The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1983. ~ INCREASE SHOWN FOR INDIVIDUAL WORKERS LATELY STATISTICS FROM NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL BOARD SHOW) UPWARD TREND AMONG EMPLOYES IN SECTIONS By J, R. BRACKETT (By Associated Preas) NEW YORK, June 29.—. While earnings of workers in the nation’s manufactur- ing industries were still ab- normally low as the | first half of the year ended, the total in the individual work- ers weekly envelope in- creased about $2 in the last three months. Statistics from the National In- dustrial Conference board, cover- ing many thousand workers, showed the weekly pay envelope in May was $14.48 as compared to $14.56 in March {the~ depres- sion’s low) and $16.18 in January this year, Compilation of figures on June} last summer have been generally; earnings was incomplete, but there ‘were indications that ‘pay en- velopes were considerably heavier, probably better filled than in any month since May last year. Work Hours Cause Rise “The increases in May and April resulted from increased hours of ‘work, the’ board’s figures showed, (REVIVING. WORLD HAILS RECOVERY SIGNS WITH NEW RISE IN PRICES (By Associated Press) By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE ;amount of foreign trade depends WASHINGTON, June 29.—/largely on efforts to obtein do- World business approaches ‘the|mestic rehabilitation in all coun- Midway mark in its'1933 struggle] tries, as well as the distinctly in-| for recovery heartened by indica-| ternational matters of stabilizing tions that it has at st climbed | the currency and settling ques- from thé bottom of the depression) tions relating to tariffs and tradé pit. barriers. The world outlook now, compar-| One essential difficulty seen by ed with that of a year ago or six|some in the world situation is the months ago, seems generally im-| conflict of national and interna- proved, and some of the most sig-| tional programs. For. instance. nificant business indexes show} America’s plans entail possible in- definite gains in leading industrial| flationary procedures, economists; nationg since the beginning of} say, while such inflation, tometer 1933. with tariffs, serves to make it Gains Termed Spotty more difficult for foreigners to! Government economists say,jsell in this market. Likewise, however, that most of the gains} American sales abroad are hinder- are still spotty and of an almostjed by currency difficulties and! purely domestic character. The|trade barriers. striking advances, ljke those A Few Bright Spots m registered in the United States,, Typical bright spots listed in the are attributed in considerable measure to the result of govern- mental action to improve the in- dividual national establishment. One of the most important in- dicators of economic conditions— @ decline in unemployment—has appedred simultaneously in the United States, England, France, Germany and Italy. ‘Fndustrial production has made advances in the United States, France and Italy, while produc- tion gains made in Germany and England since the low points of held. There has been a general firm- ing in’ wholesale commodity prices, the movement being upward in the United States, Germany and Italy, with quite stable prices prevailing im France and the United King- dom. U.S. Indexes Lead U, S. business structure are the gains in industrial production— iron and steel, lumber, automo- biles, textiles and food processing —the rise in commodity prices and postal receipts and the im- provement in retail, trade. Par- ticularly encouraging have been gains in employment and factory payroll advances far beyond sea- sonal increases, In relatively stable France, where the industrial production in-! dex shows a sustained and. fairly| sharp rise from the low point of midsummer 1932, the majority of industrial and commercial indica- tors were favorable at the start of the summer season. Boycott Hits Germany The general and industrial sit- uation in Germany lacked signs of improvement beyond the usual seasonal trends, Slight domes- tic demand recovery was reported Trade experts say that the con-! practically offset by the decline in and not from increases in wage} spicuous advance of the business rates, which declined slightly in| indexes: in the United States since May to about 45.3 cents per hour.| the very low point of the banking Some financial observers expected| holiday has not been paralleled or foreign orders attributed to boy- ‘ott on German goods after the nazis came into power, No industrial production index dune figures to show increases in| favorably reflected in other large| is computed for Italy, but reports ‘wage rates as well as hours} industrial countries. {to the department of commerce © worked. - AE They explain that there still re- j tell of “encouraging improvement The “American Federation of| mains in the path of world busi-}in general conditions, increasing Labor. estima’ between 1,.