07 Aug 1933
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1933
Page
1
Local column lists numerous visitors and travelers including Mr. Z C Dismuke of Mystic Georgia and Mr J T Medlin of Atlanta. Also mentions guests at hotels, trips to Wrightsboro Savannah LaGrange Quincy and Chicago with multiple residents and relatives visiting or returning home.
Reported on the Cuban government under President Machado facing a strike and related disorders leading to the resignation of the administration. The piece notes ongoing political turmoil and the expected step down by the leadership.
In Havana aug 7 the hunger specter loomed as a broad strike shut transport and many industries. Violence rose with street fights and a death. government warned troops would be used if police failed. U S mediation efforts and possible martial law dominated headlines as unions and services halted across the city.
The board met to review hosiery strike issues and the movie industry while witnesses urged tightened codes for wallpaper and corset sectors. Farm administrators were told grain exchanges will present a code proposal Wednesday as George N. Peck presses for orderly operations or government intervention.
Brownsville Pennsylvania August 7 coal field miner unrest after truce set by Roosevelt. National Guards deployed as strikers demand time to study terms and reject union leaders. Alabama officials accuse cotton ginners of Sherman Act violations with prices up to eight dollars a bale. Beverly’s golf result and local farming recovery program noted in same column.
Maurice Rossi and Paul Codes, French aviators, reported they crossed Halifax to Cherbourg without seeing the ocean, flew blind five hours in a storm, and waved to relatives before landing at Le Bourget. They stated their route over Romanian airspace aimed toward Aleppo Syria for a new nonstop distance record.
Washington officials clarified NRA questions on small business wage and hour rules under the blanket code. They noted home industries and curb service apply only when more than one worker is involved, with minimum wages linked to full time or 40 hour work weeks. Employers should not discharge workers to enable shifts, and compensation must not be cut to fund reemployment or share the work schemes.
The speaker notes that some of the surplus has already been sold to a produce dealer, with past purchases from the same supplier. In 1930 the per capita maintenance cost was about $2.30, but this year it stands at $1.86, largely saving funds from the farm on the four and a half acre plot.
X. Ray operates as a rural mail carrier for the Flat Rock area in North Carolina, delivering mail along a country route.
West Palm Beach Florida August 7 Paul Carthers 44 is dead from a pistol wound to the head and his wife is hospitalized with a fractured jaw and left arm in a case Justice of the Peace C A Hubbell calls attempted murder and death by own action Investigating officers say Carthers shot his wife after an argument about returning to their Greenville South Carolina home He then shot himself Carithers from near Elberton Georgia was part of a nearby family The shooting occurred at Gladeview near West Palm Beach Mrs Carthers expected to recover.
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