Roosevelt Forms A Super-Council To Coordinate Recovery
Washington reports the formation of an executive council to replace regular cabinet meetings for emergency economic recovery. President Roosevelt will meet weekly with a broader group including Budget Director Douglas, R F C chairman Jones, TVA head Morgan, and Ickes, Hopkins, and Fechner among others to steer policy, with salaries capped at 6000 for administration and daily pay for part-time experts.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Executive Council
Frank ©. Walker
Democratic National Committee
Mr. Roosevelt
Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
Industry Control Administration
Johnson
Starts Life Term Forty Hours After Killing Man
Milwaukee Wisconsin Fred Garcia Jr a 30 year old of Riverside California pleaded guilty to the slaying of Robert Shinners 21 the son of Sheriff Joseph Shinners who was night manager of a storage warehouse and garage when he resisted a holdup Garcia was placed in Waupun penitentiary to begin serving a life sentence The judge ordered Garcia spend each July 8 in solitary confinement and he was found asleep on a park bench two hours after the shooting
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Milwaukee
Wis
Robert Shinners
Joseph Shinners
Fred Garcia, Jr
Riverside
Calif
Waupun Penitentiary
Shiners
Garcia
George Shaughnessy
Boy Diver Retrieves $7100 From River
Lawrence Mass In a bold salvage of a box from the Shawsheen river postal money orders stolen in a Lawrence substation were recovered by a thirteen year old boy and a local inspector. The boy dived thirteen times to recover the strong box containing the $7100.
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Lawrence
Mass
Joseph Callagy
Shawsheen
Thomas
Rockefeller Jr Donates Large Area for Palisades Parkway
John D. Rockefeller Jr donated about 40 percent of the land needed for a 13 mile parkway along the Palisades cliffs above the Hudson on the New Jersey side. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission already owns 32 percent and expects to receive 8 percent more soon.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Hudson River
New Jersey
Minot Man Pleads Guilty in First Degree Robbery Case
Terry Jerome of Minot pleads guilty to first degree robbery. Arthur Zimmerman of Minot, a penitentiary inmate serving three years of a twenty year term for torture robbery, is declared innocent by the judge. Judge Grimson defers sentencing to allow investigators to continue.
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Towner
N. D
Terry Jerome
Minot
Arthur Zimmerman
State
Grimson
Farmer Michael Glynn fatally gored by bull
Michael Glynn, 57, a Freeport farmer, was killed after a bull gored him. The incident occurred while he tended cattle on his farm. No other injuries reported.
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Freeport
Michael Glynn
Illinois and Iowa ratify day repeal in steady votes
In Springfield Illinois the state convention approved the Twenty first amendment by a unanimous 50 to 0 vote to repeal the Eighteenth amendment. Governor Horner presided as Bruce A. Campbell was named chairman and Harold G. Ward secretary. In Des Moines Iowa wet delegates from 90 counties ratified the Twenty first amendment marking Iowa’s support for repeal with nine counties absent. Senator Joseph Fralley chaired the Iowa convention with Maj. Gen. Matthew Tinley as secretary. Governor Clyde Herring urged temperance while inviting dry leaders to assist in a temperance campaign.
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Springfield
House of Representatives
Horner
State Chamber
Bruce A. Campbell
Belleville
Harold G. Ward
Chicago
Senate
Des Moines
Iowa
State House
Joseph Fralley
Fort Madison
Matthew Tinley
Council Bluffs
Clyde Herring
Ida B. Wise-Smith
Illinois gets relief plan for closed banks farm mortgages
Washington announces relief for Illinois banks with farm mortgage paper. Morgenthau says about 25 million dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will be used to buy mortgages at appraisal values to speed liquidation. Wisconsin began the program. Illinois joins with mortgages held by 50 down state banks and major figures cited.
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Washington
Illinois
Federal Farm Credit Administration
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Federal
Wisconsin
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Agricultural Administration
Morgenthau
Horner
Ilinois
William Bain
Illinois Bank Examiner
Emmett J. McCarthy
Edward J. Barrett
St. Louis Federal Land Bank
Springfield
Bain
Chicago
Kentucky Girl Louise Gibbs Green Dies at 18
Louise Gibbs Green of Hopkinsville Kentucky died after a life filled with hardship and crime. She was married at thirteen for a mule team and wagon. In October a spurned suitor shot off one leg. She fled from Ed Green then aged two, and legal action followed. She died at relatives home on October 16 1932 after an illness.
