Sensational end to My board of directors meeting
The My board of directors meeting closed with a tense exchange over resignations and the chairmanship. Director Kirk urged Ritz’s resignation and a vacant chair, but sentiment split. he withdrew the motion. Mayor Thomas’s absence influenced the debate as other agenda items proceeded.
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My Board of Directors
J. B. Kirk
Ritz
Myor Thomas
Cheyvey
Dr. Kirk
Thomas
Cheyney
Kirk
Mr. Ritz
Lilly and Trochman
Thomas H. Scott
Wyoming Street
Scott
A. F. Kingdon
W. B. Ross
Boone
Union Street
Hid
Mountain Yate Transportation Company
Yellow Cab Taxi Company
Passeters
Norfolk and Western
Groveland Avenue
W. EK. Ross
Frederick Street
Ross
Ridley
Simon
Flat Top National Bank
Masonic Temple
Federal Street
Rutherford
C. R. Woods
Rockbridge Street
West Virginia House Advances Chiropractic License Bill to Third Reading
The West Virginia House moved the chiropractic licensure bill to third reading after rejecting many amendments. Debate centered on credentials and limits for practitioners, with champions arguing for strict oversight and opponents objecting to restrictions on medical testimony and practice. The measure faces final passage on the calendar amid partisan contention.
Clothing Ignited Dives Into River
New Ark Ohio April 7. A 29 year old diver named red Simpson jumped from a fifteen foot embankment into the Licking River to escape burning clothing after an exploding case line. Physicians say he will recover.
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New Ark
Ohio
Licking River
Red Simpson
Unions say all Marshall County coal mines idle none harmed in Morgantown meeting
More than 300 non union miners gathered in Moundsville amid reports of a Marshall county mine walkout. Union leaders claim all Marshall county mines are down while operators say one mine remains active. No violence occurred and another meeting was scheduled at Fort Pitt Ohio.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Marshall County
United Mine Workers of America
Lee Hall
Ohio Miners
Joseph Angelo
Indianapolis
Frank Jedvick
Eastern Ohio
West Virginia Northern Panhandle
Ben Pranklin Cor. Company
Pittsburg
Marshall
Moundaville
Hall
Fort Pitt
Ohio
Ohio River
Moundsvile
Brooke
Fairmont
West Virginia
George S. Brackett
Northern
Ponzi seeks cancellation of deportation warrant
Charles Ponzi and his Boston attorneys urge the labor department to cancel the deportation warrant issued last November for forgery conviction in Canada. They argue he has resided in the United States over five years since that conviction, which would bar deportation under the law.
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Washington
Charles Ponzi
Boston
Labor Department
Ponzi
Ilegally
Canada
Poston
Secretary's Board of Immigration Review
Board of Review
Ohio Governor Accepts Hal Donahey Escapade as Passing Incident
Governor Donahey dismissed the latest auto escapade involving his seventeen year old son Hal as a passing incident. No substantiation of Lillian Vogel disappearance emerged after officials in Zanesville and Columbus investigated. Hal claimed he rode with strangers, then returned home, while Vogel's description differed.
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Ohio
Columbus
Donahey
Hal Donahey
Dovahey
Lillian Vogel
Zanesville
D. A. Mecarroth
James W. Huffman
Hal
Florida
Frances Keaton
Vogel
Huffman
Emir of Kurdestan a Man Without a Country
The Emir Mohammed Said Zerebchene, alias Mohammed Said, deemed deportable by an immigration board at Ellis Island after a prior rejection by British authorities. He sought American investment for Kurdistan’s oil and minerals, but US officials would not recognize a provincial diplomatic pass. He plans to appeal to the secretary of labor in Washington.
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New York
Kardestan
Philte Nolam
Edward Everett Hale
Special Immigration Board of Tugatry
Fills Island
Mohammed
England
White Star Line
Ellis Island
Southampton
Kurdestan
United States
France
Mohammed Said
Washington
Not One Red Cent Endowment Fund Campaign Urges Bluefield Help
The American Legion spearheads a nationwide $6 000 000 endowment drive to aid World War II orphans and disabled veterans. Bluefield has raised about one third of its $5 900 quota as volunteers canvass homes urging donations to be sent to box 53 or collected by a canvasser. The drive emphasizes local duty alongside national purpose.
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American Legion
United States
Bluefield
Capitol Commission to Confer with Architect on New Executive Building
Charleston West Virginia April 7 Governor Gore called a meeting of the state capitol commission to confer with Cass Gilbert architect for the new executive building and Fuller Construction officials to be held Tuesday April 14 when the finished wing will be formally accepted from the contractors. A board of public works meeting will follow to finalize moving plans and actual office relocation will begin within two weeks with smaller state departments first to occupy new quarters.
