Two More States Vote for Repeal
Indiana joins Illinois in ratifying the twenty first amendment to undo the eighteenth amendment. Indiana supporters claim at least 165 delegates for the June 26 ratifying convention and a 2 to 1 statewide repeal majority. Illinois reports a 4 to 1 repeal margin with Chicago and Cook County showing strong pro repeal support.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Hoosier
Chicago
Illinois
Downstate
Cook County
Wabash River
Mississippi
Horner
Arthur M. Earnhardt
Illinois Council of Dry Forces
Demands Death Penalty for Kidnappers of Miss McElroy
Kansas City prosecutors demand death for the men who kidnapped Miss Mary McElroy daughter of the city manager and released her after a $30,000 ransom. Walter H. McGee and Clarence Click have confessed and were arrested. George McGee and Clarence Stevens were still being sought.
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Kansas City
T. A. J. Mastin
Mary McElroy
Walter H. McGee
Clarence Click
George McGee
Walter
Clarence Stevens
Princeton Student Kills Self in Campbell Hall Dorm
Charles Smith Maddock III a Princeton freshman in engineering shot himself in his Campbell hall dorm room in Princeton New Jersey. He was a Trenton native, son of Charles Smith Maddock Jr a bank director engineer and Mrs Maddock head of a women's club.
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Princeton, N. J
Charles Smith Maddock III
Trenton
N. J
Princeton University
Campbell Hall
Charles Smith Maddock
Maddock
Seven electrocuted as cable touches high tension line
Seven men were electrocuted in the Leventina valley while lowering wood from a mountain on a cable when the line was struck by a high tension line. Two others were seriously burned.
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Chiggiogna
Switzerland
Leventina
Robbers Hit Bokchito Bank and Escape with 2000
Two men robbed the First State Bank of Bokchito in Durant Oklahoma, one armed with a submachine gun. They fled in a small coupe with about $2000. Local authorities investigate.
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Durant
Okla
First State Bank
Bokchito
Here
Air Pilot Killed After Mail Plane Crashes Near Bowling Green
Eastern Air Transport pilot Larry Jamieson died from burns after his mail plane struck a 75 foot ravine in a wooded area near Bowling Green Virginia. The accident ends his long tenure with the airline dating back to 1930.
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Bowling Green
W. L
Larry) Jamieson
Eastern Air Transport
Fraternity House Burns in Thunderstorm Blaze
A thunderstorm lightning sparked a fire that destroyed the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity house at the University of Maryland in College Park. Estimated loss was $5,000.
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Burns College Park
Sigma Phi Sigma
University of
Fatal Auto Crash and Murder at Milwaukee Downer College
After a car accident near Waukesha killing Alvin Neilsen and injuring Jeanette Roszak, Leonard Nelson returned to the campus, fatally shot Gustave Peterson and then killed himself as police approached. Nelson and Peterson died by gunfire, Neilsen died from injuries. Irma Neilsen was uninjured.
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Milwaukee
Leonard Nelson
Alvin Neilsen
Irma
Wis
Jeanette Roszak
Erna Neilsen
Neilsen
Nelson
Waukesha
Waukesha County
Frank Prohaska
Peterson
Two Explosions Burn Nine at Long Beach Oil Plant
Nine people died and many were injured in two blasts at the Richfield Meador absorption plant near Signal Hill California. A high pressure gas release ignited by boilers caused a second explosion, destroying homes and shaking the city. Firefighters contained the fire after four hours. damages were estimated at about 350000 dollars.
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Long Beach
Calif
Meader
Richfield Oil Company
Signal Hill
Here
D'Angel Oil Company
Mary G Ewing Elected Head of Science Church
Miss Mary G Ewing of Brookline was chosen president of the First Church of Christ Scientist at its annual meeting. Ezra W Palmer and Edward L Ripley, both of Brookline, were elected clerk and treasurer, succeeding Ralph O Brewster former governor of Maine.
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Boston
Mary G. Ewing
Brookline
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Thenether Church
Ezra W. Palmer
Edward L. Ripley
Miss Ewing
Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Col Arthur Brown Named U S Member of Leticia Arbitration
Col Arthur Brown of the War Department adjutant general's office is selected as the American member of the international commission sent by the League of Nations to the Leticia area to arbitrate the Peru Colombia boundary dispute on the upper Amazon river.
