Move Follows A. F. L. Failure To Open Mart
Chicago CIO lenders offered to end the week-old strike that shut the Chicago livestock market if the Union Stockyards and Transit Company would bargain a written contract. 350 hand lers reportedly back at work, but a 10:30 am survey found only three on duty. CIO drive head Van A. Bittner said workers should return while negotiations continue on a closed shop, overtime pay, and pay increases for 65 workers. Pickets lined the main gate as A. F. L. said 350 handlers were back. Police found two bullets fired at the A. F. L. HQ. Authorities warned of possible underworld threats to peaceful pickets. Receipts were about one tenth normal as farmers weren’t instructed to resume shipping livestock.
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Chicago—Cio
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
van A. Bittner
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Packing House Workers’ Organizing Committee
Bittner
Armour
United States
Packing ‘House Workers’ Organizing Committee
Frederick A. Prince
Hhead
Union Stockyard and Transit Company
CIO Masses
A F. of L
Brown
Edward Kelly
Homer S. Cummings
Underworld
Department of Justice
Commission
Stockyard Company
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Commission Men’s Organization
A Diplomat Should Never Say What He Thinks
Arthur Bugs Baer critiques diplomats and Hay Hull advising against revealing true thoughts in diplomacy. He mocks past treaties and warns against outspoken truth telling in foreign policy, noting the danger of revealing intentions in public discourse.
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Baer
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Hull
Liars’ Club
Everyday Living in an Age of Cruelty and Fear
A reflective column laments growing callousness amid global terror. It cites Spain, China, and Europe, noting refugees driven to ruin and the Jewish persecution as the era’s starkest horror. It questions collective numbness, fear, and whether society has entered a new dark age.
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Spain
China
Sudetenland
Prague
Europe
Wells
Convicted Doctor Claims Frameup After Kidnapping Case
Dr Kent W Berry a socialite physician is found guilty by an eight to four jury of framing up a man he accused of seducing his wife. Berry plus three accomplices Robert H. Smith William Macaloon and James Reddick face life terms under the Washington kidnapping law. Berry contends the frameup and vows appeal as prosecutors seek scrutiny of Thurston county officials.
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Olympia
Wash
Kent W Berry
Smith Troy
Thurston County
Berry
Irving E. Baker
Coast Guard
Washington
Robert H. Smith
William Macaloon
James Reddick
Baker
Reddick
Macaloon
French Vets Urge Daladier To Avert General Walkout
Paris reports that five million National Confederation of War Veterans urged Premier Daladier and labor unions to compromise to calm the nation as a general strike loomed. Daladier outlined decree powers for mobilizing rail workers while unions urged restraint and warned against undermining national security.
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Paris
Daladier
National Confederation of War Veterans
Ready To Sell Eye To Keep Brother Out Of Prison
Chicago report says Lola Miranda offered to sell an eye to raise money for her brother Edward Klein, awaiting grand jury action on an attempted robbery charge. She sobbed that she would do anything if someone would pay for the eye and transplant a seeing eye. Her family earns fifteen dollars weekly. husband is unemployed.
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Chicago
Lola Miranda
Edward Klein
Klein
Miranda
Mercury Rises After Cold Start in Cedar Rapids
A sunny Cedar Rapids day warmed after a frigid start as the thermometer climbed from 17 degrees at 3 30 a m to 24 at 9 00 a m and 39 at 2 40 p m. The day’s high reached 24 degrees at 3 p m recorded by the Chambers Inskeep company recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company Recorder
Plane Drops Supplies To Hunters Marooned In Maine Woods
A state police charte red airplane dropped food to snow marooned hunters and CCC youths across a northeast Maine forest as rescuers battled eight to ten foot drifts to open roads. About twenty parties received thirty sacks of supplies from Don Mason’s Bangor piloted plane, aiding roughly one hundred hunters and youths stranded since Thanksgiving.
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Maine Woods
Aurora
CCC
Maine
Plkine
Don Mason
Bangor
Amherst
Beddington
Deblois
Mopeng Lake
Eagle Lake
Mopang
Hodgkins
F. E. Reynolds
Herbert Kenney
Manchester
Lewis O. Barrows
Bandit and wife free kidnapers head toward Illinois
In Griffith Indiana a Kansas bandit Benny Dickson and his wife Esther, in a dynamite loaded car, freed three kidnapped men and fled toward Chicago Heights after a Topeka gun battle. Police report Dickson, wanted for highway robbery, and his wife were wounded.
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Griffith
Kansas
Michigan
Indiana
Chicago Heights
Benny Dickson
Esther
Claude Mennis
Vicksburg
Mich
Henry Mitty
Dickson
Topeka
Elizabeth Ure Musick
Leonidas
Mennis
Mitty
Midwest
Chillicothe
Bomb Kills Three in Timisoara Jewish Troupe Show
Three people died and eleven were wounded when a bomb exploded during a Jewish troupe performance in a theater in Timishoara Transylvania. Another bomb failed to explode at a Jewish student’s home in Cluj. Government quarters contemplated a show trial of anti Semitic attackers to prove the regime’s resolve.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Timishoara
Transsylvania
Cluj
Plan To Train 225000 For Air Defenses
New York AP reports a joint plan by the army air corps and the Civil Aeronautics Authority to train 100000 civilian pilots and 125000 mechanics at government expense over five years to bolster national air defense. The program would run 20000 pilots and 25000 mechanics annually at approved schools, with graduates possibly joining an active reserve.
