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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1934
Page
2
A. E. Anderson, state and federal crop statistician, reports Nebraska planting intentions show reduced corn spring wheat and barley, but gains in potatoes and beans. National figures mirror shifts with corn at 90.1 percent and beans at 116.4 percent of last year’s harvested acreage.
Red Deer ranch in Cherry county won a first in a car load of yearlings at the Western National Stock Show in Denver. Woods Bros corp has built the Red Deer herd into Nebraska’s largest and one of the nation’s top five pure bred Herefords. The original ranch, Wood Lake post office, was acquired in 1906 totaling 6,000 acres. refinements added 4,640 acres plus leases by 1932. The present herd totals 1,500 to 1,700 head with Dominoe strain, spanning 11,491 acres.
Omaha placed 26th among 37 cities in its class in the National Safety Council traffic contest with a death rate of 17.6 per 100 000, below the group average of 15.2. Nebraska total auto deaths reached 238, Iowa 486, and Grand Rapids led the class with 5.1 per 100 000.
Lincoln bids will be opened April 10 for the farm boys dormitory and the girls dormitory to be constructed at the Beatrice feeble minded institute. The two buildings are part of a board of control program financed partly with PWA funds. Estimated total cost for the two buildings is about $66,000.
Washington reports a surge of pay raises affecting over 300 000 workers in three weeks since Roosevelt urged higher wages and shorter hours. Major gains occur in autos and steel with 10 percent increases and a 40 hour week largely maintained. Ford restores $5 daily minimum for 47 000 workers.
Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson named six members to a new industrial relations committee for the shipbuilding industry. Three represent labor and three represent industry, with a seventh member to be chosen. Labor members include Arthur Wharton, Joseph S. McDonough, and W. A. Colvin. Industry members are Lawrence Y. Spear, George H. Bates, and John B. Woodward. The panel will mediate the Camden New Jersey strike involving 3,200 workers at New York Shipbuilding yards.
Paris reports Premier Doumergue urged national calm after rival groups reportedly arm for civil conflict. A broadcast called on citizens to lay aside animosities as Socialist and Rightist factions prepare in the capital. Nationalist outlets claim weapons are stored around Paris and a socialist military movement supports a revolutionary drive.
Brazilian millers, after buying Argentine wheat, decided to source exclusively from North American markets. The shift is seen as retaliation against Argentine exporters selling flour in Brazil. Contracts already signed with U S exporters to supply the same wheat quantities.
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler warned in St. Louis that war is brewing in Asia and Europe. He said the United States will be drawn into the conflict, likely in two years, after selling arms and supplies to the combatants and choosing the side that owes the United States the most.
One hundred fifty thousand homeless endured a bitter night as a hailstorm hit Hakodate after a massive fire. About 600 deaths were attributed to the blaze and drowning, with 23 thousand homes destroyed. Rescue trains carried doctors and nurses while two destroyers delivered provisions and clothing.
A revolutionary general strike in Saragossa began under syndicalists and socialists but petered out as workers returned to duty. Government precautions kept a state of farm with milder controls than martial law. Strikers and extremists said the protest targeted ill treatment of laborers jailed after recent disorders.
Extremists in Spain torched two churches amid Holy Week rites after the republic’s overthrow. One church at Larinaga near Bilbao burned. another at Madridanos near Zamora burned almost irreparably in a protest gesture marking the new regime.
Berlin reports the German cabinet under Chancellor Hitler approved the 1934 1935 budget balanced at 6.4 billion marks about 2.56 billion dollars. Receipts and expenditures rise by 500 million marks about 200 million dollars reflecting a public works program.
Dominion bureau of statistics reports 8,499 employers increasing staff from 849,056 on February 1 to 861,044 on March 1. Employment rose by almost 12,000 persons across the same period.
A tornadic wind sweep in lower New Orleans leveled 50 homes and damaged 100 more, leaving about 400 homeless. Twelve were hurt, eight women and an infant among them, with potential deaths cited. Similar but milder damage hit Lafayette Parish and Tallulah as a 75 mile per hour gust moved east over Mississippi.
The William Wrigley Jr. company approved a $1,000,000 employment assurance plan at its annual meeting. President Philip K. Wrigley outlined a sliding scale payout, from 80 percent for lower wage workers to smaller shares for higher earners, to protect idle-period income.
Tulsa Oklahoma oil magnate Harry F. Sinclair and 27 former directors of the Exchange Trust Company of Tulsa were cleared of all embezzlement charges. Judge Bradford Williams dismissed the ten remaining counts after a lengthy preliminary hearing. seven other counts had already been dismissed.
Martin J. Insull, 65, brother of fugitive Samuel Insull, was brought back to Chicago from Canada after 17 months on the run. He is released on $50,000 bond to await trial on charges of embezzling $364,720 from the Middle West Utilities treasury, a firm he once led.
Moscow denies new developments since Maxim Litvinoff’s December speech suggesting Moscow might cooperate with the League of Nations if it would advance world peace.
Dutch Quaker Van Ghell Gildermeister says central and southeastern European prisons hold about 3.5 million political prisoners. he has spent 12 years campaigning for their release.
The First National Bank of Exeter opens to succeed Wallace National Bank which operated under restricted terms after last year’s bank holidays. Wallace deposits are payable in full at the new institution while Bank of Axtell suspends operations and will liquidate assets. A. G. Warren of Holdrege notes three year liquidations for large depositors and full payment to small depositors now. Agricultural statistician A E Anderson cites Nebraska potato shipments for the season as the second highest on record with 8031 cars to date.
State Senator Henry Pedersen former Senator W G Rickard and Pawnee lake group President L A Harris with H E Jones meet Governor Bryan urging state acceptance of a 30 acre privately owned tract two miles west of Guide Rock to develop as a public fishing and recreation area.
Near Rock Bluff in Case county lies a public library built of rough hewn logs from local oak forests. On a corner lot donated by Mrs Isadore Sheldon Tucker, a pioneer descendant, the building also serves as a memorial to early settlers and their community history.
It is estimated that 76 million Nebraska birds eat nearly two billion insects daily. Nebraska hosts 464 native and introduced bird species and subspecies, ranking third behind Texas and California. Water in Pathfinder reservoir is at 20 percent capacity due to scant Rocky Mountain snowfall, with North Platte River inflow reduced.
Niobrara official John D. Forsyth reported in Lincoln that Knox county awaits a grasshopper surge. Knox County Commissioner Forsyth said entomologist O. S. Bare found eggs in earth samples capable of hatching thousands per square foot, with federal bait funds or favorable weather as the only preventive hope.
Saunders county fair board president R C Johnson Mead announces the fair will run August 21 to 24, one month earlier than usual. A rodeo program named the Wahoo Buckaroo will feature Nebraska Indians and nationally known cowboys. An opening historical pageant parade starts the morning of August 21, with western features led by John A Stryker of North Platte.
Clay ton Watkins of the University of Nebraska reports Chinese Elm as the top Clarke McNary seedling choice among 690000 applications with 250000 for this variety. Austrian Pine is second with 68835 orders, followed by Jack Pine and Yellow Pine. Hedge trees include Russian Olive, Caragana, and Russian Mulberry. Holt county leads in applications. Madison, Custer, Adams and Lincoln also rank high. Deadline tentatively set for April 1.
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