LaGuardia Voters Sweep New York City Reform Victory
Fiorello H. LaGuardia leads a reform coalition to overwhelming victory over Tammany Hall in New York City elections. Major vote totals show LaGuardia defeating Joseph V. McKee and John P. O'Brien as fusion tactics secure key posts including comptroller and borough presidencies.
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New York
James J. Walker
City Hall
Tammany Hall
Maj
Fiorello H
Recovery
James A Farier
Farier
LaGuardia
McKee
Brien
Fusion
Board of Aldermen
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Board of Estimate and Control
Tammany
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
O Brien
Afghan King Murdered. Son Named Successor
Telegram from the Afghan consulate reports King Nadir Shah Ghazi assassinated by a traitor. The nation mourns and pledges allegiance to Mohammed Zahir Shah, born 1914, son of the slain ruler, who has married the cousin of Khan Sarsar Ahmad Shah two years ago.
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Bombay
India
Afghanistan
Nadir Shah Ghazi
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Nadir Shah
Sarsar Ahmad Shah, Khan
Britain to Make Another Token Payment in War Debt Talks
Washington reports a stopgap deal ends current Anglo American debt talks. Britain will pay 7.5 million dollars in U S currency toward a 117.67 million dollar installment due December 15. Settlement of the broader debt issue is postponed to a later date. President Roosevelt calls the token payment a default.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Gary Man Regains Lost Blue Eagle In Gary Ind
Theodore Rahutis, Gary roadhouse proprietor and early adopter of blue eagle emblems seized by NRA authorities, recovers his emblem and adds five more. He plans to display them publicly and invites scrutiny as part of his pledge to cooperate.
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Gary
Ind
Theodore Rahutis
Gary Roadhouse
NRA
Nome steamer brings $840000 gold to U S
Seattle dispatch states the liner Victoria arrived from Nome carrying 840000 dollars in gold from the Seward peninsula mining camp. James P. Daly, Nome shipping man and 4& passenger, said the Roosevelt administration gold buying program had given renewed impetus to mining in the area.
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Seattle
Wash
Seward Peninsula
Victoria
Nome
James P. Daly
Revolt in Havana Ended After Heavy Fighting
In Havana the government of President Ramon Gray San Martin reportedly defeated a major anti Grau movement after six and a half hours of intense combat. Twelve killed and thirty three wounded as gunfire spread through the capital from eight miles around. An army plane exchanged fire with troops near Camp Columbia while lights were out at the presidential palace area.
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Havana
Ramon Gray San Martin
A BC
Mariano
Simlar
Santos and
Squarez
Camp Columbia
Presidential Palace
Zuipers
Camp
Columbia
New York Trust Hit by Expansive Indictments
A federal grand jury returned three indictments naming five labor organizations and sixty-eight corporations as defendants in a major anti trust action. The cases target industry operations valued at about 170 million dollars yearly, alleging strong arm tactics and terror to control trade. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is among the defendants, uniting thousands of clothing workers.
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New York
Federal
Industry 48 & Trust
Gnion
Insurance broker named in $500,000 suit over wife
White Plains New Jersey. William G. Wilson a Cleveland insurance broker was named defendant in a $500,000 alienation of affections suit by Presley W. Pitts Mount Vernon publishers representative. Pitts accuses Wilson of inducing his wife Leanna M. Pitts to obtain a divorce in Palm Beach Florida last April.
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White Plains
N. J
William G. Wilson
Cleveland Insurance
Presley W. Pitts
Mount Vernon Publishers
Pitts
Wilson
Leanna M. Pitts
Palm Beach
Fla
Episcopal Bishops Back NRA in Iowa Conference
The house of bishops adopted a resolution at the Davenport Iowa annual conference pledging support for the NRA and the President as part of their recovery program during the business meeting.
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Episcopal Bishops
NRA
Davenport
Iowa
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church
Nebraska to Ex pand Farm Aid to $40 Million
Four state total about 163 million in government hog and corn reduction aid would go to Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Kansas under an agricultural adjustment plan. Nebraska would receive around 40 million with Iowa about 75 million and Missouri 27 million. The funds come from a processing tax on the two commodities.
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Kansas City
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Beet Sugar Growers to Receive First 1933 Payments Soon
Denver area growers in seven states will receive about 22.0 million dollars from Great Western and American Beet Sugar companies as the first 1933 crop payments. W L Lippit says Great Western will pay roughly 22 million in total, with Colorado receiving about 5 0.6 thousand dollars per company. Zitkowski of American Beet Sugar forecasts about 2.5 million for his company’s growers, with Colorado getting 500 6 hundred. Harvest is projected at 3.77 million tons, up from 2.77 million last season, and American’s tonnage up about 10 percent from 1922 estimates.