| 2¢88 progress formidable moun-| industrial, production, dying of ‘men were} t#in® of governmental and private) wholesale prices and alance of debt and great masses of unem-) trade contniuing to be less unfav- ployed, both pressing down on| orable.” constimer purchasing power—the! In England there was little in- stagnant pool of international!dication of an increase in general trade and piles of “frozen” priv-| business activity. Commerce re- ate capital unavailable for invest-| ports are that an optimistic feel- 6 made in —the total of money i a cimens of niarine life from i #22 is - creased is indicated gains in farm prices which have added an estimated $48,000,000 to the value of farm of wheat, and patie te the he) of pri- vate and public stocks cotton. All price gains mean an addition- ment. ‘ Hope held for increasing the |uNsoLD (ly Assceiated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fila., June 29. fleas and fiddler crabs up- the‘ object of a search long Florida coastal 1a) » Ind. _ Joseph Hyatt, professor of bi- ology at the college, and six stu- | dents. are spending two weeks in ie state looking for specimens. have been camping on Dog Seeecoscacoasccoacesaece 1577—Peter Paul Rubens, world-fanious Flemish painter, born. Died May 30, 1640. 1721—Johann Kalb (Baron de al purchasing power to the person| Kalb), the French nobleman and! holding the commodities. The rise| friend of Lafayette who served in farm prices theoretically adds/in the American Army of the Rev-} ing is prevailing in: British indus- try and commerce. | VEGETABLES - DESTROYED BY DUTCH ny aveccmed Press) AMSTERDAM, June. 29.— More than 20,000 tons of . 1982. vegetables remained unsold, .ac- cording | to. .statistics of the province of North Holland. Of this 18,300 tons were turned in-' to cattle fodder and. when | that market became. clogged 120 car’ red cabbage had to be destroyed. * HAVANA HIGH POINTS | By Lécal Cuban Consulate SOCCHOOOHSSEAOSOOEEEOEDE The president of the republic made some statements to the press, in which he referred to the necessity of reforming the con- stitution to restore the duties of vice-president of the republic, and designated for same, in rapid and special form, a person not con- nect<d with any of the political @dferences, until the termination of the present term in 1935. Likewise the president recom- $1,352,000,000 to gross farm in- come. Some $16,000,000,000 has been added to the value of stocks and bonds since the low points of the year, and several billion’ more the low point of ly of last year. All kinds of securities and values have appreciated in similar fashion, a process which, while not adding directly to the purehasing’ power, nontheless makes security holders | much freer with their funds, j ; { | professor of American ' } The next is thrown, Puffy gives! it a clout; The crowd yells, “A hit! Rua it out! Run it out!” ‘The throw from the field hits the) Paffy, kerplump- lot “Queh! yells the Piggy.| “You're safe!” shouts the Ump. | ; Canal, Died there, Jan. 21, 1928. olution as major-general, born. Died from wounds received on the battlefield, at Camden, S. C., August. 19, 1780. 179%7—Frederia Baraga, Rom-| an Catholic missionary and bishop who spent a generation among) president of the republic, has de- the Indians of the Lake Super-jclared that he has requested the ior district, born in Austria. Died| cooperation of Anierican experts in Marquette, Mich. Jan. 19,}to visit Cuba for the purpose of 1868. instructing the superior electoral tribunal in the matter of the re- English,| form of the electoral code, and to Newark, N. J., physician, poet and| cooperate in the reorganization of author, author of “Ben Bolt,”/ the national university, which is} popular ballad, born in/now under consideration. Mr. wark, N.| McBain has already been denig- [nated for this work and has ac- | cepted the appointment, mends the electoral code amend- ment and the reorganization of the parties as a necessary measure to insure the fairness of the coming elections. General Gerardo Machado, J., April 1, 1902. 1836-—Celia Thaxter, popular openenine | New England poet of her day,| According te statistics from born at Portsmouth, N. H. Died| the national commission of statis- Aug. 26, 1894. \ties, on December 31, 1932, live! stock in Cuba consisted of the 1852-——John Bach McMaster, | following: 4,447,690 head, of noted University of Pennsylvania) which 2,071,746 males and 2,375,- history./944 females. Of that number we born at’ Brooklyn, N. Y. Died have 283,323 oxen, 813,485 balls, at Darien, Conn., May 24, 1932.) 