Indiana youth admits flying with murdered instructor in Missouri
Ernie Pletch 28 of Frankfort Indiana told state police he shot and killed Carl Bivens during a mid air struggle after kidnapping him in Brookfield Missouri. He described the plane as a yellow Piper Cub and said he attempted to crash in Indiana but changed plans. He was captured in Morgan Monroe State Forest north of Bloomington.
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Indianapolis
Ernie Pletch
Romeo
Frankfort
Ind
Brookfield
Missouri
Carl Bivens
Cherry Box
Pleich
Bivens
Pletch
Don Stiver
Thomas Watson
Plet
Brooksfield
Indiana
Morgan-Monroe County ‘State Forest
Bloomington
Mt. Auburn Man Hurt In Headon Collision
P. W. Abbott, 57, of Mount Auburn, suffered a severe chin gash in a headon collision on a Benton Avenue NW near Palo Road. Drivers G. C. McClintock, 41, Shellsburg, and Jacob H. Selk, 37, La Porte City, were uninjured. Abbott received first aid at the police station while riding in the Selk car.
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Palo Road
P. W. Abbott
Mount Auburn
G. C. McClintock
Shellsburg
Jacob H. Selk
la Porte City
McClintock
Jand Selk
Abbott
Selk
Building Trade Nears Peak Of Pre Crash Era
Chicago reports show residence and commercial construction rising toward pre crash highs. For nine months 1939 contracts exceed 1920s activity with totals of about 2.63 to 2.87 billion across states, aided by private financing as federal spending declines.
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Chicago
F. W. Dodge Corporation Research Service
E. M. Craig
National Association of Building Trades Employers
General Business Review
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Dodge
Parking removal slated for Fifth Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids
The WPA office plans a late fall project to remove parking in the middle of Fifth Avenue SE between Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets. A $23 000 allocation will fund brick relaying by WPA workers where old street car tracks were removed at the Fourteenth street jog. Track covering on Third Street SE from Sixteenth to Third avenues is finished for now, with a renewal hoped next year.
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Cedar Rapids
WPA
Fifth Avenue SE
Seventeenth
Nineteenth Streets
Dave Williams
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Third Avenue
Third Street
Williams
Byrd Craft Stymied For Several Days
Lima Ohio officials said it would be several days before the snow cruiser for the Byrd Antarctic expedition could be removed from a small creek. The craft had tumbled into the creek after striking a bridge near Gomer while en route from Chicago to Boston.
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Lima
Gomer
Chicago
Boston
Unusual Tactics Planned for Repeal Bill Fight
Washington AP report says backers prepared to move the neutrality bill through the House with little change using a rare tactic while opponents led by Representative Fish promise to fight the embargo repeal. Speaker Bankhead aims for a joint conference to reconcile Senate and House versions as debate looms Tuesday with rules committee meeting Monday.
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Washington
House
Fish
Senate
Bankhead
House Conference
Rayburn
Tex
House Rules Committee
Cedar Rapids Sees High of 37 Amid Sunshine
In Cedar Rapids a chilly day saw the temperature peak at 37 degrees by 3 PM despite sun breaking through scattered clouds. The day cooled to 33 degrees by 7 PM after lingering near the freezing point.
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Cedar Rapids
Dual Thanksgiving Haunts Others Than Tom Turkey
Cedar Rapids readers face a holiday date split as President Roosevelt and Governor Wilson issue conflicting Thanksgiving observances. WPA workers, railroading clerks, and grain firms weigh which day to honor while state borders shift travel plans and menus.
Plans to Restore Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs in Europe
London dispatch reports parallel moves in London Paris and Rome to restore the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs if Nazi Germany is defeated Archduke Otto has given memoranda to France and the Vatican outlining a new central European order Prince Louis Ferdinand is named as the leading Hohenzollern claimant and Mussolini backs an enlarged Catholic Austria while warning for Malian claims if Germany wins.
