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Newspaper
Monahans News
Location
Monahans, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1933
Page
13
A reader debates the fate of democracy versus monarchy, criticizing political manipulation and conscription while contrasting old autocratic rule with modern governance. The piece reviews South Moon Under, comments on American realism, and concludes with thoughts on nonviolent social change.
NRA head Johnson continues push to bring coal and autos under blue eagle. He urges banks to resume ordinary lending while pressuring Ford and others to accept code provisions. Welles to Cuba swap ends as Caffery to Havana to seal a new pact amid regional turmoil. Puerto Rico protests governor Gore over efficiency and policy alignment with Roosevelt administration.
On Labor Day the oil code begins with industry support though not fully satisfying all. Standard Oil of Indiana moved ahead and posted code hours and wages at refineries. A 13 percent wage rise followed the abandonment of the part-time system, boosting buying power for refinery workers. Base rates include Whiting 52 cents, Wood River 52, Sugar Creek 48, Neodosha 48, Casper 50, with proportional adjustments for skilled labor.
An administrator tells Reil dealers in Johnsons office that price hikes won't be tolerated as the national industrial recovery act raises costs. He vows to uncover cheaters behind the blue eagle and cites unions led by Mary H. Rumsey and William Green enforcing consumer protection and code compliance.
Mahatma Gandhi renews civil disobedience and begins a fast unto death after imprisonment. Authorities threaten freedom only if he halts politics, but he refuses and demands full liberty to aid Hindu untouchables. His wife and Madeleine Slade released to attend him as the fast deepens.
Pee Davis, ambassador at large, visited President Roosevelt in Hyde Park to discuss the Geneva disarmament conference starting October 16. He backs the British plan to limit offensive weapons and supports a French proposal for world armaments supervision through a permanent disarmament commission and inspections to regulate manufacture and transfers.
Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, confident of allied support, orders mobilization of over a thousand marksmen from the home guard to reinforce frontier patrols against alleged Nazi incursions. Vienna seeks rapid volunteer recruitment in eastern and southern Austria as tension rises.
National Guard of Ireland in blue shirts defies De Valera ban as a military tribunal under public safety acts moves to arraign non signers with death as a potential sentence. Government accuses the guard of aiming at dictatorship while Justice Minister cites heavy arms and imports.
N PEEK administrator of the agricultural adjustment act launches at six major live stock markets a program to reduce pig numbers by about 5,000,000 and raise prices. In Chicago Omaha Sioux City St Paul Kansas City and St Joseph the emergency relief administration buys 4,000,000 pigs and 1,000,000 brood sows to distribute meat to the poor. A price schedule fixes the amount farmers receive above market price from a $55,000,000 processing tax fund, with buying to expand to other markets soon.
Indianapolis author Meredith Nicholson has been appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as minister to Paraguay. He will reside in Asuncion among pleasant people and is expected to depart Washington soon after preparatory conferences. Leo R. Sack of Washington named minister to Costa Rica.
Delegates at the Second International world congress in Paris show gloom while the executive committee battles defeatists. Bright spots include Spain’s rising socialism and the United States where members see the new deal as steering toward Socialism.
A major Caribbean storm swept the U S Atlantic coast from Virginia to New Jersey. About a dozen lives were lost and extensive property damage followed as yachts and liners faced peril. Atlantic City Cape May and Ocean City suffered severe flooding and rail links to the mainland were cut.
In 1933 Missouri adopts repeal by a large majority as it joins the wet states and moves toward ratifying the Eighteenth Amendment. The tally reflects strong support for ending prohibition, with fourteen more states needed to complete repeal.
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