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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1934
Page
2
Washington reports the NRA outlines a major realignment to group American industry into 22 sections for a more economical code administration. The plan splits production from basic materials, fabrication, service industries, and distribution, with a goal to fit into ten or eleven broader divisions.
Ramon Perez a 34 year old Tampa cigar maker killed himself by leaping nude into a hornet nest. He sat among the insects for about ten minutes in a vacant lot before dying from the stings despite his mother’s pleas and fire department efforts.
In Istanbul the world famous St Sophia Mosque was badly shaken and nearly collapsed during wrecking at the adjacent law courts. Two high wall columns gave way and a massive stone fell toward the mosque, threatening the historic structure.
Lansing authorities hunted a gang that stole 40 automatic pistols from the National Guard armory in Grandledge. Police believe the thieves expected payroll money of 5000 dollars in the armory.
A 24 year old woman calling herself Vera Maxwell was arrested fifteen minutes after a Jonesboro bandit held up a Western Union Telegraph office and took 72 dollars at gunpoint. Police found the money and a revolver in her handbag and she admitted the holdup.
In Clinton Tennessee a double slaying is reported with the bodies of T. A. Lytle and J. M. Gordy itinerant patent medicine salesmen from Knoxville found in the New River section of Anderson County. Robbery is suspected as the motive for the killings.
London reports Lily Damita motion picture actress plans to wed Hugo Brassey, English millionaire. She states the engagement is not yet official and details remain unsettled.
Ernest Millburn thirty eight killed himself after a standoff with county and state officers at his farm home near Murray Nebraska ending a three hour siege.
Traveling by auto, roving idle men supported by the Federal Emergency Relief administration attacked three foremen and a worker on FERA projects in Milwaukee. Ray Schneider suffered a brain concussion and severe bruises, Charles Armitage received a fractured nose and scalp wounds, George Werner was cut above the head, and another foreman on a Silver Springs road project was beaten with clubs.
In Warren Ohio Charles Campbell fifty or forty nine? from Tucson died after stepping in front of a gun aimed at his brother James forty three. A second bullet struck James in the neck gravely wounding him. Police say a quarrel with a roadhouse proprietor triggered the incident.
In Guilford Vermont two young sisters Eleanor Yean three and Evelyn Yean two died from burns after being trapped in a burning barn. Their mother Mrs Warren Yean twenty seven rescued Evelyn who later died in hospital. Fire Chief Henry E Whitney Jr said a four year old brother reported playing with matches in the loft with the sisters.
Persia demands a seat in the League of Nations council in Geneva. It filed candidacy representing Farast nations and aspires specifically to the seat then held by China whose three year term expires this year.
In St Paul a 16 year old boy named Joseph Joyce son of John Joyce killed himself after a quarrel in which he said he was unjustly accused of stealing a watch. He shot himself with a rifle ending his life.
The Portuguese customs steamer Torres Garcia rescued 31 crewmen from the Spanish freighter Flora after she went ashore near Cape St. Vincent. The crew were taken ashore at Lagos. Flora, laden with coal, was bound for Venice.
President Roosevelt awards General Hugh S. Johnson a pay raise from 6000 to 15000 dollars yearly, recognizing his leadership of the recovery program.
The piece reports on public relief for striking workers amid proposed rail freight rate hikes of 170 million dollars to cover costs. It cites AFL South officials predicting government aid during strikes, praises railroad workers, and notes the American Liberty League and Al Smith involvement. It also likens the Roosevelt administration to a Christmas Santa Claus for Americans.
Edmund Wong On Wah, a Chinese air pilot, died after a collision while maneuvering above the steamship Bre men for Gen. Chang Fahway. He will be buried in a $750 steel coffin. The piece notes Mussolini and Hitler meeting in Venice and the postponement of their visit, hinting at shifting Franco-German Nazi alignments.
The discussion centers on expelling Mrs Sinclair Lewis from Germany as a sign of looming rigid press censorship. The London Times has been seized in Germany and foreign correspondents may be expelled for reporting anything displeasing to Hitler. The piece argues dictators infringe liberties and cites Napoleon on the danger of press freedom.
The piece notes Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels promoting hunger as a virtue amid wartime scarcity. It contrasts Germany’s possibly harsh winter with a pledge that nobody shall be hungry, suggesting the American plan may win broader public support.
Lord Edward Montagu, second son of the Duke of Manchester, abandons a plan to join the French Foreign Legion and starts a hot dog stand on the Thames edge at Maidenhead. He sells coffee soft drinks and sandwiches with hot dogs and earns four pounds in 24 hours finding it more comfortable and profitable than military life.
The piece reflects on old time sailors and modern ships, praising practical seafaring over formal education. It explains lifeboat and launch procedures, survival provisions, and the risks of sea conditions, arguing a seafaring path builds character and job readiness beyond college credentials.
A collage of reflections on editors, boxers, actresses, and writers with playful musings about New York life. The author names Frances Langford, Maud Adams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Huey Long, and others, weaving memories of travel, cinema, and daily obsessions into a lightweight social sketch.
The article recalls Thomas Edison joking with his own legal department by applying for an inventor job and greeting dignitaries with humorous quips. It also notes his habit of mimicking aristocrats with imaginary gloves and a cane, entertaining his office staff.
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography report seaweed reaching tree like heights and some sea plants attaining extraordinary vertical growth in the ocean depths.
A black and white warbler stands out with lengthwise stripes of black and white. It creeps along tree trunks and branches, a distinctive characteristic noted in its behavior.
The sacred lake Manasarowar lies between the Himalaya and Transhimalaya, drawing pilgrims from India to bathe in its crystal waters. Legends promise Brahma’s paradise to bathers and Siva’s heaven to drinkers. Tibetans circle the lake worshipping eight temples, with Gurla Mandaya and Kalias peaks rising on its shores.
Dominica, a British island between the French Antilles, hosts nearly every tropical tree and flower. The landscape grows in a luxuriance not common to other places.
A five ton Kronosaurus fossil unearthed in Queensland Australia is claimed to be the largest marine reptile fossil ever found. The discovery in the Queens land region Highlights possible new size record for marine reptiles.
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