Roosevelt signs liquor and film codes for self regulation
President Roosevelt signs the liquor code to regulate distilling and allow state controls while ensuring federal supervision and veto power. He also sets a 90 day trial for the motion picture code with no federal censorship, naming Marie Dressler Eddie Cantor and A Lawrence Lowell to the authority and asking ongoing industry self enforcement.
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Warm Springs
Roonsevelt
Roosevelt
Congress
Marie Dressler
Eddie Cantor
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Hugh S. Johnson
Lowell
Five Machado Officers Massacred by Mob in Cuba
Five former army officers charged with killings under the Machado regime were executed by a mob of about 40 masked assailants near Colon in Matanzas province. The victims, long imprisoned since August 12, included Lieut. Col. Abelardo Herrera and Capt. Sacramento del Castillo, among others, formerly holding key military posts.
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Havana
Cuba
Machado
Colon
Matanzas
San Severino
Abelardo Herrera
Matanzas Military District
Sacramento del Castillo
Matanzas City
Armando Vilches
Colon Barracks
Ladislao Valido
Calimete
Luis Nardo
Perico
Famous Idol Stripped of 40000 in Jewels
In Calcutta criminals looted the temple of Dakahi Neswar taking 40000 worth of jewels from the Goddess Kali. The crown a pearl necklace and gold head ornaments were taken and a solid gold sacrificial knife disappeared as priests believed the idol protected by superstition.
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Calcutta
Dakahi Neswar
Kali
Actress and Three Killed in Auto Crash Near Broadway
Four people died in a California car collision near Broadway including Gladys McClure known as Linda Marsh and Bruce Tarver Stanford reserve guard. Others killed were Dorothy Karr Stanford freshman and Albert D. Racey of San Francisco. seven others injured.
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San Francisco
Gladys McClure
Linda Marsh
Bruce Tarver
Stanford
Broadway
Calif
Dorothy Karr
Frank Karr
Los Angeles
Albert D. Racey
Army strength below danger line in MacArthur address
General MacArthur warned in his annual War Department report that the U S Army is below the danger line. He urged immediate action including boosting regular enlisted strength to 165000, funding aircraft and field modernization, maintaining National Guard levels, and expanding reserve officer training and ROTC/CMTC program scales.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States
America
George H. Dern
MacArthur
National Guard
Touhy and Three Acquitted in Hamm Kidnapping Case
Four Chicago men led by Roger Touhy were acquitted by a federal jury in St. Paul of the $100,000 William Hamm Jr kidnapping. The verdict, a major reversal after prior convictions in other cases, drew criticism from Chief Thomas Cahill who helped in Hamm’s search following the ransom payment.
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Touhy
Eddie
McFadden
Gustav “Gloomy
Gus” Schafer
Willie Sharkey
Thomas Cahill
Hamm
Civil War Hero John Wesley Bean Dies at 100
Maj. John Wesley Bean of Elkins New Hampshire oldest officer on the retired list dies at age one hundred. He earned the Purple Heart and oak leaf cluster for wounds in 1862 and 1864 while with the Fifth New Hampshire in Civil War service and Indian campaigns in the West.
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Elkins
N. H
John Wesley Bean
Army
Bean
New Hampshire
Knoxville Approves $3.225 Million Power Bond Issue
Knoxville Tennessee voters approve a two to one margin a 3 225 million bond issue to build a municipal system for power purchase and distribution from the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA and the city government program directing TVA development.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley
Accidental Wound Fatal to Militiaman in Illinois
John Charles twenty three of Monmouth Illinois National Guard died in Taylorville from wounds after a rifle discharged while on duty. Charles a member of headquarters battery combat train was shot through both legs when Private Lawrence Messenger accidentally discharged the weapon.
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Taylorville
Ill
John Charles
Monmouth
Illinois National Guard
Charles
Lawrence Messenger
Coal Mine Reopens Near Nebraska City After Decades
Fifty years after a tunnel was sunk south of Nebraska City to tap a coal vein, C. V. Hill and partners have resumed mining. Five men extract about three tons daily from a 16 inch seam with limestone roof, selling to local buyers as operations expand toward ten tons daily by year end and fifty tons daily by spring.
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Nebraska City
Corn Loan Contract Ready for Farmers Nationwide
The Agriculture Department completed a corn loan contract and ordered 1.75 million copies for farmers eligible to borrow 45 cents per bushel. Loans run through the Commodity Credit Corporation with up to 200 million dollars anticipated, limited to producers who sign agreements to cut corn and hog production.
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Washington, D. C
Farm Administration
Kay Murray
Iowa
Commodity Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Norris to push Missouri River irrigation plan in Congress
Senator Norris, longtime advocate of the Tennessee Valley project, says he will introduce a bill to develop the Missouri River. He aims to harness the river through Cove Creek dam and Fort Peck, with irrigation, flood control and navigation improvements under Interior Department reclamation management. The plan would span North Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas and resembles TVA without a fertilizer phase.
