Deportation call over Bridges and price control debate
The court calls for Harry Bridges deportation, citing his ties to an organization aimed at overthrowing the government. Brookings warns price control bills ignore wages and farm prices, while labor and agriculture wield political power. An unidentified vandal shattered a cafeteria window amid a Des Moines dispute, and Dr. Roy L. Smith urges ministers to use simple words. FBI training for Police Chief Tom Condon is approved as a modern protection measure.
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Brookings Institution
Economic Research Organization
Congress
Pat Estherville
Roy L. Smith
The
Christian Advocate
Miley Golf Star Marion Miley Slain in Lexington Country Club
Police pursue undisclosed angles in the killing of Marion Miley 27 a top woman golfer at a Lexington country club shot three times to the head and body amid a reported robbery motive. Untouched cash 75 in a closet and 60 in a desk prompt investigators to probe other angles. A fingerprint blood mark and a bloodstained blanket link a hotel arrest to the case. Miley lay in an oxygen tent as detectives review the club’s social register and guests from the Saturday dance.
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Lexington
Marion Miley
Fred Miley
Lexington Country Club
Kentucky
County Patrol
J W. Mec Cord
Mary Stone
McCord
Miss Miley
Miley
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Snow Covers Moscow Amid Coldest Month in Years
A light snowfall blanketed Moscow overnight then melted as temperatures rose. The unsettled weather followed long rains and winds making this month the coldest in years. In the northwest, Russian troops enjoy dugouts while German forces in the Dvina region suffer cold, rain, mud, and ice.
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Moscow
Dvina
Motorist In Crash Draws $300 Fine In Drunk Driving Case
Cedar Rapids police charged T. E. Pirtle 54 of Northwood addition NE with drunk driving after an accident at Center Point road and L avenue NE around 11 45 p m Saturday. Pirtle pled guilty and was fined 300 plus costs by Judge J H Moffit. His car struck a machine driven by Emery Kennedy 24 of 1003 Eleventh street NW who was northbound on Center Point road NE. Kennedy reported the left front of his car smashed by Pirtle s vehicle. Pirtle admitted crossing the center line.
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Cedar Rapids
T. E. Pirtle
Northwood Addition
Center Point Road
L Avenue
Pirtle
J. H. Moffit
Emery Kennedy
Eleventh Street
Kennedy
Eccles Urges Congress to Consider 48Hour Week
Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, urged Congress to consider suspending the 40 hour work week nationwide during the emergency. He warned inflation risks from rising wages and proposed a centralized plan for prevailing wages, aligned with Baruch, while noting the proposal may be temporary.
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Washington
Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
House Banking and Currency Committee
Eccles
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Ricocheting bullet injures youth during hunting trip
John McNabb, 16, of Center Point road NE, was struck in the right thigh by a ricocheting .22 slug while a hunting party led by Robert Kessler, 16, walked along the Rock Island right of way near Larimer Shaffer. McNabb was treated at St Luke's hospital and released.
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Cedar Rapids
John McNabb
Center Point Road
McNabb
Rock Island
Robert Kessler
Seventeenth Street
Larimer
Shaffer
Kessler
Robert Fauchier
Center Point Read
Bob Sova
Britain Italy clash in air sea battles as R A F raids nine fascist cities
British and Italian forces exchanged heavy blows in air and sea fighting Monday. R A F bombers hit nine fascist cities while Mussolini’s command launched a nine hour attack on a British convoy in the Mediterranean.
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Great Britain
Italy
R.A.F
Mussolini
High Command
Mediterranean
Rome
Britain
Czech executions signal Heydrich hard line across Bohemia
London AP reports six people executed by order of Reinhard Heydrich including General Josef Bily and divisional General Hugo Voijti. The Czech government in exile confirms the firings amid a German broadcasting leak. Heydrich imposes a state of emergency across six districts, with curfews and harsh penalties as Elias faces treason charges in Berlin.
