West Virginia considers public utility stock regulation
Charleston December 10. The public service commission may gain jurisdiction over issuing and selling utility securities. The blue sky act governs new utility issues with exemptions. A proposed bill would require registration of all utility securities. Lawmakers also weigh restoring the short ballot plan but faces constitutional hurdles for reducing officer numbers.
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Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
Commission
West Virginia
Wife of Logan miner held in mate's death
Logan West Virginia December 10. Sparks Montclo 34 year old miner was shot and killed tonight during a domestic quarrel. His wife 21 year old Mrs Jorie Sparks was arrested for murder after admitting she shot her husband twice with a small calibre pistol, state trooper J O Tutwiler said.
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Logan
W. Va
Sparks
Montclo 1
J. O. Tutwiler
Jorie Sparks
Tutwiler
Fire destroys M'Kell Tamroy Company Store in Tamroy
Mount Hope West Virginia December 10 fire destroyed the McKell Coal company store at Tamroy with damage estimated at sixty thousand dollars by general manager W R Ballard.
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M’kell Tamroy Company
Mount Hope
W. Va
McKell Coal Company
Tamroy
W. R. Ballard
Byrd urges end to fiscal insanity and govt retrenchment
Senator Byrd of Virginia calls for immediate economy and a balanced budget while criticizing the Roosevelt administration. He outlines a program including government reorganization, cancellation of borrowing authority, curbing new activities, shifting relief to localities, and maintaining tax levels to spur business growth. He warns that debt could reach fifty billion if spending continues.
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Boston
Byrd
Virginia
Roosevelt
Washington
Hoover
Senate
Walsh
D-Mass
Taxpayers’ Federation
Roose
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
New York
Masquerade Hanging Baffles Illinois Town
In Galesburg Illinois authorities faced a bizarre case as the body of Gale Davison, a 27 year old former railroad brakeman, was found hanged in a suburban pasture on his birthday. Police were alerted after two frightened rabbit hunters reported the scene.
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Galesburg
Ill
Gale Davison
Pasure
R H Gross Elected New River President
Mount Hope West Virginia December 10 the offices of the New River announced R H Gross of Boston Mass had been named president to replace the late S A Scott Gross long served as general superintendent of the coal companys mines and was selected by the directors in a New York meeting Edward Graff was chosen vice president
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Mount Hope
W. Va
Boston
Mass
S. A. Scott
Gross
Coal Com
of Directors
New York
Edward Graff
Graff
Roosevelt Eyes 1944 Third Term And Public Role
Analysis notes Democratic debate over a nonconsecutive third term for Franklin D Roosevelt and hints he may pursue 1944 rather than 1940. Writers cite Roosevelt letters and Theodore Roosevelt parallels as he weighs future public role and party liberal conservative clashes.
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Roosevelt
Poof
White House
Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Posuiny
Prayers for Rain Across West As Water Dwindles
Whites and Pima Indians join in a rain prayer campaign amid severe drought in central and southern Arizona. Latter Day Saints in the area order a day of prayer for December 18 as officials cite a critical situation from San Carlos Lake drying behind Coolidge Dam. The reservoir serves irrigation for crops across the region.
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Latter Day Saints
H. A. Ireland
Sacaton
San Carlos Lake
Coolidge Dam
Great Coolidge
Arizona
Drug firm under fire in New York investigation
Mrs. Carol E. Coster was restrained from using a $100000 brokerage account as state officials probe McKesson and Robbins Inc an $87000000 drug company headed by her husband. An $18000000 asset doubt emerged and the firm sought federal bankruptcy protection.
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New York
Carol E. Coster
John J. Bennett, Jr
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Supreme Court
Aron Steuer
Joseph F. Ruggieri
Aboye
Eden in New York on a welcome inspection tour
Anthony Eden and his wife toured New York with a police escort visiting city hall Central Park and Times Square. The British foreign secretary planned Broadway entertainment and museum viewing while promising to see the empire state building and the world of tomorrow. He will travel to Washington next week before sailing home on the Queen Mary.