223,044 young bulls, 741,894 i yearling calves, 1,381,333 cows, 1858—George Washington Goe-| 659,486 yearling calves. 335,125 thals, soldier, engineer, admini-| young cows. Compared with the strater, builder of the Panama) existing number in 1931, the 1932 born in Brooklyn. Y.! statistics show an increase of the! [previous year of 242,786 head.} | The existing number of horses on} Miss Jennie Di Nardo, member) the same date was 577.560 of the police department of Pauls-| which 328,947 were males and boro, N. J., is a fingerprint ex-| 248.613 were females. The num- pert. iber of mules was 75,853. | HARD-HIT OU INDUSTRY MAY RECOVER SOON BELIRVE THAT GOVERNMENT SUBERVISION UNDER RE- COVERY ACT WILE PROVE BENEFICIAL (Ry Associated Prexs) By WILLIAM VOIGT, Jr. TULSA, Okla, June 29.—| Heavy losses were suffered by virtually all branches of the petroleum industry in: the first half of 1933, but its close has in- spired hope that improvement will mark the remaining six months. Part of the conviction that there are better times ahead came from a belief that government supervision under the recovery ‘act. will prove beneficial, and part from doubt that a combina- tion such’as those of the recent past will strike the industry again soon. : Industry’s Troubles Many Weathering the first half of 1933 was regarded by mariy ex- ecutives as a real achievement. Valugs were destroyed by over- production of both crude oil and derivatives that left prices at panic levels and staggered balance sheets. First quarter reports of nearly all compa: were-in the red. Mid-continent crude. oil prices, which averaged from 75 to 90 cents, a barrel the first half of 1932, dropped to 25 cents and less in 1983 and stayed thére for monttis. U.S. 'motor grades of gasoline movéd between 3 and 4% cents a gallon-the greater part of last yeat, but clung determinedly to the 2-cent level this year until the middlé of June. Neturat gaso- fine at 1 cent a gallon was ap-! proximately half the 1932 range, dnd Kerosene, furnace oil, gas cil @nd fuel oil moved downward in synypathy. Texas Pool A Problem ‘The open flow from East Texas, where from one immense pool the industry was obtaining ap- Proximately half the recommended daily supply needed by the entire country, coupled with cheap com- petitive. gasoline from certain cut- rate refiners and. matketers, con- ited ‘to ‘the. difficulties of the industry. Thére was little improvement in| fRadrketing practices, and gal- | instead of profits remained Primary urge of the large dis- tributing companies, but the close of thé half-year period brought a definite upturn in these _ prices that. some authorities ~ bélieve shonld, if it is sustainéd, result in better. showings: for the latter part of 1933. Motor Fuel Stocks Low Motor fuel’ stocks, which long have been 2 ‘fairly accurate barometer of oil conditions, are comparatively low. A year sgo stocks were more than 65,000, 000 barrels. Now the figure i | ‘jlebs than 55,000,000 barrels. East Texas is showing definite signs of losing its tremendous power to affect national production, at least in part, and federal aid un- der the récovery act is believed near, The strengthening of both the crude oil and refined markets to- ward the latter part of the period was attributed to a growing un- willingness of producers to part with their products at losing prices, plus an actual scarcity of cut- price selling, more unanimity of thought regarding the proper al- location of crude output to East Texas, and the delay advent of the summer period of high consump- The person indicated by the general aspects for this day is of an extremely forceful nature. Progress is likely to be made by sheer force of strength, without any consideration of what stands in the way, There are powers of application, and expe- dients will be plenty when needed. The danger of this nature is in its becoming tyrannous. If this pro- pensity is allowed te grow it will soon merge inte cruelty, and misfortune would follow. (Copyrighted) TO SUBSCRIBERS If you do not receive your paper by 6:00 o'clock in the afternoon, use your telephone 6:00 to 7:15 p. m. for the of delivering com- Help us give you 100 it service by calling 51 if you do not receive The Citizen. it And so it was during almost} Perhaps those | xd to rebel! all the special session. In vir-|took note. None ithe idea tually every instance the rep-|of having the support of the na- resentatives .were behind the ad-) tional. party withdrawn when’ ministration. nominating Not Always Easy Sometimes it was a rather dif-, ficult thing to do, too. 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