Roosevelt asks defense funds for air corps expansion
President Roosevelt urged Congress to approve emergency defense funding totaling 206.5 million for army air corps expansion and Panama canal fortifications with 70.5 million in contracts. Immediate use would fund 185.44 million for planes, salaries, and equipment, aiming for 6,000 frontline warplanes within two years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Army Air Corps
Panama Canal
Air Corps
War Department
Corps
Five Methodist Bishops Set for Retirement Soon
Kansas City ap report states five bishops will retire as the Methodist Episcopal church forms a single church. The retirements apply to Edwin Holt Hughes James Luelson Charles L Mead Edgar Blake and Wallace E Brown whose seventieth birthdays fall before the April 1940 general conference. Successors will be chosen by jurisdictional conferences within a year after the conference.
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Kansas City
Methodist Episcopal Church
Edwin Holt Hughes
Washington
John L. Nuelson
Geneva
Switzerland
Charles L. Mead
Edgar Blake
Detroit
Wallace E. Brown
Chattanooga
Tenn
Brothers Get Life For Meeks Kidnapping
Brothers Robert and Olsen Grimes of Louisville Ky were sentenced in Yuba City California for the September kidnapping of Mrs Norma Meeks wife of a Rio Oso rancher The Superior Court judge gave one count one to 25 years and a second count life imprisonment with both terms running concurrently
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Calif
Robert and
Olsen Grimes
Louisville
Folsom
Norma Meeks
Rio Oso
Arthur Coats
Radio Programs Tuesday Evening Schedule
Extensive listing of radio station air times across WMT WGN KFJB WOC WSUI WHO WOI and others detailing concerts news sports weather and entertainment blocks for the evening and late night hours with varied musical acts dramas and talk segments across multiple stations and time slots.
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Green Hornet
Woli
Iowa State Symphony Orch
WGN
Heidelberg Concert Orch
Wsuui
Wihio
Johnny
KFJB
WOC
WOOC
WOGC
Mary
Bob
WSUI
Children's Hour
the People
Tevey
W9xk
Doc Rockwell
Brain Trust
WGR
Newmush Foundation
Thos. E. Dewey
Wsui—Fish School
Fisber McGee
Jasper County Grange
Benny Goodman
James Slocum
Schnickelfritz
Woc-H
V_ Kaltenborn
Gaylord Carter
Dick Jurgens
Orch
Bill Carlson
Cab Calloway
Frankie Masters
Gene, Krupa
Teddy Ducchin
WOQON
Eddy Duchin
Stella Dallas
Woi—Musicale
Vic and Sade
Bible Truth
Wooi—Lutheran School Choir
WNT
WOI
Iowa History
Wacon
Johnson
Hannah
Landt
P.T
Iowa
P.T.A
KFJEB
Wocc
Stanley Hickman
Tom Owens
Cowboys
Wwoc
Don Winslow
Simpson_College
Simpson College
WHO
Leo Weber
Adriaan Rollini
Tosland
Rita Rio
Jack Wsul
Sam
Wolf
Wimt
Earl Harrington
KFIB
Mr. Keen
Captain Herne
Xavier Ducat
State At
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Alutiny
Sports
Let's
Archbishop Howard of Portland Honored by Vatican
The apostolic delegation said Pope Pius XII named Archbishop Edward D Howard of Portland as an assistant to the Pontifical throne in observance of Oregon's Catholicity centennial. Born Cresco Iowa November 5 1877 he studied at St Joseph College Dubuque St Mary's College Kansas and Saint Paul Seminary. He was ordained in 1906 and joined the faculty of Columbia College later becoming president in 1921.
Poison Found in Farm Home After Mother and Son Die
Coroner reports Mrs. Sarah Leiby 69 and her invalid son Fred Leiby 40 found dead at their Marysville area farm. A poison bottle was found during a second search and samples sent to Iowa City for toxicology tests. Daisy Redding, the daughter, found the bodies and a note in the mother’s handwriting says I cannot get well I think this is the best way out.
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Knoxville
Dwight Mater
Sarah Leiby
Fred Leiby
Marysville
Iowa City
Leiby
Daisy Redding
Notes reveal murder suicide scene linked to family members
A note mentions not to cry and a safe with belongings as potential evidence. A second note marked for the light bill is found near the scene. Fred Leiby, shown as an infantile paralytic with leg prosthetics, was found dead 20 feet away from his mother and likely killed themselves. Survivors include Mrs Leiby's siblings Sam and Len Bachman and Cora Gullion and Amanda Schlenker.
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Fred
Mater
James Redding
Fred Leiby
Leiby
Sam Bachman
Knoxville
Len Bachman
Stuart, Neb
Cora Gullion
Attica
Amanda Schlenker
Waterloo
Dodd Named Ceramics Head at Iowa State College
AP reports Charles M. Dodd director of clay testing research at Missouri School of Mines was appointed head of the Iowa State ceramic engineering department effective Aug 1. He will succeed Paul E. Cox, who has led the department since 1926 and will remain in teaching and research.
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AMES
Charles E Friley
Charles M. Dodd
Missouri School of Mines
Iowa State College
Dodd
Ohio State University
Paul E. Cox
Finley
Cox
Henlein Appointed Sudeten Governor in Sudetenland
Adolf Hitler appointed Konrad Henlein as statthalter governor of the Sudetenland with headquarters at Reichenberg. The move formalizes Henlein’s leadership role in the region amid tensions between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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Henlein
Sudeten
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Konrad Henlein
Sudetenland
Reichenberg
French fear Nazis seek submarine mastery of seas
Paris reports French naval experts warn Germany will pursue sea dominance by submarines, asserting Hitler’s denunciation of the 1935 naval pact masks overage in German submarine tonnage. They cite Germany’s 61 submarines and possible larger 1,000 to 1,200 ton raiders, aiming to match Britain.
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Paris
Germany
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
Hitler
Britain
London
White House briefings open to radio reporters
The White House authorized radio news reporters Monday to attend presidential press conferences and granted similar access for coverage of other departments and both chambers of Congress making official briefings more widely available.
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Washington
White House
Senate
House
Dexter Dividend Declared by Dexter Company
The Dexter company in Chicago announced a 20 cent per share dividend payable June 1 to holders of record May 15. This marks the first payment since March 1, 1937, with general offices located at Fairfield, Iowa.
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Chicago
Dexter Company
Fairfield
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