Roosevelt Seeks Flexible Steel Code to Stabilize Prices and Wages
A Roosevelt message questions the July 15 steel code hearings in Washington. He argues codes must be flexible to improve with experience and criticizes price control provisions while urging broader labor concessions and reform of long-standing abuses. He notes Secretary Perkins testimony and Richberg legal questions about price sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Washington
Perkins
Richberg
Hull Clashes With Brain Trust Chief Averted Crisis
President Roosevelt assigns Raymond Moley to lead a temporary kidnapping and crime racketeering investigation, smoothing a brewing cabinet clash with Secretary Hull after Moley’s World Economic Conference trip. Hull and his wife reportedly upset, Hyde Park weekend invite mixed with a looming showdown. Moley, a New York crime commission alum, steps away from foreign affairs to handle the probe.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Raymond Moley
Hull
London
Moley
Hyde Park
Cummings
New York State Crime Commission
Roosevelt plan to curb rising prices for consumers
The Roosevelt administration begins a program to keep price increases in check for bacon to nightshirts by publishing weekly price lists. A survey of 50 cities will track about 40 food and textile items, showing prices paid by consumers and paid to farmers, with wage changes noted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fred C. Howe
Commander issues battle orders in 1933 economic war
The article reports President Roosevelt receiving battle orders from the American Legion to mobilize 10,760 posts in the 1933 economic war. It describes coordinated moves by federal officials to extend the recovery act to railroads and coal, and Roosevelt’s reply praising Legion loyalty in the crisis.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
American Legion
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
Legion
Warriors
Uncle Sam
the Argonne
Representa
State Capitol Desks Rifled By Noon Hour Thief
Helena Aug. 3 A burglar unlocked a desk at the department of agriculture capitol offices and stole 250 dollars in silver and currency plus fees from the past two days for fruit inspections and registrations. Edith L Brown reported her desk also rifled with five dollars missing during the noon hour. Investigators said they had no crews to pursue tonight.
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Helena
Department of Agriculture
Capitol
Mark C. Bowen
Department
Edith L. Brown
Pigs Reimbursed After Sherman Stroll Tale
A crate containing two Poland China pigs is delivered to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis, aide to Gen Douglas Mac Arthur, to settle a Civil War era joke. Lieutenant John B. Sherman, Sherman’s grand-nephew, offers reimbursement, and Davis accepts as full satisfaction of damages to the Davis family property.
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Thomas Jefferson Davis
Sud
Sherman
Washington
William T. Sherman
South
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
John B. Sherman
Davis
South Carolina
Alfalfa Bill Not To Pester F D R
Governor William H Murray of Oklahoma, in New York to rally independent oil producers for a fixed price in the NRA oil code, says he will not visit President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, declaring he does not need a job and that the President already has enough callers.
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New York
William H
Bill) Murray
Oklahoma
Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Butte Retail Grocers Meet to Discuss NRA Code
A meeting of all Butte retail grocers is set for 8 o’clock this evening at the Chamber of Commerce. Charles Amos says the gathering will review the president’s blanket code and plan county chairmen to organize store owners and collect annual dues.
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Butte Retail Grocers
Chamber of Commerce
Butte
Charles Amos
Associated Merchants of
Montana
J. A. Lovelace
Sozeman
Amos
Lovelace
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Beaverhead
Madison
Lewis and Clark
Jefferson
Broadwater
Meagher
NRA
Helena
Mr. Amos
County Loan Officials Named by Chief in Great Falls
E. C. Car ruth, state manager of the Home Owners' Loan corporation, announced appointments for most Montana counties. Attorneys and appraisers will handle titles and value Fixing, with work on a fee basis. Ravalli Glacier and Sweetgrass counties lack appointees. Yellowstone and Wheatland have none. Papers go from state to counties for appraisal and title surveys, then return for final action.
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Great Falls
E. C. Carruth
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Montana
Ravalli
Glacier
Sweetgrass
Yellowstone
Wheatland
Beaverhead
James Kelly
Dillon
Joseph Metlen
Dillion
Broadwater
E. H. Goodman
Townsend
C. A. Watkins
Toston
Deer Lodge
D. H. Morgan
J. Yee
Gordon Rogalien
Kalispell
E. S. Dickey
Gallatin
E. A. Peterson
Bozeman
E. L. Heidel
Granite
D. M. Durfee
Philips
Temporary wage schedules set for zinc and laundry industries
Washington reports the recovery administrator authorized wage and hour schedules for zinc mining and laundry work as interim codes while industry plans are finalized. Zinc mining zones pay 35 cents or 30 cents hourly with a 42 hour week. laundry pay ranges from 14 to 40 cents with a 45 hour week and a 10 percent city reduction in smaller towns.
