Turbulent Europe Looms as Austria Crisis Grows
Headlines from Europe warn of a crisis as Austria faces pressure from Hitler and the Nazi movement. Schuschnigg is reported to have resigned or resigned in name, with violence rising and Vienna watched by Rome and London amid fears for the Rome Berlin axis.
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Europe
Austria
Schuschnigg
Adolph Hitler
der Fuhrer
Hitler
Berlin
Rome
London
Vienna
House Passes Tax Revision Bill Amid Opposed Family Firm Tax
The House approved the administration tax bill 233 to 153 after rejecting a special rate on family owned corporations. The measure would overhaul corporate and capital gains taxes, set 16 to 39.2 percent gains rates, and apply 12 to 16 percent corporate taxes with 4 percent surtax on undistributed profits for larger incomes.
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Washington
House
Senate
Bankhead
Roosevelt aims to end special privilege in tax law
President Roosevelt declared the administration's objective to end special privilege under existing law. He said the goal is to remove preferential tax treatment where it still exists, signaling a reform push at the federal level.
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Washington
Roosevelt
May Cast Absentee Ballots Saturday In School City Election
Cedar Rapids voters in the school district may cast absentee ballots by 5 p.m. Saturday at the board of education office. Two trustees from four candidates and one school property sale proposition are on the ballot for Monday’s election. City clerk offices stay open Saturday noon to 5 p.m. for absent voters. disabled voters must apply by mail promptly.
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Cedar Rapids
C. D. Hedberg
Board of Education
School Board
Eighth Street
E Avenue
Eleventh Street
L. J Storey
Storey
A. L. Praises Cedar Rapids Mercantile Firm
The piece lauds a leading mercantile establishment in Cedar Rapids, noting its opening in current quarters and praising A. L. as the dynamo and anchor of the business through rough times. It also mentions his strong citizen duties and character, even when angered.
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Cedar Rapids
A. L
Watchful words and warped meanings in public life
A 1938 reflection on how phrases like watchful waiting and speak softly carry misreadings. The piece notes how leaders such as Wilson Asquith Roosevelt and Waldan e were misrepresented by the press and public, urging care in speech to protect reputation and avoid misinterpretation.
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Asty Womds
Wilson
Asquith
House of Commons
Germany
Lord Waldane
Robert Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
Wirt, Author of Red Charges, Dies at 64
Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, Gary Indiana educator famed for charging a 1933 plot by government workers and a Russian agency correspondent to overthrow the U S government died Friday. He had led Gary schools since 1907 and developed the Wirt study play plan of education, with a 1933 congressional inquiry failing to substantiate his claims.
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Gary
Ind
William Albert Wirt
Indiana
U. S
Wirt
Virginia
Cass
Roosevelt
Kerensky
United States
Dr. Wirt
Loss Or No Loss TVA Had Pleasure Of Jackass Company
The TVA jackass and Moran and Mack hogs all finished in the red. Mack notes after selling his porkers at a loss they kept company all winter. A jackass bought for 2500 sold for 300 yields a 2200 deficit on the books. The piece mocks fiscal accounting and suggests training a mouse.
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TVA
Jackass
Moran
Mack
Roosevelt Faces TVA Board Feud Over Personal Discord
President Roosevelt held a hearing with TVA Chairman A. E. Morgan and Directors David Lilienthal and A. Morgan to address charges of dishonesty and misconduct. The discourse focused on personal conflict rather than national policy. The President warned that disputes threaten the agency’s feasibility and wisdom and called for an end to recriminations.
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Washington (Ap
Arthur E Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Morgan
TVA
Washington
A. E. Morgan
David Be. Lilienthal
If A. Morgan
H. A. Morgan
Lilienthal
United States
Desperate escapees flee Stoney Mountain prison
Winnipeg police hunted two convicts Friday after they slipped from the Stoney Mountain penitentiary kitchen. A third inmate, Jack Silderman, 34, was recaptured. Arthur Ward, seven years for robbery, and Frank Shura, six years for shop breaking, were still at large.
