European naval crisis deepens as mines sink ships
Magnetic mines dropped by German flyers devastate 22 ships including neutrals and Germans. King George signs a council order to seize German exports in retaliation for floating mines. Neutral powers, including the United States, face new enforcement terms after protests. Finland resists Russian ultimatum amid growing wartime tensions.
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Europe
Thames Estuary
Germany
England
George
Britain
United States
London
Finland
Buckingham Palace
Great Britain
War Office
Paris
Greatest menace to US unity warned by National Commander
National Commander Kelly of the American Legion warns that complacent idealism threatens the nation as Europe tilts toward renewed war. He urges vigilance against foreign and domestic interference and recalls the Legion's pledge for American neutrality. In Iowa football, the Hawkeyes’ brave season ends amid a hard-fought tie with Northwestern showing courage and teamwork.
Public scrutiny grows on Iowa bank receiverships
The Iowa banking department faces renewed public interest as receiverships from two banks liquidated under examiner Ben S Sum merwill draw questions. Ot tumwa held an overflow meeting where depositors demanded accessible information, while Governor Wilson and the state council ordered a special examination of active and closed receiverships to ensure open records for depositors.
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Itigation
Iowa City
Ben S. Summerwill
State Banking Department
Ottumwa
Department
Wilson
State Executive Council
Banking Department
Iowa football lift from unlikely grandmothers praise
Two octogenarian grandmothers who had shown little interest in athletics became tentative backers of the Iowa team this fall. They did not need football lessons but recognized a group of underdog players who defied forecasts and refused to accept limits. The mood reflects respect for manliness, courage and will power fueling statewide jubilation after years of gloom. Thanks, boys, for the lift.
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Iowa
Big Ten
Iowa City
Gannett to discuss 1940 campaign issues in Cedar Rapids
Frank Gannett of Rochester will speak at a noon luncheon on Monday December 4 at the Roosevelt hotel. The talk in Cedar Rapids is part of a nationwide seven city airplane tour and is hosted by the Inter-Service Club council with the Rotary club as host. Reservations urged by Friday to accommodate non member attendees.
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Frank Gannett
Rochester
N. Y
National Committee To
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Drunk Driving Case Dismissed Despite Readied Witnesses
Augustine Perez, 36, Cedar Rapids, faced an operating while intoxicated charge after Deputy Marshal Joseph Petrus reported Perez forced a curbing during a July 1 incident. County Attorney G K Thompson dismissed the case, saying it did not appear strong, with Ed Fordyce handling the matter and limited personal knowledge. Petrus disputed being summoned to discuss the case.
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Cedar Rapids
G. K. Thompson
Linn County
Augustine Perez
United States
Joseph A. Petrus
Perez
Sixth
Seventh
Twelfth Avenue
Petrus
Thompson
Ed Fordyce
Frost Hits Cedar Rapids As Temperature Drops To 14
Cold air settles over Cedar Rapids with a morning low of 14 above zero at 7 am marked the lowest in the fall. By 9:30 am the sun lifts the temperature to 25 then to 37 by 2:30 pm. Sunday's record includes a low of 21 and a high near 38 with a late-evening dip to 17.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Jovi ets rage at Finns over border incident
The Finnish government denied Finnish artillery fired across the border in response to a Soviet note. Moscow officials urged strict measures after a reported border incident in which four Red Army soldiers were killed and 13 wounded, as troops gathered for mass meetings.
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Helsingfors
Soviet Union
Moscow
Red Army
Finnish inner cabinet reviews Russo-Finnish crisis at Mainila blast
National Tidende reports the Finnish inner cabinet discussed the border crisis and says an explosion at Mainila caused Russian casualties. The paper notes Moscow's claim that four Soviet soldiers were killed and nine wounded by Finnish artillery across the frontier.
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Copenhagen
INS
National Tidende
Mainila
Soviet Pressure on Finland Sparks Wartime Tone Recalled
The article describes a Moscow led press campaign denouncing Finland after a Russian demand to withdraw border garrisons. It parallels prewar rhetoric used against Poland, cites mass meetings urging a “triple blow” and warns Finland of consequences if it resists.
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Finland
Poland
Helsingfors
Soviet Union
First Lady Willing To Testify On Youth Communist Ties
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she would be glad to appear before the Dies committee to answer questions about alleged communist control of the American Youth Congress and its Youth Student Union link. She offered to provide information of value if asked. Major Hampden Wilson testified that Moscow funds helped spread propaganda in colleges, detailing eight months of committee findings.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dies
American Youth Congress
Roosevelt
Hampden Wilson
Veterans’ Administration
American Student Union
Youth Congress
Alfred M. Lilienthal
New York
Provisional Committee For American Youth
Mrs. Roosevelt
Lilienthal
Moscow
Romeo Lowther Pursues Love Despite Court Stay
New York based Romeo Lowther resumes pursuit of Eileen Herrick after a judge ordered ten days for their marriage attempt. Herrick’s father claims Eileen was held by parents, recently moved to a country home. Nurse Nellie O’Connor sides with the couple, urging freedom to marry.
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New York
Romeo George Wowther
Juliet Eileen Herrick
Eileen
Lowther
Long Island
Walter R. Herrick
Herrick
Nellie O'Conner
Miss O'Connor
Missing Flyer Turns Up Forced Landing
Dayton Ohio report states Fred Hoffman Jr. of Brooklyn was found in Dayton after a private airplane trip. He said he was forced to land in Columbus Saturday due to cylinder trouble and then continued to Lincoln Illinois with his wife, a 4 year old son, and Dean Worth of Lincoln.