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Washington
Recovery Administration
Joseph B. Eastman
Hugh 8. Johnson
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
South
Mississippi Valley
Southwest
Northwest
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Montana
Butte Day Highlighted At State Elks Convention
Butte day set for Saturday, Aug 12 at the state Elks convention in Dillon. Butte lodge No 240 to lead activities with 200 members and a drum and bugle corps. Grand Exalted Ruler Walter Meier of Seattle to attend, visit Montana grand lodge, then depart for Seattle and Alaska.
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Butte
Convention OF Elks
Dillon
Convention City
of Elks
Dillion
Butte Lodge No. 240
Walter F. Meier
Seattle
Mr. Meier
Montana Grand Lodge
Meier
Alaska
Butte Lodge
Wilbur Hanley
Mrs Roosevelt to chair national relief drive
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt accepts chairmanship of the women’s committee of the mobilization for human needs guiding the annual relief drive for 34 national welfare groups. The effort spans 400 communities via community chest organizations with plans for a strong women’s leadership.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mobilization For
Roosevelt
Newton D. Baker
Citizens’ Committee
Baker
Six Die of Tick Fever in Idaho
Idaho reports 48 spotted fever cases in the wood tick season and six deaths. The note comes from Boise dated August 3 indicating several fatalities among the illness counts.
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Idaho
Boise
Philanthropic Forger Willis Hirsch Returns to Pen
Willis Hirsch, 33, a furloughed forgery convict once aiding prison mates with forged vouchers and gifts, was arrested in Los Angeles and is being sent back to Arkansas to complete a 17 year sentence. He altered records to obtain short term release and used blank vouchers to buy turkeys and supplies for inmates before sending candy from Tempe Aziz.
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Los Angeles
Willis Hirsch
Arkansas State Penitentiary
Hirsch
A. G. Stedman
Stedman
Tempe
Aziz
Arkansas
Texans Flee As Storm Advances Near Port Arthur
Residents of beach cottages near Port Arthur flee to the city after coast guard warnings as a tropical storm nears the Texas Gulf coast. Heavy southeast swells indicate the disturbance is close, with authorities urging higher ground.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Texas Gulf
Gulf
Great Northern President Reports Rapid Business Rise
William P. Kenney, president of the Great Northern, says business has rose about 50 percent in June July and early August during a brief visit to Beattle. He notes the railroad is on a fast ride and looks good for the period.
Tamany Sachem Dies in Gotham
Thomas F. McAvoy, sachem of Tamany Hall and influential figure in New York City politics, died today at age 85 after a long illness.
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New York
Thomas F. McAvoy
Tammany Hall
Denials Fly Around Calneva Over Lombard Sonnenberg
Carole Lombard denies meeting Gus Sonnenberg amid reports he would marry her after her divorce from William Powell. Sonnenberg had denied plans to wed the Hollywood actress.
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Calneva
Carole Lombard
Gus Sonnenberg
William Powell
New York Heat Wave Ends as Temperatures Fall
New York reports the three day heat wave broken with 84 degrees by noon and a further drop to 74 by evening aided by a light rain. The heat wave's cumulative toll rises with two more deaths attributed to the heat.
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New York
Arrests Seen Likely in O Connell Kidnapping Case
Albany Aug 3 Arrests in the John J O Connell Jr kidnaping case appeared imminent five days after the 24 year old National Guard lieutenant was released for forty thousand dollar ransom Sources close to state and federal investigators said a solution was near District Attorney Joan T Delaney was noted absent from his office and was believed to be on a mission that could lead to arrests Delaney met with the case at Helderberg mountain retreat home of his influential uncle Daniel O Connell
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Albany
N. Y
John J. O'Connell Jr
National Guard
Joan T. Delaney
Delaney
Young O
Helderberg
Daniel O'Connell
Montana Weather Forecast With Showers and Fair Days
Montana outlook shows Friday unsettled with local thunder showers and cooler spots. Saturday remains generally fair with little change in temperature across the state.
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Montana
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