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Winnipeg
Stoney Mountain Penitentiary
Jack Silderman
Arthur Ward
Frank Shura
Missing Canadian Flyer Found Safe
Northern Airways said a plane piloted by Frank Burton, missing since Monday, was located on Wolf Lake near the British Columbia Yukon border. Burton, on a flight from McDames to Carcross, was uninjured though the craft was slightly damaged after forced landing in bad weather. Two planes had searched since Monday.
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Atlin
B. C
Northern Airways
Frank Burton
Wolf Lake
British Columbia-Yukon
Burton
McDames
Carcross
Yuko
Territory
Woodbury Supervisors Defy Kraschel Rail Suspension Order
Woodbury County supervisors defied Gov Nelson Kraschel by refusing to suspend County Relief Administrator Virgil W. Hall. They sent a telegram stating no state funds are involved and promising a full, non partisan investigation to prosecute any guilty parties. The governor said emergency relief will continue but through a different approved organization.
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Des Moines
Woodbury County Board of Supervisors
Nelson G Kraschel
Virgil W. Hall
Board of Supervisors
Charles S. Riggs
Woodbury
Wall
Governor Kraschel cites long-known irregularities in Woodbury relief funds
Des Moines reports Gov. Kraschel charged that irregularities in Woodbury County relief fund administration have apparently been known to officials for a long time. He said no official is personally wronging anyone but cannot have confidence in an organization with such long-standing irregularities known to officials.
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Noan Duckworth
Sioux City
Des Moines
Duckworth
Max
Texas
Woodbury County
Nelson G. Kraschel
Iowa
Lone Star State
INS
Nelson G Kraschel
Kraschel
NLRB Files Charges Against Ford Motor Co Chicago
The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Ford Motor Company of Chicago on five charges by the United Automobile Workers. A hearing is set for March 17.
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Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Moto Company of
United Automobile Workers of America
Spring Warmth Spreads Through Cedar Rapids Weather
Cedar Rapids enjoyed sunshine and rising temperatures reaching 54 degrees by late day. Thermometer readings started at 28 at 7 am and climbed to 39 by 10 am with light rain briefly falling Thursday evening.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Fidler in Hollywood Column to Debut Next Monday
The Gazette announces publication of Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood starting next Monday. The weekly column promises insights into the human qualities of movie stars as it appears each weekday, sharing Fid ler’s chit chat about celebrities in whom millions are interested.
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the Gazette
Jimmie Fidler
Hollywood
Fidler
You and I
Whitney rearrested on second grand larceny charge
New York AP report says Richard Whitney five time NYSE president ordered rearrested by Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. on a new grand larceny charge stemming from $103,000 in bonds Whitney allegedly took from the New York Yacht Club safety deposit box. Whitney pledged immediate surrender and faces prior indictment over $105,000 to $110,000 in securities from a family trust.
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NEW York
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
John J. Bennett, Jr
Whitney
Liberty
Thomas E. Dewey
William A W. Stewart
New York Yacht Club
Charles HH. Tuttle
Bennett
Dewey
Thorvord University
Whitney under grand jury probe over $105000 theft charge
New York investigating the tangled finances of Richard Whitney former NYSE president centers on a federal grand jury inquiry and State Attorney General Bennett's broad probe Whitney sought a postponement of his arraignment on a first degree grand larceny indictment alleging he took about 105000 from a family trust fund He faces potential charges related to personal loans from a fund created by his father in law George Sheldon and left with only one Bethlehem Steel share valued at 55 dollars
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John H. Taft
Jim Killian
Nebraska
A. L
Third Avenue
Norfolk
Jim
NEW York
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
John J Bennett
Whitney
Charles II Tuttle
Thomas FE Dewey
Dewey
Stock Exchange and
Wall Street
George R. Sheldon
Bethlehem Steel Company
Hold Radium Not Poison Says Law Fight Continues
CHICAGO (UP) Radium Dial attorneys argue radium is not a poison under the law and Mrs. Catherine Donohue of Ottawa NL lacks a valid claim for compensation. The 35 year old mother of two seeks an award claiming permanent health impairment from radium exposure during employment. doctors say she has only months to live.
