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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1933
Page
2
A historic tunnel under the bluffs near Nebraska City is again producing coal after fifty years. C. V. Hill and partners from southern Iowa operate a 16 inch vein, extracting about three tons daily with five workers. Production is expected to reach ten tons by year end and fifty tons daily by spring.
President Roosevelt approved the liquor code to regulate distilling and a motion picture code with a 90 day trial. The move grants self regulation under federal veto power and limits on excessive salaries while preserving state authority over sales. Marie Dressler Eddie Cantor and A Lawrence Lowell named to code authorities. Federal censorship of movies is declined with observation duties assigned.
The farm administration completed its corn loan contract and ordered 1,760,000 copies for farmers eligible to obtain loans of 45 cents a bushel. Loans run through the Commodity Credit Corporation with up to 200 million expected. eligibility requires signing contracts to cut corn and hog production.
Senator Norris announced from Washington his plan to back a Missouri river irrigation and flood control bill. He aims to harness water via Cove Creek dam on Tennessee's Clinch River and connect it to a national system improving power, navigation, irrigation, and flood control. He expects administration support and envisions a Missouri river authority under the Interior Department's reclamation service. The Fort Peck project cited reflects large federal funding.
In Matanzas province near Colon five former army officers were lined up and massacred by 40 masked attackers using machine guns. The victims include Lieut. Col. Abelardo Herrera, Capt Sacramento del Castillo, Lieut. Armando Viiches, Lieut. Ladislao Valido, and Lieut. Luis Nardo. They had been prisoners since August 12, after Machado regime toppled.
Thieves looted the Goddess Kali idol in the Dakahi Neswar temple near Calcutta, taking jewels valued at about 40000 rupees. The royal idol was guarded lightly despite feared curses, and the haul included a diamond crown a pearl necklace many gold human head ornaments and a solid gold sacrificial knife.
General MacArthur warns in his annual War Department report that the U S Army is below the danger line and must be strengthened. He proposes lifting enlisted strength to 165000 with pay protection, spending about 200 million dollars on aircraft, artillery modernization, mechanization, and anti aircraft gear. He also calls for National Guard maintenance, reserve officer expansion, and restoration of 1932 training scales for ROTC and CMT C.
Four Chicago men led by Roger Touhy were acquitted by a federal court jury of the $100,000 William Hamm Jr kidnapping. It marked the first federal defeat in the Hamm kidnap case since the Lindbergh law era. Police Chief Cahill criticized the verdict.
Maj. John Wesley Bean of Elkins New Hampshire, oldest officer on the army retired list, famed for Civil War service and Indian campaigns in the West, died at age one hundred. He received the Purple Heart and an oak leaf cluster for wounds in 1862 and 1864 with the Fifth New Hampshire regiment.
Knoxville voters approve a 3,225,000 bond issue by about two to one to fund a municipal power system. The bond supports construction for the purchase and distribution of power from the Tennessee Valley Authority under the city commission’s development plan.
A mob of about 6 000 gathered as Sheriff Emig and 35 officers battled a two hour siege to the San Jose county jail. Thurmond and John M Holmes were dragged out and hanged in St James Park after a $40 000 ransom demand for Brooke Hart. Governor Rolph called the lynching the state’s worst crime and warned of pardons only for those who surrendered.
National Guard and state police seized eleven leaders of a lynching mob in Princess Anne Maryland after the hanging of George Armwood. Soldiers searched dozens of homes, patrolled streets, and planned to probe surrounding woods. Governor Albert C Ritchie ordered the operation.
About 200 farmers from Kansas blocked a foreclosure auction of livestock owned by Axel Peterson of Burdick for the defunct Lincolnville State Bank. Auctioneer Schambron halted the sale amid farmer protests and withheld conduct of the sale in view of the sentiment.
Anton Psota, an 80 year old farmer near West Point, displays a 1898 Trans Mississippi Exposition diploma from Omaha for the best corn display among eight leading Midwest states. Gordon W. Wattles signed the diploma as exposition president. Funeral services were held for Ellis W. Buser, 91, longtime Dawson Nebraska editor, who died after a yearlong illness. He homesteaded near Falls City after arriving in a covered wagon and founded the Dawson Newsboy before editing and publishing for years.
Mr and Mrs Harry Jones fund the installation of pipe type chimes in Seward county courthouse clock tower. The 20 principal tones can be played manually or automatically and are scheduled for completion by December 24 to allow Christmas Eve carols.
Nebraska Industrial Loan corporation Lincoln 250000 authorized capital W W Putney and others Kuenne s Bakery Omaha 10000 authorized capital O F Kuenne and John J Kornmayer Albion United Charities non profit Kearney State Teacher s College Dormitory corporation Kearney no stock Thomas Gags Ray E Turner N P MacDonald Walter Klehm and Mrs Bessie Black
A local display features items such as a 1746 German grammar bound in bird skin and bound magazines edited by Charles Dickens. Other notable pieces include a 1361 astronomy text a 1833 spelling book an 1857 arithmetic McGuffey readers from 1853 to 1860 Bible stories 1860 a Dickens set from 1841 travel writings 1841 and three volumes of The Rambler from 1842.
Alfred Anderson, Cedar county commissioner, ordered about 5000 feet of planking cut at the Suing mill near St. Helena. The county bought 20 acres of timber from Albert Jones near Wynot. Most timber will fuel the destitute, but two carloads of oak bridge piling have been sawed for Cedar county bridge construction.
The board of control awarded P. H. McPheeters of Lincoln the bid to deliver 10,267 cartons weighing 403,196 pounds of license plates by December 23. His low bid was 1071.50 dollars, with a weight reduction saving about 300 dollars from last year.
Prof Myron H Swenk of Nebraska and Dr E W Neilson of the Smithsonian Institute begin a monographic study of the Bob White quail in North America. Frank B OConnell secretary of the state game parks and forestry commission said about 100 quail will be collected from various Nebraska sections to examine their crops and food and other traits.
Ogallala residents tout improving mood as construction rises with three houses and a business block under way. Merchants report a 10 to 20 percent sales uptick in a town of about 2,000, with better butterfat prices and five factories showing three-year highs. Telephone reconnections reach 21 in three months and Union Pacific notes a slight shipment rise. Automobile sales outpace neighboring districts across three states.
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