Radio stars ready to strike across major cities
Nearly 2,000 AFP members in Chicago voted to strike for higher wages after AFRA blocked wage demands. New York followed suit. Los Angeles and San Francisco ballots were planned. Four-A's counter offers and high weekly pay implications for 15 minute, 30 minute, and 60 minute programs circulated as major shows from four cities could be silenced.
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Chicago
American Federation of Radio Artists
National Executive Board
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
American Association of Advertising Agencies
A.F.R.A
A. F. of L
Eddie Cantor
Af.r.a
four-A’s
Jack Benny
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Bing Crosby
Rudy Vallee
Phil Baker
Labor official sent to mediate showing radio strike
Secretary of Labor Perkins dispatched Commissioner Charles J. Post to New York to meet with radio artists led by Eddie Cantor and radio employers amid a threatened strike.
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Washington
INS
Perkins
Charles J. Post
Post
New York
Eddie Cantor
Des Moines Search for Des Moines Forgery Suspect Loomis
Linn county officials pursue Horace E. Loomis a 32 year old Cedar Rapids bookkeeper wanted on forgery charges. Police traced 15 checks totaling over 700 dollars while Loomis served at Johnson Gas Appliance company and forged signatures including H G O'Donnell. A Des Moines lead tied to a car Loomis rented near Jan 10 to his last Cedar Rapids sighting. Authorities warn the total might near 1000 dollars with checks drawn on Merchants National Bank. Loomis worked four months at the Cedar Rapids firm.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Des Moines
Horace E. Loomis
G. K. Thompson
Jim Smith
Loomis
Johnson Gas Appliance Company
E Avenue NW
H. G. O'Donnell
Smith
Cedar ‘Rapids
Begin with me and you to end democracy’s gloom
A 1939 reflection urges personal moral reform to heal society. It argues democracy relies on individual action, condemns apathy, and calls readers to change thoughts and conduct today to foster peace and good will. It emphasizes self-examination, kindness, and rejecting prejudice as foundations for public life.
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Church
DR. Newton
Acquit Bugs Moran Of Conspiracy Count
Chicago police hustle Moran Frankie Parker and Frank Hicketts faced conspiracy charges over an alleged plot to forge and cash 500000 in travelers checks. A jury acquitted them after under four hours deliberation and the state planned to push other indictments.
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Chicago
George
Bugs) Moran
Moran
Frankie Parker
Frank Hicketts
Robert Wright
Northwood Liquor Store Robbed in Nighttime Heist
A lone bandit robbed Northwood liquor store Friday night around 6 30 pm taking between 50 and 75 dollars from the cash drawer. Assistant manager Palmer Horgen was forced at gunpoint to open the rear cage as the suspect fled after attempting to flee when trapped by a chair. Manager Stanley Wold had moved most receipts to the safe moments earlier.
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Northwood
Betwen
Palmer Horgen
Horgen
Hor~gen
Stanley Wold
Senate approves 725 million WPA relief bill
The Senate appropriations committee approved a 725 million dollar WPA relief bill by 17 to 7 after House approval. The measure funds work relief through June 30 and faces a Senate floor test next week with a fight expected to restore 150 million dollars.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Adams
Cole
Appropriations Committee
Sinclair Lewis to relinquish role in Angela Is Twenty-Two
Sinclair Lewis announced in Minneapolis that he will give up his part in Angela Is Twenty-Two to Philip Merivale. The move follows critics' remarks on his acting and occurs as Helen Hayes stars in Mary of Scotland.
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Voelkischer Beobachter
United States
Squirrels Prompt Residents to Oppose Friendly Neighborhood Pets
In Narbeth Pennsylvania residents protested to game protectors that squirrels have become too friendly. They claim squirrels enter second story windows from overhanging branches chew woodwork and patter over walls both day and night, disrupting homes.
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Narberth
UAW Leaders Impeach Martin Amid Union Split For Ford Ties
Fifteen suspended UAW executive board members impeached President Homer Martin as the rift widens into rival factions. They charged him with conspiracy with Ford and other offenses while Martin set to convene a Detroit meeting, prompting a legal showdown over which convention is valid.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers Union
Homer Martin
Henry Ford
Martin Friday
Martin
Cleveland
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Ford Motor Company
Labor
UAW
CIO
Unon
Hitler
Harry Bennett
Ford Service Department
Bennett
Ford Company
Ford
Liberty Legion of America
Rebels Drive Faces Setback Near Igualada
From Hendaye at the Spanish frontier Gen Franco reports a major push toward Barcelona. Insurgents lose Igualada to government counterattack and fall back as loyalists withdraw 53 villages. Nationalists claim progress with Tarragona overwhelmed and 30 miles from Madrid.
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Hendaye
France
Barcelona
Igualada
Francisco Franco
Count of
Montseny
Madrid
Vendrell
Tarragona
Boulder newspaper tea dances end in losses
The Colorado University student staff staged a dime-a-person tea dance to fund trips for the editor and business manager to a convention but finished eight dollars in the red. A follow-up “get-out-of-the-red” dance lost seven dollars, ending the journalistic tea dance season.
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Boulder, Colo
Colorado University
Eliminating Politics From Relief Commentary
A sharp column by Arthur Bugs Baer compares removing politics from relief to separating eggs from an omelet. The piece mocks the Senate action on Harry Hopkins and ridicules political reform efforts amid wartime prosperity and public scrutiny.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Iowa leads nation with record cash farm income in 1938
Iowa farmers earned 541.077 million dollars in 1938 from crop and livestock sales plus government benefits, the highest among states. The gain over 1937 was 32.435 million. Crops 101.402 million. livestock 409.956 million. benefits 29.719 million. December income 51.519 million. National cash farm income 7.632 billion.
