U S Recognizes Mendieta Regime In Cuba
Havana reports the United States recognizes Cuba after months of upheaval with a brief State Department ceremony. Jefferson Caffery handed a formal recognition to Secretary Cosme de la Torriente as crowds celebrated Mendieta’s presidency and American ships saluted. France Italy Chile and others signaled recognition while talks focus on Platt amendment sugar imports and tariff changes.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
State Department
Jefferson Caffery
Cosme de la Torriente
Wartorn Island Republic
Wyoming
Carlos Mendieta
Cabanas
Presidential
Mendieta
Vivas
United States of America
de la Torriente
Italy
Chile
Santo Domingo
Panama
Mexico
France
London
England
Washington
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Manuel Marquez Sterling
Three-Fingered Jack Found Shot to Death in Oak Park
Chicago gangster Wille Three-Fingered Jack White was found dead with three bullets in his body at his Oak Park apartment. Police sought two men named Bill and Joe as possibly involved while noting White’s age of forty four and his recent marriage to Nancy Kelley, a nightclub entertainer.
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Chicago
Wille
Jack
White
Bill
Joe
Teamsters
Oak Park
Nancy Kelley
Astor Gillespie engagement ends before wedding
The engagement of John Jacob Astor III and Miss Eileen S Gillespie Wort ends and their February 6 wedding is canceled. Announcers Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gillespie, parents of Miss Gillespie, offered no reason for the split.
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New York
John Jacob Astor III
Eileen S. S. Gillespie
Lawrence L. Gillespie
Gillespie
Miners' Officers Praise NRA Program At Biennial Convention
Indianapolis reports 1,700 delegates opened the United Mine Workers of America thirty third biennial convention. President J L Lewis praised the recovery act and labor unity, urging move of headquarters to Washington if beneficial and noting miners benefited under the blue eagle.
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Indianapolis
NRA
United Mine Workers of America
Organized Labor
National’ Recovery Administration
America
International Executive Board
Washington
J. L. Lewis
Illlinois
Navy supply measure passes House with fleet expansion plan
The House approved a 284 million 747 thousand 244 dollar Navy department supply bill adding 22 vessels and funds to begin construction of an 8 inch gun cruiser and three 6 inch gun cruisers. It aims to bring the fleet to full treaty strength. A separate Navy replacement bill sponsored by Vinson will be debated later.
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House
Washington
Navy Department
Vinson
House Naval Affairs Committee
Hooper Won’t Seek Re election Amid Rubber Stamp Critique
Kalamazoo Michigan Congressman Joseph L Hooper of Battle Creek representing the Third Michigan district declares he will not be a candidate again He cites disgust with what he calls rubber stamp activities in Congress State Senator J T Upjohn Republican announces his candidacy
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Joseph L. Hooper
Battle Creek
Michigan
Hooper
Congress
J. T. Upjohn
Nebraska Tax Bill Drops to 1919 Low Across State
State Tax Commissioner W. H. Smith reported final 1933 figures show Nebraska total taxes at 41.4 million across state county school city village and township units, down from 43.3 million in 1932 and below 50 million for the second year since 1919.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
W. H. Smith
Smith
Douglas County
Nebraska Loop Project Seeks 2.5 Million Loan and Grant
Proponents of the Middle Loop Power and Irrigation projects in Nebraska asked the Public Works Administration for a 2.5 million loan and grant. Present were C. A. Sorensen Lincoln attorney Walter F. Gibbons of Comstock A B Out House Loup City M L Fries Arcadia and H C James Omaha engineer with Sorensen pressing for prompt action and noting Senator Norris support. Sorensen also urged appraisal appeal boards to review land values by federal land bank appraisers before Farm Credit Administration hearings.
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Washington
Omaha
Sorensen
Norris
Farm Credit* Administration
Sorenski
Federal Land Bank
Nebraska CWA Wages Totals 2.35 Million Unveiled
Nebraska CWA wages totaling about 2.35 million dollars were disclosed by J. E. Woods state statistician. The figure covers wages paid since the program began in Nebraska and reflects distributions to local workers.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
J. E Woods
Nebraska Tax Receipts Show Decline in 1931 Income
Nebraska residents filed 1931 income tax returns showing a net income of 86 120 131 a drop from 113 934 843 in 1930 No Nebraskans reported millionaire incomes and only one return exceeded 300 000 State funds were apportioned to counties from 463 615 with Douglas Lancaster Custer and Scotts Bluff receiving the largest shares A new Federal Savings and Loan charter was granted in Kearney as the first in Nebraska and the second in the five state district The Kearney association will liquidate its inactive assets into the new entity.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Congress
Charles W. Taylor
Douglas County
Lancaster
Custer
Scotts Bluff
Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Kearney
Nebraska
Kearney Savings and Loan Association
Nebraska Sheep Feeding Declines 7 Percent From Last Year
E. V. Jones, assistant state and federal agricultural statistician, reported that Nebraska sheep feeding operations as of January 1 declined seven percent from the prior year. The drop is smaller than the 11 percent decline in the corn belt overall and the 13 percent decrease for corn belt and western states combined.
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Nebraska
E. V. Jones
Wheat crop aid checks reach Platte county farmers
Wheat administration in Lincoln reports that $104,586 in adjustment checks were received at Columbus for Platte county farmers. Platte county becomes the fiftieth Nebraska county to receive the funds, now totaling over $1,200,000. only Box Butte county’s $106,000 share exceeds Platte’s.
