Wage Hour Admin Plans Prosecutions Under New Act
Wage hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews said prosecutions will start against violators of the new act. Of 1 200 complaints 25 percent appeared in order. investigations will begin next week and cases will be sent to the justice department. New York is expected to be first. He warned that wage cuts to 25 cents are illegal and may be tried in civil courts with the administration aiding suing employers. He noted uncertainty over actions against hourly workers.
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Washington
INS
Wagehour
Elmer F. Andrews
Department of Justice
New York
Andrews
Sixteen Typhoid Cases Reported All In Mild Form
Cedar Rapids city physician Dr. V H Hasek and Dr Paul Stephen of the state board of health said sixteen typhoid cases are linked to a single social gathering and that the city water and milk supply are not the source. They described the outbreak as mild and localized with the carrier source not yet determined.
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Cedar Rapids
V. H. Hasek
Paul Stephen
State Board of Health
Des Moines
Temporary Writ Forbids Indiana Ballot Recount
Indiana Supreme Court issued a temporary writ barring Raymond E. Willis from obtaining a recount of the November election ballots in seven counties. Return date December 5 requires Willis and circuit judges to show cause why the writ should not become permanent. Frederick Van Nuys, the Democratic winner, sought the order after defeating Willis by 5 197 votes.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Raymond E. Willis
Indiana
State Supreme Court
Willis
Frederick van Nuys
James P. Hughes
Be Angry Yet Do Not Hate A Spiritual Guide
Reader letters discuss kindness as true religion and consider Jesus anger without hatred. The piece urges forgiveness over lasting wrath, citing scripture and moral peril in hate. Dr Newton emphasizes anger without hate, warning it harms the soul and blocks prayers for forgiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Barrie
Jesus
WPA official Williams accused of fomenting class strife
Washington report says Aubrey Williams, second in command of the WPA relief program, was charged by Chairman Martin Dies with promoting class hatred in a Birmingham speech. Dies called Williams statement about class warfare astonishing and warned democracy could be endangered without wealth redistribution. Alice Lee Jamison of the American Indian Federation testified on Tuesday.
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Washington
Aubrey Williams
Martin Dies
House
UN American Activities Investigating Committee
Dies
Williams
Birmingham
Ala
WPA
Alice Lee Jamison
American Indian Federation
Don’t Get Caught with an Empty Coal Bin This Thanksgiving
Warning to readers about having coal for the holiday season. Promotes ordering coal from the Want Ad section. Emphasizes a cold house would spoil Thanksgiving festivities and urges action now.
Federal subsidies urged to restore jobs in industry
Walter Fuller of Curtis Publishing urges direct subsidies tax incentives or tax credits to spur industry and cut unemployment before a special Senate Finance Committee. Senators Vandenberg and Herring back profit sharing as a path to higher profits and better labor relations with reduced sabotage and higher production.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Walter D. Fuller
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Fuller
Vandenberg
Mich
Herring
Iowa
Net Value Of Estate Left By John D Rockefeller Is Appraised At 26410837
John D Rockefeller Jr died in Florida on May 23 1937 leaving a net estate of 26410837 largely in securities. The gross estate was 26905182 with over 17000000 in U S treasury notes. Virtually the entire estate funds a trust for a granddaughter and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Estimated taxes total 4616467 in state taxes and 12245000 federal. One other beneficiary is John D Rockefeller Jr for personal effects. Executors fee plan sets 25000 each for three executors. Debts total 133348. Assets include 26373845 in securities and 451364 notes cash 179973 other property.
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New York
John D Rockefeller, Jr
Florida
United States Treasury
Margaret Strong de Cuevas
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Stock Exchange
Mr. Rockefeller, Jr
Thomas M de Bevoise
Bertram Cutler
Standard Oil Company of California
Mount Powell Mines Company
Weather Drops 40 Degrees From 54 to 14 in Cedar Rapids
Winter took command of Cedar Rapids weather as the mercury tumbled 40 degrees from 54 at 1 pm Monday to 14 at 8 am Tuesday. The sun eased the line to 17 at 10 am and 26 at 2 30 pm. The sharpest drop happened Tuesday afternoon with temps 28 by 7 pm and 24 at midnight on the Chambers Inskeep thermometer.
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Winter
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Spain Charges New Foreign Aid To Foes
From Barcelona the Spanish government claimed enormous German and Italian reinforcements arrived in Spain for the insurgent forces between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15, including both men and war materials.
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Spain
London
INS
Barcelona
White Collared Men Take Over Striking Handlers Jobs In Chicago Yards
Chicago stockyards see white collar commission men fill striking CIO handlers roles. Agreement requires pens cleared by 5 pm, with 50 000 head of cattle sheep and hogs affected. Shippers told to halt movement. 700 handlers sought better terms including a 40 hour week and overtime pay.
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Chicago
Commission
CIO
Packing House Workers Union
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Exchange
Middle West
Farmers Ship 45 Carloads of Beef to Chicago Livestock Show
In Schleswig Indiana forty-five carloads of prime beef were loaded for Chicago with forty farmers accompanying the stock to ensure proper handling on arrival. Most stock is entered in the International Livestock Show opening in Chicago this weekend amid stock handler strikes.
