Nebraskas Fire Toll and Losses Across Cities
Nebraska reports show 2000 plus fires last year with 55 deaths and $1.83 million in damage. per city losses vary, Schuyler elevator blaze at $197k tops the list. causes include kerosene and gasoline incidents, chimney and stove faults, and many structures damaged or burned.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Butcher
Fairbury
Omaha
McCook
Gering
Wahoo
Superior
Chadron
Falls City
Sidney
Blair
Wymore
Grand Island
Scottsbluff
Hastings
Alliance
Plattsmouth
Fremont
Schuyler
Higher Learning to 1600 Nebraskans Benefit From Novel Program
Higher Learning to 1600 jobless Nebraskans completed studies funded by federal relief. Courses ranged from animal husbandry and business English to philosophy and mathematics. Participants aged 16 to 64 included high school graduates and about a fifth with college. Half were women. They attended 96 first session and 36 second session centers across Nebraska during winter and spring using University of Nebraska correspondence courses.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
University ‘Nebraskas
Nebraska Highway Jobs Surge as 3500 Men At Work
About 3,500 men are employed on Nebraska highway projects as the federal road building program of 7.8 million dollars gains momentum. Work ranges from new bridges and culverts to paving, with activity spread across the eastern central and northern regions despite dry conditions.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Tekameh
Neligh
Decatur
Dakota City
Homer
Niobrara An Verdigre
Elgin
Cummingsville
Ponca
Willis
Norfolk
Meadow Grove
Emerald
Milford
Blair
Plattamouth
Labor Urges 30 Hour Week By Force If Needed
Washington reports organized labor calling for a 30 hour workweek to curb unemployment. AF of L president William Green warns of industrial action, criticizing Roosevelt and the Connery bill while noting 10 million jobless. Durable Goods Industries committee opposes wage increases, warning it could hinder recovery.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Roosevelt
Johnson
Durable Goods Industries Committee
National Recovery Administrator
Philippine Legislators Accept Liberty Bill
In a special session Manila's legislature approved a resolution accepting self-government and moving toward separate government in 1945. The Tydings McDuffie Act, signed March 31 by President Roosevelt, provides for independence after a ten year transition under a Filipino chief executive.
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Manila
P. I
Manila-bay
Tydings-McDuff
Philippines
Roosevelt
Wealthy landowner A. W. Hyde found dead at home
Long Beach police discovered the body of A. W. Hyde, a wealthy landowner missing since February, hanging in an upstairs room. Investigators consider murder as a theory due to absence of a note.
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Long Beach
Calif
A. W. Hyde
Hyde
Roosevelt Extends Birthday Greetings to Emperor Hirohito
President Roosevelt sent birthday greetings to Emperor Hirohito of Japan on the 33rd anniversary of his birth. Hirohito, born in Tokyo in 1901, received cordial felicitations from the U S leader in a noted exchange.
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Roosevelt
Mikado
Washington
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Tokyo
La Folletteites May Start Own Party
Wisconsin Supreme Court clears the way for a new party by La Folletteites and radicals after ruling secretary of state statutes on party births were misapplied. Former Gov. La Follette leads efforts with a May 15 convention to finalize the split from the Republican label. Senator Robert M. La Follette expected to attend as delegates consider a third party bid.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin
High Court
la Folletteites
la Folletteite
Supreme Court
United States
Robert M. la Follette
House Bills Income Tax Boost in Revenue Bill
The house backed the conference report on a 417 million tax revision bill amid GOP protests. It adds 159 million in new revenues over the original draft, aiming to close loopholes and raise taxes on larger incomes. The Senate 10 percent income increase amendment was defeated 167 to 45.
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Washington
House
Senate
Michigan Voters Reject Public Works Bonds in Referendum
Detroit voters rejected a proposal to bond the state for 37.9 million dollars aimed at highway construction and institutional building improvements, voting no in the referendum.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
Procter Dies at 72 in Cincinnati
William Cooper Procter, soap manufacturer and philanthropist, died of pneumonia at Holmes Hospital in Cincinnati. He was seventy two.
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W. C. Procter
Cincinnati, Ohio
William, Cooper Procter
Holmes Hospital
McLaughlin Confesses Handling Bremer Ransom Money
Federal agents in Chicago move to transfer John J. McLaughlin and three co defendants to St Paul after his confession that he handled 53 000 of the 200 000 ransom paid for banker Edward Bremer. Arrests include bar tender Philip Delaney and ex convict Barker and Karpis are sought.
