City Board Advances Land Purchase For New Downtown Street
Bluefield leaders move toward building a new downtown street by authorizing City Manager Emory P. Mitchell to buy Edwards and Miller properties on Scott street for 3000 dollars. Merchants to raise 1800 dollars with city repayment next year as WPA project work awaited and zoning law reading delayed.
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Merchants Association
Bluefield
Emory P. Mitchell
Nannie E. Edwards
C. F P. Miller
Scott Street
Red Street
Yadkin
Avai
Edwards
Yadkin and
Mitchell
Miller
Pean
Luther G. Scott
Supreme Court of Appeals
Walton Sudduth
Bland Street
College Avenue
Scott
Youth 19 Slays Officer After 73 Cent Thefts
Fremont Ohio reports a 19 year old hitchhiker confessed to shooting Ill marshal Neal D Fowler 48 Clyde after a Clyde gas station robbery of 73 cents and five gallons of gas. Police say Fowler died from a shotgun blast during a chase. Rex Bush of Chicago was arrested at Bellevue city limits.
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Fremont, O
Rex Bush
Chicago
Bellevue
Armer Neal D. Fowler
Clyde
C. L. Morris
Morris
Fowler
James Billings
Joyce Faces 10 Years In Attempted Holdup
Joyce Joyce and Deanett were tried in Tazewell circuit court for an armed robbery connected to the Jewell Ridge Coal and Jewell Valley Coal payroll raid. A jury found Joyce guilty and recommended a ten year sentence. Elliott had earlier been convicted and given 25 years.
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Joyce
Tazewell
Companion
Sidney Joyce
Deanett
Pring Ae We Oon
Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation
Jewell Valley Coal Company
Elliott
A. C. Buchanan
George Gillespie
Jewell Ridge
Richlands
Gile
O—T
Eliott
Bianan Neme
Six escape as German goodwill plane sinks near Manila
Six crew and one passenger escaped unharmed when Germanys Conder goodwill plane sank in Manila Bay after flying 1863 miles from Tokyo. A fuel line failure blamed for the crash near Rosario left two girls drowned as they viewed the sunken craft.
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Manila
Germany
Manila Bay
Tokyo
Bay
Rosario
Alfred Henke
Interim Group Finishes Up Important Bills
The interim committee in Charleston, West Virginia, finished proposals to be presented to the 1939 legislature. They readyed for publication recommendations on replacing magistrates with summary courts, overhauling parole and probation laws, enabling garnishee amendments, and a new school aid distribution formula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Ford Aides Push Tax Cuts for Industrial Recovery
Washington report shows Edsel Ford and several Ford Motor Co officials telling a senate committee that lower taxes would promote industrial recovery. Ford opposes special tax credits for plant expansion or job regulation. Textile maker Walter Scharitz backs immediate tax cuts to balance the budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edsel Ford
Senate
Ford
Washington
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Walter Scharitz
Philadelphia
Fords
Roosevelt outlines pay as you go defense policy
President Roosevelt laid out a pay as you go approach for the expanding armaments program and signaled taxes might not rise. He said defense is separate from economic stimulus and reviewed talks with ambassadors Phillips Wilson and Litt about European developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Congress
Warm Springs
Sumner Welles
Taxi Driver Returns $50,000 Gems to Heiress
Bert Knight, a Philadelphia taxi driver, returned an overnight bag containing $50,000 in jewelry to Grace B. Kelly, heiress to a Pittsburgh chain, earning a reward after she left a note and the currency at her hotel. Kelly commented the value was exaggerated and apologized for the fuss.
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Philadelphia
Bert Knight
Grace B. Kelly
Pittsburgh
Sib
Spraak Wins Confidence Vote Over Spanish Insurgent Policy
Brussels December 6 Premier Paul Henri Spaaak secured a confidence vote from the chamber of deputies on his coalition's Spanish Insurgent policy, averting the threatened resignation of his cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Socialis
Paul Henri
Chamber of Deputies
Chinese Militarians Hold 200 Foreigners at Kuling
Shanghai dispatch says Chinese militarists refused to allow more than 200 foreigners to leave Kuling, including 34 Americans, marooned since last June as Kiukiang fell. The US gunboat Monadnock waited near Kiukang while authorities sought safe passage amid Yangtze warfare.
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Kuling
Shanghai
Rules
Kiukiang
Yangtze Valley
Hankow
mid-Yangtzese
Runaway Mine Train Crashes Near Sydney Killing 18
A cable failure sent a 26-car train carrying 250 miners down a 10 percent grade into the Princess colliery shaft in Sydney Mines Nova Scotia. Eighteen men died and more than 30 were hospitalized with critical injuries. Rescuers found bodies along a mile and a quarter of wreckage as survivors recounted the terrifying plunge and crushing impact.
