State Legislators Get Municipalities Aid Bill
West Virginia moves to divert 780000 yearly wine liquor profits to city aid with 65000 monthly earmarked, distributed by population. Other measures include permanent voter registration and increased child welfare funding, while wage hour and anti injunction bills are also filed. Governor Neely warns against raising liquor prices to fund added city revenue.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Liquor Commission
Neely
Avalanche Of Bills Reaches West Virginia Legislature
Charleston February 7 The CIO push on wages and hours anti injunctions and miners certification reached the West Virginia legislature with 50 new house measures and a senate slate including duplicates. Administration proposals address liquor profits aging benefits and child welfare while Norris LaGuardia style anti injunction language seeks to curb court power in labor disputes. The package also covers coal miner certification and wage liens with other labor measures resubmitted from prior sessions. Avalanche Of-See Page 6
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House
Senate
Charleston
W. Va
CIO
Jones
D. Boone
Alltop
Veterinarians Strive To Save Laddie The War Dog
Kansas City dispatch reports veterinarians attempted to save Laddie a 10 year old Airedale a blood transfusion of 400 cubic centimeters given after arrival from Chanute to Fort Ord California. A mongrel German shepherd donated the blood. The dog’s master Everett Scott enlisted three months ago. Laddie weakened from 40 to 25 pounds and refused food despite care. Doctor H W Young cautioned the outlook but hoped for a miracle by tomorrow night.
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Laddie
Fort Ord
Calif
Chanute
Kas
Everett Scott
Priends
H. W. Young
Greeks Report Greek Gains In Albania Front
Greek reports from Albania say long range artillery shelled Tepelini as Italians resisted in the key mountain town. Greeks claim defeat of Italian motorized units north of Klisura and gains in the Devol valley counterattack. Athens reports Italian counterattacks on the Albanian front and Greek ships remain unharmed at sea. King George inspected front units amid ovations.
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Yugoslavia
Albania
Tepelini
Klisura
Devol
Dobric
Athens
Greece
Mediterranean
Aegean
George
Bomber Believed On Fire Before Crash Near Lovelock
Reno reports a four engine Army bomber carrying eight men went down near Lovelock Nevada after being seen in flames. Glen Ransom cited his father Alex 68 who described the craft pouring smoke and diving from the clouds as investigators worked at the crash site.
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Reno
Lovelock
Nev
Glen Ransom
Alex
Contract Awarded For Shovels To Two Firms
The government awarded a $36,170 contract for shovels to Ames Baldwin Wyoming company of Parkersburg West Virginia and North Easton Massachusetts. The decision was announced today in Washington on February 7.
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Washington
Ames Baldwin Wyoming Company
Parkersburg
W. Va
North Easton
Mass
Reporter Who Solved Many Big Crimes Is Critically Ill
The famed journalist known as White, who solved major cases including the Russell Sage bombing with scant clues, is critically ill at Chester Hospital at age 76. He traveled from Buffalo to New York in 1885 and later lived near Mt. Kisco with relatives.
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Canada
Stanwood
Mt. Kisco
British Forces Break Through Bengali Sector in Libya
Cairo reports a British victory as Italian defenses around Bengazi collapse after heavy tank losses. Italian resistance gutters under a desert storm as Graziani’s army retreats west. estimates place 25,000 defenders no longer effective, with many surrendering or fleeing.
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Cairo
Egypt
Graziani
Libyan
Libya
Italians Parade With Germans as Students Cheer Axis Leaders
British Forces in Rome report Italian troops and German youths join students in demonstrations and street parades. Crowds cheer Mussolini and Hitler while flags from both nations appear in Rome and Naples.
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Rome
United States
Charles A. Lindbergh
Piazza Venezia
Benito Mussolini
War Ministry
Naples
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Stefani
RAF Stages Long Attacks on Coast
RAF bombers pounded the German coast of France for two hours in a Boulogne focused raid as fog and mist limited visibility. German defenses along Dunkerque to Calais were reinforced by anti aircraft fire and tracer. A lone Nazi bomber attacked East Lothian, while a Dorner destroyer was shot down with no survivors.
