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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1933
Page
2
Nebraska urban mortgages outstanding at end of 1932 totalled more than 170 million dollars, with building and loan associations holding 113.5 million, insurance companies 44.7 million, and banks 12.1 million. The nationwide farm mortgage total reached about 44.8 billion.
C E Childe of the Omaha chamber of commerce says improving the Missouri River would raise eastern Nebraska and western Iowa crop values by 15 million dollars yearly. He cites a potential 200 mile eastern Montana lake to store water, create flood buffers, and ensure a nine foot channel, with a large labor impact and economic gains for the Midwest. The waterways group and Missouri River Navigation association push the plan in Congress with support from former Governor Arthur Weaver, Senator George Norris, and Representative Edward Burke.
William Trevillian vice president of the W T Rawleigh company was found bound and gagged in a cabin near Durand Illinois. Two men William Stubbe and La Verne Moore were arrested as alleged kidnappers and a ransom plan involving 25 000 was uncovered.
Rhode Island officially repeals the Eighteenth Amendment by ratifying the Twenty first Amendment. In a constitutional convention 81 delegates voted 150 244 to 20 874 to approve the change, with 31 signers including 26 men and 5 women, and the document sent to the U S secretary of state.
Amelia Earhart Putnam resigns as vice president and member of the National Aeronautical Association saying she disagrees with the organization's dominant views and believes resignation serves the best interests of all concerned.
Senator Copeland Democrat New York calls for a Senate investigation into rackets he says have grown across the United States. He cites newspaper reports of racketeers controlling beer poultry milk food laundry and other businesses.
About 6,000 peasants offered farm gifts to the pope in Vatican City during a holy year visit. Live animals including sheep chickens rabbits and pigeons were laid on tables with fruit and coins. One farmer presented a large onion bunch saying he had nothing better.
The Senate quickly passed the Fletcher securities bill to disclose essential facts about issues to the Federal Trade Commission. An amendment by Senator Hiram Johnson creates a corporation to protect foreign securities owners. The program also includes an $8 million public works and federal industrial regulation plan.
The senate finalizes a broad agricultural measure covering farm relief refinancing of mortgages and currency inflation. It rejects the Norris-Simpson cost of production amendment after a strong House-National Farmers Union clash led by John A. Simpson of Oklahoma.
Secretary Swanson announced a navy budget cut of 55 million dollars for the 1983 1984 fiscal year reducing the navy appropriation from 308 million to 270 million. The plan rotates one third of the fleet to inactive status and may close training stations affecting hundreds of naval officers.
Loretta Schmits testified that Oliver Day forced her to fire a shotgun at him after he killed her father John Schmits. Day aimed to kill all in the home and threatened the girl with death if she refused. The coroner's jury ruled the shooting justifiable homicide.
Cambridge Massachusetts James Bryant Conant Sheldon Emery professor of organic chemistry named by the Harvard corporation as the next president of Harvard University Confirmation of the choice will be laid before the board of observers on June 22 Conant is in his forty first year He succeeds A Lawrence Lowell who resigned at fifty two when he took office in 1909 He is regarded as one of the brightest younger chemists and last year received the Chandler medal for chemistry and the William H Nichols medal Both awards cited his research into chlorophyll the green pigment in plants.
Basel pick Leon Fraser of New York rises from vice president to president of the BIS. He succeeds Gates W. McGarrah of New York, who led the bank for three years and becomes honorary president and a board member while in Europe.
Two companies of Vermont National Guardsmen and 100 deputy sheriffs kept score of pickets moving as labor trouble in Barre's granite belt escalated. Workers quit in protest against wage reductions planned by management.
Washington. Senator Capper of Kansas introduced a bill proposing federal punishment for untrue deceptive or misleading advertising. Capper, a publisher, argued the measure would better deter offenders than censorship.
Pennsylvania Democrat Congressman Faddis confronted an armed intruder at a hotel. He knocked the assailant unconscious with a punch. The intruder, who identified himself as Clarence Roberts, seventeen, of Johnson City Tennessee, was restrained until authorities arrived.
The post office department announced James B. Gordon in Cedar Rapids Charles R. Patton in Edgar Philo J. Hewitt in Lexington and Arthur B. Yates in Sutherland as appointees State Treasurer George E Hall reported April revenue fund rose from 2 172 384 to 2 307 724 current trust funds from 460 451 to 510 424 and permanent trust funds from 2 701 270 to 2 926 443.
Director Felton urges truckers hauling gasoline from Kansas to Nebraska to secure permits from both states. Kansas and Nebraska cooperate to curb bootlegging. 15 border inspectors will check cargo. A Lincoln visit by Niobrara and Coleridge students spans two days to study state institutions and the university. A David City granite monument to pioneers will be set in the courthouse yard sponsored by the D A R. The state fair board, voting unanimously, plans to trim its budget to fit legislature funds including 46466 for half the deficit and 36000 for maintenance plus smaller amounts for 4 H work and repairs.
Burlington railroad officials reported grain traffic rising sharply in Nebraska with ten extra car repairmen added at Omaha and Lincoln. Additional cars are arriving from Colorado. On May 2 loadings in Nebraska reached 127 cars versus 50 a year earlier, mostly corn loaded on the eastern Nebraska division.
The senate passed on third reading a 3.2 beer bill allowing Nebraska manufacturers and brewers to produce and ship beer outside the state. The measure, with an emergency clause, carried a 22 to 8 vote and covers manufacture storage and transport of 3.2 beer for export.
Managers of Omaha's four large packing plants say business is much better and payrolls have risen by nearly 600 in recent weeks, adding about $9,000 weekly. Major firms say they are not worried about the Farm Holiday association strike called for May 13, believing most shippers to Omaha oppose it.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation did not list Nebraska among states receiving federal aid under the emergency relief and construction act. By April 22, the RDC loaned 268,121,654 to 41 states and two territories for relief. Iowa received 2,180,587 to be repaid by future road aid reductions. South received 1,903,945.
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