Vote on Veterans' Bonus Forced in House
Washington report describes a forced House vote set for March 12 on the Patman bill to pay $2.4 billion in greenbacks to veterans. Speaker Rainey announced President Roosevelt opposes the payment, while 145 signers—96 Democrats, 44 Republicans, 5 Farmer-Laborites—backed the measure to trigger committee discharge.
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Washington
White House
House
Rainey
Roosevelt
Lundeen
Patman
Representative Burns
Tennessee
Farmer-Laborites
Ways and Means Committee
Stillman Ranch Sold for Subdivision in Brownsville
The 22,000 acre Stillman ranch, 40 miles north of Brownsville, has been sold by Santarosa Inc to over 25 buyers for subdivision. Once part of the James Stillman estate, the property covers much of Brownsville’s townsite past and present holdings. The sale price was about $1,000,000.
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Brownsville
Texas
Stillman
James Stillman
Santarosa, Inc. Company
Te Stillman
Code for Fair Competition Shields Press Freedom
The Roosevelt signed code for daily newspapers preserves press freedom and includes a child labor provision similar to publishers requests. It sets a 40 hour workweek for clerical and mechanical staff with exceptions and creates a newspaper industrial board to handle labor disputes. The President told General Johnson he is unsatisfied with the child labor rules and seeks a special 60 day report and recommendation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
General Johnson
New Jersey Mayor Guilty of Misfeasance
Cape May Courthouse N J Mayor Harry Headley and Commissioner John E Trout of Ocean City were convicted of misfeasance in office for using a city tax anticipation note of 250000 to aid the reopening of Ocean City National Bank. The state contends this violated the constitution prohibiting municipal funds aiding a private corporation.
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New Jersey
Cape May
N. J
Harry Headley
John E. Trout
Ocean City
Ocean City National Bank
Would Put Government in the Police Business
Attorney General Homer S. Cummings urged Congress to pass 12 laws expanding federal criminal reach. Proposals include making racketeering and interstate commerce federal crimes, strengthening the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and treating interstate transport of stolen property over $1,000 as a federal offense.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Congress
Reorganize Navy Plan Outlined by Vinson
Chairman Carl Vinson of Georgia, Democrat, House Naval Affairs Committee, introduced a bill proposing a complete reorganization of the Navy Department. He said the plan will save taxpayers millions annually.
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Washington
Carl Vinson
Georgia
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Navy Department
Woodcock Elected President of St Johns College
Amos W. W. Woodcock former federal prohibition administrator is elected president to succeed Dr. Douglas Huntly Gordon at St Johns College Annapolis Baltimore area institutions named in the report.
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Baltimore, Md
St. John’s College At
Annapolis
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Douglas Huntly Gordon
Ten Infirm Women Perish In Flames At Brookville Home
Ten widows and daughters of Civil War veterans died in a fire that destroyed the infirmary at the Pennsylvania Memorial Home in Brookville, Pennsylvania. Fifteen residents were inside when the blaze started. five were rescued as firefighters fought subzero weather. Nine bodies were recovered as frozen equipment hampered efforts and strong winds propelled flames.
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Brookville
Pennsylvania Memorial Home
Women’s Relief Corps of Pennsylvania
Grand Army of the Republic
Picketing by Employers Upheld by Ohio Court
Cleveland case upholds a trade association right to peaceful picketing under the national industrial recovery act. Judge George B. Harris dissolved a temporary restraining order against the Retail Cleaners and Tailors Association of Cleveland stopping its picketing at Park Avenue cleaners after prices fell below the code authority.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
George B. Harris
National Industrial Recovery Act
Harris
Retail Cleaners and Tailors Association of
Park Avenue Cleaners
Iowa Father Ends Life at Cemetery Grave
George Co. Good of Des Moines was found dead in Clarinda cemetery where his son George Jr. is buried. Coroner Leslie Walker said Good shot himself in the head with a shotgun and left a note asking the same arrangements as for his son's funeral. The son had killed himself last August. His wife died last fall and he left a daughter, Gertrude, in Des Moines.