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INL
Europe
Paris
Rome
London Dispatch
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Vatican
Hohenzollerns
Kaiser Wilhelm
Louis Ferdinand
Freidrich
Kyra
Prince Louis Ferdinand
United States
Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Steeneckerzeel Castle
Brussels
Belgium
Sunday Dispatch
Balkan
Austria
Ernst von Starhemberg
Mussolini
Hitler
Germany
Plan For Reds Japs To Carve Up China With Nazi Aid
London based Exchange Telegraph reports rumors of a three power plan to partition China among Soviet Russia Japan and Germany. Japanese envoy Oshima to present the scheme to Tokyo while Berlin signals seek mutual aid against the Allies.
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London
INL
Exchange Telegraph
Amsterdam
Russia
Japan
Germany
Masanori Oshima
Berlin
Tokio
Manchukuo
Drunk Driving Charge After Followed by Motorist
Walter J. Barngrover followed a car driven by Monte Smith for nearly 20 minutes after Smith nearly struck his vehicle. Police arrested Smith at First avenue and First street E at 2 30 p m on a driving while intoxicated charge.
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Beyer Avenue SE
Dan Kruidenier
Monte Smith
Ninth Street SE
Smith
Kruidenier
First Avenue
First Street E
Barngrover
Eighth Avenue
Mount Vernon Road
Nevada residence founded by Mrs. Margaret Prince Sykes Chrysler
Mrs. Margaret Prince Sykes Chrysler wife of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. established a residence in Reno on Saturday. The Chrysler name links to the automobile industry magnate family as noted in the report.
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Reno, Nev
Nevada
Margaret Prince Sykes Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr
Football scores and twins highlight late season games
A scattered set of college football results shows Tech defeating Wisconsin 15 13 and Cornell beating Grinnell 25 6 among other scores. Missouri topped Iowa State 21 6 while Notre Dame edged Carnegie Tech 7 6 and Princeton beat Brown 26 12.
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Santa Clara
Purdue
So. Calif
California
New Romanian Plot Charged Amid Iron Guard Arrests
Bucharest authorities charge 44 former Iron Guard members with plotting to assassinate General Gabriel Marinescu minister of public order. The crackdown follows the Sept 21 assassination of Premier Armand Calinescu and purges within the outlawed group.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Iron Guard
Gabriel Marinescu
Marinescu
Armand Calinescu
Pioneers Lived Democracy at Upper Iowa University
Gov. George A. Wilson told an Upper Iowa audience that the state’s pioneers who founded the university did not discuss liberty but lived by it. He praised their philosophy of long horizons and rejection of artificial support in inaugurating Dir. Thomas Vivian Smith as president.
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Upper Iowa
Burned by Test Of Anti Freeze With Match
Owen Smith 23 of 2016 First Avenue E suffered facial and eye burns when his attempt to check anti freeze with a match at the McGowen garage in Marion sparked flames that caught his clothing. A salesman's fire extinguisher and a garage attendant’s overcoat helped suppress the blaze. Smith’s right facial skin was burned and his eye slightly injured. a Marion doctor treated him.
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Owen Smith
First Avenue E
McGowen
Marion
Smith
Talmadge Sister Connie Talmadge Weds Broker in New York
Connie Talmadge Netcher, youngest of the Talmadge sisters, married Walter Giblyn a prominent New York broker in a quiet Saturday ceremony in New York City. The private event drew public interest as the Hollywood family enjoyed the union.
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Hollywood
Mns
Constance Talmadge Netcher
Talmadge
Walter Giblyn
New York
Weekly Forecast for Upper Mississippi Valley
Weather outlook for Oct 30 to Nov 4 calls for generally fair conditions with light precipitation in the far north. Temperatures fluctuate, turning colder early in the week, likely warmer Tuesday night into Wednesday, and again Friday.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Dies Questions Roosevelt Attack On Anti Committee Move
Rep. Martin Dies, Texas Democrat and head of the House committee probing un American affairs, defended his publication naming government employees in the American League for Peace and Democracy. He told a CBS radio audience he would not bow to party leadership and warned of numerous communist affiliated officials in federal agencies. He contrasted public reaction to earlier lists with the current attack.
