Utilities seek to halt New Deal public power push
The Edison Electric Institute urged Roosevelt to join a suit testing TVA constitutionality, arguing federal action would harm security holders. McNinch, head of the federal power commission, disputed rates and noted Canada’s lower average kilowatt costs. The president’s national resources board proposed long term plans for land and water development and rural electrification to reduce unemployment.
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Fzerrre
United States
Roosevelt
T. Ny
McCarter
Institute
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Newton D. Baker
James M Beck
W. L Grubb
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Power Commission
Sharp
Edison Electric Institute
Canada
National Resources’ Board
Perkins
Missouri Senator Proposes Open War Plans Debate
Senator Clark of Missouri urged in a committee hearing that War Department mobilization plans long kept secret be shown to Congress during peacetime for debate. He warned the army’s censorship plan could rush eight mobilization bills to a level of control.
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War Department
Clark
Missouri
Department
Congress
Paraguay Rejects League Peace Plan in Gran Chaco War
Paraguay has rejected the League of Nations peace plan provisionally accepted by Bolivia. In a note from Paraguayan authorities, they claim their forces in the Gran Chaco jungle are superior to Bolivia's, calling prisoners a growing army of higher quality and numbers.
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Gran Chaco
Paraguay
League of Nations
Bolivia
Chaco
Farm crop values rise despite lower production in 1984
USDA estimates show agricultural wealth from five leading grains at 1.894 billion dollars, up from 1.581 billion. Production totals for wheat corn oats rye and barley reach 2.541 billion bushels, far below 1983 and the 1927–31 five year average, with heat and drought cited as key damage factors.
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Department of Agriculture
Lynch mob clashes in Shelbyville riot kill two officers
An angry mob of white men in Shelbyville Tennessee battled National Guardsmen and deputies to free a black youth. Two mob members were killed and several wounded as bayonets and bullets were used. The courthouse was dynamited and burned before the crowd fled the town.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
Japan Moves to Abrogate Washington Naval Treaty
The Privy Council unanimously recommends abrogation to Emperor Hirohito. Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma announces the imperial government desires continuation of fortification and naval base limits but will cope with the resulting situation if those clauses end.
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Japan
Privy Council
Hirohito
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Preas
Pacific Ocean
Army Growth Demands 14 000 Officers and 206 000 Enlisted
Secretary Dern presses for stronger armed forces as Navy chief Swanson supports bigger naval defenses. He calls for 14 000 commissioned officers and 206 000 enlisted in the army, 2320 serviceable air force planes, full funding for a consolidated War department building, and a reformed promotion system with higher pay for lower grades when fiscally possible.
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Dern
Navy
Swanson
War Department
Congress
Treasury
Mary Harriman Rumsey Dies in Washington
RS Mary Harriman Rumsey, daughter of B H Harriman and promoter of the New Deal, died in Washington after battling to defend consumer interests against industry and labor. She headed the National Consumers Board of the NRA and was noted for public affairs work. Two other notable deaths included men who featured in sensational cases and once served in Congress.
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Mary Harriman Rumsey
Washington
B. H. Harriman
National Consumers’ Board
NRA
Nebraska Tax Burden on Middle Class in 1932
Nebraska paid 970 563 of the nation s income tax in 1932. Only 2 percent of residents filed returns, averaging 38.06 tax on 2588.21 income. Wage income led with 49 053 000. corporations paid 948 000. dividends 5 547 000.
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Omaha
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Nebraska
Public Works Grants and Loans Hit Nebraska Since 1933
Nebraska has received grants totaling 4 329 986 and loans totaling 14 306 400 under the Public Works Administration since August 1933. The overall construction payroll estimated at 6 364 125 supports these programs, with a grand total of 21 230 191 in expenditures and employment to date.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Public’ Works Administration
Nebraska Banks See Net Decline Since 1933 Holiday
The Nebraska banking department reports 317 solvent state chartered banks as of September 25, down from 415 before the 1933 bank holiday. Deposits total $66,942,247, up $8,222,246 in 18 months, while reserves rise to 72 percent of deposits. Loans and discounts figures are not shown. total loans roughly $19,000,000.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
United States
Roosevelt
Luikart
Corn price hits Omaha grain exchange peak since 1928
Corn sold on the Omaha grain exchange for 1.06 a bushel the highest price since May 1928. A car of No 2 white special billing fetched this price while feeders were paying up to 1.16 for supplies. Water returns to the Platte near Kearney at about 600 second feet the first time since last May when the river dried up.
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Omaha Grain Exchange
Platte River
Kearney
Cattle feeding in Nebraska down from last year
A. E. Anderson, state and federal agricultural statistician, reports Nebraska cattle on feed this month are 50 percent lower than a year ago. He notes no improvement in feeding conditions over the past month and says stocker and feeder cattle shipments into Nebraska were 41 percent of October 1933, with five months July to November totaling about 58 percent of last year.
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Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Anderson
Sportsmen urged to feed starving Nebraska birds
Frank B. O Connell secretary of the Game Forestation and Parks commission appeals to sportsmen to help save Nebraska birds hit by drought. He says thousands of bushels of grain are needed this winter and asks buyers to donate ten cent grain bags at local points with wardens and volunteers distributing it where birds can reach it.
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Nebraska
Frank B. O’connell
Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
O’connell
Harrowing trek through snow with wolves near Belgrade Neb
Miss Lucille Gaskill and Louis McHenry both 27 with young Dickie Childs four, Albion residents, endured hours in subzero temperatures wading through waist deep snow as a pack of about a dozen wolves trailed them. Their auto stalled in a snowdrift and the trio sought a farm house two miles away in the Cedar River valley near Belgrade. They became lost wandering five to six miles off course before reaching Carl Anderson’s farm.
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Lucille Gaskill
Louis McHenry
Dickie Childs
Albion
Carl Anderson
Belgrade
Neb
Miss Gaskill
McHenry
Cedar River
Anderson
Agriculture and Inspection Dept Receipts Reach 3.94 Million
The annual report by Dwight Felton shows the department collected 3 944 118 in year to November 30 with gasoline tax receipts leading at 8 512 041 18 and beer taxes totaling 266 384. Tax receipts on 3 2 percent beer since August 19 1933 totaled 317 125. The three year period shows 1932 sources at 161 426 76 and 1933 at 5 155 055 due to gasoline tax transfers. The department covers fees and taxes from 380 sources.
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Department of Agriculture and Inspection
Dwight Felton
Felton
State Treasurer's Office
Agriculture Department
Department
Forest of trees thrives at Curtis Nebraska school
Proof of robust growth in a campus forest at the Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis shows 12 000 trees planted six years ago, with over 10 000 surviving. No irrigation was used and clean cultivation aided growth. Varieties include American and Chinese elms honey locust poplar hackberry maples pines and cedars. The oldest trees reach 18 feet.
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Nebraska
Nebraska School of Agriculture
Curtis
H. K. Douthit
Douthit
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