Truce Reached By Horner In Illinois Area
Chicago police sought an unidentified Mexican linked to Sunday’s clash at Republic Steel in South Chicago as Governor Horner declared a 48 hour truce across Illinois steel regions. The strike escalated after Joseph Rothmand died from injuries, with 108 others hurt, while talks with Republic Steel and SWOC floated a government supervised election as a bargaining alternative.
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Chicago
John Prendergast
Republic Steel
Ilinois
Homer Monday
Republic Steel Corporation
Joseph Rothmand
Rothmand
Horner
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Igoe
Republic
Alfred Causey
Hammond
Ind
Father Enthy
Earl Hanley
Indiana Harbor Steel
Steel
Inland
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Degree by telephone from Oklahoma University
Eldon Sweezey earned a bachelor of science degree from Oklahoma University by telephone, graduating while far from campus. The remote ceremony highlights his timely achievement despite being over a thousand miles away.
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Washington
Eldon Sweezey
Sweezey
Oklahoma University
Truth and Beauty in the Face of Fear and Ugliness
A 1937 essay argues that truth can be ugly or beautiful and that modern cynicism seeks comforting untruths. It contrasts poets and cynics and praises Jesus as the source of ultimate truth and freedom from evil. The author cites John Keats and reflects on moral clarity amid skeptical times.
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John Keats
Jesus
Holiday Ushers In First Heat Wave 94 Here On Sunday
Memorial day observance in Cedar Rapids Sunday and Monday with fair skies as the first heat wave of summer. The mercury hit a year’s high of 94 at 3 p.m. on Sunday and rose to 85 at 10 a.m. Monday after a 70 degree low at 5 a.m. Sunday. The Sunday low was 70 at 4 a.m. The peak moved down to 86 by 7 p.m. and 72 at midnight. Previous year to date high was 93 on Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Lewis Pledges Aid To Ford Campaign As CIO Backs UAW
John L. Lewis pledged every aid of the CIO to the United Automobile Workers in organizing Henry Ford's 140,000 employees. A telegram published in The United Automobile Worker urged intensified campaigns and comprehensive union organization in Ford plants, as Homer Martin planned a Washington trip to discuss the drive.
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Detroit
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
United Automobile Workers of America
Henry Ford
Lewis
Auto Union
Ford Company
Homer Martin
UAW
Washington
United Automobile Worker
Frankensteen
Organized Labor
Ford
Identity Sought for Boy Killed on Highway 30
A 17-year-old boy was killed while bicycling on Highway 30 near the Linn county line. Sheriff Jim Smith and Deputy Leland Fry questioned E M Dennis and Mrs Nita Workman, who admitted involvement in the crash. Dennis claimed his car hit the rider with Workman driving. license numbers were later obtained by a passerby. The victim remained unidentified. a spectacle case marked Madison and Sanders Oak Park Illinois is the primary clue. Coroner Burrows reported skull fracture and crushed neck with no other injuries. the body still unidentified Monday night.
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Belle Plaine
E. M. Dennis
Cedar Rapids
Jim Smith
Smith
Highway
Linn
Dennis
Nita Workman
Otis Road
Sheriff's Office
State Highway Patrol
Loyalists Fear Path Opened Up To Rebels On Way To Almeria
Valencia reports Loyalist officials fear German bombardment of Almeria could enable Gen. Queipo de Llano’s forces to resume their coast march toward Almeria. Geneva appeals urged, and Italy’s new submarine blamed for sinking Ciudad de Barcelona with about 50 sailors missing. Germany’s anger over Deutschland bombardment prompts Valencia to accuse a pocket warship of firing on Loyalist recon planes.
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Almeria
Valencia
INS
Queipo de Jlano
Malaga
Geneva
League of Nations Council
Italy
Ciudad de Barcelona
Germany
Iviza
Marseilles
Barcelona
Thieves Crack Acme Hay and Feed Safe in Sioux City
Police hunt robbers after they cracked the Acme Hay and Feed safe in Sioux City and stole about 200 dollars. Detectives pursue leads as investigators catalog the scene and secure nearby exits. The incident highlights security concerns at local farm supply businesses.
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Sioux City
INS
Acme Hay and Feed Company
Present High Court In Last Meeting Today
The nine supreme court justices who invalidated the Roosevelt administration's industrial and farm policies but upheld its vital labor legislation meet for the last time to prepare for tests of utility regulation next year by a reconstituted tribunal. The term noted decisions upholding state minimum wage standards and social security, while pending cases threaten Roosevelt power policies next term. The court may decide whether to take petitions now pending on federal loans and grants to municipal power plants, affecting 56 projects if no ruling is issued this term.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Willis van Devanter
Maryland
Senate
Wagner
Nct
Public Works Administration
Buzzard's Roost
South Carolina
Alabama Power Co
Iowa City
Plan To Abolish Socialist Group On Nationwide Footing
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the socialists form the Social Democratic Federation from a three day convention of 19 states. The national executive committee convened to push a nationwide organization by 150 delegates who oppose Norman Thomas, labeling him a Trotzky communist. The move deepens the split from last year’s Cleveland socialist party convention.
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Pittsburgh
Social Democratic Federation
Federation
Norman Thomas
Trotzky
Socialist Party
Cleveland
Soviet Official Gamarnik Kills Himself in Moscow
Yan Gamarnik vice commissar of defense and head of the Red Army political department killed himself Monday night. The central executive committee of the Communist Party announced he had been linked to anti-Soviet elements. Gamarnik, 43, was a central committee member.
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Moscow
Yan Gamarnik
Communist Party
Gamarnik
Central Committee
Red Army
Troubles Of White House And Congress Ailments
A satirical column by Arthur Raer mocks White House Congress tensions. It jests that money fixes all, notes Roosevelt wants spending in his style, while Congress prefers a cooler budgetary hand. The piece claims 1 537000000 balances the 1938 budget, then questions the timing.