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Washington
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Iowa State College
AmesNwhao
Department
U. S
South Dakota
Vermont
Maid Says Horlick Heiress Incompetent In Will Case
Mrs. Mae Harrison a Riverside maid testified she believed Maybelle Horlick Sidley could not handle simple business when she made her will. Harrison, Sidley’s former personal maid of fourteen years, testified for William Horlick Sidley who seeks to invalidate the will. Her testimony could cost her a $5,000 bequest under the contested will.
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Racine, Wis
Mae Harrison
Maybelle Horlick Sidley
Mrs. Clark Gable Establishes Nevada residence
Mrs. Clark Gable, estranged wife of the actor, moved into a Las Vegas home Saturday to establish legal residence for filing a divorce complaint against her husband. The report notes the action aims to begin formal proceedings in their separation.
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Las Vegas
Nev
INS
Clark Gable
Hitler Decree Broadens Nazi Army Training
Berlin reports Hitler moved to strengthen armed forces by ordering all able bodied men over 17 to train for military service except Jews and criminals. The decree upgrades the SA badge to a military fitness symbol and ties it to pre and post military instruction, signaling near-universal uniformed preparation.
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Berlin
Hitler
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Germany
Fuehrer
Schacht
Friedrich W. Dreyse
Rudolf Brinkmann
Ork Hitler
Storm
Storm Troop
Goering
George Rublee
Intergovernmental Refugee Committee
Rublee
Paris
Paul Joseph Goebbels
United States
Keller Urges Denial of Funds for Un-American Activities Committee
Rep. Kent E. Keller says the House Committee on Un-American Activities pursues partisan politics and should be denied funds to continue its investigation. He criticized the committee and its procedures in a nationwide radio address.
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Washington
Kent E. Keller
House Committee
Congress
Keller
Committee
Iowa braces for Arctic cold wave this weekend
Des Moines AP reports a brutal cold front will sweep Iowa bringing 10 below zero by Monday morning with strong winds and light eastern snow. Des Moines stood at 42 degrees early Saturday, well above normal, as Edmonton and Edmonton’s nearby stations record far colder temps.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Edmonton
Alta
Nowa
Florida
Tampa
Fla
Omaha
Charles City
Yank Heiress Surprised by Ruppert Will Heirship
Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, heir to part of Col. Jacob Ruppert estate, says she is surprised and frightened. She met Ruppert years ago when a chorus girl and had no idea she would be named principal heiress in the $70 million will filed for probate.
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New York
Helen Winthrope Weyant
Jacob Ruppert
New York Yankees
Winthrope Wayne
Merry Malones
Miss Weyant
George Wellington Weyant
Winthrop
Mass
Ruppert
Mrs Holleran Named Inheritor Of Ruppert Estate
Clinton report states Mrs Joseph Holleran is named to inherit one third of Col Jacob Ruppert estate. Ruppert was brewer and owner of the New York Yankees. Holleran is Mrs Florent Joseph Holleran of Clinton. he works for a major New York financial firm and married Helen Silleck Ruppert's sister.
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Clinton
Joseph Holleran
Jacob Ruppert
New York Yankees
F. Joseph Holleran
Holleran
F. L. Holleran
New York Financial Institution
Helen Silleck
Henry Garrison Silleck, Jr
Ruppert
Resignation of Wallace aide Jesse W Tapp shocks capital
Jesse W Tapp a key aide to Secretary Wallace and head of the surplus commodities corporation resigns on Saturday. Milo R Perkins will succeed him as head of the federal surplus commodities corporation and AAA marketing programs. Tapp had directed large parts of the New Deal surplus buying for relief distributions. He will stay until Perkins starts.
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Washington
INS
Jesse W.tapp
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
New Deal
Tapp
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
AAA
Milo R. Perkins
Kentucky
Department
Ee Can Penprs
Ie Fasional Investors Corporation
New York
Perkins
Surplus Commodities Corporation
British Flying Boat Cavalier Down Near Maryland
Pan American Airways reported the Cavalier with 13 aboard is down and sinking 250 miles east of Ocean City Maryland after SOS. Coast guard boats and aircraft near Floyd Bennett Field and Cape May responded. passengers include Mrs George Ingham and others. crew list details Captain M R Alderson and Neil Richardson among five crew.
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New York
Pan American Airways
Cavalier
Washington
Coast Guard
British Imperial Airways
Bermuda
Ocean City
Norfolk
Baltimore
Cape May
N. J
Esso Baytown
Floyd Bennett Field
Champlain
Port Washington
Long Island
M. R. Alderson
Neil Richardson
Great Britain
George Ingham
Hamilton
Edna Watson
Donald Miller
Lincoln
Neb
Charles Talbot
Brookline
Mass
John Noakes
Malba
Nellie Smith
M.R. Alderson
Patrick Chapman
David Williams
Robert Sperice
Czech Foreign Minister Arrives for Talks with Ribbentrop
Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Czechoslovak foreign minister, arrived in Berlin on Saturday to hold talks with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The meeting centers on ongoing diplomatic discussions between Czechoslovakia and Germany.
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Berlin
Frantisek Chvalkovsky
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Meat Packer Head Dies in Chicago Office
William Whitfield Woods, president of the Institute of American Meat Packers, died of a heart attack Friday in his Chicago office. The sudden death occurred as Woods carried out his duties for the trade group.
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Chicago
INS
William Whitfield Woods
The
Institute of American Meat Packers
Rent Your Room or Apartment This Weekend Ad
Read the Sunday Gazette Want Ad section to reach tenants fast. Mrs L B Wright reports 12 calls and a rented sleeping room. O Allick says his unfurnished apartment rented after using the Want Ad with 15 callers. Dial 2 1121 before 8 tonight to start your ad.
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Gazette
L. B. Wright
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