Lewis predicts 1940 defeat if Roosevelt seeks third term
CIO chief John L. Lewis warns delegates that drafting Franklin D Roosevelt for a third term would lead to ignominious defeat. He argues the Democratic Party is failing to solve unemployment and economy and urges labor to back a new nominee with a rational platform.
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Columbus
CIO
John L. Lewis
Democratic Party
United Fire Workers
Roosevelt
Lewis
UMW
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Slippery paving blamed for crash injuring two in Cedar Rapids
At 2 15 p m Wednesday a car skidded on ice slick pavement at Sixteenth avenue and Eleventh street SW and was struck by cattle truck driven by William Fearneyhough of Hartwick. Mrs Sadie B Gage 63 and her husband Joseph suffered injuries and were treated at St Lukes hospital. No charges will be filed.
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Sixteenth Avenue
Eleventh Street
Sadie B. Gage
Eighteenth Avenue
Joseph
Gage
St. Luke's Hospital
William Fearneyhough
Hartwick
Mr. Gage
Fearneyhough
Browder Conviction Decried by Soviet Press
Moscow dispatch reports the Soviet press calling Earl Browder’s New York falsification conviction a blow to the working class and to progressives in America who oppose war.
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Moscow
Earl Browder
York
America
Mercury Drops Fast As New Sub Zero Wave Hits Iowa
DES MOINES Winter struck Iowa with renewed vigor as sub zero temperatures and a brisk northwest wind produced widespread cold. Forecasters warned of little relief before Friday with temperatures as low as 30 degrees below zero in the northwest and 10 below in the southeast. Spirit Lake registered 16 below, western Iowa averaged 25 below normal, and a few areas saw light snow flurries under clear skies.
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Mercury
Iowa
Des Moines
Spirit Lake
Cold Snap Grips Cedar Rapids With Sharp Temp Drops
The Cedar Rapids cold wave pushed mercury down seven degrees between 7 and 10 a.m. readings from Chambers Inskeep show 6 below at that time and 5 below by 1 p.m. A slight afternoon rise to 2 below at 2 45 p.m. followed a day that started with 1 above at 7 a.m. and ended with a steady decline after a high of 8 above Tuesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Severe winter grips the nation with deep snows
A brutal Arctic air mass brings heavy snow from the Texas panhandle to Georgia and the deep south while the far east sees up to 12 inches. Roads delay and temperatures fall across the Midwest as one of the region’s coldest spells in a decade unfolds.
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Arctic Circle
Texas Panhandle
Middle Georgia
Far East
Midwest
Nye to Replace Borah on Foreign Relations Council
Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, a leading isolationist, will be appointed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to succeed the late Senator William Borah of Idaho. Nye's selection follows senate seniority rules and will be announced once a Borah successor is named. Nye opposed the administration’s neutrality act, but the committee’s stance on foreign policy is not expected to change.
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Washington
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William E. Borah
Ida
Nye
Congress
Senate
Borah
Warren R. Austin
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mass
Dewey vows balanced budget and tax relief plan in Boston
In a Boston rally, Thomas E. Dewey pledged a balanced budget under a Republican administration and argued the budget can be reduced to a reasonable figure. He urged freeing private enterprise to cut unemployment and warned of debt if the New Deal continues.
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Boston
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Bay State
Mechanics’ Hall
New York
G.O.P
Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Women's Republican Club of
Business and Professional Women’s Republican Club of
NBC
Radio Drama Blamed for Sinking Ship Hoax Off Cape Cod
Boston AP report says Captain Byron C. Brown confessed he misheard a dramatized radio program when he told coast guards he heard an SOS from a sinking ship near Nantucket. Five coast guard boats and a destroyer searched Vine yard sound all night, no wreck found. Brown was convicted of simple drunkenness in Edgartown district court. case continued for one week. Brown had previously reported a distress call from a schooner near Block Island. The incident follows two weeks after the earlier false alert.
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Coastguard
Cape Cod
Byron C. Brown
Nantucket
Republic
Brown
Edgartown
Breckenridge
Vineyard Sound
Coast Guard
General Greene
Block Island
Army Register
Dr Thomas Green Dies Noted Cedar Rapids Leader at 82
Dr Thomas E Green 82 former rector of Grace Episcopal church Cedar Rapids died Wednesday in Takoma Park Hospital Washington DC He directed speaking services for the Red Cross and spent years on the chautauqua circuit He leaves two daughters Mrs Romaine Goodell and Mrs Hiter King Funeral arrangements await word Services likely Saturday in Washington He was a prominent lecturer and author with a long career in peace work and international service.
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Thomas E. Green
Red _—_ Cross
Cedar Rapids
Grace Episcopal Church
Takoma Park Hospital
Washington, D. C
Malcolm V. Bolton
Romaine Goodell
Minneapolis
Hiter King
New York City
Grace Church
Tommy
W. R. Boyd
Dr. Green
Sampson Bever
Boyd
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
American Peace Society
Mind quirks and famed thinkers under the magnifier
The column muses on how even brilliant minds falter under strange beliefs from Plato to Newton and Gandhi. It notes seas serpent tales and faith in chance, asks readers to reveal their own mental quirks, and signs off with a light, reflective prompt.
