Shanghai Falls to Japanese Forces Amid Large Civilian Exodus
Terrified civilians and troops fled Shanghai as about 10,000 Chinese fighters trapped in Nanai and Nantao faced encirclement by two Japanese armies. Chinese defenses withdrew to new lines five miles from the city as Japanese advances cut contact with the foreign concessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Nanae
INS
China
Lunghwa Station
Siccawei Observatory
Nantao
Paotung
Tsai Chingchung
Zahwel Creek
TV. Soong
Madame Sung
Madame Sun Yat-Sen
Mme
Chiang Kai-Shek
K. Yui
Cty
Brussels
Hungao Road
Peiping
Tasuaniu
Shansu Province
Simy
Taiyuantu
Coogan and Grable Plan Wedding Next Week
Hollywood duo Ttikie Coogan age 23 and Betty Grable age 20 filed intentions to wed. They plan a small ceremony next week in the rectory of St Brendan’s Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Ttikie Coogan
Tim Tar
Betty Grable
Tuesday
St. Brendan’‘s Church
Fleeing prisoner wounded by sheriff in standoff
Hupka attempted to escape on a train and after a glass break threatened to shoot. Sheriff Smith arrested him with no gun found. In Linn County jail the man caused disturbances, threatened officials with a razor, flooded cells, and was moved between blocks before being handcuffed. Bond set at 1500 dollars. county attorney filed charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hupka
Caboose
Smith
Linn County
G. K. Thompson
Tax revisions and farm program push in Congress
House Ways and Means leaders and Rep. Vinson discuss tax revisions as a tool to support a federal farm program. No general tax hike is planned, with possible tweaks to capital gains and corporate surplus levy. A new processing tax may fund farm benefits, while Fed Reserve loosening is possible. Roosevelt weighs social security changes amid cautious funding forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fred M. Vinson
Ways and Means
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Cooperatne
Treasury
War Department approves 29 attack planes contract
The War Department awarded a $654,155 contract to Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Monica California for 29 attack airplanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
War Department
Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
Calif
Hitler Proclaims Triangle Amid Far East Talks
In Munich and Brussels leaders push a three-nation axis as Britain France and the United States seek to align against Italian German moves. Eden Davis and Delbos planned talks on an anti communist pact and broader frontier diplomacy with Russia Britain and Poland amid the far eastern peace conference resumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Brussels
United States
Britain
France
Rome
Berlin
Russia
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Roumania
Poland
Anthony Eden
Norman H. Davis
Yvon Delbos
Legal Routine To Delay Bus Start In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids city council approved routing changes for a downtown loop as legal delays push bus service start to possibly next Sunday. National City Lines and Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway officials discussed stops with the Chamber of Commerce and police, while incorporation papers for Cedar Rapids City Lines Inc. were filed with a $100 000 capitalization. E Roy Fitzgerald of Chicago leads the line, with J M Schram as secretary. Safety officials approved the plan, but legal steps hinder immediate operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Charles Haller
National City Lines
Haller
Chamber of Commerce
Don Barnes
Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway Company
W. C Benesh
Police Department
Cedar Rapids City Lines, Inc
International News Service
E. Roy Fitzgerald
Chicago
Ill
Fitzgerald Brothers
National City Lines, Inc
J. M. Schram
Indicted Father Of Slain Family For Robbery Forgery
DES MOINES AP G R McAninch 42 father of a slain Norwalk family was indicted by the Polk County grand jury for breaking and entering and forgery. He allegedly stole copper wire and cable valued at 85 dollars from the Levy Coral mine on October 26 and forged an endorsement on a check from the sale of the stolen wire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
G. R McAntinch
Norwalk
Polk County Grand Jury
McaAninch
Levy Coral
Here
Toronto man fined for muskrat pelts in Clinton County
Milo Yale, 71, of Toronto, received a $200 fine in Jus Lee C F Chilmore's court for illegal possession of 117 muskrats and two mink. Officers Lopez Logan and Barslow assisted, with Yale charged for four muskrats in possession and fined $50 per animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost Nation
Milo Yale
Toronto
Juslee C. F Chilmore
Leo Logan
Cedar Rapids
R. W Barslow
Dubuque
Clinton County
Trustees Form Cedar Rapids Pool Fund Board
A ten member board of trustees is named to administer Cedar Rapids Swimming Pool fund from the Cham ber of Commerce. The board holds $4,562.21 from the Jaloppy Derby and donations, with strict records and discretionary powers to build and operate a first class pool in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The group plans future donations and meets next Monday at the Montrose hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Young Men’s Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Fred W. Bailey
