Roosevelt sworn in as president in Washington ceremony
Roosevelt becomes the thirty second U S president after taking the oath on the Capitol steps administered by Chief Justice Hughes. He delivers the inaugural address outlining the new deal as crowds cheer and radio broadcasts carry the speech nationwide.
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Washington
F. C. Roosevelt
United States
Capitol Plaza
Hughes
Supreme Court
Mr. Hoover
Roosevelt
Capitol
I Corinthians
Prison Break Fails as Convicts Take Guns in Escape Attempt
In Sacramento two long term prisoners Lloyd Sampeel and Martin Dilsen attempted a dramatic escape from Faison prison armed with two handmade pistols 150 rounds of homemade ammunition and knives. Colcom killed himself in Warden Court Smiths office while Sampson surrendered in the prison yard after prior escape attempts. The weapons were built from steel drill bits springs and bolts in a quarry shop.
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Sacramento
Calif
Lloyd Sampeel
Martin Dilsen
Faison
Colcom
Court Smith
Sampson
Plane delivers provisions to snowbound group near Los Angeles
Sixteen men women and children stranded by heavy snow near Los Angeles received airlifted provisions to avert possible starvation after roads were blocked.
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Los Angeles
al Ronda
Senator Walsh Dies Aboard Rail Trip To Washington
Montana Senator Thomas J. Walsh died suddenly on an Atlantic Coast Line train near Wilson North Carolina. He was seventy four and traveling with his bride of a week en route from Florida to Washington. The veteran senator previously named to cabinet post in Roosevelt's administration was en route to Havana to marry Senora Nieves Prez Chaumont de Truffin. Railroad officials said Walsh was stricken shortly before the train reached Wilson and a physician was summoned but could not reach him in time.
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Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Roosevelt
Florida
Washington
Havana
Senator Thomas J Walsh A Chronicler Of Democratic Rifts
Thomas J Walsh born in Two Rivers Wisconsin pursued Montana then rose as United States Senator in 1912. He led national cases during Teapot Dome inquiry and chaired Democratic conventions in 1924 and 1932 with notable impartiality. He married Elinor C McClements of Chicago in 1889. she died in 1917 leaving a daughter.
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Thomas J.walsh
Two Rivers
Wis
Montana
United States
Teapot Dome
William G.’ McAdooe
McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
Senator Walsh
Elinor C. McClements
Chicago
C.K. Guédger
Jnger
United States Navy
Kidnapped Denver Man Returned Home After 17 Days
Charles Boettcher, heir to a fortune, was returned safely to his Denver home after 17 days in kidnappers’ hands. Conflicting reports say his family paid a $60,000 ransom, as two men left a note with the wife at the couple’s residence.
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Denver
Colo
Charles Boettcher
Mother and Seven Die in Canal Crash Near Nyssa
In Nyssa Oregon a mother Mrs. Cora Shafer twenty eight and six children Netus Idaho Jack eleven Charlies nine Robert seven Vanda six James three and Lawrence four months drowned when the family car drove over an embankment into an irrigation canal.
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Ore
Cora Shafer
Netus
Idaho
Jack
Charlies
Robert
Vanda
James
Lawrence
Anglican Primate dies in New Zealand at 72
The Most Rev John Charlies Wright, Anglican primate of Australia archbishop of New Walesa and metropolitan, died after an emergency operation in Christchurch New Zealand at age seventy two.
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Christchurch
John Charlies Wright
Australia
New Walesa
Nebraska Mortgage Boom Shrinks Land Value Gap
Nebraska farm mortgages surged 216 per cent from 1910 to 1930 while land values rose 37.6 per cent. A. E. Anderson notes 1930 farm mortgage totals at 560.973 million against land and buildings valued at 2.495 billion, with 42 percent of owner operated farms un mortgaged. He adds mortgages remain high despite land value declines.
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Lincoln
A. E. Anderson
Nebraska
Anderson
Nebraska penal and charitable institutions gain 392 in population
Lincoln reports a net population increase of 392 across Nebraska's penal and charitable institutions for the year. February 1 totals reach 8,801 inmates and staff, up from 8,409 on January 1, 1932, with 7,687 inmates and 1,114 employees. Ingleside State Hospital remains largest with 1,725 inmates. other facilities include Beatrice 1,256. Geneva 320. Grand Island 370. Kearney 231. Lincoln State Hospital 1,357. and Milford Homes 265 combined for soldiers and industrial cases.
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Nebraska
State ‘Board of Control
Beatrice
Geneva Girls’ Reformatory
Grand Island
Soldiers’ Home
Kearney
Lincoln State Hospital
Lincoln Orthopedic Hospital
Penitentiary
Milford
Industrial Home
Nebraska’ City
Norfolk Hospital
Omaha School For
York Reformatory
Lincoln Home For
Lincoln Reformatory
Nebraska land demand grows amid farm real estate strains
Lincoln notes a 15 percent rise in rental land demand and a 76 percent drop in voluntary sales as bankers report only about a quarter of usual sales. Foreclosures rise, yet debtors with any means hold on. Crop prices edge up though winter wheat deteriorates, with panhandle and southwest Nebraska worst affected.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
A. B. Anderson
Hartington Elevator Fire Destroys Grain and Sparks Loss
A blaze of unknown origin destroyed the Moseman Heyne elevator in Hartington causing about ten thousand dollars in damage and burning roughly two thousand four hundred bushels of grain. Nearby structures including a second elevator, five homes and an implement building were saved. State Treasurer Hall reports more than one thousand dollars in gasoline tax penalties collected from twenty four dealers to update payments. Nebraska Republican women plan The Cornhusker Quilt to send to Mrs Herbert Hoover featuring a central state map and a covered wagon surrounded by ears of corn.
