Job security drive aims to spread work across industries
A wartime style campaign launched by national business and labor groups seeks to spread available work by reducing weekly hours across industries. Walker Teagle of Standard Oil leads a coordinating plan to unify 12 regional committees, while the AFL backs the effort as a key step to cut unemployment. Foreclosure relief is also urged with 60 day suspensions in telegraphic prompts to state bankers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Walker C. Teagie
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
Franklin W. Fort
Home Loan Bank Board
J.W. Pole
Teagie
Federal Reserve
San Francisco
France Corporation
Admits Killing Father in Iowa Farm Quarrel
In Iowa a son Luther Tesch twenty two and his widow Martha Stakr Tesch about forty were arrested over the finding of Lewis Tesch body on the Wapsipinicon near Central City. Luther confessed to shooting his father twice with a shotgun then loading the body into a car and tossing it from a steep bank. The widow allegedly knew of the killing and helped dispose of the body. Both pleaded not guilty and were bound over to the grand jury. The quarrel arose over the stepmother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Manchester
Lewis Tesch
Wapsivuaaaaa
Central City
Luther Tesch
Marthd. Stakr Tesch
Wapsipinicon
Grand Jury
Destroyer Hits Whale Off Nantucket Blades Broken
United States Coast Guard destroyer Welborn under Lieut. C. W. Lawson arrived in New London with two starboard blades broken after a collision with a sulphur bottom whale about 90 feet long. The ship, 84 crew aboard, was on patrol 40 miles west of Nantucket lightship at 22 knots when the impact jarred the vessel and the whale surfaced then swam clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Conn
United States Coast Guard
Welborn
Word
C. W. Lawson
Nantucket
Wood
18 Killed and 38 Hurt in Truck Crash Over Cliff
Eighteen persons were killed and several more injured when a truck skidded and rolled over a cliff in Porto Rico. The accident left many dead at the scene and others rushed to nearby hospitals.
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Cliff Ponce
Porto Rico
Flood of money for farmers due soon
Washington reports a forthcoming flood of RF C funds to aid agriculture in the Midwest. Regional Agricultural Credit corporations will handle loans with feeder-loan emphasis to lift cattle and hog prices and farm income. seed loans may be delayed until autumn or next January as policy shapes.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R. F.C
Corp
Agriculture Department
Federal Farm Board
The
Farm Board
Edith McCormick Will Filed for Probate
The will of Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick names Chicago Title and Trust as executor and was filed for probate. It allocates one third to Muriel McCormick Hubbard and daughter, one sixth to Mathilde McCormick Oger, one fifth to Fowler McCormick, and five twelfths to Edwin D Krenn. The will, dated August 4, notes a larger bequest to Krenn for money lent to McCormick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Muriel McCormick
Hubbard, & Daughter
Mra. Mathilde
McCormick Oger
Fowler McCormick
Edwin D. ‘Krenn
Roosevelt Rules on Ousting Mayor Walker
Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley ruled that Governor Roosevelt has the authority to remove Mayor Walker of New York. The court held it is an executive act that courts may not review until after the governor issues a decision on the ouster charges.
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Albany
N. Y
Franklin _ D. Roosevelt
Walker
New York
Supreme Court
Ellis. J. Staley
Statewide campaign seeks tax cuts on Nebraska cars
Nebraska motor interest groups clash over a proposed state plan to cut motor taxes. Myles Standish of Omaha announces a statewide drive backed by a mother goose pamphlet showing a goose with a golden egg. Agnes Neylon argues taxes fund roads while E H Polley defends license and gas fees as needed for highways.
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Omaha
Nebaska
Motor Transport League
Myles Standish
Omadbua
Aska
Standish
League
Nebraska
Lincoln
Agnes Neyion
Nebraska Motors Club
A. A.A
E. H. Polley
Nebraska Good Roads Association
Neylon
Washington
Motor Club
Polley
Beet Sugar Production Drops in 1931 Despite Higher Output
Census figures show beet sugar output rising 7.3 percent from 1929 to 1931 while value fell 18.8 percent. Establishments declined from 82 to 67, with wage earners dropping 16.7 percent to 6,241 and payroll down 24.7 percent to 7,480,337.
Nebraska to Let Contracts for New Lincoln Highway Paving
The Nebraska Department of Public Works will let contracts in September for a major Lincoln highway project adding 57.6 miles of concrete paving and involving $1,624,500 in new construction funds. The plan covers 57.6 miles of concrete pavement as part of the expansion.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Nebraska Department of Public, Works
Nebraska Game Announces Pheasant Season Estimate
Creek and O Connell state warden say Ne braska pheasant hunting season will likely be similar to that year with dates set by the state game and parks commission. Taxable wealth remains about 30 percent higher than two decades ago despite deflated values, with a grand assessment of 2 021 000 981 dollars and a 442 million rise since 1912. Population up about 6 percent, railroads down in value, wheat and cattle surge, horses decline.
