Northwestern Nebraska potato crop eases nine county burden
Farmers across Alliance and nine western counties finish a near record 1933 potato harvest. Rail transport to eastern and southern markets continues while much of the crop goes to storage awaiting higher prices. Certified seed values and yields are notably high, stabilizing farm finances after a prior price collapse.
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Nebraska
William Morrow
Co-Operative Nebraska Certified Seed Potato Growers’ Association
United States
Morrow
Box Butte
Alliance
Hemingford
Berea
Gulf
Frank ‘Turek
Scotts Blut County
Retail Code Put Into Effect Across Nation Stores
President Rosevelt proclaims a master retail code banning sales below cost, with adjustments excluding small towns and certain wage provisions. The plan adds price investigation boards, sets minimum wages by city size, and prohibits loss leaders to curb unfair competition.
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Washington
Rosevelt
Schull
Johnson
Toll-toll bridge dispute halts Farnam street project
Secretary Ickes announced the Public Works Administration rejected the Farnam Street bridge plan for Omaha and urged appealing to the War Department to cut tolls on the existing Douglas Street bridge. He suggested that lowering or abolishing tolls could obviate a new bridge. If the War Department does not grant the appeal, Ickes said he would address the issue when it arises.
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Washington, D. C
Ickes
Public Works Administration
Farnam Street
Omaha
War Department
Douglas Street
Department
U S Court Upholds NRA Law Challenge in Tennessee
In Knoxville a U S district judge upheld the validity of the national recovery act and found no provision restricting an employer from hiring or firing labor. Ralph Starling a 33 year old welder sued Southern Silk Mills Spring City Tenn and U S district attorney James B Frazier Jr seeking to block code enforcement and prosecutions over underwear and allied products. Starling claimed he lost his job because the code limited mill hours.
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Knoxville
Tenn
A . United
Ralph Starling
Southern Silk. Mills
Spring City
James B. Frazier, Jr
United States
Tennessee
Four-Inch Heels Cost Her $75,000 Verdict
Mrs Agnes Hudson sought $75,000 for a fall downstairs on the fishing boat Sachem. Judge Moscowitz ruled the heels were 3 to 4 inches high and noted the plaintiff weighed 160 pounds and was 54, calling it negligence for a heavyset unaccustomed woman to descend four stairs in high heels. The suit failed.
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Brooklyn
M. Y
Moscowitz
Agnes Hudson
Woman Gets Year for $49,000 Embezzlement
Boise Idaho. Mrs Angela Hopper Boise City clerk pled guilty to embezzling an amount estimated at 49 000 by the prosecution and was sentenced to serve one to ten years in the state penitentiary.
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Boise
Idaho
Angela Hopper
Mexican Students Strike Oust Rector by Force
Mexican students in Mexico City and Guadalajara staged a strike demanding the resignation of rector Diaz Gonzales. After marching to the university building, they ousted the rector by force in a bold protest.
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Mexico City
Guadalajara
Diaz Gonzales
Paris Cherbourg Express Wreck Kills 35 in France
Thirty five people die and fifty are injured after the Paris Cherbourg express derails on a 33 foot viaduct near Saint Elier nine miles from Evreux. The engine and four coaches plunge into the Rouloir river. many deaths due to drowning. fireman and engineer killed. most victims French.
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Evreux
France
Cherbourg
Saint Elier
Rouloir
Yeek
Pierre Adglphe’ Dudouyt
Aviator Awarded 15000 For Australia Flight
Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith receives a 15000 grant from the Australian government for his record flight from England to Australia. The award comes without a public office and will support his entry into the aviation business.
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Sydney
Australia
Federal Government of Australia
Sirs
Charles Kingsford- Smith
Kingsford-Smith
England
Mantell's Son Dies by Self Inflicted Gunshot
Hollywood report says Robert Mantell Jr., 21, son of the famed Shakespearean actor, killed himself in his apartment shared with his mother Genevieve Hamper. Police were told discouragement over his acting career was the motive as his mother prepared to return to the stage.