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Washington, D. C
Norris
Congress
Missouri River
Washington
Cove Creek
Clinch River
Tennessee
Mississippi
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Muscle Shoals
Nebraskan
Reclamation Bureau
Department of the Interior
Fort Peck
Montana
Public Works Administration
North Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska Women to Get Work Under Lincoln-Pork Relief Plan
Nebraska's emergency civil board announced 1,734 jobs saved for women as part of the state relief program, mirroring Hopkins national ratio of one sixteenth of civil works. Miss Lulu Wolford of Lincoln leads canvassing for potential public jobs for women under the plan.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
State Emergency Civil Board
Harry Hopkins
Lulu Wolford
Farmer displays 1898 diploma from Trans Mississippi Exposition
Anton Psota, 80, of the West Point area shows a diploma from the 1898 Trans Missis sippi exposition in Omaha. He won best corn display against eight leading states, diploma signed by Gordon W. Wattles, president of the exposition.
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Anton Psota
West Point
Omaha
Gordon W. Wattles
Dawson Editor Ellis Buser Dies at 91
Funeral services were held for Ellis W. Buser 91 longtime editor of the first Dawson newspaper in Falls City Nebraska He had lived in Richardson county since 1867 and died after a year long illness He arrived in Dawson in a covered wagon homesteaded near Falls City and later founded the Dawson Newsboy serving as editor publisher for decades He retired about 20 years ago.
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Ellis W. Buser
Dawson
Nebr
Falls City
Buser
Richardson County
Seward to Get Pipe Chimes Gift for Clock Tower
Mr and Mrs Harry Jones arrange installation of twenty tone pipe chimes in Seward courthouse clock tower. They plan a hand or automatic playing system and hope to complete by December 24 for Christmas Eve carols.
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Harry Jones
Court House
Seward
Corporate filings reveal Nebraska incorporations
The secretary of state records include Nebraska Industrial Loan corporation Lincoln with 250000 authorized capital led by W. W. Putney and partners. Kuenne's Bakery Omaha lists 10000 authorized capital with O. F. Kuenne and John J. Kornmayer. Albion United Charities non profit. Kearney State Teacher's College Dormitory corpora tion at Kearney with no stock and trustees Thomas Gass Ray E. Turner N. P. MacDonald Walter Klehm and Mrs. Bessie Black.
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Nebraska Industrial Loan Corporation
Lincoln
W. W. Putney
Kuenne’s Bakery
Omaha
O. F. Kuenne
John J. Kornmayer
Albion United Charities
Kearney State Teacher’s College Dormitory Corporation
Kearney
Thomas Gass
Ray E. Turner
N. P. MacDonald
Walter Klehm
Bessie Black
Plattsmouth Library Showcases Century Span of Old Books
An in store display features a 1746 German grammar bound in bird skin and bound magazines edited by Charles Dickens along with 1833 spelling book 1857 arithmetic 1861 astronomy text McGuffey readers 1853 57 60 Bible stories 1860 and Dickens set 1841 travel books 1841 and three volumes of The Rambler 1842.
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Plattsmouth
Charles Dickens
McGuffey
Dickens
Native Timber to Be Used in Cedar County Bridges
County commissioner Alfred Anderson ordered about 5000 feet of planking sawn at the Suing mill near St. Helena and bought 20 acres of timber from Albert Jones near Wynot. Most timber to fuel destitute, but two carloads of oak bridge piling saved for Cedar county bridges.
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Cedar County
Alfred Anderson
Suing
St. Helena
Albert Jones
Wynot
Lincoln man wins 1934 license plate contract
The board of control awarded P. H. McPheeters the contract to deliver 10,267 cartons of license plates weighing 403,195 pounds by December 23 at a bid of 1,071.50 dollars. Reducing plate height from four to three inches cut about 40,000 pounds from weight saving 30 dollars from last year's price.
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Board of Control
P. H. McPheeters
Lincoln
McPheeters
Nebraska scientists join study on Bob White quail decline
Prof Myron H Swenk of Nebraska University and Dr E W Nelson of the Smithsonian will co operate on a monographic life study of Bob White quail in North America. Frank B O Connell Nebraska official announced Nelson aims to find causes of rapid quail disappearance and 100 birds will be taken from state sections for crop and food examinations.
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Nebraska
Myron H. Swenk
University of Nebraska
E. W. Nelson
Smithsonian Institute
North America
Frank B. O’connell
State Game Parks and Forestation Commission
Nelson
Federal Bureau of Biological Survey
O’connell
Ogallala Sees Strong Recovery as Building Booms
Ogallala residents boast rapid recovery with no vacant houses or stores, three houses and a business block under construction, merchants reporting 10 to 20 percent higher trade, and a population near two thousand. Utilities note 21 phones reconnected in three months, Union Pacific sees slight shipment gains, butterfat prices improve, five local factories report best three years, and auto sales lead three-state district.
