Richberg outlines relief program scope and impact
Washington reports Secretary Richberg presented an accounting of the government relief program under the Roosevelt administration. He cited actions aiding individuals and corporate finance, including home loan, deposit insurance, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, noting vast activity without providing an aggregate figure.
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Washington
Donald R. Richberg
Roosevelt
Executive Council
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Richberg
Home Loan Organization
RFC
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Federal Savings and Loan Associations
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Deposit Insurance Corporation
Evangeline Booth Elected Salvation Army General
Commander Evangeline Booth aged sixty eight was elected general of the Salvation Army in London. After a five year break she resumes the supreme post making history as the first American and first woman to lead the organization founded by her father in 1867. She secured 82 votes on the fifth ballot in Clapton amid five days of deliberations.
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London
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
America
Booth
William Booth
High Council of the Army
Congress Hall
Clapton
Father admits poisoning pie killed child in Pittsburgh
Stanley Grabowski confessed to poisoning an apple pie and feeding it to his three children in Pittsburgh. One child died, others survived, and Grabowski reportedly tried the same poison on himself but was not seriously harmed.
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Pittsburgh
Stanley Grabowski
Mrs Roosevelt names Human Needs Board
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt has named 59 women as members of the national women's committee of the 1934 Mobilization for Human Needs. She is chairman and the list includes vice chairmen Miss Ida Tarbell and Miss Jane Addams with other leaders from New York Chicago and San Francisco.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Women's Committee
Mobilization For Human Needs
Frederic M. Paist
Wayne
Jane Addams
Chicago
August Belmont
New York
Marcus C. Sloss
San Francisco
Ida M. Tarbell
EPIC Plan and New Deal Merge Seen by Sinclair
Upton Sinclair meets with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, declaring the EPIC plan and the New Deal are the same. Sinclair praises Roosevelt while noting the two approaches share goals, even as observers suspect a broad agenda. The Socialist Party repudiates Sinclair as a Socialist and disavows his California gubernatorial bid.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Upton Sinclair
California
Roosevelt
Washington
Sinclair
Ohio
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Milwaukee
Wis
Socialist Party
National Executive Committee
Daniel W. Hoan
Socialists Oppose Deportation of Reds in Milwaukee
Socialists urged Milwaukee trade unionists to refuse cooperation with the government on deporting alien Communists. The national executive committee argued such cooperation risks torture or death for the deported and urged against backing a despotic retaliation for alleged wrongs.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Russ Columbo Dies in Accidental Shooting
Russ Columbo, noted radio and film singer, died at Good Samaritan hospital from a bullet wound in the head. He was shot when an old revolver they were examining discharged accidentally in the home of Lansing V. Brown Jr., a Hollywood photographer and antique gun collector, the weapon firing from Browns hand.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Russ Columbo
Good Samaritan
Lansing V. Brown, Jr
Hollywood
Brown
Two Army Flyers Killed in Shreveport Plane Crash
Two Army Air Corps crew members from Brooks Field San Antonio Texas were killed when their bi motored observation plane crashed near Barksdale field in a rainstorm. Private P K Martin escaped injury and a private from Brooks Field was wounded. The dead are Cadet Neal Caldwell and Private Bett Baker. Vocabulary note includes the crash unfolding as flames engulfed the wreckage.
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Shreveport
Barksdale Field
Natchitoches
Army Air Corps
Brooksfield
San Antonio
Texas
Neal Caldwell
Bett Baker
P. K. Martin
Government to establish 2000 acre park near Omaha
Federal officials aim to create a 2000 acre recreation center near Omaha under the sub marginal land act. Officials seek land within 50 miles of Omaha priced at no more than five dollars an acre that is rail and bus accessible with pure water. The project will repurpose poor farm land into a park for children's camps and family vacations. completion unlikely for at least a year.
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Omaha
Dan B. Butler
Kenneth F. Jones
National Park Service
Nebraska
Butler
Missouri
Platte
Jones
Irrigating by Pump Near Sidney
The Lodge Pole valley irrigation project in Sidney seeks rural rehabilitation aid with inspection by state director L. A. White. An underground water source, flowing across the valley from the Rocky Mountains, yields 600 gallons per minute with 74% horsepower pumps, enabling forty acre fields and alfalfa crops to be irrigated.
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Sidney
Lodge Pole
L. A. White
White
Rocky Mountains
Lincoln Heads National Tree Belt Program Launch
Lincoln houses the national headquarters for a federal tree belt program designed to shield the Midwest from droughts. Fred Morrell, ex Assistant U S Forestry chief, says nurseries will be built or leased for a 75 million dollar effort with planting starting about a year after next spring. Nebraska forester Clayton Watkins predicts benefits in no more than ten years as shelterbelt work already shows gains. The plan covers Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Texas with land leased long term from farmers and carried out by them or their neighbors.
