New Deal Plans Aim to Align Government and Industry
Washington reports a plan to create 12 committees linking major industrial divisions with 12 federal agencies. The proposal, drafted by Richard C. Patterson Jr, seeks a government “business embassy” to solve industry problems and promote employment. Labor notes improved employment with 265,975 jobs filled, private hiring driving most gains.
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Washington
INS
New Deal
Commerce Department
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Patterson
Richard C. Patterson, Jr
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Commerce Bureau
Labor Department
U. S. Employment Service
Perkins
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Proportional Family Wage Urged To Help Healthy Families
Dr Paul Popenoe urged a proportional family wage to aid healthy families citing birth and death-rate concerns. He said urban wives with lower education bore 40 percent more children in 1930 than college graduates and linked child quality to support for families. The proposal ties a father’s pay to the number of children to improve outcomes.
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New York
INS
Paul Popenoe
Los Angeles
LaGuardia Demands Truck Strike End
In a San Francisco tele gram Mayor LaGuardia urged the outlaw strike by truckmen end by Monday. He warned he will fly back to New York to settle the threatened food shortage if necessary.
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New York
INS
San Francisco
LaGuardia
Pittman Says Allies Must Aid Czechoslovakia
Senator Key Pittman in a national radio address urged governments that created Czechoslovakia to honor their pledge to protect the republic. He warned against U.S. entering foreign wars or forming new alliances, stressing moral obligation but denying any Roosevelt administration stance.
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Czechoslovakia
Pittman
Los Angeles
Sen
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
Europe
Czech Republic
United States
France
Russia
Senate of the United States
Exhausts 25-Cent Fund In Struggle To Lose Election
Cambridge policeman and Democratic delegate candidate Thomas H. Leary ends his satirical bid to lose the state convention race. He spent 20 cents on tomato antics and exhausted 25 cents on a fake mustache to scare babies, insisting if he loses he wins.
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Cambridge
Mass
INS
Thomas H. Leary
Leary
Public debt hits all time crest in Sept
The treasury announced the public debt reached a new high of 38 407 012 443 on Sept 15 driven by 800 million in treasury cash borrowing to finance the recovery program. The prior peak was 37 814 477 017 on March 12. The working balance rose to 2 410 539 213 with the borrowing. Tax collections in the first fifteen days of the month totaled 150 681 697 vs 121 215 221 a year earlier.
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Washington
Treasury
Inventor Walter Thompson Dies at 75 in Los Angeles
Funeral services were planned Saturday for Walter T. Thompson, 75, an Illinois watch company official credited with inventing the unbreakable crystal.
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Los Angeles
Walter T. Thompson
Iinois Watch
Chamberlain Seeks Peace Amid Silent Armistice
Arthur Baer notes a lull in Europe as Chamberlain tours Germany seeking peace samples. He claims no one could match his approach while tensions rise in the Sudeten and Hitler tests tactics by pulling war bluffs, signaling future trouble.
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Chamberlain
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Europe
Germany
Odd Chain Of Events Leads To Two Motorist Crashes
A rain soaked Saturday in Cedar Rapids ends with Henry Bakken of Lime Springs and Bert Lowenthal of New York City facing charges. Lowenthal avoids reporting an accident. Bakken is charged with reckless driving after a head on collision with Lowenthal's car as both were returning to the city. Patrolman Moore and Detective Kudina were injured when their squad car was struck.
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Henry Bakken
Lime Springs
Bert Lowenthal
New York City
Lowenthal
George B. Sanders
First Avenue
Tenth Street
First
Sanders
H. R. Churchill
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Iowa City
Ike Moore
Bill Kudina
Moore
Kadina
Bakken
Kudina
W. H. Hasek
Hasek
Justice Churchill
Strikebound Plant Guard Shoot Wounds 12 in Toledo
UPS armed guards at the Federal Creosoting Co plant west of Toledo fired on strikers and union supporters in a five month wage dispute. Pickets and supporters rushed a locomotive, forcing guards to retreat to a wall before the firing. Twelve people were wounded and taken to county hospital for buckshot injuries.
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Toledo
UPS
Federal Creosoting Co
Here
County
Roosevelt sees no US war involvement amid European crisis
A cabinet survey led by President Roosevelt finds no discernible danger of US entry. Officials cite neutrality sentiment and economic and military fortifications. The President cancels public events and discusses neutrality act revisions with Hull and McAdoo, discounting a call for a special session.
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Washington
INS
United States
Roosevelt
Minton Blasts Big Town Papers Over Radio Censorship
Senator Minton charged Chicago Tribune and other large papers with trying to censor radio freedom. He defended free speech while criticizing publishers for alleged censorship and cited his bill to criminalize publishing knowingly false statements.
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Big Town Papers
Radio Freedom
Louisville
Ind
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
The
Tribune
McCormick
Lindbergh Suggested as Russia Civil Air Chief
The London Sunday Referee cites Swedish reports that Charles A. Lindbergh may be named Russia's civil air chief starting January 1 1939 for a five year term.
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Lindy
London
INS
Sweden
Charles A. Lindbergh
Russia
Lindbergh
Cantor's Daughter Marries In Beverly Hills
Edna June Cantor aged 19 daughter of comedian Eddie Cantor wed James Francis McHugh Jr 25 son of Cantor's close friend in a Beverly Hills ceremony on Saturday.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Edna June Cantor
Eddie Cantor
James Francis McHugh, Jr
Trundles Self For 168 Miles In Wheelchair
Arch Brukholder, 51, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recounted a 168 mile self propelled journey by wheelchair toward Midland, Michigan. He rode 11 days with levers, slept in barns and shelters, and halted at Indiana as arms grew exhausted before returning home by car. He hoped to visit siblings along the way.
