Retailers Study Recovery Codes in Muscatine
About 25 Muscatine businessmen attended a district conference of retail merchants on the industrial recovery act in Washington Iowa Monday night. They discussed the act and wired President Roosevelt offering full cooperation in the recovery program. Nearly 300 southeastern Iowa retailers heard Congressman FE C Eicher speak on legislative angles of the act. M H Nielsen of Des Moines spoke and answered questions, urging retailers to form state organizations. Mayor Herman Lord and F M Myers of Muscatine chamber accompanied the group to Washington. L Rothschild presided.
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Muscatine
Washington
Roosevelt
Southeastern Iowa
FE. C. Eicher
M. H. Nielson
Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce
Nielson
Herman Lord
F. M. Myers
Postoffice to Deliver Roosevelt Recovery Messages Thurs
Muscatine postoffice to distribute national industrial recovery communications to employers on city routes Thursday. Each business with at least three workers will receive two indoor and outdoor cards, two hangers, ten large stickers, twenty small stickers, twenty consumer tickers, and twenty statements of cooperation after presenting a signed compliance certificate.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Industrial Recovery Administration
Muscatine
W. S. McKee
McKee
Marvin Barrow Expected to Die in Hospital
Marvin Barrow, the Texas bandit wounded in a posse clash near Dexfield Park, is dying in an Arkansas hospital. Doctors report a fractured skull and brain tissue damage with infection, and Barrow has admitted to killing a marshal at Alma, Arkansas, weeks earlier.
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Marvin Barrow
Perry
Texas
Dexter
Arkansas
Marshall
Alma
Ark
I— Perry
K. M. Chapler
C. Robert Osburn
Menlo
Dexfield Park
Placed Under Bond For Biting Cousin
John A H Miller of Danville is free on 1500 bond after a Middletown fight. He faces assault with intent to do great bodily harm to his cousin Clarence W Miller and was bound over to the grand jury following today’s hearing.
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Burlington
John AH. Miller
Danville
Middletown
Miller
Clarence W. Miller
Bluffs Factory Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed the G. F. Manufacturing Company plant in Council Bluffs causing about 20000 dollars in damage. Contintental Oil tanks holding 82000 gallons of gasoline were saved from explosion by relief valves and city firefighters. The wooden farm equipment builder was a total loss after a furnace overheated while burning rubbish.
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Council Bluffs
G. F. Manufacturing Company
Continental Oil Company
Oil Company
G. F. Company
Muscatine News Busiest Week Yet With Pecan Band Plans
Baby announcements in Bellevue hospital birth. new auto registrations include H H Holliday Ford sedan and Herbert Chesebrough Plymouth. Muscatine Boys band seventh concert at Weed park timed 7 pm due to food merchants picnic. band to perform on the new ball diamond. Pigeon with leg bands found on Laurel building roof. Various local moves and visits noted including trips to Chicago World's Fair and family travels. Minor accidents reported on East Second Street and Grandview Avenue. Funeral set for William Boland at St Marys Church.
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Frank Weber
Lee Street
Bellevue Hospital
H. H. Holliday
Cedar Street
Herbert Chesebrough
Mulberry Avenue
Plymouth
Muscatine Food Merchants
C. Miller
E. J. Sywassink
Kenneth Honts
Herbert Schreurs
George Shewe
Herbert Lorber
Luther Woods
L. K. Woods
John Dillon
Heary Harps
Art Arbogast
Chicago
L. E. West
East Tenth Street
Tucson
Ariz
West
F. A. Neidig
Maurice
Billy Mueller
Syracuse
N. Y
West Third Street
Neidig
Lysle Potter
Muscatine
Helen Volger
George
Charles
Marian
Iowa Avenue
John Fayle
West Fourth Street
Weed Park
Muscatine Food Merchants’ Association
Laurel Building
J. P. Nugent
Iowa City Hospital
William Pulliam
West Fulliam Avenue
Hershey Hospital
U.S. Steel Declares 50 Cents Dividend on Preferred Stock
U S Steel today declared a 50 cent dividend on 7 percent cumulative preferred stock. The company shows total earnings of 4,054 for the second quarter, with deficits of 3,795,473 for Q1 1933 and 3,362,736 for Q2 1932. After interest and charges, the quarterly deficit was 8,627,367, versus 16,730,271 and 20,452,173 in prior periods.
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New York
Steel Corporation
Sec
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Recovery Agreements To Be Sent To 2 Million Employers
Letter carriers will deliver proposed wage and hour agreements to 5 million employers. Signed agreements become effective on August 1 or when signed. Employers receive an NRA insignia upon presentation at local post offices. August marks end of voluntary phase. Starting September 1, the president can order hearings for noncompliant industries and impose arbitrary limits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Recovery Administration
Missouri Pacific Trustees Approved by Federal Judge
Judge C B Faris of the eastern Missouri district court approved the permanent appointment of L W Baldwin and Guy A Thompson as trustees for the Missouri Pacific railway under the railroad relief amendment to the federal bankruptcy laws.