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Clarinda
Iowa
George Co. Good
Des Moines
George, Jr
Leslie Walker
Good
Gertrude
Reed Landis Awarded Distinguished Service Cross
Washington belatedly honors Reed Landis a Chicago aviation ace with the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action He is credited with shooting down ten German planes during World War I and ranks sixth among American war aces Captain Landis is the son of former Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and baseball commissioner
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Washington
Reed Landis
Chicago
United States
Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Noted minstrel Emmett J Welch dies at Philadelphia home
Emmett J. Welch a famed minstrel trooper died at his Philadelphia home three hours after ambulance transport from Gettysburg. He was fifty four and died at the scene of his first triumphs after a snowy journey of over 100 miles.
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Philadelphia
Emmett J. Welch
Gettysburg
Japanese Statesman Ito Dies at 77 in Tokyo Privy Council Veteran
Tokyo reports the death of Count Miyoji Ito an influential veteran member of the privy council at age seventy seven. His passing ends a long career in government service.
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Tokyo
Miyoji Ito
Privy Council
Nebraska Good Roads reorganizes on county plan
Omaha hosts reorganization of the Nebraska Good Roads association on a county plan. Arthur Bowring of Merriman named executive vice president in charge of the program. Each county will elect a chairman who will help district meetings select state directors to push highway improvements statewide.
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Omaha
Nebraska Good Roads Association
Arthur Bowring
Merriman
Oregon Trail Wagon to be Recovered From Platte River Bed
Lincoln County Historical Association seeks a 500 grant under a CWA project to salvage one of five Oregon Trail supply wagons buried in the Platte River sands between Brady Island and Maxwell. The recovered wagon would join the relic collection in the North Platte courthouse display room.
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North Platte
Great Plains
Fort McPherson
Platte River
Brady Island
Maxwell
CWA
Nebraska
Lincoln County Historical Association
Platte
Association
Theodore Lowe
Lincoln County
Historical Society
Scottsbluff
Queen Victoria
W. F
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Society
Moran Canyon
University of Nebraska
Morrill Hall
State Museum
University
Lowe
Nebraska 1933 County and City Tax Burdens
Burt County reports the lowest county levy at 1.71 mills while Seward and Cuming follow. Lincoln's city levy totals 8.6 mills with 15 mill school levy. Scotts Bluff shows the highest county levy at 8.81 mills. Harrisburg and Arthur have the lowest combined taxes among county seats, Hayes Center has the lowest overall county seat levy, and Center records the smallest 1933 school levy at 2.4 mills.
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Burt County
Lincoln
Nebraska
Smith
Seward County
Cuming
City of
Scotts Bluff
Gering
Scotts Bluff County
Harrisburg
Arthur
Fullerton
Clay Center
North Platte
Hayes Center
Center
Hen Lays Egg Weighing Half a Pound in Lincoln
A White Rock hen owned by Mrs. C. A. Jackson near the state hospital laid an egg weighing over a half pound. The egg measured about ten inches in circumference, nearly three inches thick, and showed a seam around the center. Mrs. Lotte Lintner, who submitted it to a Lincoln newspaper, noted the hen often lays unusually large eggs.
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Lincoln
White Rock
C. A. Jackson
The
State Hospital
Lotte Lintner
Treasury accepts bid for Wayne post office site
The Treasury Department accepted a $5,750 bid on the Walter Savidge lots for Wayne's new post office. Savidge has sent his acceptance, and the building will cost about $40,000. Lincoln reports a January birth balance with 126 babies: 63 boys and 63 girls, per the city health department.
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United States Treasury Department
Walter Savidge
Wayne
Savidge Jfias
Lincoln
Nebraska airport improvements proposed for $371000 grant
J H Wynn head of the aeronautics bureau recommends to H L Hopkins that $371000 be allotted for continuation of airport improvement in Nebraska. Of this amount $15000 would be spent in Omaha.
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J. H. Wynn
Aeronautics Bureau
Department of Commerce
H. L. Hopkins
CWA
Nebraska
Washington
Omaha
Nebraska Transient Population Rises by 21 Families
Nebraska reports 1,419 transients after 21 new families and one additional man were registered. State transient director John McPherson noted the additions stem from western Nebraska, increasing the previously announced total from 1,334.