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Lincoln
Midwest
Fred Morrell
Morrell
Washington
U. S. Forestry
Nebraska
Tree Planters State
Clayton Watkins
Watkins
Take Steps To Save Purebred Stock In Nebraska
W H Brokaw of the University of Nebraska extension service announced a plan to hold farm meetings in various areas within a few weeks. The meetings aim to inform livestock producers about the current feed situation with roughages available in some parts of the state to sustain herds.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Brouth
W. H. Brokaw
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Nebraska
Large Canal Excavation Begins West of Genoa
State news notes the first work on a $7.2 million Colum bus canal project starting on Charles Wright farm west of Genoa with 10 miles of excavation bids this month FERA began remodeling the Wilson packing plant at Nebraska City to slaughter drouth stricken livestock. Initial operations will process sheep and calves with cattle later and 300 to 400 workers expected.
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Columbus
Charles Wright
Genoa
FERA
Wilson
Nebraska City
Nebraska Iowa labor split for Missouri River work
F W Cornell announces division of labor between Nebraska and Iowa on Missouri River border projects. Nebraska allocations by man hours include Burt 67000 Washington 94000 County 403000 Richardson 340000 Otoe 633000 Nemaha 48000.
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F. W. Cornell
National Re-Employment Service
Neraska
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri River
Burt County
Washington County
County
Richardson County
Otee County
Nemaha County
Talmage Board Advances Plans for New School Building
Talmage board of education speeds work on a new school building with a $11,467.87 PWA grant and a $23,000 PWA loan approved previously. Officials intend to bond the $23,000 loan and call bids soon while $11,000 in a sinking fund adds to the project, aiming for a total value near $50,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talmage Board of Education
PWA
Talmage Board
Farm pond projects approved in 15 Nebraska counties
FERA announces 15 counties Adams Antelope Boone Boyd Clay Dawes Frankin Keya Paha Knox Nuckolls Sheridan Sherman Sioux Thayer Webster will receive farm pond construction under the water conservation program. Four rural well projects are authorized. three already underway in Richardson Boyd counties with pumping equipment repair in Webster county using relief labor.
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FERA
J. R. Carnahan
Adams
Antelope
Boone
Boyd
Clay
Dawes
Frankin
Keya Paha
Knox
Nuckolls
Sheridan
Sherman
Sioux
Thayer
Webster
Carnahan
Carahan
Richardson County
Boyd County
Pawnee
Webster County
West North Central leads in owner occupied homes
The Commerce Department housing study shows the West North Central states Iowa South Dakota Minnesota North Dakota Nebraska Missouri and Kansas have the highest share of owner occupied dwelling units. Des Moines Fargo Lincoln Minneapolis Sioux Falls Springfield Mo St Joseph St Paul Topeka and Wichita account for 177,120 owner occupied homes with 75,255 free of encumbrances and 78,305 mortgaged. Minneapolis tops the group with 59,226, St Paul 42,152, Des Moines 20,1738, Wichita 13,870, Lincoln 10,670. Pacific group states trail this region in home ownership and occupancy.
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United States
Department of Commerce
West North Central States
Iowa
South Dakota
Minnesota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Des Moines
Fargo
Lincoln
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
Springfield
St. Joseph
St. Paul
Topeka
Wichita
Nebraska’s Rare Mountain Sheep Skull Noted in Oxford Exhibit
Curator A. M. Brooking of the Hastings museum acquired a prehistoric mountain sheep skull found 36 feet underground by Alvin Goosic on a farm near Oxford. The skull, with 15 inch horn cores, may be a new species if confirmed by other museums. The Hastings collection also features fossil musk ox, mammoths, a giant sloth, a prehistoric horse, giant bison horncores, turtles, and more.
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Nebraska
A. M. Brooking
Hastings Museum
Oxford
Nissan Brothers
Alvin Goosic
Pathfinder reservoir water lows mark historic season dip
A state irrigation bulletin reports Pathfinder reservoir water storage at 34 750 acre feet the lowest for this season. Reservoir capacity is about 1 000 000 acre feet. All 2 880 second feet released are diverted to western ditches with no crossing into Nebraska. East of the point irrigators rely on natural river flow.
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State Bureau of Irrigation
Pathfinder
Nebraska
States Adopt Street and Highway Safety Month Proclaimed
Governors of forty three states join in proclaiming September as Street and Highway Safety month. States with twenty one million automobiles report an average twenty six thousand seven hundred deaths annually. The national total reaches thirty thousand five hundred deaths.
Auto death toll on pace to reach 1934 highs
Mr G D Newton of Hartford reports that automobile fatalities are 20 percent above last year, likely reaching thirty six thousand for 1934. Secretary Roper, leading the national street and highway safety conference, urges unified action nationwide amid rising recklessness and more drunken driving.