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Hollywood
Calif
Robert Mantel, Jr
Robert B. Mantell
Genevieve Hamper
Army aid who spoke 24 languages dies in Plainfield
George W. Osborn sixty three an attache in the military intelligence office in Washington D C died at the Plainfield home of his sister Mrs Ellenora C Clement after a heart attack Osborn was noted as a linguist and spoke twenty four languages
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Plainfield
N. J
George W. Osborn
Military Intelligence
Washington, D. C
Ellenora . C. Clement
Osborn
Admits Kidnapping Self for $500 Ransom
Moberly Missouri sixteen year old junior college student Marshall Blackwell held in jail after allegedly confessing to kidnapping himself to obtain $500 from an elderly widow who had befriended him.
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Moberly
Marshall Blackwell
Roosevelt outlines managed currency and gold market plan
President Roosevelt pledges a managed currency to restore the price level and maintain purchasing power. He proposes a government market for gold to stabilize the dollar and directs officials to set their path, including gold buying at a premium to world prices to push the dollar toward 60 cents.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thoosevelt
Bank of England
Honies
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance ‘Corporation
Treasury
William H. Woodin
Oeab Acheson
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
London Gold Exchange
Repeal Won’t Make Washington Wet
Attorney General Cum mings says repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment would not end the Volstead Act in districts under Congress jurisdiction. He notes areas including District of Columbia Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone remain under federal enforcement.
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Washington
Cummings
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawaiii
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Canal Zone
Congress
Two Get Limit for 141 000 Swindle
John Egelston of Worcester and Patrick Sullivan of Seattle were convicted in a federal court of defrauding Mr and Mrs Callabari of Rochester New York out of 141000 in a race track swindle. They were sentenced by Judge Alfred Coxe to five years each in the Northeastern Penitentiary Lewisburg Pennsylvania and fined 1000 each.
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New York
John “J. Egelston
Worcester
Three Convicts Shot During Escape Attempt at Reformatory
Three convicts were shot and wounded, two seriously, when four prisoners tried to scale the state reformatory wall in Frankfort Kentucky. AP reporters said officers captured the men within a few feet of the wall.
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Frankfort
Nebraska facing bond vote for Chadron water project
Chadron voters will decide within six weeks on issuing 50000 dollars in water works bonds with federal aid sought. Separately oil exploration near Falls City ends with Albin well dismantled after drilling to 3500 feet and two sections of casing withdrawn. A new Scotia bank project planned by Richardson county farmers and businessmen aims for a 25000 dollar capital with about 30 days more work before opening.
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Chadron
Nebraska
Albin
Falls City
Richardson County
Bank For Scotia
Bank‘of Scotia
Census reveals Nebraska Iowa electric output in 1932
Figures from the census bureau show Nebraska total electric energy at 561,795,147 kWh and Iowa at 1,483,096,406 kWh for 1932. Nebraska rose 38.7 percent since 1927 and Iowa up 38 percent. Nebraska had 35 commercial and 166 municipal electric establishments last year, down from 298 five years earlier.
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Census Bureau
Nebraska
Iowa
Nebraska state bank currency from 1867 in question
Attorney in St Joseph asks State Treasurer if a five dollar Nebraska state bank note from 1867 issued by Waubeek bank of De Soto has value. Hall replies that hundreds of thousands of old unredeemed state bank notes still exist but are worthless as most banks from the 1850s and 1860s no longer operate. Currency issued under territorial authority circulated at a discount until the national banking act ended state bank money.
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St. Joseph
Hall
Nebraska
Waubeek “Bank
de Soto
Territorial
Nebraska re employment service reports progress in relief to work
George Hodge director of the Nebraska branch says 7 644 men were placed at work through re employment service activities, with 50 497 unemployed registered in the state. He notes 25 percent of re employed were formerly on relief lists and emphasizes that most relief cases remain, while harvest work also reduces relief rolls.
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Nebraska
National Re-Employment Service
George Hodge
Hodge
Keith Neville
NRA
Hodges
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U. S
Albert Sarraut
Edouard Daladier
Paris
Robert Mantell
Self
State News
State Board of Control
Nebraska Agricultural College
Harold Hedges
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