Big Powers Seek Cautious Peace in League Debate
In Geneva the major powers urged restraint as small nations pressed for a firm stance on the Chinese Japanese war. Sir John Simon favored a platonic resolution and shelving Manchurian issues until Lord Lytton’s inquiry ends, while the little powers demanded stronger action and a continued Shanghai conference under league principles. In Shanghai area fighting intensified with Chinese forces attacking Japanese outposts near Lotien and reports of Japanese reconnaissance in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Sir John Simon
Japan
France
Italy
Germany
Sir John
Lord Lytton
Stimson
Shanghai
Manchuria
John
League
Lotien
Yangtze River
Eleventh
The
Talisang
Shache Chen
Taitsang
Yovanize
Loden
Senate Rejects Cuts in Agriculture Appropriation Bill
The Senate voted 486 to 20 to block trimming portions of the $178,274,567 agriculture appropriation. Senator McKellar proposed cutting $196,000 for the barberry eradication bureau, but only 17 Democrats and three Republicans supported it. Senator Green backed the move with colleagues including McKellar and King, Utah, as he warned that cutting expenditures is a national issue with taxpayers burdened by high taxes.
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Senate
Washington
McKear
Tenn
Green
Rep
McKellar
King
Utah
Glenn
Ohio kidnapped boy found as abductors indicted
Eleven year old James De Jute Jr son of a Niles contractor is safe at home. Abductors John Demarco thirty and Dowell Hargrave twenty seven of Youngstown were captured with the boy in a secret roadhouse compartment near Youngstown. They were indicted by the Trumbull County grand jury and face possible life sentences if convicted.
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Niles
Ohio
James de Jute, Jr
Warren
Youngstown
John Demarco
Dowell Hargrave
Trumbell County Crand Jury
Briand the Faced Peace Advocate Dies in Paris
Paris reports the death of Aristide Briand a leading French statesman and pacifist. The veteran politician aged nearly seventy had served as premier twelve times and as foreign minister forging the Briand Kellogg pact and Locarno accords. He died of heart trouble in his bachelor flat near the Arc de Triomphe.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
France
Arc de Triomphe
Briaud
Frank Kellogg
United States
United States of Europe
Briand
Pierre Laval
Foreign Office
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Lycee
Lantére
Socialist Party
Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
M. Viviani
Penn professor Ashby found dead in Philadelphia residence
Dr Forrest Lee Ashby an assistant professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and former wrestling captain was found dead in his apartment with gas jets on and all doors and windows closed indicating suicide. Born Wellsburg Iowa he graduated from Penn in 1912 and had served on the faculty since 1924. No motive was known to friends.
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Pennsylvania U
Philadelphia
Forrest Lee Ashby
Pennsylvania county strapped as relief funds vanish
Erie Pennsylvania relief officials report only 2.92 dollars in hand against 282000 dollars in debts. Requests for aid flood in while a 600000 dollar bond issue funds are delayed for two or three weeks, says Controller Harvey Willis.
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Pennsylvania
Erie
Harvey Willis
Nebraska counties seek federal wheat relief during drought
Nine Nebraska counties including Dakota Holt Cedar and Knox filed requests with the North Nebraska Drouth Relief association for 5 000 000 bushels of farm board wheat to be distributed by the Red Cross under Hoover era federal relief. Estimates range from two carloads to 231 carloads with Cedar and Knox naming bushel figures to aid hundreds of families.
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Norfolk
North Nebraska Drouth Relief Association
American Red Cross
Hoover
Nebraska
Dakota County
Holt County
Cedar
Knox Counties
Cedar County
Knox County
State will pay less for foods for state institutions
State institutions will pay lower prices for food during the April through June period. Bids show only two of twelve standard purchases up, rice and oatmeal. oatmeal higher than a year ago. Meats and most items cheaper than a year ago. Butter contracts awarded to Battle Creek Cooperative Co. and Blue Bell Dairy Co. at 1 cent below market price. Eleven bidders participated.
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Lincoln
Board of Control
Battle Creek Co-operative Co
Norfolk ‘Hospital
Blue Bell Dairy Co
Kearney
Nebraska roads built in 1931 near Columbus details
State records show 1931 Columbus area highway work costing about 500000. Projects include the U S 30 81 viaduct over Union Pacific and fills and paving totaling about 319673.86, Platte river bridge on U S 81 at 103599.92, 40 miles of grading and gravel on state No 91 Newman Grove Scribner road, and 24 miles on No 22 between Fullerton and Wolbach at 39396.02. Financing included federal state and local funds with counties Platte Polk and Butler.
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Columbus
Columbua
State Department of Public Works
Union Pacific
U. S
New Platte River
Newman Grove-Scribner
Lindsay
Humphrey
Creston
Fullerton
Wolbach
New Platte Bridge
Platte, Polk
Butler
Seed grain listings aid drought farmers in Nebraska
Two hundred thousand bushels of seed grains are listed for farmers in northern Nebraska. The listings come through the agricultural college extension service at Lincoln and have been forwarded to elevators and to committees handling feed and crop production loans in the drought area.
