Extradition dispute stains Kraschel record and law view
The piece argues Governor Kraschel endangered law and order by resisting extradition of an arson suspect Merkuri at the Texas request. It notes a Sioux City race, a 1936 margin, and cites federal and state law on fugitive delivery, with the El Paso and Des Moines officials cited and a delayed response from District Attorney Roy Jackson.
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Roosevelt
Nels Kraschel
Kraschel
Hering
Max Duckworth
Sioux City
George Wilson
Jow
Texas
el Paso
Colorado
Hadeen
Iowa
Ave the Gazette
The
Institution of the United States
Merkuri
Des Moines
John Mitchell
Alfred
the Gazette
Lone Star
Roy Jackson
Allred
Merkur
District Attorney's
Fall of Canton as Japanese Drive Reaches South China
Japanese troops entered Canton after a nine day advance 80 miles from Bias Bay as Chinese forces retreated. Wang Ching Wei offered China’s terms to Japan, saying peace must preserve China’s national existence.
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Chungking
China
Canton
Hankow
Wang Ching-wei
Japan
Wang
Hongkong
Bias Bay
New South China Army
Retreat on Hankow Front Reported as Chinese Forces Fall Back
A Friday night war office communique says Chinese forces are in full retreat on the Hankow front. Reliable reports claim Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has departed Hankow for Changsha.
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INS
Hankow
War Office
Chiang Kai-shek
Changsha
State motor head action costs Iowa $250000 in bus fees
Cedar Rapids news reports James M. Brockway accuses Lew Wallace of shifting bus license fees to trucks by a concealed clause in Senate file 181. He says large buses drop from 275 to 65 dollars while trucks pay 300 to 400, with debate not held before passage.
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Lew Wallace
State Motor Vehicle Department
State of Iowa
James M. Brockway
Cedar Rapids
Independent Truckers of Iowa, Inc
Brockway
Wallace
Senate
Roosevelt Praises Federal Court Reform The Shakeup Method
President Roosevelt lauded the 1937 measure reorganizing federal court procedure as the most drastic reform to date. He credited expert commissions from jurists and Justice officials for drafting the law, which took effect Oct. 1 and aims to speed and standardize justice. He noted Congress kept veto power and suggested applying the method to other government reforms.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Congress
Department of Justice
Britain Italy Reach Accord Over Spain Crisis
Britain and Italy are in full accord on a plan to liquidate their differences over Spain. The understanding was completed at a recent meeting between Earl of Perth British ambassador and Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian foreign minister.
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Rome
INS
Britain
Italy
Spain
Earl of Perth
Galeazzo Ciano
Cedar Rapids School District Purchases Hill Park
The Cedar Rapids school board announced the $9,067 purchase of Hill baseball park from Walter J. Barngrover after months of negotiations. The deal retroactive to Sept 1 ends a football season rental and may repurpose the site for public school athletics with bleachers removed and field bounds moved.
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The
Hill
Cedar Rapids
Walter J. Barngrover
West Side Public Schools
Harold Trewin
Barngrover
Hill Park
Arthur Deamer
Iowa
Deamer
PWA
Strikers and Packers Plan Peace Parley in Iowa
Officials of the Swift and Company plant told Governor Kraschel by telegram they are ready to reopen the plant as soon as law and order can be guaranteed. The union and company agreed to meet Saturday to discuss the dispute that brought in National Guardsmen.
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Sioux City
Swift and Company
N. G. Kraschel
Kraschel
CIO Packing House
National
National Labor Relations Board
Swift
David F. Loepp
Loepp
Deficit Tops One Billion Dollars This Fiscal Year
Washington reports the gross federal deficit for the current fiscal year has exceeded one billion dollars. For July 1 to October 19 the shortfall was 1,012,389,658, up from 487,202,215 a year ago. Revenue stood at 1,711,599,368, below last year by about 167 million. outlays reached 2,723,989,026 versus 2,365,383,206 previously.
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Washington (Lp
Treasury
Wage Hour Chief Criticizes Plant Shutdowns Over Law
Wage Hour Administrator Elmer F Andrews charged Friday that some industrial plants threaten to shut down to resist the new wage hour law. President Roosevelt urged voluntary compliance as Andrews warned enforcement would be uniform and decisive, with states encouraged to adopt parallel regulations.
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Washington
Elmer F Andrews
Andrews
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Congress
U S Death Toll in Spanish War Reaches 2888
Frontier reports from Hendaye say 2,888 American volunteers killed while fighting with loyalist forces since the civil war began. Insurgent dispatches also noted about 500 Americans being evacuated as foreigners withdraw. It is unclear if Washington has received a tally of American prisoners in insurgent camps.
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Hendaye
High Court Sits Down on NLRB Fight With Fansteel
Washington reports the National Labor Relations Board will take its dispute with Chicago’s Fansteel Metallurgical to the Supreme Court. The case centers on the legality of the sitdown strike as several lower courts have ruled, while the high court has not yet ruled on the issue.
