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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1933
Page
5
London dispatch notes the Dalai Lama of Tibet, supreme religious ruler, died after a poisoning rumor. His death ends a turbulent era marked by exile and a dramatic return to Lhasa, with Tibet’s spiritual leadership reshaped by years of conflict and foreign pressure.
Washington reports 1933 crop values rose by over 1 billion dollars from 1932. Total US farm crop value reached 4.076 billion, despite lower production and reduced yields across ten major crops. The data reflect crop values only, excluding livestock and payments under farm programs.
Senate investigators heard testimony that the Guardian Detroit Union Group Inc directed dividends by subsidiaries regardless of earnings. Former president Robert O. Lord denied the practice while letters he sent to subsidiary heads suggested a set dividend rate of 3.29 dollars per share. The group served as holding company for several banking units.
In Lynchburg on December 19 4 it is up to M A Burchard director of the State Transient Bureau to decide if a transients concentration camp will be set up in the old Randolph Macon Academy building at Bedford. R C Watts a Randolph Macon trustee told Burchard the board would forego renting the building due to strong Bedford opposition and Burchard hinted plans may be abandoned.
A damaged OCR fragment references a local notice or sale action with unclear details and names. The readable bits mention price or cost language and a public event context without full specifics.
President Roosevelt created a million dollar government corporation to finance and promote electrical appliances for homes and farms. David E Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority helped develop the electric home and farm authority for experimental use in the Tennessee Valley with future national expansion possible via private capital. The plan aims to lower prices and expand power use without government takeover of the appliance business.
Paris reports a government shift to lower import figures for apples and pears under pressure from the United States. French officials question how far duties can rise without undermining a reciprocal wine quota deal, amid rumors of new import licenses and taxes.
Labor Department data indicate a first monthly drop in manufacturing industrial employment since March, offset by gains versus last spring and last year. Secretary Perkins cites an 8.5 percent fall from Oct 15 to Nov 15, a seasonal pattern with exceptions.
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