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Dayton, O
MNL
Fred Hoffman, Jr
Brooklyn
Lincoln, Ill
Columbus
Dean Worth
Lincelan
Underwriters Call U S Ships Safest at Sea
New York report states American shipping insurance underwriters in new war risk rates deem vessels flying the United States flag the safest on the high seas.
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New York
American Shipping Insurance
United States
Pigeons Do News Transfers in Hornell Tribune System
Hornell New York based Tribune uses homing pigeons to deliver news from local correspondents to editorial rooms. The system began its third winter and grown to 50 pigeons feeding a dispatch network to 20 correspondents within 30 miles. Married birds with larger families prove most dependable for timely arrivals.
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Hornell
N. Y
Tribune
Louis G. Buisch
Buisch
Western advance of atheistic power threatens liberty
Dr Newton warns that an armed militant atheism moving westward could engulf liberty and civilization. He argues if unchecked, the west may fall, Hitler’s blunders could devastate Germany, and a sovietized Europe would erase religion and property while eroding German cultural traditions.
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Russia
Nora Waln
West
Hitler
Germany
Europe
Assyria
United Feature Syndicate. Inc
Gandhi resumes leadership of India's masses
Mohandas K. Gandhi abandons the cloister and returns to active leadership, gaining prestige among the poor. The British government faces a steadying influence as Gandhi dedicates long hours to political tasks, with nationalism at a critical crossroads.
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Allahabad
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Five Charges To Confront Band Leader
Fritz Kuhn faces five counts of larceny and forgery to be jury accepted by Judge James G. Wallace. The indictment includes expenditures of 717 dollars on Florence Camp and a 500 dollar fee to attorney James D. C. Murray denied as received.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
James G. Wallace
Kuhn
Angel From Heaven
Florence Camp
Murray
James D. C. Murray
Wallace
Former Cedar Rapids Jeweler F W MacAllister Dies At 46
Frank Wythington MacAllister, 46, a former Cedar Rapids jeweler, died Sunday night in Mahaska hospital Oskaloosa after a brief illness. He lived in Oskaloosa with his wife Lillian Pardera MacAllister and three sisters. Funerals set for Tuesday at Wilcox Garland chapel Oskaloosa. burial Wednesday in Morrison Illinois. He was born in Morrison, son of Wythington and Susan Calderwood MacAllister and a Bradley Polytechnic graduate. He was active in Cedar Rapids business and social life as a partner in MacAllister and Burkholder and a member of the Cedar Rapids Country Club Elks and Masons.
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Frank Wythington MacAllister
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
MacAllister
Wilcox Garland Chapel
Morrison, Ill
Morrison
Wythington
Susan Calderwood MacAlister
Bradley Polytechnical Institute
Peoria
Lillian Pardera MacAllister
Bess
Hibbing College
Hibbing
Minn
Josephine
Seattle
W. Earl Trauger
Racine
Emil Pardera
Traverse City
Mich
MacAllister and Burkholder
Father Divine Opens New Heaven in Suburban Sutton Manor
Harlem evangelist Father Divine dedicates a 15 room mansion in Sut ton Manor New Rochelle as a new Heaven for his followers. About 200 angels attend the ceremony despite neighbors and city officials snubbing the event. A four hour meal features a lavish spread with meats vegetables and desserts.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Father Divine
Harlem
Sutton Manor
Harry Scott
Aaron Simmons
Supreme Court
Lee Parson Davis
War Caption On Retaliation Tone Sparks Debate
An author discusses reprisals in wartime strategy with sharp metaphors about tit for tat. The piece argues retaliation shapes victory and warns of escalating cruelty, likening actions to a lemon twist on revenge and noting the cycle of vengeance.
Trustees sue BG Drug firm heirs over illegal dividends
Administrators of the F. Donald Coster estate sue John Hubbard and Ned Ostmark in New Haven for 25.8 million dollars alleging dividend payments from 1928 to 1938 were improper and financed by misrepresented salaries and embezzlement. Coster died amid investigations and had a prior prison record under an alias.
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New Haven
Conn
F. Donald Coster
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
William J. Wardell
John T. L. Hubbard
Ned E. Ostmark
Coster
Wardell
Musica
Legion Head Calls Smugness Greatest Menace To Nation
Ray Kelly national commander of the American Legion warned Illinois Legion officers that a smug complacency among citizens is the country’s greatest threat. He urged rooting out indifference and affirmed the Legion’s pledge to keep the United States out of war.
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Legion Head
Bloomington
Ray Kelly
The
American Legion
Post
Illinois
Legion
United States
Drunk Driver Nabbed After Squads Collision
James Vogt, 65, of 1832 Madison Street SE, booked at city jail for drunken driving after his car, fleeing a police call, struck Irene Fay Aris, 33, of 422 Seventh Avenue SW, in the 900 block on First Street SW. Vogt bruised chest, treated at jail. previously fined $25 and costs for reckless driving on April 26.
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James Vogt
Madison Street SE
Vogt
Bruce and
Dyson
Irene Fay Aris
Seventh Avenue
First Street
Bruce
Eleventh Avenue
Aris
Mother And 3 Sons Are Fatally Burned
In Spotswood New Jersey a mother Loretta Dougherty 37 and three of her sons died in a second floor fire. Loretta saved five month old Theodore by throwing him to a neighbor. Elwood Dougherty husband and son Robert 9 escaped by jumping from a window. Sons Herbert 17 Raymond 15 Walter 4 perished.
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Spotswood
N. J
Loretta Dougherty
Theodore
Elwood
WPA
Robert
Herbert
Raymond
Walter
Sweden protests Nazi mine policy
Stockholm reports the Swedish government filed a formal protest with Germany over German mine policy and asserted Sweden’s right to seek indemnity for all losses or damages to Sweden or its nationals.
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Sns
Germany
Sweden
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