Secret youth cult investigated in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City school officials probe a semi military group called Curiosity Club or CC led by Milton Walser and Manford Ishmael claiming aims of equality and a bloodless social change. members aged 17 to 25 study rifles fencing and discuss sex education while pledging loyalty to a liberal order.
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Oklahoma City
United States
Milton Walser
Manford Ishmael
Walser
Ishmael
Fewerd
Bellamy
Plato
Aristotle
Curiosity Club
Ira Baker
Classen High School
Baker
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Youngstown
Ohio
Poland enacts totalitarian decrees banning Freemasonry
Warsaw reports a government order dissolving all Freemason lodges and seizing lodge property for public welfare. It also bans general strikes with five year prison terms for organizers and participants. farmers face five years for withholding produce. Prosecutions target foreign propaganda, secret international groups, and damaging currency or exports with up to three year terms.
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Warsaw
Poland
Thanksgiving Reflections On Peace And Faith In Troubled Times
In a reflective meditation from 1938, Dr Newton urges daily thanksgiving despite gloom and war wounds. He contrasts despair with the joy of autumn beauty, faith in God, and the hope that peace endures beyond conflicts, urging forgiveness and gratitude as the steady secret of life.
Archdiocese Clashes With Coughlin Over Radio Offer
Arch bishop Mooney rejects a Detroit station manager Fitzpatrick claim that Coughlins remarks had church approval. Jewish council leader Brown says no network for reply will be set up for now.
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Detroit
Edward Mooney
Charles E. Coughlin
Father Coughlin
Germany
New York
Leo Fitzpatrick
WJR
Fitzpatrick
Mooney
David A. Brown
Ashes complaint basis in divorce filing
Mrs. Ruby Newmark files for divorce from Alfred Newmark an insurance executive alleging a habit of flicking cigarette ashes in her face as she slept. The complaint was filed here on Thursday in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
INS
Ruby Newmark
Alfred Newmark
Young Insurance
Tolerance Theme of U S Holiday Pleas
Thanksgiving observances across the United States centered on prayers for peace and tolerance. President Roosevelt planned a warm Springs dinner and radio address alongside refugee and Palestine news. Garner hunted wild duck while CCC camps distributed 40000 turkeys and cranberries amid meals for the needy.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Warm Springs Foundation
Columbia Broadcasting System
Blue Network
National Broadcasting Company
CCC
United States
East
Alaska Would Fail As Haven For Jews
The Ketchikan Chronicle argued Alaska could not serve as a refugee haven. It said population must be reasonably selective and that refugees or unemployed Americans would not be the right people to settle in the wilderness or establish homesteads.
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Alaska
Ketchikan, Alaska
Ketchikan Chronicle
Ickes
The
Chronicle
Colombia recalls envoys in Berlin after rioting incident
The Colombian government recalled minister Jaime Jaramillo and chargé Rafael Rocha Schloss from Berlin following alleged abuse by storm troops during anti Jewish riots. Jaramillo, detained while filming the unrest, refused to surrender his camera and was released after about two hours. He then left for Paris and did not present credentials to Hitler.
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Berlin
Jaime Jaramillo
Germany
Rafael Rocha Schloss
United Press
Jaramillo
Paris
Foreign Office
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Britain weighs Windsor as roving trade envoy
London reports the British government may appoint the Duke of Windsor as a roving trade ambassador similar to his earlier role as Prince of Wales. Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Halifax are cited as considering meetings in Paris to explore duties abroad. potential missions cover South America and other parts of empire with possible U.S. travel next fall.
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London
INL
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Viscount Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
Ins
Exchange
Paris
Great Britain
South America
United States
Chamberlain
George VI
Windsor
Thanksgiving Day Coldest Of Season In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids saw the season's coldest Thanksgiving with the thermometer at 9 degrees above zero at 8 am. It rose to 10 at 10 am and reached a high of 30 between 1 and 3 pm. Temperatures fell to 26 at 7 pm and 14 by midnight per the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
All Counsel Rests In Nazi Spy Case
The six week Nazi espionage trial in New York federal court ends as both sides rest their cases. The jury will determine if two men and a woman were part of a plot to steal U S defense secrets for Germany. Judge Knox praised the end of testimony awaiting verdict.
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New York
United States
Germany
John C. Knox
Poles and Hungarians Plan Seizure of Ruthenia
London dispatch reports Poland and Hungary intend to seize the Ruthenian portion of Czechoslovakia on Sunday to gain a shared border. Germany seeks Danzig and concessions in return, Roumania warns Britain and France, while Britain and France are expected to refrain from intervention.
