Presidents clarifying aims sought by business leaders
Spokesmen from the Chamber of Commerce press President Roosevelt to outline policy on budget balance, dollar value, international currency stabilization, limited government interference, agriculture, and continued public works. They cite a nationwide lack of confidence amid federal spending and regulatory concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Eington
Organeelness
Frase
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Roosevelt
Chamber
Chavez and Hatch Named for Senate
Albuquerque Democrats nominate Dennis Chavez for the long U S Senate term and Carl Hatch for the short term. Mayor Clyde Tingley named for governor and J J Dempsey for congress. Arizona Republicans nominate to oppose Ashurst and Moeur for governor. Bisbee mining engineer Hoval Smith challenges Mrs. Isabella Greenway for the single Arizona congressional seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Dennis Chavez
United States Senate
Carl Hatch
Senate
Clyde Tingley
J. J. Dempsey
Santa Fe
Phoenix
Ariz
J. E. Thompson
Henry F. Ashurst
Thomas Maddock
Republican State Central Committee
B. _B. Moeur
Hoval Smith
Bisbee
Isabella Greenway
Father of Two Held as a Slayer of Little Girl
Patrick Downey thirty one an employee of a state insane asylum and father of two was held without bail for the grand jury on a charge of attacking and strangling seven year old Rita Lazzari. He was arrested as he tried to drive his car from a ditch near the road where the child’s body was found after an all night search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islip
N. Y
Patrick Downey
Rita Lazzari
Downey
Woman Stunt Driver Killed in Collision at Alabama Fair
Elfrieda Mais a 42 year old woman stunt driver was killed when her car collided with a road grader after driving a burning board walk at the Alabama state fair Birmingham officials said Mais had been performing stunt driving for two years and was a known figure in such events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Elfrieda Mais
T. Streicher
Mais
Laconia and Panrayal Collide Off Cape Cod
A 20 000 ton passenger liner Laconia and tanker Panrayal collided off Cape Cod Massachusetts. After remaining alongside for over two hours both ships continued to their destinations with no injuries reported to anyone aboard.
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New York
Laconia
Panrayal
Cape Cod
Mass
Death of P. A. Rockefeller in New York
Percy Avery Rockefeller aged fifty six, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr, a leading stock market operator in the United States, died at Doctors Hospital in New York.
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New York
Percy Avery Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
United States
Doctors Hospital
Seven Are Accused Of Relief Frauds In Prestonsburg
Prestonsburg mayor A C Carter county judge W L Stumbo and six others are indicted for diverting 122 500 in federal relief funds. Carter allegedly used money to fix his garage and run a motor business. Stumbo used 20 000 for a private hospital and farm. Others face smaller misappropriations and conspiracy claims.
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Prestonsburg
Federal Relief Administration
A. C. Carter
W. L. Stumbo
Floyd County
W. M. Chapman
Regina Mayo
George Woods
Otto Fannin
Herbert Salisbury
Carter
Stumbo
Mayo
Woods
Fannin
Chapman
Salisbury
Kidnapper Edges into Custody After Second Abduction
Oakland police capture John Baldwin, 19, amid a gas raid on a hotel room during a second double kidnapping in four days. He had forced Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Stratton from Glendale to drive him to Oakland. Inside, Miss Marjory Evans and her escort W R McKane, abducted two hours earlier, hid as officers fired and used tear gas.
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Oakland
Calif
Bay
John Baldwin
Desperado
R. C. Stratton
Glendale
British General Henry Leader dies in squall rescue in England
Maj. Gen. Henry P. Leader born in Detroit in 1865 and Col. W R B Harrison were aboard a 17 foot yacht when a sudden squall struck off Crowns in Squall Tnstow North Devon England Mrs Harrison was rescued by life guards Leader educated at Trinity College Port Hope Ontario served in the Boer War and World War I commanding the First Scottish Horse retiring in 1920
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Detroit
Tnstow
North
Devon
England
Henry P. Leader
W. R. BE. Harrison
Harrison
Life Guards
Leader
Trinity College
Port Hope
Ont
Man and Wife Face Life for Kidnapping in California
Lyndon Parker and his wife Hoy are sentenced to life terms after a Superior court jury convicts them on three counts of kidnapping and robbery. The victims include John Jeske, once a companion of screen star Lon Chaney.
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Los Angeles
Lyndon Parker
Hoy
John Jeske
Lon Chaney
California
Italian Mayor Dismissed for Not Marrying
Genoa reports Prof. Giulo Alberto, mayor of Calice Ligure, was removed from office for not keeping Mussolini’s marriage push. The dismissal cites failure to marry as the reason amid Italy’s family campaign.
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Genoa
Italy
Giulo Alberto
Calice-Ligure
Mussolini
Prince Rudolph Windisch Graetz Sentenced for Reckless Driving
Prince Rudolph Windisch Graetz grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria faces eight weeks in jail if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling. The case centers on reckless driving and potential imprisonment.
