Court To Review Sitdown Ruling in Wagner Act Case
The Supreme Court granted the National Labor Relations Board review of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp to decide if the board can order reinstatement for workers in a sitdown strike. The Seventh Circuit had barred such redress, citing unclean hands. The high court will hear oral arguments before ruling.
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Supreme Court
CIO
New Deal
National Labor Relations Board
Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation
Chicago
Seventh U.S. Circuit Court
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Thurman Arnold
American Transformer Company
Telephone Company
General Talking Pictures Company of
New York
Butler
Black
Third Circuit Court
Circuit Court
High Court
Clark
Ernst
Weather note shows 54 degree high in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids records a warm day with morning clouds clearing by noon. Temperatures rose from 45 at 4 am to 54 by 1 15 pm, then eased to 50 by 2 30 pm. Sunday featured a 19 low and a high near 49 with a 7 pm reading of 44 and midnight at 48.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
A Minister's Mail Sparks Reader Debate on Worry
A reader disputes an Eleanor Roosevelt style nuture piece, arguing youth must worry and act. The letter cites an eighty two year old as a living reply, saying waiting and gathering facts helps control imagination and fear, with a note on practice and prayer.
Doubt Sabotage in New Ship Mishap
Investigators in Oakland ruled out sabotage after a Weser accident killed a longshoreman and another gear failure halted work on the German freighter Weser. A prior November explosion on the Vancouver prompted a multi-agency inquiry. officials cited worn gear and planned further investigation by German consul general Baron Manfred von Killinger.
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Oakland
Calif
INS
Nick Pesha
Vancouver
Oakland Estuary
Lloyd Line
Leon Carroll
Franz Voight
Manfred von Killinger
San Francisco
Rise in State Government Costs Reported by Census
The Census Bureau data shows operating costs for 15 states rose 41.4 percent from 1932 to 1937 with total revenues up 70.9 percent in the same period. Grants-in-aid and unemployment taxes helped fund the increase while debt levels varied across the states.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Wisconsin
Hull Reports German Reply On Austrian Debt
Secretary of State Hull said Germany answered our six month old Austrian debt demand with an unsatisfactory reply. He noted Berlin’s note was received but declined to publish its exact text, in Washington.
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Hull
Washington
INS
Germany
Reich
Austria
United States
Berlin
Schools Of Dayton Reopen On A Pay As You Go Basis
Dayton figures report 34 000 pupils returned to classes after three weeks of closure due to a $61 000 deficit. The board voted to operate on a pay as you go basis with about $430 228 available. No forecast on full year continuation.
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Schools of
Dayton
Dayton, O
Board of Education
Czechs and Nazis Sign Border Limitation Pact
In Prague Germany and Czechoslovakia signed an agreement delimiting frontiers between the two nations. Occupied areas amounting to 60 villages and 50 000 people will be under German control by Thursday. The pact settles Czech citizenship in Germany and minority protections.
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Prague
SNL
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Fish Urges King Visit Free From Propaganda in US
Rep Hamilton Fish urged that King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s U S visit be kept free of war propaganda or secret treaties. He warned against entanglement in European conflicts and urged neutrality and non intervention, saying the United States should stay out of other nations’ wars.
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Washington
United Press
Hamilton Fish
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United States
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Japan
Germany
Soviet Russia
Hongkong
India
Egypt
George
Europe
Asia
British Empire
Sweden
Norway
Holland
Switzerland
Pope Pius Closer to Usual Self After Illness
Vatican reports Pope Pius has slimmed after a serious illness and appears less stern. He travels between Castel Gandolfo and the Vatican, works 14 to 16 hours daily, and shows greater personal concern for aides while rejecting calls to ease his routine.
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Vatican City
United Press
Pope Pius
Castel Gandolfo
Vatican
Irwin Attempts To End His Life In Tombs Cell
Robert Irwin, confessed slayer of Veronica Gedeon and two others, made a dramatic bid to kill himself at the Tombs prison. He broke from guards, rushed a window, smashed glass with his fists, and tried to cut his wrists on the shards while awaiting sentence for the triple murders.
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New York
INS
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Tombs
Form World Female Party For Equality
Washington reports the formation of a world women’s party to campaign for equality for women globally. Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman’s Party, will be the first chairwoman with headquarters set in Geneva.
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Washington
INS
World Woman's Party
Alice Paul
National Women's Party
Geneva
Missing Linn County 4 H Clubs President Bought Bus Ticket to Denver
John Clark 20 of near Ely and president of Linn county 4 H clubs was reported missing Sunday afternoon. He bought a Denver bus ticket Saturday after cashing a $25 check and shopping at a Cedar Rapids clothing store. He had attended a 4 H officers meeting Friday and was last seen driving his brother Andrew Clark’s car with two young women in Cedar Rapids. The car was found in M Street SW with damage to headlight and fender.
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Ceodar Rapible News
John Clark
Near Ely
Linn County
Denver
James H Smith
Clark
Andrew Clark
Smith
Cedar Rapids
Ely
Marion
Silver Palace
Sixteenth Avenue
Andrew
Sheriff's Office
M Street
Alarm over radicals in federal government cited
Washington reports chairman Dies of the House committee on un American activities says secret hearings reveal an alarming situation inside the federal government. Testimony shows radicals allegedly use government machinery and publications to spread class hatred. Saposs article in Labor Age is cited as evidence of socialist to communist influence in Washington.
