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Newspaper
The Telegraph News
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1936
Page
2
An independent weekly newspaper issued every Tuesday morning from 932 Tenth Avenue Sidney Nebraska. It serves the City of Sidney Cheyenne County and Western Nebraska, and is entered at the Sidney post office as second class mail matter.
In Jerusalem a British policeman was fatally wounded as tensions flare over the Arab anti Jewish campaign near St. Stephens gate. Palcor reports the shooting followed an Arab’s death. a separate incident saw a 17 year old girl and two men confess theft of about $1000 from trains between Denver and Castle Rock.
John Firoenza is found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton after an 18 hour plus jury deliberation. The defense insanity plea fails as the jury returns a first degree murder verdict with death penalty recommendation. The judge commends the jury for its decision.
Dispatches from the Tibetan border in China claim 500 Buddhist priests were slain by communist troops advancing through Sikang province. Reports allege Nama the living Buddha of Tibet accused of betraying China allowing the invasion.
Solomon Rickner, 115, the era’s oldest Nebraskan, died at his St. Paul home. He credited his long life to a high cost of living that kept him to plain foods, drank coffee and tea, enjoyed beer, exercised vigorously, smoked seventy years, never wore false teeth, and had good hearing.
Strikes and scattered disorder spread through twenty states on Thursday with agreements in some areas offset by fresh troubles elsewhere. Labor leaders estimate about 46,000 workers affected by the actions across sectors.
Bloodhounds and a dozen posses hunted the Tunica hills near Baton Rouge Louisiana for a 23 year old lifer who slipped from a convict camp after fatally shooting a prison captain and his wife. The fugitive reportedly saw a trusty in the captain's home.
Three masked gunmen attacked Juanita La Rose in a Denver cafe, knocked her to the sidewalk, and seized $379 from a deposit being taken to the bank. Police say officers were stationed on the opposite side of the city on a tip of a likely robbery.
The great liner Queen Mary progresses on her maiden voyage to the United States under favorable conditions. It remains undecided whether she will win the blue ribbon for transatlantic speed on this first trip.
Secretary Morgenthau announced plans to request another one billion dollars in cash as part of the mid June financing program to be disclosed Monday. Combined with 1.05 billion dollars in refunding offerings, the total financing would reach 2.05 billion dollars, one of the largest peacetime flotations.
New appeals to federal government call for action against the Black Legion, a secret night-riding terrorist group. Resolutions urging congressional investigations await passage in Congress as Michigan and other officials draft bills to empower the Justice Department to disband the Black Robed order led by J Edgar Hoover.
Captain Louis Pelissar from South Africa traveled to Hollywood to wed actress Mitzi Miegand but she declined to state her reasons and refused the marriage.
A revolt against the Nicaraguan government, joined by army units, moved into multiple sections of the country. A government spokesman acknowledged the uprising, calling it the most serious on the east coast and aiming to overthrow the current government and install General Somoza, head of the national army, a figure trained by the United States Marines.
The senate approved without debate an amendment to the deficiency appropriations bill, giving control over next year’s relief fund of 1.5 billion dollars to President Roosevelt. The amendment passed without a record vote as the chamber moved toward contentious parts of the bill.
Two baggagemen were reported missing after a baggage car on the Texas Ranger fast passenger train aboard Santa Fe jumped the track and plunged fifty feet into the Cimarron River near Guthrie Oklahoma.
Marshall Stump of Edison Nebraska was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Chapman a divorcee who was pushed from a moving motor truck The case involved a second degree murder charge The article notes Roosevelts tax plans and a Senate Finance Committee Democrat move toward a lower levy compromise after talks with Vice President Garner
Representative Zioncheck of Washington state returned to Washington with a bicycle he had brought from the Virgin Islands. He attempted to ride it up and down the hall of the apartment house where he had lived before the landlady threw out his belongings.
S W Sandy Moorehouse an irrigation ditch rider waded into a ditch near Henry Nebraska opened the doors of a submerged automobile and rescued nine girls from their watery confinement only the rear wheels and bumper remained above water
John H. Shaw consul general for Ethiopia in the United States said Selassie did not carry a large sum of money when he fled the country. Shaw returned from a two week London trip where he conducted Ethiopia’s business with its representatives in England.