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New York
Anthony Eden
Geneva
Europe
Great Britain
Eden
City Hall
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New West Side
Hudson River
Central Park
Times Square
United States
Whitehall
Empire State Building
Hudson
Viscount Hinchingbrooke
England
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
FDR's Home Becomes Government Property Upon Death
President Roosevelt announced that his family home and the surrounding 100 acres would pass to the government after his death and that his papers would be housed there for scholarly access. A fireproof stone building would hold the collection, funded partly by public subscription, with further support from Justice Samuel I. Rosenman.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Ceed
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
New European Unrest Fueled by Nazi and Fascist Moves
Across Europe turmoil rises from the Baltic to the Black Sea with Germany and Italy pressuring eastern borders. Memel elections stir disputes with Lithuania as Ukraine autonomy demands surface in Poland. Romania faces a royal crisis while France strengthens North Africa defenses.
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Baltic
Black Sea
Europe
Africa
Memel
Germany
Lithuania
Poland
Polish
Ukraine
Rumania
Italy
Tunisia
Suez Canal
Red Sea
France
North African
Daladier
le Havre
Berlin
Vienna
England
Netherlands
China
Mixed Trends in Crop Referenda Across Regions
Early returns from 17 of 19 cotton states show strong support for cotton marketing quotas with an 86 percent favorable rate. Tobacco quotas lag with 58.7 percent in favor and rice ballots run narrowly against, falling short of the required 2/3 margin. Washington reports indicate regional splits in the New Deal crop control program.
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Washington
South
Far West
New Deal
Agricultural Parastmnens
Assailants Sought After Wounding Virginia Trooper
Virginia state police hunt a North Carolina convict and an unidentified companion charged with wounding Trooper Lloyd E. Thomas near Stuart on Route 58. The officer pursued a sedan with stolen Carolina plates, exchanged gunfire, and was left in a ditch in the snow. He was rushed to Stuart hospital in guarded condition with a faint chance to live.
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North Carolina
Stuart
Richmond
Virginia
Lloyd E. Thomas
Thomas
Stuart-to-Hillsville
Roy Bishop
Burlington
P. F. Burton
Patrick County
Kelly
T. H Harris
Clarksville
Lover's Leap
Blue Ridge
Burton
Henry Cassell
Stuart Hospital
Train wreck near Defiance leaves few serious injuries
In Defiance Ohio a Baltimore and Ohio Fort Pitt limited train derailed after its second locomotive tender broke. Eighty passengers and twenty crewmen escaped without serious injuries. two cars overturned and six others in a muddy ditch. Only three required hospital treatment.
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Defiance
Here
Chicago-to-Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt Limited
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pan American unity urged against foreign threats
At the Pan American conference in Lima Secretary Hull with Peru and Argentina foreign ministers called for a common front to resist foreign military or political invasion. They stressed that each nation must decide its defense measures while the United States will maintain adequate defenses. The event dominated formal business as delegates planned a Cuban anti racial persecution resolution and discussed mediation for the Spanish Civil War.
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Andrue Berding
Lima
Peru
Cordell Hull
Argentina
Americas
United States
Hull
House of Representatives
Cantilo
Bane
Two Year Old Mary Alice Carlson Fatally Hurt
Mary Alice Carlson aged two died after a glass shard from a shattered fruit jar pierced her heart while she helped her parents move jars. The incident occurred in South Bend Indiana as they prepared for Christmas. She died on the way to a hospital.
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South Bend
Ind
Dee
Mary Alice Carlson
Santa Claus
Wheeling to Host 1939 State Education Association Convention
The executive committee of the State Education Association set November 1 2 and 3 as dates for the 1939 convention and tentatively chose Wheeling as the convention city in Charleston West Virginia.
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Charleston
W. Va
Dee
The
State Education Association
Wheeling
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