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Hopkinsville
Louise ‘Gibbs Green
Ed Green
Henry Gibbs
William Perrigo
President Approves Cotton Textile Code Leader in New Economics
President Roosevelt formally approves the cotton textile code and calls the industry a leader of a new economics and government. He signs an executive order making the code effective with minimum wages of 12 and 13 dollars weekly in southern and northern plants and a maximum 40 hour week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes Warns Bidders on Public Works Contracts
Secretary of the Interior Ickes warns bidders in the 3.3 billion public works program not to pay money to contact men and alleged expert agents who claim to influence contract awards.
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Interior
Ickes
Public Works
Congress
Washington
Secretary of Interior
Former Marine Major Killed Near Kings Mountain
Major W. Harrison, a retired United States Marine Corps officer, was killed when his automobile left the road and overturned near Kings Mountain North Carolina.
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Kings Mountain
N. C
Maj. W. & Harrison
United States Marine Corps
Here
Many Holes Found at Cove Creek Dam Site Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority ordered a survey after discovering numerous holes around the Cove Creek dam site near Knoxville. Chairman Arthur E. Morgan said geologists are mapping coves and subterranean channels to assess feasibility and prevent building on a leaking site.
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Tennessee U. S. Dam
Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Cove Creek
Tennessee
Arthur E. Morgan
Knoxville
Army
Morgan
Valley Authority
Federal Agent Warns States to Aid Relief
Washington reports Harry L. Hopkins federal emergency relief administrator warned that some states face a rude shock soon if they do not fund their relief work. Hopkins told relief executives gathered in Washington that a few recalcitrant states expect 100 percent federal payment.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal
Hopkins
Maniac Slain After All Night Battle in Albany
Police ended an overnight confrontation with a man identified as Frank Stankiewiecz, 22, who barricaded himself in the sheriff’s apartment after escaping from the state hospital for the insane in Salem.
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Albany
Ore
Frank Stankiewiecz
State Hospital For
Salem
Wind and hail devastate crops near Odebolt Iowa
A heavy wind and hail storm tore through 12 square miles around Odebolt Iowa destroying crops and damaging buildings. It snapped corn at the ground knocked over small grain shocks and flattened unharvested fields.
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Iowa
Odebolt
German Vatican Concordat Sealed Between Church and Reich
Cardinal Pacelli and Franz von Papen began a concordat regulating relations between Catholic church bodies in Germany and Nazi officials. The move aims to define church state interactions within the Reich and set terms for church activities under the Nazi regime.
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Vatican City
Germany
Cardinal Pacelli
Franz von Papen
Reich
Forestry Expert Kills Self in New Haven
Theodore Salis bury Woolsey, a fifty three year old internationally known forestry expert, shot himself to death at his home in New Haven Connecticut.
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Self
New Haven
Conn
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey
Angkor the Lost Capital of a Great Khmer Civilization
National Geographic recounts Angkor in Cambodia, a vast ancient metropolis hidden by jungle for centuries. Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat symbolize a once mighty Khmers culture that vanished, leaving monumental temples, towers, walls, and the famed Naga balustrades amid overgrown forests.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Wnvu Service
Angkor
Asia
Mouhot
Angkor Thom
Rome
Augustus
Carthage
Hannibal
Angkor Wat
Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
Indo-China
Auto Deaths in State Show Decrease in 1932
Census bureau figures show fewer automobile deaths in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota in 1932 than 1931 with lower death rates per 100 000 population. Des Moines and Omaha records are noted with year to year changes while Nebraska reports a drop from 21 to 15.3 overall and 20.7 to 15 within state. South Dakota remains among the lowest rates.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Census Bureau
Des Moines
Omaha
United States
Oats Yield To Set Low Record In Nebraska July Report
The Lincoln July crop report notes the oats yield at 11 bushels the lowest on record while wheat is less damaged than expected and corn could still yield well. A B E Anderson cites indicated oats at 24,486,000 bushels versus 74,190,000 last year and a five year average of 67,015,000. Much of the old crop remains on farms, about 19 percent, and many fields were pastured or cut for hay.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
A. B E. Anderson
Conservation Camps Show Results at Fort Robinson and Chadron
Four hundred thirty Nebraskan youths in conservation camps near Fort Robinson and Chadron completed three weeks of work. Camp Crawford’s 230 men repaired fence lines, built soil dams, pruned timber, cleared stream sections, and improved roads and trails. Camp Chadron’s 198 men thinned timber, cleared streams, and expanded park and road work as plans for ongoing activity were laid out.