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Lincoln
Grouth
Nebraska
Agricultural College Extension Service
Drouth
Niobrara Span Bridge Bid Totals Announced
Lincoln Yant Construction Co of Omaha named low bidder for a Niobrara bridge at Valentine with 66 146 to include 43 000 cubic yards of excavation. State Engineer Cochran called all bids very satisfactory. Biba Engineering Co of Geneva low bidder for grading and culverts at 34774.24 and 4967.46 respectively.
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Niobrara
Lincoln
Yant Construction Co
Omaha
Valentine
Cochran
Biba Engineering Co
Geneva
Fire destroys Corner garage in Dakota City causing losses
A fire at the Corner garage in Dakota City destroyed the building and damaged property estimated at $35 000. Fifteen automobiles and four trucks were burned. In Nebraska during 1931 twenty five insurance companies withdrew from the state according to a report by Insurance Commissioner Lee Herdman. Some companies pulled back to limit fields of operation others reinsured while mergers prompted more withdrawals.
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Dakota City
Nebraska
Lee Herdman
Herdman
Omaha leader receives American Legion best citizen citation
John N. Shannahan, president of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway, was presented the American Legion best citizen citation for 1931 at a public service. The award honors the Omaha resident judged to have done the most for the city that year.
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John N. Shannahan
Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company
American Legion
Omaha
Legion
Morbidity Report Shows Influenza Spike in February
State health director Dr P H Bartholomew released a morbidity report noting influenza cases rose from 59 in January to 419 in February. Measles increased while all other diseases declined.
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P H Bartholomew
Hartington Man Cultivates Nebraska Grown Figs
Aug Erickson experiments with growing figs in his Hartington basement. He planted nursery seed in a box in a sunlit warm basement and a two foot dwarf fig tree has produced a green fig. He predicts the first Nebraska grown fig.
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Erickson
Hartington
Wool production in Nebraska and U S in 1931 drops from 1930
Nebraska clipped fewer sheep or shorter wool in 1931 with 2 786 000 pounds produced down from 3 000 000 pounds in 1930 and up from 2 686 000 in 1929. United States output totaled 369 521 000 pounds, rising from 351 521 000 in 1930 and 327 566 000 in 1929.
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Nebraska
Federal and State Division of Agricultural Statistics
United States
Falls City Officials Rule on Sunday Show Closures
Falls City moves to place a referendum on closing Sunday motion picture shows on the April 6 city election ballot after a 200-signature petition. The mayor argues the council alone can close the shows regardless of election results. Sunday openings have continued for over four years despite a 1928 failed Sabbath-closure proposal.
Citizens Military Training quota nearly filled in 1932 drive
The Eighth Army Corps area reports 4,211 applicants on March 1 for the 1932 camp quotas of 5,300 across six states Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri and the Dakotas. Nebraska recruits will train at Fort Crook August 2 to 18 under Major General Johnson Hagood. Additional 30 day sessions are set at Fort Des Moines Leavenworth Snelling Lincoln N D Riley Kas Camp Pike Ark and Jefferson Barracks Missouri.
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Citizens Military
Eighth Army Corps
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Dakotas
Fort Crook
Johnson Hagood
Forts Des Moines
Leavenworth
Snelling
Lincoln
N. D. Riley
Kas
Camp Pike
Ark
Jefferson _ Barracks
Nebraska Governor Bryan Telegram On Famine Relief Efforts
Governor Bryan answers Senator Bingham about hunger and unemployment in Nebraska. He says about 8,000 people and livestock in nine droughted northern counties are fed through public donations and 1,000 carloads of relief goods have been distributed. He notes federal road funds aided employment by hand and team labor, with ongoing needs for next year.
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Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Nebraska
Bryan
Eden Garden site opens to modern tourist travel
A U. P. dispatch notes the traditional Garden of Eden area now attracts many American tourists. The region, once reachable only by caravan, is now traversed by tourist railroad trains and is praised for natural beauty, rich vegetation, and abundant animal life.
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Garden of Eden
U. P. Dispatch
Open Me Wall Street Journal Quote Sparks Prompt
An ardent film fan cries Open me in a playful line attributed to the Wall Street Journal. The fragment suggests a scene or prompt involving a daring opening line and media reference.
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Child
Wall ‘Street Journal
Corned Beef and Cabbage Debate on Arteries
A short note suggests corned beef may contribute to hardening arteries while cabbage could offer an antidote. The line hints at dietary contrasts without citing studies or authorities.
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League of Nations
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Reading
Ringgold
Midwest
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Ems
Detroit
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St. Jacobs
St Jacobs
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Cab
Daniel Webster
Boston
Sampson &. Murdock
Boston Directory
America
W. N. U. Lincoln
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