole
Chesterfield
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Marylin Meseke
Ohio
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Clarks Factory
Bert Gar
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