Moley Awaited at London Parley for Roosevelts Guidance
The world economic conference awaits Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley from New York bearing fresh instructions from President Roosevelt. Delegates see him as the administration’s chief spokesman, stalling currency stability and tariff talks until his arrival next week. The meeting advances on technical committee questions, with limited gains as the bimetallism proposal is approved only in emasculated form. James Warburg cautions the US will not return to gold until the standard is proven workable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Raymond Moley
New York
Roosevelt
Moley
Washington
Monetary Committee
Key Pittman
Monetary Subcommittee
Lord Hailsham
Great Britain
James P. Warburg
United States
Railway Wage Dispute Ends in Compromise
Washington reports a compromise between rail managers and labor executives to extend the 10 percent wage cut to June 30, 1934, and block further reductions or eliminations of the current cut. The June 15 notice to seek a 2 1/4 percent rate reduction is canceled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Michigan Graduates 1993 Class Across Two Universities
At the University of Michigan eighty ninth commencement 1993 graduates received diplomas while 16 earned honorary degrees. Civil War veteran George Mason aged 93 of Chicago was awarded a master of arts 72 years after his class graduated. At Wisconsin over 1,100 seniors received bachelor degrees before about 6,000 attendees. another 500 higher degrees were conferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
George Mason
Chicago
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Austria Bans Nazi Party and Affiliates
Vienna reports a decree by Chancellor Dollfuss outlawing the Nazi party and all affiliated groups in Austria. The move follows ministerial findings that Nazi storm troopers carried out recent Vienna bombings and wounded 16 Fascist auxiliary police near Krems with hand grenades.
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Vienna
Austria
Dollfuss
Emil Fey
Krems
Immigration quotas for next year fixed by presidential proclamation
A presidential proclamation fixed immigration quotas for the next fiscal year. The quotas set for principal nations include Austria 1413 Belgium 1304 Czechoslovakia 2874 Denmark 1181 France 3086 Germany 25957 Great Britain and Northern Ireland 65721 Irish Free State 17853 Italy 5802 Netherlands 3163 Norway 2377 Poland 6534 Russia 2712 Sweden 3314 Switzerland 1707.
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Washington
Austria
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
Germany
Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Irish Free State
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Russia
Sweden
Switzerllnd
Michigan men die in plane crash near Grand Rapids
Dr L Bus sard, Muskegon physician, and L C Monroe, Muskegon coal dealer, were killed when a plane owned and piloted by Doctor Bussard crashed in a cornfield near Grand Rapids Michigan.
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Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mich
L Bussard
Muskegon
L. C. Monroe
Wisconsin Man Kills Self in Salt Lake City Boarding House
George Vita Jr. an aluminum salesman from Manitowoc Wisconsin shot and killed himself in a Salt Lake City boarding house. His father is a Republican national committeeman for Wisconsin.
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Salt Lake City
George Vita, Jr
Manitowoc
Wia
Wisconsin
Three More States Move To Repeal Column In 1933
New York Long Dry column notes Iowa Connecticut and New Hampshire join fourteen states voting to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. Iowa's tally 368,691 for repeal to 242,612 against with 611000 ballots counted. New Hampshire and Connecticut vote heavy for repeal. Alabama and Arkansas loom as next battlegrounds with June 27 California and West Virginia ballots noted.
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New York
Iowa
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Hawkeye
Alabama
Arkansas
Granite State
California
West Virginia
Drys
Wets
Boy 13 Kills Himself After Teasing at Home
In Greenfield Ohio thirteen year old Charles Arnott, from a family of thirteen, killed himself with a rifle after being teased by siblings over stealing money from his mother’s purse. Family told authorities he took funds to spend at a street fair and was taunted when ordered to return them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Ohio
Charles Arnott
John Arnott
Bodenhamer Dies From East Texas Oil Field Gas Blast
O. L. Bodenhamer former national commander of the American Legion died in Shreveport hospital from burns after a gas explosion in an east Texas oil field near Henderson. The blast occurred when he struck a match to light a cigarette, ending his life.