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Columbus
Platte County
Lincoln
Nebraska
Box Butte County
Nebraska CWA funds request and disbursements
J. D. Mehner statistician reports to Harry L Hopkins that Nebraska needs 70626 for Civil Works project materials already started. He notes 61471 paid for materials and 72331 due if the full 204429 allotment is released.
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J. D. Mehner
CWA
Harry L. Hopkins
Nebraska
Mehner
Cattle on Feed In Nebraska Up From Last Year
Nebraska January 1 cattle on feed rose 3 percent from a year earlier while the eleven corn belt states averaged about 8.5 percent lower. E V Jones assistant state and agricultural statistician announced that Nebraska and Iowa were the only corn states to report an increase in cattle feeding during the period covered by the report.
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Nebraska
E. V. Jones
Iowa
Nebraska board approves four projects totaling 103 675 dollars
The Nebraska public works advisory board at Fremont approved four projects expected to provide 50 000 man hours of work. Total cost 103 675 dollars with 76 200 dollar government share and 29 790 dollar grants. remaining as loans. Projects include Kearney elementary school 60 000, Kearney high school improvements 7 000, Palmyra school 30 375, Hyannis water improvements 6 300.
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Nebraska Public Works Advisory Board
Fremont
Kearney
Palmyra
Hyannis
State sheriff reports 1933 crimes and arrests totals
Governor Bryan released the sheriff's annual report listing 776 crimes and 461 arrests for 1933. Key figures include nine murders, eight bank robberies, 237 burglaries, 25 livestock thefts, 16 jailbreaks, 89 forgeries, 15 frauds, 78 harness and saddle thefts, 22 holdups, 83 missing persons cases, and 194 miscellaneous crimes.
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Bryan
Michael Endres
Lsted
Omaha Federal Loan Volume Sets Records Across Four States
President D. P. Hogan announced that during the first 15 working days of January the Omaha Federal Land Bank approved 1,856 first mortgage farm loans totaling 9,536,100 dollars and 1,857 second mortgage loans totaling 3,856,250 dollars. Overall farming loans across Nebraska Iowa South Dakota and Wyoming reached 13,391,350 dollars.
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Omaha Federal
D. P. Hogan
Nebraska
Iowa
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nebraska to manufacture its own state highway signs
Superintendent Gua Miller of the state reformatory said the machinery is ready to produce highway signs. Walter Hager of the board of control noted bids will be let soon for steel and enamel. Five bidders offered identical steel bids on five items, six firms bid enamel. Miller said tests would start immediately on samples, and about 30 men will work in the sign plant.
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Nebraska
Gua Miller
State Reformatory
Walter Hager
Board of Control
Miller
FLEEING FELON IS KILLED AND CAPTURES NEAR KANSAS PRISON
A posse of 40 officers along with National Guardsmen and farmers killed Bob Brady and captured three of six convicts after a prison break from the Lansing Kansas penitentiary. The fugitives led a chase through northeastern Oklahoma. three escapees remained at large.
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Paola
Kun
Bob
Big Boy) Brady
Kansas Penitentiary
Lansing
National
Charles Clifton McArthur
Kansas City
Jim Clark
Brady
Kirk Prather
Oklahoma
Clark
Frank Delmar
Lewis Dresser
Pawbuska
Fred Cody
Tommie McMahon
Benjamin Young
Lacey Simpson
Chicago
Frank Souder
Benton
Peoria
James J. Hackett
Thomas J. Lynch
Criminal Court
Hackett
Blue Island
Downstate
Greece orders Samuel Insull to leave by month end
The Supreme state council rejected Samuel Insull's appeal and ordered the former Chicago utilities magnate to seek another refuge by month’s end. The court also ordered him to pay the costs of the proceedings after the interior minister refused to extend his residence permit beyond January 31 to avoid extradition to the United States.
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Athens
Supreme State Council
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Interior
United States
Hunted by 500 Two Robbers Kill Selves
Basel Switzerland two German suspects in a Basel bank robbery shot themselves to avoid capture. Both died of head wounds after a massive search by 500 police with planes and searchlights. Four others were killed in the robbery and ensuing manhunt including two civilians and three police.
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Basel
Switzerland
Mit
Girl, Hurt in Plane Crash Dies in Monroe
Miss Stella Hatfield twenty two of Monticello Kentucky dies from crash injuries near Monroe. Pilot Harry L Brydsley of Toledo Ohio dies several hours after the accident.
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Monroe, Mich
Stella Hatfield
Monticello
Here
Harry L. Brydsley
Toledo
Netherlands' New Minister Presents His Credentials
Jonkheer H. M. Van Haersmade from the Netherlands presented his credentials to President Roosevelt at the White House in Washington.
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Netherlands
Washington
Jonkheer H. M. van Haersmade With
Roosevelt
White House
Paraguayan Troops Take Fort Mosnos From Bolivia
An official government dispatch said Paraguayan troops captured Fort Mosnos from Bolivian forces. The fort lies twenty miles north of Camacho and marks a notable territorial action in the region.
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Fort Mosnos
Bolivia
Asuncion
Paraguay
Camacho
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Mr. Roosevelt
Young Astor
Miss Gillespie Wort
Manuel M. Sterling
Senor Manuel Marquez Sterling
Island
Republic
Middle Loup
O'Connell
O‘connell
State News
Kansas
Greece
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