Greece to Deport Insull to Satisfy US Extradition Requests
Greece plans to refuse asylum to Samuel Insull and expel him by December 31, 1963 as the United States presses for his extradition over the Chicago utilities bankruptcies. Greek officials cite legal limits and aim to avoid straining Greco American relations while seeking a safe entry path for Insull.
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Samuel Insuit
Chicago
Greece
Insulll
Usul
United States
Insull
Senate
D. Maximos
Toronto
Illinois
Martin J. Ingall
Kingstone
Ontario Supreme Court
Insall
Insalati
North Dakota Revives Nonpartisan League
The National Nonpartisan League is reestablished with Arthur C. Townley as president. Gov. William A. Langer supports an industrial program Townley calls the original nonpartisan league plan. It envisions expanding state enterprises including packing plants tanneries shoe and leather factories and flour mills to market farmers products and create jobs.
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North Dakota
Bismarck
N. D
Nonpartisan League
Arthur C. Townley
William A. Langer
Townley
Lawyer Doomed to Die for Poison Slaying
Benton Arkansas reports Akron attorney Mark H. Shank was sentenced to death by a jury after rejecting his insanity plea in the poison murder of Alvin Colley. He faces additional indictments for Colley’s wife and two children killed by poison at an August picnic, with motive tied to alleged theft documents and fear of prison.
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Benton
Ark
Mark H. Shank
Akron
Ohio
Alvin Colley
Shank
Colley
Barberton
Four Get Life for Gun Battle Near Kenosha
Four men from Milwaukee Kilbourne Chicago and La Farge were captured after a gun battle near Kenosha Wisconsin. The defendants identified as Joe Miezejewski Jerry Schwemier Sterling Bart and Don Donovan face life sentences for the incident.
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Joe Miezejewski
Milwaukee
Jerry Schwemier
Kilbourne
Wis
Sterling Bart
Chicago
Don Donovan
la Farge
Alee Tie Tabeets Etsociat
Kenoshe
Champion steer named at Chicago exposition
Oakleigh Thorne of Briarcliff farms Duchess county New York exhibited Briarcliff Model an eighteen month old 1217 pound Aberdeen Angus named grand champion at the International Live Stock show. Even Page from Oklahoma A and M and Ilini Master with W H R Adair Domina were finalists. Purdue University annexes swine honors with a barrow from Lafayette Indiana school farm named grand champion.
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Chicago
Oakleigh Thorne
New York
Briarcliff
Thorne
Duchess County
Page
Oklahoma A. and
M. College of
Henry Marshall
Lafayette
Ind
Lafayette Courier and Journal
International Live Stock Association
Harry Hege, Jr
West Point
Elena Shoup
Barnesville
Ohio
Illinois
C. Worth Holmes
Joy
Mercer County
Gilman Stewart
Greensburg
Decatur County
Indiana
Gerald
Ton County
Governor Langer halts evictions with protective proclamations
North Dakota Governor William A. Langer issued two proclamations to shield the financially helpless and enforce limits on eviction actions. One bars judges and officers from enforcing processes that dispossess families during winter. the other restricts seizing household goods to satisfy debts. Proclamations run through March 1, 1984, with a provision for eviction orders if the lessee receives written notice and the lessor proves cause in district court.
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Langer Bismarck
N. D
William A. Langer
Planes Rescue Five From Freezing Wastes
Five injured and sick persons were plucked from the lonely northland by rescue planes and brought to Fort McMurray for treatment. Two more planes flew to the Great Bear Lake area to pick up hospital cases, carrying Pilot Walter Gilbert and a priest from Fort Smith to Alberta’s railroad end for medical care.
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Fort McMurray
Alta
Northland
Walter Gilbert
Fort Smith
Dew
Great Bear Lake
Alberta
Gold Mining Report Spurs Nebraska River Prospecting
The Republican river and its valley in Nebraska show gold deposits now being mined by the Republican Valley Mining association led by J. S. Spaulding. Activity centers on an old river channel near Benkelman with sluicing on the O. J. Hamm place, a 500 acre area. Early returns exceed 2 dollars per ton with expected yields of about 3 thousand yards per acre over several years.
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Republican River
Republican Valley
Colorado
Nebraska
Republican
O. J. Hamm
Benkelman
Republican Valley Mining Association
J. S. Spaulding
Kansas City
Bep-kelman
Nebraska public works allocations exceed expected quota
Nebraskan leaders note state allocations already surpass the tentative quota by about 35 percent. Officials say the state share is roughly 22 million dollars with approved projects near 30 million, including about 8 million for highway projects. No formal announcement from Congress on public works yet.