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Harrisburg
Arch Brukholder
Pennsylvania
Midland
Mich
Indiana
Salvation Army
Motorist Injured Asgar Skids Into Bridge Abutment
R H Allen 39 of Des Moines district manager for Union Motor Sales was in serious condition at St Luke's after his car struck a concrete culvert abutment on highway 30 eight miles west of Cedar Rapids. Rain fell as a second car allegedly blocked the paving and a third party aided at the scene. The wrecked Union Motor Sales vehicle burned briefly but was put out. no witnesses were found.
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Cedar Rapids
R. H. Allen
Union Motor Sales, Inc
Des Moines
St. Luke's Hospital
Allen
James H. Smith
J. O Seilhamer
Blairstown
China pays U S for Hoover raid indemnity
Washington reported that the Chinese government has paid the United States 264 887 dollars as indemnities for the mistaken bombing of the President Hoover liner off Shanghai on August 30 1937.
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Washington
United States
President Hoover
Shanghai
Nazi Marching Date Put At Sept 25 30
The London Sunday Dispatch reports the German army may march between September 25 and 30 if the Czech Sudeten crisis remains unsettled.
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London
London Sunday Dispatch
Dog Want Ads Highlight National Dog Week
The Gazette Want Ads promote buying and selling dogs during National Dog Week. Advertisers seek hunting dogs and puppies to bring joy to children, with readers noting recent successful postings. One listing describes a pedigreed German Shepherd puppy, small type, about 3 weeks old, priced at $15.
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Gazette Want
Lost White Spitz Pup Ad With Contact Numbers
Classified notice for a lost white Spitz dog. Reader asked to dial 33 1557 or 2 1121 to report sightings or reunite the pet. Includes neighborhood address 322 Center Point Road and a promo line about saving 25 percent daily by placing a three day ad.
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Dial
Center Point Road
Britain drafts compromise plan for peace with France
Britain's cabinet drew up a possible peace plan to present to Hitler if France agrees. It envisions a plebiscite in Sudetenland and united British French pressure on Czechoslovakia. The plan follows lengthy cabinet talks as Daladier Bonnet prepared to fly to London.
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France
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Georges Bonnet
Neville Chamberlain
Germany
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Rhine
Berlin
Greater
Britain
Prague
Czechoslovakia Declares Three Month State of Emergency
The government suspended press and other civil rights for three months to prepare for possible conflict with Germany over the Sudeten region. Parliament, halted by President Benes, empowered local officials to act. Officials warn of imminent danger and possible mobilization, while Britain pressures Prague for a plebiscite and Germany threatens Czech residents.
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Eduard Benes
Germany
Fronts in Europe face Dramatic emergency actions
International News Service reports Czechoslovakia declares a three month state of emergency suspending constitutional rights and expanding federal police power. Chamberlain plans talks with Daladier and Bonnet in London while Hitler awaits replies. Sudeten leaders in Germany arm, and Hungary Romania and Italy move to counter possible Czech alignment. Soviet circles doubt Western efforts.
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London
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Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
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Germany
Hitler
Berlin
Konrad Henlein
Berchtesgaden
Paris
Daladier
Bulgaria
Budapest
Hungary
Bucharest
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Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Trieste
Moscow
France
Children End Week-Long Strike For Month Reorganization
In St Bernard Ohio suburb 500 children halted a week long strike after school officials and parents reached a truce. The agreement allows a one month pause to reorganize the school following dismissals of Ralph Neiman and Alfred Miller from the athletic department. Parents demand reinstatement for Neiman and Miller as well as class reorganization and return to industrial arts. They also call for the dismissal of Superintendent William E Melvin and assistant Charles E O Connor, though officials say they are under contract.
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Cincinnati, C
INS
St. Bernard
Ralph Neiman
Alfred Miller
Neiman
William E. Melvin
Charles E. O'Connor
Rain showers persist in Cedar Rapids as totals reach .81
Light to moderate rain fell in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, continuing into the night. Rain accumulated to .81 of an inch by midnight, with temperatures largely steady around 51 degrees from early morning through the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Talmadge contests George's election in 30 Georgia counties
Former Governor Eugene Talmadge announced he is contesting the 242 county unit vote that renominated Sen. Walter F. George in the Democratic primary. He claims numerous illegal votes were cast and miscounts or improper consolidation of precincts altered county results, saying he would have earned 222 county votes if the tally were correct.
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Atlanta
INS
Eugene Talmadge
Walter F. George
Talmadge
Weekly Forecast for Chicago Regions Shows Mild Temperatures
AP reports a weekly weather outlook for the upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys. The first half of the week shows little precipitation with cool conditions Monday, followed by a chance of showers in the latter half and generally normal to warmer temperatures.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Sudeten Germans Start Surrender of Arms in Eger Area
Across the border region Sudeten Germans turned in old guns and knives to police and gendarmerie within six hours as Czechoslovak authorities demand. In Eger a 34 000 population city, 250 people surrendered one or more firearms. No foreign made weapons were received.
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Eger
Czechoslovakia
Sundeten
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