New School Measure Approved by House of Delegates
In Charleston on February 1, the House of Delegates passed and sent to the Senate a long debated bill to guarantee 45 percent of a foundation school program. The vote stood 64 to 26 with four absent and not voting.
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Charleston
W. Va
Senate
Kay Thomas
Cummins
House
Health Department
West Virginia
Fraternal
Order of Police
Calvert
D-Kanawha
Holt Outlines New Legislation in West Virginia
Governor Holt presents a broad program including three constitutional amendments and bills to make participation in the numbers racket a felony. Highlights include a short ballot plan, a budget director office, free text books funding, and a statutory state planning board with mixed ex officio and appointee members. Senate discussion follows with Dr. Merrill Flood drafting and W W Trent opposing, as the school finance bill gains solid backing.
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Charleston
W. Va
Holt
Board of Public Works
West Virginia
Kay Thomas
House
Thomas
H. Isaiah Smith
County Boards of Education
State Planning Board
Public Service Commis
Senate
Merrill Flood
West Virginia University
W. W. Trent
Weinberg death questioned amid homicide trial readings
New York February 1 Diners testified that George Weinberg did not die by his own hand as prosecutors continued reading the Tammy district leader’s policy racketeering case against James J. Hines. Weinberg, a key witness, was found with a bullet in his head in a Westchester County hideout while in custody. investigators said the pistol was taken from a guard’s overcoat. An attorney in Mineola sent a telegram claiming Weinberg’s fingerprints were not on the revolver, prompting Governor Lehman to request an inquiry into Mulry’s informant letter.
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New York
George Weinberg
Lehman
James J. Hines
Weinberg
Westchester County
Thomas E. Dewey
E. Mulry
Mineola, Long
Dewey
Mulry
Maude Osborne Trial Nears Jury Decision In Bluefield Slaying
The trial of Maude Osborne for the October 15 slaying of her husband Albert Osborne in Bluefield moved toward the jury as witnesses testified. The fourteen year old nephew Russell Leslie described seeing the couple wrestling for the gun and Osborne threatening his aunt before the fatal shot.
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Albert
Ted) Osborne
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Bluefield
Osborne
F. Morton Wagner
Russell Leslie
Wagner
Fire Destroys Old Hospital at Milton
A blaze in Milton West Virginia destroyed the old frame Morris Memorial Home for Crippled Children hospital tonight with estimated losses of 20000 dollars. Leo Cooper 26 a former worker suffered a broken arm while fighting the blaze. The newer brick building nearby remained in use for patients.
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W. Va
Morris Memorial Home For
Jones
Guehtly
Leo Cooper
Senators Vote Against Roberts Appointment
Washington February 1 The senate judiciary committee voted 15 to 3 against Judge Floyd H Roberts of Bristol Va for a federal district judgeship amid claims President Roosevelt gave Virginia patronage veto power to Governor James H Price. The clash highlighted Democratic rifts and Virginia political tensions.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Floyd H. Roberts
Bristol
Glass
D-Va
Virginia
James H. Price
Roberts
Byrd
United States
Senate
Price
Senator Glass
Keenan
White House
Judge Roberts
Governo of
Lee
Big Dope Raid Staged in New York
Forty treasury agents raided the San Juan hill area around West 62nd street aiming to round up the nation’s most notorious narcotics gang. Twelve distributors were arrested and hundreds questioned as agents identified eight New York suspects who had fled in a recent week. Major Garland Williams announced heroin valued at about unknown.
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San Juan Hill
America
West 62Nd Street
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Mid- Manhattan
Broadway
Williams
Prague decrees target Jews erase citizenship and force emigration
Prague authorities announce two major decrees aimed at stripping most Jews of Czecho Slovakia citizenship and expelling all immigrants within six months. The measures follow Munich partitioning last September and cite protecting native work opportunities as justification. The Jewish decree requires re examination of citizenship for those naturalized after 1918 or who settled since 1938 without proof of Czech Slovak or Ruthenian nationality.
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Munich
Czecho- Slovakia
Hoover Attacks FDR On Foreign Policy Expansion
Former President Hoover charges that Roosevelt's new foreign policy departs from isolation and risks war. He urges Congress to clarify aims before boosting armament, warns about propaganda floods from Europe, and insists on keeping America out of entangling alliances while pursuing peace and prosperity.
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Herbert Hoover
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Council On Foreign Relations
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Eco of Nations
Western Hemisphere
United States
Controversy Over U S Sale of Warplanes to France
The U S senate debated the administration plan to sell American warplanes to France with critics charging secrecy and entanglement in European affairs. Supporters led by Senator Barkley argued no war risk and that cash payments and secrecy safeguards protected U S interests.
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Europe
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Calif
Senate
Senator Barkley
D-Ky
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France
Barkley
White House
Roosevelt
Memip
America
Tyrone Power Radio Contract Cancelled
Hollywood reports Tyrone Power’s radio contract with Twentieth Century Fox was terminated by production chief Darryl Zanuck. The move takes effect next Sunday night and Zanuck cites crowded air lines and no quarrel with radio as reasons, noting exhibitors feel harmed by the scheduling strain.
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Hollywood
Darryl Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox
Tyrone Power
FDR vilified as war agitator in German press
German papers brand President Roosevelt the world's leading war agitator and link his policies to Hitler's long peace pledge. Reports note Munich and Berlin editors discuss U S policy while Nazi outlets push fresh anti Roosevelt agitation as wartime tension grows.
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Congress
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Berlin
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Eee
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Rhine
DNB
White House
Erhane
Spain Splits Over Armistice Talks Amid Civil War
In Figueras the Cortes meets in a vaulted castle to back Premier Negrin's government while France opens armistice negotiations and boosts border forces. Frenco's insurgents push toward Berga and threaten Catalonia as refugees flood toward Perpignan.
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Chixnen
Franco
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Tordera
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