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Nebraska
John McPherson
Solomon F. Rickner to Celebrate 113th Birthday
Solomon F. Rickner of St. Paul plans a 113th birthday celebration this month. A Pennsylvania native, he has lived in the state for sixty years and enjoys walking and public affairs. Relatives attend from Columbus Shelby and York.
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Solomon F. Rickner
St. Paul
Pennsylvania
Columbus
Shelby
York
Corn-Hog Contracts Signed Across 55 Counties
Nearly 14 000 corn hog contracts have been signed in fifty five counties the college of agriculture announced. South central counties will begin signing days soon as W H Brokaw state corn hog administrator continues talks in Washington with AAA officials on program issues.
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College of Agriculture
W. H. Brokaw
Washington
AAA
Fire destroys Lushton Hurlbert Elevator bins in grain loss
Fire of undetermined origin razed the Hurlbert Elevator company bins at Lushton recently, ruining about 4,000 bushels of grain. Officials could not give an immediate loss estimate. Insurance covered only part of the damage as firefighters halted spread but could not save the structure.
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Hurlbert Elevator Company
Lushton
State fish crop totals for 1933 reported by warden
State Game Warden O Connell announced 1933 fish distributions totalled 2 978 058, down from 3 021 550 in 1932. Bullheads led with 8385765 among seven varieties higher than 1932, no northern pike were distributed, and only 19 pike were handled in 1932.
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O’connell
Sandhill Lakes
Gasoline and beer tax receipts rise in Nebraska sales
Gasoline tax collections for January total $683,767, above January 1933 by over $100,000, though last month’s figures are not complete. Beer tax for January was the lowest since legalization. $11,059 versus $11,323 in December, with total beer tax since legalization at $58,277. The American Legion reforestation drive and Clarke McNary programs will boost tree planting. Holt, Custer and other counties request thousands of trees, as seedling distributions last year reached 850,000 through university and county agents.
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Nebraska
American Legion
Clayton W. Watkins
University of Nebraska
Watkins
Clarke-McNary
University of Nebraska Agricultural College
Legion
Holt County
Custer
Box Butte
Perkins
Cass
Howard
Madison
Hamilton
Dodge
Sherman
Nebraska University
Victor Flour Mills Start Eight Tank Storage Project
The Victor Flour mills at Crete led by president A. L. Johnson broke ground for eight storage tanks west of the new feed mills. The $40,000 program allocates $18,000 for labor with local workers used. Bert Sampson serves as engineer. over 100 carloads of material are planned. The tanks will hold 230,000 bushels for flour and train storage.
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Victor Flour Mills
Crete
A. L. Johnson
Bert Sampson
Debates Over Ship Subsidies and Air Mail Contracts Rift Party Lines
The piece traces Democratic opposition to ship subsidies and Republican use of disguised subsidies under mail terms. It notes President Roosevelt and earlier presidents favoring a strong merchant marine and government role, while cautioning about air mail contracts and the cost gap between government operating mail planes versus private contracts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wilson
White House
Ocean Lines
Farley
House
Senate
Mead
House Post Office Committee
Post Office Department
Army
Post Office
Lindbergh and White House Tussle Amid Slap Incident
Columns recall a string of rumors about Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Roosevelt White House after a slap by Maj. Stephen T. Early. The piece notes Lindbergh’s past stances on NRA and a Paris landing ad offer, and argues the episode exposed a publicity misstep by the White House.
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White House
Charles A. Lindbergh
Stephen T. Early
Colonel Lindbergh
Roosevelt
Washington
Lindbergh
Herbert Hoover
Russia
NRA
Johnson
Paris
Fearful Cotton Policy Sparks Republican Worries
The piece analyzes hopes and fears surrounding wartime crop controls and government payments. It argues that while farmers in the cotton belt seem content, Republicans worry about possible price declines, next year’s crop, and heavy reliance on government checks feeding big buyers and industries. The piece cites past election dynamics and political caution.
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United States
Cotton Belt
Washington
Temperature Theme Quips Stir Kansas City Debate
A Kansas City Star feature uses a playful exchange about ice to frame a broader talk on temperatures and conditions. The quip contrasts thick ice with thin ice and teases how people judge risk in a social setting.
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Kansas City Star
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