Congress to Consider $6 Billion Federal Budget Plan
Washington will see a six billion dollar appropriation to fund the next fiscal year a White House plan shows. The package includes about 2.6 billion for ordinary expenses plus funds for recovery programs such as the RFC public works and civil projects. A new authority the EHFA is created to loan money for homes and farms.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Public Works Administration
Civil Works Administration
NRA
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Ehfa—Electrical Home and Farm Authority
Burglars loot Terhune Henry Johns store
Burglaries at the Henry Johns general store in Terhune left hundreds of dollars in merchandise missing after a front door forced entry. Sheriff Wilbur Small and Mr. Johns conduct the investigation, with tires, shotgun shells, coffee, tobacco, candy and apparel among the loot.
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Henry Johns
Terhune
Mr. Johns
Wilbur Small
Special Yule Program for Girls at High School
A special convocation for high school girls Tuesday morning featured Mrs. Darrell Gooch reading a passage from The Other Wise Man by Van Dyke and Miss Mary Ruth Palmer singing three vocal numbers Drift Down Drift Down Snowflakes and There's a Song in the Air. Piano accompaniment was by Mrs. Jack Edwards.
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Darrell Gooch
van Dyke
Mary Ruth Palmer
Ronald
Cimera
Speaks
Jack Edwards
Christmas Trade Up in Lebanon as Shoppers Spend
Christmas shopping in Lebanon shows a strong rise with merchants confident sales will beat last year. The boost is helped by CWA funds, with Boone county receiving over 20000 dollars and wages totaling about 10000 dollars this week. Warm weather and late Thanksgiving slowed earlier activity, but now shoppers are buying rather than window shopping.
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Lebanon
CWA
Boone County
Butter and Egg Prices Hit 85 Year Lows on Market Exit
Chicago reports government withdrawal from butter and egg markets leads to prices the lowest in 85 years. Farmers previously earned 22 to 25 cents per pound for butter fat, but now 8 to 10 cents in major producing areas. Chicago fresh firsts drop to 1.54 dollars per dozen as buyers incur 5 to 7 million dollars in losses from selling stored butter bought earlier at higher prices.
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Chicago
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Sewing Projects by CWA to Employ Ten Women
A Civil Works Administration plan opens tomorrow to employ ten needy women in sewing. Headquarters will be in the Red Cross office and the county assessor's office on the first floor of the courthouse. Public help is invited through clothing donations and other support to aid immediate benefits.
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Civil Works Administration
Red Cross
Court House
New Regulations For Delinquent Penalties In Indianapolis
Indianapolis December 20 The Public Service Commission adopted new rules for delinquent penalties charged by utilities. A 10 percent collection charge will apply to bills of three dollars or less per month and a minimum of eight percent on bills over that amount.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Public Service Commission
Speed Plans for Forming Classes
Work to organize adult classes taught by an unemployed local teacher was being pushed rapidly forward today under the direction of Floyd I. McMurray, superintendent of county schools. The plan appears connected with the Civil Works Act as discussed in the state.
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Floyd I. McMurray
Lindberghs Home With Infant Son Return from World Flight
Charles and Anne Lindbergh rested privately at the Morrow mansion in Englewood after a 29,000 mile air odyssey spanning four continents and 81 countries. Guards kept reporters at bay as intimate friends visited and media crowds gathered outside the rambling estate following their seaplane arrival.
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Englewood
Boone County Tops in Agriculture Diversity and Livestock role
Boone County shows a shift from minor livestock to major farm occupations, with dairying and poultry rising. Data from 1923 to 1992 indicate steady beef cattle hogs sheep and poultry markets, with prices per 100 pounds of pork and beef revealing modest but dependable income. The county, in Indiana's Central District, ranks high in sheep horses hogs and chickens, with thousands of cattle horses and mules, and millions of poultry.
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R. Kenneth Evans
Boone County
NRA
Indianapolis
Central District
Indiana
Attle
Lebanon’s Industrial Progress Series Third Installment
The Lebanon Reporter presents the third piece in a six week industrial series arguing Lebanon’s vast resources and trade radius promise permanent prosperity. The project rests on facts and optimism to quicken a return to normalcy, supported by fifteen local firms whose messages appear in this issue.
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Lebanon
Roosevelts Order Extends Blanket Code For Four Months
President Roosevelt signs an executive order extending the blanket agreement under the National Recovery Act until May 1. The move maintains codification pace as about 70 percent of workers anticipated to fall under codes are now covered. The order cuts red tape by making window blue eagle exhibits automatic employer compliance. State directors will form county councils across over 8,000 U.S. counties to manage disputes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
NRA
National Emergency Council
AAA
United States
Americans Held in Espionage Plot
Paris reports eighteen arrests in a sensational espionage plot first uncovered in Europe since World War I. Among those detained is Robert Switz, 29, who claimed Yale affiliation, along with his wife who said she held a Vas sar A B degree. Continued on Page 3.
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Paris
Yale
Vassar
Europe
Robert Switz
Market turmoil after Atlas Tack probes unsettles stocks
New York reports heavy stock selling as doubts about Atlas Tack Corp operations and ongoing probes unsettle investors. Also, Jesse Livermore, a famed market figure, is missing prompting a city wide police hunt and concern he may have been kidnapped. In Crown Point, seven indictments target Northern Indiana Public Service Company executives amid claims of mismanagement to aid holding firms run by Insull.
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New York
Atlas Tack Corp
Park Avenue
Jesse L. Livermore
Crown Point
Ind
Grand Jury
Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Tottering Insull
William Murray
Lake County
Indiana Public Service Company
Lebanon
Public Service Commission
Indiana
Insull
Indiana Public Service Commission
Indiana Voters Face Outins and Ingoes in Race
Indiana readers see a broad view of political moods as Republicans recruit early, unemployment fuels candidacies, and voters swing between incumbents and outsiders. The piece notes a shift toward civic responsibility amid unemployment, questions the McNutt led senatorial plans, and critiques utility rate practices linked to former Insull figures.
Indiana fugitive captured after officer fatally wounded
Paris Illinois December 20 Ed Shouse 27 a member of the John Dillinger convict mob and two women companions were captured Eugene Teague 25 Indiana state policeman was fatally wounded when the desperado drove into a police trap Teague died at Paris hospital after being shot in the back of the head by a fellow officer Shouse and the women were taken to Indianapolis by state police as a large force closed in in Michgan City escape plot.
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Paris
Ill
Ed Shouse
Eugene Teague
Indiana
Desperado
Teague
Hotel France
al Feeney
Shouse
Frances Stevens
Collins
Fort Wayne
Ruth Spencer
Chicago
Matt Leach
Chester Butler
Illinois
Tigers and Flora Ready for Battle in Lebanon Gym
The Flora Badgers meet the Lebanon Tigers in a double bill at the Lebanon gym tonight. Flora seeks a tenth varsity game, while Lebanon aims for a stronger showing after a string of recent results. Referee Doxie Reeves and umpire Charles Sims are listed for the event.
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S. H. S. Gym
Parrott Success
Tribbett Randolph la Ky
Wee Kern Hawkins
Pritts
Edens Collings
Miller
Doxie Reeves
Charles Sims
Flora Badgers
Lebanon Tigers
Lebanon
Badgers
Flora
Tigers
Ark
Badger
Hawkins
Barnes
Hia Hoya
T Ped
Neuman Cag
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Lindberghs Home
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Kore
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Peters
Walter Chambers
Newcastle
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Senate
Scotty
van Nuys
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