End of the Seventy first Congress after a busy session
Washington reports the Seventy first Congress closed with Hoover expected to pocket veto the Wagner bill and many nominations failed by filibuster. Ninety one House and thirteen Senate members left, including Simmons of North Carolina and Gillett of Massachusetts, with several others defeated or retiring.
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Washington
Hoover
Capitol
Thomas
Oklahoma
Representative Elliott
Indiana
Congress
Senate
Furnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Simmons
Josiah W. Bailey
Frederick H. Gillett
Massachusetts
Gillett
House
Coleman L. Blease
South Carolina
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
William H. McMaster
South Dakota
W. B. Pine
Joseph B. Ransdell
Louisiana
Daniel F. Steck
Iowa
Senator Gillett
William E. Brock
Tennessee
Ben Williamson
Kentucky
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Arthur R. Gould
Maine
Lawrence
C. Phipps
Colorado
Heflin
John H. Bankhead
Blease
Law
Ellison D. Smith
Muscle Shoals veto approved by Senate
The Senate failed to override President Hoover's veto on the Norris Muscle Shoals operation plan. A 40 vote majority opposed the veto, short of the two thirds required, leaving the measure dead and shifting the issue to future political battles.
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Muscle Shoals
Senate
Washington
Hoover
House
Canadian Wheat Market Is Opened in New York
A brief notice reports the opening of a Canadian wheat market in New York City with limited readable details. The text is fragmented and lacks clear dates or participants.
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New York
Pilsudski Birthday Posts Tally in Poland and Abroad
Warsaw plans major tribute on March 19 with millions of congratulatory postcards. About ten tons of cards will be sent to Marshal Pilsudski at his Madeira retreat, including five million bearing his image. Over a million cards have already been sent to the United States for Poles to join the homage.
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Warsaw
Poland
Marshal Pilsudski
Pilsudski
Funchal
Madeira
America
71st Congress lavished with money in peacetime spending
Washington reports the seventy-first congress set a record for peacetime outlays, appropriating about 10 billion dollars for government use covering the current and next fiscal year. It funded emergency construction, drought relief, farm aid, and automatic permanent appropriations.
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Washington
Congress
Seventy-First National Assembly
Veterans’ Service Certificates
Treasury Post Office Department
Veterans’ Administration
Farm Board
Crime declines in 1000 U S cities for January
The Department of Justice reports a general drop in crime across 1,000 U S cities for January versus December. The monthly bulletin shows 1,824 cities listed for December and 1,711 for January, with murder figures noted.
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U. S
Washington
Department of Justice
Back to the Farm Movement Gains Ground
Nebraska statistics indicate a rise in farm population in 1930 as industrial employment drives workers to rural life. A. E. Anderson notes 208 000 more farmers nationally, the first gain in a decade, while Alaska holds 66 000 square miles suitable for cultivation and homesteads amid low land prices.
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Lincolna
Nebraska
A. E. Anderson
Lincoln
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Anderson
Bureau
Alaskas
Irrigationists Move Toward Public Power System
Washington actions authorize North Platte water users to use 309000 for trunk transmission lines and transformers to carry power from Lingle and Guernsey dams to taps by municipal and farmer group lines. Norris amendment adopted, linking federal fund use to public power via water users.
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Washington, D. C
Nebraska
House of Representatives
Conference
North Platte
Lingle and
Guernsey
George W. Norris
Senate Appropriations Committee
Secretary of the Interior
Norris
House
Grand Island Beet Sugar Contract For 7000 Acres
American Beet Sugar announces a 7000 acre sugar beet program in the Platte valley for its Grand Island plant. Growers receive a minimum $5 per net ton with potential extra earnings from sugar content and net factory returns during 1931. Labor costs expected at $19 to $20 per man per acre for the season.
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Grand Island
Platte Valley
American Beet Sugar Company
A. J. Denman
Denman
Temple A A O N M 8 of Omaha deemed most successful ever
The event in the west drew praise as perhaps the most successful of its kind, with organizers reporting strong attendance and positive reception despite early challenges.
