Permanent CCC Camps Designated For Two States
The War department will establish 34 permanent Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Wisconsin and Minnesota to house erosion control crews. Plans, contracts for winter buildings, and site lists for Wisconsin locations including Ellsworth, Durand, Mailed towns, Viroqua, and others are announced by regional Soil Conservation Service chief R H Davis. Minnesota sites include Waterville, Red Wing, Rochester, Lake City, Plainview, and Spring Valley among others.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Wisconsin
Minnesota
U. S. War Department
R. H. Davis
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
War Department
CCC
Soil Erosion Service
Forestry Service
State Conservation Departments
Davis
Coon Valley
Ellsworth
Pierce County
Knapp
Dunn County
Durand
Pepin County
Nelson
Cochrane
Buffalo County
Independence
Dodge
Trempealeau
Irving
Jackson County
Holmen
West Salem
la Crosse County
Ontario
Monroe County
Viroqua
Vernon County
Gays Millstawford
Richland Center
Richland County
la Valle
Sauk County
Bloomington
Platteville
Grant County
Highland
Iowa County
Argyle
Lafayette County
Horeb
Dané County
Gigantic Bureaucracy Charge Hurled At NRA
Representative Roy O. Woodruff of Bay City Michigan accuses President Roosevelt of seeking a temporary perpetuation of the NRA to justify thousands of patronage jobs. He says the Supreme Court voided the NRA and payrolls should not continue. He cites a demand to enact a law sustaining a skeleton NRA until April 1 1935.
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Washington
Roy O. Woodruff
Bay City
Mich
Roosevelt
NRA
Woodruff
New Deal
Supreme Court
Congress
Grant Confirmed as Envoy to Albania
Senatorial action confirms Hugh G. Grant of Alabama as minister to Albania. The decision, reported from Washington, sends Grant to represent U.S. interests in Tirana amid ongoing diplomatic engagements with Albania.
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Grant
Albania
Washington
Hugh G. Grant
Alabama
Thesenate
Thriftiest People Figure In 1936 Campaign
Washington correspondent Ruby A. Black reports on the 58 thriftiest people among 68 individuals with income over one million in 1932. The piece highlights tax avoidance, estates, and trusts, noting a son inherited 13 million and the high taxes on the wealthy as a campaign issue. It cites Robert H. Jackson defending administration tax plans before the Senate Finance Committee and discusses the role of inheritances in campaign rhetoric.
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Ruby A. Black
Tribune Washington
Washington, D. C
Robert H. Jackson
Jamestown
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Senate Finance Committee
Administration
Kallikak
Jukeses
Edwardses
Internal Revenue Bureau
Jackson
National Industrial Conference Board
Farmer Drives Mower Over Playful Children in Wisconsin
Prescott Wisconsin report says Edward Cotter operating a farm mower four miles east of town ran over two children who wandered into tall weeds. The younger child, aged four and a half, lost a leg below the knee and suffered severe injuries to the other limb. The older child, five, endured extensive body lacerations. Both are in critical condition at the local hospital.
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Prescott
Wis
Here
Edward Cotter
Inspector Run Over By Track And Killed
Joseph E. Astell a 72 year old state highway commission inspector was killed when a truck ran over him while he checked its weight on a Madison Middleton highway project near Madison Wisconsin He had been a rural mail carrier and an early president of the Rural Mail Carriers association prior to retirement and part time work for the commission.
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Madison
Wis
Joseph E. Astell
State Highway Commission
Madison-Middleton
Astell
Rural Mail Carriers’ Association
Commission
Midway Brice's Prairie 4-H Hosts Sand Lake Club
New Amsterdam Wisconsin special: the Midway Brice's Prairie 4-H club met at Miss Palma Hanson's Sand Lake Coulee home with a treasure-hunt night. Next meeting is August 27 at the Waldenberger home. New Amsterdam Sunday school plans its annual picnic this Friday with committees for games and refreshments and a Holmen couple visiting Ed Rolsma Tuesday.
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New Amsterdam
Wis
Brice’s Prairie
Willard Boersma
John van Leon
John van der Ploeg
Holmen
Ed Rolsma
Spreiter Announces Meetings For Issuing Corn Hog Funds
La Crosse county farmers will sign corn hog contracts with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to receive checks from a $25,000 county allotment for about 500 growers. WE Spreiter, county agent, set nine meetings across townships to distribute payments, with sessions in Onalaska, Holland, Farmington, Burns, Bangor, Washington, Greenfield, Barre, Hamilton, and Shelby Campbell townships and final gathering at the county agent’s La Crosse office.
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la Crosse County
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Wisconsin
WE. Spreiter
Onalaska
Holland Township
Holmen Hall
Farmington Township
Mindoro Hall
Burns Township
Burns Town Hall
Bangor Township
Bangor
Washington Township
Relter
Glacier priest plans test of Byrd theory
Father Bernard Hubbard, known as the glacier priest, sails to Alaska to observe the Taku ice cap and test a theory that pressure creates heat melting glaciers at their base. He aims to show Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are not 10,000 feet deep, and that glacier depths max at about 2,000 feet.
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Byrd Titeory
Victoria
B. C
Bernard Hubbard
Alaska
Taku
Greenland
Antarctic
Richard Byrd
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Gooderham & Worts, Ltd
Detroit, Mich
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Midland
Michigan
Wheann Rapravantativen
Cunningham-Ortmayor Company
Milwaukee
the Gresgail Chemical Company
Coco
Caledonia
Bangor, Wis
Caledonia, Minn
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Gamble Authorized Agency
Galesville, Wis
Holmen, Wis
Horrah, Minn
Houston, Minn
LA Crescent, Minn
Mindoro, Wis
Ford
Spring Grove, Minn
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