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Washington
Arthur Brown
Adjutant-General’s Office
War Department
International Commission
League of Nations
Leticia
Amazon River
Peru
Colombia
Frances Perkins Receives LL D from Goucher College
Secretary of labor Miss Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Goucher College in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Frances Perkins
Labor
Goucher College
Lake Captain Charles Roe Dies at 76 in Harbor Springs
Charles Roe a famed Great Lakes captain died of heart disease at his Harbor Springs home. Roe arrived in Harbor Springs in 1880 and was recognized as one of the era’s best known lake skippers.
Five State Forestry Carps To Start Soon
Nebraska will host five forestry conservation camps approved by President Roosevelt. State forester Clayton Watkins announced sites will be selected quickly and work will begin within days. The projects cover Sarpy, Douglas, Dundy, Dawes counties and near Crawford, totaling about 81 thousand acres with around a thousand workers planned.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Washington
Clayton Watkins
Lincoln
Fort Crook
Watkins
Sarpy County
Louisville
South Bend
Douglas County
Fremont
Dundy County
Benkelman
Rock Creek
Dawes County
Crawford
Thouand
Conservation Corps
Frank B. O’connell
Army
Farm and city property sales show rise in turnover
Banking Director Luikart received a report from C. J. Aldrich on state banking receivership department results. It shows 28 farms sold in March to May for 170743 and 15 town properties for 31413, compared with 20 farms for 72975 and 16 town properties for 26565 in the prior quarter.
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Lincoln
Luikart
C. J. Aldrich
State Banking Receivership Department
States still awaiting emergency relief loans from RFC
Washington DC and Nebraska are among six states not receiving RFC emergency relief loans. By May 22 a total of 299,998,532 had been loaned to 42 states and two territories. Nebraska led in regional agricultural credit loans with 114,385,920 across 10,339 loans. South Dakota borrowed 8,844,464 in 8,030 loans. Iowa received 4,996,039 in 4,019 loans. Loans aimed at farmers and stockmen for production and livestock. processors and cooperatives excluded. One main RFC office per district with 21 branches.
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Washington, D. C
Nebraska
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
Federal Land Bank
Abandoned Depot Sold At Auction Wynot
The Wynot sale of the abandoned Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad depot complex netted 725 dollars. The auction included the depot engine house stock yards brick platform pump house and residence with outhouse. Purchasers may receive deeds to ground for depot and section residence if desired.
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Wynot
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Company
Nebraska communities reduce debt in latest month
Lincoln and Nebraska towns retired $100 400 of obligations led by $77 800 in other governmental subdivisions securities and $22 600 in school district securities. Peru paid $25 000 and Kimball County $8 000 on courthouse bonds. Elgin issued two refinancing notes of $21 000 and $31 000.
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Lincoln — Nebraska
City of
Peru
Kimball County
Elgin
State approves Middle Loop and near Columbus projects
State engineer announces approval for the Middle Loop power and irrigation project and another near Columbus, enabling local formations under the new act. The state board reports higher grocery bids for institutional purchases, awards Deep Rock Oil for a year’s fuel, and Dr Earl H Bell leads a two month Nebraska expedition to a historic Omaha Indian village site abandoned around 1650.
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Middle Loop
Columbus
State Board of Control
Nellie G. Benson
Deep Rock Oil Company
Earl H. Bell
Department of Sociology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
St. Helena
Nebraska
Bell
Veterans to Get Jobs in Federal Reforestation Corps
Capt. J R D Cleland says 3 100 World War I veterans in the seventh corps army area with Omaha headquarters will receive jobs in the federal reforestation corps. This accounts for ten percent of the area’s 31 000 jobs. Nebraska’s wartime allotment totals 2750 civilian army jobs. The state fair board met at the Capitol to outline plans for the 1933 exhibition and to work on fair preparations. They have not decided on auto races but rejected a circus due to grand stand bond obligations. Grand Island youths Tracy Odell and Bill Sheeley set out for the world’s fair by a 12 foot mahogany boat, a 1000 mile water route via Missouri and Mississippi rivers to Chicago, a six day trip with shelter on board.
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Seventh Corps
Omaha
J. R. D. Cleland
Nebraska
State Fair Board
Capitol
Perry Reed
Grand Island
Tracy Odell
Bill Sheeley
Chicago
Missouri River
Mississippi
Illinois River
Nebraska May general fund receipts fall from 1932 levels
Tax collections and other revenue for the general fund of Nebraska in May this year fell about half a million dollars short of the amount taken in during the same month of 1932. The May balance on hand was more than a million dollars below the year-ago figure. General fund receipts totaled 794 294 dollars versus 1 284 265 dollars in May 1932, mainly from previous year real estate taxes paid to county treasurers and remitted to State Treasurer Hall.
