Mexico Expropriation Sparks U S Diplomatic Strain
Secretary Hull acknowledged Mexico’s right to expropriate oil assets but demanded fair compensation. Ambassador Daniels briefed Foreign Minister Hay after phone talks with Hull as U S concerns grow over the $500 million seizure. Mexico’s congress plans an extra session to consider loans and tariff cuts amid potential U S pressure.
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Bulletin— Washington
Hull
Mexico
Secretary of State
Mexico City
INS
United States
Josephus Daniels
Foreign Office
Daniels
Eduardo Hay
Washington
Hay
Lazaro Cardenas
Cardenas
Special Congress
General Hay
Writ Blocks Bank's Control of Roads
The article reports a legal clash involving Guaranty Trust and Morgan Stanley regarding control over Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the influence on its management. It details threats and alleged schemes to influence directors, aiming to benefit underwriting and deposits for J. P. Morgan and Co. and Morgan Stanley.
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Smith
Brown
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Morgan, Stanley and Co., Inc
Chesapeake and Ohio
J. P. Morgan and Co
J.P. Morgan and Co
Guaranty
Young
Bradley calls April special meeting over Chesapeake Corp board
President Charles L. Bradley urges a special meeting on April 4 to consider changes in the Chesapeake Corp board. The move triggers a public struggle as Young opposes the meeting and seeks proxies. Murphy and Bradley signaled proxy plans to the stock exchange but then refrained. Guaranty declined to state its voting stance as trustee on the held stock.
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Young
Guaranty’s
Murphy
Chesapeake Corp
New York Stock Exchange
Charles L. Bradley
Chesapeake Corp. Board
Bradley
Stock Exchange
Guaranty
Young Group
Lawmakers Tweak Personal Holding Tax Exemptions
The committee moves to extend liquidation deadlines for foreign personal holding companies to June 30, 1939. Other actions include publicity rules for salaries 75 000 or more, repeal of some sales taxes, retention of chewing gum tax, and various import tax adjustments affecting pork products beer can prices and lumber exemptions. Philippine income tax for 1917 18 19 also required.
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Mittee
Harrison
House
Roosevelt
O'Mahoney
Vandenberg
Clark
Philippine Islands
Illness Forces Lexington To Withdraw From Maneuvers
In Honolulu the aircraft carrier Lexington with 1,800 crew members faced a throat illness described as tonsillitis. More than 500 officers and men were stricken, over 25 percent of the rescue crew, forcing the ship to leave intensive war maneuvers in Hawaiian waters.
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Honolulu
Lexington
Hawaiian
Navy
President Roosevelt Inspects Fort Benning Infantry Post
President Roosevelt, during vacation at Warm Springs, visits Fort Benning in Georgia for a formal inspection. He will depart Pine Mountain by car, stop in Columbus to meet city officials and members of the 97,000 acre military reservation.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Pine Mountain
Fort Benning
Here
Columbus
Lenten Services at Trinity Lutheran Tonight
City briefs note 7 45 pm Lenten services at Trinity Lutheran with sermon It Is Finished Maundy Thursday communion announcements to be received in the vestry. Franklin Boddicker 19 undergoes serious operation at Mercy hospital with condition improved to fairly good. Hearing set for Jake Bowers Friday in Linn Junction area justice court over a weed fire that spread to neighbor’s timber.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Franklin Boddicker
John Boddicker
Newhall
Mercy Hospital
Jake Bowers
Linn Junction
Justice Court
H. R. Churchill
Bowers
Iowa
Roosevelt Agrees to Continue 300 CCC Camps
Washington officials say President Roosevelt tentatively approves extending operation of 300 civilian conservation corps camps that were slated for closure by July 1 as part of the federal economy move. The decision follows discussions late Tuesday, with details to be announced.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Loyalist and insurgent clashes surge along Aragon front
Loyalist communique says insurgents crossed the Cinca near Barbastro and entered Caspe amid heavy fighting near Lerida and Teruel. Rebels claim breakthrough near Caspe and capture Caspe mountains, with insurgent planes raiding Port Bou causing fatalities and railroad damage.
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Cinca River
Barbastro
Caspe
Lerida
Salamanca
Aragon
Teruel
Camino de la Mazadas
Gandesa
Zuidun Canal
Mano de Hierro
Penarroya
Port Bou
Belvidere Mayor Warns of Martial Law Over Plant Strike
Belvidere Illinois Mayor Perry Cratty urged Governor Horner to impose martial law if non-strikers cannot return to work at the National Sewing Machine plant. Cratty, a non union foreman, led police against 200 pickets injuring him slightly, and pledged to protect workers’ right to work with state troop support.
