Averted Movie Strike Ends With 10 Percent Raise
A 10 percent wage increase for 35 000 motion picture technicians was approved by studio producers and AFL unions, with the increase to be revisited by Feb 15 1940. If talks fail, arbitration will decide. strike had threatened 25 000 theaters and 40 000 workers idle.
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Hollywood
AFL
Eeunion
William Bioff
AFL Movie Craftsmen
International Alliance of
United States
Canada
Defense Spending In U S Averaging 14 per Person
Official figures show the United States is spending about 14 dollars per person this year for defense. The army totals 956,013,029 dollars with a 119,000,000 deficiency request to cover European war costs. The navy amounts to 924,236,151 dollars with a 146,049,000 deficiency for Atlantic coast neutrality patrol expenses.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Congress
Navy
Atlantic Coast Neutrality Patrol
Gunpowder and Paper: A Satirical Cartoon Caption
A satirical piece notes the Chinese invention of gunpowder and paper, jokes about their impact in war and treaties, and mocks Nobel Prize logic. It imagines submarines and sport around wrecks, with quirky references to fishing and a turtle winner.
Murder charge filed against Becicka in Novotny slayings
Iowa City sheriff and state agent filed two preliminary informations charging first degree murder against Charles Becicka 28 a former Ely farm hand for the double slaying of Mr and Mrs George Novotny at their Shueyville area farm home on Sept 9 Becicka who is in federal custody at Davenport reportedly confessed the slayings Prosecutors pursued the weapon search after Becicka said he discarded a nickel plated revolver as he walked from the Novotny home to Cedar Rapids Some chain of relatives linked to the victims is noted in the report
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Iowa City
Don MeComas
Bob Gregson
Charles Becicka
Ely
George Novotny
Shueyville
T. M. Fairchild
Becicka
Davenport
McComas
Girl Who Slew Boy Faces Movie Ban Fears Punishment
Colleen Linton a 13 year old Lynwood girl who accidentally killed Arthur Wilson 9 sobbed she cannot go to movies after the tragedy. She said she did not pull the trigger the gun went off while she aimed to scare him into finishing house work. She told police she planned to play cowboy with three boys who came by and that her parents are separated with her keeping house for her father Ernest.
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Lynwood
Calif
Ins
Colleen Linton
Arthur Wilson
Pop
Colleen
Arthur
Ernest
Aged Couple Struck Simultaneously By Separate Disasters
Police found an amnesia victim, Emma Legg, wandering Elizabeth streets and identified her after hours of work. Her husband, Herman Legg, 71, was found at home dying of a stroke. Both were taken to the same hospital unaware of each other.
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Elizabeth
Emma Legg
Herman
Firms' Inventories Rise for Third Month
Washington reports from Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins that wholesale inventories increased for the third straight month in October over October 1938. The cost value rose three and a half percent while sales volume fell six and a half percent from September to October.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Higher Income Tax Likely to Be Requested
Warm Springs Ga Ins Increased income taxes probably will be proposed in the next congress to meet mounting defense costs. House Naval Committee Chairman Carl Vinson said the present generation should bear defense costs, with talks on a national defense tax. Eccles urged lowering exemptions and removing credits. The President had a quiet day at his Warm Springs retreat.
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Warm Springs
INS
House
Roosevelt
White House
Georgia
Naval Committee
Carl Vinson
Walter F George
George
Vinson
Naval
Federal Reserve Board
Marriner S. Eccles
Eccles
Byrd Heads to Three Year Polar Expedition
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd departed the United States for a three year expedition to Little America. He rode Pan-American Clipper to Havana then to Cristobal to meet the flagship North Star for further exploration at the South Pole. The USS Bear will dock at Norfolk before joining the North Star at the polar base.
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Miami
Fla
Richard E. Byrd
United States
Little America
Havana
Cuba
Cristobal
Panama Canal Zone
South Pole
Byrd
Norfolk
Railroads Seek To Bring Rival Airlines Under ICC
Railroads press a campaign to place airlines under the Interstate Commerce Commission in a bid to unify regulation across land, water, and air. Airlines doubled traffic for railroads, carrying about 2.3 million passengers, while airlines captured 7.5 percent of Pullman business on long hauls. Opposition hints at congressional probes into the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
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ICC
Washington
INS
Interstate Commerce Commission
Capitol Hill
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Associ
Railroad Association
Officially Blessed By High Court Romeo Seeks Juliet
New York reports five chimes from a skyscraper clock as George Lowther seeks court sanctioned access to Debutante Eileen Herrick. The court had granted a ten day separation allowing contact only by phone while Herrick rests at a hospital amid parental opposition and disputed whereabouts.
