Employers urged to share jobs to ease winter unemployment
Hoover relief committee report calls on employers to preserve and increase work resources this winter by redistributing tasks and temporarily curtailing seniority and civil service rights. It urges rapid planning of local public works and direct aid minimization through work opportunities.
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Chicago
Hoover
Relief Organization
Union League ‘Club
Harry A. Wheeler
Walter S. Gifford
Hoover Comission
Johnston
Brotherhood of ‘Locomotive Engineers
Cleveland
Willian Green
American Federation ‘of Labor
Reopened Coal Mines Bring Jobs in Wilkes-Barre Area
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania twenty one collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company reopened after months of closure. More than 12 000 men regain work and further hires may follow as operations reach full swing. The reopening is described as one of the largest single working orders in recent years. A large part of the coal field is affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes-Barre
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Hoover Orders Big Cut in the Naval Budget
President Hoover ordered a drastic cut in naval expenditures for the 1938 fiscal year as part of a general program to reduce government costs. The Navy department was told to slash 60 million dollars from its 1933 budget, bringing it to 340 million, with further cuts planned to total about 100 million over the next 21 months.
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Washington
Hoover
A. General
Navy Department
Butcher Robbed in McKees Rocks Neck Tie Gem Pin Loss
In McKees Rocks Samuel Bender the butcher was robbed of 900 dollars. Bandits held his head on a block and chopped off a necktie with a 400 diamond stick pin from his neck. They failed to fasten the clasp.
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Butcher
Gem
Pittsburgh
Samuel Bender
McKees Rocks
Powers urged to refrain from arming before arms conference
The League of Nations disarmament commission adopted an invitation to the powers to refrain from any tendency to increase armaments until after the armaments conference next February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
League of Nations Disarmament Commission
Coolidge Declines 1932 Presidential Nomination
New York dispatch reports former President Coolidge will not seek the 1932 presidential nomination. He pledges loyalty to Hoover and urges Republican unity to present a solid front for renomination and re election amid factional pressures and calls in some states for uninstructed delegations.
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New York
Coolidges
Evening Post
Hoover
Coolidge
Tong
Republican Party
Washington
Fifty two Russian engineers arrive to study in U S colleges
Fifty two young Soviet engineers selected by competitive exam arrive in New York to study for three years in American colleges. They are electric, mechanical, metallurgical, chemical, marine and aeronautical engineers. The Soviet government supports their expenses, and none are Communists.
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U. S
New York
Supreme Economic Council of the
Last Mexican War Vet Dies at 101 on Coast
Stockton California. Willam H. Ranes a former Manteca farmer died at a hospital at age 101. He was the last Mexican War veteran who marched with Scott into Mexico City. He also served in the Civil War with Company F Thirty-eighth Ohio infantry and later worked for the government surveying Alaska.
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Stockton
Calif
Willam H. Ranes
Manteca
Ranes
Scott
Mexico City
Ohio Infantry
Alaska
Beets Begin Harvest in North Platte Valley
The North Platte valley beet sugar harvest is underway with 70 receiving stations and six factories from Bayard Minatare Scottsbluff Mitchell Lyman and Gering. About 2,600 men will work in plants and stations, with North Platte valley locals to be hired. harvest may finish in about 70 days, earlier than usual. The crop value is estimated at four million dollars, below the usual seven million.
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Gering
North Platte Valley
F. “A. ‘Kemp
Nebraska
Great Western ‘Sugar Company
Kemp
Bayard
Minatare
Scottsblur
Fossil Beds Near Bridgeport and Sidney Revealed Rich Finds
Nebraska fossil beds near Bridgeport and Sidney yielded mastodon skulls rhinoceros jaws three toed horses and amphibian jaw fragments. Scientists from major museums excavated conical teeth and other remains and plan further digs in the panhandle next year.
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Nebraska
Bridgeport
Agate
State Mule
Chicago
Sidney
Panhandle
Nebraska Poultry Output Falls Slightly in 1930
A. E. Anderson reports Nebraska produced about 23.1 million chickens in 1930 and nearly a billion eggs with a total poultry value around 27.7 million dollars. Farm chickens on hand dropped to 14.773 million from 1929, valued 64 cents per head versus 80 cents, trimming total value from over 18 million to about 12.5 million.
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Nebraska
Anderson
Pigeons Set Record Flight From Trenton to Denver
A claimed record for homing pigeons was set by thirty four birds released at Trenton to fly to Denver. One pigeon reached Denver in three hours and forty five minutes, all arrived within four hours fifty five minutes. The birds were shipped by Denver fanciers and released by G B Towle station agent.
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Trenton
Denver
G. B. Towle
Hastings to Vote on City Hall Bonds
Hastings city council approved a measure to call a special election on a new city hall after receiving a petition with more than 900 signatures. The 6 to 1 vote authorized the election and the bond question for residents to decide.