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St. Paul
L. W. Baldwin
Guy A. Thompson
Missouri Pacific Railway
C. B. Faris
Federal District Court For
Eastern Missouri
Farmer Clears Luer Kidnapping Case Details
Michael Musiala, who runs a farm near Madison Illinois, says he aided in the Luer kidnapping plot. Police Chief Joseph Gerk says Randall Eugene Norvell of Namcoki Illinois led the operation and that Luey was released July 16 after a failed ransom of 1000000. The confession also implicates Percy Michael Fitzgerald Irish OMalley a former convict and Mrs Vivian Chase in the abduction.
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St. Louis
Michael Musiala
Madison
Ill
August Luer
Alton
Joseph Gerk
Musiala
Gerk
Randall Eugene Norvell
Namcoki
Luez
Norvell
Percy Michael Fitzgerald
O'Malley
Vivian Chase
Harry Woodring to Wed Helen Coolidge
High level guests gathered at United States Senator Marcus A. Coastridge’s home in Fitchburg Massachusetts for the wedding of his daughter Helen to Harry Hines Woodring first assistant secretary of war and former governor of Kansas. Reverend Max A. Kapp officiated and attendees included James Roosevelt and Colonel Robert Lemon with sisters of the bride Mrs Donald F Carotner and Mrs Robert E Greenwood.
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Fitchburg
Mass
United States
Marcus A. Coastridge
Helen
Harry Hines Woodring
Kansas
Max A. Kapp
First Universe
James Roosevelt
Robert Lemon
Woodring
Donald
Nation wide search for Chase and O Malley kidnapping
Luer was seized while Norvell drove the car. Norvell denies knowledge of the kidnapping. Mrs. Chase and O Malley are objects of a nation wide search.
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Luer
Norvell
Keck Supported to Succeed Ely in Seventh Judicial District
The Scott County Bar and Jackson County Bar endorsed Walter L. Keck of Maquoketa for the Seventh district judgeship. A possible contest emerged after H. D. Keeley of Maquoketa said he would seek a governor interview over Keck’s appointment despite district recommendations. Clinton bar support remained unconfirmed as rumors floated about two prominent Clinton Democrats seeking the post.
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Davenport
Scott County Bar Association
Jackson County Bar Association
Walter L. Keck
Maquoketa
H. D. Keeley
Herring
Keck
Keeley
Clinton
Lloyd Services to Be Held at Bethel Church
Funeral services for Mrs. Stephen Lloyd will be held at Bethel A M E church at 3 p m Wednesday, instead of at the Fairbanks Home for Funerals as previously planned.
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Lloyd
Stephen Lloyd
Bethel A. M. E
Fairbanks Home
Fairbanks
Committee to allocate wheat in Des Moines county
C. C. Cotton, Farm Bureau agent, announced a temporary general committee to administer the federal wheat acreage adjustment program in Des Moines county. Members named are William Wirt, Charles Guegler, George Steingraever, Roy L. Meyers, Carl Totemeier. Two more will be named later. Township meetings will start the acreage adjustment work soon.
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Burlington
C. C. Cotton
Farm Bureau
Des Moines
William Wirt
Charles Guegler
George Steingraever
Roy L. Meyers
Carl Totemeier
Pirates Edge Cubs in Opener of Doubleheader
The Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 to 3 over the Chicago Cubs in the first game of a doubleheader. Three eighth inning hits broke a tie after Cubs tied, backed by solid pitching from Steve Swetonic and Waite Hoyt.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Chicago Cubs
Steve Swetonic
Waite Hoyt
Code Approved With Two Exceptions by Marshall County Grocers
Retail grocers and meat dealers in Marshall County approved the national code of the National Grocers Association at a Monday night meeting with two exceptions. They urged lowering the wage minimum for inexperienced male help from 11 to 9 dollars a week and changing daily hours to permit 13 12 hours on Saturdays. The 54 hour week was approved.
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Marshalltown
Marshall County
National Grocers Association
Work Schedule Adopted for Aug First Compliance
A schedule effective August 1 sets a half holiday on Wednesdays for an employee. The Times-Republican announced compliance with the code in all details, also effective August 1.
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the Times-Republican Today
Iowa Democrats Estimate State Employee Assessment Value
Democratic leaders in Des Moines proposed a 3.5 percent assessment on all state government salaries. If all employees contributed, the move could raise about $120,000 annually from a total payroll of roughly $3.5 million, covering both Republican and Democratic staff.
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Des Moines
Democratic Party
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