Million Jobless Are Given Work on Civil Projects
One million unemployed men and women will be placed on civil works programs nationwide to remove about 4,000,000 from relief rolls by December 15. Hopkins cites $400 million in wages from a $3.3 billion public works fund, to be spent directly without contracts. Women will make up 10 percent, in roles such as nursing and clerical tasks, while men build parkways, sewers, repair buildings and pave streets. Wages range from 40 cents to $1.10 per hour, aiming to ease hardship for over 16 million people based on 4.4 persons per family.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Congress
Civil
Quake Near North Pole Records Largest On Record
Seismologists traced the greatest earthquake to a remote barren spot in Baflin bay between Greenland and Baflin Island. The temblor occurred 2,300 miles from New York with no lives or property lost due to its isolated location.
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New York
Baflin Bay
Greenland
Baflin Island
Racine Bank Robbery Ends With Kidnappings Near Racine
A Robbery at the American Bank and Trust Company in Racine Wisconsin ended in a dramatic escape after a gun battle with police. Two people were shot and two were kidnapped, later released about 35 miles away in Waukesha county. About 300 citizens gathered as the bandits fled with a large sum likely around 50 000 dollars. President Grover Weyland and bank employee Mrs Ursula Patzke were the kidnapped victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wis
Waukesha County
Grover Weyland
Ursula Patzke
Indictment for Illegal Sale of Hogs Under U S Act
Five individuals have been indicted under a federal act for illegal sale of hogs. The case alleges violations of animal commerce and regulatory statutes, with prosecutors pursuing charges that could carry penalties under federal law.
Indictments Returned Over Hog Sales Under Relief Plan
A federal grand jury charged five individuals with wilful obstruction of the government emergency farm relief plan through illegal hog sales under the federal hog buying act. Indicted are J. H. Bennette of Aberdeen Frank King Sidney A. Johnson Milton E. Schlesinger and Donald B. McIntyre of the King Pig company St Paul Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
S. D
J. H. Bennette
Aberdeen Livestock
Frank King
Sidney A. Johnson
Milton E. Schlesinger
Donald B. McIntyre
King Pig Company
St. Paul
Minn
Rockefeller funds to build Tokyo public health institute
The cabinet announced acceptance of a Rockefeller Foundation offer to donate 4,000,000 yen about $1,240,000 for establishing an institute of public health in Tokyo. The institute will train hygiene workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Rockefeller Foundation
A A U Re-elects Brundage At Pittsburgh Convention
The Amateur Athletic Union completed a three day session in Pittsburgh electing Avery Brundage of Chicago to a sixth straight year as president and approving the metric system for use in track and field championships.
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Brundage
Pittsburgh
Amateur Athletic Union
United States
Avery Brundage
Chicago
Cambridge Scientist Bridgman Receives Comstock Prize
Dr. Percy W. Bridgman of Harvard, noted for his work on hot ice, is awarded the Comstock prize by the National Academy of Sciences in Cambridge Massachusetts. The honor is given every five years for outstanding scientific achievement.
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Cambridge
Mass
Percy W. Bridgman
Harvard
Comstock
National Academy of Sciences
Topeka Editor Frank P. Maclennan Dies at 78
Topeka editor Frank P. Maclennan, age 78, longtime editor of the Topeka State Journal and former director of the Associated Press, died suddenly of heart disease at his Topeka home.
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Topeka, Kan
Frank P. Maclennan
The
Topeka State Journal
Associated Press
Doris Duke Becomes World’s Richest Girl at Twenty One
New York report notes Doris Duke gained control of about a third of the Duke fortune at midnight turning twenty one. The estate totals roughly 30 million with further thirds due at ages twenty five and thirty. Her father James Buchanan Duke built wealth through tobacco, water power and other ventures. A guarded life follows the heiress with multiple mansions and estates across the United States and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Doris Duke
Miss Duke
James Buchanan Duke
North Carolina
Doris
East Seventy-eighth Street
Somerville
N. J
Newport
Antibes
Four Indicted for Holding Back Gold in Presidential Order
A federal grand jury indicted Lena Saur Peter Kaminsky Henry Holmes and Benjamin Chipperstein for failing to report and surrender gold as required. Saur allegedly held 7330 Kaminsky 6000 Holmes 3000 and Chipperstein 1000 in Brooklyn New York.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lena Saur
Peter Kaminsky
Henry Holmes
Benjamin Chipperstein
Woman Dies After Fourth Suicide Attempt
Rock Island reports Mrs Arthur Sellers twenty five is dead from self inflicted burns after once again attempting to end her life. She was found in her yard in a dying condition with clothing saturated in kerosene following three prior attempts.