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G. D. Newton
Hartford
Conn
Commerce Roper
National Conference On
New York Legion Presses Draft Power Law Fight
The New York State American Legion urges a new law granting government power to draft all citizens in war and to control all manufacturing and rail transport. It argues the national government assumed those powers previously and would do so again without special law. Some call for a preliminary vote to ban wholesale conscription or a cash substitute, letting the people decide. The author warns the nation should not repeat past mistakes.
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New York State
American Legion
Hess Seeks Nazi Party Rigid Jew Exclusion Warnings
Rudolf Hess warns Nazi members to shun Jewish lawyers and Jews for official posts and to avoid public associations with Jews. The note reflects Hitler’s recent executions and alleged moral character statements within the Nazi leadership.
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Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Nazi Party
North Carolina strike meeting turns into religious camp
A North Carolina gathering of hard-boiled strikers became a religious camp meeting with prayers and loud Amen cries. Leader Lawrence urged trust in God and framed the strike as just, comparing it to Moses leading Egypt’s exodus and other legendary “first strikes.”
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North Carolina
Lawrence
Moses
Israel
Egypt
Milton
Lucifer
Heaven
Eve
Adam
Courageous flyer Davis dies in Thompson trophy race crash
Douglas Davis, a young Georgian pilot, was killed at Cleveland while seeking the Thompson trophy after breaking the land speed record at over 306 mph. Col Roscoe Turner won the trophy after breaking the Pacific to Atlantic record. Wedell, who held the prior record, died recently in an attempt to surpass it.
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Douglas Davis
Cleveland
Col
Roscoe Turner
Atlantic
Davis
Wedell
Arc deputy clerk race yields tied 754 votes
In Jonesboro Arkansas Leon Brown and Homer Stewart tie with 754 votes each for deputy clerk. Dr Newton H Brown of Arkansas State College notes such a tie is mathematically unlikely and would not likely recur for about 1.6 million years.
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Jonesboro, Ark
Leon Brown
Homer Stewart
Newton H. Brown
Arkansas State College
Puff Adder Venom Inspires New Epilepsy Drug
South African scientist claims puff adder venom forms the basis of a new epilepsy treatment with 20 percent cured and 74 percent greatly improved. The article by Gobind Behari Lal notes the puff adder’s deceptive display, suggesting Africa may host a worse specimen.
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South Africa
Gobind Behari Lal
Africa
Japan retakes train wrecks prisoners after bandit raid
Two Americans and seven Japanese were kidnapped by Chinese bandits after a train wreck. Japanese forces retaliated with filers, killing twenty five bandits and rescuing the captives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
King Features Syndicate
Ine Wnu
Onboard a Ship’s Mixed Crowd in 1934
A fragmented reminiscence of life aboard a passenger vessel, listing types of travelers from the purser's network to the varied deck personalities. The writer notes how strangers swap stories, inspect each other, and ask ship officers endless questions about ports, times, currencies, and customs during long sea journeys.
Crows Caw Called Musical Displays in Early Spring
Crow behavior in late winter or early spring reveals musical sounds and conversational abilities as it ministers to its young. The article notes many people mistake the crow’s calls for mere cries rather than song and communication.
Dawn in New York and a life at the edge
The narrator recalls 3 a.m. streetlife in New York and early years across Ohio and Cincinnati. He reflects on poverty, pride, and moments of thrill from encounters with a red-haired girl, Nick the bartender, Dolly De Shay, and a young Irish copper in East Liverpool. He recalls a first glimpse of New York at 23.
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New York
Park Lane
Phillips House
Dayton
Dolly de Shay
Cincinnati
Stanhope
Eden Park
Liverpool
Hughie McDermott
Hughie
Pennsylvania Station
Thirty-Fourth Street
Avenue of Avenues
Great Waldorf
Caruso
Delmonico
Nora Bayes
Savoy
Notable Literary Figures Move Between Offices in 1930s Diary
The author recalls encounters with Bob Davis Rex Beach Harris Merton Lyon Rheta Childe Dorr Fannie Hurst James Montgomery Flagg James Oppenheim Isaac Marcosson at Keene's luncheon table in the West Thirties. He notes McGraw's billiard parlor and its flashy sports crowd and recounts a day when Ray Long and I returned from lunch to find bailiffs idle, as I was still 24.
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Bob Davis
Rex Beach
Harris Merton Lyon
Rheta Childe Dorr
Fannie Hurst
James Montgomery Flagg
James Oppenheim
Isaac Marcossen
Keene’s
McGraw
Ray Long
Windy Telegram Promises in 1934 McNaughs Syndicate
A fragmented 1934 text notes a wan light and daily kitchen sounds as a dog stretches awake. The elevator man resembles David Warfield and a Windy telegram from S. Jay Kaufman and Robert Read hints at a new theatrical promise.
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David Warfield
S. Jay Kaufman
Robert
McNaughs Syndicate
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Secreat
Athaletic
HcNaughs Syndicate
Crow
York
Meint
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Roach
Kramer and Bell’s
Kansas City
Nick
Australia
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