New Truck Law Prompts Discussion In Nebraska
Nebraska lawmakers may consider a uniform motor carrier law to regulate trucking and bus services. The plan would require certificates of convenience and necessity, set charges per gross mile, and place trucking under a new transportation department coordinating land air and water transport.
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Lincoln
National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners
Hot Springs
Ark
Nebraska
Hugh Drake
State Railway Commission
Kansas
Drake
National Commission On Transportation
Secretary of Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Shipping Board
Restoration Plan for Fort Kearney Moves Forward
State officials from the game forestation and parks commission met Kearney and Fort Kearney Memorial Association directors to adopt W T Souders plan for spring restoration. Projects include planting trees shrubs gravel drives parking spaces and newly painted posts. A future phase will restore fort buildings to house a permanent Pioneer and military museum with relics. The Veterans of Foreign Wars dedicated a granite shaft at the fort site on July 4.
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Kearney
E. R. Purcell
Broken Bow
George B. Hastings
Grant
Frank B. O'Connell
State Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
Fort Kearney
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Fire damages Allen business district in Nebraska region
A large fire hit Allen Nebraska damaging the business section with estimated losses of 825 000. Allen a town of 600 residents sits 30 miles west of Sioux City. Nebraska potato shipments to Nov 17 total 852 cars versus 3076 for the prior year.
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Allen
Sioux City
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Reformatory Raises Feedstock Herds At Lincoln
Superintendent Gus Miller bought 50 head of cattle fed at the state reformatory. If prices rise they will be sold for profit. otherwise they will be used by the institution. A herd of hogs from the reformatory farm trails behind the cattle.
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State Reformatory
Lincoln
Gus Miller
Miller
Reformatory
Revetment Work Advances at Dakota City River Bank
About 600 feet of river mat work near Dakota City progressed as rock deliveries from Sioux Falls arrive by truck. The rock, to sink the mats, will require around 1 600 truck loads. A larger drag line runs day and night to slope the bank for the project.
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Dakota City
Sioux Falls
S. D
God Is No Respecter of Persons Foreigner Outreach Lesson
Lesson centers on Scripture about welcoming all races. It links Solomon praying for foreigners, Jesus' dealings with the Samaritan woman, Peter and Cornelius, and Paul on Mars Hill to show all nations are one blood and salvation through Christ. Emphasizes gospel preaching to lost peoples and unity beyond ethnic lines.
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Peter
Jesus
Christ
Paul
Mars’ Hill
Solomon
Samaria
Judea
Galilee
Sychar
Cornelius
Joppa
God
Water year shows less flow under Platte bridges
R H Willis head of the Nebraska irrigation bureau reports on the water year ending September 30. He cites three reasons for reduced distress including better spring rains a fuller Pathfinder dam and higher summer flow in 1932 compared with 1931. He urges conservation to meet regional needs.
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Platte River
R.H. Willis
Nebraska Irrigation Bureau
Wyoming
Nebraska
Mountain States
Great Western Sugar Company
Colorado
Montana
Billings
Mont
Lovell
Wyo
Wheatland
Farm income plunges as 1932 gross falls below half of 1929
The Agriculture Department estimates 1932 farm gross income at 5.24 million dollars, less than half of 1929, with 1931 and 1930 incomes shown at 6.96 and 9.40 billion dollars respectively. Expenditures likely fell further, though not matching the income drop, while the livestock sector posted 1932 revenue of 2.958 billion versus 4.191 billion the prior year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
War debt talks at White House fail to unite Hoover Roosevelt
President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt met at the White House to craft a foreign debt policy but failed to reach a united approach for Congress or Europe. Hoover intends to press his plan, likely reviving the debt funding commission without delaying December 15 payments of 124 million. The meeting yielded no decisive public commitment and reflected a guarded path forward.
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Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Whc
Europe
Raymond J. Moley
Ogden L. Mills
Treasury
Garner
Smoot
Watson
Reed
Harrison
King
George
Hawley Treadway
Bacharach
Rainey
Collier
Doughton
Prominent Manufacturer Delmar W Call Dies at 62
Delmar W Call sixty two manufacturer died at the Battle Creek sanitarium after a short illness. He was taken ill in Cleveland during a visit to his mother Mrs A W Call. Call lived in Los Gatos California and was president of Allis Chalmers Hale Kilburn and an official of National Malleable and American Steel foundries. He is survived by his widow and one son.
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Delmar W. Call
Battle Creek
Mich
Cleveland
A.W. Call
Death in electric chair for Downing in Ohio murder
John Downing was found guilty of first degree murder without mercy for killing Mrs. Mautee Bonzo wife of the Ohio state penitentiary clerk. The jury fixed death as the mandatory punishment. Downing a former convict had previously killed a Cincinnati woman and was sentence commuted from life. On October 25 he went to the Bonzo home and murdered Mrs. Bonzo.
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Columbus
Ohio
John
Red
Downing
Mautee Bonzo
Ohio State Penitentiary
Cincinnati
Bonzo
National Ice Races Set For Lake Fowler
The 1933 men’s national outdoor ice skating championships will be held on Lake Fowler in Oconomowoc Wisconsin January 28 and 29. The event was approved after a conference of Wisconsin skating officials and Frank Kalteux of Chicago president of the Amateur Skating Union of the United States.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
Lake Fowler
Wisconsin
Frank Kalteux
Chicago
Amateur Skating Union of the
United States
Deportees From Brazil Reach Portugal After Revolt
The Brazilian steamer Siqueira Campos arrived in Lisbon with 78 deportees including Gen. Bertoldo Klinger, six other generals, and 32 officers and journalists. They were expelled from Brazil following the aborted revolt against Provisional President Getulio Vargas.
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Brazil
Portugal
Lisbon
Siqueira Campos
Getulio Vargas
Bertoldo Klinger
Farmers Seek Congress Aid for Butter and Oil Protections
Chicago leaders cite a coalition of dairy groups and crop associations representing tens of millions of farmers to press for duties on imported fats and oils. They argue Philippines duties would aid U S output while noting high consumption of butter oleo and other fats domestically and the need for market protection.
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Chicago
Illinois
Congress
American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers
National Dairy Union
National Milk Producers’ Federation
American Farm Bureau’ Federation
Tlinois Agricultural] Association
Pure Milk Association
National Grange Farmers’ Union
Philippines
Senate
House
W. F. Jensen
Butter Manufacturers’ Association
United States
Jensen
Pacific
Mr. Jensen
Champion Horses Retain Titles at Kansas City Show
Roxie Highland owned by Miss Mary Gwyn Fiers of Oklahoma City and Rio Saxon owned by Mrs. A C Thompson of Elmhurst, defended grand championship titles at the Americas royal live stock and horse show in Kansas City. The eight year old chestnut mare won the three gaited saddle horse title for the fourth straight year. Prizes totaled 2000 dollars for that event and 1500 dollars for the heavy harness horse title.
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Kansas City
Roxie Highland
Mary Gwyn Fiers
Oklahoma City
Rio Saxon
A. C. Thompson
Elmhurst
Rjo Saxon
Woodpile in Stanton Cuts Transient Requests
Stanton Nebraska public woodpile reduces daily requests for work from 15 to 20 transients to one or two, with some days none. Street Commissioner Herman Koehn notes a sharper decline since its establishment, aiding public relief efforts.
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Nebraska
Stanton
Neb
Herman Koehn
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George Jenkins
Ea Oved Uniform International
Any. P. B. Fitzwater
Moody
Western
Nan
Supreme Court
J. M. Smeallie
United States Navy
Indianapolis
Philadelphia Navy Yard
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