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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
2
Upward of 400000 veterans were informed that midnight ends their payments from the Veterans Administration. About 387000 disabled veterans receive benefits will lose them at 12 tonight, with an estimated saving of 83000000. Officials noted additional thousands may also have payments stopped, while many emergency retired officers are on the list.
Crowds cheered as regatta heats ran under clock started starts with five minute warnings and colored signals. Officials from Midwest and National Outboard associations attended with A. C. Adams judging and J. Sackrider starting. Henry Welch led the river sports committee coordinating events and the Venice parade plans.
A cold front brings cooler Saturday at many locations after Thursday highs near 120 in some spots. Junction City Kansas reports 116 while Oklahoma City marks its eighth straight 100 degree day. Chicago reports 65 thousand dollars in damage, Gary and Hammond Indiana add forty two thousand. Rain floods Missouri with eight inches. Iowa also drenched. Lincoln Nebraska sees first meaningful rain in a month aiding corn.
President Roosevelt enjoyed a relaxed homecoming at Campobello after a fogbound voyage returning from a Geneva disarmament conference. He praised the reception as a sign of lasting friendship and said Norman H. Davis would report back on the border’s fortification status between the United States and Canada.
The Jewish population of Poland is estimated at 2 829 456, the second largest in any country worldwide. This figure highlights Poland's significant Jewish community in a global context.
Nome detectives and three companions plan a grid search for the vanished Khabarovsk expedition. The crew includes Clyde Herndon Jr and Harold Persons with mechanic Fred Fettermann aiding preparations in a large rescue plane.
The State School Board voted to cap salaries and set indigent patient quotas for county admissions to the university hospital. It also declined participation in the state fair, closed the Perkins school for inmates at the children's hospital, and approved $25,000 from the dormitory fund to furnish a new $200,000 commons building at Iowa State Teachers College.
Two surgeons battle to complete an operation as Dr Mislig collapses from a heart attack and dies after securing a lifesaving outcome for a critically ill boy under anesthesia. A nurse supports him as colleagues insist on continuing the procedure amid the disaster.
Messages from London reach President Roosevelt and officials as a stabilization conference appears underway at Woodin's New York home. French Ambassador De Laboulaye discusses the issue with Phillips seeking a possible compromise to ease the gold standard stalemate.
Sealed ballots urged from 67 cooperative houses as leaders tighten in three contests. Miss Lindle leads contest No 2 with Leroy Peterson and Earnest Holtz gaining. Dorothea Rummells strengthens her hold. In contest No 3 Miss Hayes edges Harlo Ricketts by 15 000 votes with Mildred Carlson third. No 1 features Dorothy Bowen Robert Weber Isabelle Webster and Charlotte Braun atop a large field, all over 23 million votes. The top seven win trips to the Chicago century of progress exposition.
Governor Herring approved 454.72 in allotments to 15 Iowa institutions for the three month period starting July 1. The largest sum goes to Fort Madison Prison at 108000, with Independence Hospital for the Insane at 73000 and other state facilities receiving amounts ranging from 12,100 to 108,100 as part of the executive financial control act.
The article reports a clash between German religious leaders and the Nazi regime as clergymen, including young protestants and war veterans, resist Hitlerite orders to align religion with state dictates. It notes threats of disciplinary action against superintendents who echo pastoral letters opposing government policy.
A senator warned at a Rotary International convention that international commerce may shrink and mood linger for an extended period if parley fails. He urged currency stabilization and coordinated tariff measures to end the economic war and revive business, while acknowledging possible dissatisfaction even with cooperation.
Everett Waller, attorney for Mrs. Ralph Wilcox, asks for a new investigation after the inquest verdict said Deputy N M Slocum shot Wilcox, a Stevens cafe operator, during an attempted arrest on alleged theft. Waller argues for accountability amid calls to stabilize the dollar and prices.
Des Moines area auto accidents in May caused 36 deaths and 950 injuries across 1,012 crashes. Pedestrians accounted for ten fatalities and 168 injuries. 1,393 male and 195 female drivers were involved, with seven drivers under 16.
The national president reiterates no change in views on prohibition and calls all committee members to resist repeal at every step. She says a party refusing to yield to liquor interests is a battalion aided by its friends and insists total abstinence is the only safe stance toward alcoholic liquor.
A former resident, James D. Shadbolt, 55, of Dayton, killed a military home surgeon. Police say Shadbolt confessed within 90 minutes of the slaying after being found by a guard in the home cemetery. Colonel Roberts' wife narrowly escaped the bullets.
Dee Aldrich 34 of Chicago was arrested near Mineola New York as a suspect in the March daylight holdup of the United States Bank. He was returned to Cedar Rapids Thursday night. Loot totaled 2415 dollars taken by two men who entered the bank. Aldrich denies any involvement.
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