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New York
Army Air Corps
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Air Force
Germany
Army
CAA
Civilian Air Corps
Shoppers Flock To Cedar Rapids For Christmas Buying
Invigorating weather and the opening of the Christmas buying season drew thousands to Cedar Rapids Friday and Saturday. Large stores reported their busiest days, with many noting excellent days and ahead of last year. Downtown crowds window shopped Sunday night as retailers warned of scarce restocks on high end items.
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Cedar Rapids
Loop
Financial descent into red speeds up
Government deficits rise sharply as four month figures point to an average monthly shortfall near 330 million dollars, almost twice the pace of the prior year. President Roosevelt held budget talks with visitors at Warm Springs, Georgia, amid mounting fiscal pressures.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Sane economy and relief aid shape GOP bid in Congress
Rep Taber of New York, a top GOP member, argues for sane economy as the party’s goal. He cites relief funds tied to a rearmament plan, vows to attack administrative waste, and notes deficits likely to persist into Roosevelt’s second term amid higher outlays and lower tax revenue. Treasury balance remains large but borrowing looms. debt may top $39–40 billion by mid-1939.
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Washington
INS
Rep
Taber
New York
G. O. FP
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
Treasury Books
Asahcy
Morgenthau
Irwin Sentenced to 139-Year Term for 1937 Triple Slaying
New York AP reports Robert Irwin, eccentric sculptor, pled guilty to the Easter morning 1937 killings of Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and Frank Byrnes. Judge James G. Wallace sentenced him to 139 years in state prison, to be sent to Sing Sing that day.
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New York
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Frank Byrnes
James G. Wallace
Sing Sing
Cornell President Chosen Head of Ohio Wesleyan
Dr Herbert J Burgstahler, 52, president of Cornell College Mount Vernon Iowa, was chosen by the Ohio Wesleyan University trustees to become eighth president, succeeding E D Soper whose resignation takes effect Aug . Burgstahler will assume Sept 1 1939 after being released by Cornell. He has 12 years at Cornell and a background with Minnesota Boston University and Syracuse University.
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Delaware
Herbert J Burgstahler
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Ohio Wesleyan University
Burgstahler
E. D Soper
Soper
Garret Biblical Institute
Northwestern University
Ohio Wesleyan
University of Minnesota
Boston University Theoropeal Seminary
Syracuse University
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Buffalo
Rochester
National Board of Education
The
Methodist Church
Southern California Selected for Rose Bowl Game
Los Angeles January 2 Southern California was invited to represent the Pacific Coast Conference in the Rose Bowl on January 20 after winning the conference vote. The Trojans finished first ahead of California, with a tie in standings. The conference president announced the result but withheld voting details. Four teams remained in the leading eligible class for potential opponents.
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LOS Angeles
INS
Southern California
Trojans
Californias
Golden Bears
Hugh G Willett
Texas Christian
Duke
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Phantom Slasher Terrorizes Halifax Women Ordered Home
In Halifax England a phantom slasher strikes unseen along dark byways injuring eleven in seven days all victims women none seriously hurt. Firemen rescue a screams during a Sunday night attack as crowds search with police. officials fear a killer at large and consider three possible perpetrators amid talks of bringing in troops.
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Halifax
England
Union Electric of Missouri Cleared to Sell Refunding Securities
The Securities Commission authorized Union Electric Company of Missouri to issue new securities to refund its preferred stock.
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
Union Electric Company of Missouri
War Dept to convene 180 officers on industrial mobilization plan
Washington AP reports the War Department summoned about 180 officers for a two day conference on mobilizing industry in wartime. Secretary Woodring urged fortifying the Panama Canal and expanding war stores while Senator Clark criticized arms buildup as war hysteria and urged neutrality act strengthening and automatic war taxes.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Woodring
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
Canal
Atlante
Pacific
Roosevelt Woodring
National Guard
White House
Congress
Clark
Missouri
Senate
Pedestrian Hurt In Car Collision On First Avenue
Joe Egermayer, 58, of 102 First Avenue W, was treated at St Luke's hospital after a car driven by William Facine struck him at First Avenue and Seventh Street. He suffered a skull fracture and a left ankle fracture. Facine told police Egermayer stumbled into his car as he crossed the street. A bottle of bay rum was found on the victim.
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Cedar Rapids
Joe Egermayer
First Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Seventh Street
William Facine
First Avenue W
Facine
Egermayer
28 000 but not one Santa Claus in Racine Wis
In Racine Wisconsin the unemployment office reports 28 000 people registered but none fit to be Santa Claus. Director R D Scoon says the Christmas demand is high yet cannot be filled. Requirements include a broad smile a large stomach and a love for children.
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Racine, Wis
INS
United States
Santa Claus
R. D Scoon
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Cornell
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