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Belvidere Ill
Perry A. Cratty
Henry Horner
National Sewing Machine Company
Belvidere
Perry Cratty
Cratty
Eeugenes
Relief Squatters Move to Third Floor in Reading
In Reading Berks county the public assistance office reopened after the Machemer family of twelve relocated to the old city hall and then to the unoccupied third floor. Officials warned the office could close again if demonstrations resume or more families move in.
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Reading
Machemers
Old City Hall
Reading Taxpayers’ Protective League
Machemer
Roads' February Operating Deficit Put At 2 Millions
The Association of American Railroads reports that class one railroads posted a $2,136,481 operating deficit in February, versus a $38,729,779 net operating income in February 1937. For January–February this year they show a $4,783,395 net income at an annual rate of return of 1 percent, compared with $7,659,615 in early 1937, or 2.58 percent on property.
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Washington
The
Association of American Railroads
Dr Allan D Albert to Speak at Rotary Institute
Dr Allan D Albert of Paris Illinois will speak tonight at 8 in the Coe chapel on American Neutrality. The talk closes the Cedar Rapids Rotary club Institute of International Understanding series and is open to the public free. Albert, veteran newspaper man and publisher, served as assistant to the president of the Chicago Century of Progress expo and visited Japan and China. He was editor and associate publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune from 1912 to 1916.
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Allan D. Albert
Paris
Ill
Coe College Chapel
Cedar Rapids Rotary Club
Institute of International Understanding
Albert
Chicago
Japan
China
Minneapolis Tribune
House and Senate clash over government reorganization bill
In Congress the plan to reorganize federal agencies faces division within Democrats and bipartisan opposition. Four House substitutes omit a planned planning board, while Senate provisions differ, sparking clashes over procedure and executive powers amid a wider party split.
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House
Senate
Washington
Two Have Close Call When Car Hits Pole
Hines and Mullin investigated a crash where a car struck a pole and careened into a yard. Residents reported broken beer bottles in the vehicle. a passing motorist aided the injured men to the police station.
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Hines
Mullin
Shakespeare
Flidk
W F Severa Dies Noted Cedar Rapids Leader and Philanthropist
W F Severa a long time Cedar Rapids business leader and philanthropist dies. He funded the American Home School for war orphans in Brno Moravia and supported Czech education through Damska Matice Skolska and other groups. Shimek Korab Mekota Houser listed among associates.
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W. F. Severa
LONG
Czechoslovakia
Severa
America
T. G. Masaryk
Republic of Czechoslovakia
Order of the White Lion
Chicago
Emma Forman
Praha
United States
Red Cross
Severna
Iie
Europe
Brno
Moravia
American Home School
Americka Domovina
Forman
Alice Masaryk
Notable Cedar Rapids founder Severn obituary details life
One of Bank Founders and key figure in Cedar Rapids business and fraternal circles, Mr. Severn helped start Bohemian American Savings bank later American Trust and Savings bank serving six years as president. He co founded Iowa Electric Light and Power and aided Jan Hus lodge. Survived by wife Josephine Dusil and two children Lumir Severa and Mrs. George T. Wilhelm.
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Severn
Bohemian American Savings Bank
The
American Trust and Savings Bank
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Jan Huslodge
I. Oo Oo. F
Cedar Rapids
Reading and Literary Society
Prokop Velky, C.s. A
ZC. B. J
Severa
Josephine Dusil
Lumir Severa
George T. Wilhelm
Kittinger Resigns as Iowa Relief Secretary
Ralph Kittinger of Des Moines resigns as secretary of the Iowa Emergency Relief Administration effective when a successor is named. He has led IERA since January 1933 and will join Central Life Assurance Society of Iowa, headed by E. H. Mulock, after leaving office.
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E. H. Mulock
State Relief
Romanian Old Men cabinet resigns in Bucharest
In Bucharest the government headed by Patriarch Miron Cristea resigned at noon Wednesday after forming a stopgap on February 11. It was reported the cabinet, known as the old men, served its purpose and new leaders were to be chosen by King Carol, with liberal and Maniu party figures likely to join the next government.
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Bucharest
Miron Cristea
Cristea
Octavian Goga
Carol Cristea
Carol
Roumania
George Tatarescu
Liberal Party
Juliu Maniu
Peasant Party
Sheriffs Freed After Scarlet Fever Quarantine Lifted
Deputy sheriffs Hawbecker and Harold Goodlow left jail on Wednesday after a two week quarantine for scarlet fever. The quarantine ended Tuesday night but the ban removal did not release fourteen other prisoners.
Czechs face protests as minorities push autonomy
In Prague a tumultuous session saw German and Hungarian lawmakers demand autonomy while communists clashed with Nazi spokesmen. Polish minority issues drew Warsaw criticism as negotiations with Czech government over self government began led by nationalist groups.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Gez. Szuelloc
Leon Wolf
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