Arrests Made in an Alleged Espionage Plot
New York June 4. Two German ship captains Franz Friske and Heinrich Lorenz and designer Christian Danielson were arrested in a widening espionage probe. Friske and Lorenz faced federal arraignment on bonds of 2506 each. Danielson held on 10000 bond. The Europa sailed for Europe with the captains under bond. The case centers on missing destroyer plans and a grand jury investigation ongoing for a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Navy
Franz Friske
Fumbture-American Line
Iindenturg
Heinrich Lorenz
Lloyd
Chemnitz
Europa
Europe
Piezht
Christian Danielson
Bath Iron Works
Beth
Maine
Danielson
Oiew
Bond
Leon G Torred
G-man
Lester C. Danigan
U.S
Swift & Company Ordered to Cease Unfair Practices
Secretary Wallace ordered Swift & Company to stop unfair and deceptive sales practices under the Packers and Stockyards Act. The action cites discriminatory discounts different payment terms and inconsistent credits across distributors. The decree covers distribution nationwide following hearings on eastern territory practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPS
Henry A. Wallace
Swift & Co
Chitage Meat Packing Firm
Wallace
Department
New York
Leift & c
Conblilpers
Lincoln highway contracts awarded with bids on five projects
A. C. Tiler announced highway contracts today with bids received Thursday on five projects. Awards will await work agreements filed with the highway department by counties, cities, or railroads. Projects include Through west and Newport diameter Bon, Max Stratton, Trenton Stratton and Oxford Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
A. C. Tiler
Tilley
Highway Department
West
Newport-diami- Bon
Max Stratton
Trenton-Stratton
Oxford-Atlanta
Sleeping Sickness Reports Raise Alarm for Nebraska Horses
Two cases of sleeping sickness reported in Nebraska horse herds. State veterinarian Dr J S Anderson and Dr J P Lindgren from Edgar reported the cases to the state office. Andersott said mosquitoes likely carry the disease and spread increases after wet weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
J. S. Ander Son
J. PD. Lindgren
Edgar
Tir Andersott
Train Laundry Delivery Man Ferneley Course Opens
A California high school launches a new course focusing on practical package delivery efficiency rather than general driving. Students learn system timing and on time delivery rather than broader courier roles.
Snite Infant Paralyzed Boy Progress Report In Chicago
Frederick B. Snite Jr., an infantile paralysis victim, has shown improvement after eight months of examination at Billings Memorial hospital. He returned to Chicago from Miami in an iron lung after 26 months, and can stay outside the respirator for 24 minutes, up two minutes in three months. He will go home to River Forest in about ten days and plans to return to Miami next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joe
Billings Memorial Hospital
Berzan
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Miami
Fla
China
Saite
River Forest
South American border clash heightens Peru Ecuador standoff
Peru and Ecuador bolstered frontier defenses amid a fresh clash over their decade old boundary. Reports from Lima and Quito said Peruvian troops moved into Tumibes while Ecuador fortified Oro and Roca Fuerte. A Peruvian gunboat reached Port Pisario with hundreds of crones as Ecuadorian officers pledged support to defend national interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Artes
Peru
Ecuador
Oriente
Lima
Quito
Tumibes
Oro
Roca Fuerte
Port Pisario
Ecuadorian
Guayaquil
Alberto Enriquez
Republic
Enriquez
Guillermo Freili
Luis Bassano
Beat
Cayetango Uribe
Treauty
Alberto Ordenana
Financiers defend ethics in probe of six indicted buyers
In New York six men charged with acquiring and financing a $16 million operation face SEC scrutiny. Gerald Beal of Schroder Banking Corp says negotiations were with Alexander Beverly of Toronto, backed by the Royal Bank of Canada. Assistant counsel David Schenker questions Beal's suspicions of a $20 per share offer for Continental Securities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gerald Beal
Schroder Banking Corporation
Continental Securities Corp
Alexander B. Beverly
Toronto
Royal Bank of Canada
David Schenker
Commission
Beales
Carloadings Gain for Week Ending May 25
