Hoover Urges States to Shoulder Burdens and Preserve Liberty
Washington. President Hoover in a Lincoln day address at the White House Lincoln study urged greater state and total responsibility to meet social and economic problems. He attacked shifting duties to the federal government and warned it risks liberty and character while pressing states to bear their own burdens.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Thieves Steal 216 Pounds of Cut Currency in Union Station Heist
In Washington three armed men assaulted an armed mail clerk at Union Station and escaped with three registered mail pouches. The bags contained 216 pounds of mutilated currency worth 8 807 000 if whole. The cut bills, shipped separately with matching halves, left authorities with only a scant description and a citywide manhunt.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Bank
New York
Treasury
Union Station
Senate UK Approves $100 Million Farm Board Fund
Washington reports a $100 000 000 appropriation for the farm board as part of the half billion authorized by Congress. The action follows a strong attack on the board’s trading policy and completes the farm board funding plan.
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Senate UK
Farm Board’s Fund
Washington
Farm Board
Congress
New Pilgrimage Head Named in New York
Col. Francia H. Pope, Q. M. C., appointed head of the Gold Star Mothers and Widows Pilgrimage office by the War Department in New York replacing Brig. Gen. Alexander H. Willama. Pope previously served as assistant quartermaster general of the army for four years.
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New York
Francia H. Pope
War Department
Gold Star Mothers’ and Widows’ Pilgrimage Office
Alexander H. Willama
Pope
Army
House Panel Lets Veterans Bonus Loan Pass Half Way
Washington the house ways and means committee approved loans to world war veterans up to percent of their bonus certificates. The plan costs about 700 million dollars funded from the soldiers' bonus sinking fund or the government life insurance fund with no net debt increase.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Ogden Mills
Aml Means Committee
Congress
Hoover
Senate
Indiana Tax Control Plan Gains Support at Conference
The national tax conference sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation urged adoption of a Indiana like tax supervision model aimed at curtailing tax expenditures through coordination of local state and national governments. It recommended a con tinuance of the conference and its directives and called for consolidation of overlapping local governments under a single taxing authority.
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Chicago
Indiana
National Tax Conference
American Farm Bureau Federation
Arma
Nebraska Rivers and Lakes Highlight State Waterways
Nebraska boasts 1 200 lakes mostly in the sandhills aiding cattle raising while rivers like the Missouri and Platte shape scenic valleys. The piece notes major falls on the Niobrara and Snake River and calls the Platte both important and erratic with irrigation and power potential at Kearney Gothenburg.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Texas
Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
Missouri
Niobrara
Platte
Nemaha
Snake River
Valentine
Schlagle Falls
Schlagle Creek
Stiward Falls
Sears Falls
Parry Falls
Smith Falls
Kearney
Gothenburg
Elkhorn
Seward
Kansas Line
Kansas
State Sends 34 Carloads of Food to Drought Areas
Lincoln Nebraska and Colorado listed among states contributing carloads of food and cash to drought stricken regions. Nebraska sent 36 carloads of flour corn and wheat plus produce and a community shipped a carload of live poultry. Colorado leads with 40 carloads of beans potatoes onions and flour. Other states contributed varying carloads of corn beans vegetables fruit onions and apples.
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State
Lincoln
Nebraska
South
Mid-West
Red Cross
Colorado
Lowa
Idaho
Piorida
California
Minnesota
Oregon
Michigan
South Carolina
Gas Franchise Favored by Scottsbluff Voters in Narrow Margin
Scottsbluff citizens approved a natural gas franchise 944 to 47 for North Central Gas of Casper Wyoming, a subsidiary of Columbia Gas and Electric of New York. Officials said construction will start soon.
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Scottabluff
North Central Gas Company
Casper
Wyo
Columbia Gas and Electric Company of
New York
State Teachers Association Buys Residence Opp Capitol
Nebraska State Teachers Association announced purchase of a large residence opposite the state capitol to use as its state headquarters. Falls City residents witnessed a prairie schooner with livestock traveling south in no rush. A Geneva Signal photo shows three ears of corn from A. F. Garbe’s field near Grafton yielding 100 bushels per acre in 1929. The governor received a box of citrus from Florida with praise of Nebraska’s grain and meat surplus.