William Lamme of Fremont holds the crossing accident that killed four people as purely accidental. The four victims were returned to their home states of Iowa and South Dakota.
Indictment in Kansas City details a mail fraud case alleging a plot to sell forged City of Omaha bonds valued at 3 101 000. The scheme centers on multiple defendants led by a U S hospital inmate for delinquency and involves several persons including the inmate.
Federal officers captured Harlan Crouch, sought for the slaying of Revenue Agent John R. Foster, after locating him asleep in a Indianapolis apartment during a raid.
The Dionne quintuplets celebrated their second birthday last Thursday with a brief nighttime observance without their parents. Hospital routine remained unchanged except for a half hour radio program hoped to boost an international hookup. no candy or cake was given as the quints have never tasted either.
A multiagency plan developed by three federal agencies details efforts to confront wolves described as running in savage packs in Alaska. The document frames the issue as a wildlife management challenge and outlines proposed actions.
An all night clash over an apartment in Washington ends after four police visits a night of liquid entertainment and a bride’s walkout amid the 24 hour round of Congressman Marion Zienbeck from the state.
Secretary Wallace met with congressional agriculture leaders to press for an early sugar bill agreement. He said progress was being made while Senator O Mahoney Wyoming indicated he and Jones would draft the bill.
Four Denver men pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges tied to a stock operations scheme that allegedly defrauded about 300 people across a dozen states of close to 200000 dollars. Federal penitentiary sentences were imposed as the outcome of the guilty pleas.
A Memorial Day tribute recalls American war dead as President Roosevelt and Secretary Roper urge an end to international animosities. General Pershing also speaks at the crowded marble amphitheater near the unknown soldier grave.
The House adopted contempt citations against Dr. F E Townsend and two aides Rev Clin ton Wunder of New York and J P Kiefer of Chicago with instruction to forward the case to the U S district attorney for action. Eleven injured in Memphis as two four story buildings collapsed. six of the injured were black. Two army fliers escaped injury after a crash near San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo field. Social security study shows half of people in the middle west and New England expected to reach old age assistance eligibility, versus about one third in the south.
After years of drought farmers in the dust bowl finally receive heavy rainfall. The downpour promises a strong crop and brings smiles to sun-tanned, dust-ravaged farmers who have waited five years for rain.
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports the steel sector showing its most promising prospects in five years at its forty-fifth general meeting in New York. Other items note Goebbels campaigns in Germany, Lourdes miracles, and political polling showing Landon leading ahead of Borah Hoover Knox and Van denberg.
The Meat Packers Institute estimates over 13 million hot dogs were eaten on Memorial Day as Americans celebrated with grilling and family gatherings. The figure reflects widespread outdoor meals and sales spikes across retailers.
Investigators call the Black Legion a group of loose federated night riders in several states with no central discipline or shared purpose beyond enforcing individual leaders' notions of Americanism. Detroit officials doubt the claim of six million national members.
Ben Jurgins spent a couple of days last week at the William Frerichs Jr. home. George Buss was a Sidney caller Wednesday. John Tieman, employed near Potter, is visiting at the Walter Flicker home. Weyerts by Mrs Rabe Weyerts by Mrs Rabe.
A long list of residents and visitors with connections to Sidney and nearby towns fills the week’s social roundup. Names include Hume, Rahe, Jurgens, Thurow, Darrah, Frerichs, Borges, Bartling, and many others with calls, calls, and weekend visits noted across the region.
The President cannot declare war but may act in a real state of war without Congress. He judges existence of war and can veto a war bill. Congress can override with a two thirds vote. No President has vetoed such an act, and Congress usually acts only after presidential recommendation.
Community notes list Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bruns and families, Otto Rahe and family, Atbe Bruns, Harry Thompson and family, Walter Rufenacht and family, William Hull, George Frerichs, and Willard Frerichs visiting Otto Rahe or Ben Jurgens homes. County ball game attendance noted along with weekend visits by Bertha Borges and others.
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