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Ogallala
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha Architect Kimball Advises Capitol Mural Plan
Thomas R. Kimball, an Omaha architect, acts as adviser to the capitol commission. He outlines a competition plan under his guidance. Twenty leading U.S. artists have been invited to sketch brief plans and offer opinions on the mural completion. Eight to ten will be chosen to present in person with cost estimates.
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Thomas R. Kimball
Omaha
Capitol Commission
State Capitol
Rainbow the Sealyham Seeks Peace Beyond The Veil
A nostalgic obituary recounts Rainbow a Sealyham dog loved by his mistress and friends in New York. The tale describes his gentle nature, loyal heart, and daily vigil by the window as he passed beyond into the afterlife, comforted by memories of human companions and a Boston playmate.
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New York
Sealyham
Elysian Fields
Rainbow
Boston
Rain bow Clown Mirrors Humanity in Silent Despair
A Pagliacci like clown staggers through a string of absurd misadventures, knocking over lamps and tangling in curtains. Moments of statue like dejection hint at an instinctive warning about humanity's treatment of animals and the vulnerable.
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Rainbow
Rainbow the Bold Dog Leaves Quiet Boston After Long Bond
A narrative about Rainbow a short legged dog who often lagged behind the Boston on evening walks yet sparked bursts of energy in parks and fights with bigger dogs. He grew ill after a morning loss of appetite and sudden thirst signaling a swift, fatal illness diagnosed as poisoning, ending two years of companionship.
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Boston and I
Rainbow
Boston
Harry
Final Moments of a Pet Dog at Missed Recovery
A dog clings to life amid a family’s care as he refuses to chase his red play-ball and gazes away. At 5 p.m. he seems to sleep, then is placed on a blanket. shortly after, he passes away with blood trailing from his mouth.
Russia Caviar and Vodka Echoed in Local Talk
A Beverly Hills radio quip laments recognizing Russia, praising caviar and vodka as lofty imports. The speaker jokes about fish eggs becoming caviar, mocks vodka ingredients, and notes vodka’s immediate effects and social appeal to Americans.
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Beverly Hills
Russia
Mob frenzy over California jailbreak shocks nation
A large crowd rallied to demand executions for two criminals, breaking through barriers and leaving victims hanging from trees. The mob drew amid tear gas and chaos. Sheriff Emig defended the prisoners and was knocked unconscious. He arrested Thurmond and warned the parents of the kidnapped man.
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California
Emig
Thurmond
Mob fury follows kidnaping victims’ deaths in confessions
The article notes a mob’s rage after the kidnapped victims were found fatally harmed and linked confessions. It warns kidnappers and would be criminals that holding against will is unlawful and dangerous, urging citizens to resist crime and its consequences. It also contrasts Jacksonville with San Francisco as booming centers and cites Roosevelt’s planned ship canal project.
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California
Jacksonville
Government funds boost Jacksonville public works
Florida receives $1,500,000 weekly for public works while Jacksonville projects a payroll of $250,000 weekly. Former Governor Smith calls the money "baloney dollars," yet residents anticipate useful spending and happier times.
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Jacksonville
Florida
Smith
Senator Bornh Defends Roosevelt Policy Amid Criticism
Idaho Senator Bornh rejects Governor Smith's attack on Roosevelt and the gold buying plan. He argues the policy is sound and notes scarcity among Western farmers. Smith, based in New York, is contrasted as living where money is abundant.
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Bornh
Governor Smith
Mr. Smith
President Roosevelt
Idaho
West
Alfred FE. Smith
New York
Senator Borah Attacks Gold Dollar as Dishonest Money
The Department of Commerce counters Roosevelt criticism by noting foreign use of cheaper dollars boosts exports. October exports reached their highest level since 1931, aiding American employment.
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Borah
Roosevelt
Department of Commerce
Hog Killing Time Along Florida Timber Scene
Between Jacksonville and Glen St. Mary a hog is suspended upside down from a tree, its white carcass marked by a red center line. Two cheerful men scrape bristles as laughter fills the air amid long gray moss and turning oaks in a rural Florida backdrop.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Glen St. Mary
Pigs Ready for Winter Duties in Orchard Celebration
In a black frame cabin yard an entire pig-owning family gathers in a nearby orchard enclosure. Neighbors watch from the fence as the scene foresees hams shoulders sausage meat and other pork products through winter. The vivid image centers on a snow-white pig hanging in a colored man’s orchard.
Montana snake catcher ships 100 rattlers to Chicago exposition
Kenneth Meeker of Montana, who traps rattlesnakes, sent 100 large snakes to a Chicago exposition. Friends heard him cry for help in a distant field and found a mouse had run up his leg, not a rattler attacking.
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Kenneth Meeker
Montana
Chicago Exposition
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WWNU
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Southern
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York
C. Rascing Wyre
Joe
Ashman
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Silas
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