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Sydney
Nova Scotia
Here
Princess
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Sydney Mines
George Dwyer
Allan
New Waterford
Ohio Governor Denies Clemency for Anna Hahn
Columbus reports Gov. Martin L. Davey refused to intervene in the scheduled electrocution of Anna Marie Hahn, the Cincinnati poison slayer. The Bavarian-born German-born defendant, who killed elderly victims for small fortunes, faced the first female execution in state history. Hahn sobbed upon learning of the decision, later expressing belief her sentence would be commuted.
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Davey
Anna Hahn
Ohio
Columbus
Anna Marie Hahn
Martin L. Davey
Cincinnati
Hahn
Jacob Wagner
New Haven
Conn
Mrs. Hahn
Ohio Penitentiary
Oscar
Back-to-Work March Continues in West Virginia
West Virginia's back-to-work movement persisted in November with 2,631 people placed in private industry, down 100 from October. Weirton steel mills ran at full capacity as the state employment service reported the trend amid a prior 18 month high in October.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State
S. Key Dickenson
Weirton Steel Mills
Holt opposes state control of property valuations in WV
Governor Holt at the 55 county assessors meeting argues against centralizing valuations though supports equitable listing. He warns assessors to avoid weakening local control while noting state roads and schools funding shifts, and tax commissioner Ernest K. James to speak at tomorrow’s closing session.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Holt
Ernest K. James
Lithuanian Laborer Dies After Refusing Nazi Salute
Kaunas Lithuania Dec 6 a Lithuanian laborer was reported to have been beaten to death by Nazis in Memalbe for refusing to give the Nazi salute. The incident underscores the brutal repression faced by those resisting fascist salute rituals.
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Kaunas
Lithuania
Memalbe
Appeal to Roosevelt to aid German Jews
Berlin reports an appeal to President Roosevelt to offer 100000 German Jews temporary asylum in the United States. The Juedisches Schriften Blatt, the sole remaining Jewish paper, cites anti Jewish campaigns in Romania and notes the shooting of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
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Berlin
Roosevelt
United States
Juedisches Schrichten Blatt
Simul
Rumania
Irion Guard
Corneliuse Codreanu
Cohdent
Paul Joshu Goebbels
der Anest
Magda Lupescu
Carol of
Rumana
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
American Chamber of Commerce
Germany
Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt
War Renunciation Pact Signed by Germany and France in Paris
Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Georges Bonnet signed a three point war renunciation pact in Paris promising a temporary halt on territorial claims including colonies and Rhine frontier. They pledged good neighbor relations and consultation on problems with third powers while noting no immediate return of lost colonies. Bonnet said France hopes all nations join in cooperation.
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Paris
Germany
France
Rhine
Joachim von
Foreign Ministry
Ribbentrop
Bonnet
Reich
Pana
Tunisia
Corsica
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Britain
Georges Bonnet
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee
von Ribbentrop
McAdoo Suffered Indigestion Attack in Washington
Washington December 6 Dr George W Calver announced William Gibbs McAdoo former wartime secretary of the treasury had an indigestion attack and was resting in his hotel room. Due to his advanced age associates expressed concern over his condition.
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Washington
George W. Calver
Capital
William Gibbs McAdoo
the Treasury
McAdoo
Carbon Copy Will Stands On Split Court Decision
The West Virginia Supreme Court, 2-2, upholds a $250000 will for Ed C. Lukens based on a carbon copy dated August 5 1936. Lukens died August 28 1936 in Harrisonburg Virginia. The will provides $15000 to his first wife Macle Bennett Bracke and $7500 to William Crigler, with the remainder to his second wife Sallie Lukens and three nephews.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Ed C. Lukens
Lukens
Randolph County
Harrisonburg
Moorefield
Macle Bennett Bracke
William
Monongalia County
Dictator Propaganda Seen in Lima During Pan American Conference
Private conference in Lima indicates German representatives push propaganda to influence the Eighth Pan American Conference. Five German journalists and propaganda ministry officials are reported on site, mingling with delegates and voicing favor for totalitarianism over democracy.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Americas
Germany
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Gop
Associated Press
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Chicago Sneer
Denver
New Orleans
Parkersburg
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Waitress
Million
Potter d'Orsay Palmer
Louise Abatiello
Sarasota, Fla
Pal
TAK Olaan
FDA
Boulder Dam
Louis Johnson
William Phillips
Hugh Wilson
William C
Itt
Spaak
U. S
Billy McKeigan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Moe Liss
Liss
FOR
William G. McAdoo
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