State Fair Plight Worse Than Others
Secretary Perry Reed and A H Miller report the Nebraska state fair is in dire financial shape due to a special act pledging grandstand receipts to bond payments of 260 000. The fair opens the first week of September, with limited funds and competing subsidies from nearby fairs and state allocations.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
United States
Canada
Perry Reed
International Association of Fairs and Expositions
International Associaion Meeting
Reed
A. H. Miller
Blair
Topeka
Wichita
Nebraska county official praise for Roosevelt plan at convention
At the thirty ninth annual Nebraska Association gathering County Commissioner J D Forsythe and Frank Lehmkuhl praised Roosevelt's recovery program. They highlighted federal corn loans aiding Nebraska agriculture and reduced farmer tax complaints. Forsythe noted progress and Trotz optimism about prosperity under the administration.
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Nebraska Association of County Commissioner
Forsythe
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Lebmkuhl
Four Projects Approved by Fremont Nebraska Public Works Board
Fremont Nebraska public works advisory board approved four projects totaling 154 803 dollars with 146 91 thousand from federal funds. Grants 40 897 and long term loans 105 194. Chadron water works 74 304 Stuart sewer 52 517 Swanton water 15 792 Fremont paying 12 190.
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Fremont
Nebraska
Public Works Advisory Board
Chadron
Stuart
Swantom
Swanton
Kearney State Teachers College
Kearney
Peek Quits AAA for Another Job
Chicago strains to form a united agrarian front as Henry Wallace and George N. Peek diverge over farm relief. Peek leaves the AAA to head a new export agency while the brain trust reshapes the department. Chester C. Davis poised as successor but delayed by Washington developments.
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Peek
AAA
Department of Agricultural
Agriculture Wallace
Rexford Tugwell
Brain Trust
W. R. Westervelt
Sears, Roebuck and Company
NRA
Chicago
United Agrarian Front
Agriculture
Henry Wallace
George N. Peek
American Farm Bureau Federation
Wallace
Chester C. Davis
Washington
Bolivian Troops Captured in Chaco Victory Parade
The defense ministry announced the capture of more than 13 900 Bolivian soldiers in the Gran Chaco victories. Celebrants marched through decorated streets as about 20 000 people filled the crowd for speeches by the defense minister and other officials.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Defense Ministry
Gran Chaco
Southern Women Plan War on Lynching in 1934
The Southern Association of Women for the Prevention of Lynching will meet in Atlanta on January 9 to discuss a personal investigation into every lynching in 1934 and publish the real story behind each. The program also includes a proposal to consolidate a federal anti lynching law.
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Atlanta
Southern Association of Women For the
Aeronautic Record Accepted by International Federation
The record of Lieut. Com. T. G. W. Settle of the U S Navy soaring 18 665 meters into the stratosphere in a balloon on November 20 was officially accepted by the International Aeronautic Federation in Paris.
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Aeronautic Federation
Settle
Paris
T. G. W. Settle
United States
International Aeronautic Federation
Federal prisoner slain during jail roof escape bid
Victor Vavra twenty five of Crete Neb shot and killed by officers after a fight on the Dodge county courthouse roof as he tried to escape with two cellmates. Vavra was awaiting trial on theft of a mail sack charge.
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Fremont
Neb
Dodge County
Victor Vavra
Crete
Mule market shows south prospering in record Atlanta sale
Atlanta stockyard set a record as 2,200 plus mules sold for over a quarter million dollars. The average price reached about 130 per head with buyers from Georgia Alabama Carolina and Missouri. Traders cited improved farming conditions and expected spring shortages as drivers of demand.
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Atlanta
Cliff Ragsdale
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Kansas
Missouri
Tennessee
North Carolina
Little Rock
Ark
L. Reinman
Six Die in Lufthansa Plane Crash Near Hamburg
A Lufthansa passenger aircraft crashed at Fuchisbuette air drome near Hamburg after an obstacle during a landing in bad visibility. Six people died including two Americans identified as Mrs. Emma Amalia Armstrong of New York and Astoria Long Island and Frank Barber of New York.
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Hamburg
Lufthansa
Fuchisbuette Airdrome
Emma Amalia Armstrong
New York
Astoria
L. I
Frank Barber
Missouri Judge Calls Lynch Mob Murderers
In St. Joseph Missouri Circuit Judge J W Gaddy denounced lynch law and told a special grand jury that anyone involved in the mob that lynched Lloyd Warner a black youth on November 28 is guilty of murder in the first degree He urged the grand jury to return indictments.
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St. Joseph
Lynch Law
J. W. Gaddy
Lloyd Warner
Spanish revolt crushed as uprisings fail across Spain
Authorities announce anarchist uprisings in four days of violence have been suppressed with 94 dead and hundreds wounded. A threatened general strike is said to have failed as the government maintains control across Madrid and the nation.
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Madrid
Spain
Kidnapper Killer Sentenced After Wichita Murder
Jack Wisdom, 26, confessed to killing Harry and Mrs Pritchard near Wichita and was jailed for life at hard labor in Kansas state penitentiary. He already admitted the 1934 murder of ranch hand E J Large after a card game dispute in Meade County. Wisdom was secretly brought to Wichita from Hutchinson for arraignment, with heavy guard amid fears of mob violence.
