Massive earthquake devastates wide area in British India
Calcutta and North Bihar report vast destruction with thousands feared dead. Airplane surveys describe Muzaffarpore as center of ruin in a 100 mile stretch across the plain with flooding, ruined towns, destroyed railways, and widespread homelessness.
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Calcutta
India
Frederick Dalton
Dalton
Muzaffarpore
Bihar
Patna
Jamalpore
Monghyr
Bengal
Hitler to Be Dictator of All German Industry
Hitler assumes absolute dictatorship over German industry and labor through a national labor law. National labor trustees, appointed by Hitler, will oversee industry with ministers of economics and labor. Special labor courts will rule on owner fitness, worker dismissals, and worker duty. applies to plants with more than 20 workers and takes effect May 1.
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Hitler
Berlin
Honer
John Gilbert and Wife Separate in Hollywood
Hollywood stars John Gilbert and his wife Virginia Bruce announced their separation after she left with their daughter to live with her mother. Gilbert stays in Beverly Hills mansion. Mrs. Gilbert says no divorce planned and no third party involved.
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Hollywood
Calif
John Gilbert
Virginia Bruce
Woman Ends Life After Killing Husband in Ontario
Port Dover police traced a grim sequence after Eva Gamble shot her husband, then hid beside the body for five days. She dragged the corpse to a chicken coop and then killed herself with a final shot, according to a note left behind. She cited brutality as the motive.
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Port Dover
Ont
Eva Gamble
French Colonial Official Dies in Orient Air Crash
Paris reports Governor General Pasquier of French Indo China and nine others were killed when the Emerald, flagship of the France Orient Air Mail line, crashed near Corbigny in Nièvre department on its maiden flight from Saigon to Paris.
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Paris
Pasquier
Saigon
Orient
Far East
France-Orient Air Mail
Corbigny
Department of Nievre
Handcuff 9 Bank Aids and Flee With $21,000
Two holdup men waited for two hours before robbing a Philadelphia branch of Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company. They handcuffed nine victims and fled in two cars with five accomplices, taking $21,000 while a submachine gun was brandished at any follower.
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Philadelphia
Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company
Dillinger Gang Raiders Bank in East Chicago Heist
John Dillinger and two companions seized cash from the first National Bank of East Chicago Indiana then fled through eight policemen alarms. A policeman, William O Malley, was killed in the front by Dillinger s machine gun. Hamilton was wounded and his bloodied pistol dropped at the curb. The bandits left in a car riddled with bullets later found in Chicago.
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Chicago
John Dillinger
Indiana
First National Bank
East Chicago
Ind
William O'Malley
Dillinger
John Hamilton
William Shanley
Hamilton
Pacifists at Illinois push peace training course proposal
In Champaign three hundred University of Illinois students staged a campus demonstration urging a peace training course be added to the curriculum alongside military training. The action protested Ohio State students who refused military training on conscientious objections and sent telegrams to Gov. Horner, the Illinois legislature, and leaders at Ohio State and Illinois.
Pope Pius Approves Four for Sainthood
Vatican reports Pope Pius approves four candidates for canonization at a semi public consistory. Maria Micaela founder of the Sisters of Worship and the Service of the Holy Sacrament Luisa de Marillac co founder of the Daughters of Charity Pompilio Maria Pierotti Italian friar and Von Bosco founder of the Salesian order are slated for canonizations on March 4 11 19 and April 1 respectively.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Maria Micaela
Sisters of Worship
Service of the Holy Sacrament
Luisa de Marillac
Daughters of Charity
Pompilio Maria Pierotti
von Bosco
Salesian Order
Michigan Secretary of State Returns as Governor Candidate
Lansing reports secretary of state Irrank D. Fitzgerald has entered the Republican race for governor in the September primary. As the lone Republican survivor in the 1932 and 1933 contests, Fitzgerald is viewed as a leading figure for a comeback campaign.
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Lansing
Mich
Irrank D. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Missing fan dancer and pilot land safe in Manitoba town
Fay Baker a Wisconsin fan dancer and Pilot Bill May were found safe in Beausejour Manitoba after their flight from The Pas to Winnipeg was forced down at Whiskey Jack Island due to engine trouble. They described landing damage to the undercarriage and May made temporary repairs.
