Presbytery Upholds Just War Clause In Iowa Meeting
Cedar Rapids Presbytery rejected a national assembly overture to rewrite the war chapter and adopted three others on ministerial arrangements. Delegates argued just wars and occasions of warfare justify action, while Rev Ilion Jones urged Christian education to resist destructive movements. Rev Bruce McCullough and Rev George Bevians spoke on living religion and literature in education.
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Cedar Rapids
National Assembly
Ilion Jones
Iowa City
Bruce McCullough
George E. Bevians
Paris cabinet approves Munich pact and plans demobilization
Paris authorities report the four power Munich agreement approved by the cabinet. Daladier, after returning from Munich, calls a meeting to study demobilization as Britain and France discuss broader European problems. Goering and Ribbetrop met with Daladier while Chamberlain and Hitler discuss further peace proposals.
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Bulletin Paris
Paris
Edouard Daladier
Munich
Daladier
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Hermann W. Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
William C. Bullitt
United States
Foreign Office
Georges Bonnet
Bullitt
Eric Phipps
Bonnet
Roosevelt
Mickey Cochrane to Represent Rubber Company
Chicago press reports former Detroit Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane has accepted a position as special Detroit representative for a Chicago rubber products company. The firm, with plants in Chicago and Iowa, markets rubber goods to auto makers and confirmed the appointment through president George B. Dryden.
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Chicago
INS
Gordon Stanley
Mickey) Cochrane
Detroit Tigers
Mickey
Detroit
George B. Dryden
Towa
Search Launched For Girl Missing From Home Near Mt Vernon
At request of Sheriff James H. Smith the state investigation bureau broadcast a search Thursday for Florence Downey 15 of Mount Vernon daughter of Mrs. George Flowers missing since Wednesday morning. She is about five six or seven and 105 pounds in a red dress and white slippers. She left two miles west of Mount Vernon on Palisades road to attend school. No report on her whereabouts by Friday noon.
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James H. Smith
State Investigation Bureau
Iowa
Florence Downey
Mount Vernon
George Flowers
Ed Gill
Palisades Road
Hull Sees New Era Of Peace And Order
Secretary of State Hull hailed the Munich conference as a foundation for peace and economic progress. He cautioned he would not pass judgment on the German Czech crisis merits and spoke for the American government on behalf of hopeful new order in Europe.
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Washington
INS
Europe
Hull
Pirates Lose First Game As Reds Win 7 to 1
In Cincinnati, the Reds defeated the Pirates 7 to 1 in the opener of a double header. Paul Derringer pitched five hits for his 21st win, with Wally Berger and Ernie Lombardi homering in the fifth. Cincinnati 012 030 01x 7 12 0. Pittsburgh 000 000 01x 1 5 0. Tobin Swift Brown Todd Derringer Lombardi.
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Cincinnati
Pittsburgh Pirates
Reds
Paul Derringer
Wally Berger
Ernie Lombardi
Pittsburgh
Czechs Accept Four Power Peace Terms
The Czechoslovak government received a British message outlining Munich terms from the four power conference. Citizens react with disbelief and fear as crowds gather, police bolster presence, and concern mounts over Czech army orders to evacuate fortifications while Prague views Munich as a postponement of a final settlement with Hitler.
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Munich
Chamberlain
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Prague
Europe
Sudetenland Crisis Settlement Under Munich Plan
London reports that Czechoslovakia faces a near ultimatum to accept the four power Munich accord ceding Sudetenland to Germany. Britain and France push a staged occupation to avoid direct fighting, acknowledging a diplomatic victory for Hitler while warning of Czech military obsolescence and German fortification control.
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London
Ins
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Sudetenland
Germany
Britain
France
Prague
Reich
Hitler
Europe
Ambitious alliances and cautions before a looming clash
The text notes that France and Britain intended to resist German expansion if Czechoslovakia was attacked. It also observes limited German public enthusiasm for war, even against the Czechs and the triple alliance. Mussolini warns Germany against risking a direct confrontation, arguing diplomacy could win most objectives.
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Czechoslovakia
Mussolini
Germany
Warns Teachers to Steer Youths Path in Education Talk
Dr Pitkin warns teachers about youth maladjustment and rising potential for a political revolt driven by discontent among 1.5 to 15 million maladjusted youths in ten years. He predicts revolutions and warns of demagoguery if education fails. Dr Rogers calls strict discipline and health as keys to virtue in schools.
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Dr. Pitkin
Middle West
America
Washington
Pitkin
Frederick Rand Rogers
Rogers
Munich Pact Signed as Britain and Germany Agree
The Munich agreement sets a staged German move into Sudetenland with Britain France Germany and Italy backing a four power commission to supervise evacuation plebiscites and frontier changes. Chamberlain hailed the accord while Mussolini Daladier and Hitler moved to implement the plan with international guarantees.