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Rock Island
Arthur Sellers
Tragic Family Tries Poisoned Drink Then Suicide
In Cleveland Ohio Jesse Kearney thirty six a bakery truck driver killed two of his wife and children with poisoned ginger ale and then shot himself. The tragedy followed a failed attempt to obtain water for his family.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Jesse Kearney
Nash Strike Settled at Kenosha Wisconsin
The ten day Nash Motors shutdown ends with a settlement between the United Automobile Workers and Nash Motors. The pact upholds collective bargaining and sets arbitration by workers’ committees for all disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha, Wis
Nash Motors Company
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Garner Returns from Texas Deer Hunt with Ten-Point Prize
Vice President John N. Garner arrived in Uvalde Texas after a hunting trip with a deer displaying ten point antlers. The era's political spotlight touches a personal note as Garner shares the trophy.
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Garner
Uvalde
Texas
John N. Garner
Stench Bomb Raid on Hapsburg Birthday Banquet
About 60 students vandalized a legitimist banquet in Budapest honoring Prince Otto of Hapsburg on his twenty first birthday. They hurled odor bombs and shouted phooey as the royalist gathering was disrupted.
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Budapest
Hungary
Phooey
Prince Otto of
Hapsburg
Austria-Hungary
Wisconsin man kills sister then himself on farm
Joseph Domnenski, a 50 year old bachelor from Phillips, Wisconsin, stabbed his sister Frances Salek to death on her farm and then took his own life with a razor. Police report found no word of motive.
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Phillips, Wis
Joseph Domnenski
Frances Salek
Nebraska and Iowa Jobless Reach River Work Milestone
Nebraska and Iowa officials report about 2 300 men work on river projects across Sioux City Nebraska City Plattsmouth Omaha and Auburn with a 2 500 allotment. Total unemployment on Nebraska list at 60 000 with 12 000 in public and river projects and 27 750 CWA quota. Iowa has 16 000 placed to date with 10 000 still at work.
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Omaha
Martin Lewis, Jr
Jefferson City
National Re-Employment Service
Fontenelle
Nebraska
Iowa
Hans C. Pfund
Des Moines
George Hodge
Lincoln
Sioux City
Nebraska City
Plattsmouth
Hodges
Pfund
Columbus
4-H Livestock Auction Draws Big Dividends in Omaha
Four H club boys and girls head home with about 225000 dollars from Ak-Sar-Ben Livestock show sales of prize winning cattle hogs and sheep. Jack Anderson's baby beef sold at 1 dollar per pound while other animals fetched high prices. Leonard Timm sold a 205 pound Hampshire grand champion hog for 20 cents per pound and reserve grand champion Chester White Kenneth Hutchinson, champion Spotted Poland-China Edwin Albers and Harold Eberspacher's Poland-China all sold around 5 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Ak-Sar-Ben
Jack Anderson
Leonard Timm
West Pottawattamie County
Hampshire
Chester White
Kenneth Hutchinson
Crawford County
Iowa
Edwin Albers
Shelby County
Harold Eberspacher
Seward County
Nebraska
No Change in Farm Prices Faces October Report
Lincoln Harold Hedges of the Nebraska College of Agriculture reports no change in farm prices received by Nebraska farmers for October. The price ratio to prices paid sits 60 to 70 points higher than October 1932, up 11 points since March. Wheat rose about 20 cents from October lows, world prices up 10 cents. corn hog program and government action likely to influence prices in the coming weeks. Seasonal hog price weakness may be offset by relief purchases. cattle prices expected steady to firm. butter prices likely to stay steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Harold Hedges
Nebraska College of Agriculture
Nebraska
Hedges
Nebraska Sheep Feeding Dips Below Last Year
A survey by Assistant State and Federal Agricultural Statistician E. V. Jones shows Lincoln and Nebraska sheep feeding operations have fallen about 10 percent from a year ago. Large reductions in the Scottsbluff area are only partly offset by increases in the central Platte valley and eastern Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
E. V. Jones
Scottsbluff
Platte Valley
Jones
Final beer tax receipts and county housing plan at Scotts Bluff
State final beer tax receipts total 12690.46 with Deputy Agriculture Director W H McGaffin cited. Scotts Bluff County solves housing for needy by buying 7 box cars, converting them into homes, rented at 5 dollars monthly and payable in work for the county, reducing taxpayers taxes by 101 dollars in total levies and a further decrease of 392000 appears in special irrigation and miscellaneous taxes.