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Shreveport
O. L. Bodenhamer
el Dorado
Ark
American Legion
East Texas
Henderson
Bodenhamer
Germans Quit World Labor Conference Over Ley Criticism
The German delegation withdraws from the Geneva international labor conference amid criticism aimed at Robert Ley, the German workers' delegate and trade union commissioner for the Hitler regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
International Labor Conference
Robert Ley
Hitler
Cleveland Jobless List Drops 28000 in May
A Cleveland official reports unemployment in Greater Cleveland fell from 199000 at end of March to about 171000 by May end, a 14 percent drop, as the mayor's business recovery committee notes improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Greater
Howard Whipple Green
Mayor's Business Recovery Committee
Girl Thrown Fifty Feet by Train Wheelbarrow Incident
A two year old girl named Luette Leduc was sitting in a wheelbarrow left on the railroad by her eight year old brother. The passing passenger train knocked the wheelbarrow, tossing the child about fifty feet but she suffered no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Luette Leduc
Two Canoeists Drown In Iowa River Disaster
Leo Klein age 23 and John Pluhar age 20, both of Iowa City, drowned when their canoe capsized in the Iowa River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
Leo Klein
John Pluhar
Iowa River
Nebraska to receive 750000 relief funds under Wagner act
State and county committees will administer a 750000 relief grant from the Wagner act to Nebraska. Governor Bryan and W H Smith outlined plans for five member state committee and 93 county committees to manage funds for groceries clothing fuel rent work relief medical supplies and transient care with 150000 for the first quarter and 200000 for each subsequent quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincolna
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
W. H. Smith
Washington
Smith
Bryan
Budget Cuts Reduce University of Nebraska Budget
The University of Nebraska boards approve a budget for 1933 34 that is 666 342 68 dollars below the 1932 33 level. Reorganization and staff reductions are necessary due to lower tax funds federal aid and student fee income. The total budget reaches 2 642 286 81 dollars not including uncertain agricultural extension funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
University of Nebraska
Board of Regents
Nebraska to receive 11 million for wheat growers
Washington reports that Nebraska will get 11 million dollars from the acreage reduction program to aid wheat growers. South Dakota will receive 6 million and Kansas 30 million. Two thirds of Nebraska payments are set for September 15 with the rest tied to 1934 sowing compliance. Payments run through county associations. tax estimates for Nebraska millers and flour processors are uncertain, but 1929 figures imply about 3.75 million dollars tax if matching national production.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Leads in Employment in May Gain Across Iowa and South Dakota
Department of labor reports May gains in employment for Iowa 2.1 percent Nebraska 3.5 percent and South Dakota 1.2 percent from identical establishments. Nebraska payrolls for 720 establishments rose to 441,613 dollars in one week of May, a 4.3 percent increase.
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Nebraska
Washington
Iowa
South Dakota
Department of Labor
Nebraska Creamery Output, Farm Loans Noted in State Report
State statistician A E Anderson reports Nebraska dairy output fell last year to 85 660 000 pounds from 86 084 000. Cheese ice cream cottage cheese and buttermilk also declined. Morgenthau Jr announces farm credit loans totaling 93 630 to Nebraska co operatives with several associations listed. A survey on irrigation projects to boost yields was planned, Anderson says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
North Platte Valley
Cement slab paving near Beat Rice to Lincoln opens July
Contractors finished a cement pavement between Beat Rice and Lincoln but it will not open to traffic until about July first, says State Engineer Roy Cochran. Workers continue dirt shoulder work, and the completion will throw nearly 700 men off unemployment lists in Gage and Lancaster counties who have been employed three days a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice
Lincoln
Roy Cochran
Gage
Lancaster
Colonization idea eyed for eastern Nebraska by veteran group
Marcus Poteet former Nebraska Legion state commander proposed a colonization program along the Missouri river from Falls City to Washington County citing rich soil and 10 or 20 acre plots to keep families fed. Norfolk honors Mrs. R O Whitfield for Royal Air Forces service, noting WWI work in Scotland and witness to the B 34 dirigible takeoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Nebraska Legion State Relief Fund
Marcus Poteet
The
Legion
Nebraska
Missouri River
Falls City
Washington County
Royal Air Forces
Norfolk
R. O. Whitfield
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Pass problem at state fair eyed solution in photos
Secretary Perry Reed says comp passes may carry exhibitor photos attached to tickets to check use. The fair board weighs buying a machine to snap pictures of pass holders and eliminate nontransferrable passes. Nebraska policy undecided as states grant passes to officials and legislators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Reed
Fair Board
Reed
Nebraska
Irrigation Expansion Trials Help Dodge County Farmers
Dodge County farmers facing a dry spell begin irrigation using tractors and rotary pumps. David Middaugh of Ames irrigates 30 acres with a six inch pump from a farm lake, taking 27 minutes for an inch. Fred Mehaffey of North Bend irrigates eight acres with a three inch pump at about 250 gallons per minute.
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Dodge County
David Middaugh
Ames
Fred Mehaffey
North Bend
Middaugh
Hopkins Announces Five Emergency Relief Grants Totals
Five emergency relief grants totaling 8,639,168 were announced by Harry L Hopkins emergency relief administrator. Grants went to Connecticut 88528 Illinois 32829549 New Mexico 63103 Vermont 121657 and Nebraska 150000. Connecticut Vermont Nebraska grants were the first to these states. Illinois previously received 4605114 and New Mexico 31117. All grants follow a 1 to 8 federal to state spending ratio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry L. Hopkins
Connecticut
Illinois
New Mexico
Vermont
Nebraska
Buddhist Memorial Service on Oshima Aims to Halt Suicides
In Motomura Japan Buddhist priests conduct a memorial for souls of personal crisis reports on the Island of Death Mihara volcano rumblings mingle with prayers at Zojtoji temple Tokyo. Priests urge Buddha to deter suicide amid rising cases making Oshima notorious in the Orient.