The Association of American Railroads reports 762 061 carloads for the week ending May 25 up three percent from the prior week. Grain loadings rose to 33 344 cars while livestock moved 12 050 cars, each with year over year comparisons noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinington
Association of American Railroads
British Labor Act Study Faces Labor Movement Clash
Washington reports a heated fight on the left of the New Deal Democratic Party as President Roosevelt weighs an educational study of Britain's Trade Disputes Act. John L Lewis of the CIO opposes a study that could push for changes to U S labor law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Washington
New Deal-Democratic Party
Roosevelt
John L Lewis
Committe For Industrial Organization
Lewis
Frances Perkins
Miss Perkins
England
H Lezel
Lewis Challenge
White House
Arthur Krock
The
New York Times
Kingsley dam earth fill project bid calls set
The Tri County Power and Irrigation program plans the largest earth fill on the North Platte at Kingsley dam. Two bids will be opened, with July 3 set for contract, and the structure will span from bluff to bluff and hold about 2,000,900 acre feet of water. The dam uses sheet piling and an impervious clay core to prevent seepage under valley level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings
Neh
Tri-County Power and Irrigation Project
Kingsley Dam
North Platte River
Blfff
Bluff
Confesses Slaying in Lebanon Maine Suburb
Seized by a posse in a millhouse hideout Henry Gray confessed to killing a man and a bar attendant near Cannon. Police could not confirm motive for the killings of Paul Barris, 24, and Arthur Cullen, 8, relatives by marriage to the suspect. A 20 man posse trapped the 54 year old wood chopper 12 hours after his escape from an isolated farmhouse 15 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
NS. Fl
Sohn Henry Gray
CC. W. Wricht
Pawl Barris
Inlaw
Arthur Cullen
Wood Thopper
Freud Leaves Vienna for Paris En Route to London
Dr. Sigmund Freud, noted psychoanalyst, left Vienna with his family for Paris and on to London. He had been denied a passport and money impounded to stop his departure, and his home was raided after the Nazi annexation. Freud departed with authorities’ consent and a discreet farewell at the station, able to take his library and furniture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Sigmund Freud
Paris
London
Freud
Survey to Expand Federal Relief Purchases
Wallace directs the federal surplus commodity corporation to survey relief need for an expanded program buying food and clothing for the unemployed. He orders cooperation with state and local relief groups to define unfilled needs among relief recipients after a White House conference on using relief funds to buy farm surpluses for distribution.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation
White House
Wallace
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Works Progress
Aubrey Williams
Youth sane after weeklong hospital exam in slaying case
Donald Carroll Jr a 16 year old New York high school student found sane by Bellevue psychiatrists after a week of examination following a jury acquittal by reason of insanity in the murder of 18 year old Charlotte MATthiesen He had planned a death by own action pact but shot the girl and called police The jury previously said he was insane at the time of the crime and the judge ordered the mental evaluation up to his release by Judge Thomas Downs from custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Donald Carroll Jr
Bellevue Hospital
Charlotte Matthiesen
Thomas Downs
Donald
Downe
Nebraska Truckers Must File Interstate Rate Schedules
Lincoln June 4 inter state truckers in Nebraska must file interstate rate schedules with the state railway commission. Chairman Floyd L. Pollen said the commission could not corroborate truckers testimonies on rates when applying for state certificates. The commission adopted resolutions setting volume rates for burlap bag shipments and detailing rates for transporting agricultural implements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
State Railway Commission
Floyd L. Pollen
Railway Commission
State auditor to survey Nebraska bonded indebtedness
State Auditor W H Price announced a comprehensive survey of outstanding bonded debt for all Nebraska governmental subdivisions. He said fewer than half of units with bonded indebtedness notify the county clerk or state auditor’s office as required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
W. H. Price
Nebraska
