Roosevelt Forms a Super Council for Recovery Efforts
The White House announced the creation of an executive council to coordinate emergency economic recovery measures. President Roosevelt will chair weekly meetings with cabinet members and key recovery program leaders to run a vast federal machine aimed at boosting business and jobs.
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Washington
White House
Frank’©. Walker
Democratic National Committee
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Executive Council
Starts Life Term Forty Hours After Killing Man
Milwaukee reporter notes that Robert Shinners twenty one year old son of Sheriff Joseph Shinners was killed during a robbery attempt at a storage warehouse office where he worked as night manager. Fred Garcia junior thirty of Riverside California pleaded guilty and received a life sentence. Garcia is to spend every July 8 in solitary confinement as part of his punishment.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Robert Shinners
Joseph Shinners
Fred Garcia, Jr
Riverside
Calif
Waupun Penitentiary
Shiners
Garcia
George Shaughnessy
Bay Diver Retriev es $7 100 From River
Lawrence mass postal substation robbery victim money orders totaling 7100 recovered by a thirteen year old diver at the Shawsheen river after postal inspector Joseph Callagy joined the rescue. The diver logged eighteen dives before surfacing the strong box containing the stolen funds.
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Lawrence
Mass
Joseph Callagy
Shawsheen
Rockfeller gift furthers 13 mile Palisades Parkway plan
John D. Rockefeller Jr. donates about 40 percent of the land needed for a 13 mile parkway atop the Palisades cliffs above the Hudson on the New Jersey side. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission already holds 82 percent with an expected 8 percent more soon.
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John D., Jr
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Hudson River
New Jersey
Commission
Illinois Iowa ratify day repeal in historic sessions
Springfield and Des Moines report a 50 to 0 Illinois convention vote ratifying the Twenty first amendment repealing prohibition. In Iowa, 90 counties endorsed repeal in a unanimous convention with Joseph Fralley as chair and Major General Tinley as secretary, aiming to finalize the statewide vote on June 20. Governor Horner urged opposition to changes to national temperance law.
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Springfield
House of Representatives
Horner
Bruce A. Campbell
Belleville
Harold G. Ward
Chicago
Senate
Des Moines
Iowa
State House
Joseph Fralley
Fort Madison
Matthew Tinley
Council Bluffs
Clyde Herring
Ida
Wise-Smith
Kentucky Girl Louise Gibbs Green Dies at 18
Louise Gibbs Green of Hopkinsville Kentucky died after a life marked by early marriage at thirteen for a mule team union and later trauma. In October 1932 William Perrigo shot off her leg after another marriage proposal she refused. She died at relatives' home following an illness.
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Hopkinsville
Louise Gibbs Green
Ed Green
Henry Gibbs
William Perrigo
President Approves Cotton Textile Code in New Economic Era
President Roosevelt signed an executive order approving the cotton textile code. The measure sets minimum weekly wages of 12 dollars in southern plants and 18 dollars in northern plants, and enforces a maximum 40 hour work week, signaling a new approach to economics and government.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Auto Deaths in State Show Decrease in 1932
Census figures show fewer automobile accident deaths in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota in 1932 than 1931. Iowa's state rate fell from 22.8 to 16.9 per 100 000, Nebraska from 21 to 15.3, with Omaha city rates also declining. South Dakota records one of the lowest state rates in the nation.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Census Bureau
Des Moines
Omaha
United States
Oats Yield To Set Low Record In Nebraska Crop Report
The July Nebraska crop report notes oats yield at 11 bushels, the lowest on record, with 24,486,000 bushels produced versus 74,190,000 last year and a five-year average of 67,015,000. Many fields were pastured or cut for hay, and about 19 percent of the old crop remains on farms. Wheat crop is not as badly harmed as expected and corn may still make a splendid crop.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Conservation Camps Show Results At Fort Robinson And Chadron
Four hundred thirty Nebraska youths in conservation camps near Fort Robinson and Chadron report progress after three weeks. Camp Crawford workers improve 820 acres of pasture, build soil saving dams, prune timber on 400 acres, and fix streams and roads. Camp Chadron crew of 198 youths prune 117 acres of pine, clear a mile of stream, and enhance park areas and roads.
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Fort Robinson
Chadron
Clayton Watkins
Robert Fechner
Washington
Camp Crawford
Conservation Army
Camp Chadron
Watkins
Toll bridge plan eyed across Missouri at Rule Nebraska
Public hearing in the office of the United States district engineer laid out plans for a toll bridge over the Missouri River at Rule Nebraska. The bridge would toll until construction costs are repaid and then transfer to Missouri and Nebraska. Omaha bank deposits on June 30 reached 80.27 million, up about 4.6 million since January and higher than a year ago. Loans stood at 30.38 million, down 2.7 million from the start of the year and down 7.5 million from a year earlier.