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Fort Robinson
Chadron
Clayton Watkins
Robert Fechner
Washington
Camp Crawford
Conservation Army
Camp Chadron
Watkins
Mother Mallard Returns to Keeler’s Roof Nest
Antioch resident F. J. Keeler hosts a famous female mallard that has nested on his barn roof for six years, returning after a southern journey. The bird, known for eluding hunters and reusing the same nesting box, may be mounted and preserved after a hunter’s outcome. The duck’s band number is 555414.
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Mallard
Antioch
F. J. Keeler
Keeler
Toll bridge plan eyed for Missouri river at Rule Nebraska
Plans for a proposed toll bridge across the Missouri river at Rule Nebraska were presented at a hearing in the district engineer office. The structure would collect tolls until construction costs were recovered, after which ownership would transfer to Missouri and Nebraska.
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Missouri River
Rule
Nebraska
United States District Engineer
Missouri
Omaha bank deposits June 30 rise vs year start and 1 year prior
At the close of business June 30 Omaha bank deposits stood at 80,266,062 dollars, up about 4.6 million from January 1 and roughly 700 thousand higher than the prior year. Loans totaled 30,381,784 dollars, down about 2.7 million from the year start and 7.5 million from last year at this time.
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Omaha
Burlington Omaha report shows 35 percent carload rise
Burlington officials report a 35 percent increase in Nebraska and system carloadings for the first week of July compared to the previous year. They attribute the rise mainly to sustained heavy grain shipments driven by higher prices to farmers.
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Burlington
Omaha
Nebraska
Richardson County Acreage and Value Change Report
The county size increased by several hundred acres due to the Missouri River boundary shifts, totaling 343 416 acres this year up from 343 054 last year. Assessor actions reduced the county's value by 25 percent.
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Richardson County
Missouri
Growth in Omaha grain exchange receipts tops two years
Records of the Omaha grain exchange show 387 cars received in a single day the largest since August 3, 1931. Corn lead with 176 cars the most in over two years followed by 146 cars of wheat the biggest for a day since August 1, 1932 eight of rye one of barley and oats at 56 cars.
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Omaha Grain Exchange
Nebraska National Guard Gains National Status
Adjutant General H. J. Paul states the Nebraska National Guard has become part of the National Guard of the United States under a new Congress law. The President can call them out with less red tape, and the governor retains a call prerogative. In war, the guard would act as a unit rather than units dispersed among the regular army.
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H. J. Paul
Nebraska National Guard
Morbidity shifts in June narrow gaps from May reports
The state health bureau reports most coutageous diseases fell in June versus May. Smallpox rose from five May cases to eighteen in June while measles dropped from 747 to 371. Diphtheria rose to 19 in June from 13 in May.
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State Bureau of Health
Norfolk Chamber Sponsors City Pool Plan With Federal Aid Search
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce members sponsor a municipal swimming pool project. A committee investigates federal financing options and awaits confirmation. Proposed sites include a section of the old Norfolk River course and Central Park.
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Chamber of Commerce At
Norfolk
Norfolk River
Central Park
Prospective hog crop seen up 4 percent for year
A. E. Anderson, state and federal statistician, estimates the hog crop for the marketing year starting October 1 will be about four percent larger than the prior year. Nebraska spring pig crop is slightly larger than last year but below two years ago, with 4,631,000 pigs saved this spring versus 4,406,000 last year and 5,460,000 two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Anderson
Nebraska
Governor Bryan Promises Nebraska Highway Completion
Governor Bryan outlined a plan to spend 7,800,000 dollars from the federal highway fund to pave continuous routes across Nebraska. He singled out the Lincoln highway as first to be completed while highways No 6 south of the Platte and No 20 north of it would also be advanced.
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Saigon
Annam
Tcheou-Ta-Quan
Mekong Valley
Nebraska
Bryan
Platte
Ancient Indian tools found near Bridgeport Nebraska
Dr. Etienne B. Renaud of Denver University reports eighteen Yuma points unearthed near Bridgeport Nebraska as the oldest known Man handicraft in the New World. The artifacts are exhibited at the Denver University Museum of Anthropology.
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Nebraska
Bridgeport
Etienne B. Renaud
Denver University
Renaud
New World
Museum of Anthropology
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