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Moseman-Heyne
Hartington
Hall
Herbert Hoover
Marriages Rise in Nebraska Last Year Up From 1931
State health director Dr. P H Bartholomew reported county records show 11 757 marriages in Nebraska last year versus 11 030 in 1931 with steady gains over four years. Douglas county led with 1 980 marriages while Thomas recorded five.
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P. H. Bartholomew
Nebraska
Douglas County
Thomas
Nebraska State Day marks 66th anniversary of admission
Nebraska celebrated state day on March 1 marking 66 years since admission to the Union in 1867. The early state had 50,000 residents, a single Union Pacific line from Omaha to Pine Bluff Wyoming, three wagon trails, 15,000,000 of 60,000,000 acres surveyed, and a first state government salary of 7,350 dollars annually.
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Nebraska
Union Pacific
Omaha
Pine Bluff
Wyo
Apple crop spared by cold in southeastern Nebraska
J F Shubert a Nebraska horticulturist says the extreme cold did little damage to most apples and peaches likely suffered some injury in very early varieties. Examination of bids on later apples shows no signs of damage.
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Nebraska
J. F. Shubert
Shubert
Potatoes Left Unharvested Across Midwest Farms
United States farmers left about 1,600,000 bushels of potatoes in fields last fall as harvest proved unprofitable. The agriculture department cites Minnesota and North Dakota as the main areas, with western states also affected. About 220,600,000 bushels were harvested in total, roughly half of which had been sold by January 1.
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Ireland
United States
Department of Agriculture
Minnesota
North Dakota
Trapper Faces Small Winter Returns in Wheeler County
Freeman Custard, longtime trapper in Wheeler County, reports a disappointing season. A shipment to an eastern market consisted of five skunk hides, five muskrats, three badgers, and one raccoon, yielding 60 cents after 62 cents in express charges and 8 cents in postage.
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Wheeler County
Freeman Custard
Bullhead stocking begins in Nebraska streams
Secretary Frank OConnell of the state game commission announced that bullheads are being stocked in lakes and streams, starting in the northeast and moving to the southeast. The fish come from overstocked natural lakes, not hatcheries, as hunting and fishing licenses for 1933 have been slow but are expected to rise with the fishing season opening.
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Frank O’connell
State Game Commission
Nebraska
O'Connell
Nebraska sends twelve pheasants to Oklahoma stock
The Nebraska game commission donated twelve pheasants to Oklahoma for stocking on the Fort Sill military reservation. Nebraska began pheasant raising five years ago after importing 100 birds from England twenty years earlier, which thrived in central and western Nebraska but not in the southeast.
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Nebraska Game Commission
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Nebraska
England
Indictments Move Against Insull Group for Fraud
A federal grand jury indicted nineteen directors and officers of Corporation Securities of Chicago on charges of using the mails to defraud. The list includes Samuel Insull Sr and Jr, H L Stuart, J H Gullick, Clarence Whitworth, Frank Shrader, John K O Keefe, Fred H Scheel, and Waldo F Tobey. Bonds set at $10 000 each. The 25 count indictment details alleged concealment of earnings, inflated stock values, and misrepresentation of holdings and safety of the investment.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Corporation Securities Company of Chicago
Samuel Insull, Sr
Samuel Insull, Jr
Martin J. Insull
H. L. Stuart
Halsey, Stuart and Company
Stanley Field
Continental Minors National Bank and Trust Company
Edward J. Doyle
Commonwealth Edi
Waldo F. Tobey
Isham, Lincoln and Beale
Corporation Securities Company
Corporation Securities
Commonwealth .Edison Company
People’s Gas Light and Coke. Company
Public Service Company
Ilinois
Middle
Sees Less Crime if Repeal Is Ratified
New York authors from the Presidents Research Committee on Social Trends conclude there is no current crime wave and no near change in crime, but foresee ongoing organized crime at a smaller scale with liquor legalization. Dr. Edwin H. Sutherland of Chicago and Dr. C B Geblke of Western Reserve led the study.
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New York
Edwin H. Sutherland
University of Chicago
C. B. Geblke
Western Reserve University
Hungary Rail Chief Szentivany Shoots Self in Budapest
Franz Szenti vany, director general of the Hungarian state railways, was found dead of a bullet wound in his office. A pistol with an empty cartridge lay nearby. Police ruled death as self-inflicted amid an investigation into alleged frauds tied to railway purchases of adulterated oil and cited farewell letters.
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Hungary
Budapest
Franz Szentivany
Hungarian State Railways
Szentivany
Camel Born at Central Park Zoo Named O Boy Repeal
A camel weighing 125 pounds and eight feet tall was born at the Central Park Zoo in New York. He carries the unusual name O Boy Repeal reflecting a local period mood.
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New York
Central Park Zoo
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