Peak of Crime Wave Reaches Its Crest Says Committee
The American Bar association special committee reports the postwar crime wave has peaked and expects a decline in murders, holdups and outrages. It urges federal crime statistics, tighter control of automatic pistols, grand jury reform, criminal segregation, jail reform, and a federal law against revolutionary crime advocacy. Hearings occurred in Washington and Chicago with judges, reformers, and lawyers testifying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Américan Bar Association
United States
War Department
Chicago
Illlnois
Joliet
New York
Ancient Egyptian tomb finds reveal royal purge era
University College Egyptologist Hinders Petrie describes Abydos excavations from Egypt’s First Dynasty. Discoveries include 60 to 70 skeletons 80 skulls many jars of wheat for the dead, and evidence of courtiers killed at a king’s death to secure stable rule. Also unearthed are alabaster jars ivory games pieces copper tools and a hermit’s cave dwelling.
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Hinders Petrie
University College
Petrie
Abydos
Egypt
Hail storms devastate vast Nebraska stretch and harvests
A forty by four mile desolated strip from Star to Copenhagen suffers record hail damage with thousands of chickens dead orchards ruined and crops crushed. In Custer county ninety eight 4 Pig club youths held their first conference as Prof Frisbee urged club work.
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Star
Copenhagen
Custer County
L. R. Frisbee
State Agricultural College
Steinauer
John Palubicki
St. Peter’s Church
Stanton
John
Harry
St. James
Benson
State
Federal Employment Bureau
Becker
Lincoln
State Supreme Court
Marsh
Tekamah
Plattsmouth
Elks Band
Norfolk
Mercury
Superior
Pickerell
Polk County
Osceola Fair Grounds
Fred Towell
York
York County
Fay Hinks
Falls City
Stratton
A. McCann
Sans-Mississippi Golf Association
Omaha
Order of de Molay
DeWitt
H.T. Hansen
Fremont
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Dodge County
Grand Island
Dominick Manoli
Knox County Better Livestock and Fair Association
Callaway
Clarence C. Becker
Osceola
Tecumseh
Crete
Lottsbluff
George A. Condra
Nebraska State University
Pawnee City
Forest Bartlette
Fairbury
Grand Island St. Paul’s
Snyder
Andy Nielsen
Council Bluffs
F. H. Kinyoun
Tall Modal Combines Exterior Attractiveness and Interior Comfort
Home design feature outlines a story and a half house with six rooms on two floors. It highlights a brick foundation porch chimney and large windows to balance exterior charm with interior comfort. The plan includes a reception entry living and dining rooms kitchen breakfast porch sun parlor and three second floor bedrooms with a central bathroom.
Deckhand quits ship amid jungle cargo of exotic animals
Johann Schultz, a deckhand aboard the steamship Hansa arriving at North River’s Pier 86, resigns rather than continue caring for a cargo described as elephants, baboons, snakes and other jungle wildlife. The ship’s cargo is tied to Louis Ruhe’s firm with Albert Meems credited for gathering the menagerie in Burma.
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New York
Johann Schultz
Hansa
Pier 86
North River
Burma
Mr. Schultz
Jack Schultz
Louis *Ruhe
Mr. Ruhe
Louis J. Beck
America
Mr. Beck
Andrew Myers
Albert Meems
Wild animals dwindling in Colorado forests
A report to the U S forest service by Assistant District Forester John Hatton notes a steady decline of wildlife across Colorado's plains mountains and forests. Elk are the only major species showing a gain while wolves wolves 183 in national forests grizzly bears about 34 remain.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
United States Forest Service
John Hatton
Colorado National Forests
Centennial
Beavers and bears hold steady while prey dwindle in wildlands
In wildlands, beaver and brown bear populations remain stable while mountain sheep, deer, and antelope numbers fall rapidly. Conservation concerns rise as herbivore declines threaten ecosystem balance in the region.
Italians Granted Russia Land Under Genoa Treaty
Italy and Russia conclude a twenty four year commercial treaty at Genoa. An Italian company may receive 25 000 acres in the Caucasus or near the Don or Dnieper rivers. The lessee must pay Russia 15 percent of cereals and 15 to 20 percent of cattle, with further terms to export half of the products.