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London
Reinhard Heydrich
Reich
Bohemia - Moravia
Josef Bily
Bohemia
Hugo Voijti
Seventh Army Corps
Bratislava
Slovakia
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Reuters
Heydrich
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Berlin
Alois Elias
Bohemia-Moravia
Secret Police
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
von Neurath
Elias
Adolf Hitler
Hritzhov
Rock Thrown Through Bishop Cafeteria Window
A 20 pound rock traveling nearly a foot in each direction was hurled into Bishop’s cafeteria window at 3 am Sunday. A crude stink bomb followed as two men in trench coats fled in a green car, linked by a Des Moines AFL strike. No local labor trouble reported. rock accused as a long-planned act.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Newse
Bishop's Cafeteria
Frank Mullin
Fred Goodhue
First Avenue
Fifth Street
Third Avenue
Goodhue
Roy Doty
Bishop Stoddard Company
Cedar Rapids
Bakers
AFL
Doty
Earthquake Shakes Quetta for 35 Seconds
An intense quake struck Quetta Baluchistan on Monday lasting about 35 seconds. Homes were severely shaken and damage was reported across the city.
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Quetta
Baluchistan
INS
Coldest Fall Morning Sees Cedar Rapids at 37 Degrees
Cedar Rapids and vicinity report the coldest fall temperature so far with 37 degrees at 7 am. By 2 30 pm the temperature rose to 52 as a rainy spell moved in. Rain added 0.55 inches overnight while humidity stood around 40 percent.
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Cedar Rapids
Cold Wave Hits Decorah Area With Frost Heavy
A government station two miles south of Decorah logged 26 degrees Monday morning, with Decorah at 32 degrees. Frost was heavy across the region.
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Decorah
May urges three month arms diversion to Britain and Russia
Chairman May of the House military committee proposed diverting the United States total munitions output for three months to Britain and Russia to bolster their resistance to Germany. He stressed he had no official information that such a diversion was under consideration.
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Washington
May
House Military Committee
United States
Britain
Russia
Germany
Hull backs modification of Neutrality Act over repeal
Secretary of State Hull said in a press conference he favored modifying the Neutrality Act rather than repealing it. He noted talks with senators and representatives and anticipated a White House briefing and a Wednesday meeting with congressional leaders on the act while debate over arming merchant ships continued on Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
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House
Senate
Rep. Mundi
S.D
House Foreign Affairs
British Troops Rumored En Route to Reinforce Reds in Caucasus
British troops were rumored to be heading from Baghdad to reinforce Soviet Red armies in the Caucasus. A Berlin dispatch cited dispatches as saying two divisions had left Baghdad. British leaders P Wavell and A Auchinleck reportedly outlined cooperation for the anti Axis front from Syria through Iran to the left flank of Russian forces in Baghdad talks.
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Berlin
Baghdad
Russia
Britain
Africa
Asia
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Archibald P Wavell
India
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Middle East
Ukraine
Semeon Timoshenko
Yelnya
Smolensk
Desna
Leningrad
London
Crimea
Black Sea
Perekop Isthmus
City To Send Chief Of Police Condon To FBI School
Cedar Rapids plans to send Police Chief Tom Condon to the FBI training school in Washington DC if the city’s application is approved. The course runs Jan 1 to Apr 1, 1942, for three months, with city council underwriting Condon’s expenses.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tom Condon
FBI
Middle West
Condon
FBI School of Instruction
Washington, D. C
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Larry Condon
Judge Sears orders Bridges deportation bid after communist finding
Judge Charles B Sears ruled that Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, is a Communist and should be deported under a new law. The decision cites a long pattern of conduct since 1932 showing affiliation with the Communist Party and related groups. Case moves to the Board of Immigration Appeals for final action with possible court challenges.
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Washington
Charles B Sears
Justice Department
Harry Bridges
West Coast
CIO
Australia
Sears
Bridges
Communist Party
United States
San Francisco
James W. Landis
Harvard Law School
Landis
Board of Immigration Appeals
Appeals Board
Biddle
Ellis Golf Course Expansion Approved Amid Land Purchase
Cedar Rounds News reports the city council voted to buy 87 percent of an acre for 32 900 to expand Ellis park golf course to 18 holes. A 40 000 bond issue and a 77 500 WPA grant are planned to cover costs and labor for the project near Zika Avenue and Eighteenth Street NW. The parcels include holdings from J C Heins Martha R Heins Arthur Popelia Sohn Kretschmar Wilhelmina Kretschmar Lenora Veneman Ward Veneman and Charles E and Robert B Byrnes.
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Cedar Rounds
Ellis Park
Langford and Morereau
WPA
J. C. Heins
Martha R. Heins
Arthur Popelia
Sohn Kretschmar
Wilhelmina Kretschmar
Lenora Veneman
Ward Veneman
Charles E
Robert B. Byrnes
Zika Avenue
Eighteenth Street
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