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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1933
Page
2
The Department of Agriculture reports farmer living and production costs in March 1933 are near 1910–14 levels, but product prices are about half. The index shows cost of family maintenance rose to 1.15 from 1.01 a year earlier, while produce value fell to 0.61 from 0.50.
Washington D C A Sorensen former Nebraska attorney general said Nebraska would need no federal relief for the needy and unemployed if funds were provided for projects in the public interest. He favors liberalizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to fund Nebraska irrigation and power schemes.
President Roosevelt urged emergency congress action to save steam railroads and prevent service loss. A federal coordinator of transportation would work with railroads to promote needed action, curb waste, and enable financial reorganizations. The measure also rewrites interstate commerce rules and places railroad holdings under ICC regulation. He signaled a later comprehensive permanent plan.
President Sanchez Cerro of Peru was assassinated after reviewing a parade of 20 000 conscripts in Lima. The assassin and a guard were killed, with several soldiers and a civilian wounded. Congress selected Gen. Oscar Benavides to lead the nation.
Lieut. Col. Scott Wood orders the first three forestry companies from the civilian conservation corps camp at Fort Sheridan to Wisconsin works. Company 640 under Capt. N. N. Rogers heads to Washburn for Moquah forest work. Company 641 led by Capt. Everett Busch goes to Three Lakes for Argonne forest tasks. Company 642 departs May 13 for Park Falls to work in the Flambeau forest.
James N. McConnell, the Minnesota commissioner of education since 1919, died at his St. Paul home at age 64. He previously served as president of the National Association of State Commissioners of Education.
William 8 Dowd of New York City, commercial attache at the American embassy, collapsed in a Tokyo street and died of heart disease.
Justice Department endorses a Wilcox bill to allow compromise settlements of defaulted municipal and tax district debts. The measure would let cities counties and districts present a plan to creditors with three quarters agreeing, enabling binding federal court approval. It covers schools roads levees drainage irrigation districts and similar entities.
Viscount Knebworth eldest son and heir of the Earl of Lytton died at Hendon airdrome when his aircraft dipped and crashed on the air field, bursting into flames. Ralph Harrison, an aircraftsman aboard, also died of injuries. The peer was with three auxiliary squadrons practicing for an aerial exhibition.
Henry Morgenthau Sr., chairman of the federal farm board, announced that the last of the Grain Stabilization Corporation holdings were sold. The total cost and loss from stabilization operations in wheat reached $184,158,232.
Adam Barber an attorney and mayoral candidate promotes a strict economy platform by rolling through Watsonville California handing out election cards and announcing he has sold his motor car to cut costs.
Tornadoes across Louisiana Arkansas and Missouri killed 58 with Minden Louisiana hardest hit. The storm from Magnolia Arkansas damaged Arcadia and Calhoun while destroying homes and injuring over 1 000 people statewide. In Chicago winds caused one death and four serious injuries with heavy property damage. Illinois fatalities rose by three in central areas including Fulton County with more than 200 000 dollars in losses.
New York announces the 1932 Pulitzer prizes. Edgar Ansel Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News is awarded the prize for best foreign correspondence for dispatches from Berlin during Germany’s rise to power. Other prizes go to the New York World Telegram for public service, the Kansas City Star for editorials, Francis A. Jamieson of the Associated Press for reporting the Lindbergh kidnapping, and H M Talburt of the Washington Daily News for best cartoon.
Milwaukee nineteen year old William Eckhardt leaped into a polar bear den at Washington Park Zoo in what authorities called a death by own action attempt. Zoo workers sprayed the bear and wolf with a water hose while a companion lowered a ladder for Eckhardt to climb to safety. He was hospitalized for observation. relatives say he had been discouraged and seeking work.
Fire ravaged Robert Packer hospital in Sayre Pennsylvania. A baby was born during the blaze and both infant and mother were rescued. An elderly man with a broken arm died of shock. About 224 other patients were evacuated on cots or down ladders, including 27 infants.
A bottle thrown from the Bergenland during a world cruise washed ashore at Bottle Creek Caicos, containing a note from a grateful finder who later sent a reward to a poor woman caring for an invalid husband. The ship was in the Gulf Stream in April 1930 during an experiment on the currents. Substantial funds exceeded the promised reward were forwarded to the West Indies woman.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Exposition as a tonic that makes weak women strong with no alcohol and sold by druggists in tar or liquid form.
A compact note warns that bad habits start as trivial acts but grow into binding cords and complex entanglements, urging vigilance against creeping corruption or influence. It frames habits as gradual chains shaping behavior and outcomes.
Ad touts genuine Bayer Aspirin for safety and speed claiming Bayer stamped tablets dissolve instantly and work faster than substitutes. It highlights uniform action and harmless nature with reliable results for headaches colds neuralgia and rheumatic pain.
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