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Plato
Goethe
Olaus Magnus
Upsala
Isaac Newton
Gandhi
United Feature Syndicate. Inc
Polk Prosecutor Presses Senator for Bootlegging Facts
Polk County Attorney Francis J. Kuble again asks Senator Clyde L. Herring to reveal information for a grand jury probe into bootlegging in Des Moines. The inquiry, opening Thursday, subpoenas 14 officials and stems from Herring’s charges about liquor control practices and a major illicit liquor flow into the city.
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Des Moines
Polk
Francis J. Kuble
Clyde L. Herring
Grand Jury
Herring
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Kuble
Polk County Grand Jury
Duke of Windsor Returns to Paris After London Stop
The Duke of Windsor flew back to Paris on Wednesday following a short visit to London. He was unaccompanied by the duchess and officials gave no reason for the trip.
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London
Duke of Windsor
Paris
The Road to Bagdad Serial Opens in The Gazette
George Gibbs begins a new serial set in the Orient filled with intrigue espionage and romance. A young American girl a dashing British secret agent a Muslim chief and a Syrian sheik move through Arab conflict in the Near East as dual roles unfold amid international entanglements.
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Bagdad
George Gibbs
The
Gazette
Orient
Near East
British destroyer Exmouth sunk by torpedo or mine
The British destroyer Exmouth was sunk in the North Sea with the loss of nearly 200 crew, marking the fifth destroyer and twenty third British naval vessel sunk since war began. The flotilla leader carried 175 men, built 1934, and was reported on the twenty fifth anniversary of Dogger Bank.
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Exmouth
North Sea
Admiralty
Dogger Bank
Germany
Britain
Courageous
English Channel
Royal Oak
Scapa Flow
Rawalpindi
Iceland
Admiral Graf Spee
Winston Churchill
Sydfold
Baltanglon
Pluto
English
Foxen
Norman Baker and Two Others Convicted in Mail Fraud Case
Norman Baker aged 56, longtime Iowa political figure, and two associates were found guilty by a federal jury in Little Rock on seven counts alleging mail fraud in the promotion of a claimed cancer cure. The verdict followed 16 days of testimony from patients and doctors.
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Norman Baker
Little Rock, Ark
Iowa
Baker
R. A. Bellows
Baker Institute
Muscatine
Baker Hospital
Eureka Springs
Ark
J. L. Statler
London Paris correspondent bets no major Western Front offensive
Paul Ward, Baltimore Sun correspondent in Europe, returns on the liner Manhattan after three years in London and Paris. He says there is only one certainty in Europe, that there will be no major offensive by either Germany or the Allies on the western front.
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NEW York (Ap
Paul Ward
Baltimore Sun
Europe
Manhattan
London
Paris
Germany
Common frontier claimed between Germany and Romania
Paris Soir reported that Romania and Germany now share a common frontier based on Bulgarian press stories. The piece, datelined from the Russian frontier, cites Jan 14 talks in Moscow between Molotov and Schulenburg and in Berlin between Ribbentrop and Schwartzeff about shifting Galician borders that would make Romania and the Reich neighbors.
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Paris
Paris Soir
Rumania
Germany
Soir
V. M. Molotoff
Frederic Werner Graf von Schulenburg
Moscow
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Alexander Schwartzeff
Berlin
Netherlands restores periodic military leaves
Amsterdam reports the government has restored periodic leaves for the military services ten days after cancellation amid a belief that invasion dangers have lessened. Belgium also restored army leaves.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Belgium
Court Officials And Police Clash Over Parking Rules
Court officials and the traffic department clashed over overtime parking during bad weather. Judge Powell and Assistant City Attorney Johnson sparred with Chief Vinch who argued downtown cars monopolize spaces and others suffer delays. Three drivers were excused, two fines refunded, and policy during blizzards reiterated to enforce overtime parking only when weather permits fair access.
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Thomas B. Powell
Harry Johnson
Bob Vinch
Powell
Vlad
Weldon L. Cargin
Second Avenue
Eugene J. Hedlund
Fourth Street
M. A. Patten
Steve Stolba
Ed Rathje
G Avenue
L. A
Senate group approves bank fund increase
The Senate Banking Committee for a 17-2 vote approved a 100 million dollar increase in the Export-Import Bank revolving fund. A 30 million cap on Finland loans, no arms purchases, and international law compliance are stated conditions. The measure moves to the Foreign Relations Committee for further action.
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Senate Group
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Export-Import Bank
Finland
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
R. Walton Moore
State Department
Robert A. Taft
Danaher
Conn
Taft
South America
Unionist Indicted Claims Sherman Act Not Aimed at Labor
New York AP reports Joseph P. Ryan president of the International Longshoremen's Association argued the Sherman anti trust act was never intended to apply to labor unions. The indictment accuses Ryan and 10 other ILA officials of coercion to force lumber-dealers' workers to abandon a Congress of Industrial Organizations union for the ILA.
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New York
Joseph P. Ryan
International Longshoremen’'s Association
Congress
Congress of Industrial Organizations
ILA
American Federation of Labor
Ryan
Death rate from pneumonia drops as cold wave hits
Washington officials of the public health service said the death rate from pneumonia was decreasing this winter, down 19 percent from the five year average. Meanwhile cases of colds and influenza rose about 30 percent above normal.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Baer Skeptical on Real Budget Balance
Arthur Bugs Baer writes from Washington that balancing the budget is a healthy idea but unlikely. He compares the budget to a lopsided ape’s grin and faults the administration for chasing parity while outcomes remain uneven and fishy.
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