Government involvement in private business attacked by a federation
The Shannon committee heard protests from manufacturers and businessmen in South Bend and Chicago over government enterprises and paymaster bureaus. The Federation of American Business argued that bureaucracy harms trade and cited Uncle Sam in diverse firms, from delicatessen to department stores, as evidence of government competition with private enterprise. Railways opposed the Inland Waterways barge line, while Porter Leach and Bruce Dwinell presented letters and arguments. Committee members included Shannon, Pellengill, and Rich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Indio
Uncle Sam
Shannon
Federation of American Business
Kansas City
Inland Waterways Corporation
Warrior
Mississippi
Illinois
Association of Railway Executives
Porter R. Leach
The
Chicago
Bruce Dwinell
Gereral
Rock Island
Association of Railway
Barce
Congressional Committee
Joseph B. Shannon
Sanwel
B. Pellengill
Robert F. Rich
Woolrich
Wilton Lackaye Dies Noted American Actor at 69
New York reports the actor Wilton Lackaye died at home from a heart ailment aged sixty nine. Famous for creating Svengali in Trilby on stage, he had spent years in involuntary retirement due to illness and briefly returned for a revival of Trelawney of the Wells. His second wife Kathryn Alberta Riley survives him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wilton, Lackaye
Svengali
Trilby
Trelawney of
The
Wells
Kathryn Alberta Riley
Nura
Woman Relief Worker Kidnapped and Beaten at Charles City
Marion Stull, Floyd county overseer of the poor, was abducted by unemployed men in a wage dispute over city relief funds. She was held for hours, struck and rendered unconscious, then released near New Hampton about 30 miles east, ordered to stay away from Charles City. Five of seven accomplices were among eleven later arrested and charged with kidnapping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles City
Iowa
City Relief Fund
Marion Stull
Floyd County
New Hampton
Here
Charlies City
Japanese Naval Officer Killed in Coast Auto Wreck
Lieutenant Commander Akuya Torii of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 38, was killed when his car collided with another on Harbor Boulevard. The other driver, Charles H. Verner, was slightly injured. Papers identify the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akuya Torii
Harbor Boulevard
Charles H. Verner
United States Proposes Wheat Nitrates Trade with Chile
Santiago dispatch reports U S ambassador William S Gulbertson offers a exchange deal trading U S wheat for Chilean nitrates. The proposal aims to boost wartime supplies and deepen economic ties between the two nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Chile
Santiago
United States
William S. Gulbertson
Ata
Farmers Strike Expands To Omaha And Midwest Towns
Omaha and 25 mile stretch of Lincoln highway patrolled by about 1000 farmers opposing low farm prices. Meetings held in Missouri Valley Lemars Sioux Center Harlan Cherokee Marcus Red Oak and other western Iowa towns as leaders plan a wider call strike reaching St Joseph Kansas City Des Moines Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee and beyond with potential extension to Chicago. The action may last to Christmas or longer depending on progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Sioux City
Iowa
Lincoln Highway
Missouri Valley
Lemars
Sioux Center
Harlan
Cherokee
Marcus
Red Oak
Britain Agrees to Put on Foreign Wheat and Copper
Ottawa reports the British imperial conference announced ten trade accords. Britain will tax foreign wheat 6 cents a bushel and foreign copper 4 cents a pound, expanding price preferences over the United States and other grain producers. Canada and allied dominions sign on with Ireland, South Africa, and Rhodesia. Canada frames three with the Irish Free State and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Britain
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Newfoundland
Southern Rhodesia
India
Irish Free State
Five Hitler Followers Are Sentenced to Death at Reuthen
Five members of Adolf Vitter's National Socialist party were condemned to death after convictions for terrorism. The trial used a new speech court created by the August 9 emergency decree which also allows the death penalty for political violence. Mob violence erupted as the sentence was announced with vandalism of an opposition newspaper and anti Jewish whipping reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Reuthen
Germany
Adolf Vitter
National - Socialist Party
Michigan Cherry Order Sets Cherry Packing Record
The John Morgan company and the Traverse City Packing company announce a 60 thousand dozen can order of Grand Traverse cherries from a national retail house. The order equals a trainload of 40 cars of fruit and is the largest in the history of the local cherry packing plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traverse City
Mich
John ©. Morgan
Traverse City Packing Company
Nebraska Harvest Prospects Highlight Big Grain Crops
Abundant crops across Nebraska portend large yields with corn near 449 million bushels and oats about 73 million. Drought damage limited to southern regions. winter wheat remains poor while sugar beets and hay show strong output and fruit production edges higher with grapes and pears forecast steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Panhandle
Division of Statistics
Southwest
Nebraska Flood Damages Reach Near Million in Omaha Area
Receding floodwaters reveal extensive damage across Nebraska highways and crops with potential costs near one million dollars. Iowa escaped major impact though reports of bridge damage and undermined pavement persist. Nebraska engineers react to continued destruction from flooded creeks and shifting water affecting thousands of acres of lowland and transport routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
Potter Village to Build Jail After Buying Kimball County Cell
Potter village trustees announced immediate construction of a jail after purchasing a former Kimball county cell. The move aims to enforce law more rigidly once the jail is completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter
