Senate approves sweeping tax bill amid budget clash
Washington reports the Senate passed a billion dollar tax increase at 12:25 am by 72 to 1,113,000 estimated revenue, after five months of consideration. The measure, including tariff items, goes to a conference committee to reconcile differences with the House. The bill abandons a proposed manufacturers excise tax amid a Treasury plan balancing the budget.
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Glass
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Shipstead
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Fred Frame Wins Indianapolis Auto Derby Record Lap
Fred Frame of Los Angeles won the 500 mile Indianapolis auto derby in a Miller-Hartz Special with a 4:48:03.79 time and an average speed of 104.144 mph, setting a new track record. He earned first prize plus about 20,000 in lap prizes and awards. The second to fourth finishers beat prior record marks, including Howdy Wilcox and Cliff Bergere.
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Los Angeles
Peter de Paolo
Speedway
Frame
del Paolo
Howdy Wilcox
Wilcox
Cliff Bergere
Hollywood
A. Studebaker
Bob Carey
Anderson
Ind
Communists Call for Full Equality for Negroes at Chicago Convention
The Communist party of America after nominating James W. Ford for vice president declared it would fight for full economic political and social equality for the Negro masses. William Z. Foster stated the party seeks a Soviet United States and a revolutionary path out of crisis through workers actions against capitalism. The platform did not address prohibition.
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Chicago
James W. Ford
Communist Party of American
William Z. Foster
United States
Greece Bans Former Dictator Pangalos to Corfu
The council of defense exiles Gen. Theodoros Pangalos, former Greek dictator, to Corfu amid reports of subversive activity by his followers.
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Corfu
Children Plead With Hoover For Dad’s Freedom
Three Detroit children Bernice Irene and Clifford Feagan visit the White House to appeal to President Hoover for their father Charles R Feagan charged with unlawful possession of an automobile. Hoover grants time and promises to review the case with details to be sent from Detroit. The father was later released on personal recognizance pending hearing.
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Bruning Cabinet Forced to Resign in Berlin
Berlin reports an unprecedented political shift as Chancellor Heinrich Bruening is ousted by President Paul von Hindenburg rather than a Reichstag vote. A stopgap cabinet under Lieut. Col. Franz von Papen forms, with Papen aiming for parliamentary elections in the fall. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis consider neutrality until elections. Von Papen, former American military attache in Washington, returns to Germany to lead a cabinet dominated by nobility and Catholic influence.
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Paul von Hindenburg
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von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
Adolf Hitler
von Papen
America
Washington
United States
Germany
Germania
Catholic Party
Pope Pius XI Celebrates Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Congratulatory messages from around the world poured into the Vatican for Pope Pius XI who was born in Lombardy to a factory manager. He marked the anniversary with a simple thanksgiving Mass in his private chapel, attended by close family, several bishops, and papal guards in full dress.
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Senate Revenue Bill Shows Wide Tax Increases Across Sectors
The bill outlines new income taxes on individuals and corporations, estate and gift taxes, and broad excise levies on fuels, cosmetics, jewelry, sporting goods, firearms, and more. It also lists import and utility taxes, stamp and telecom charges, and real estate and bond transfer duties with a total estimated yield around 1.2385 billion, though some reductions are noted.
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Tella Es
Nebraska autos rank eighteenth as 416131 registered
Nebraska's 1931 auto registration reached 416,131 as the state reports fiscal data for the first ten months of the biennium starting July 1, 1931. Expenditures climbed about two million dollars above the 1929–30 period, driven by highway costs and legislative session expenses.
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Smith
Plainview Nebraska Named From Postman Tale
In 1872 Chris ten Lerum, a Plainview to Norfolk mail carrier for two years, suggested naming Roseville Plainview to avoid rose brothers' prominence. The town adopted the name Plainview. Lerum later settled west of Plainview, married Margaret Alexander in 1876, who had been the district’s first teacher, and their daughter became the district’s first high school graduate.
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Lerum
Mater
Margaret
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F. H. Nye
Nebraska ranks high in automobile ownership and road funds
Nebraska leads among numerous states in auto ownership with 416 131 registered vehicles in 1931, including trucks, according to American Highways. License sales grossed 3 742 101 dollars with 1 088 282 for state highways and 2 539 326 for local roads, while Westesia reported 253 308 registrations and 4 519 763 in income.
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Westesia
State Gasoline Tax Surpasses Last May by 75000
State treasurer reports May gasoline tax receipts at 793,541 dollars, an increase of 75,000 dollars over the same month last year. The rise reflects stronger collections than the prior May.
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Poultry Cooperators Report April Profit and Egg Yield
Nebraska extension service marketing plan participants show a net profit of 14 cents per hen in April. One farmer with eighty two hens averaged 24 cents per dozen, while the statewide average was 12 cents. An average of 18.8 eggs per hen was produced.
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Nebraska Extension Service
Nebraska 1931 highway program advances miles completed
A recent compilation shows Nebraska completed lead miles of improved highway in 1931 with grading draining gravel sand and gravel concrete work totaling about 250 miles 84 miles and 49 miles 222 miles respectively. The report compares Nebraska with Iowa South Dakota Kansas Wyoming Colorado and Missouri showing Nebraska’s program favorable against nearby states.
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Missouri
Modern hay grinding method shocks Cairo observers
The community of Cairo saw P BR Thompson, a local hay buyer, demonstrate a large grinder mounted on a heavy truck. Backing the truck to a box car door, the machine grinds alfalfa and fills the car, cutting extra handling and labor.
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P BR. Thompson
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Governor Recommends 1500 Acre Pine Ridge Park in Nebraska
Governor Charles W Bryan after a Northwestern Nebraska tour urged designating 1500 acres in the Pine Ridge region near Harrison as a state or federal park. He described the rugged pine and cedar covered hills as a potential park site and noted spring crops are excellent after recent rains.
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Charles W Bryan
Nebraska counties seek state aid without strings on grasshopper fight
Antelope Boyd Brown Keya Paha Roth and Holt counties in northern Nebraska call for state aid without county dollar matching to battle grasshopper infestations. They report exhausted resources, tax levies at the limit, and warn that 12 percent of Nebraska could become non taxable. Governor Bryan plans an $18,000 state fund to be matched to buy poison bran.
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Keya Paha
Antelope
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Missouri River
Nebraska crop survey calls plains garden spot after rains
A. E. Angerson notes Northeastern and north central Nebraska as the state's garden spot due to abundant moisture after a dry previous year. He reports Hessian fly in Phelps county, replanting efforts in the panhandle, and expected rises in corn and barley plantings with stable potato acreages in the west.
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