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Motomura
Japan
Mihara
Zojtoji
Tokyo
Mihara-San
Oshima
Buddha
Orient
Unearth Remains of an Ancient Aqueduct
Dr. James Henry Breasted reports discoveries from Near East expeditions tied to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He describes Sennacherib’s channel aqueduct near Nineveh with inscribed piers, a nascent temple to Nabu at Khorsabad, a clay tablet listing 93 Assyrian kings, and vast Elamite tablets at Persepolis.
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Chicago
James Henry Breasted
Near East
Oriental Institute
The
University of Chicago
Doctor Breasted
Near
Nineveh
Sennacherib
Annals of
Breasted
Gordon Loud
Khorgsabad
Doctor Frankfort
Loud
Nabu
Nebo
Khorsabad
Ashpia
Ushpia
Versepolis
Persepolis
E. B. Herzfeld
Herzfeld
Marathon
Salamis
Iraq
Luxor
Tel Asmar
French Actress to Quit After 62 Years on Stage
Paris reports Marie Laure, France’s oldest actress, will retire after 62 years on stage. She began in hardship, reciting stories at Alca zar d’Hiver, later starred in Ambra and performed at Porte-Saint Martin and Odeon, even touring Russia with Guitry.
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Paris
Mme
Marie Laure
France
England
Alcazar d'Hiver
Ambra
Marshal MacMahon
Porte- Saint-Martin
Chateau d’Eau
Odeon
Russia
Imperial Theater
Guitry
Laure
Neuilly
Pendal
Calmette
Fossil Camel Bones Found in Nevada Lake Bed
In Buffalo Camp lake bed ten miles north of Las Vegas Nevada paleontologists Albert C Silberling and Fernley Hunter unearthed camelops remains and a mammoth burial from the Pliocene era. They shipped about a thousand pounds of fossils to the American Museum of Natural History. The finds date 20 000 to 30 000 years old and illuminate camel origins in Africa as part of mammalian dominance after the dinosaurs.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada
Buffalo Camp
Here
Albert C. Silberling
Carnegie Museum
New York City
Fernley Hunter
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Silberling
North
Afzica
Paris Tower Aims to Surpass Empire State Building
Plans outline a concrete tower 2,296 feet tall for the Paris exposition of 1987. The structure would feature a ramp allowing autos to ascend to 1,640 feet, making it the world’s tallest project, surpassing the Empire State Building at 1,265 feet and the Eiffel Tower at 1,000 feet.
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Paris
New York
Earliest Known Sennacherib Aqueduct Discovery
Dr Thorkild Jacobsen and Dr Henri Frankfort uncover a 1000 foot long by 80 foot wide section of a Sennacherib era aqueduct, part of a 25 to 30 mile system built to carry water over a river. The find, regarded as the earliest such structure, may have influenced Roman engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sennacherib
Assyria
Thorkild Jacobsen
Henri Frankfort
Iraq
Jacobsen
Breasted
British scientists to seek lost continent Lemuria in Indian Ocean
An expedition led by Capt J M Mackenzie will search the Indian Ocean for traces of Lemuria, a prehistoric continent thought to have spanned from Madagascar to Sumatra and India. The Mahakiss, Egypt’s research ship, will carry Col Seymour Sewell and a nine month crew from Alexandria to Africa and India.
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London
Lemuria
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Sumatra
India
J. M. Mackenzie
Douglas Mawson
Antarctic
Col
Seymour Sew
Ell
Zoological Survey of India
Africa
Alexandria
England
J. C. Murray
Atlantic
Nebraska Senator Thompson Appointed to Fill Howell Seat
Nebraska Senator William H. Thompson of Grand Island, a former Nebraska Supreme Court judge, was appointed to the U S Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator R B Howell of Omaha.
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William H. Thompson
Grand Island
Nebraska
Bill of Sale Found in Tyler for Five Slaves
Judge W. R. Castle discovered a May 10 1845 bill of sale authorizing delivery of five enslaved people for $2,000. The document, written in old English form, had long lain in his office desk undiscovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Tex
W. R. Castle
Flyers Kill Coyotes Over Norton Kansas Chase
Aviators John Hickman and Russell Finefrock hunt coyotes from a low-flying plane over Norton Kansas. They spot a coyote, bank the aircraft, and one man shoots, ending the chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton
Kan
John Hickman
Russel Finefrock
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