Hitler Plans For Seizure Of Czechs Revealed At Trial
MERNBERG Germany Adolf Hitler formulated two plans to seize Czechoslovakia in 1938 if the Munich agreement failed. Sidney Alderman testified a 90 page document showed an April 1938 blitz plan tied to a staged assassination. A second Red plan existed for intervention by France and England. The exhibit linked to the forerunner of the Munich pact. The trial also heard signed confessions by Raeder and Sche, though their validity was disputed. Hess caused a court stir with a sudden outburst and cramps. The US case targets aggressor documents and leadership crimes, with prosecution set to address high command and Gestapo next.
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Mernberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Sidney Alderman
Hitler
Wilhelm Keitel
Prague
France
England
Erich Raeder
Hans Fritzsche
R. Dudenko
Austria
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Yosuke Matsuoka
Rudolf Hess
Bus Plunge Into Lake Chelan Kills Many Pupils
A school bus slid off a slippery Chelan highway in a 50 foot embankment fall into 50 feet of Lake Chelan. Sheriff Bruce Parkinson said 15 or 16 pupils drowned, later reports reduced the count as some escaped or were rescued. Rescue efforts continued as divers arrived and parents gathered at the scene in a blizzard.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Bruce Parkinson
Chelan
Lake Chelan
Parkinson
Coulee City
Seattle
William Sugden
Sugden
Rex Day
Goering Defense Denies Lindbergh Testimony
Goering’s attorney Dr Otto Stahmer denied reports that Col Charles Lindbergh would be called as a defense witness. Lindbergh, at his Fairfield Connecticut home, stated he has not been asked to testify and cited his contacts being arranged by American embassy officers. He said any information from his Germany travels comes from war and state department reports and would follow government guidance if asked to testify at Nuremberg.
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Fairfield, Conn
Lindbergh
Goering
Germany
State Department
Nuernberg
Mild Temperatures Forecast After Rains Tonight
Cedar Rapids area weather outlook expects mostly cloudy skies with occasional rain. Tonight a low near 28 degrees, mild Tuesday, temps climbing from 20 to 34 by afternoon, and light snow flurries reported Sunday night in nearby stations.
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Weather Bureau
Mercury
Des Moines
Chambers- Inskeep
Atlantic
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Spencer
Whalen and David Sentenced for Cedar Rapids Jewelry Break-ins
Marvin C. Whalen aged 23 of 221 Sixth Street NE and Samuel David aged 25 of 1627 Fifth Avenue SE were given indeterminate terms not to exceed 10 years at Anamosa state reformatory for breaking into Eton Jewelry and Okinow's Jewelry in Cedar Rapids. The men changed plea from innocent to guilty and cited a need for money and corrected 4-F status to qualify for induction.
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Marvin C. Whalen
Sixth Street
Samuel David
Fifth Avenue
G. K. Thompson
Anamosa State Reformatory
Mintimus
David
Whalen
Eton Jewelry Company
Okinow’s
Thompson
Austrian Communists Lose in Free Election Returns Show
Partial results from Austria's first free election in 14 years show the Communists suffering a severe defeat possibly yielding no seats. Early tallies place the People's party around 48 percent and the Socialists near 40 percent, with Communists at 5 to 8 percent.
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Vienna
Austria
People’s Party
Socialist Party
People’s
Communist
Karl Renner
United States Proposes Allied Pullout From Iran
The United States proposes that U S British and Russian forces withdraw entirely from Iran by January 1. Ambassador W Averell Harriman delivered the note in Moscow and the State Department released the text publicly. The British government was informed simultaneously of the move.
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Washington
United States
Iran
W. Averell Harriman
Moscow
State Department
Ford River Rouge to Close Plants Amid Supplier Strikes
Ford Motor says strikes at 15 auto parts firms force closing of the River Rouge complex and some subsidiaries Tuesday night. VP Bricker warns 40,000 workers to be laid off for the rest of the week. The firm stresses no link to GM strike.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Bricker
General Motors
Ford
Pound Re indicted on Treason Charges in Rome Broadcasts
Ezra Pound, 60, American poet, re indicted on 19 counts of treason for wartime broadcasts from Rome. New indictment adds seven dates between Sept 11, 1942, and May 15, 1943, detailing recordings for Rome radio. Pound, native of Hailey Idaho, was brought to the United States from Italy. trial set at earliest date.