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Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Nazifuehrer
Sudeten
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Hitler
Chamberlain
Edouard Daladier
Berlin
Fuehrer
Czechoslovakia
International Commission
Saar
Sudetenland
Britain
Daladier
Munich
Polish Troops poised to seize Silesia amid frontier crisis
Reports from Teschen describe massed Polish forces along the southern frontier as Poland presses for Silesia. Attacks along the border raise casualties, with clashes near Bohumia and Ropka. Civilians flee to Polish territory amid air raid fears as Polish guards raid a Czech police station.
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Britain
France
Sudetenland
Germany
Italy
Warsaw
Hitler
Mussolini
Eduard Benes
Silesia
Teschen
Olsa
Ropkca
Bohumia
Prague
Cracow
Covenant Separation From Versailles Pact Accepted
The League of Nations assembly in Geneva accepted the principle of separating the league covenant from the Versailles treaty. The move, following the Munich conference on Czechoslovakia, clears Germany’s main conditional obstacle to membership. Governments must ratify the subcommittee amendment to finalize the separation.
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Geneva
Assembly of the League of Nations
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Balkans Celebrate Peace Treaty in Belgrade and East Europe
Belgrade and Bucharest hosted all night revelry as thousands gathered in streets and coffeehouses to mark what many called the new peace treaty of Munich. Crowds sang, danced, and celebrated across the region.
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Belgrade
Munich
Bucharest
Andofia
Rails Carry Fight To Federal Board
Major railroads urged President Roosevelt's fact finding board to back a 15 percent wage cut as a powerful aid to national recovery. J Carter Fort chief counsel for the carriers told the board the railroads face a desperate financial condition and that wages must be reduced because they are unreasonably high.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
J. Carter Fort
Sioux City Sitdown Strikers Quit Plant To Avoid Warrants
In Sioux City, Mayor Loepp and NLRB regional director Weiner met with Swift and Co. officials and union workers as 16 strikers were arrested for conspiracy. About 150 sitdown strikers left the plant to avoid further warrants for 125 conspirac y charges. An accident involving a company truck and a striker occurred. no further injuries reported. The strike stems from seniority disputes in the hog killing department and a dispute over meeting with union grievance reps.
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Sioux City
David F. Loepp
Robert J. Weiner
National Labor Relations Board
Swift and Co
W. R. Tice
Furthe
Floyd Cadwell
Tice
Maurice E. Rawlings
Ernest Shelton
Swift
Shelton
Local Drive Pledges Fall Short of Goals Across Divisions
In a multi group drive, women’s pledges reached 2,481 of 5,034, men’s 1,573 of 4,965, and industrials 26,940 of 42,077. Group A led with 22,345 of 27,460. mercantile Group F1 posted 2,150 of 3,385. commercial 5,501 of 10,210. public employes 2,651 of 5,224. Educational group reports 1,145 of 1,985 with five schools and Coe College still unreported.
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Paul Huston
Edwy J. Clapp
Howard Hall
Group A
Harold Horan
James Killian
Mercantile
Group F1
S. G. Kemper
H. M. Long
James F. Plumb
Coe College
Robert Little
Deacon Dies After Auto Strikes Bridge
William Deacon, born 1879, dies when his car hits a bridge while en route to his farm east of Cedar Rapids. He was son of Charles J. and Sylvia Mansfield Deacon, married to Clara Taylor with two daughters, survived by four sisters and former Rotary member. He held executive roles at Cedar Rapids Republican and Torch Press, later with Mid-West Advertising.
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C. J. Deacon
Deacon
Charles J
Sylvia Mansfield Deacon
Deacon, Sargent and Spangler
Mansfields
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Throop Polytechnic
Pasadena
Calif
Cedar Rapids Republican
The
Torch Press
Mid-West Advertising Company
Clara Taylor
Wallace. Lyon
Marjorie Deacon
Ali
Cedar Rapids Men Accused Of Dog Theft
Anamosa Iowa AP Clyde Brown and Glen E Pound of Cedar Rapids were arraigned on larceny charges for stealing a hunting dog valued at 200 from Erwin Wacker near his farm. The pair were held in Jones County jail after failing to post bonds of 1.00 each. The dog was found in their wrecked car when apprehended by Sheriff Eichorn.
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Anamosa
Clyde Brown
Glen E. Pound
Ceda Rapids
R. D. McIntyr
McIntyre
Jone County
Brown
Pound
Erwin Wacker
Wacker
Henry Eichorn
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