Wheat crop forecast for 1938 set to break records
Private experts in Chicago project a 1938 wheat harvest of about 1.077 billion bushels, surpassing the 1915 record of 1.009 billion. Winter wheat forecasts rise to roughly 810 million bushels, up from 743 million, with weather boosting yields and maintaining a trend near the 1931 production level of about 20 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Inday
Weather best since 1921 in Lincoln area
Nebraska moisture conditions are at their best since 1921 according to Meteorologist T A Blair of the Lincoln Weather Bureau. Heavy May rains have built subsoil reserves aiding the corn crop but Blair says normal rainfall through the growing season is still needed. Only two of 25 stations reported below normal precipitation since January 1 Bridgeport and North Platte narrowly missed normal levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
T. A. Blair
Lincoln Weather Bureau
Blair
Weather Bureau
Bridgeport
North
Trade Publication Plan Discussed By Rural Power Districts
SUGGEST TRADE PUBLICATION COLUMBUS Neb June 1 COP Superintendents of nine rural public power districts agreed to present a proposed trade publication plan to the state association of rural power districts At a meeting the association discussed feasibility of continuing a small trade paper started last month and distributed to customers in eastern Nebraska southeastern Nebraska Norris Lancaster Polk Cuming Burt and Loup river districts The next meeting will be held at Lincoln June 25
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Columbus
Neb
COP
State Association of Rural Power Districts
Association of Rural Project Superintendents
Nebraska
Norrigs
Lancaster County
Polk County
Cuming County
Burt County
Loup River
Lincoln
American singer charms royal audience at Buckingham Palace
Evelyn Mall a 20 year old American singer performed Nice Work if You Can Get It before King George Queen Elizabeth and 16000 guests at Buckingham Palace Royal devis night hall. Attendees included LA Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy and Charles A Lindbergh. The hall was noted as unusually informal for a royal event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Evelyn Mall
Buckingham Palace
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Royal Devis Night Hall
Joseph P. Kennedys
Charles A. Lindbergh
Evelyn
Queen Mary Skips Cherbourg Dock Amid Severe Gale
The liner Queen Mary could not dock at Cherbourg today as a severe summer gale lashed southern England the English Channel and French ports. Winds hit 50 miles an hour and several towns faced flooding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cherbourg
England
Fitzgerald Named Acting Supervisor of Statistics in State Office
Lincoln June 20 Francis E Fitzgerald of Omaha was named acting supervisor of statistics in the state assistance office. He succeeds Charles G Nowacek of Plattsmouth who was appointed statistician in the state unemployment compensation division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Francis FE. Fitzgerald
Omaha
State Assistance Office
Charles G. Nowacek
Plattsmouth
Indian Chief Carries Mails in Charlevoix
Dan McLauria a 44 year old postman is the grandson and heir of a once powerful Ottawa chief who ruled in this area before white settlement. He has carried the mail in Charlevoix for 25 years.
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Charlevoix. Mich
Dan McLauria
South Africans Buy Far More American Cars in 1937
AP report from Johannesburg notes that licensing figures show South Africans purchased nearly eight times more American motor cars and heavy vehicles than British models in 1937 according to the Department of Census and Statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Department of Census and Statistics
Captain Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff Dies at 90
Captain Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, 90, pioneer yacht builder and designer of many successful America's Cup defenders, died at his Bristol home today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
R. It
Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff
Journal Want Ads Sell Used Cars and More
Readers can sell used cars livestock and household goods using inexpensive Journal Want Ads. This classified option covers vehicles farm animals and household items with broad reach. Place your ad to reach local buyers quickly.
