Will Europe buy more American exports next year
The piece argues America will increase imports of foreign goods due to drought and reduced farm surpluses, while export pumps face test under tariff theory. It notes Nebraska politics around Terry Carpenter, Burke and Farley clashes, Mullen’s lobbying, and looming three billion rise in the national debt unless relief funds are cut.
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United States
Grover Cleveland
Russia
Nebraska
William Jennings Bryan
George W. Norris
Terry McGovern Carpenter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James A. Farley
George Norris
Edward R. Burke
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Bell Syndicate
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Air Chief Inspects New Airplane
Air Chief Eugene Vidal and Test Pilot James Hurst inspect the power plant of a new type air plane for the bureau of air commerce. The Arrow Model Flow wing monoplane uses a V type eight cylinder automobile motor to study utility cost comfort and safety in privately owned aircraft.
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Bureau of Air Commerce
James Hurst
Bureau
Sailor Eriksen, 25, Norwegian Veteran of the Sea
Lorain Ohio reader note profiles Erling Eriksen a 25 year old Norwegian sailor on a visit with relatives he has crossed the Atlantic 160 times in ten years and is described as a veteran seafarer.
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Erling Eriksen
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Screen Boys Organize New Club
A Screen Boys club for youths under eighteen with at least three film roles was formed at director W. S. Van Dyke’s home with 15 members. Officers present included president Freddie Bartholomew, first vice president Mickey Rooney, and treasurer Jackie Cooper in a humorous inaugural meeting.
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W. S. van Dyke
Freddie Bartholomew
Mickey Rooney
Jackie Cooper
Precocious Raven in Chelsea Attracts Local Attention
In Chelsea Iowa residents report a pet raven owned by John Swalm that greets with Hello hoots like an owl retrieves peanuts from a bottle plays catch and mimics dogs cats and chickens and can remove bottle caps.
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Chelsea
Iowa
John Swalm
Nebraska Ducks Season Dates Revised for Nebraska
The open season for migratory waterfowl in Nebraska runs November 1 through 30, replacing October 21 to November 19. The shift stems from Nebraska moving to the intermediate zone, with Triavis Indiana Iowa Kansas and Missouri also in the zone. Daily duck bag remains, but redheads and canvasbacks are closed. geese limit stays four per day with a 10 ducks and four geese possession limit. Live decoys are banned. In other notes, Drouth relief widens WPA aid as Felton reports most needy cases helped and staff added for Lincoln offices and water conservation work.
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O’connell
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Drouth
D. F. Felton
WPA
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Pheasant season set at eight days in 36 counties
Nebraska game commission restricted pheasant hunting this fall to eight days from Oct 25 to Nov 1 in 36 counties and parts of two others. The limit drops to four birds per day with one hen, amid grasshopper infestation concerns and drought relief efforts noted by board member J B Douglas.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
J. B. Douglas
Tecumseh
Douglas
Nebraska
Ancient Nebraska city site near Lynch unearthed by archaeologists
University of Nebraska archaeologist Dr Earl H Bell and his team returned to Lincoln after uncovering a 4000-year-old city in the Ponca creek valley near Lynch. The dig, begun last June, yielded thousands of specimens and soil layers to date the civilization thought to predate 500 years ago, with death-ending events dated between 2000 and 600 BC.
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Earl H. Bell
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
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Nebraska
Sarpy County Board Trims Levy by Forty-One Thousandth
Sarpy county commissioners reduced the levy by .41 of a mill cutting the county tax total by 6532.64 or about 60 cents per person. In Nebraska City residents rejected a 20000 bond issue for a swimming pool 864 to 554 with PWA to provide roughly 15000. Robert Rowell of the Nebraska railway commission reported about 100 temporary certificates of public convenience and necessity issued to interstate motor truckers with around 50 daily applications.
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James Spearman
Nebraska City
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Robert Rowell
Nebraska Railway Commission
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River projects in Omaha district hire local labor
Capt. H. B. Loper stated contractors on Missouri river channel works above Omaha would employ labor from Nebraska and Iowa towns near the projects. About 2,500 men are now on river work in the Omaha district, up 500 since August 12, with low water remaining a handicap.
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Army District
Missouri
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
Cuming County Rural Power District Plans 401 Miles of Lines
O R Toman of Lincoln reports to State Engineer A C Tilley that the district will build 401 miles of transmission lines at an estimated cost of 495,519 dollars. Power will be taken temporarily from West Point and Wisner municipal plants until Loup River Public Power district lines reach Cuming county.
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Lincoln
Cuming County
A. C. Tilley
West Point
Wisner
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Nebraska engineer named to national stabilized road panel
State Engineer A C Tilley received word of his appointment to the stabilized road construction committee of the American Round Builders association. The appointment acknowledges Nebraska's experimental work on stabilized base roads, notified by engineer-director Charles M Upham of Washington by letter.
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American Round Builders’ Association
Tilley
Nebraska
Charles M. Upham
Washington
Association
Soil conservation groups study sugar beet plan changes
H R Tolley, AAA administrator, spoke at a Kearney meeting of Nebraska soil conservation committees and farmers. They drafted recommendations to modify the AAA beet program, proposing 25 percent of 1936 beet acreage in soil conserving crops and AAA payments set at 12 1/2 cents per hundred pounds of beet sugar.
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H. R. Tolley
AAA
Nebraska
Tolley
Kearney
Nebraska counties pay average 83 cents per tax schedule
State Tax Commissioner W. H. Smith reported Nebraska counties spent 383 105 dollars on salaries for county assessors deputies and help precinct assessors and on books schedules and blanks for 462 303 schedules this year. Last year 462 536 schedules were returned at a cost of 375 194 dollars with no real estate property assessed. Fifty four counties paid salaries from 100 dollars in Garden county to 4000 dollars in Douglas county while 39 counties shared assessor duties with the county clerk. Most expense went to precinct assessors who received 259 620 dollars.
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W. H. Smith
Nebraska
Smith
Garden County
Douglas County
Resettlement Administration Announces Nebraska Projects Costs
The Resettlement Administration reports land and resettlement projects in Nebraska with a total estimated cost of 3,454,165 dollars. Included are forestry and waterfowl area development at 1,846,160 dollars and eight resettlement projects totaling 1,608,005 dollars.
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Nebraska
Relief offices set up in Nebraska counties for farmers in need
Acting FERA Administrator Norman Durfee said destitute Nebraska farmers without aid should register at special offices in each county courthouse. He announced 45 new staff added to the FERA force across 17 of 79 drouth counties to help with emergency relief work. Federal authorities seek an immediate report on relief status in drought areas.
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Nebraska
FERA
Norman Durfee
Durfee
Drouth
WPA reports 2022 farmers on emergency drought relief
WPA officials report 2022 farmers are employed on emergency drought relief projects with daily increases expected. Administrator D F Felton notes rapid inquiries about dams from all sections of the state and says farmers see the need for field dams and want them.
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WPA
D. F. Felton
Felton
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