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Washington
INS
Dies
House Committee
National Labor Relations Board
David Saposs
Saposs
Labor Age
Defenders of American Liberty Linked to Un-American Inquiry
Washington report lists the Defenders of American Liberty of Ledyard Iowa among groups named at the Dies un American investigation for alleged anti religious and anti racial activities.
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Washington
Dies un-American
The
Defenders of American Liberty
Ledyard
Border Warfare Fears Rise Over Czechoslovakia Frontiers
Reports from Vienna and Prague describe escalating tensions along the eastern frontier involving Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland. Irregular Polish forces were driven back in Ruthenia with casualties while Hungary and Poland mobilize frontier troops amid fear of broader invasion. Observers note Vienna conference failings and potential Italian German mediation.
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Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Italy
Prague
Czech
Ruthenia
Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Black Sea
Bohemia
Moravia
Hitler
Vienna Voelkischer Werbachter
Nazi antisemitism linked to communism in Detroit sermon
In Detroit, Father Charles E. Coughlin argued on Sunday that Nazi persecution of Jews followed from the Hitler regime’s antipathy to communism. He claimed Nazism was a political defense against communism and that communism was seen as a product of Jews who allegedly controlled Russia.
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Detroit
Germany
Charles E. Coughlin
Russia
Cal Wouldn't Risk So Much With Only Mucilage On Back
Cartoonist Arthur Bugs Baer notes Jim Farley's new five dollar stamp will please collectors. He jokes Cal Coolidge refused to back such risk with only postage. Baer portrays Coolidge as economical, preferring a postcard over a five dollar stamp for results.
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Cal
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Jim Farley
Jim
Calvin Coolidge
Changsha Fire Kills 2000 as Officials Executed
A five day blaze razed Changsha the Hunan capital killing about 2000 people and leading to the execution of three Chinese officials blamed for starting the fire. The fire aimed to hinder Japanese capture and scorched the city as Chinese forces claimed early victories and continued operations along the Yochow Changsha railway.
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Changsha
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Chungking
China
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Thungyaneg
Sienning
Hankow
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Canton
Japan
United States
Wan River
Yangtze
Hupeh
Farm Bureau Spokesmen Voice Support for TVA
Washington report shows spokesmen for the American Farm Bureau Federation told a congressional committee they favor the Tennessee Valley Authority citing its impact on rural electric power in the South. Present were Edward R. O Neal George N Putnam Murray Lincoln J F Porter Donald Kirkpatrick and R W Blackburn representing farm bureaus across several states.
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Washington
INS
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congressional Committee
American Farm Bureau Federation
TVA
Southland
Edward R. O'Neal
George N Putnam
New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation
Murray Lincoln
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
J F Porter
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation
Donald Kirkpatrick
R W
Blackburn
Pacific defense plan draws pacifist protests in America
U S officials, Navy men and diplomats advance President Roosevelt's continental defense for the western hemisphere with Hull to lead the American delegation to the Lima Pan American Conference. Pacifist groups charge the plan invites a world arms race while Admiral Leahy notes delays in the navy expansion but insists the fleet remains for defense and can go offensive if war comes.
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Washington
Navy Yards
Roosevelt
Hull
New York
Lima
Peru
Dee
Mr. Roosevelt
National Council For Prevention of War
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
A A. Berler
William D Leahy
Naval Operations
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Leahy
Wasp
Livestock Handlers Strike Ties Up Chicago Market
The Livestock Handlers union of the Packing House Workers Organizing Committee CIO struck Chicago’s world’s largest market paralyzing operations. Police ordered strikers off yards as picketing began. 178 to 500 strikers claimed, with market cattle killing at a standstill and no quotations available.
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Chicago
Comemittes
CIO Industrial Organization
CIO
American Federation of Labor
A. FP
F. of L
A. F. of L
Commission House
John Pendergast
Pendergast
Briton Detained after Flight to Take Wife from Soviet
In Moscow a 36 year old Englishman Brian Grover a petroleum engineer arrested after attempting to spirit his Russian wife out of the Soviet Union by air. He flew 650 miles from Stockholm in a hired plane landing at Startitsa Kalinin province near Moscow. He married a Russian girl in 1932 and could not obtain permission for her to depart the country. he had previously gone to Persia in 1934.
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Moscow
INS
Brian Grover
Stockholm
Startitsa
Kalinin Province
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Persia
Watchman Dies After Warning At Tunnel Entrance
Richard de Santo a 45 year old Lackawanna railroad watchman at Mt. Pocono Pennsylvania heard a 200 ton rock fall at a tunnel entrance Sunday He ran to a telephone warned a dispatcher then died of a heart attack Foreman Thomas Grady found his body with a hand on the receiver.
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MT. Pocono, Pa
Richard de Santo
Lackawanna
Teene
Thomas Grady
Carol Secures British Trade Concession During London Visit
London routes record that King Carol of Roumania won a promise from Britain to boost trade by expanding the barter system long in place between the two nations. The concession was learned on Monday after his London visit.
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Carol of
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