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Charleston
W. Va
Gore
State Capitol Commission
Cass Gilbert
Fuller Construction Company
Board of Public Works
Contracts Awarded for Doddridge County Concrete Surfacing
Charleston April 7 Contracts for 8.16 miles of concrete surfacing in Doddridge county were awarded by the state road commission to Stein Geisel Stein of Niles Ohio. The firm also received the Upshur county road work contract. Ten bids remain under consideration after the recent session.
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Charleston
W. Va
Doddridge County
State Road Commission
Stein, Geise! & Stein
Niles
Ohio
Iow
OH Tile
Upshur County
Recession in Steel Business Warns Yet Industry Sees Hope
Elbert H. Gary chairman of United States Steel says the sector faced a noticeable recession in the last thirty days but notes improvement since April. He cites about three-fifths of capacity bookings and 50,000 tons daily shipments while predicting a strong business outlook barring agitation. Bethlehem Steel’s Eugene G. Urnce reports a moderate January–April downturn easing recently with steady specifications.
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New York
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
South
Middle West
Steel Corporation
Eugene G. Urnce
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Wealthy Chemist and Companion Drowned Near Stuart
Wealthy chemist of Water street New York named Hant aged seventy and his companion Caley thirty of Stuart Florida were drowned when heavy seas broke near McCarley’s cabin cruiser during a fishing trip. The incident occurred in the Stuart area on a calm afternoon.
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West Palm Beach
Finn
Hant
Waterstreet
New York
Deseo We
Caley
Stuart
Fla
Rewch
McCarley
Unt
Ellingson girl and an alienist cause sensations
Dor othy Flilingsen, seventeen, on trial for sanity in San Francisco, disrupted the courtroom by throwing water at her lawyers and denouncing them. Dr Joseph Catton testified she is sane, while defense counsel Sylvester J McAfee pressed about presumed conditions for commitment. The judge recesses as spectators laugh and the dispute over testimony continues.
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San Francisco
Cal
Dorothy Flilingsen
Edward W. Twitchell
Sylvester J. McAfee
Twitchetl
Orio
Joseph. Catton
Allentot
Sylvester J. McAtee
McAtee
House Kills Five Bills in Reducing Calendar Size
The West Virginia House of Delegates trimmed its calendar by indefinitely postponing five measures and advancing others in a bid to hasten business before Easter. The Senate rejected ratification of a child labor constitutional amendment, while the House pushed through rough amendments on registration and nursing board provisions, with further reforms debated on insurance and prohibitions.
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Delesale Septiimus Hall
Wetzel County
Senate
House
Pine
Marshall Junty
Wells
Ohio County
Hundley
Kanawha County
Weiss
Street Stiles
Hall
Trainor
Davis
Hawkins
Cogar
Delander
Handley and Andrews
Shall
Andrews
Boone County
Turley
Logan County
Cotton
Bishop
Roane
Charleston
W. Va
State Senate
House of Delegates
Henshaw
Gore
Wright Hugan
Highland
Jackson
White
Baker
KR. F. Kidd
Clyde B. Johnson
Ratifica
Hogg
Maresh
Cannon
Kidd
Devore
Hardman
Helmick
Hugues
Dackeon
Reynolds
Smith
Wilkin
Willis
Alderson
Ashworth
Boley
Herold
Johnson
Kee
Nixon
Suddarth
Yoho
West Virginia University
Septimus All
Howe
M. Robina Ron
Harris County
Delegete Radabaugh
Lis
Heeberlin
Kelknap
State Registration Board
Graduate Nurses’ Association
Girl of thirteen hangs herself by necktie accident
Margaret Welsh, thirteen, accidentally hanged herself in the bathroom at home in Pittsburg. The body was found when the door was forced open after her grandfather heard no response to calls. Authorities believe she climbed a chair to look into a wall mirror, slipped, and the necktie caught on a nail, causing death. An hour of revival attempts with a pulmotor failed.
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Margaret
Chicago rejects plan to buy streets and elevated railways
Chicago voters rejected a proposed city purchase of the street railways and elevated lines plus a subway by a margin near 100000 votes. The municipal operation proposal for the lines also failed by a similar margin. Fewer than half of Chicago's nearly one million voters cast ballots.
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Chicago
Vast Oil Research Program Framed by Eleven Scientists
Baltimore April 7 A commission of eleven leading scientists frames a vast oil research program awaiting financial sanction. Dr Charles H Herty president of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association says entrance of research chemists will boost national wealth and notes advances in synthetic organic chemical manufacture in the United States. He warns Germany’s monster dye monopoly with government aid seeks world export markets and touts a dextrose discovery promising sugar independence. Mass production may reshape the synthetic chemical industry and the market for dextrose.
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Baltimore
Charles H. Herty
New York
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association
American Chemical Society
Herty
United States
Dr Herty
Germany
America
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Ian A. Bittner
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Ellingson
Joseph Catton
Lower Branch
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