UAW Heads Accept Lewis Peace Plan in Modified Form
Detroit officials report the UAW executive board accepted John L. Lewis peace terms in modified form. The plan creates a special arbitration committee for suspended officers with Hillman and Murray, preserves UAW autonomy, and reaffirms CIO support and per capita dues.
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UAW
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
John L. Lewis
Homer Martin
Martin
Lewis
Sidney Hillman
Philip Murray
CIO
Hillman and Murray
R. J. Thomas
Richard Frankensteen
Wyndham Mortimer
Ed Hall
George Addes
Walter Wells
International Union
Bear at intersection startles Menominee driver
Joseph King, commuting in Menominee, spots a large black bear at a street intersection. He asks aloud if it is winter then continues on his way, the encounter occurring in a residential district.
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Menominee, Mich
Joseph King
King
Two Europeans Can Get Hurt Agreeing With Each Other
A 1928 commentary by Arthur Bugs Baer humorously analyzes European conflict and peace through paradoxical lines. The piece jokes that even in democracy or monarchy Europe would face struggle and uses Pat Henry's famed timing as a metaphor for balancing present and past.
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Pat Henry
Pat
Europe
Australia
Mass Meeting Attacks New Deal In Washington Iowa
Conservative Republican and Democratic supporters gathered at the county courthouse and marched to Central Park where Fred Bourgeois of Kalona read a resolution condemning the Roosevelt administration. About 450 attended as the resolution passed with no dissent. The effort, sparked by local farmers and professionals, circulated by petitions with 07 voters signed and more names expected.
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Washington
Washington County Court House
Central Park
Fred Bourgeois
Kalona
Congress
Bourgeois
Community Chest sets 1939 Cedar Rapids goal
Cedar Rapids announces a Community Chest goal of 89 605 26 for the 1939 campaign to begin September 28. The goal is about 4000 less than last year but 1500 above what was raised. Campaign Chairman A L Smulehoff says a general increase in giving is needed. Agency presidents met with Chamber officials to review the budget and plan a year round central office.
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Community Chest
Cedar Rapids
A. L. Smule-hoff
Community Chest Campaign
van Vechten Shaffer
Chamber of Commerce
M. H. Morrison
Public Welfare Bureau
Smulckoff
I. B. McGladrey
Iowa Confiscates 1438 Slot Machines in Year
Des Moines AP Chief W. W. Akers of the Iowa bureau of criminal investigation says agents seized 1 438 slot machines during the last year. Raids occurred in nearly every section of the state, from a single seizure to a Waterloo warehouse raid netting 268 machines.
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Des Moines
W. W. Akers
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Waterloo
Roosevelt hosts cabinet in summit on European crisis risk
President Roosevelt convened a cabinet session to assess Europe’s crisis and potential U S fiscal and trade implications. Secretary Hull, Norman Davis and Henry Morgenthau Jr joined with early in Washington to review neutrality act operations and international treaties as the situation rapidly evolved.
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Bulletin
Washington
Norman H. Davis
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
White House
Hull
Europe
United States
Gray State Department
U .S
Norman S. Davis
U. S
American Red Cross
Jay Tierrepont Moffat
European Affairs
State Department
Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Mr. Roosevelt
Stephen T. Early
Tme
Sheriff Closes Money Games At Lisbon Sauerkraut Day
Sheriff James H. Smith and Deputy Larry Condon closed four money games at the Lisbon Sauerkraut day celebration. The wheel type games were halted after patrols arrived and operators were warned against resuming activity.
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Lisbon
James H. Smith
Larry Condon
Police Nab Drunk Driver After Reckless East Side Chase
East side squad car halted a car on Mt. Vernon avenue near Thirty fifth street SE. L. R. Crock, 32, Rock Island, charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Dan Gardiner, 46, Chicago, charged with intoxication. A partly filled whisky bottle with an Iowa stamp was found in the vehicle.
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Cedar Rapids
East Side
Mt. Vernon Avenue
L. R. Crock
Rock Island
Dan Gardiner
Chicago
Iowa
Herring Committee Seeks Tax Shakeup for Profit Sharing
Senator Herring Iowa says treasury experts study tax changes to encourage industrial profit sharing. A plan could exempt portions of profits handed to employees from corporate income taxes. Hearings planned around Dec 1 with Henry Ford, Alfred P Sloan among interview targets.
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Herring
Washington
Iowa
Treasury
Senate
Congress
Henry Ford
Alfred P. Sloan
Sens
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Ed C. Johnson
Colo
Chicago
Eyston Marks World Land Speed King at 357.50 MPH
Capt. George E. T. Eyston, British racer, set a world land speed record at 357.50 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Crowds of 5000 watched as his Thunderbolt made two runs, with the brakes unable to hold within the course limits. Fellow Briton John Cobb had set 350.20 mph the prior day.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
Ins
George E. T. Eyston
Eyston
Thunderbolt
John R. Cobb
Cobb
Missing 4-Year-Olds Spotted Pedaling Home on Trikes
Seret. Gordon Hughes of the traffic police stopped two speeders on First avenue E near Cedar Memorial cemetery Friday forenoon. Tom Wilkinson, 4, and Junior Robinson, 4, were reported missing since 9 am and found pedaling toward Marion at 11:20. They said they were going home, and Hughes escorted them home.
