Mexico Agrees to Pay One Million Annual Claims
The Mexico United States land expropriation dispute ended when Mexico accepted proposals to pay American claims. Mexico will pay one million dollars yearly, starting within six months, with settlements favoring American landowners though Mexican land seizures remain unresolved for Mexican claimants. President Lazaro Cardenas yielded to maintain friendly relations, while avoiding diplomatic intervention on oil expropriations.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Washington
Washington and Wall Street See Trade Upturn Continuing
New York reports economists expect ongoing business recovery into spring with further gains seen as likely. Most foresee momentum in heavy goods carrying on for several months, with a few optimistic about a longer upward cycle of two years or more unless unforeseen setbacks occur.
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Washington
Wall Street
New York
Gillette Margin Revised To 2295 In Iowa Election
DES MOINES AP Senator Guy M. Gillette’s victory margin was revised to 2,295 votes after a complete recount of unofficial returns in all but fourteen counties. The totals showed Gillette 412,743 and Dickinson 410,448 with further county updates narrowing the gap from 2,319.
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DES Moines
Guy M. Gillette
Gillette
Lester J. Dickinson
Sun Breaks Through Clouds as Mercury Rises in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids reports clear sun breaking through clouds on Saturday afternoon as temperatures climb. Mercury reaches 62 at 1 45 p.m. from a low of 44, with a daylong range, per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Swiss Open Drive To Repress Nazis
Swiss authorities launch a vigorous campaign against Swiss nazis and their German links. Federal police arrest several members of the federal social workers party in Zurich and Maj. Ernst Leonhardt, leader of the national socialist Swiss workers party, in Basle.
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Berne
Switzerland
Federal
Social Workers’ Party
Zurich
Basle
Maj
Ernst Leonhardt
Fuehrer
National Socialist
Swiss Workers’ Party
Evangelist McPherson Faces Controversy Over Kansas Nazi Guest
Los Angeles reports a clash as Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson hosts Dr. Gerald Winrod, labeled Kansas Hitler, drawing protests from labor groups, anti Nazi leagues, and clergy. Winrod, deemed anti Semitic and anti Catholic, was criticized by Donald Ogden Stewart and others while McPherson defended him as a religious figure amid illness. Winrod, a Kansas propagandist, lost the primary to Clyde Reed. his Wichita home links to Carrie Nation lore.
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Los Angeles
Gerald B. Winrod
Kansas
Hitler
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angelus Temple
Labor
Antinazi League
Winrod
Republican Party
McPherson
Hollywood
CIO
Keith Brooks
Glendale Presbyterian Church
Rheba Crawford
Temple
Aimee
Giles Knight
Four-Square Gospel Temple
Clyde M Reed
George McGill
Wichita
Carrie Nation
J. W. Winrod
Roosevelt Seen Likely to Push New Deal Policy in New Congress
President Roosevelt’s post election remarks suggest he will vigorously press his New Deal program in the new Congress. He argued Democrats will not join Republicans to block proposals and that GOP gains do not threaten liberal government. Several Democrats say a smaller majority may unite behind the president.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Volunteers Quit Spain Return Home After Demobilization
French and Belgian volunteers who fought with the Spanish republican army totaling 1 752 arrived Saturday at Cerbere on the frontier en route to their homes as loyalists demobilize foreign volunteers.
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Perpignan
France
Cerbere
Vandenberg Pushes Broad Profit Sharing Plan Hearings
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg announced a Senate special committee will hold public hearings starting November 21 on corporate profit sharing. Attendees will include captains of industry from Proctor and Gamble and General Motors to discuss existing plans and tax incentives, with the aim of broadening capitalist participation and shaping recommendations for Congress.