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Schleswig, In
Chicago
National Guard Withdrawn From Sioux City Strike Zone
Two hundred twenty five National Guardsmen left the Swift and Company packing plant area in Sioux City after Governor Kraschel ordered withdrawal. The move followed a period of street clashes linked to a CIO strike begun September 29 and a later National Labor Relations Board hearing into unfair labor practices. detachments from Waterloo Fort Dodge Webster City Le Mars Sheldon and a Des Moines scout car unit remained in reduced posts.
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Sioux City
National
Swift and Company
National Labor Relations Board
Grahl
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Webster City
le Mars
Sheldon
Des Moines
New World Will Show Old World A Few Things
Arthur Bugs Baer imagines a playful clash between the new and old worlds. The piece jests that American figures and moments will outpace or upstage the established era with pop culture riffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Reich Resents Purom Stand of Britishers
Berlin reports that Germany considers recalling its ambassador over deteriorating British relations sparked by the Nazi anti Jewish drive. Berlin officials deny any plan to withdraw the envoy, while Nazism factions resent a Commons motion attacking Jewish policies and urging coordinated action by nations including the United States.
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London
Germany
Britain
Herbert von Dirksen
Berlin
Europe
Tanganyika
England
Noel-Baker
House
Ite
United States
Chamberlain
British Guiana
South America
British Tanganyika
Rhodesia
Nyasaland
Kenya
Nevile Henderson
Paris
Anthony Eden
League of Nations Union
Leicester
Army Plane Crash Claims Eighth Life
Second Lieutenant John Madre died at a hospital in LaGrange Georgia on Tuesday becoming the eighth army flyer to die from the bomber wreck in a pine thicket near the city last Friday night. Six other flyers died instantly and the seventh died after rescue. An army investigating board continued to search for clues to the crash cause.
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LA Grange
John Madre
Eighth Army
Army
Woman Charged in Death of Husband by Carbon Monoxide
Marie Burckhalter of Hastings on Hudson is charged with first degree manslaughter for allegedly aiding her husband Eugene Burckhalter in his death by carbon monoxide in Mount Vernon. Melixia Wittel, a friend, was questioned. Eugene Burckhalter was president of Southern Chemical. Prosecutor Elbert Gallagher says she supplied tubing and assisted in the setup and photographed the act.
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White Plains
INS
Marie Burckhalter
Hastingson-ludson
Melixia Wittel
Eugene V. Burckhalter
Southern Chemical Corporation
Mount Vernon
Burckhalter
Kittel
California
Elbert T. Gallagher
Burckhatter
Nye Urges End to Armament Drive in US Policy
Washington senator Gerald Nye, returning to the Senate after election, calls scrapping the administration armament program. He urges Congress to strengthen neutrality laws and resist a large navy and broader arms buildup. Nye dismisses reports of Hitler planning invasions of South America as propaganda by those seeking a naval expansion.
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Washington
INS
Gerald P. Nye
Jong Senate
Nye
Congress
Nto
U. S. Farm Income Drops 12 Percent in 1938 Ten Months
The Agriculture Department estimates U S cash farm income for the first ten months of 1938 at 6.198 billion dollars, down from 7.083 billion for the same period in 1937, a decline of about 12 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Erstwhile Telephone Girl Wins Five Thousand Dollar Monthly Allowance
Mrs Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge, once earning 18 dollars weekly as a telephone operator, obtained a widow's allowance of 5000 dollars a month from the Daniel Dodge estate. Her bid for 33000 a month was reduced and accepted by her lawyer and by Mrs Alfred G. Wilson, the heir who receives most of the fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac, Mich
Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge
Daniel Dodge
Japanese German cultural pact approved by privy council
The privy council approved a cultural pact with Germany to exchange professors and support cultural activities. Observers say the agreement could lead to German instructors in Japan only if approved by the Nazi party, signaling a link to the anti communist axis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TOKIO
Privy Council
Iowa Supreme Court Grants Rhodes New Death Trial
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed Walter H. Rhodes’s 1937 murder conviction and ordered a new trial after finding juror J A Zenishek had formed an opinion prior to verdict. Rhodes, 32, was on death row for the dynamite gun murder of his wife in Iowa City, with prior co-defendants having already been executed.
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Des Motnes
Walter H. Rhodes
Iowa City
Iowa Supreme Court
Lifm
J. A. Zenishek
Rhodes
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Death Row
Franz A. Jacobsen
Mario Heinz
Glenn C Haynes
Jacobsen
Heinz
E. A. Sager
John W. Kintzinger
Ernest Miller
Maurice F. Donegan
Richard F Mitchell
Paul W Richards
W. H Hamilton
John W Anderson
Carl B Stiger
Johnson County
Tama
Toledo
Des Moiines
Will J. Hayek
Supreme Court
James P. Gaffney
Zenishek
Gaffney
Roosevelt Acts as Gentleman Farmer at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt visited Warm Springs Georgia for Thanksgiving and relaxed in the Georgia countryside. He kept his schedule clear for the day and enjoyed a renewal of acquaintances at the resort where he recovered years ago.
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Warm Springs
INS
Roosevelt
Georgia
Marvin H. McIntyre
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Orson Welles
Man of the
Paul Revere
Reich
Prentiss Gilbert
Foreign Office
U. S
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