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Washington
INL
Martin Dies
Texas
House
American League For Peace and Democracy
Roosevelt
Communist Party
Dies
Columbia Broadcasting System
America
Bund
William Dudley Pelley
Riots in Prague Leave Dozens Hurt on Anniversary
Prague police faced masked clashes as demonstrators marking the twenty first anniversary of the Czechoslovak republic clashed with German troops. Reports cited four possible deaths and many wounded, with crowds dispersed by night and police maintaining heavy patrols.
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Prague
Czechoslovak Republic
Man Arrested After Car Strikes Woman In Marion
Police arrested W. C. Mercer after a car struck Mrs. Frank Clash, 44, of 1155 Eleventh street, Marion. The driver fled on foot, Mercer claimed his car was stolen, but keys were found on him. Clash suffered lacerations and a forehead wound, and was hospitalized after the incident near Rapids Chevrolet on First avenue.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Clash
Eleventh Street
Marion
W. C. Mercer
McKinley Street
Rapids Chevrolet Company
Gol
First Avenue
Mercer
Mays Clash
Dietrich
St. Luke's Hospital
Clash
Sixth Street
Sentner Attorneys Plan Appeal From Conviction And Fine
William Sentner, international vice president of CIO union United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, planned an appeal after a $2500 conviction and fine on criminal syndicalism charges. The sentence followed his role in the Maytag strike at Newton Indiana, where he represented the local union before District Judge W. S. Cooper.
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Montezuma
William Sentner
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Sentner
W. S. Cooper
Maytag
Newton
Balkans See Surge in Diplomatic Talks as Russia Shadow Grows
In Budapest and across the Balkans a flurry of diplomacy unfolds as King Carol I and Romanian ministers meet to discuss Bulgaria, Bulgaria’s Dobruja, and relations with Yugoslavia Turkey and Italy. nations brace for a Soviet stance at a Moscow session while Belgrade warned Bulgaria on Soviet influence.
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Hungary
Russia
Europe
Carol
Romania
Turkey
Bulgaria
Greece
Yugoslavia
Dobruja
Carol I
Bucharest
Balkans
Supreme Soviet
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Constantine Argetoianu
Rumania
Dragisha Cvetkovich
Vrsac
Belgrade
Balkan
Sofia
George Kiosselvanoff
Italy
Rome
France
Britain
State Department condemns Soviet cooperation in Flint case
Washington reports the state department issued a formal white paper accusing the Soviet government of failing to cooperate with the United States over the City of Flint case. The document mirrors British practice of publishing such statements.
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Washington
State Department
Flint
United States
Where's The Flint? Conflicting reports on vessel's location
A Reuters dispatch from Copenhagen relayed via London said the City of Flint, navigated by a German prize crew, breached the British blockade and moved into the Baltic toward Kiel. Moscow sources claimed the ship had just left Murmansk. Berlin said the vessel’s location was unknown.
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Flint
Reuter
Copenhagen
London
Baltic
North Sea
Kiel
Moscow
Murmansis
Berlin
City of Flint Seizure Examined By State Department Paper
A diplomatic review details Soviet and German statements on the seizure of the American freighter City of Flint in Murmansk. The State Department notes no clear answer on whether the ship left per Soviet orders, while U S embassy efforts to locate crew and health status continue amid questions about Russian neutrality. Commander Field says the ship was shipshape before departure, though it likely lacked voyage charts to Murmansk.
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Energ
Murmansk
State Department
Flint
Arctic
United States
Moscow
R. S. Field
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
American Bureau of Shipping
Field
City of Flint Seized by German Cruiser in Atlantic
State department memo details the capture of the City of Flint by a German cruiser about 1,250 miles from New York. The ship carried cargo for British ports and was taken to Tromsø harbor on October 21 with a German crew and flag.
Only Safe Place In This War Is Front
Wartime column by Arthur Bugs Baer argues the front is the only safe place as Siegfried Line remains quiet while domestic critics oppose the war. He dismisses protesters as noisy and likens the fighting to a dog fight with muzzles on.
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Front
Aspic
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