Roosevelt’s Diplomacy Faces Critics Across World Stage
The president’s 150th anniversary remarks draw sharp rebukes from opponents at home and abroad as critics contest his foreign policy and warnings of tyranny. The piece surveys reactions from Chamberlain to European leaders, then shifts to domestic issues. It notes ambulance delays near Cedar Rapids, public versus private funding debates, and questions over consolidating state law enforcement and the highway patrol’s political ties. The article previews a busy legislative session focused on consolidation, budgets, and administrative reforms.
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NCE
United States
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Chamberlain
Daladier
Mr. Roosevelt
Saturday Evening Post
Roosevelt asks Congress for 124 million for arms and aviation
President Roosevelt, returning from Caribbean maneuvers, urged Congress to approve 124 million for army equipment, seacoast defenses, and training 20 000 civilian pilots. The request would augment 499.8 million approved earlier, with 110 million for rifles and armor, 6.54 million for coast defenses, and 7.3 million for pilot training.
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Caribbean
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Senate
Speaker Bankhead
Army
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Bell
United States
Insular
Panama Canal Zone
Patronage feud sparks plan for 49th state in Wyoming
Sheridan official A. R. Swickard proposed a new state covering the northern third of Wyoming from the Black Hills to Yellowstone after a patronage dispute. He initially floated Sheridan county joining Montana, blaming the Wyoming administration for few major appointments in Sheridan County.
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Wyo
A. R. Swickard
Wyoming
Black Hills
South Dakota
Yellowstone National Park
Idaho
Sheridan County
Swickard
Montana
Paraguay Recognizes Franco Regime, AP Reports
The nationalist foreign office announced Saturday that Paraguay had recognized the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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Burgos
Foreign Office
Paraguay
Francisco Franco
Courageous seven year old endures amputation aftermath
In Kansas City, Annabelle Coen, age seven, learned of her leg amputation after a car crash but chose silence. Doctors and nurses at Mercy Hospital witnessed her quiet bravery as she woke, watched a maternity ward infant, and gradually adjusted to life with a missing leg. A physician noted she had likely known about the amputation since Monday.
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Kansas City
Annabelle Coen
Mercy Hospital
Annabelle
Childs
New Czech partition talk roils European diplomacy
Warsaw reports a plan for a partition of Czechoslovakia to create a common Polish Hungarian frontier. Polish Romanian ministers discuss this weekend with plans to address Carpatho Ukraine and possible adjoining borders. Italy signals moral support for limited France mediation, tied to colonial aims with Germany.
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Grigore Gafencu
Roumania
Italy
France
Mediterranean
Joseph Beck
Saturay
Gafencu
Col. Beck
Carpatho-Ukraine
Sudetenland
Germany
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Saturday
Britain
Gayda
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Weekly Weather Outlook for Upper Mississippi Valley
CHICAGO March 6 11 forecast calls for considerable snow in the north and rain in the south across the upper Mississippi valley. Temperatures are expected to run near normal in the north and near or above normal in the south for the period with varying precipitation and unsettled conditions throughout the week.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Pope Restores Tradition Open Air Coronation at St Peter's
Pope Pius XII will be crowned outside on the St Peter's balcony after a Mass, with 150000 spectators in Rome. The ceremony signals a return to pre prison of the Vatican practices, as the new pope ascends the throne and receives the tiara from Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni.
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Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni
Order of Deacons
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St. Peter's
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
St. Joseph’s
St. John Lateran
Pius
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Mella di Santa Clia
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Paris
Hold Little Hope For Cornell Soph Injured In Crash
Cornell College sophomore wrestler Bob Murray 22 was critically injured in a highway collision near Cedar Rapids while en route to matches in Waterloo and Minneapolis. He remained unconscious at St. Luke's Hospital with a fractured skull and punctured lung. Marcus Daley 20 and Gene Tornquist 19 had fair conditions.
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Bob Murray
Cornell College
Highway
Cedar Rapids
Murray
Cornell
Waterloo
Minneapolis
Marcus Daley
Havre, Mont
Gene Tornquist
Mitchellville
St. Luke’s Hospital
American Dancer Delights Hitler With Berlin Step
Miriam Verne a 19 year old Pittsburgh dancer impressed Adolf Hitler at the Berlin chancellery. He praised her dancing and gave candy with a swastika, as she performs with the German opera ballet. She follows Marion Daniels, who was flown to Cannes for The Merry Widow.
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Ins
Miriam Verne
Broadway
Pittsburgh
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hitler
Miss Verne
Miriam
Marion Daniels
San Francisco
Cannes
France
New Orleans Riverman Tries Self Mutilation
Charity hospital guards a 30 year old riverman William Drinkwater after he attempted to chop off his right hand then severed his left with a hatchet. He then pulled his own right eye out, saying he wished to pay for his sins. He was brought to Charity Hospital for treatment and observation.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
William Drinkwater
Drinkwater
Cedar Rapids Sees Temperatures Hover Near Freezing
With clear skies Cedar Rapids recorded a high of 38 degrees by 2 p.m. The evening cooled to 35 at 6:30 p.m. and dropped to 30 by midnight, keeping near the freezing point through the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Wallace Defends Farm Act Against Substitutes
Secretary Wallace criticised substitute farm bills and cost of production plans in a letter to the Senate. He urged continued support for the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as sounder and more workable, noting annual congressional review and possible revisions to meet changing farming conditions.
