Italy recalls Spanish fighters after 18 months in Spain
Rome reports Italian troops with more than eighteen months' service in Spain will be recalled to Italy. Franco’s headquarters communique says repatriation is being prepared for regionaries. Estimated 10,000 men to return, including those who fought in Malaga and Guadalajara offensives in 1937. The move affects Italo British relations and the Mediterranean accord seeking Spain settlement.
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Rome
Spain
Italy
Francisco Franco
Salamanca
Stefani
Franco
Malaga
Guadalajara
Earl of Perth
Galeazzo Cizno
Mediterranean
Fascist Grand Council Abolishes Deputies Chamber
The fascist grand council decreed abolishing the Italian chamber of deputies and replacing it with a new chamber of fasces and guilds. The deputies will cease at the end of the current session. Legislation will be by the senate and a new lower house of fascio units and guilds under Mussolini's regime.
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Rome
Grand Council
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Mussolini
Senate
Two Held Here As Suspects In Newton Holdup
Cedar Rapids police hold Eugene Hollman 38 of Burlington and Billie Stevenson 28 of Sioux City in Linn county jail after highway patrolman finds a car matching state police broadcasts. No weapons found. investigation continues into statewide holdup case near Newton on Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
Eugene Hollman
Burlington
Billie Stevenson
Sioux City
Linn County
Newton
Coast Guard Cutter Races Toward Honolulu Aboard Ship
The Taney, amid heavy seas, races 2640 miles toward Honolulu to save Kawalewai after his appendix ruptured on Jarvis Island. Doctors operated aboard ship Friday night. condition reported favorable but survival depended on rapid arrival. The rescue followed a radio appeal by Kawalewai and fellow observers to establish U S claims on Jarvis Island.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Taney
mid-Pacific
Honolulu
Carl Kawalewai
Jarvis Island
South Seas
Kawalewai
United States
Great Britain
Ka~walewai
Minister Ends Life by Burning In Beaumont Tex
Beaumont officers say 36 year old Lutheran minister Rev O J Schmidt died by self immolation after his car burned. His body was found near the wreck and police theorize he ignited the interior and fled, rolling downhill away from the vehicle.
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Beaumont
Tex
O. J Schmidt
Catholic Nazis Clash in Vienna as Cardinal Denounces Interference
An angry demonstration in Vienna pitted Catholic youths against Nazi partisans in St. Stephen’s Square. Police halted the clash as it threatened to erupt into a riot. Injuries and arrests were reported amid a climax of tension between the church and the Nazi state, with Cardinal Innitzer delivering a hard sermon in St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Outside, thousands packed the square as heckling began and the service ended with the Cardinal retreating home.
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Vienna
St. Stefan's Place
Cardinal Innitzer
Austria
Old St. Stefan's
German Writers In U S Fight Nazis
Fortyt prominent German American novelists and playwrights met in New York to form the Schutzverband Deutsch Amerikanischer Schriftsteller to lead anti Nazi efforts in the United States. Over 1000 letters and telegrams arrived from luminaries including Luise Rainer Peter Lorre Henry Koster Fritz Lang and William Dieterle.
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New York
INS
Census shows women crowding the labor market
President Roosevelt received a report from John D. Biggers on the November unemployment census. It shows 2,740,000 more women entered or became available for work since 1930, a shift Biggers calls an economic and social trend warranting study by the monopoly committee. The census cost $1.896 million despite a $5 million appropriation.
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Washington (Lp
John D. Biggers
Roosevelt
Toledo
Biggers
Congress
Biggeers
Census Bureau
Study Subsidies To Aid Civilian Flying
Washington plans for government subsidies to private flying organizations are under study by the civil aeronautics authority. The aim is a general program to stimulate non commercial aviation to aid national defense and open new outlets for the aeronau tical industry.
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Washington
INS
Civil Aeronautics Authority
CAA
Spanish Armistice Like Tarantula And Scorpion In Clinch
Column by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks the Spanish armistice talks with metaphorical sharpness. He argues the peace conferences are chaotic and misunderstood, likening the situation to a bear on a tail struggle and noting the volatile mix of national interests among Spaniards and foreign powers.
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Tarantula
Scorpion
Clinch
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Spain
Homecoming Turmoil Clouds Iowa City Fans Rally
Tear gas dispersed a mob at Iowa City homecoming eve as police broke up a pre game melee that saw stones thrown at the station and about a dozen arrests for malicious mischief. The 1938 celebration drew 40 000 fans with mass meetings and open houses across campus.
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Iowa City
Old Capitol
W. H. Bender
University of Towa
Burke Carson
Carson
Iowa Union
Iowa
Wisconsin
Pic
Federal Workers Barred From Campaign Contributions
Senate committee rules federal employees may not contribute to campaign coffers as individuals or via states or campaigns. It clarifies legality of gifts to national or state parties and calls for renewed probe into Kentucky WPA officials amid disputes with WPA Administrator Hopkins over Barkley-era activity.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morris Sheppard
Texas
House
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Kentucky
Hopkins
Barkley
New England Storm Victims Tax Break Substantive Relief
Treasury officials said storm stricken residents may deduct uninsured property losses from gross income on next March tax returns. The relief covers individuals and corporations for losses from storms fires shipwrecks and other casualties but excludes business property.
