Roosevelt Era Policies and German Recovery Efforts Highlight News
News briefs cover Ickes wage and work hour controls under the New Deal program with Douglas as budget gatekeeper, the President's Reemployment Agreement urging five month wage and hour standards, and looming enforcement if codes aren’t signed. Trading halts appear as grain and stock markets curb volatility. Voter rounds favor repeal of Prohibition in several states. Germany forms a general council for industry to tackle unemployment, while Elks elect leaders and salute Roosevelt. Politician figures including Untermyer discuss League of Nations actions over Nazi anti Jewish policies.
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Hancellor Hitler
Germany
General Council For Industry
Otto Fischer
Central Association of German Bankers
Albert Voegler
United Steel Trust
Fritz Thyssen
Rhineland
Karl Friedrich von Siemens
Baron Kurt von Schroeder
German Chamber of Commerce
Cologne
Vincent Krogmann
Hamburg
London
Krupp von Bohlen Und Halbach
Krupp
Robert Ley
Cotton plan forces higher prices by destroying crop
Washington reports that cotton farmers in sixteen states signed contracts to destroy portions of their crop, with payments averaging near 150 dollars per farmer and government holding and selling surplus cotton to raise prices. The program relies on cash or optional ownership, financed by processing taxes on mills and wheat, while urging voluntary, not coercive, compliance and patience for results.
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Washington
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
M. I. Wilson
Wallace
George N. Peck
Wilson
Department of Justice
North Carolina
Agriculture Department
United Action
Ice wells offer cooling aid in Montana farms
Montana State College agricultural engineering officials describe ice wells as simple pits filled with layered ice blocks to preserve milk and butter during hot summers. The method uses sheets of paper between ice layers, with boards to create parallel strips, enabling easy removal of blocks for household use.
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Bozeman
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Montana State College
Agricultural Engineering Department
Montana Briefs Reflect Gains and Projects Across the State
First cuttings of hay near Harlowton yield well while Wheatland County reports peak conditions. May car loading at Montana points rises 1934 cars from April, and 1,828 more than May last year. Park County assesses losses of 416,068 with total values near 20.1 million for 1933. Trident cement plant shipments reach 60 cars weekly amid highway work. Federal relief funds total 1.192 million for March to May. Bear tooth region trout stocking underway by Red Lodge Rod and Gun Club with ranchers and forest service. Glacier National Park reports 7,286 entrants to June 30, down from 9,223 last year. Secretary Mitchell seeks 200,000 through the industrial recovery act for Capitol grounds work. Great Falls land office records 265 homestead filings since January with 19 in first 14 days of July. Dillon wool market tops set 1933 prices with 50,000 pounds to Draper & Co. and 100,000 pounds to Dewey Gould. Fort Peck dam project proposed at 45 million dollars would drive regional development.
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Harlowton
Wheatland
Montana
John Fraser
Park County
Trident
Helena
Beartooth
Red Lodge Rod and Gun Club
Forest Service
Glacier National Park
Park Service
Sam W. Mitchell
Capitol
United States Land Office
Great Falls
First National
Dillon
Draper & Company
Boston
Dewey Gould
Fort Peck
Missouri River
Administrators Joins Propaganda Effort for Industrial Control
Washington correspondents report Jonson plans a large propaganda agency for the I C A and calls in veterans such as Charles Michelson Frank Kt Wilson Charles F Horner Bruce McNamee William V Lawson and Heber Blankenhorn to win support for the proposed master code.
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Jonson
Washington
Industrial Control Administration
Charles Michelson
Democratic National Committee
Frank Kt. Wilson
Charles.f. Horner
Bruce McNamee
William V. Lawson
Heber Blankenhorn
Labor reports show job gains in June across sectors
Frances Perkins announced that in June 400 000 workers returned to factory jobs and 100 000 found work in nonmanufacturing and agricultural fields. Railroads and other industries outside the survey showed a significant rise. Factory employment rose seven percent and factory payrolls increased 10.8 percent, the third straight month of higher employment and earnings.
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Frances Perkins
United States
Perkins
Roosevelt romance and Balbo air expedition headlines
Elliott Roosevelt faces a divorce from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt in Nebraska and travels to Chicago where he meets Ruth Googins of Fort Worth. Italo Balbo leads 95 aviators on a transatlantic flight to Chicago and then Washington to honor the President.
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Reat
Elliott Roosevelt
Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt
Minden
Ney
Chicago
Ruth Googins
Fort Worth
Texas
Elliott
Ruth
Chicago Reporters Mr. Roosevelt
Curtis Dall
Italo Balbo
Italy
World’s Fair City
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Balbo
Newfoundland
Ireland
Azores
Mussolini
World silver policy debated at London conference
The London conference neared its end as a subcommittee adopted part of Senator Key Pittman’s plan for silver rehabilitation, backing increased use in subsidiary coinage. Regulations on world silver output and metal coverage by central banks were postponed. Pittman commented that he was...
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London
Key Pittman
Central Bank
Pittman
Red disturbance warned as August first anti war day
The Third Internationale orders are to be obeyed causing anticipated street demonstrations on August 1 noted by authorities in Riga Tallin and Helsingfors where Communist agitators were recently arrested. A general letter from the Comintern executive committee urged a one day nationwide strife and street protests.
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Moscow
Riga
Tallin
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Douglas
Edward W. Pickard
Lewis W. Douglas
Ickes
Hugh. Johnson
National Recovery
Bureau
Chicago Board of Trade
Boards of Trade
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
Oregon
Farley
League of Nations
Untermyer
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Milwaukee
Walter F. Meier
Seattle
Meier
University of Nebraska
David Schultz
Florida
James Fitzgerald
Omaha
Leland O'Callaghan
Louisville
J. L. Safford
Santa Fe
Floyd E. Thompson
Moline
Clayton F. van Pelt
Fond du Lac
Wis
National Lodge
Supreme Court of the Order
Ilbert N. Haugen
Iowa
Northwood
Wisconsin
Haugen
House Committee On Agriculture
Samuel Untermyer
Walter F. Meler
Ss de Eee Ie
Wil William Bruckartee A
Department of Short Wheat Agriculture
Montana State” ‘College
America
Lithuania
Stephen Darius
Stanley Girenas
Kaunas
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