Labor Representatives Named to Muscatine NRA Committee
At a courthouse meeting Muscatine delegates selected eight of fifteen nominees for the central NRA committee. Labor representatives Frack and Rehmel won on the second ballot after a four way tie. The group will promote NRA support and report to the state NRA board. Functioning immediately, they will elect officers soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor
Muscatine
NRA
Herman B. Lord
Ernest Moore
Milton Frack
William Collitz
Frank Albert
L. R. McKee
Dan Troxel
J. Urehmel
Frack
Rehmel
Joe Roth
Chamber of
Polo Star Cecil Smith Hearing Set Amid Indefinite Delay
Chicago authorities kept the preliminary hearing for polo player Cecil Smith of San Antonio on hold as the complainant nurse Eugenia Rose planned private counsel. Assistant State's Attorney Wachowski and Evanston Magistrate Brightmire pursued contact with Rose while Dr. Gary Baker said she spoke with her parents. The hearing was tentatively scheduled for Wednesday after Rose's supporters reported new conflicting evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cecil Smith
San Antonio
Tex
Polo Star
Eugene Wachowski
Willis R. Brightmire
Evanston
Smith
Eugenia Rose
Wachowski
Gary M. Baker
Miss Rose
Baker
Cooperstown
N. D
Brightmire
Rose
First M. E. Organizes for Year
The First Methodist Episcopal church set its conference year starting in September. Delegates named to the Iowa-Des Moines conference will attend the gathering in Des Moines on Sept. 21. A proposed Cedar Street merger was approved and sent to a joint committee for ratification. Lay representatives to the Iowa-Des Moines conference are J. A. Chamberlin and W. E. Downer. Official boards and committees for the year include trustees and stewards as listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Iowa- Des Moines
Des Moines
Cedar Street
Cedar Street Church
Iowa-Des Moines
J. A. Chamberlin
W. E. Downer
A. E. Bowser
Harry E. Hahn
D. V. Jackson
J. M. Kemble
J. H. Kendig
Arthur W. Schmidt
J. A. Te- Strake
E. J. Zeidler
August Blaesing, Jr
S. A. Crow
Walter Goetz
H. W. Greer
Charles Hall
Johnson presses price controls across industries
Washington reports that Hugh S. Johnson urged retailers to restrain price hikes as the national recovery administration focuses on the retail trade code and coal industry action. Conferences continued on open shop policies in the auto industry while the labor rights issue remained unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Recovery Administration
Hugh S. Johnson
R.W. Lea
Donald Richberg
Johnson
Blue Eagle drives more NRA support in Muscatine
Three more Muscatine employers signed NRA recovery agreements within 24 hours, bringing total locally to 393. The Muscatine Button Workers Union No. 18337 adopted resolutions pledging members to patronize firms displaying the blue eagle and to report those not complying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Muscatine
Recovery Administration
W. S. McKee
McKee
Joural
Button Workers’ Union of
Iowa
Button Workers’ Union
New York Grand Jury Probes Link of Crime and Politics
The New York grand jury moves to investigate ties between politicians and racketeers as La Guardia leads fusionists against Tammany Hall. Foreman sought to bar an official stenographer, a request denied by law. Medalie said he would attend, with claims of four professional politicians tied to racketeers emerging earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
New York
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Tammany Farm
Grand Jury
Medalie
Manhattan
West Liberty Fair Opens With Record Entries
Farm Bureau Day marked the 71st West Liberty fair amid ideal weather. About 2,000 visitors on grounds. 4-H livestock entries set records with 175 head. A 60 by 120 foot tent proved too small for entries as judging began and officials anticipated crowds exceeding last year. Congressman Ed C. Eicher expected to speak on the national recovery program. Dairy entries from West Liberty Muscatine and nearby areas noted. Jersey and Guernsey herds listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal New Service
West Liberty
Farm Bureau
Ed C. Eicher
Washington
Iowa
National Recovery Administration
Muscatine
Iowanita
Strager
Weather Outlook and Mississippi River Readings
Iowa mostly cloudy with possible local showers tonight or Wednesday and cooler by Wednesday in extreme northwest areas. Tincis forecast fair to partly cloudy over tonight and Wednesday with potential showers in extreme northwest. Mississippi River stages show varying rises and falls across several key gauges including St Paul 1.5, La Crosse 1.9, Dubuque 0.4, Hannibal 0.0, St Louis 0.9, Cairo 10.8, Memphis 7.6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Tincis
Mississippi River
St. Paul
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Hannibal
St. Louis
Cairo
Memphis
Polo Championship Triumph Upsets Chicago Society