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Washington
INS
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Vandenberg
Senate
Capital
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Donald Despain
Chicago
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Herring
Proctor and Gamble Company
General Motors Corporation
Proctor and Gamble
International News Service
Would You Like to Sell Your Childs Outgrown Snow Suit
Mothers scan The Gazette Want Ads for used children s clothing. L F Steele of 729 F Ave NW posted a snow suit for a size 4 child and received ten calls leading to a sale. Call 2 1121 to start an ad before 8 tonight Ad-taker.
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The
Gazette
L. F. Steele
F Ave
Notre Dame Grid Special Trains Crashes Injuring Dozens
Two football special trains bound for the Notre Dame Minnesota game collided at right angles in South Bend Indiana injuring about 35 to 40 people. The New York Central and Grand Trunk trains carrying roughly 150 fans overturned with no immediate word on fatalities. State police and ambulances rushed to the scene as crews worked to assist the injured.
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South Bend
Ind
Minnesota
New York Central Railroad
Chicago
New York Central
Grand Trunk Railroad
Lewis calls for ouster of Hagues and Daveys from Democratic ranks
Pittsburgh report says John S. Lewis head of the CIO demanded the Democrats purge leaders like Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and Governor Martin L. Davey of Ohio to preserve organized labor support. He linked Hague’s resistance to workers and Davey’s troop orders to the Little Steel Strike, urging a realignment while praising Roosevelt and urging a clean party house.
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Pittsburgh
John S. Lewis
CLO
Democratic Party
Hagues
Daveys
Frank Hague
Jersey City
N. J
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Hague
CIO
New Jersey
Davey
Lewis
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
David Dubinsky
United Labor Movement
AFL
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Boy nets bounty on goshawk then serves pheasant dish
Norman Bauer on his father's Ridgway farm shot a goshawk and found a pheasant in its talons. The state paid a bounty for the hawk while the pheasant served as a family dinner centerpiece.
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Ridgway, Pa
Norman Bauer
Republicans plan probe of WPA and Hopkins
Rep. Joseph W. Martin announced that Republicans will push a comprehensive investigation of the Works Progress Administration and WPA head Harry L. Hopkins. He argued for a fair hearing on the Townsend pension plan and warned of political use of WPA funds. Martin said Hopkins must bear responsibility for the WPA’s conduct and suggested reforms to place more local control.
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Washington
INS
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Harry L. T Hopkins
Joseph W Martin
Massachusetts
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Republican House
Martin
Rules Committee
Townsend
House
Hopkins
Congress
Irony Of Fate Strikes Birney While Installing Storm Windows
Relatives of Earl Birney 63 recall a fatal ladder accident years earlier and enlist Norman Snouffer 1431 B avenue NE to help install storm windows. Snouffer slipped on a ladder causing Birney to fall. Birney fractured his right hip and is hospitalized at St Luke's.
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Cedar Rapids
Earl Birney
Washington Avenue SE
Birney
Norman Snouffer
B Avenue NE
Snouffer
Park Avenue SE
Mr. Birney
St. Luke's Hospital
Hunting Victim Shot by Husband Near Centerville
Mrs Paul Burgess was wounded by her husband Armistice Day while hunting near Centerville. She suffered shotgun wounds to the chest and neck, was partially concealed by bushes, and was in critical condition but expected to recover.
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Centerville
Paul Burgess
Prague premier demands united party amid Nazi 17 Points plan
Premier Jan Syrovy issued a noon deadline for all Czech political parties to merge or be dissolved amid a document exposing Nazi and anti Jewish aims. The 17 Points call for expelling Jews from journalism and politics, censorship, unified propaganda, labor bans, and strict immigration limits.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Jan Syrovy
Syrovy
Brazada
Chvalkovsky
Germany
Central European
Failure of dynamite to explode shocks readers
Special to The Gazette reports an auto crash on highway 30 near Keystone where 30 pounds of dynamite and blasting caps in William A Radeke's 1928 coupe failed to detonate. Radeke and John Thiele collided as Thiele's car went into a ditch. no injuries were reported.