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Nebraska
Congress
Lincoln Nebraska set for federal aid easing farmer debts
Federal agencies plan to pour millions into Nebraska with a program praised by A. B. R. Anderson state and federal agricultural statistician. Debts are expected to be paid and farmers to buy commodities as wheat benefit checks flow in and corn loans based on 45 cents per bushel support farm needs before Christmas.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
A. BR. Anderson
Anderson
Burlington bridge purchase eyed for scenic highway plan
Richardson county commissioners discussed buying the Burlington railroad bridge over the Nemaha River near Rule to create a scenic highway on the abandoned Atchison to Rule branch. The Burlington disman tisement continues and the span was expected to fetch about $5,000.
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Richardson County Commissioners
Burlington Railroad
Nemaha River
Rule
Atchinseon- Rule Branch
Burlington
Hearing Set on North Loop Power and Irrigation Project Nebraska
Secretary Ickes told Senator Norra a Public Works Administration board will hear the North Loop project in Nebraska. Engineer E H Dunmire says the hearing implies continued consideration despite an earlier adverse examiner report.
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Ickes
Public Works Administration
Norra
Technical Board of Review
North Loop
Nebraska
E. H. Dunmire
Engineerimg
FDIC reports widespread bank applications across states
The FDIC said 244 Iowa banks applied for membership and 217 had been examined. In Nebraska 166 applied and 121 examined, while South Dakota saw 129 apply and 116 examined. The program slated to begin operation January 1.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Nebraska beer tax receipts and transfers reported
Nebraska collected 50741.62 in beer taxes at 93 cents per barrel since 3.2 beer became legal. State Treasurer George Hall and Deputy Director W. H. McGuffin noted 44513.43 has been turned over to the treasurer as net income after administration costs. The balance remains on deposit in a Lincoln bank.
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Nebraska
George Hall
W. H. McGuffin
McGaffin
City Projects Plan Regrading and Planting at Broken Bow
The plan funds state projects including regrading and planting the courthouse lawn at Broken Bow. Twenty four men will work in alternating shifts to speed completion before bad weather. Another city project widens muddy creek with two thousand one hundred dollars allotted.
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Court House
Broken Bow
Pleasant Valley United Brethren Church 50th Anniversary
Pleasant Valley United Brethren church five miles south of Pawnee City celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with services led by Dr A P Vannice York conference superintendent a basket dinner and other events. A O Richardson longtime farmer in the community is the sole survivor who helped build the first church in 1833 on land given by the late Robert T Scott. In honor of Pleasant Rogers a county pioneer who owned the land before Scott the church was named Pleasantmt Valley.
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Pleasant Valley
Chadron Plans City Airport Upgrade Seek Federal Funds
Chadron city officials and Dawes County urged Governor Bryan to obtain federal civil works funds for a municipal aviation field. The delegation requested 7630 dollars to prepare city land for a landing field under a nationwide program with several million dollars allotted.
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Chadron
Dawes County
Bryan
Nebraska
Lowenthal
Egret Missioner
Hern
Oldest Nebraska-born white man turns ninety in quiet home
Otis E. Allis of Pottawattamie county Nebraska celebrates his ninetyeth birthday at his daughter Mrs G C Plumer in Council Bluffs Iowa. Born Genoa Nebraska to a missionary to Indians he helped found Bellevue and Treder's Point before settling near Lake Mana wa. His hobby was moviegoing before eyesight declined. He was once a child playmate to an Indian patron and a close friend of the Fontenelle family.
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Nebraska
Otis E. Allis
Genoa
G. C. Plumer
Council Blugs
Iowa
Allis
Bellevue
Treder’s Point
Lake Manawa
Prohibition Ends as Utah Ratifies Twenty first Amendment
The era of prohibition closes after Utah becomes the thirty sixth state to ratify. President Roosevelt proclaims the end and urges restraint while states transition to licensed alcohol sales. The DOJ shifts its prohibition unit to the alcoholic beverage unit as new liquor regulations move forward.
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Washington
United States
Utah
Commonwealth
Union
Congress
Phillips
Roosevelt
Cummings
Department of Justice
Prohibition
Alcoholic Beverage’ Unit
Prohibition Bureau
Division of Investigation
Alexander Legge Dies Suddenly at His Hinsdale Home
Alexander Legge sixty seven a farm boy who rose to president of the International Harvester company died suddenly at his suburban Hinsdale home. Legge had resigned in 1981 to resume his post as president of the organization and led industrial mobilization and the Allied Purchasing Commission.
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Chicago
Alexander Legge
International Harvester Company
Hinsdale
Nation Into Operation
Allied Purchasing Commission
Wilkins Expedition Sets Sail for Antarctic
The Wilkins expedition led by Sir Hubert Wilkins Lincoln Ellsworth and Bernt Balchen departs Dunedin New Zealand heading toward the Antarctic Their first stop is the bay of Whales aboard the Wyatt Harp Balchen operates his monoplane which was overhauled during the stay.
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Manchester
Warren W. Finney
Emporia
Kan
Ibbet
State News
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