Karl P. Blaise
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
S. E. Coquillette
Merchants National Bank
Leo J. Duster
Board of Trustees
Harry Boyd
Young Men's Bureau
Bureau
Hawkeye Downs
Derby
Iowa
Montrose Hotel
Tester Resigns From State Geological Board
Iowa City AP The Iowa state geological board announced the resignation of Prof A C Tester of the University of Iowa geology department. Appointed assistant state geologist in 1934 he has worked summers for the survey and split time with academia. He resigns to devote full time to the geology department and personal survey on writing. He led the groundwater resources division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa State Geological Board
A. C Tester
University of Iowa Geology Department
Tester
Geological Survey
House Group Proposes Lightening Capital Gains Tax
The House Ways and Means tax subcommittee and Treasury officials tentatively backed a plan to allow loss carryovers for one or two years. The discussion covered a flat tax of 15 to 25 percent, changes to holding-period relief, and detailed five year gain relief tiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Tax
Treasury
Roswell Magill
Fred M. Vinson
Britain Faces Vets Readiness in Possible National Emergency
Prime Minister Chamberlain urged readiness of veterans at army and navy posts should a state of national emergency arise. He spoke at the lord mayor’s banquet in Guild Hall after inaugurating the new mayor. He urged closer Anglo American cooperation referencing Roosevelt’s Chicago peace address and the Brussels nine power conference with Ambassador Norman H Davis present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Guild Hall
Roosevelt
Chicago
Far East
Norman H. Davis
Brussels
Davis
United States
Motorist Nabbed After Chase By Woman
Harry Orrick, 71, of 106 Gates Street, Waterloo, arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated after his car side swiped Mrs. Robert Toms, 2300 Grande Ave SE. A bystander, L. L. Brown of Topeka, Kan., intervened, Brown restrained Orrick until police arrived. A pint of state liquor whisky and a bottle of wine were found. Orrick had two liquor store purchases that day.
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Harry Orrick
Gates Street
Waterloo
Po- Nce
Robert Toms
Grande Avenue SE
C. J. Haas
L. L. Brown
Topeka
Kan
Mrs. Toms
Orrick
Park Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Brown
Duke and Duchess of Windsor to visit United States after Christmas
English friends say the Duke and Duchess of Windsor plan a U S visit immediately after Christmas. They will travel to Honolulu after a tour of several weeks through the United States and will not study housing or industrial conditions during that trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
United States
Honolulu
Mrs Raffray Divorced and Plans to Wed Simpson
Mary Kirk Raffray was granted a Reno divorce from Jacques Raffray, a New York broker, and announced she will marry Captain Ernest Simpson, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor. She said winter plans are away from Nevada and marriage date and place are not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
New
INS
Mary Kirk Raffray
Jacques Achille Louis Raffray
New York
Ernest Simpson
Duchess of Windsor
Raffray
B. F. Curter
Nevada
Simpson confirms marriage plans to Raffray after divorce
Ernest A. Simpson, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor, personally confirms reports he will wed Mrs. Mary Kirk Raffray after her divorce in Nevada.
Ramsay MacDonald Statesman Dies After Turbulent Career
Ramsay MacDonald, a prominent British statesman, died after a career marked by economic crises and shifting coalitions. He led the national coalition government, met Hoover in 1929 at Camp Rapidan, and later spoke with Roosevelt in 1933 on economic issues. He remained a key political figure until Chamberlain became prime minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacDonald
United States
Herbert Hoover
Rapidan Camp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Council
Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Boy 15 Is Cleared In Slaying Of Boarder
In Muskegon Michigan Foster Steven Gee a Whitehall high school student was exonerated in juvenile court after testimony that Floyd G. Peterson a Grand Rapids newspaperman and foster mother’s suitor had brandished a pistol and threatened to kill Mrs. L Gee and her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musgegon
Mich
Steven Gee
Whitehall High School
Floyd G. Peterson
Grand Rapids
Peterson
Eligible Bachelors at Iowa U Teased By Gnzette
Three University of Iowa bachelors named by coeds as most eligible will be featured at the November 19 spinster spree where women buy tickets, send dates flowers, and escort them to the party. The candidates include Elmer Sorenson Ames Jack Drees Eau Claire Wis Paul Larson New Hampton Dick Anderson Yankton Orvald Matteson Elgin Robert Allen Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Elmer Sorenson
Ames
Jack Drees
Eau Claire