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Winnipeg
Man
Fay Baker
Watertown
Wis
Bill May
Pas
Beausejour
Whiskey Jack Island
Winnepegosis
May
State Provides Stock Feed to 13 Nebraska Counties
Federal aid and state coordination will supply stock feed to farmers hit by hail grasshoppers drought and other conditions across 13 Nebraska counties. Eligible farmers may apply via county agents for needed feed and pay later through local public works.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
W. H. Smith
Federal Agen
Rowland Haynes
Dawes
Sherman
Cherry
Brown
Keya Paha
Rock
Holt
Boyd
Knox
Pierce
Cedar
Dixon
Wayne
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation
W. H. Brokaw
University of Nebraska Agricultural Extension
First Capital to Be Marked Bellevue A Bronze Tablet
The Nebraska society of Daughters of the American Colonists will place a bronze tablet in Bellevue library to commemorate Bellevue as Nebraska’s first territorial capital. May Louise Hamilton will unveil the plaque. she is the great great granddaughter of Gov. Cummings. Earl Rosser, Bellevue mayor and Legion post commander, gave the welcome address.
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Bellevue
Nebraska Society, Daughters of the American Colonists
Nebraska
Capitol
L. J. Greer
May Louise Hamilton
C. W. Hamilton
Omaha
Thomas Cummings
Pierce
Cummings
Francis Burt
Burt
Earl Rosser
Martin
Nebraska Tax Receipts High in Swanson Report
Secretary Harry Swanson reported more than 161000 in office receipts for last year. New Nebraska corporations paid 9087 in filing fees while foreign corporations new to the state paid 4190. Occupation taxes totaled 102844 from domestic groups and 36000 from foreign firms. Notary fees reached 1918, miscellaneous 659, loan licenses and trade marks 3905, and brand registrations 3773.
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Lincoln
Harry Swanson
New Nebraska
Army engineer forecasts 4500 jobs on Missouri River project
Captain J M Young, head of the Omaha district, told the Omaha real estate board that after ice clears, Missouri river improvements will employ about 4500 men. Fifteen contracts totaling 10.5 million have been let and will require that many workers, with potential for 6000 more if another 15 million is obtained, bringing total to about 10500.
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Omaha
J. M. Young
Missouri River Navigation
Omaha Real Estate Board
January U S Relief Funds Available In Nebraska
Governor Bryan reports that 450000 in federal relief and civil works funds for January is now available in Nebraska. Money has been sent to the Federal Reserve branch in Omaha and may be drawn there. No meeting of the state relief and civil works committee is needed until February 1 to decide the February allotment.
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U. S
Lincoln
Bryan
Nebraska
Federal Reserve
Omaha
State Relief and Civil Works Committee
Washington
Nebraska third in CWA airport projects and jobs
Nebraska ranks third nationwide in airport development under the CWA with 33 projects under way. Dr. W. W. Arrasmith of Grand Island issued the bulletin noting 1,200 workers employed on these projects. Minnesota leads, Florida is second.
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Nebraska
Grand Island
W. W. Arrasmith
Nebraska Civil Works Commission
Arrasmith
Minnesota
Florida
State News on Nebraska Coin Sealed and DAR Advisory Members
Railway Commissioner Hugo Drake notes a Nebraska coin set under state seal earns 45 cents a cushel from federal loans and now valued over eight million dollars. W L Younkin says Mrs B T Pendleton selected as one of two nonarchitectural members on a three architect advisory panel to assist William L Steele on a survey of historic buildings and sites.
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Hugo Drake
Nebraska
W. L. Younkin
Lincoln
B. T. Pendleton
Princeton
Kanns
William L. Steele
Omaha
Kansas
Nebraska Potato Growers Store 1933 Crop Amid Higher Prices
Western Nebraska growers with storage capacity report 1933 potato crop near 8,000 carloads. Buyers have raised prices from 85 cents to 1.25 dollars per hundredweight, with about 60 percent of the crop stored, according to industry men.
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Nebraska
City eyes sale of Hastings bank building after OCC approval
Receiver George G Crankleton of First National Hastings gains OCC consent for a 75000 bid on the bank building by the city of Hastings. District court must confirm before closing. court session starts January 22 with final action anticipated then. The city plans use for offices while other items cover state fair funding talks in Lincoln and student enrollment figures at the University of Nebraska.
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George G. Crankleton
First National Bank of
Hastings
Comptroller of Currency
City of
District Court
Competitive exams set for twenty eight postmasterships
Twenty eight third class postmaster ships with salaries from one thousand to two thousand three hundred dollars will be assigned after winter competitive examinations announced at Lincoln. Exams date not yet set. Applicants must be 21 to 65, with veterans exempt from the age rule. Post offices listed include Ashland Big Springs Brule Crookston Dunning Edison Elsie Fairmont Gibbon Harrison Hemingford Hershey Lisco Maxwell Merna Minn tare Morrill Palisade Peru Potter Seneca Shickley Springview Southland Valley Wauneta Waverly Whitman.
