Auto Executives Optimistic On Auto Industry Outlook
DETROIT June 24 optimism spread through the auto industry as predictions shifted toward a possible car shortage by year’s end. General Motors plans 215,000 cars and trucks from July 1 to November 1, signaling a rebound from earlier curtailments. Alfred Sloan had warned of a looming 1932-like lows, but Ward’s Automotive Reports notes steady retail sales and improved health since 1933, with accessory plants recalling workers from vacations.
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Moochers Grafters a Assailed by Editor
The editor assails moochers and grafters as they seek to exploit federal funds. He traces the evolution of corruption through Civil War era roots and notes World War I contributed to national disorder, urging readers to seek new methods to secure resources.
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Rand Urges Rotary Action To Rebuild American Spirit
In a public address at the Kanawha hotel Rand urged Rotary clubs to lead a revival of national spirit and warned that unrestricted suffrage endangers democracy. He criticized inactivity within Rotary and called for meetings to focus on American unity, noting global shifts toward a single language and nation. He planned to rejoin the NEA tour at Parkersburg as the China incident prompted Chinese refugees to return to Tokyo.
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Four Are Missing After Cloudburst Near Parkersburg
A cloudburst washed out a bridge near Petroleum and closure of main line between Parkersburg and Grafton halted trains for 48 hours. Homes were damaged, rivers flooded, and a Greyhound bus was stranded. driver Earl Phillips rescued a woman, aided by others, before passengers reached safety.
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Roosevelt Praises Steel Price Cuts Stimulating Recovery
President Roosevelt praised a Carnegie Hollinois Steel corporation price reduction announced in Chicago. He noted the move did not cut wages and urged broad support for industry. The speech referenced past government and labor mistakes as rainfall totals from 1.03 to 3.35 inches were recorded across two creeks.
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Sheriffs Invite Officials To Attend Convention
Sheriff Moore M. Reynolds extended an invitation to A. W. Garnett director of public assistance Judge Arless Harbert of Clarksburg and all juvenile officers of the state to attend the association's Tuesday morning session at the Daniel Boone hotel. The West Virginia Sheriff's Association and the Fraternal Order of Police open their annual meeting tomorrow in Charleston.
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Moore M. Reynolds
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Charleston
Liquidated Belt Tank Club Folds At Chicago
The Belt Tank club in Chicago has folded at the start of summer. Four youths aged 13 to 16 were members. The clubhouse was a water tank on the Belt Line Railway, 30 feet high with a roof hole as entrance. The 12 feet of water served as a pool and the police closed the site.
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Ayres Sees End Of Low Mood In Economy
New Brunswick New Jersey June 24 Colonel Leonard P Ayres economist and vice president of Cleveland Trust says the government pump priming program is an important laboratory experiment in applied economics and may lift industry from a renewed low mood. He predicts the third quarter may be worse than the second with limited improvement possible in the fourth quarter due to slow pump priming.
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iCleveland Trust Company
Graduate J School of Banking
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Col. Ayres
Lightning strike shocks CCC enrollee at camp near Spokane
Wylie, a CCC enrollee at the seven mile camp near Spokane, was struck by lightning and did not realize it until companions told him. Friends in the Woods witnessed the flash and reported him shaking his tingling arm before he calmly picked up his ax.
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U S Funds Authorized Highlight Labor Market Shifts
Acting Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin announced 440 million dollars in U S funds with April showing 150,864 private jobs absorbed and 76,620 government positions unemployed. A 12.2 percent rise in placements followed. Illinois Central President Lawrence A. Downs noted a 15 percent wage cut planned as Chicago labor talks near. Railway executives head George Harrison warned unions won’t be ready to discuss wage cuts.
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Association of Railway Labor Executives
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Missouri May Name New Span in Honor Of Notorious Outlaw
Authorities weighed several names for St. Josephs 600000 salt free bridge after Jesse James death in 1862. Proposals included The Pony Express bridge or a toll bridge. A later idea favored a name that highlights a tell bridge holding up travelers for a fee. The Chicago conference was to be preliminary before July 20 with wage-cut talks continuing among Standard railway unions.
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Standard Railway
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Business Pulse Mixed as Rail Earnings Hint Hopeful Wheat Outlook
New York Central predicted a business pickup in the mall while noting the road employs 20,000 fewer men than a year ago. L. W. Baldwin head of Missouri Pacific said the past 100 days traffic pickup has been sharp and prospects of better earnings in handling the wheat crop ripening on the western plains.
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