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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1934
Page
7
New York July 30 Stocks gave ground easily as market bellwethers weighed on sentiment. Leading issues slipped 1 to 3 points with low volume amid drought fears and a softer economic backdrop. Commodities mixed with corn at season highs and bonds quiet while analysts note potential profit declines for major firms later this year.
In Austria a monarchist succession ends four days of civil war. President Miklas swears in Schuschnigg and Von Starhemberg as leaders. Nazi and fascist factions are contained though pockets in Carinthia resist, with heightened security and armored presence across the country.
In Vienna competing factions seek Otto Habsburg restoration while Schuschnigg nears appointment amid calls for Papen envoy. Police fortify chancellery after a police death linked to the Nazi putsch, with authorities warning of possible attacks though uncertain if materialize.
A Times report details John Dillinger visiting the detective bureau four times between June 11 and July 22, riding to the 13th floor and spending an hour in public waiting rooms. He accompanied his last girlfriend Polly Hamilton Keele as she sought food handler certification amid amoebic dysentery outbreaks. The sightings came from a woman who identified Dillinger after his death. Auto traffic between England and India via Calais to Damascus is rising.
The Georgia Federation of Labor Executive Board condemns Governor Talmadge and the state highway board for a policy they call a brutal effort to reduce workers to virtual peonage. They urge citizens to intervene to save labor from starvation and note wage and hour scales on state projects are not fixed. The resolution cites low wage requirements on state contracts, saying some rural areas could pay as little as five cents an hour.
Chicago reports butter prices with 12 200 firm creamery specials at 24 25 percent for extras and 28 23 percent for extra firsts. Firsts 21 22 percent. seconds 20 percent. Standard 24 percent. Egg sales show 7 687 firm extra firsts 16 17 percent and graded firsts 16 percent with current receipts 13 14 percent. No egg sales.
Chicago awaits William Collins decision as 8 400 meat packers consider joining stockyard workers' strike. Federal mediators push arbitration while cattle handlers and Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. offer proposals. Embargo on livestock shipments leaves yards at a standstill with sparse receipts.
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