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Chicago
John J
Ross) McLaughlin
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
McLaughlin
Bremer
Arthur
Doc) Barker
Alvin Karpis
Oklahoma
John Dillinger
Band of
Onlaws
John Doe
Richard Doe
Barker
Karpis
Melvin Purvis
Department of Justice
Purvis
Philip Delaney
Loop
William Vidler
John McLaughlin, Jr
Vidler
Dr William H Welch Death Ends a Bacteriology Era
Baltimore physicians mourn the death of 84 year old Dr William H Welch at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As first pathology professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School he helped introduce bacteriology to the United States and lent his name to the gas producing bacillus in wounds. He made key discoveries on malaria dysentery rickets diabetes diphtheria and other poisons and infections.
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W. H. Welch
Baltimore
Williamh. Welch
Johns Hopkins Hospital
John Hopkins Medical School
Welch
United States
Koch and Pasteur
Roosevelt Reviews U S Fleets Aboard Indianapolis
President Roosevelt will review the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets from the light cruiser Indianapolis at noon May 31 in New York. Secretary Claude A. Swanson will join the president aboard the ship, along with a small guests party. The fleets stay in New York until June 17.
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New York
Roosevelt
United States Navy
Indianapolis
Third Naval District
Claude A. Swanson
Navy
Iowa Chick Dealer Told to Raise Prices
Cedar Rapids Iowa Vance W McCray proprietor of a chick store has been instructed by George R Smith investigator for the national committee to raise prices to show a profit above expenses and above the six dollar thirty cent a hundred code minimum he has been charging.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
George R. Smith
National Commercial and Breeder Hatchery Co
Vance W. McCray
Ickes Back Home Subsistence Plan Near Phoenix
Secretary Ickes announced approval of a subsistence homestead project in the Salt River valley near Phoenix Arizona. The plan calls for about 500000 dollars for five or six units with work on the first unit to start after land acquisition.
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Washington
Ickes
Salt River Valley
Phoenix
Ariz
Two Gary youths banished from Oklahoma for ten years
Oklahoma City Gov W H Murray banishes Nick Chabraja and Bob Marks from Oklahoma for ten years under parole revocation threat. The two were sentenced in Norman in September 1982 to 200 years each for robbery.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
W. H. Murray
Gary
Oklahoma
Nick Chabraja
Bob Marks
Norman
Lexington approves water bond issue and brick plant reopening
Lexington residents vote 569 to 7S in a special election to issue 37 thousand in bonds for water system improvements with 14 thousand grant from the government. Columbus brick works reopened under Mayor Julius S Nichols, employing 17 men and aiming for about 2,000,000 bricks this season. Four thousand new apple trees on a 100 acre Weaver and Towle Orchard tract in Falls City will bear this year after minor frost damage.
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Lexington
Columbus
Julius S. Nichols
Nichols
Weaver & Towle Orchard Company
Falls City
A. E. Ray
Beet Planters Work By Night To Meet Factory Deadlines
With powerful lights on their machines beet planters operated through the night to harvest this year’s crop. Farmers toiled overnight to offset delays in settling contracts with processors. Long lines of trucks queued at the factory for beet seed.
Driest April in Nebraska since 1910 Ends With Heat Wave
April 1934 closes with midsummer temperatures in Nebraska as Lincoln records a seasonal high of 87 degrees. The city’s previous high was 85 on April 10. Moisture remains scant with less than a third of normal rainfall in the first four months of 1934.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Mrs Mary McKnight Celebrates 100th Birthday in Trenton
Mrs Mary McKnight marked her centennial birthday with an open house at her home in Trenton. She resides with her son Lyle McKnight and daughter Mrs J J Little, with many friends greeting her. Born in Pennsylvania she moved to Nebraska with her husband in 1879 and settled in Hitchcock County in 1880.
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Mary McKnight
Trenton
Lyle McKnight
J. J. Little
Meteor shower seen from Montana to Nebraska described
Dr H H Nininger curator of meteoritics at the Colorado Museum of Natural History says after weeks of talks with witnesses he believes two fireballs from the February 12 triple meteor fell near Fremont and Wahoo, Nebraska while the third crossed the Iowa Nebraska line. The event was first seen near the Canadian border in Montana and later across states to the south and east.
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H. H Nininger
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Fremont
Wahoo
Nebraska
Iowa
Canadian
Montana
March anniversaries boost Nebraska couples count in 1934
November registro. Nebraskans celebrating 50 years or more in March raised the year to 321 for the first quarter of 1934. Henry A. Brainerd notes 14 March anniversaries with J. K. Oswald and J. Merrell highlighted for long marriages.
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Henry A. Brainerd
Nebraska Press Association
J. K. Oswald
Aurora
John Merrell
Red Cloud
Nebraska reserve officers to train at Fort Crook camp
The annual combined contact camp and department convention for Nebraska reserve officers will meet at Fort Crook on May 18 19 and 20. Attendance is voluntary with no government funding and seven hours credit per day. The program includes field training tactics talks and a closing pistol match with radio broadcasts and a chapel service.
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Platte River
Nebraska
Army Reserve
Fort Crook
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