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Hastings
State Bank in Ravenna Is Closed and Liquidated
The State bank of Ravenna was closed by its officers and directors and handed to the trade and commerce department for liquidation. Deposits were 190000 dollars with capital stock 25000 dollars and surplus 16000 dollars. Examiner J Y Castles was in charge for the state.
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State Bank of
Ravenna
Trade and Commerce Department
Ravenna Bank
C. N. Devenport
A. R. Kinney
R. M. Thompson
Examiner J. Y. Castles
Paving Project Near Omaha Blair Underway Around the Clock
A crew of 150 workmen pours concrete under floodlights on the Calhoun Blair paving project, the final link in the Omaha Blair highway. Grading started five weeks prior. Officials expect over 500 men employed during the project, with paving to finish within a month.
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Calhoun- Blair
Lincoln council awards water pipe contract to local firm
The Lincoln city council awarded the Ashland to Lincoln line project to George P. Abel and Arthur A. Dobson for 1 309 000 dollars for cast iron pipe. A separate short pipe line Ashland to Wells in the Platte valley goes to Williams Brothers Construction of Tulsa Oklahoma for 211 437 dollars. Hand labor proposals were rejected, saving about 100 000 dollars.
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Lincoln
Ashland
George P. Abel
Arthur A. Dobson
Wells
Platte Valley
Williams Brothers Construction ‘Company
Tulsa
Okla
Farm land near Fremont sells around two hundred per acre
In Dodge County farm land near Fremont trades around $200 per acre amid rising prices. Louis Wagner recently sold an 80 acre farm for $16,600 to Valentine Parsons, averaging $206.25 per acre. Farmers see confidence in agriculture as real estate dealers note several recent high price deals.
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Dodge County
Fremont
Louis Wagner
Valentine Parsons
State capitol grounds grading contract awarded
State engineers survey the capitol grounds to set grade stakes ahead of grading. Abel Construction Co. awarded $19 750 to remove 40 000 cubic yards of earth by hand and team labor. Mets Construction Co. typeset for concrete walks and drives at $25 900.
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New
State Capitol
Abel Construction Co
Mets Construction Co
Groundwater Source Not Platte River Seepage Says Agent
Platte river has been dry for 100 days and rainfall is below normal but well levels in the pump irrigation district east of Kearney rose only 15 inches. County Agent Alvah Hecht states the underground supply does not rely on Platte seepage or local rains. State and federal experts may investigate later to locate the actual source.
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Platte
Kearney
Alvah - Hecht
Hi -Said
Workmen finish 127 mile gasoline pipeline project
A 75 man crew on both river banks completed three four inch pipelines spanning 2200 feet across the Missouri River from Osceola Iowa to Omaha in 35 days. The Great Lakes Pipeline company terminal is in Omaha and the Osceola line cost about 1,000,000 dollars. Gasoline will soon flow from Oklahoma through Kansas City to Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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Osceola
Omaha
Missouri River
Great Lakes Pipeline Company
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Chicago
Twin Cities
Huge Ring of Alien Smugglers Targeted by Federal Agents
Chicago hosts a federal operation as 30 agents probe an alien smuggling ring with reported annual income between 50 and 100 million dollars. Officials describe a nationwide network using ports and various transport modes, charging a price list from 200 to 6000 dollars per entrant, with many aliens placed in industrial eastern cities and Great Lakes areas. Indictments anticipated, hundreds to be deported.
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Chicago
Murray W. Garsson
Labor
W. Frank Watkins
Fie
Gibsson
Fies
New York
Great Lakes
Garsson
Garssen
Will Tell Mr Borah the Truth About Russia
New York author Ellery Walter returned after six months abroad four in Russia and two in twelve countries studying the third year of the five year plan. He carried credentials to Stalin and taught in a Moscow technical school. Walter says the United States should not recognize the Soviet now and notes widespread peasant distress and mass transit to Siberia.
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New York
Ellery Walter
Russia
Constantinople
Wiliam. E. Borah
Stalin
Moscow
Siberia
Mongolia
Borah
Mel
Walter
United States
Democrat Is Winner in Missouri Election
Robert D. Johnson, Democrat of Marshall, won the Seventh Missouri special election. His victory contributed to Democrats holding 214 seats, the same as Republicans, with one Farmer-Labor member elected overall. Six more special elections by November 3 will decide party control of the next House.
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Washington
House of Congress
Missouri
Robert D. Johnson
Marshall
Johnson
Farmer-Labor
Planters Start Move for No Tobacco Year
About 300 Harrison county tobacco growers in Cynthiana plan a no tobacco year in 1932. they voted to plant no tobacco if neighboring counties act similarly and to form a pool to market the 1931 crop, aiming to raise prices and curb overproduction.
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Cynthiana
Harrison County
Kentucky
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Relief Committee
W. Cameron Forbes
W. Santreron
Forbes
Japan
Boston
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Nelight
Mr. Borah
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