Nebras ka Gasoline Tax Revenue Spurred Hatchery Plans
State Treasurer Bass reports February gasoline tax collections in Nebraska totaled 708372 dollars. Of this amount 175551 dollars was apportioned to three counties at one cent per gallon to fund a new bass hatchery. Middaugh Lake near Ames was surveyed by the game and fish department with fifty pairs of bass returned. Raymond Middaugh leased the lake to operate a hatchery for selling bass to the state for planting.
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Nebraska
Bass
Middaugh Lake
Ames
State Game and Fish Department
Raymond Middaugh
Burwell Hosts First Sunday Movie Showings at Electric Theatre
Sunday evening movies were shown at the Electric theatre in Burwell for the first time. Manager Becker pursued the plan after nearby towns had long offered Sunday screenings. The idea drew a crowded house, indicating strong local interest.
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Electric Theatre
Burwell
Becker
Bells to arrive for Lincoln church carillon in spring
The First Plymouth Congregational church in Lincoln will receive forty eight bells shipped from England on March 21. They are expected to arrive in Lincoln about three weeks later and five more weeks will be needed for installation. The bells, equipped with a pneumatic player, will first toll on May 20. Rev. B. F. Weyland announced the project.
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First Plymouth Congregational Church
Lincoln
England
B. F. Weyland
Largest Nebraska free clinic for handicapped children
The fourth Elks association free clinic in Nebraska examined 107 physically handicapped children at Grand Island. It was the largest clinic of its kind in the state and was conducted with the civilian rehabilitation division of the state department of vocational training.
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Nebraska Elks Association For
Grand Island
Nebraska
State Department of Vocational Training
Nebraska health director notes no epidemic this winter
Dr. P. H. Bartholomew, state director of public health, reported a favorable health situation in Nebraska. He said the especially mild winter has seen no epidemic, with influenza scarce and only a few serious diseases beyond common colds.
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P. H. Bartholomew
Nebraska
Europe
Diller Board Sets March 24 Bond Election for School
The Diller board of education calls a special election on March 24 to vote on issuing bonds of 13000 dollars for a new school building to supplement the present frame building. The old building is badly overcrowded and Diller is financially sound with no existing bonded debt.
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Diller
Counties seek refunds on motor license overpayments
Officials of Thayer and Fillmore counties file claims with State Auditor George W. Marsh to be presented to the legislature. They ask reimbursement for alleged overpayment of motor vehicle license fees to the state treasury during four years 1926 through 1929. Thayer seeks 2021 dollars and Fillmore 1452 dollars. deputy treasurer E B Roper and treasurer Clay Thomas certify the sums as due.
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George W. Marsh
Thayer
Fillmore
Filmore
E. B. Roper
Thayer County
Clay Thomas
Nebraska Panhandle Wheat At 95 Percent In Mid March
Moisture increase lifts winter grains to an estimated 95 percent condition in the Nebraska panhandle as spring plowing slows. North Platte valley irrigation holds steady with ample reservoir water while wheat plantings ease in southern counties. Barley and corn decline, potatoes rise as farmers adopt power farming in western Nebraska.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Lower Panhandle
Nebraska
North Platte Valley
Panhandle
Wickersham Commission Faces Possible Money Shortage
Washington The Wickersham commission risks losing funds before finishing the crime survey as $250000 allotted by Congress expires July 1. Ten of eleven members push ahead on reports into government officials il ness and prison reforms while offices may be shut and staff unpaid unless private money is found.
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Washington
Wickersham Commission
Hoover
Congress
William S. Kenyon
Commission
Kenyon
Kenneth Mackintosh
Washington Supreme Court
Dean Roscoe Pound
Harvard
Monte Lemann
New Orleans
Illinois proposes unemployment dole with state and employer funding
A new bill in Springfield would create a state administered unemployment insurance fund. Half the money would come from employers and half from state appropriations, with benefits based on prior wages and family allowances.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Labor Department
Low Bid To Erect Boulder Dam Awarded To Six Companies
Denver reports the Six Companies Inc of San Francisco submitted the low bid of 48 890 995 50 for the general contract on the Hoover dam and power plant. The recommendation to accept comes from the commissioner of reclamation to Secretary Wilbur. Construction to start within 30 days with the total project cost near 165 million dollars.
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Denver
Colo
Companies
Inc
San Francisco
Hoover Dam
Wilbur
Boulder Canyon
United States
Companies, Inc
Commissioner of Reclamation
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Wickersham
Boulder Dam
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