Roosevelt Takes Helm in Effort to Smooth Steel Code Dispute
President Roosevelt leads a White House conference to press the steel industry into a working code of fair competition with shorter hours and higher wages. Myron Taylor and Charles M Schwab join aides as NRA officials coordinate with oil coal and auto groups. Labor leader William Green attends auto code talks as tensions ease.
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Washington
Blue Eagle
Myron Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
White House
NRA
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Steel
Green
Labor Advisory Board
Our New Deal on Tax Fairness in Thomasville
A local discussion centers on tax collection and public financing for Thomasville and Thomas County institutions including schools. The piece argues taxpayers must fund essential services and pay back taxes to sustain city credit, urging decisive action by City Council and County Commissioners to curb tax delinquencies and borrow if needed.
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Thomasville
Thomas County
Editor Honored by Local Citizens in Thomasville Meeting
About seventy five Thomasville residents from diverse trades gathered at the Court House to honor E R Jerger editor of the Times Enterprise. Spokesman B C Blanton described the voluntary gesture to recognize efforts fostering local sentiment for a building program to revive trade and growth citywide.
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Thomasville
Court House
E. R. Jerger
Times- Enterprise
B. C. Blanton
Jerger
Blanton
Lawyer Confesses to Poison Slaying of Four
Akron attorney Mark H. Shank confessed to poisoning the Colley family near Malvern Arkansas. Four family members died and a son survived after he laced grape juice with poison. motive cited fear of being implicated in a Ohio forgery case linked to prosecuting attorney papers.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Ohio
Malvern
Mark H. Shank
Akron
Shank
Kenmore
Alvin Colley
Wooster
Colley
Ethel Colley
Alvin
Wayne County
Lyman_ R. Critchfield, Jr
Clarence Braucher
Barber
American banking structure seems back on its feet
Washington August 16 1933 the American banking system shows 13 951 licensed banks operating without restrictions and 2 870 closed or restricted as of August 12 for member institutions and July 25 for non members Walter J Cummings says 4 961 national banks with 16 938 145 000 in deposits plus 740 state member banks with 9 741 987 000 and 8 250 non members with 5 057 596 000 on full time basis on July 26 deposits as of 1932 the inactive side lists 909 national banks 954 304 000 95 state member institutions 204 134 000 and 1 866 non member institutions 1 005 365 006 totaling 31 737 728 in open banks.
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Washington
Walter J. Cummings
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Mutual Savings
Chicago police marksm en sent into territory
A large manhunt for the Touhy gang expands into southern Wisconsin as 40 Chicago police sharpshooters are deployed to corral kidnapers. John Factor, a millionaire, is cited in a ransom plot with a bogus package containing $500 marked money, while Factor claims police tapped his wires and denies involvement.
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Wisconsin
Touhy
Chicago
John Factor
Factor
Code for traveling salesmen proposed to NRA
Washington August 16 a code for the nations traveling salesmen was submitted to the NRA by the United Commercial Travelers representing more than 100000 members. It calls for a minimum salary of 150 dollars a month plus travel expenses and mileage allowances with weekend home time except when costly.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
United Commercial Travelers of America
J. B. McMaster
M. J. Sullivan
J. G. Daly
Columbus
Ohio
A. Heath Onthank
Code Control Division
NRA
United Commercial Travelers
Recovery Administration
Temporary Newspaper Wage and Hour Agreement Approved
Washington Aug 16 a modified presidential re employment agreement for newspapers was approved by recovery administrator Hugh S. Johnson. It sets a 10 hour week for reporters earning under 35 weekly and 40 hours for clerical and sales staff, with 44 hours max for certain mechanical workers in six weeks over six months. It permits 14 to 16 year olds limited duties and allows blue eagle eligibility pending a permanent code.
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Washington
Blue Eagle
Hugh §&. Johnson
American Newspapers Publishers Association
NRA Court Test Upholds Emergency Powers for Oil Regs
Judge Joseph Cox of the District of Columbia Supreme Court refused an injunction against oil refiners seeking to block interstate shipment bans. He cited the emergency power doctrine and the president’s war on the emergency, ruling orders resembling executive action while denying the injunction.
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Ann Otal
Astrid
Pvter Peyas
Cox
Talmadge Cancels Cotton Conference With Governors
Atlanta August 15 Governor Talmadge scrapped his planned meeting of southern governors to discuss farm prices and invited them to join Georgia's delegation in appealing to President Roosevelt in Washington. The Georgia delegation supported a southwide effort to raise prices for cotton tobacco peanuts and corn through taxes and inflationary action.
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Talmadge
Georgia
Roosevelt
Washington
Walter S. George
Semmett Owen
Fourth
Lill Phe
Aiso
George
Richard B.russell, Jr
Clark Howell
The
Atlanta Constitution
Russell
Howell
Embargoes Planned on Machadistas Fortunes Reported
Cuban reports state embargoes will target the fortunes and property of Machadistas as investigations into assets of deposed President Gerardo Machado and followers proceed. Provisional government official Carlos Manuel de Cespedes seeks to seize profits from misappropriation and exactions while Machado, in exile, allegedly plans abroad accounts and housing.
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Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Associated Press
GON Po
Havand
Qoyiew
Treasury
Joaquin Martinez Saenz
ABC Secret Society
OUS
Machado
Diario de la Marima Os
Isabet Caliger
howSenuns
Bahamas
Nassau
Debeespedes
Machadi
Pravana Instruction Court
Dro de Cospedes
Valdosta NRA Adjustment Board Grants Petition Relief
The Valdosta Retail Food Dealers Association and Georgia Power and Light Company won relief from parts of the president's blanket employment agreement. The food retailers asked to pay Negro delivery bays $4.50 weekly, saying no minimum wage was warranted. The power company sought relief from hour regulations affecting employees outside the office due to alleged unavoidable hardships.
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Valdosta Nra Adjustment Board
Valdosta
Board of Adjustment
NRA
Valdosta Retail Food Dealers Association
Georgia Power and Light Company
Huck Johnson
Power Company
Rabies Death From Mad Dog Bite Affects Portsmouth
Richard Turner age 26 died today in Portsmouth Ohio from rabies contracted when froth from a mad dog splashed an open wound on his hand as he rescued his pet. Twenty two people including nurses doctors and relatives exposed to Turner are receiving Pasteur treatment.
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Portsmouth
Richard Turner
Turner
Pasteur
Weather forecast for Southeast states includes scattered thundershowers
The forecast reports Alabama and Florida with partly cloudy conditions and chances of local thundershowers near the coast and in the south. Georgia and South Carolina show mild warming with possible afternoon showers and brief thundershowers tonight or Thursday.
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Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Northwest
Georgia
South
Eagle in window cage guards blue eagle display
In Macon Georgia on August 16 Sam Orr placed a blue eagle in a sturdy bird cage in his jewelry store window as General Hugh Johnson warned against losing the emblem. The scene underscores concern over the fate of the blue eagle during wartime.
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Macon
Hugh Johnson
Sam Orr
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Charles P. Shaeffer
William Shoemaker
Columbia Supreme Court
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