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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1933
Page
2
Ickes and Douglas urge radical cuts to the 3.3 billion public works program after advisory review. The budget chief will remove nonessential, recurring, or graft-tainted schemes, sending remaining projects for tight scrutiny by the budget bureau.
Roosevelt asks Million U S businessmen to join the Presidents Reemployment Agreement to raise purchasing power via higher wages and limits on profiteering. The plan sets five month codes starting August including 40 hour weeks for white collar workers and 34 hours for industrial workers with minimum wages from 12 to 15 dollars weekly by city size, and 20 percent increases for small towns. If codes are not signed by September 1 the President may compel compliance under the National Industrial Recovery Act.
Secretary Frances Perkins said June saw about 400000 workers return to factory jobs and 100000 more in nonmanufacturing sectors and agriculture. She called the increases significant with a 7 percent rise in factory employment and 9 percent in factory payrolls, but warned against overoptimism as the nation remains far from the 1923 level.
The Chicago Board of Trade stopped future trading for at least a day amid sensational price breaks in all grains and swift stock declines. A rule was issued banning trading at prices far beyond the prior day's average closing price for wheat, rye, and corn until further notice.
XII Italo Bairbo and 95 companions flew from Chicago after days of display at the World’s fair, paused only by endurance tests. They went to New York, then by army planes to Washington to honor President Roosevelt, with plans to return via Newfoundland and possibly Ireland or the Azores.
Capt Stephen Darius and Stanley Girennas of Chicago perished in a crash in eastern Germany while headed to Kaunas. Their bodies were found and transported to Kaunas where the Lithuanian government gave them a state burial.
STII notes a London eco nomic conference where a subcommittee adopted part of Senator Pitt man’s plan for silver reform. They approved greater use of silver in subsidiary coinage and postponed wider controls on silver output and central bank metal coverage. Pittman expects universal agreement to reuse debased coins and to stabilize exchange values in India China and Latin America.
Journal notes that Atanesd and Manchukuoin forces move to retake Dolonor in Chuhir west of Jehol once held by Gen Teng Yu hsiang. Moscow accuses Japan of aiming to conquer Mongolia while Japan says Peng is aided by Moscow, a claim Russia and Tokyo both likely support.
Hwanclit or Ihti tri forms a General Council for Industry to aid the government with advice and experience on unemployment. Notable figures include Otto Fischer and Albert Voogler. Germany faces about five million unemployed and a sharp export drop for the first half of the year with new tax cuts offering relief to builders and businesses expanding output.
Walter F Meier of Seattle named grand exalted ruler by the Benevolent and Protective Order of This meeting in Milwaukee. Gov David Scholtz of Florida nominated him. James Fitz Gerald of Omaha and Ireland O Callahan of Touloyie named other grand officers. The session wrapped with vote and remarks on past leadership.
The column surveys President Roosevelt’s civil service reform for postmasters, debates limits of science with references to Mount Wilson and Bertrand Russell, and touches on British Australia policy, crime vigilantes in San Francisco, and global overviews ranging from Australian diamonds to Asiatic plagues.
The longtime representative of Town 14 in Congress who served 31 years and was ousted by the Democratic landslide last fall died at his Northwood home after several months illness. He was born to Serbian parents in Wisconsin 74 years ago.
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