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General Fund of
Nebraska
Hall
Eight Nebraska centenarians listed in Bartholomew records
Dr. P H Bartholomew health director released figures showing eight Nebraskans died last year aged 100 or more. Lincoln’s Elijah Conklin led at 103, with centenarians Mary Berger Burkett 100 Carmel Buse 102 Willian Johnson 100 Jacob Whistler 101 Mary Fenton 100 Emily Fontinell 100 and Mary Wolfe 101 in Winnebago.
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Nebraska
P. H. Bartholomew
Elijah Conklin
Lincoln
Mary Berger
Burkett
Carmel Buse
Lowell
Willian Johnson
Omaha
Jacob Whistler
Sidney
Mary Fenton
Emily Fontinell
Winnebago
Mary Wolfe
Bankruptcies in Federal Court Drop in Lincoln
Federal court filings in Lincoln show a sharp fall in bankruptcy cases over the last two months. J. B. Nickerson records four filings last month versus twelve in May 1932, with April nine and March seven compared to prior year levels. The five month total is forty this year versus seventy-five in 1932.
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Lincoln
J. B. Nickerson
Population and staff at Beatrice institution rise
Dr J A Burford superintendent of the Institution for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice reports 1 233 inmates current, a figure doubled in twelve years, with eighty three employees on the payroll.
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J. A. Burford
Beatrice
Omaha Federal Land Bank Posts Record May Activity
President D. P. Hogan announced that the Omaha Federal Land Bank completed 264 loans totaling $962,000 in May. This surpassed any May since 1928 and exceeded May 1922 by over $100,000.
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Omaha Federal Land Bank
D. P. Hogan
President signs Job Service Act
President Roosevelt signed the Wagner bill creating the United States employment Service witnessed by Senator Wagner Secretary of Labor Perkins and Representative Peyser The act authorizes 1 500 000 for next year and 4 000 000 annually thereafter with 75 percent of funds to states The new civil service system aims to aid about 13 000 000 unemployed through federal and state coordination with local needs emphasized
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Washington
Wagner
United States Employment Service
Roosevelt
Congress
Labor
Perkins
Representative Peyser
New York
Department of Labor
Civil Service
Rulers of Spain Excommunicated by Pope
Pope Pius X excommunicates President Zamora and Spanish government leaders after new Spanish religious laws go into effect. Papal secretary announces the encyclical denouncing the republican regime in Madrid as grave spiritual crimes.
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Vatican City
Ziamora
Spain
Pius
Zamora
Madrid
Educators Decide They Will Convene in Chicago
The National Education Association will hold its annual convention in Chicago after protests redirected the venue from July 1 to 7. The move followed payment of the first quarter salaries and assurances that more funds would follow.
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Chicago
Washington
National Education Association
Illinois
Fred C. Yohn Dies. Noted Magazine Illustrator
Fred C. Yohn, 58, famed painter and founder of the illustrators' club of New York, died at his Norwalk home. A painting titled The Crossing of the Meuse by the Marines Before the Armistice is housed in the Navy department in Washington. Born in Indianapolis, he studied art there and in New York.
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Fred C. Yohn
Norwalk
Conn
Ilustrators’ Club of
New York
Meuse
Navy Department
Washington
Indianapolis
Afghan Minister Slain in Berlin Shooting
A youthful assassin fatally shot Afghan Minister Sirdar Muhammed Azzis Khan in Berlin. The minister was the elder brother of King Mohammed Nadir Khan. The killer, Kamel Siyd, 33, is an Afghan well known in Berlin.
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Berlin
Germany
Sirdar Muhammed Azzis Khan
Mohammed Nadir Khan
Afghanistan
Kamel Siyd
Muldoon Dies Veteran Boxing Official at 89
Purchase New York William Muldoon 89 longtime boxing official and state boxing commissioner dies aging grand old man of athletics.
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Muldoon
Purchase
N. Y
William Muldoon
Gettysburg Pilgrims Goal Explained and Honored
National Geographic outlines Gettysburg as a sacred battlefield drawing thousands yearly. It recalls Meade and Lee’s campaigns, Pickett’s Charge, and the park’s development since 1864 with monuments, statues, and artillery showcases.
Monkeys and Fleas Sayings at the Bronx Zoo
A Bronx Zoo curator notes that New World monkeys with prehensile tails in captivity are largely free from parasites due to dry air and daily grooming. He describes mutual scratching as social courtesy and suggests a long tradition of offering help rather than pestering fleas.
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Bronx
New World
New York World-Telegram
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