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Cedar Rapids
Seret
Gordon Hughes
First Avenue
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Tommy Wilkinson
T. J Wilkinson
Park Avenue SE
Junior Robinson
Harry Robinson
Twentieth Street
Hughes
Marion
Rail wage dispute seen as likely to end without strike
Chairman William Leiserson of the national mediation board said after a conference with President Roosevelt that he was hopeful the rail wage dispute would be settled without a nationwide strike. He reported to Roosevelt along with George A. Cook and Otto S. Beyer. Roosevelt's stance was not disclosed.
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Washington
William Leiserson
National Mediation Board
Roosevelt
Leiserson
George A. Cook
Otto S. Beyer
Mr. Roosevelt
Fairfax Youth Hurt In Highway 149 Accident
Ernest Bailey 17 of three and a half miles west of Fairfax was hurt with scalp facial and arm cuts and a shoulder bruise after his car sideswiped Donald Strait 19 on Highway 149 three miles southwest of Cedar Rapids. Strait reported Bailey’s car overturned twice. Bailey was treated at St Luke's hospital and sent home.
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Ernest Bailey
Fairfax
Cedar Rapids
Donald Strait
Thirteenth Street
James H Smith
Bailey
Strait
Mamie Skersick
Third Street
St Luke's Hospital
Two Buchanan Road laborers killed in dynamite blast
Kenneth Albert age 35 of Independence and Victor Destibal age 40 of Hazleton, Buchanan county road employees, died after a dynamite box exploded while blasting trees on a road in Madison township near Winthrop. Albert was foreman. Destibal a maintenance man.
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Independence
Kenneth Allbert
Victor Destibal
Hazleton
Buchanan
Madison Township
Winthrop
Albert
Destibal
Emma Berry
Cedar Rapids
L. H. Destibal
Cedar Rapids Ranked Among Top US Business Centers
Forbes lists Cedar Rapids as a leading city for concentrating sales efforts and collecting marketing results. It anchors the fourth best high‑spot territory in the United States with fifteen nearby cities in the region.
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Cedar Rapids
Forbes Magazine
United States
Kennel Owners Promote Ads During National Dog Week
Ads urge readers to place Want Ads to sell dogs during National Dog Week September 18 to 24. Cedar Rapids residents are advised to call 2-1121 for an ad-taker, while out of town readers can use the rate chart to estimate costs.
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Gazette
Cedar_Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Premier Chamberlain Returns From Hitler Talks
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrives in London after meeting Adolf Hitler in Germany. Crowds cheer at Heston airport as he quotes a frank but friendly discussion and plans further talks with Hitler. Viscount Halifax greets him at the mosque.
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London
Chamberlain
Heston Airport
Germany
Cologne
Munich
Berchtesgaden
Herr Hitler
Heston
Lord Runciman
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Prince of Connaught
Lord Halifax
Neville
Hitler Seeks Sudeten German Transfer at Berchtesgaden
Chancellor Hitler told Neville Chamberlain during their Berchtesgaden talks that Germany demands transfer to the fatherland of the purely German districts of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The exchange was revealed to IN S as Chamberlain headed to London to present the demands to Britain and France.
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Hitler
London
INS
Neville Chamberlain
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Chamberlain
der Fuehrer
Hiller
Sudeten Demands On Chamberlain Signal Possible German March
Sudeten leaders cite Adolf Hitler’s demands to Neville Chamberlain detailing a plebiscite in Sudetenland, German police supervision, and a possible international force. If denied, Hitler is said to threaten marching into the territory, with Prague ready to fight partition.
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Knickerbocker Asch
Czechoslovakia
INS
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Fuehrer
Berchtesgaden
Sudetenland
Reich
Saar
Hitler
Britain
France
Chamberlain
Prague
Konrad Henlein
Asch
Czech
Rudolf Bech
Gen
Crisis At A Glance Bytoited Press
London Chamberlain arrives to present Hitler's demands to cabinet and parliament. Prague orders Henlein's arrest for treason. Viscount Runciman leaves for London urging armistice and dissolution of the Sudeten party. Berlin reports 19 000 refugees from Czechoslovakia. Bad Elster refugees say Sudeten forces shot on sight. Sudeten leadership warns troops to resist arrest. Paris leaders ready to travel to London for talks. Sudetenland quiet as authorities remove bloodshed traces.
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London
Chamberlain
Hitler
Prague
Henlein
Viscount Runciman
Berlin
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Bad-Elster
Paris
Daladier
Bonnet
Sudetenland
Eger
Polish minority self determination call in Czechoslovakia
Warsaw reports Kurier Poranny urges the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia be granted self determination. The newspaper close to Foreign Minister Josef Beck signals Polish support, seen as Poland joining nations seeking dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.
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Warsaw
INS
Kurier Poranny
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beck
Poland
Fall Weather Preview Continues In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids sees another fall weather preview with a cool night and a low of 52 degrees from 3 to 7 a.m. Friday. Sky was partly cloudy as the day rose to 62 by mid afternoon, after a 60 degree high at noon.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Graphy
Sudeten Crisis Deepens as Czechs Ban Party
Prague rejects plebiscite demands and outlaws the Sudeten German party amid martial law across nearly all Sudeten districts. Government orders seizure of party property and disarmament within 24 hours, while Henlein is sought for treason and unrest spreads with casualties reported.
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Prague
Sup
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Konrad Henstein
Germany
Sudeten
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