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Creek & O'Connell
Nevaska
Nebraska
Von Papen Granted Dictatorial Powers in Early Session
Berlin reports Chancellor von Papen’s cabinet won the first round of power as the Reichstag convened. The president consented to economic measures and von Papen was empowered to dissolve the house and govern, while Goering was elected Reichstag president amid Nazi and nationalist support. Clara Zetkin led a Communist challenge to impeach President Hindenburg. The session adjourned, with anticipated delays before any dissolution.
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Berlin
Frans. von Papen
Junker
Reichstag
von Papen
Neudeck
East Prussia
National Socialiste
Adolf Hitlér
Clara Zetkin
Frau
Zetkin
von Hindenburg
Bavarian Peoples’ Party
Hermann William Goering
Hitler
Goering
Nebraska chapter forms to push public works loans
The Nebraska chapter of the national committee for trade recovery announced proposals totaling 2 321 500 for public works. A sitting and executive committee to speed up loan applications to the RFC was named with Donald Price of Lincoln as chairman. Assistants include R D Edge Omaha City engineer Luther Bonham Fairbury former Governor Weaver and John W Towle Omaha. Loans target two Missouri river toll bridges at Florence 760 000 Ruby 600 000 Long Pine water system 315 000 Orchard water system 6 500 Lincoln county irrigation 80 000 and West Point pavement widening 50 000.
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Nebraska
National Committee For Trade Recovery
Donald Price
Linco
R. DB. Edgecombe
Omaha
Luther Bonham
Fairbury
Weaver
John. W. Towle
Price
Gine
Florence
Ruby
Long Pine
Orchard
Lincoln County
West Point
Nebraska Leads in Farm Forest Plantings Under Clarke McNary
Nebraska ranked among the leaders in distributing forest seedlings and transplants under the Clarke McNary law. The extension service coordinated over a hundred million trees nationwide with Nebraska farmers planting 850000 seedlings in spring. More than twenty five million trees were sent for farm planting across 38 states and two territories with government and local offices distributing at cost.
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Nebraska
College of Agriculture Extension Service
Clayton Watkine
Farm Bureau
Forest Service
Governor Bryan Sets 66 Cent Daily Board Limit for State Highway Contracts
Governor Charles W. Bryan announced that state highway contracts this year will cap contractor payments for employee board at 66 cents per day. He said the rule will apply to both state and federal Nebraska projects with a 30 hour work week on federal jobs. The same terms include a 10 hour day and 30 cent per hour minimum wage, use of local labor and Nebraska materials, with band and team labor limited where possible. The list of bids to be opened in September remains unchanged from the tentative schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
National Guard
Bryan
Heirs of Wrigley to Pay Record Illinois Inheritance Tax
Heirs of William Wrigley Jr. will pay Illinois inheritance taxes totaling 2 558 938 dollars, the largest ever levied on an Illinois estate. Judge Jarecki approved the state appraisal setting net holdings at 19 186 724 dollars, with 18 863 742 dollars in personal property and 328 000 dollars in real estate.
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Chicago
William Wrigley, Jr
Chicago Cubs
Jarecki
Harry A. Ash
Joseph Roinick
Seciblals
Carlstrom
Mr. Wrigley
Minois
Haizlip Sets Coast to Coast Flight Record
James G. Haizlip former Army flyer and aide to Maj. James H. Doolittle won the Bendix dash at the National Air Races in Burbank and then flew to New York to establish a new trans continental record of 10 hours 19 minutes. He beat Doolittle’s previous Bendix dash mark of 11 hours 11 minutes 15 seconds by about 57 minutes.
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Haizlip
Cleveland
James G. Haizlip
Maj
James H. Doolittle
Burbank
Calif
New York
Major Doolittle
Michigan Wets Oppose Brucker and Dickinson in Prohibition Talks
An executive session of Michigan Crusaders and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform decided to oppose Gov. Wilber M. Brucker and Lieut. Gov. Loren D. Dickinson due to their past and present dry affiliations. The leading wet organizations will back opponents in forthcoming political action.
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Lansing
Mich
Wilber M. Brucker
Loren D. Dickinson
Michigan
Crusaders
Women’s Organization For National Prohibition Reform
Great-Granddaughter of Daniel Boone Dies at 75
Mrs Virginius P. Smith of Lancaster Pennsylvania aged 75 died after claiming direct descent from Daniel Boone She was noted in local records as Boone’s great granddaughter and passed away in Lancaster with his lineage cited in her obituary
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Daniel Boone
Lancaster
Virginius P. Smith
James J. Walker of New York Dies at Tuberculosis Sanatorium
James J. Walker, aged forty eight, of New York City, died at a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Bank of England
United States
Edith McCormick
Roosevelt
Gen. Roosevelt
Manila
Theodore Revse
Lincolm Highway
Cozad
Hitlerite
Zweelfahriciatt
von Papan
Wrigley
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