The piece reports Chicago based polo victory by the Hill billies over the Dudes, drawing 20 000 spectators and signaling polo moving from elite social circles to rural West. It notes the shift in public interest and social changes after the event with colorful, period tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board Acts on Federal Project for Muscatine County Roads
The Muscatine county board of supervisors moved toward a three year road program funded partly by federal aid. They authorized submitting culvert and bridge jobs to the state public works committee and seeking a 30 percent federal grant, with County Engineer Halbfasa to advertise for bids. A separate bid awarded for a condensation pump and equipment to Sanitary Plumbing and Heating, $779.35, for the county heating plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine County
Board of Supervisors
Kenneth Coder
J. Henry Schaefer
Public Works Committee
F. P. G. Halbfasa
Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Company
City Levy Set at 10 616 Mills In Tie on Sewer Plan
The council divided three to three with Mayor Herman B Lord on a motion to rescind the earlier decision to seek federal aid for a trunk sewer along Mad creek. Further investigation is authorized as to the project cost 432 885 dollars and the citys liability if aid is filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman B. Lord
Mad Creek
H. H. Fitzgerald
Mississippi
Lord
Ed Vanatta
Moscow
Farmers' National Grain reports fiscal loss of 500000
The Farmers' National Grain corporation, a major co op marketing agency, announced an operating loss of about 500000 for the year ended May 31. President Milner cited low grain margins, the banking holiday, and Chicago Board of Trade actions against the firm as factors, with 160,754,732 bushels handled and staff cuts implemented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
George S. Milner
Milner
Holliday
Chicago Board of Trade
Updike Grain Company
Farmers’ National
Chicago Exchange
Aegia
Federal Farm Board
Hoover Asked to Testify in Detroit Bank Probe
Detroit jurors investigating the closures of First National Bank Detroit and Guardian National Bank of Commerce sent a letter to former President Herbert Hoover requesting his testimony. Judge Keidan's panel seeks Hoover's view on federal agency attitudes toward the banks before March 4, 1933. Senator Couzens had proposed summoning Hoover, who was rumored to be fishing in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Herbert Hoover
Harry B. Keidan
First National Bank
Gardian National Bank of Commerce
Harry S. Toy
Palo Alto
Calif
Hoover
Couzens
Michigan
Powers That Be
Paradox of Wheat Again Confronts Many Nations
Nations face a wheat paradox of surplus and famine as prices vary. The London conference of 29 nations considers a four-part plan to boost imports, preserve bread quality, adjust tariffs, and relax import limits while major exporters back a two-year cut in acreages and exports. Italy seeks a strong internal market with high import duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Stefferud
Associated Press
Soviet Russia
China
Argentine Bureau of Statistics
London
United States
Canada
Australia
Tuna
Italy
City council debates mill levy and tax plans for year
Special session sets the city mill levy at 10.616 mills to raise about $105,646. A 1 mill emergency fund levy and a 2 mill general fund increase could lift the total to 13.616 mills and $135,501. If authorized, the plan foresees a lower total than 1933 receipts and highlights a looming shortfall in payrolls and fire department funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett-Beatty
Kenneth Coder
Herman B. Lord
Harvey Allbee
Hig
Gus Allbee
Des Moines
Tne
Suspects Seized in Wolz Killing in Illinois Farm District
New Boston Ill suspects Suspects Suspects im Wolz Killing three men including Crosland of New Boston and Ambrosius of Cleveland were arrested by Sheriff Walter Rehm in connection with the July 22 murder of Martin Wolz a Toolesboro farmer near his farm home after collecting 373 dollars from hogs. Wolz was shot when returning home and his housekeeper Mrs Susan Holcroft said the assailants tied her to a chair and shot Wolz in the face and hip before fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal News Service
New Boston
Emery Crosland
Illinois
Kenneth Ambrosius
Cleveland
Ill
Walter Rehm
Martin Wolz
Tooles
Bay
Aledo
Rehm
Wolz
Susan Holcroft
Wold
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen
A humorous sketch where Aunt Het jokes about parenting and the frustration of well meaning advice provoking harsher reactions from worried parents. The piece uses Quillen’s wry observations on common family dynamics and the plights of raising children.
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NRA Committee
U. S
BY Claude Callan
Copyrigag
Publishers Syndicate
Texas
Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
M. E
Carole Lombard
Los Angeles
William Powell
Carson City
Nev
E. K. Peters
Foscoe Turner
Carole
West ‘Liberty
Eicher
Jie
Yours
Mir Roper
Lam
Farmers’ Grain Corporation
Albert L. Bates
Denver
Bates
Boulder
Colo
Robert Quillen
T’q
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