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W. H. McGaffin
Scottsbluff
Scotts Bluff County
Nebraska Civil Works jobs rise projection to 16000
State tax commissioner W. H. Smith said after a Washington conference on employing 4 million men this winter that Nebraska’s civil works allotment likely will climb to about 16 000 rather than 2 750 as first announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
W. H. Smith
Washington
Fairbury Approves Spray Pond Basin Contract With Interstate
The city council of Fairbury approves a contract with Interstate Concrete for a spray pond basin. The vote tally is 813 to 479, based on an unofficial invitation of bids, with the proposal passing all four wards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbury
Interstate Concrete Company
Warden Fenton Declines Alcatraz Post
Warden W T Fenton of the Nebraska penitentiary said he has notified federal authorities he will not take the warden position at the new Alcatraz federal prison in San Francisco Bay. He noted the job requires a younger man due to the heavy workload.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Fenton
Nebraska Penitentiary
New Alcatraz Federal Prison
San Francisco Bay
New Island Prison
Fenton
Treasury seeks post office sites in 78 cities for December
The treasury advertised to acquire or receive donations of sites for post offices in 78 cities during December. Ads note sites must be conveniently located and consider corner or interior locations. Bids to be opened at designated cities by the postmaster, Wayne Nebraska 12 000 square feet 80 feet cost limit 12000 dollars December 18.
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The
Treasury
Wayne
Nebr
Airport plan proposed for Omaha Bellevue site
B F Wyatt aero nautical adviser presents a large Oma ha Bellevue airport plan to public works officials. Private corporation seeks a PWA loan of 1 173 000. Wyatt says central US location makes it the safest airplane base in wartime. State advisory board approves the loan. submission to Washington follows in days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue
Omaha
B. F. Wyatt
Omaha-Bellevue
Wyatt
United States
State Advisory Board
Washington
R F C eases aid rules for Nebraska banks
Attorney General Paul F. Good announced liberalized conditions for R F C loans to Nebraska banks not in receivership. General counsel Stanley Reed helped secure the policy so loans may cover restoration of capital structure. Loans may go to stockholders and to individuals for purchasing bank preferred stock to be used as collateral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Paul F. Good
Washington
Stanley Reed
Good
Nebraska selects ten top young citizens in state contest
Ten Nebraska youths earned state honors in the annual young citizens contest held in Omaha. Five girls Angela Pentrowsky Verdi gre Leola Westover Joyce Liebendorfer Maxine Fed erle Marie Kotouc and five boys Robert Mc Farland Gerald Gillan Charles Haynes Harold Grovert Chester McDonald stood proud with medals as 26 girls and 26 boys competed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Grovert
Trenton
Chester McDonald
Boelus
Portrait of Nathan Shelton Honored by Shelton Clubs
An enlarged portrait of Nathan Shelton, after whom the town of Shelton was named, was hung in the Shelton public library by club representatives. Shelton served as an auditor in the Union Pacific land department and helped found the Omaha public library. The town’s name changed in 1873 following a post office rename request by Postmaster Patrick Walsh to the postmaster general, with no objections recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Shelton
Shelton
Land Department
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha Public Library
Patrick Walsh
Washington
Wood River Center
Federal plan to plant millions of trees in Nebraska
A federal soil erosion control project aims to plant millions of seedlings on Nebraska agricultural land over the next two years. C W Swingle of the Bureau of Plant Industry in the U S Department of Agriculture met with Nebraska College of Agriculture officials in Lincoln to discuss starting next spring under federal supervision with college cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Lincoln
C. W. Swingle
Bureau of Plant Industry
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
College of Agriculture
Nebraska Agricultural College
Marie Dressler Receives Pearl Studded MGM Celebration
The author recalls a grand MGM gala for Marie Dressler featuring a lush stage setting and praise from peers. He highlights Dressler’s extensive career and personal influence, noting her voice piano skill intellect friendships with leaders and wartime service. He hints at planning a speech for her 90th birthday.
Arctic Flowering Plants Highlight Pole Differences
The Arctic supports about 500 flowering plant species with vast summer blooms near the North Pole, while the Antarctic hosts only three or four flowering species among lichens and mosses. Moss clumps reach several feet, freeze solid in winter, then regrow vigorously in summer.