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Britain
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Fecamp
Air Ministry
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Vanity
Bon
Callas
Calais
Associated Press
Bulgars Brace for Nazi Push
Sofia Bulgaria February 7 reports say Germany plans to enter Bulgaria as train service toward Romania Greece and Yugoslavia is curtailed tonight along the Danube residents report quiet conditions amid foggy rumors Turkish officials may urge changes due to German and Russian presence.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Rumania
Danube
Tomor
Turkey
Ger- Russia
Court to Reopen Wage-Hour Case
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a voluntary reopening of its ruling on whether the National Labor Relations Board should police employer employee relations after a work agreement. The case involves Agnes Fahy, a former employee and former Newark local president, with details not disclosed.
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Philadelphia
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Agnes Fahy
Miss Fahy
Newark
Offhe Couild
Allis Chalmers to Ship Navy and Army Equipment
Milwaukee February 7 The Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co agrees to expedite removal of completed plant equipment vital to war and navy needs. Shipments of navy materials begin tomorrow. army materials move early next week after talks with union officials and military officers.
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Allis . Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Ion
War and Navy Departments
Max W. Babb
Army
Union
Navy
Tne
Moon Erlier
Donald Armstrong
Chicago Ordinance District
National Defense
Ma- Armstrong
Connabl
U.S. Navy
U. S
Tax Burden Across Government Levels Cited in 1940
New York reports 20 percent of national income went to federal, state, and local taxes in 1940. Estimates compare to Germany’s wartime revenue, with 34 billion marks out of 100 billion. The Tax Foundation notes figures exclude recent defense levies and cites rising national income alongside growing arms spending.
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New York
United States
Germany
Berlin
The
Tax Foundation
U. S. Department Commerce
Congress
Mine Closings Prompt Test on State Mines Authority
Madison West Virginia February 7 a test case challenged the state mines department authority to close mines for law violations. Circuit Judge T Curd of Welch ordered the Pageton mine in McDowell County operated by Page Coal and Coke Company to close for unsafe practices and statute noncompliance, with Rhinehart directing compliance and awaiting further advisement.
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Madison
W. Va
State Mines Department
T. Curd
Welch
N. P. Rhinehart
Pageton
McDowell County
Page Coal and Coke Company
Rhine
Hart
de Caende
Curd
Churchill to Broadcast Radio Address from Britain Feb 9
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will speak over the British Broadcasting Corporation home and overseas services on February 9 at 3 p m eastern standard time. The address will be carried in the United States by NBC Columbia and Mutual networks.
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London
E Winston Churchill
Brish Broadcasting Corporation Home Overseas Services
United States
NBC
Columbia
Mutual
Roosevelt Lease-Lend Limit Sets One-Tenth Defense Fund
Washington Feb 7 AP The administration and House agree on a cap that the president may transfer at most one tenth of defense appropriations for 1941. The total defense budget is about 12 to 13 billion dollars, capping transfers to roughly 1.2 to 1.3 billion. Debate continues over how to calculate value and approvals for any transfers to England.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
England
Eye
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Capper Warns British Aid Bill Will Drag U S Into War
Senator Capper of Kansas decried a British aid bill as dangerous predicting its enactment would commit the United States to war in Europe. The Republican member of the foreign relations committee argued the measure sets a constitutional course lawmakers must resist. He criticized Roosevelt era proposals and urged refusal to follow the policy.
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Capper
Kan
United States
Kansas Republican
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Cal Broadcasting System
Roosevelt
Shawkey Rites In First Methodist Church Today
Funeral services for Dr. M. P. Shawkey former state superintendent of schools and Marshall College president will be held at 2 p m Saturday in Huntington West Virginia He died while en route to Charleston from Florida Dr Leonard Riggleman president of Morris Harvey College was connected with Shawkey during his service as business figure in the college system.
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W. Va
First Methodist
M. P. Shawkey
Marshall College
Charleston
Piorida
Deonard Riggleman
Morris Harvey College
Shawkey
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