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High Court
Romeo
Juliet
New York
George Lowther
State Supreme Court
Case Society
Eileen Herrick
Eli Johnson
Lowther
Walter Herricks
Herricks
Eileen
New
Immortality Quest Through Adopted Infant in New York
A five month old girl, Jean, adopted by the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians near Oakdale, aims to prove humans can live forever. James Schafer leads the group and says the child will be raised on a strict vegetable diet with no talk of death or disease. The infant is cared for at Peace Haven on Long Island where illness is blamed on destructive thinking.
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Oakdale
N. Y
Royal Fraternity of
Master Metaphysicians
Jean
James
Schafer
Metaphysicians
Long Island
Woman Struck by Car Injured Crossing First Ave
Mrs Adelaide Stinger aged 65 of 1207 Third Avenue SE sustained a fractured right arm head and chest injuries and bruises after being struck by a car while crossing First Avenue about 100 feet west of Thirteenth Street E. She was treated at St Luke's hospital and listed in fair condition. The driver Mrs Sheldon Lane said she saw a possible darting object and could not avoid the impact.
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Adelaide Stinger
Third Avenue
St. Luke's Hospital
First Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Stinger
Sheldon Lane
E Avenue NE
Lane
Sherman Brady
Vinton Road
Leland Gosnell
Marion
C Avenues
Gosnell
Thirteenth Street NW
C Avenue
Counterfeit Bill Passed Here in Cedar Rapids
A young woman circulated counterfeit money Friday and Saturday at Fanny Farmer candy shop 129 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids. Clerks told detectives the shop was victimized with a $1 bill raised to a ten dollar denomination, with unknown total change given and no description of the customer.
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Cedar Rapids
Fanny Farmer
Third Avenue SE
Briton Said To Admit Sabotage
Berlin report claims Capt Richard Henry Stevens confessed that the British secret service engineered 15 acts of sabotage against German, Italian and Japanese ships costing more than 24 million dollars. The Nazi newspaper said the deeds occurred from November 1937 to November 1938 using time bombs and other means.
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Berlin
INS
Vocelkischer Beobachter
Richard Henry Stevens
Secret Service
Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Stevens
Gestapo
Ambassador Davies Considered For Navy Portfolio
Washington Indiana News Service reports that Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, returning from Belgium in December to confer with President Roosevelt, is being considered for appointment as secretary of the navy. The post has been vacant since Claude E. Swanson's death with Charles A. Edison acting. his chances are doubtful due to possible Senate ambitions in New Jersey.
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Washington
INS
Joseph E. Davies
Belgium
Roosevelt
Navy
Claude E. Swanson
Charles A Edison
Swanson
Senate
New Jersey
Cedar Rapids Sees Temp Fall From 40 To 34
Cedar Rapids experienced threatening skies Saturday with only a trace of sleet reported. From a noon high of 40, temperatures cooled to 34 by midnight, just below the 35 degree low recorded from early morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Bridges bullish on 1940 GOP nomination against Roosevelt
San Francisco dispatch reports Senator H Styles Bridges of New Hampshire touring the country to bolster his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he could win in 1940 if Franklin D Roosevelt is the opponent, expressing strong confidence in his candidacy.
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San Francisco
INS
Sen
H. Styles Bridges
N. H
Roosevelt
Weekend College Football Scores From Across the Nation
Football scores show Town 7 Northwestern 7 and Michigan 21 Ohio State 14. Minnesota 23 Wisconsin 6. Purdue 7 Indiana 6. Illinois 46 Chicago 6. Southern California 26 Notre Dame 12. Missouri 20 Kansas 0. Nebraska 13 Oklahoma 7. Tulsa 14 Drake 6. Michigan State 18 Temple 7. Yale 20 Harvard 7. Princeton 28 Navy 9. Cornell 26 Pennsylvania 0. Boston College 38 Kansas State 7. Duke 28 North Carolina State. Texas Christian 21 Rice 0. Georgia Tech 21 Florida 7. So Methodist 21 Baylor 0. California 32 Stanford 14. Oregon State 13 UCLA 13. Additional scores in sports section.