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Vienna
Rudolph Windisch- Graetz
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria
Supreme Court
Paraguayans Lose Battle in Chaco Boreal
The ministry of war reports 1400 Paraguayans killed in the Algodonal sector battle near La Paz Bolivia during the Chaco Boreal conflict.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Ministry of War
Algodonal
Chaco Boreal
Sod High School Opens In Brown County Nebraska
Three district patrons in Brown county unite to build a sod high school using prairie sod blocks. E E Holm, former Ainsworth instructor, leads the 100 supporters and outlines a full course funded by district funds and donations. State Supt J Taylor attends dedicatory services praising the community effort.
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Ainsworth
Sandhills
Prairie Sod
E. E. Holm
Ainsworth High School
J. Taylor
Nebraska Tax Totals Show 10.35 Million Fed Revenue
Treasury breakdown for Nebraska fiscal year shows $10,351,054.04 from all federal taxes in the state with $5,817,711.08 excluding agricultural adjustment taxes. Income taxes rose to $2,630,538.71, AAA taxes reached $4,533,342.96, and wheat and flour levies led the adjustment revenue at $3,198,376.10.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Treasury Department
Study of small prison industries in Nebraska aims to use idle inmate labor
Mrs. Nellie G. Benson, chairman of the Nebraska board of control, reports a survey on creating small scale prison industries at the Lincoln penitentiary and reformatory to absorb idle inmate labor. She returned from a Houston conference of state officials and learned that other states pursue similar plans to manufacture goods for institutional needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska Penitentiary and Reformatory
Nellie G. Benson
Board of Control
Nebraska Board of Control
Roosevelt Shelter Belt Funds Cut by Comptroller
President Roosevelt faced a setback as Comptroller General J R McCarl ruled the forestry relief plan could spend only 31 million of the 15 million item, restricting use of the $525 million relief funds to immediate relief purchases with the exception of one million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
J. R. McCarl
McCarl
Harvest low in western Nebraska potato crop driven by drought
Farmers in the western Nebraska Panhandle began potato harvest with yields around 25 bushels per acre on average and 35 in the best fields. Extreme summer heat and drought reduced seed size and made good table stock scarce.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Chappell Receives 15000 Fund for Public Library
Mrs. Orioanna Chappell of Chicago provides 15000 to establish a public library in the town named for her husband Charles Chappell, former Union Pacific superintendent. The library will house a valuable art collection donated by Mrs. Chappell, including works by Whistler.
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Chappell
Orioanna Chappell
Chicago
Charles Chappell
Union Pacific Railroad
Tobacco crop grown on irrigated garden tract at Grand Island
Charles Starr, a railroad employe, raised a good crop of tobacco on a 48 by 2 1/2 foot irrigated garden. Seeds started in a greenhouse, later moved outdoors as summer began. Plants grew seven feet tall with leaves twenty inches long. harvest stored in Starr’s garage basement and other available spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Island
Charles Starr
Starr
Apple growers forecast 50 percent yield in Nebraska City area
In the orchard region centering on Nebraska City growers expect about 50 percent of normal apples this year. Harvest starts this month and, despite drought and midsummer heat, values may equal last year with first grade prices rising slightly from last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Orchard
Nebraska City
Alfalfa Seed Crop a Major Asset in Seward County
Henry Campbell notes Seward County yields an exceptional alfalfa seed crop this year with high quality. Second crop left for seed produced strong results, third crop harvest underway expected at five to eight bushels per acre. Farmers will gain from seed and hay as prices stay high with about twelve carloads of alfalfa seed raised locally.
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Henry Campbell
Seward
Campbell
Nebraska Good Roads leader warns against diverting road funds
W B Cheek president of the Nebraska Good Roads Association urged no diversion of recent road funds ahead of the association's Hastings convention on October 10. He argued highway money must stay for roads or no new construction and maintenance will suffer, noting last legislature reduced revenues but not taxes and emphasizing public works and employment through highway projects.
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W. B. Cheek
Nebraska Good Roads Association
Hastings
Cheek
Drouth Hits Nebraska Corn and Livestock Yields
E V Jones reports mid month findings show only 4 to 6 percent of Nebraska corn husked in the field as moisture remains scarce. Winter wheat planting advances but ground moisture is below normal. Cattle and sheep feeding are at a low ebb, hay and corn fodder trucking continues to affected areas, and corn quality is among the poorest on record with limited husking mainly in irrigated Platte valley.
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Nebraska
Federal
Jones
Platte Valley
O Connell Urges Hunting Permits to Save Nebraska Sandhills
State Game Warden Frank B. O Connell spoke in Omaha urging public support for hunting and fishing permits to fund conservation. He warned that Nebraska’s future relies on ending indiscriminate drainage of lakes marshes and streams in the Sandhill country and on a stronger educational program.
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Nebraska Sandhills
America
Frank B. O’connell
Omaha
Nebraska
O’connell
Sandhill
Thoughts on Broadway Elites and Movie World Gossip
A columnist's rapid-fire notes blend Hollywood and Broadway figures. Mentions Damon and Kaufman, Frank Crowninshield, Grantland Rice, George M. Cohan, Babe Ruth, Texas Guinan, Gene Tunney, Abel Green, John Stein, Billy Rose, Ian Claire, and others in playful, gossiping sketches. includes a Nevada silver claim tale.