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Rome
Italy
Genoa
Russia
Caucasus
Don
Dnieper
Sheriff Ends Honor System After Prisoner Breakout
El Paso sheriff Seth Orndorff tested an honor system with twelve shackless prisoners taken to a road work site. After four hours, five prisoners escaped before noon, prompting cancellation of the experiment and potential pardons not granted.
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Seth Orndorff
el Paso
Tex
Historic cottonwood gallows tree felled near Goshen
The ancient cottonwood once used as Claudius Smiths gallows in Goshen was cut down due to unsafe condition. The remarkable tree, protected by the village at great expense for years, dated back 143 years to the colonial era.
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Middletown
N. Y
Goshen
Here
Claudius Smith
Russian Harvest Concession Yet to Be Converted or Voided
A concession in Russia requires conversion into a regular contract by October 10. It allows import of up to half laborers from abroad while the rest must be Russian. If not transformed by the deadline, the concession becomes void.
New York to Build Musical and Art Center by Central Park
A plan for a $15,000,000 musical and art center in New York City near Central Park at Seventh Avenue extending to Fifty-seventh Street is to begin soon. The project includes an opera house a conservatory of music and a building for plastic and fine arts. The city would provide land and a citizens committee would fund the project.
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New York
New York City
Central Park
Seventh Avenue
Insurance Will Cover It An Inheritance Tax Quip
A wry exchange notes that insurance can handle costs, calling an inheritance tax a mortgage that matures at death. The remark frames estate planning fears with a blunt financial analogy.
Only the Beautiful Is Art
A compact meditation on beauty as the essential core of art, arguing that proportion and harmony elevate the soul while ugliness distorts art. Beauty endures beyond seasons, guiding humanity toward sublimated experience and cultural ascent.
Lost gray and white cat seeks return reward
Advertisement notes a gray and white cat that answers to Kitty when hungry and sleeps during the day. Finder may keep the cat if located, with payment for this notice. Boston transcript includes the reward offer and finder’s rights.
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Boston
Ranscript
The Musical Basis for Verse by J. P. Dabney
An exploration of how ideals are conceived and externalized in verse. Dabney analyzes the cognitive and artistic processes guiding poetic inspiration and its expression through formal structures.
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Ena
J. P. Dabney
Sponge Fisheries Across Med Regions Highlight World’s Finest
The piece describes sponge fisheries along Greece, the Adriatic, Tripoli, and Tunis with Syria yielding the best sponges. Divers work from boats or with cork jackets and belts, using long tridents sparingly. Sponges are gathered, beaten, washed, bleached, graded, packed, and shipped worldwide.
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Greece
Adriatic Sea
Tripoli
Tunis
Syria
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American Bar Association Committee
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Hastings
Burmaing
Dorothy Griffin
Nebraska City
Lancaster County
Board of County Commissioners
George Deininger
St. Paul
Lincoln County
North Platte
Odd Fellows Lodge
Bridgeport
George Batt
Max Tiedtke
Capitol
Orin Kellison
Ord
South Omaha
Freamont
Holdrege
Arbor Lodge
Nebraska
J. Sterling Morton
Arbor Day
Union Pacific
George Smith
Shelton
Gage County
Ira Wells
Alvo
Loup Valley
Cushing
Douglas County
Blair
Walter Bartels
Albert Horst
Sidney
Skrugers Lake
Ernest Humm
Tarkio College
Tarkio
Moa
Pillsbury Military Academy
Owatonna
Minn
J. Franzen
Randolph
Joseph J. Parker
Congregational Church
Charles. Parker
Orange
Cal
Parker
L. G. Brian
State Hail Insurance Department
William A. Radford
Williiam A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Ill
Jenry
Toa
Dreakfastpor
FRONT
United States Bureau of Standards
Paul R. Heyl
Lyman J. Briggs
American Philosophical Society
U. S
North Caucasus
Sheriff’s Honor System
ART Center For New York
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