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Arctic
Antarctic
South Pole
Arctic Circle
North Pole
Brutal New York Wrestling Sees Fights Turn Lethal
A reader recalls a wrestling bout in New York where head first impacts and slams into the crowd proved violent and sensational. He notes no rules or sportsmanship, with losers carried out on a stretcher and spectators sickened by the brutality. Charles M. Schwab and his wife are described at Riverside Drive gatherings with praise for her wedding ring gift and thrift in their early days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles M. Schwab
Riverside Drive
Prosperity note: Lexington avenue hires Necktie Commissionaire
A small item notes Lexington Avenue appoints a Personal Necktie Commissioner, reflecting a local whimsy or economic gloss in the prosperity era. The unusual title marks a lighthearted detail in community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Avenue
The Rhodes Scholar Beats Odds for Tutor Job
Elmer Davis, returning from Oxford, sought a literary post and found a tutor job via a want ad. The ad called for a Harvard man, a high churchman, and an athlete, traits Davis did not possess, yet he secured the position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Davis
Oxford
Harvard
Davis
Euridite Ernest Boyd Captures Washington Square Wit
A Dublin born critic with a blackthorn stick and red beard, Ernest Boyd earns a legendary status among the literati around Washington Square. His career spans French translations and Maupassant studies, while radio profiles note his rare coherence and occasional fatigue in later work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euridite
Ernest Boyd
Davidson
Guy de Maupassant
George Jean Nathan
Washington Square
Notable Names and Cultural Snapshots From 1933
In Formosa mourners wear white in camphor sleep homes. Lexington Thor oughbred Club grants life memberships this year to Joseph E. Widener. Carole Lombard and Kate Smith are noted collectors, mayor Russell Wilson praised for speaking in the Midwest. Bing Crosby tops earnings at half a million. Read Steamboat Round the Bend for river folk. 1933 McNaught Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formosa
Thoroughbred Club
Lexington
Joseph E. Widener
Carole Lombard
Kate Smith
Russell Wilson
Cincinnati
Middle-West
Percy Crosby
United States
Bing Crosby
Farrar and Rinehart
McNaught Syndicate
Restless dollar and Roosevelt plan stabilization
Yale economist Prof Irving Wisher says Roosevelt's policies are substantially right and support dollar stabilization. He cites the president's London conference message about a dollar with purchasing and debt paying power for a generation hence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Wisher
Yale
Roosevelt
United States of America
Roosevelt on dollar value and purchasing power
The speaker notes Roosevelt did not imply any dollar now has the same purchasing power as before. They argue value and buying power depend on human labor costs and market prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
United States First Stratosphere Flight Ends In New Jersey
Lieut T G W Settle and Maj Chester L Fordney failed a high altitude test when their gas bag craft descended into a New Jersey swamp after reaching about 11 miles up. The voyage exceeded expectations as high as three times the height of commercial aviation and left the edge of the air ocean far beyond reach with many miles still to travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. W. Settle
Navy
C. L. Fordney
Marine Corps
Akron
Ohio
New Jersey
Settle
United States
Maj
Chester L. Fordney
Distant Voyage to Mars Looms in Thought
The author muses on humans leaving Earth for the moon or a nearby planet. Traveling at about 1,000 miles an hour, it would take five years to reach Mars when it comes within 40,000,000 miles, a proximity that may occur periodically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moon
Mars
Tick eradication drives 12000 workers to cattle fields
The Department of Agriculture will employ 12,000 men to fight the tick menace on cattle. The tick clings to cattle, weakens animals, and spreads disease. The plan uses a liquid remedy to treat afflicted stock and prevent reinfection, with ticks dropping off cows and crawling short distances before awaiting new hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Uncle Sam
California kidnapping case tests justice system
Two young men in California confessed to kidnapping a 22 year old and murdering him. They extorted 40000 by telephone to the parents saying killing the son would be easiest with little danger. They are jailed awaiting California justice as authorities praise federal help in curbing the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
California Justice
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Cigar Makers Fight Wage Rise Threat to Five Cent Cigar
Cigar manufacturers tell the NRA that raising wages in the cigar industry would make the five cent cigar impossible. The code would pay 28 cents an hour to hand cigar makers and 32 cents for machine operators, a level they deem not excessive. They insist someone will keep the five cent cigar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
New York Faces High Maternal Death Toll in Childbirth
The New York Academy of Medicine reports that doctor incompetence caused 61 percent of avoidable maternal deaths in New York during the past three years. The nation’s childbirth death rate is described as the highest among civilized countries, a stain on the wealthiest nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Academy of Medicine
New York State
Mussolini hints Italy may quit League of Nations
Mussolini comments briefly that the league’s very principle is absurd as Italy weighs withdrawal after Germany and Japan left. Europe contemplates whether Italy’s exit could align with Germany, with Russia and the United States not members of the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Popolo D'Italia
Italy
League of Nations
Germany
Japan
Russia
United States
Europe
Market seesaw: gold rises while dollar drops
Gold prices climb as the dollar weakens, lifting stock markets. Analysts note the inverse relationship between precious metals, currency strength, and equity indices, typical in currency-driven trading cycles.
Dollar Emphasis in Trade Outlook Stresses U S Availability
A speaker assures that the dollar will buy anything in the United States and that essentials are readily available here regardless of Europe’s view. He stresses confidence in domestic access to needed goods and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
United States
Public School Visit Uplifts Mood in Urban Setting
A King Features Syndicate item notes that spending time in a well-run American public school among teachers and students can lift gloom. The piece, attributed to WNU Service, suggests a practical mood boost through everyday education environments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WNU Service
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May Robeson
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