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Georgia Tech
Florida
Methodist
Baylor
California
Stanford
Oregon State
U.C.L.A
Reich Planes Bomb British War Vessels
German air raids on British ships in the North Sea yield disputed results as the week’s losses show mines causing 17 of 29 sinkings, with Britain hardest hit by 17 ships and damage to Belfast and Sussex. Reports note German and RADKOEBING, Denmark sources. British admiralty denies hits.
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North Sea
DNB
Associated Press
Kent
Britain
Belfast
Sussex
English Channel
Germany
France
DNB News
Shetland Islands
Orkneys
Scapa Flow
Shetlands
Holland
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
Italy
Japan
Missing Pinta schooner hunted by coast guard planes
Three Coast Guard planes searched several hundred square miles off the North Carolina coast for the 56 foot schooner Pinta owned by Austin Gilmour. The craft last signaled distress to the steamer Brazos while others aboard included John De Groot Edythe Degroot Robert Young and Mr and Mrs Vance Goddard.
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Gilmour
John Degroot
Washington
Edythe Degroot
Robert J. Young
Richmond
Vance Goddard
Stinson monoplane refuels at Pittsburgh for unknown destination
A Stinson monoplane missing since its Newark takeoff refueled at Allegheny County airport in Pittsburgh and proceeded west with four passengers including Frank C Hoffman of Staten Island his wife and a three year old son and Dean Worth a student aviator. The Civil Aeronautics Authority issued a message to airports Saturday seeking information as the search for the missing aircraft continued. Hoffman reportedly moved from Newark to seek employment.
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Pittsburgis
Stinson
Newark
No J
Allegheny County
Frank C Hoffman
Staten Island
Noy
Hoffman
Dean Worth
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Aerotype
Hartsburg
Goffman
Lincoln Jl
Bootleg Coal Mine Industry Claims Two More Lives
SUENANDOAH Pa AP bootleg coal mining described as death by its own action industry adds two more fatalities in the anthracite region. Joseph Kunus 23 and George Kitts 48 were found entombed after more than ten hours in a private shift mine. Veteran miners, driven to independent operations by mine closures, lament the continuing toll with deaths numbering in the dozens this year.
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Suenandoah
Ats Berge
Joseph Kunus
George Kitts
Ex Kaiser's Kin Serve Under Nazi Flag At Front
LOCNNER Berlin AP reports that sons, grandsons, and a grand nephew of former Kaiser Wilhelm II serve at the front under Adolf Hitler's banner. One grandson has fallen. Oscar of Prussia commands a reserve regiment. Osar, 24, is a lieutenant who died leading a charge in Poland on Sept. 4. Two other sons, Burchardt and Wilhelm Karl, hold infantry and artillery roles. Burchardt speaks English and frequents the American colony in Berlin.
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Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Adolf Slitler
Togh Comimiin
Potsdam
Oscar
Prussia
Doorn
Poland
Burchardt
Wilhelm Karl
War Refugees Fuel Wealth Boom in New York City
New York City enjoys a war driven surge in luxury as rich refugees flood in from Europe. Upper class life on Park Avenue features theaters, clubs, and shops. champagne and mink sales rise as moneyed migrants flood the metropolis amid a broader war boom.
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Park Avenue
Purlieus
Corn growers urged to reduce Midwest belt plantings 12 percent
The agriculture department announced a 1940 corn production control plan for the midwestern commercial belt. Farmers face a 12 percent planting reduction with a 36,638,000 acre allotment across 599 counties in Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Missouri Kansas Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and South Dakota. The national goal aims for 88 to 90 million acres with 975 million bushels if yields hold, and payments incentive rises to encourage compliance.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Ilinoi
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Kansas
Mentuck
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
South Dakota
Czech Protectorate Tightens Rationing Amid War Strains
Prague dispatch says food rationing tightens in Bohemia Moravia to curb fats and margarine use. After December 1 wholesale firms may receive only 50 percent of their 1939 first-half monthly allotment. Reich protector orders German membership based asset claims in organizations shedding German members as political shifts grow.
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Prague
Protectorate of
Bohemia and Moravia
Reich Protector
Gereman
Weekly Forecast for the Upper Mississippi Valley
CHICAGO UP reports a dry week from November 27 to December 2 for the upper Mississippi valley with temperatures mainly above normal. Weather fronts and regional conditions suggest mild spells with limited precipitation across several states and cities in the district.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
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