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Denver
W. L. Lippit
Great Western Lana Company
Colorado
Yoming
Montana
Nebraska
H. E Zitkowski
American Beet Sugar Company
California
Minnesota
Iowa
Zitkowski
Great Western
Farm income to rise for Nebraska and Iowa
Louis Clarke, president of the Nebraska Mortgage Bankers Association, told the Omaha chamber of commerce agricultural committee that Nebraska farmers will gain 30 million dollars and Iowa farmers 76 million in the next 18 months. He blamed past relief measures for failing due to no production cuts and urged production planning to meet domestic needs and avoid price depressions. Clarke praised AAA administrator George N. Peek as capable to navigate the current program.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
Louis Clarke
Nebraska Mortgage Bankers Association
Omaha Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
America
AAA
George N. Peek
Clarke
Peek
First Nebraska Corm Loan Requested Under New Law
The Nebraska railway commission reports receipt of the first loan application under the state warehousing act. Mrs. Millie A. Steever of Stromsbury requests funds to borrow 2,000 bushels of corn, old and new, under the provisions of the act.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Nebraska Railway Commission
Millie A. Steever
Stromsbury
Nebr
Small City School Costs Decline in 1930s Nebrasks State Area
Lester B. Herlihy of the United States Office of Education reports per pupil expenses in small city school systems in Nebraska and nearby states fell from 82.14 to 78.87 dollars between 1930 and 1932 for cities with 5 000 to 10 000 population. Smaller cities 2,500 to 5,000 also dropped from 82.31 to 76.31 dollars per pupil, while general expenditures show declines and the largest item in costs for general control eased from 5.15 to 4.96 dollars.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Mississippi Valley
Lester B. Herlihy
Statisaitian
United States Office of Education
Herlihy
Farmers State bank pays 35 percent dividend to depositors
The closed Farmers State Bank of Kearney distributed 144 973 dollars as a 35 percent dividend to depositors, marking the first return of assets. Nebraska Recovery efforts include CCC settlement at Red Cloud and river work employment expanding across the state.
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Farmers State Bank of
Kearney
First Nebraska Turkey Shipments Head East for Holidays
J R Red ditt says Webster county growers shipped a carload of graded turkeys from Crete packed and chilled. Packing barges reduced 50 percent this year. Thayer and Lancaster counties will ship a car each soon. Webster plans about 20 000 turkeys this year Thayer about 5000 and Lancaster about 6500.
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Nebraska
Crete
J. R. Redditt
Nebraska College of Agriculture
Webbster County
Thayer
Lancaster County
Webster County
Thayer County
Fremont Buys Scenic Freemont Island Tract for 2260
Ninety acres of woodland on Fre mont Big Island near Fremont, a prized eastern Nebraska tract, were purchased by the city for 2260 after a failed earlier bid of 16. The deal requires city road access across the island to P J Courtright land, steadying future land transfers.
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Fremont
Big Island
Nebraska
P. J
Courtright
Seven Bank Robberies Hit Nebraska. Big Loot Totals Noted
A seven month robbery spree in eastern Nebraska yields about $200000 from seven banks. One man pled guilty and faces sentencing while efforts to bring three others to trial proceed. The record itemizes loot by bank and date across Carroll Fairbury Central City York Nebraska City Humboldt with multiple suspects per raid.
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Nebraska
Carroll
State Bank
First National Bank
Fairbury
Central City National Bank
Central City
York
Merchants National Bank
Nebraska City
Secur- Humboldt
Nor. L
Prohibition Ends On December Five In 1933
New York reports that prohibition will end after state ratifications give 36 states the votes for the Twenty first amendment to repeal the Eighteenth. Ohio Pennsylvania Utah Kentucky and others push repeal while South and North Carolina resist briefly. Washington notes Navy thoughts on maintaining a dry policy in the service despite proposed wine allowances.
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New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Utah
Kentucky
North
South Carolina
Cie
Maine
Washington
Chicago
Century of Progress to reopen in June 1934
Chicago officials announced that Century of Progress will reopen next June with more exhibitors and concessions and a revamped decorative scheme. President Rufus C. Dawes voiced the plan on behalf of the executive committee subject to required legislation. General manager Lenox R. Lohr said 90 percent of major exhibitors indicated participation and 80 percent will be represented, with many seeking extra space.
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Chicago
Rufus C. Dawes
Lenox R. Lohr
Roosevelt Meets Soviet Envoy in White House Talks
President Roosevelt extended friendship to Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov in a twenty minute White House meeting. Officials say the informal session signals start of talks to mend the 16 year US USSR breach and move toward recognition.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maxim WN
Litvinoff
Soviet Union
America
United States
U.S. SR
White House
Bryan’s Granddaughter Divorced From Meeker
Kitty Owen Meeker, daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen and granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan, was granted a divorce from W. P. Meeker of Baltimore less than 24 hours after a cruelty charge was filed in Miami, Fra.
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Miami
Fra
Kitty Owen Meeker
Ruth Bryan Owen
Denmark
William Jennings Bryan
W. P.meeker
Baltimore
Paralyzed man wins $500 verdict against Cincinnati druggist
A Common Pleas jury awarded Arthur E Sonders $500 against the druggists who supplied a ginger preparation that caused paralysis in 1930. The case marked the first of several similar paralysis suits arising three years earlier.
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Cincinnati
Common Pleas Court
Arthur E Sonders
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