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Washington
Ezra Pound
Rome
Italy
Pound
Hailey
Idaho
Justice Department
Miller's Bruises Central to Klatt Murder Trial
Coroner E H Biersborn testified Ronald Miller's body bore 60 to 80 bruises when he died. Defense contends Carl Klatt did not intend to kill Miller, claiming the boy planned escapes and that injuries came from other incidents. State argues Klatt and guard Harold Nelson beat Miller before the death.
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Fort Dodge
Hardin County
E. H. Biersborn
Carl Klatt
Ronald Miller
Biersborn
Paul McCord
E. H Lundy
Eldora
Lundy
Klatt
Jens Grothe
Harold Nelson
Harold Miller
Chariton
Yanks To Pull Out of Czechoslovakia
Two American divisions and parts of the 22nd corps will evacuate Czechoslovakia Tuesday. They had remained in western Bohemia after the war to aid the reconstructed army and maintain order while about 100,000 Czech settlers moved into the district. Over 100 Americans reportedly found brides in the republic. The occupation aided transport, harvest, and coal delivery during the transition.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Bohemia
Republic
United States
Ward Strike Dominates Labor Day News as CIO Walkout Expands
The 75,000 CIO workers at Montgomery Ward began a week long demonstration strike while other major labor actions continued. In Detroit and across 42 states unions pressed wage, dues check off and closed shop demands. GM and UAW push for public talks as lumber strikes ease and Pacific Northwest log mills move toward possible restart.
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Maine
Illinois
Indiana
San Francisco
Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company
Providence
Greyhound
Ward
CIO United
Chicago
Detroit
Albany
Jamaica
Denver
Kansas City
Samuel Wolchok
Eisenhower Recovering From Severe Cold In West Virginia
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was reported recovering rapidly from a severe cold in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia. The news came Monday and described his condition as improving.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
INS
Eisenhower
Slaymaker Charged With Murder In Linn County Case
Lawrence E. Slaymaker, 33, of 415 Sixth Avenue SE, charged with murder in the Sunday death of Charles E. McMullen, 40, of 219 Sixth Avenue SW. Slaymaker waived to the grand jury, held on $7500 bond, and jailed in Linn County. McMullen died after a fight at the alley between Second and Third Avenues SE. Both men worked at LaPlant-Choate. the death stemmed from a blow to the chin.
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Cedar Ranlds News
Lawrence E. Slaymaker
Sixth Avenue SE
Charles E. McMullen
Sixth Avenue
H R Churchill
Linn County
Churchill
William Crissman
McMullen
St Luke's Hospital
Slaymaker
Second
Third Avenues
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Frank Hersch
John Wanna
Albert Wilson
LaPlant-Choate Company
LaPlant-Choate
CIO Union Hall
Second Avenue SE
Slay
Truman Flies Secretly To Visit Mother on Birthday
President Truman made a secret 2000 mile round trip to Grandview Missouri to visit his mother on her 98th birthday. He flew unaccompanied by press and returned to Washington without fanfare, saying he simply wanted to visit.
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Truman
Mother
Washington
Grandview
White House
Charles G. Ross
Martha Truman
Air Transport Command
United States
Press Association
Grew Recounted Hours Before Pearl Harbor Raid
Ambassador Joseph Grew told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee that Japan cut relations and attacked while he sought a last peace note from President Roosevelt to Emperor Hirohito. He described Tokyo last hours, urged to meet the emperor, and noted the attack occurred four hours earlier. He defended Cordell Hull against a charge that Hull started the war.
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Joseph Clark Grew
United States
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Hirohito
Grew
Tokyo
Cordell Hull
Hull
Army
State Department
Hawai
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