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London
INS
Poland
Hungary
Germany
Czechoslovakia
London Evening Standard
Free City of
Danzig
Ruthenia
Nazi envoy on high seas bound for Berlin
German ambassador to the United States Dr. Hans H Dieckhoff sailed from New York on the liner Hansa headed for Berlin to explain Washingtons stance on Nazi persecution. Officials confirmed his presence only after he boarded under a false name and sought to avoid demonstrations. He would not predict future travel plans or remarks.
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New York
Hans H. Dieckhoff
United States
Berlin
Dieckhoff
Hansa
Herr Rennert
Lloyd Line
Britain Rebuffs Japan on Yangtze Navigation Stand
British ambassador Sir Robert Craigi e informed Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita that Japan’s arguments against reopening the Yangtze River to navigation are unacceptable and not considered valid. The exchange was reported from Tokio.
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TOKIO
Robert Craigie
Foreign Office
Hachiro Arita
Yangtze River
Rabbi Talks At Plymouth Sets New Precedent
In Plymouth Mass 26 year old Rabbi Samuel F Friedman of Beth Jacob spoke from the Church of the Pilgrimage pulpit in the annual Thanksgiving service the first time a rabbi has do so in 317 years. He praised America for liberty and denounced Nazi and fascist persecution while noting Plymouths Pilgrim heritage of neighborly welcome. He urged Christians and Jews to uphold truths of justice and humanity as a response to antisemitism.
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Plymouth
Mass
America
Carl Knudson
Church of the Pilgrimage
Samuel F. Friedman
Beth Jacob
Germany
Friedman
Holland
Thirty Below Zero Reported Near Yellowstone Park
An official temperature of thirty degrees below zero was reported to forest service headquarters Wednesday night from West Yellowstone, Montana, the western entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
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Bozeman, Mont
Forest Service
West Yellowstone
Mont
Yellowstone National Park
Twin Santa Monica San Bernardino Fires Roar Through Film Areas
Two major fires in the Santa Monica and San Bernardino ranges burned into 12,000 acres and destroyed about 350 homes including the Arrowhead Springs hotel and Madeleine Carroll's house. One death was linked to the Santa Monica blaze as residents fled amid 50 mph winds.
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Los Angeles
Santa Monica
San Bernardino
Topanga
Santa Ynez
Los Flores
Pemescal Canyons
Louis Silvers
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Studio
Los Angeles County
Pacific Strand
Madeleine Carroll
Las Flores Canyon
Arrowhead
Personal crisis reports among German Jews rise in Berlin
Berlin reports indicate increasing personal crises among Jews as Nazi anti Semitic pressure intensifies. Husbands face suicide to shield wives while Jews lose social life and jobs. payment demands on fortunes over 2000 dollars by August 15 1939 threaten 60 000 in camps. Nazi systematic Aryanizing expands from retail to wholesale and shipping.
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Berlin
Germany
Deutsche Bergwerkszeitung
Dusseldorf
It’s Nice To Pocket PWA Cash But There Are Strings
An article reflects on PWA funds in 1938 with Georgia’s stance after a harsh election. The piece notes tightening funds and multiple strings attached resembling an orchestra of harps, while acknowledging Thanksgiving relief and national policy debates.
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PWA
Georgia
New Hawkeye coach given 3 year contract
Eddie Anderson named head football coach at Iowa, successor to Irl Tubbs. A three year contract with a salary around 12 500 is reported, with Anderson bringing Notre Dame trained assistants Joe Sheeketski and Jim Harris from Holy Cross. Announcement delays and board meetings cited as formalities.
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Eddie Anderson
University of Iown
Irl Tubbs
Holy Cross College
Iowa
Hawkeye Athletic Board
Gazette
Anderson
Walter L. “Stub” Stewart
Des Moines
Iowa Athletic Board
Worcester
Mass
Stewart
Holy Cross
Atlanta
Karl Leth
Athletic Board
Joe Sheeketski
Jim Harris
Notre Dame
Leib
Tubbs
Pat Boland
Ernie Nevers
Iowa Board
Iowa City
Hawkeyes
Boston College
Hawkeye
Roumania King and Crown Prince Visit Hitler at Berchtesgaden
King Carol of Roumania and Crown Prince Michael were hosted at a luncheon by Adolf Hitler at his mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. They arrived by special train from Munich and were met by leading Nazi officials. Prince Friedrich Victor and Prince Franz Josef accompanied the king. Oscar Pirow, British minister for South Africa, planned talks with Hitler on Germany’s colonial claims later that day.
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Berchtesgaden
Germany
Carol of
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