Dakota county appeals bridge purchase ruling to high court
Dakota county commissioners appeal to the supreme court from District Judge Mark Ryan who invalidated the county s purchase of a private Missouri river bridge between Sioux City Iowa and South Sioux City Nebraska. The 1935 interstate county bridge law limits bids and bond issuance on completed or started bridges. The county bought the bridge in January from the Missouri River Sioux City Bridge Company and has issued 1 865 000 in bonds. George B Leamer of South Sioux City objected. The judge first ruled authority existed then vacated the decree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Dakota County
Supreme Court
Mark Ryan
Missouri River
Sioux City
Iowa
Nebraska
Ryan
The
Dart Bomb Invented by British Military Man
British officer Maurice Darlite claims to have invented a dirt dirt bomb, a tiny hand grenade in the form of a dart. He says the device could be produced cheaply and used in close warfare, where a thrown explosive dart would detonate on impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Maurice Darlite
Dariing
Britise Yards Build Warships For Argentina
Barrow in Furness reports British yards building a cruiser and three destroyers for Argentina. The cruiser La Argentine left Barrow for Birkenhead for dry docking before sea trials. Built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd the ship carries 600 crew, measured 5120 feet length with 6 feet 6 inches beam, 6500 tons displacement, and 30 knot speed. The destroyers Buenos Aires has completed trials Entre Rios is under trials and Corrientes will soon trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrow -In-Furness
la Argentine
Barrow
Birkenhead
Vickers Armstrong Ltd
Buenos Aires
Entre Rios
Corrientes
Oriniente Border Clash Escalates in Quito Conflict
A 40 year feud between Ecuador and Peru over the Oriente district has turned violent. Forty Peruvian soldiers attacked an Ecuadorian patrol in the jungle region. Quito lodged a protest, and security around the Peruvian site was tightened as tensions rise. The Oriente remains a remote, forested area with sparse inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quito
Ecuador
Equador
Peru
Oriente
Suvaes
Lady Plunkett Will Reveals Large Estate After Fatal Crash
The will of Lady Plunkett, killed in the San Simeon air crash last February, discloses a net estate of 2,204,5130 to her mother Fanny Ward, with death duties around 875,000. Lord Plunkett also died in the crash intestate, leaving an estate near 12,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lady Plunkett
San Simeon
Calif
Fanny Ward
Lord Plunkett
Supreme Court Denies Rehearing in Tackett Will Case
The Nebraska Supreme Court denied seven motions for rehearing including Kirk administrator vs Tackett Richland County. Kirk's claim as representative of relatives for the estate of Granl Ocomb Rule bachelor was denied and the will granting it to Tackert upheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Supreme Court
Kirk
Prisoners buy radio gear for cells in Prince Albert
Inmates at Prince Albert penitentiary used their own money to buy a microphone and loud speaker to bring radio news and entertainment to their cells. They organized a subscription plan to fund the purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trince Albert, Sask
Prince Albert Penitentiary
Tariff League Seeks to Gain Farm Support
California farm and trade leaders organize the Grower s Tariff League in Fresno to oppose lowering tariffs on foreign agricultural goods. The group plans a nationwide campaign, arguing reciprocity treaties harm U.S. agriculture and threaten farmers with increased imports and lower prices. Key figures include J E Pickett and C Clement Horst with support from almond, prune and fruit grower associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tariff League
Fresno, Gal
California
Grower's Tariff League
Cordell Bull
Amome
Leo
California Almond Growers Exchange
California Fie Institute
Associated Farmers of California, Inc
California Prune and Apricot Growers Association
Jolu E E. Pickett
San Francisco
Pacific Rural Press
E. Clement Horst
San Fran
Iseo
C. A. Hawkins
Fresno
Faculty flunk on slanguage at Texas Christian University
Fort Worth reports that four TC U faculty members failed a slanguage test. Dr Collin Hall dean of men scored 70 on 10 campus words though he knew only six definitions. Newton Gaines and Mabel Major each answered six. Dyinton Lockhart could answer three, with terms like Gandy frail Sourpuss Slurp Slap High as a Kite beyond them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Mabel Major
Dyinton Lockhart
Bible College
Extortion Notes Tied to Death of Nebraska Pioneer
Alfred Barnett 82 prominent lumberman and financier died in a McCook hospital after two months illness. Weeks earlier he received two extortion notes demanding 60 000 and 395 000 to be thrown from a car at the city edge. FBI investigated but made no arrest. Barnett, father in law of John M. Carl, was a longtime western Nebraska magnate born in Galesburg Illinois and came to the region in 1882.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Barnett
John M. Carl
Nebraska
Galesburg
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Cal
Brerseier Hich School
John L. Lewis
DR. Freud
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Gorow
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