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New York
Chic Sale
Broadway
Damon and Pythias
Lee Shubert
Hendrik van Loon
Babe Ruth
Frank Craven
Hollywood
Nunnally Johnson
Walt Mason
Billy Rose
Texas Guinan
John Stein
Breslin
Gene Tunney
Abel Green
Variety
Phil Baker
Ian Claire
John P. Medbury
Gene Fowler
Fire Island
Sinclair Lewis
Park Avenue
Duncan Renaldo Hopes for Presidential Pardon in Passport Case
Broadway and Hollywood friends press for a pardon for actor Duncan Renaldo who has served two months of a two year term on MecNeil's Island over a passport mix up. The case centers on proving his birthplace in a Jersey town with a technicality cited. A star role awaits his release in Hollywood.
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Broadway
Hollywood
Trader Horn
Duncan Renaldo
Renaldo
MecNeil’s
Jersey
Resting Actors Hold Up Broadway Spirit In Hard Times
The piece notes actors are not unemployed but resting or at liberty as they face bleak prospects. Despite the breadline threat, theater folk rally after meals, returning to Broadway with chest out and talk of resilience. Their stubborn optimism mirrors a need for courage in hard economic days.
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Broadway
Bowling Nostalgia and Notable Patrons at Thums Alley
A nostalgic look at bowling as a cultural pastime highlights Thum’s Alley a gathering spot for elite bowlers and writers. The piece mentions Old Man Thum, critic Gilbert Gabriel James Thurber Morrie Ryskind Morris Ernst and notes Ernst’s legal defense of publishers and other literary figures. It also recalls O Henry and David Graham Phillips as enthusiasts and mentions a 1934 McNaught Syndicate dateline.
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Thum
Gilbert Gabriel
Critic
James Thurber
Morrie Ryskind
Morris Ernst
Ernst
Comstokian Whatshis
Ulysses
George S. Kaufman
Edna Ferber
O. Henry
David Graham Philips
Lower Broadway
Rainbow Wins Fourth Race As America's Cup Stays In America
Rainbow wins the fourth race and the America's Cup stays with America after Sopwith withdraws protest. Percy Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, dies at fifty six after suffering heavy stock losses in the 1929 downturn and related strain.
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Harold 8. Vanderbilt
Rainbow
T. O. M. Sopwith
Endeavor
America
Sopwith
Europe
Percy Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Senate Stock Exchange Committee
Millikan on Air Altitude Limits and Human Progress
Professor Millikan doubts humans will reach twenty miles high with the present record near twelve miles likely to stand. He argues forever is an empty word and future explorers may reach beyond the atmosphere. He notes Stone Age peoples had limited weapons yet humans may advance for millions of years.
Samuel Johnson on pay and motivation in literature
The passage argues that money motivates work and that many great minds produced work due to pay or incentives. It suggests ambition replaces cash once started, and notes money provides independence and freedom within civilization, driving hard work across writers and thinkers.
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Samuel Johnson
Byron
Marcus Aurelius
Advertising by roof signs to guide flyers across towns
O. B. Winters urges chambers of commerce to adopt visible advertising roofs as nationwide guidance. He calls for government action to install highway signs and large directional arrows pointing to major cities like Chicago Seattle New Orleans and Key West to ease air travel.
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O. B. Winters
New York
California
Chambers of Commerce
Chicago
Seattle
New Orleans
Key West
Moffatt predicts 3 million new homes and huge private funding
James A. Moffatt, President Roosevelt's housing administrator, forecasts 3,000,000 new houses and $2,000,000,000 of private funds poured into construction, creating many jobs. He notes landlords of dilapidated properties will rethink their inventories and maintenance as demand rises.
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James A. Moffatt
Roosevelt
West Point Cadets to be Trained for Flying
A cheerful note states all cadets at West Point will be trained for flying. The piece contrasts this with other forms of training and touches on cruelty, religious persecutions, and a violent crime in Vinita Oklahoma. It ends with a wry remark on life expectancy of poets versus physicians.
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West Point
Annapolis
Vinita
Okla
Honolulu Harbor visit with President Roosevelt in 1934
In late July 1934 the narrator recounts arriving in Honolulu aboard the S. S. Malolo, meeting President Roosevelt and the Houston, touring Waikiki Beach, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and enjoying leis and orchid garlands. He describes local sights, band welcomes, and a dinner with the President, noting island spirit and multicultural harmony during a tropical visit.
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P. A. Rockefeller
Harold Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Build High School OF
SOD
Lakeland
State News
C. McIntyre
George Worts
H. T. Webster
Nevada Prospectors
Las Vegas
Civilization
B. A. Bergman
Ohio
Scioto Valley
Gallipolis
McNaught Syndicate
Brisbane
Chatterton
Shelley
Keats
Poe
Burns
King Features Syndicate, Inc. Service
Beverly Hills
Honolulu Harbor
S. S. Malolo
Matson Line
Army
Navy
Houston
R.F.C
News Paper
Royal Hawian
Presidents Rooms
Franklyn
John
Honolulu
Rogers
Aew
McNaughs Syndicate
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