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Chicago
State Industrial Commission
Catherine Donohue
Ottawa
Donohue
Donere
French Foreign Minister Meets German Ambassador on Austrian Crisis
Paris report says Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos conferred with German ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck at the foreign office on Friday. Both governments, France and Britain, were in constant communication regarding the Austrian situation.
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Paris
Yvon Delbos
Johannes von Welczeck
Foreign Office
Austrian Chancellor Resigns Under German Pressure
Kurt Schuschnigg quits as Austrian chancellor after postponing a plebiscite on independence. Nazi demands for 40 percent representation and a new government dominated by Die Heimatsfront follow German troop movements. Hitler seeks a successor and imposes political reshaping as crisis unfolds.
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Vienna
INS
Adolph Hitler
Kurt Schuschnigg
Arnold Approved by Subcommittee on Anti trust Nomination
The judiciary subcommittee approved Thurman W. Arnold for assistant attorney general in charge of the justice department anti trust division. No votes against, but Borah, Burke abstained. Several senators favored the nomination while Borah and Burke withheld final votes for further consideration.
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API
Staate
Thurman W. Arnold
Justice Departments
Anti-Trust Division
Arenold
Seinsters Borah Ro
Idaho
Burke
Neb
Norristi
Neely
W. Va
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Del
O'Maehoney
Wea
Borah
Uverr
Full
Judiciary Committee
Arnold
Senate
Mayor Blamed for Johnstown Violence in Little Steel Strike
Former Sheriff Michael J. Boyle testified before the senate civil liberties committee that Johnstown Mayor Daniel J. Shields orchestrated violence at the Bethlehem Cambria plant last summer. Boyle said the mayor enlisted his own services to break the strike and disputed reports of striker violence.
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Washington
Michael J. Boyle
Cambria County
Daniel J. Shields
Johnstown
Little Steel
Bethlehem Cambria
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Boyle
Hull Endorses Roumanian Minister Amid Jewish Protests
Secretary of State Cordell Hull publicly endorses May Radu Trimescu as Roumanian minister to the United States. The endorsement comes after Jewish groups protested his anti Jewish record due to his cabinet post under Goga.
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Washington
INS
Cordell Hull
United States
Radu Trimescu
American Jewish Congress
Trimescu
Goga
German Troops Cross Austrian Border As Vienna Grips
Reports from Vienna state German planes over Austria and the federal chancellery flag raised as troops crossed the border at Passau. Austrian officials warned of a reorganization demanded by Berlin, with Schuschnigg signaling potential retention and pleas to avoid bloodshed.
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London
INS
Vienna
Passau
Britain warns Germany over potential Austrian crisis
Britain signals it will act if foreign intervention in Austria escalates the crisis. Premier Neville Chamberlain conveyed Britain’s stance to German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, while Austria postponed a plebiscite amid growing tension near the Brenner Pass.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Neville Chamverlain
Joachim von Ribbentop
Britain
Chinese Air Squads Claim 10 Japanese Planes Down
Chinese military headquarters at Hankow announced that two squadrons raided Nanking and destroyed ten Japanese aircraft. Peiping reports from Japanese officials claim 100000 Chinese casualties in Shansi province over the last month.
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Shanghat
INS
Nanking
Hankow
Peiping
Shansi
Powell Recovers Quickly After Abdominal Operation
Hollywood star William Powell, recovering from a major abdominal operation, was reported making a rapid recovery Friday.
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Hollywood
INS
William Powell
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