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Vinton
William A Radcke
Luzerne
Keystone Corner
Radeke
John Thiele
Dysart
Helen
Thiele
Jack Franklin
Show Of Affection Indicates Windsor Estrangement End
In PARIS the Dukes and Duchesses of Gloucester and Windsor toasted a reunion with a late night party at Larue on the Place de la Madeleine. The visit, arranged by King George, sparked talk they may return to England and settle at Fort Belvedere, signaling reconciliation in the royal ranks.
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Paris
Dukes
England
Larue
Place de la Madeleine
London
News Chronicle
Fort Belvedere
Roman Church Beatifies U S Citizen Mother Cabrini in Rome
Rome prepares for the first American beatification as Pope Pius XI declares Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini blessed. The ceremony follows approval of two miracles, including a New York boy blinded in infancy who regained sight and a Seattle nun who recovered after five operations through Cabrini’s intercession.
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Washington
Rome
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Chicago
Pius XI
St. Peter's Basilica
George Cardinal Mundelein
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
United States
Mother Cabrini
Cicognani
Sacred Congregation of Rites
Mother Cubmni
Italy
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Peter Smith
New York City
Cabrini
Seattle
U S Protests Japan Ship Restrictions
Secretary of State Hull said the United States has made representations to Japan over reported restrictions on Yangtze River shipping. He noted such communications occur from navigational problems but did not specify any particular incident. He added the U S acted separately from Britain and France, which were reported to join parallel protests.
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Washington
Hull
Japan
Yangtze River
Great Britain
France
London
United States
Sandwich Shop Robbed of Cash Cigarettes and Candy
Six to eight dollars from the cash drawer and one dollar from a tax money box were taken at Maid-Rite Sandwich shop 621 First Avenue West on Friday night. Six cartons of cigarettes and several candy bars were also stolen. Entry was gained by removing a screen and jiggling the window until a temporary fastening gave way. A candy bar not sold by the shop was left behind. Detective L B Marshall and identification expert Robert Hopwood investigated.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue W
L. B. Marshall
Robert Hopwood
Senator Hadschi Ristics Spira Assassinated in Skoplje Market
Senator Hadschi Ristics Spira, head of the government tobacco monopoly, was killed in Skoplje market square Friday night by a tobacco grower named Vouch. The shooter also killed himself.
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Belgrade
Hadschi Ristics Spira
Skoplje
Vouch
Dewey and Smith attack anti Jewish drive abroad
District Attorney Thomas E Dewey and former Governor Alfred E Smith joined protests against anti Semitic demonstrations in New York. A German consulate was guarded after abuse calls and a crowd shouted Down with Germany. In London a Daily Sketch report cited Roosevelt seeking refugee aid from Chamberlain during Nazi outbreaks. Dewey and Smith spoke on radio and intercity networks urging world opinion to halt barbarism.
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New York
Atttorney
Thomas E Dewey
Alfred E. Smith
Germany
Boston
London
Daily Sketch
Roosevelt
Neville Chamberlain
IF. D. R
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Washington
Dewey
Smith
WMCA
German Jews Face Massive Fine After Pars Murder
German authorities announced a 1 billion mark penalty to be collected from Jews in Germany for the murder of Ernst vom Rath. Financial experts say the levy will require nearly all Jews to contribute and could erase fortunes of the wealthy while burdening the poor proportionally. Goering issued a decree banning Jews from retail and related ventures and confiscating Jewish insurance claims, prohibiting them from leading industrial or commercial firms and placing limits under the national labor law. Continued on page 2.
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Berlin
Ernst Vom Rath
Pars
Germany
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Reich
Goering
Elephant’s Oxygen Tent Moves to Main Top Opinion
A 1938 column by Arthur Bugs Balr notes Republicans winning eleven governors eight senators and eighty representatives. The piece suggests two strong political parties balance each other and quips the elephant has moved from its oxygen tent to the main top.
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Joseph Martin
Notre Dame
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AL Smith
Union
Arthur “Bugs” Balr
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