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Newspaper
The Telegraph News
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1936
Page
2
The Telegraph News published at 982 Tenth Avenue Sidney Nebraska announces its independent stance and Tuesday publication schedule. Subscription rates in advance vary by zone with $2.00 inside and $2.50 outside the postage paid zones.
The report lists a variety of brief items including a plea of innocence in a kidnapping case involving Findomey and Kernis, a guilty plea by Byron Bol ton with sentence deferred, a fatal train strike of Kansas farmer Frank McCoy, a boy injury in Omaha linked to a choking incident, a dog bite to a Beatrice child, a killed carrier, and Judge Mack presenting Roosevelt as a national convention choice.
Justice Jennings Bailey of the U S district court in Washington DC declared the governments 1935 railway pension law invalid and unconstitutional. He ruled that both the pension law and its companion measure are inseparable parts of a single scheme, unconstitutional since prior rulings of the United States Supreme Court.
Harry Henson a Lincoln farmer offers his mule to the Democratic National Committee for campaign purposes the animal measuring six feet seven inches and weighing about 2400 pounds.
The Washington D C Evening Stir reports over one million dollars in income taxes and penalties assessed against Huey Leng followers after income tax evasion charges were dropped. The piece notes other political and local incidents including a Pat Lessig life-saving moment, a Center Nebraska conviction for theft, and veterans’ benefits efforts. It also covers a Panhandle Stampede opening in Alliance, a firecracker prank injuring James Blaidell, an Oklahoma City cafe hold up by an escaped inmate, and declining bank robbery insurance losses.
League of Nations delegates search for renewed collective security after sanctions against Italy. Haile Selassie attends meetings and is hailed as emperor by Genèvans who cheer him as he walks through the city streets.
Six residents from Colorado are summoned to Los Angeles to testify in the Robert S. James murder trial. James is accused of killing his last wife with snake bites and drowning. A former wife was found dead in a Colorado Springs bathtub while recovering from injuries from a highway auto crash on Pikes Peak.
Arab leaders with a force of 100,000 Bedouin warriors call for a march on Jerusalem to aid fellow Arabs in the holy land and present demands to leaders.
Emir Abdullah of Transjordan urged 200 sheiks and desert tribal leaders to aid Arab brothers, signaling a staged confrontation after their gathering.
A massive blaze in the San Bernardino mountains of California began when railway workers burning brush saw a jackrabbit run by with its fur on fire. The ablaze animal leapt through dry chaparral, igniting a wide swath of tinder.
Dr. Earl H. Bell of the University of Nebraska and his associates report discovering near Lynch what they believe to be the largest prehistoric city in North America. The houses are of a type never before seen in the country.
Sidney Pierce of Holdredge, a chicken hatchery man, has spent the month in the hospital awaiting his thirtieth operation on a leg. He has osteomyelitis, an infection of bone, with operations spanning forty one years after a leg bruise at age ten while herding cattle.
A crowd estimated at over eight hundred gathered for a paving dance celebrating the completion of pavement on highway 138 at Big Springs.
Harry Thompson former U S Yeoman faced arraignment on an indictment amid government charges he sold American secrets to a Japanese naval officer. He called the case a silly mess and said he knew the Japanese student at Stanford but claimed not to know he was an officer.
Five people were hurt, one seriously, in a three car crash on a gravel road west of Valley Nebraska. One car struck the rear of another, forcing it into a car parked at the roadside.
Dr Francis Townsend intimates a possible new push for his old age pension plan with a forthcoming press event signaling renewed activism and public discussion.
The article notes Dr Townsend criticizing the Democratic convention as noise and smoke while the Union party of Lemke faces a critical decision. Senator Carter Glass, back in Philadelphia, planned to stay until the platform was finalized and then stepped down from the platform committee after four decades, citing medical orders.
The national Democratic convention scrapped the two thirds rule for nominating a candidate and approved a rules committee plan to allocate delegates by population for the 1940 convention.
The leftist government in Paris secured the final portion of strikers to return to work after a settlement between employers and workers at the capital’s last occupied department store. Only a few hundred remained out as France smiled at labor quirks along the Cote d’Azur.
Floyd Denton of Arapahoe pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a two to three year sentence. Denton, a World War II veteran, struck Roy Hopper of Norfolk in a Stuart tavern. Hopper died from the injury.
Reports say Belgium edges toward 1914 style neutrality, with internal division and rising hostility to near military presence and the France alliance. The shift aims to curb enormous military spending amid growing tensions.
Screen actress Myrna Loy marries producer Arthur Hornblow Jr in Enscheada Mexico. It is Loy first marriage while Hornblow’s second following a prior marriage to actress Juliette Crosby.
British foreign minister Anthony Eden expressed strong concern over Germany's nonresponse to a inquiry on rearmament plans. Eden met with Maxim Litvinoff of Russia and sources say their discussions centered on Germany arming its forces.
Checks addressed to about 1000 aged railway workers await clearance as the railroad retirement board evaluates the district court decision that the pension act is unconstitutional. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers plans to take the case to the Supreme Court.
The worst drought in Stutsman County North Dakota has withered fields turning prairies dull and barren. A year without rain leaves wheat burnt and brittle standing inches from scorched soil as the land shifts to a desolate landscape.
Oliva Dionne, father of the famous quints, forced his way through a drain pipe to see his 25 month old daughters after being barred from Dafoe hospital where the children are kept.
A family remains quarantined at home as measles spread among older children. The sheltering order follows a local outbreak prompting health officials to enforce isolation to prevent further cases.
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