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White House
Congress
Arthur “Rugs" Raer
Mr. Roosevelt
Congressional
Drowning at Cedar River Suicide? Moline Youth Dies in Canoe Incident
Memorial day tragedy near Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids details a Moline youth Frank W. Kiene about 23 drowning after a canoe tipped during motorboat waves. Firemen, ambulance crew, and doctors failed to revive him after two hours. Four witnesses and coroner Dr. Munden supported a motorboat splash caused the mishap. The body identified by a pocket card. father A Kiene of Rock Island notified.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Frank W. Kiene
Moline
Ellis Park
Kiene
Jesse Clift
Donald Condon
Arthur Zimmerman
Dale McRoberts
James
Robert
Farr
Robert Wilson
Avenue NW
R. E.munden
Rock Island
Fifth Avenue
Germany declares Almeria raid act closed warship salvo
Germany asserts its warships destroyed the Spanish loyalist naval base at Almeria in reprisal for the Deutschland bombing and says the incident is ended. Foreign office says it is not an act of war and notes no diplomatic ties with Valencia. Germany also withdraws from the non intervention system and orders fire on approaching loyalist aircraft or ships for the duration of the current crisis.
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Berlin
Wth
Almeria
Germany
Foreign Office
Valencia
Non-Intervention
Lost items to recover with Gazette Decoration Day ad
Lost items over Decoration Day should be placed in The Gazette to recover them. Ad-taker notes want ads for Tuesday’s paper are taken until 12 o'clock noon Tuesday, dial 2-1121.
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Decoration Day
the Gazette
Italy To Stand With Nazis In Spanish Crisis
Rome reports Monday on the German bombardment of the Spanish port of Almeria. An official spokesman says Italian public opinion will back Germany in any steps the third reich deems necessary to avenge the Deutschland bombing. Mussolini at the summer home remains informed and in telephonic contact with ministers.
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Almeria
Spain
Germany
Third Reich
Berlatta
Palma
Mallorca
Mallorcan
Ibiza
League of Nations
I Messagero
Valencia
Moscow
Foreign Office
Benito Mussolini
Rocco Della Caminate
Twin sisters' date ends in shooting at Cincinnati home
A 16 year old girl Martha Spear was shot in the abdomen by a youth who had dated her twin sister Mary the night before. The attacker Chester Dew said he did not know the gun was loaded and later surrendered with his father. Martha was taken to General Hospital for a blood transfusion.
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Cincinnati
Martha Spear
General Hospital
Spear
Martha
Mary
Chester Dew
Frank Kortes
Streamliners Drive Surge in Tourist Travel to West
Chicago reports that trains speeding over a mile a minute are drawing more tourists from the east and south to Rocky Mountain summer resorts. Travel bureaus note inquiries rising, with visits likely to surpass recent records. Burlington's Albert Cotsworth cites reduced running times as a key factor.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountain
Albert Cotsworth
Burlington Railroad
Mitchell Backs U. S. Govt. Principles
Iowa Attorney General John Mitchell, speaking at Memorial Day ceremonies in Davenport, urged firm adherence to American government principles to prevent dictatorships. He endorsed the universal service act as a means to curb war profits and reduce the chances of future wars.
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Davenport
John Mitchell
Iowa
Europe
War scare grows as Nazis and Italy withdraw from non intervention council
Five German warships bombarded Almeria in reprisal for the Deutschland attack, killing nearly 100 and triggering a European war scare. Germany and Italy renounced neutrality and pulled from the non intervention committee while loyalist Spain vowed to defend itself. Loyalists protested at the League of Nations, and France and Britain urged restraint as a second ship was torpedoed off the Spanish coast with heavy loss of life.
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Italy
Non-Intervention Council
Almeria
Europe
Germany
International Non-Intervention Committee
Berlin
Valencia
Neutrality Committee
League
League,of Nations
France
Great
Britain
Ciudad de Barcelona
France and Britain Warn Hitler of Peril of Policy
Paris and London issued a joint warning to Adolf Hitler that reprisals risk a terrible European war unless he halts. They proposed a neutral inquiry to fix blame for the Deutschland bombing and urged restraint after the Almeria bombardment as tensions with Spain and Germany loomed.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Europe
Almeria
London
Britain
Board of Inquiry
Hitler
Sete
Majorca
Balearics
Pedro
Palma
Simoun
Berlin
Valencia
Iviza
Balearic Islands
State Department Prepares for Spanish Nazi Crisis Outcome
Washington officials Monday night expressed confidence the Spanish Nazi crisis would pass without triggering a European war. They stressed no nation wants or can afford war and asserted there will be no European conflict. The German embassy said bombing of the Deutschland would not provoke arms.
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Washington
State Department
Reich
Court Allows Harsh Discipline By Father In Vienna
A Vienna court rules a father may beat his 22 year old daughter for misbehavior. Charles Schmidt, 48, was jailed for thrashing his daughter Mitzi after she stayed out two nights and was freed on release.
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Vienna
Charles Schmidt
Mitzi
Axis Powers Withdraw From Spanish Non Intervention Plan
Germany and Italy renounced their neutrality pledges and pulled support from the international non intervention effort after Spanish loyalists attacked ships. Germany shelled Almeria in retaliation for the Deutschland bombing, killing nearly 100, and Italy demanded satisfaction for the Barletta bombing. Both nations threatened to fire on opposing ships or aircraft and urged the committee to enforce control.
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Germany
Italy
Stern
Almeria
Europe
Berlin
Rome
Paris
Quits Committee
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Illinois National Guard
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U. S
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Cedar Rafids News
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