Wis
Paul Larson
New Hampton
Dick Anderson
Yankton, S. D
Orvald Matteson
Elgin, Ill
Robert Allen
Chicago
Kraschel Frowns On Christmas Parole Idea
DES MOINES AP Governor Kraschel criticized a petition for 10 day Christmas paroles by inmates at Town state penitentiary. An editorial in the prison magazine urged such paroling across five institutions referencing Alabama's 1940s practice where 494 inmates were granted Christmas parole, with 479 returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
Presidio
Prison Magazine
Bibb Graves
Alabama
Kraschel
Fine Waukon Men For Shooting Pheasants
WAUKON AP E S Hart man 29 and A Lalong 30 both of Waukon were fined in Justice L T Hermanson's court for allegedly shooting ringneck pheasants. Hartman killed two birds and Lalong one bird on the Henry Thornton farm southeast of here. Hartman fined 75 dollars plus costs and Lalong 25 dollars plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
E. S. Hartman
A. Lalong
L. T. Hermanson
George Kaufman
Hartman
Lalong
Kaufman
Henry Thornton
Here
Iowa News in Brief Belle Plaine and Nearby
Belle Plaine honors pioneer Mrs. Alpha Ealy turning eighty nine with family ties tracing to Tennessee ancestors. Aurora hosts Wesley class tenth anniversary dinner and officer slate. South English reports Charles Brower dies at 55. La Porte City prepares Armistice day program with parade and band events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Plaine
Alpha Ealy
Albert E. Ealy
Greenville
Tenn
William
Mary Guinn
Iowa
John Greenlee
Wash Ealy
Alpha Guinn
Albert M. Ealy
Tennessee
George Morgan
Stanley
C. M. Parker
Ralph
Aurora
Charles Brower
Liberty Township
Edith
Ethel
Anna
Lesta
Charles
George
Harvey
Bertha Holsapple
William Brower
LA Porte City
Mr. Figge
Wallace Mooney
Brades
Galde
Taxes Due By Nov 13 Trigger Delinquent Sale List
County Treasurer Milo Sedlacek announced properties with unpaid taxes by November 13 will be included in the advertised delinquent tax lists for November 20 and 27. The annual delinquent tax sale is set for December 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Sedlacek
Hair Turns White During His Trial
Lawrence Marks, convicted of killing eight year old Paula Magagna, was sentenced to die in the electric chair by Brooklyn County Judge George W. Martin. The article notes Marks’ hair turning from black with gray streaks to pure white during the trial, and states the date of execution set for the week of December 20, 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Lawrence Marks
Paula Magagna
Brooklyn
George W. Martin
Marks
Airport Chief Kills Wife and Wounds Officer in Glendale
Glendale California AP report cites P A Wright, head of Union Air Terminal, shooting and killing his wife and seriously wounding John Kimmell, traffic manager, in his home. Wright claimed a later discovery of a compromising situation and said he heard a noise while others had returned from a party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glendale
Calif
P. A. Wright
Union Air Terminal
California
John Kimmell
Wright
Kimmell
Kimmel
Cedar Rapids Man On Iowa Assessors' Board
Fred St Northey of Waterloo was elected president of the Iowa State Association of Assessors at Tuesday's meeting. Charles I Hild of Davenport was named vice president and Ivar Linder of Fort Dodge was reelected secretary treasurer. Legislative committee members named include John Mather of Boone retiring president William White of Iowa City C C Cook of Des Moines D Felrelsen of Cedar Rapids Northey and Linder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Fred St. Northey
Waterloo
Iowa State Association of Assessors
Charles I. Hild
Davenport
Ivar Linder
Fort Dodge
John Mather
Boone
William White
Iowa City
C. C. Cook
D. Felrelsen
Cedar Rapids
Northey
Linder
Probers Review ECW Unit Fiscal Report and WPA Roles
A legislative inquiry probes ECW unit funding for WPA soil and conservation work. Questions center on a $500 allocation to the American School for Wild Life Protection at McGregor and a $72.04 payment to Logan Blizzard for building screening. Officials describe the funds as late additions and note approval by the governor and conservation commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
ECW
American School For Wild Life Protection
McGregor
W. Q. Price
Logan Blizzard
State Conservation Commission
Wild Life’ Organization
Charles Housh
Governor’s Office
Conservation Commission
Goode
McEnaney
Alesch
Nelson G. Kraschel
Kraschel
Indict Youth 17 for First Degree Murder in Des Moines
Polk County grand jury indicted Warren Bianco 17 for first degree murder in the death of Marvin Crane 30 a Des Moines filling station operator Bianco is jailed without bond and to appear before District Judge John J Halloran for arraignment tonight
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Polk, County
Warren Bianco
Marvin Crane
of Moines
Bianco
John J. Halloran
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U.S
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Ramsay MacDonald
Statesman
Boy
Boarder
Fine Waukon
Iowa News
Assessors’ Board
World-Wide Hearing Service
St. SE
Lemees
Okinow
Brabbit-Taylor Music CO
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