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Missouri River
Rule
Nebraska
United States District Engineer
Missouri
Omaha
Burlington Officials Cite Grain Movement Uplift in July
Burlington officials report a 35 percent rise in Nebraska and system carloadings in the first week of July from a year earlier. They credit a continued large grain movement as prices rise for farmers driving the increase.
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Burlington
Richardson County acreage and value shift in one year
The county gained several hundred acres due to Missouri river shifts along the eastern boundary. Total county acres increased to 343 416 from 343 054 last year, while assessed value dropped 25 percent.
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Richardson County
Missouri
Record totals show peak Omaha grain exchange receipts
Records of the Omaha grain exchange show receipts totaling 387 cars, the largest single day run since August 3, 1931. The breakdown includes 176 cars of corn the highest in over two years, 146 cars of wheat the top number since August 1932, 56 cars of oats, eight of rye and one of barley.
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Omaha Grain Exchange
Nebraska Guard Becomes National Guard of United States
Adjutant General H. J. Paul stated the Nebraska National Guard is now the National Guard of the United States under a new federal law. The President can call them with less red tape, and the governor retains authority to call them out. In war, the guard would serve as a unit rather than being spread through the regular army.
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H. J. Paul
Nebraska National Guard
Diseases in June Show Mixed Changes in State Morbidity
The state bureau of health reports June morbidity dips for most diseases except smallpox which rose from five May cases to eighteen June. Measles fell from 747 May cases to 371 June while diphtheria rose from 13 May cases to 19 in June.
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State Bureau of Health
Norfolk Chamber Sponsors Municipal Pool Plan
Norfolk chamber members back a project to build a city pool. A committee probes federal financing options while progress stalls awaiting backing details. Two site options are proposed: a river section near the old course or Central Park.
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Chamber of Commerce At
Norfolk
Central Park
Nebraska Hog Crops Expected Rise Amid Policy Ties
A. E. Anderson estimates the October 1 hog crop will be about 4 percent larger than the previous year. The Nebraska spring pig crop edges up from last year but trails two years ago, totaling 4 631 000 pigs versus 4 406 000 and 5 460 000 in prior years. The data come as a federal corn hog program may be considered to lift prices and manage output this fall.
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A. E. Anderson
Nebraska
Nebraska to pave key highways with federal funds
Governor Bryan announced use of 7.8 million dollars from the federal highway fund for continuous paving across Nebraska. The Lincoln highway is to be finished first with further work on highways 6 south of the Platte and 20 north of it. He aims to create a mud free cross state route, weather permitting.
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Nebraska
Bryan
Public Works
Platte
Illinois to get federal relief for closed banks
Washington announced that Illinois will receive farm mortgage relief as the federal farm credit administration buys mortgages held in closed banks. About 25 million dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds will be used to take over appraised farm mortgages in Illinois banks now closed or under government restrictions.
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Washington
Illinois
Federal Farm Credit Administration
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Federal
Wisconsin
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Many Holes Found at Cove Creek Dam Site Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority ordered a survey after finding many holes around the Cove Creek Dam site near Knoxville. TVA chairman Arthur E. Morgan said geologists are mapping coves and subterranean channels to assess feasibility and potential leakage risk before approving the 35 million dollar project.
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Tennessee U. S. Dam
Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Cove Creek
Tennessee
Arthur E. Morgan
Knoxville
Army
Morgan
Valley Authority
Federal Agent Warns States to Aid Relief
Washington reports Harry L. Hopkins federal emergency relief administrator warned states they face a rude shock soon if they do not finance their relief work. He told relief executives gathered for discussions that some states want the federal government to pay 100 percent of unemployment relief costs.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief
Federal
Hopkins
Maniac Slain After All Night Albany Battle
Police killed Frank Stankiewiecz twenty two after an eight hour siege at the sheriffs apartment in Albany Oregon. He had escaped from the state hospital for the insane at Salem and barricaded himself with a veritable arsenal.
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Maniac
Albany
Ore
Frank Stankiewiecz
State Hospital For the
Salem
Wind and hail destroy crops near Odebolt Iowa
A heavy wind and hail storm damaged crops and buildings over about 12 square miles around Odebolt. It snapped corn at the ground and flattened unharvested small grain while scattering shocks across fields.
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Iowa
Odebolt
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