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Lincoln
Ashland
Big Springs
Brule
Crookston
Dunning
Edison
Elsie
Fairmont
Gibbon
Harrison
Hemingford
Hershey
Lisco
Maxwell
Merna
Minatare
Morrill
Palisade
Peru
Potter
Seneca
Shickley
Springview
Sutherland
Valley
Wauneta
Waverly
Whitman
Erosion Project Planned Near Red Cloud Kansas
One of ten initial soil erosion projects under a PWA appropriation will lie a few miles south of Red Cloud Kansas. It will cover about 120000 acres in Limestone Creek watershed across Jewell Smith and Mitchell counties. The site will serve northern Kansas and southern Nebraska as a demonstration area. The rolling land is largely cultivated with corn on about 40 percent. Plans include sod farming soil holding crops strip cropping and possible reforestation on steep slopes with farmer detailed protection plans.
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PWA
Red Cloud
Kansas
Department of the Interior
Jewell
Smith
Mitchell
Nebraska
Nebraska Budget Growth From 7 Million to 25 Million
Deputy state auditor Fred Ayers spoke at the Knife and Fork club in Lincoln noting Nebraska's budget rose from about seven million dollars in 1913 to around twenty five million today. He cited the 1927-28 biennium peak at forty five million with federal matching for road building.
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Nebraska
Fred Ayers
Knife and Fork Club
Lincoln Hotel
Riverside Mission Inn trip reveals old time trotting lore
The author visits Riverside California to film harness racing scenes at the Mission Inn. He recalls the old race tracks, the two out of three heats rule, and stories from veteran horsemen about trotters and pacers, Hamiltonians and Morgans, and the challenges of early sulkies and drivers.
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David Harum
Hollywood
Rob Wagner
Hamiltonians
Rare Lincoln cent and old Indian penny notes
This piece outlines U.S. cents from 1858 to 1909 and Lincoln cents from 1909 onward. It notes rare noncirculating nickel and aluminum cents, Brenner initials briefly appearing on 1909 reverses, mint marks S and D, and highlights the 1922 cent as the rarest modern issue with about 90,000 produced.
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Victor D. Brenner
San Francisco
Denver
Thoughts on New York via a witty stroll
A column of observations in a breezy, humorous tone reflects on New York life. The writer jots impressions of celebrities, venues, and city scenes from Radio City to Park Avenue, naming figures like Fred Keating, Cab Calloway, Fifi D'Orsay, Douglas Fairbanks, and Ethel Waters, with playful anecdotes and social quirks.
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New York
Radio City
Fred Keating
Cab Calloway
Smokey Joe
Plaza Vabmen
Rialto
Leo Michel
France
U. S
Park Avenue
Himer Oliphant
Judith Anderson
Lisley Bell
Ned Sparks
Fame
May Quirk
Yascha Buchunk
Douglas Fairbanks
A. C. Blumenthal
Dave Stamper
Broadway Marketing Mix Enchants Atlantic City Boardwalk
A050 Atlantic City scene blends dinner revue venues with new roller chairs and pushers along side streets. Freestyle banners promise free rides to Soandio as Astor theatre flaunts a rainbow front signaling Greta Garbo surpassing earlier stars.
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Broadway
Ballyhoo
Atlantic City
Soandio
Monocle Wearing Novelists in After-Dinner Fire Pattern
The piece notes Louis Joseph Vance and Arnold Daly sharing after dinner cigars and monocles with repeated apartment fires scorching their homes. It links other social details about Bruce Barton Michael Arlen Frank Crumit Julia Sanderson Barbara Stanwyck and Gracie Allen and mentions a film tie in with a two year gross of 1934.
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Louis Joseph Vance
Arnold Daly
Vance
Daly
Bruce Barton
Arthur Brisbane
Michael Arlen
Tahiti
Frank Crumit
Julia Sanderson
Fifth Avenue
Stokes
Barbara Stanwyck
Flatbush Avenue
Gracie Allen
George
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Woman's Viewpoint on Marriage and Romance
Mrs. Walter Ferguson argues in the New York World Telegram that American women overvalue romance in marriage. She says romance fading should not end marriage and warns that treating marriage as variable harms personal security and society. Permanent, serious marriage is the root of stable institutions.
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Walter Ferguson
New York World- Telegram
Dr Pierce's Pellets Laxative and Cathartic Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Pellets as best for liver bowels and stomach. It claims one pellet for laxative and three pellets for a cathartic.
Platinum use in 1988 reaches 175000 ounces
A Charles Engelhard report notes 1988 platinum consumption at 175000 ounces versus about 75000 ounces in 1932. Engelhard calls the metal vital to industry and its role in producing nitrates from the air with implications for farming.
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Charles Engelhard
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