Kimball County
Beet Crop Forecast for Kimball County Sees Record Ranking
Nebraska district manager Frank Kemp of the Great Western Sugar company reports Kimball county and western Nebraska expect a top beet crop. The area planted reaches 57 thousand acres, up 2,500 from last year, with August 1 tonnage estimated at 13.9 tons per acre versus 11.85 the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimball County
Nebraska
Frank Kemp
Great Western Sugar Company
Laurel Municipal Light Plant Reports Net Gain in 1931 32
The Laurel municipal light plant shows a net gain of $6,600.92 for May 1, 1931, to April 30, 1932. Superintendent George Williams says the electric plant is self supporting and retiring its indebtedness early, funded from current earnings with no tax levies for electrical purposes in 1930 1931 or 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Light
Laurel
George Williams
Chest Made by Colonel Hanks Linked to Lincoln Era Found
W A Forrey of Aurora bought an old chest from Lou Morris and found it was made by Colonel Joseph Hanks, a 1812 army officer and uncle of Abraham Lincoln. The chest traveled with him from the war to Warren Illinois, where Hanks lived to 100. After his death Issack Hanks passed it to his son, then to niece Mary Watson, who married and became Lou Morris’ mother in Aurora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Forrey
Aurora
Lou Morris
Joseph Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
Warren
Ill
Colonel Hanks
Issack Hanks
Mary Watson
Reformatory to Begin Auto Plate Production Soon
Gus Miller announces completion of an automobile license plate factory at the state reformatory. The plant, funded by a $50 000 appropriation, will produce up to 5 000 plates per 10 hour day with wax paper envelopes and cartons due to arrive for packing. Delivery to county treasurers by December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Miller
State Reformatory
Miller
Lincoln
Treformatory
Nebraska Drops Plan for 50000 Exhibit Fund at Chicago
Plans to raise fifty thousand dollars to finance a Nebraska exhibit at the Chicago exposition next year have been dropped. Chairman Frank D. Eager of the commission said Nebraska should not rely on a few liberal donors but involve the whole state. He noted legislative action could still fund the showing and emphasized promoting factory-building in Nebraska to process its agricultural output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Frank D. Eager
Bryan
Barieo
Eager
Delegation Presses for Paving of Highway 20 to ONeill
Congressman Edgar Howard of Columbus leads northern Nebraska citizens to petition Governor Bryan for paving Highway 20 from Sioux City to ONeill. The group notes heavy traffic and existing gravel sections, with northern east-west routes largely completed except a short paved segment near South Sioux City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Edgar Howard
Columbus
Bryan
Sioux City
O'Neill
Mines Strike Clashes Halt Illinois March in Franklin County
About 15 000 striking miners moved toward the Franklin county coal district in southern Illinois. Gunfire wounded two and deputies clubbed one hundred at Mulkeytown as peace talks followed a fatal clash in Clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton, Ill
Franklin County
Illinois
Mulkeytown
Perry County
Zeigler
United Mine Workers of America
Gillespie
Emmerson
Air Field Instructor Sentenced to Prison
Lieut. Herbert C. Lichtenberger an instructor at Randolph Field was sentenced to ten years at hard labor in a federal penitentiary by a general court martial at Fort Sam Houston for bank robbery. He was convicted of robbing the Schertz State Bank of $648.50 on February 15 and firing a shot at customer W. W. Lehr during the getaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Randolph Field
Fort.Sam Houston
Schertz State Bank
W. W. Lehr
Bains Found Guilty of Bank Fraud Conspiracy
John Bains was found guilty by Judge John M. O Connor of conspiracy to defraud depositors of the twelve Bain banks that failed on June 9 1931. He received eighteen months in Joliet penitentiary. John H Bains Robert Bain and W Merle Fisher were found guilty and fined 1000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Bains
John M. O'Connor
Bain
Joliet
John H. Bains
Robert Bain
John Bain
W. Merle Fisher
Eight Nicaraguan Rebels Slain by National Guard
Washington report says nine clashes occurred between Nicaraguan National Guard and insurgent groups. Eight insurgents were killed and several wounded. details supplied to the Navy department by Lieut. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, commander of the guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Washington
Planes Collide Over Funeral in Pozhan Deadly Midair Collision
Two military planes collided in midair above a cemetery during funeral services for an air corps officer killed in a crash. Both pilots were fatally injured as they plunged to the ground in Pozhan Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pozhan
Poland
Air Corps
Synthetic milk poison scandal hits Havana plant
In Havana 25 patients including five minors fall ill as Cuban secret service agents uncover the city’s largest milk plant producing synthetic milk sold wholesale as fresh and pasteurized. The chemically made product is found to be dangerously toxic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
Secret Service
Senator Smoot Renominated at Utah Republican Convention
Salt Lake City delegates renominate Senator Smoot at the Utah Republican state convention. The platform declares the party does not bind its members to any definite course of action and emphasizes independence in policy.
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Smoot
Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah Republi
Republican Party
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Shannon Committee
Wilton Lackaye
Alfred E. Smith
Alfred EB. Smith
Outlook
Henry Ward Beecher
Michigan
P. B. Lemorgan
Cash Plan
Bloomfield
Nebr
Drougal Iy
South Central
Panhungle
Division of
North Nebraska
Kearney
Division of Statistica
Nebra
South Omaha
Bains
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