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Nebraska State Teachers’ Association
State Capitol
Falls City
Geneva
Grafton
A. F. Garbe
Nebraska
Doyle E. Carlton
Florida
Bryan
Lyons Farmers Union Sets Pay for Farm Labor Next Year
Thirty five farmers answered the recent Lyons Farmers Union call for a meeting to set wages for the coming year. After discussion the union decided on $456.00 per month for experienced men and room and board, while inexperienced men will receive $40.00 per month with room and board.
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Lyons Farmers’ Union
Brown County Carp Harvest Record Broken At Moon Lake
A force of men at Moon Lake in Brown County for the state commission stacked carp. Despite sand troubles the crew removed four tons and on the 17th broke their daily record by landing more than a carload. Carp run smaller this year than previously.
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Moon Lake
Brown County
Nebraska Vehicle Registrations Rise in 1930 Totals
A Department of Public Works survey shows 426,974 licensed vehicles in Nebraska in 1930, up from 419,198 in 1929. Most counties added cars, with Douglas County at 55,590 a 0.7 percent gain and Lancaster County at 31,152 registrations an 18 percent increase.
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Nebraska
Matill
Department of Public Works
Douglas County
Lancaster
Trapping Season Deepens Across Southeast State
Brer Red Fox and family are among animals trapped by Albert Last near Falls City this winter. Last has trapped nine of the animals. Southeast region reports extensive trapping despite mild weather with mink, raccoon and muskrat pelts making up most sales this season.
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Brer Red Fox
Albert Last
Falls City
Valley woman wins third in national yard contest
Mrs. Fritz R. Akerlund of Valley, who previously took first in a local yard and garden contest, is told her home placed third in a national contest for homes where work was done by hired workers. First two winners were on the Pacific coast. Otto Wilson of Waterloo earned honorable mention in the owner- completed class. The local event was sponsored by civic groups and the Valley Enterprise.
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Fritz R. Akerlund
Valley
Pacific Coast
Otto Wilson
Waterloo
Valley Enterprise
Omaha population by age groups from 1930 census report
The 1930 census shows Omaha’s total population at 214 006 with 3 131 persons 75 plus, 8 668 aged 66 to 74, and various other age brackets including 17 514 under 5 and 35 209 in 35 to 44. Infants under 1 numbered 3 445. 216 cases were unreported. The data highlights the rise in the 25 to 44 year group, now over one third of the population.
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Omaha
Census Bureau
Gasoline Coloration Setback Hinders Farm Tax Exemption
Proponents pushing a bill to exempt farm implement gasoline from the 4 cent state tax and require color may face defeat as chemists report a black dye that cannot be easily removed from gasoline. State agricultural chemists have tested dyes to meet the law, but without removable color the plan fails.
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Estate Agricultural Department
Pope Pius XI Delivers First Pontifical Radio Address
The Vatican marks the ninth anniversary of the pope’s coronation as head of the church with the first pontifical radio message. Millions hear the Latin address as AVI radio station begins, Marconi credited, and HV.11 first announcement made. Cardinals, guards, and Mass precede the broadcast.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
AVI
Vatican
Tughelmo Marecont
Vatican Hill
Sig. Marcoul
Earth
United States
Canada
Samuel F. B. Morse
Holy See
Jesus
Bere
Marconi
Sistine Chapel
Curia
Marines Quit Nicaragua After Elections in 1932
The administration plans to withdraw American Marines from Nicaragua as soon as possible after the 1932 elections. The plan emerged after conferences among Secretary Stimson, Matthew K. Hanna, the American minister to Nicaragua, Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy who supervised the 1928 elections, and State Department Latin America experts.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Stimson
Matthew KE. Hanna
Frank R. McCoy
State Department
Latin-America
Vets Disability Claims Rise by 25,000 in 15 Days
Veterans Administration head Hines announced a surge in disability claims, totaling 356,221 with 52.48 percent adjudicated and 160,441 pending. The cities with most filings were Hines Illinois and Louisville Kentucky, each reporting large volumes.
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Washington
Hines
Louisville
Canberra plans bonus for Australian wheat growers
The government received a petition seeking a loan of 25 million to 90 million dollars to fund a bonus program for Australian wheat growers.
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Canberra
Australia
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