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Washington
INS
National Labor Relations Board
Fansteel Metallurgical Company of
Chicago
Supreme Court
Approve Schoolbook After Parent Complaint
Baltimore school board clears Philip Dorf's Visualized American History after reviewing a parent's charge that the text included New Deal propaganda. The decision comes Friday as the investigation concludes with no disqualifying findings.
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Baltimore
Philip Dorf
Board of Education
Before You Go to the Big Game Want Ads
Announcement urging readers to place Want Ads for weekend publication in the Gazette Star. Ads accepted until 12 noon Saturday for Saturday issues and until 8 p.m. Saturday for the big Sunday section. Readers may phone 2-1121 or visit the Gazette office. Special 25 to 40 percent savings on three and seven day rates.
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Gazette
Gazette Office
Government price support plan for surplus foods debated
Washington AP reports Secretary Wallace proposes selling surplus farm products to underprivileged families at reduced prices, funded by government losses. Officials say deficits shift to upper two thirds through higher prices, aided by marketing controls. critics fear vast federal outlays and increased government control.
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Washington
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Department
Counterfeit Travelers Check Cashed in Cedar Rapids
A counterfeit traveler’s check drawn on a fictitious Continental Bank of Philadelphia was presented in Cedar Rapids on October 12. The check for twenty dollars was signed James Martin, per a police report by A. L. Woederhoff. The car involved in the case was to be turned over to authorities.
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Cedar Rapids
A. L. Woederhoff
Second Avenue SE
Continental Bank of Philadelphia
James Martin
Brandeis Urges Court Aid to New Agencies
Justice Brandeis told the Supreme Court during the Kansas City stockyards case that courts must cooperate with growing administrative tribunals. He said for some purposes courts and these tribunals should be treated as one entity.
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Washington
INS
Brandeis
Supreme Court
Kansas City
Iowa Committee OKs Dummy State Plates For Cars
After two hours of debate the legislature allows dummy plates for state owned cars. Motor Vehicle Commissioner Lew Wallace says 38 sets have been turned in and two more requested leaving 172 sets in use. Senator Roy Stevens says the issue is preventing abuse of state automobiles while maintaining department efficiency.
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Des Moines
INS
Town Legislative Interim Committee
Lew Wallace
Iowa
Roy Stevens
Ottumwa
Legislative Committee
Wallace
Franky
Frosty 34 Sets New Low Point in Cedar Rapids
Cold snap in Cedar Rapids records a new season low of 34 degrees between 4 and 8 am. Sun returns with 56 at 10 am and 70 by 2:30 pm. Thursday high reached 68 at 4 pm, with 48 at 7 pm and 41 at midnight on the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Czechs Offer Fresh Territorial Terms to Hungary
Budapest reports a more liberal Czechoslovak proposal with no cession of Kassa Ungvar and Kunkacs districts. Premier Andrej Brody meets Hungarian and Polish leaders to gauge frontier demarcation. A Slovak delegation in Munich accepts a German land transfer proposal. Prague lifts press censorship and dissolves the communist party. Slovak leaders take similar steps.
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Hungary
Foreign Office
Czechoslovakia
Kassa Ungvar
Kunkacs
Andrej Brody
Poland
Munich
Prague
Communist Party
Bohemia
Moravia
Silesia
Hitler government warns against quick division of Czechoslovakia
Berlin reports the Hitler regime raised a firm but courteous protest to Hungary over plans that could divide what remains of Czechoslovakia. The move signals official opposition to any rapid partition and underscores tension among central European powers.
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Berlin
Hitler
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Dorothy Hale Dies In Sixth Floor Window Fall
New York AP report states Dorothy Hale motion picture actress plummeted from a Hampshire House sixteenth floor window near Central Park early Friday. Detective James Leech notes she may have attempted to open the window after returning to her room at 6:20 am. A sister, Betty Donovan of Pittsburgh, sent a letter to Dorothy. Mrs Hale widow of Gardiner Hale of Chicago who died in 1931, appeared in Catherine the Great and was linked to Harry Hopkins in rumor.
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New York
Dorothy Jale
Hampshire House
Central Park
Jale
Gardiner Hale
Chicago
California
Hopkins
James Leech
Europe Needed U S Newspapers To Track Crisis
Abbe Ernest Dimnet, French author, arrived in New York aboard the Champlain and credited American papers with explaining the recent Czechoslovak crisis to Europe. He praised press freedom as a bright ray amid a dark world, while noting its disadvantages.
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New York
Europe
Abbe
Ernest Dimnet
Abbe Dimnet
Champlain
Plucky Paralysis Victim Sylva Davis Dies
Sylva Davis, 20 year old paralysis victim who drew nationwide attention last March after an operation with only a fifty fifty chance to survive, died Friday at her parents home. Bedridden since birth, the operation extended her life only a few months.
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Kansas City
INS
Sylva Davis
Sylva
Four More Years Of Questions Without Answers
A 1938 opinion column by Arthur Bugs Back mocks Herbert Hoover and the Republican stance while contrasting it with the New Deal. The piece warns Democrats may demand fair trials as in Prohibition, implying four more years of unanswered questions.
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