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Washington
INS
New
Mercury falls short of world distance record in Cape Town flight
Capetown, South Africa AP Britain's Mercury seaplane, short of fuel, made an emergency landing 380 miles shy of its goal while attempting a Dundee Scotland to Capetown flight. It had logged nearly 6000 miles of a 6370 mile route before landing at the Orange River mouth.
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Capetown
South Africa
Mercury
Britain
Dundee
Scotland
Orange River
Moscow
California
North Pole
Koehl, Atlantic Flyer, Is Dead
Capt. Hermann Koehl veteran aviator and crew member of the first westward Atlantic flight died Saturday after a long illness in Munich Germany. His death ends a historic chapter in early transatlantic aviation.
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Koehl
Atlantic Flyer
Munich
Germany
INS
Hermann Koehl
French line plans $60 million liner sister to Normandie
Henri Morin de Lin days, American representative, said Saturday that a new liner costing sixty million dollars is planned by the French line as a sister ship to the Normandie.
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New York
Henri Morin de Lindays
Gazette Want Ads Offer Quick Deals For Winter Needs
Community paper promotes Gazelle Want Ads to raise extra cash for fuel and clothing. Readers are urged to list rooms, rentals, usable items, and even guns or sports gear for quick cash. A sample ad printed shows several items sold after one day.
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Gazelle
Iowa
Gazette
Reich centers efforts about French treaty
Berlin talks on disarmament remain in the background as Germany shifts focus to French German understanding. Goering ally says disarmament cannot occur before curbs on weapon use. Sudeten German arrivals foreshadow eased Czech relations amid border annexation plans. GermanyTurkey arms loan, trade aim to boost economic cooperation. Jew passports abolished with new identity cards. emigration allowed with renewed passports. Hitler proclaims Sudetenland will become a Reichsgau.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Foreign Office
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Carlsbad
Eger
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Prague
Turkey
Ankara
London Daily Telegraph
Walther Funk
Ministry of Interior
Jaegerndorf
Hitler
Sudetenland
Reichsgau
Harvard Freshmen Attack Legion Parade
Four Harvard freshmen were arrested after an attack on a junior Legion band from ages 8 to 16 in Cambridge. Court date set for October 18 on charges of interrupting and disturbing a public assembly. Suspects named Frank A. Pemberton Jr Joseph E Ambrose James M Blumgarten and John S Caylor.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
American Legion
John Lyons
Harvard Yard
Legion
University City
Frank A. Pemberton, Jr
Nazi Labor Front calls skilled workers abroad to return
Berlin report says labor shortage drives Robert Ley to appeal to skilled German workers overseas to return to the Reich. appeal prepared due to wartime manpower needs.
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Berlin
INS
Robert Ley
Reich
Yankees Again Win Over Cubs With 5-2 Score
Monte Pearson pitched from a sickroom and the New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Cubs 5 to 2 in the world series. The game at Yankee Stadium featured solid hitting and strong defense, with key plays including DiMaggio and Gehrig contributions and tight pitching by Pearson.
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Yankees
Cubs
Yankee Stadium
New York
Monte Pearson
New York Yankees
Chicago Cubs
Collins
Jurges
Bryant
Crosetth
Gehrig
Hack
Pearson
di Maggio
Herman
Dickey
Selkirk
Gordon
Rail wages equal 1920 levels says union chief
Bert M Jewell president of the AF of L railway employees division told Roosevelt board that government controlled wages in 1920 were about the same as now. He argued workers have made little progress in raising pay and should not accept a 15 percent wage cut sought by carriers. He testified as the first witness for 18 railroad labor groups opposing the plan.
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Washington
Bert M Jewell
A F. of L
Roosevelt
Jewell
Rail unions claim public support against 15 percent wage cut
George M. Harrison, spokesman for railroad brotherhoods, says workers will urge witnesses to testify before Roosevelt's fact finding board to show broad opposition. The board, due by Oct 27, seeks evidence by Oct 17. Management testified that carriers are willing to arbitrate under federal mediation law, while the brotherhoods refused. Enochs noted wages were not compared to other industries in setting the cut.
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Washington
George M. Harrison
Roosevelt
H. A. Enochs
Brotherhoods
Dean James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Enochs
Britain Warns Poland and Hungary Over Czechoslovakia Frontier Demands
Britain fears a grave European crisis as Poland and Hungary press to cede Czechoslovak Ruthenia and create a joint frontier. Warsaw signals support for Hungary, Italy may back the move, while Britain and France had pledged to defend Czechoslovakia's frontiers per the Munich outcome. Czech general staff reportedly weighed fighting Germany alone before accepting Polish demands.
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London
Great Britain
Britain
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Ruthenia
Entente
Roumania
Germany
Ausgstiat
Warsaw
Italy
France
Hans Baryv
Ruthenia
Frantisck Hrabeik
Benes Plans Return To Prague Sociology Professorship
Eduard Benes, who resigned as Czechoslovakia’s president, will resume sociology teaching at Charles University in Prague. He is at his home near Prague awaiting his return to academia while The University of Chicago invites him as a visiting faculty lecturer on democratic institutions.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Charles University
Benes
University of Chicago
Warm October Day Suits Cedar Rapids Homecomers
Town university homecomers in Cedar Rapids enjoyed a bright October day with temperatures climbing from 53 at 8 am to 68 at 10 am and 77 at 2 pm. Scattered clouds brought brief Friday showers to Ellis park and Kenwood districts.
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Cedar Rapids News— Town University
Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company Recorder
Ellis Park
Kenwood
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