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Jack Wisdom
Harry Pritchard
Wichita
Kan
Silayer
Kansas State Penitentiary
Wisdom
Hutchinson
Roger L. NeSmith
Wiggins
Reformatory
E J. Large
Meade County
Large
Pritchards
Here
Jay
Oklo
Mrs Pritchard
Bison
Okla
Mr. Pritchard
el Reno
Pritchard
Kansas
Changes in the Foreign Service Announced
The State department listed assignments for three diplomats: Henry A. W. Beck of Indianapolis moved from Tsing Tao to Athens as vice consul, Hugh Millard of Omaha shifts Madrid to London as second secretary, and Warden M. Wilson of Indianapolis moves from Caracas to The Hague as first secretary of the legation.
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Foreign Service
Washington
State Department
Henry A. W. Beck
Indianapolis
Ind
Tsing Tao
China
United States
Athens
Greece
Hugh Millard
Omaha
Neb
Madrid
Spain
London
Eng
Warden M. Wilson
Legation
Caracas
Venezuela
Hague
Netherlands
Rancher kills three at Sulphur Springs then sues self
Bisbee Arizona Paris L Savage a 61 year old Sulphur Springs rancher killed Mr Claude M Mostellar his wife and their five year old daughter Dorothy after a quarrel then wounded himself at Douglas hospital He told officers Mrs Mostellar struck him with a stove poker during a call to the child before he died.
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Bisbee
Ariz
Paris
Savage
Sulphur Springs
Douglas
Claude M. Mostellar
Dorothy
Mostellar
Hirota Names Saito as Ambassador to Washington
A Tokyo dispatch reports Foreign Minister Koki Hirota plans to appoint Hiroshi Saito, currently Japanese minister to the Netherlands, as ambassador to Washington.
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Hiroshi Saito
Washington
Tokio
Rengo
Koki Hirota
Netherlands
Japan lays keel of cruiser Suzuya at Yokosuka base
The keel of the Suzuya, a 8,500 ton light cruiser, first of eight planned for Japan, was laid at the Yokosuka naval base signaling the start of construction.
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Japan
Yokosuka
State Parks Superintendent Publishes 1933 Season Report
Arboredge State park reports 1933 season totals with nearly 31 000 visitors from across the U S and abroad. A civil works crew conducts repairs and landscape work as W H Brokaw notes federal wheat checks totaled 230 913 with 16 412 arriving December 11 for 302 Platte county farmers. Rock county contracts get county approval while Grand Island airport committee sees a leadership change with A L Rushton replacing W A Arrasmith who moves to Washington as aviation advisor.
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Frank Williams
Arboredge State Park
United States
W. H. Brokaw
Platte County
Brokaw
Washington
Rock County
Grand Island
Airport Improvement Committee
Bryan
W. W. Arrasmith
A. L. Rushton
Omaha Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
Arrasmith
Nebraska
Bureau of Aeronautics, Department Or Commerce
Corn loan plan may revive banks says Nebraska official
Hugh Drake of the Nebraska railway commission says the storage certificate backing the corn loan program could renew mortgage bound banks. A Murdock banker submitted 23 thousand dollars worth of loans, exchanged for slow pay notes. Drake projects a fresh start for banks under restriction. Nebraska CWA figures show 21,141 men paid December 9, more than double prior week. George Hodge estimates about 10 thousand workers on public works with federal funds, totaling 31,140 employed. unemployment estimates drop from 77 thousand to about 46 thousand compared with December 9 figures.
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Hugh Drake
Nebraska Railway Commission
Murdock
Drake
CWA
Nebraska
George Hodge
Imperial Valley power district wins state approval for dam project
The Imperial Valley Power and Irrigation District received State Engineer Roy Cochran's approval as feasible and in conformance with public welfare, enabling a formal application for federal funds. The plan would dam the Harvey site on the Frenchman river to impound water for irrigation of 40 000 acres, affecting Chase Hayes Hitchcock and Red Pillow counties.
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Imperial Valley Power and Irrigation District
Roy Cochran
Chase
Hayes
Hitchcock
Red Pillow
Western Nebraska Farmers Pay More Tax Ahead of Schedule
Tax payments in western Nebraska show improved financial condition for farmers, with December figures running well above 1931 and 1932 levels. Cheyenne County Treasurer Louis Wasem notes 700 receipts issued between November 1 and December 1 versus 277 receipts in the prior year period, crediting a strong corn crop and the new semiannual payment law while acknowledging farmers still await allotment checks and outside aid.
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Nebraska
Louis Wasem
Cheyenne County
Wasem
Nebraska teachers urged to aid land reappraisal project
Deputy land commissioner J. H. Wehn told the Nebraska State Teachers' association delegate assembly that teachers should help revalue rented school lands to boost state school income. He cited fear of political pressure as keeping many hearings from taking place and pointed to disparities in Chase and Perkins counties where similar land shows different assessed values.
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Nebraska
J. H. Wehn
Nebraska State Teachers’ Association
Wehn
Chase
Perkins
Chase County
Perkins County
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Chadren
Chaco
South
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi Supreme Court
Annie May Harmon
Joseph Harmon
State News
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