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Washington
INS
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
United States Senate
Tam
United States
Congress
Five Die and Five Hurt in Three-Car Wreck
Five men were killed and five others injured in a three car collision east of Washington Indiana late Saturday. Three of the injured were reported in dangerous condition.
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Washington, Ind
Here
Wheat growers may assign soil payments for crop insurance
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a Wheeler proposal allowing wheat growers in Montana to assign soil conservation benefit payments to cover government crop insurance premiums.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wheeler
Mont
SEC suspends two brokers in Atlas Tack case
The Securities and Exchange Commission halted two prominent brokers for three months and one month respectively over alleged market manipulation of Atlas Tack. William E Hutton of WE Hutton and Company and H H Michels of William Cavalier and Company face suspensions effective March 15. Ohrstrom firms see revocation of registrations after alleged Sweet’s Steel stock manipulation. Orgs/places named include Detroit based WE Hutton, William Cavalier, New York and Curb, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore exchanges, and the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
National Stock Exchanges
Atlas Tack Corporation
William E Hutton
We, Hutton and Company
Detroit
H. H Michels
William Cavalier and Company
Atlas Tack
Jerry McCarthy
Hutton
Commission
Sweet
Federal Reserve Board
Two Nabbed In Raid Over Illegal Liquor Sales
Cedar Ranks News reports detectives Marshall Haberle and Kudina seized twenty pints of alleged Towa state liquor store whisky during a 10:15 p.m. raid at 110 Eighth Avenue SW. Wendl Prochaska, 32, and Archie Pirie, 55, of that address, were arrested for illegal sale of intoxicating liquor amid claims of an observed buy. Pirates addressed and license book records show purchases of six to 24 bottles, with a 12 bottle sale on Feb. 24 and 24 on Jan. 7. A separate raid at 11:10 p.m. on 71144 H Street SW led to arrests of L. K. Meeks, 32, John Owens, 28, and Frank Turner, 22, for gambling, while Fred Turner, 27, was charged with operating a gambling house.
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Towa
Marshall, Haberle and Kudina
Eighth Avenue
Wendl Prochaska
Archie Pirie
Prochaska
First Avenue
Iowa
Pirie
H Street
L. K. Meeks
John Owens
Magnus Hotel
Frank Turner
Fred Turner
Hedy Lamarr and Gene Markey Elope in Baja California Marriage
Hedy Lamarr and Gene Markey crossed the California Mexico border to wed in Lower California planned for immediacy. They married in San Diego then in a civil ceremony read by Atpolonio Nunez. Lamarr previously divorced Mandl. Markey's prior wife was Joan Bennett. Lamarr starred in Ecstasy and Algiers.
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Mexicali
Lower
California
Hedy Lamarr
Hollywood
California-Mexico
Gene Markey
San Diego
Miss Lamarr
United States
Mandl
Algiers
Charles Boyer
U S Chamber Urges Action On Business
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged the administration to translate assurances of business appeasement into practical action. It proposed a concrete program for business expansion, including cutting public expenditures, tax relief, and reform of labor and regulatory policies to spur private enterprise.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Washington Review
America
Ben Edgar Miller Former Local Man Dies in California
Ben Edgar Miller 69, retired Cedar Rapids trainmaster, died in San Diego after a brief illness. He moved there twelve years ago. Survived by widow Mary L. Miller, son William E. Miller of La Jolla, and daughter Mrs. W. D. Kennedy of Cedar Rapids. Body to be sent to Cedar Rapids for burial.
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Calif
Ben Edgar Miller
Cedar Rapids
Mary L. Miller
Willam E. Miller
la Jolla
W. D. Kennedy
German Press Attacks Roosevelt Speech in Berlin
German outlets ridiculed Roosevelt after his Washington address calling his talk on democracy and religion impudent and full of distortions. DNB and Berliner Lokal Anzeiger accused him of lies and windmill chasing Don Quixote imagery. British and French reaction noted as generally approving.
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Roosevelt
Washington
DNB
New York
Congress
Lokal Anzeiger
Paderewski Cancels Engagement Series For Hand Infection
Paderewski, the 78 year old Polish pianist, cancels all engagements for two weeks due to infection in a hand. He arrived in Cleveland to perform Sunday but a doctor advised against appearance after examining him. Manager Fitzgerald said the tour will end and cited financial need.
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Ignace Jan Paderewski
Paderewski
John P. Anderson
East
Union Terminal
L. J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Even If They Vote For Peace Polls Will See Fighting
ARTAUR Bugs Baer argues America will not go to war without a popular vote and predicts conflict at the polls. The piece frames the wartime debate as an elimination tournament with strong language about how public opinion can push or resist war decisions.
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Artaur “Bugs” Baer
America
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