West Virginia Weather Clears After Weekend Flood Risk
A weekend storm moved off the Atlantic coast with rain waning across the state. Forecasters expect no major floods, though some rain may return. High pressure brings cooler, drier weather while a low from Canada could raise temperatures and bring rain midweek. Evacuations occurred in Princeton as flooded Owens Creek damaged buildings. Wallace faced three feet of water in Harrison County delaying traffic.
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Atlantic
Huntington Weather Bureau
Canada
Texas
West Virgina
Rasementa
East Rainelle
Ranelle
Princeton
Wyoming County
Herndon High School
Otter Creek
Wallace
Harrison County
Little Ten Mile Creek
W.va
Chimston
Harrison
Marion County
Wate
West Fork
Fairmont
Monongahela River
Art Valley
Tygar
Road Commission
Charleston
Beverly
Wva
Tyler
Calhoun County
Ruchie Couny
Huntington
Bills back Marland plan for county roads presented
Charleston February 7 1936 Gow Marland proposes county responsibility for local roads while the Road Commission handles state trunk lines and maintain feeder routes. A $1 million fund would aid counties short on tax revenue as part of a 20 year highway policy.
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Charleston
Gow Mariland
West
House
Senae
Automotive Ey Foundation
Road Commission
Marland
Senate Speeds Through Bills as Senate and House Meet
Charleston February 7. The Senate moved quickly passing several bills while the House met over an hour with routine introductions. Diplomats and journalists from North Atlantic Treaty counties were welcomed in both chambers. Gov Marland plans a fourth major address outlining tax income measures for Oklahoma's general revenue fund.
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Charleston
Senate
Marland
General Revenue Fund
Price Fix Case Near Completion
Appalachian apple growers and processors faced closing FTC testimony as the price fixing case nears decision. Officials including John B. Peters testified that conspiracies could not be proven without cooperative agreement, while witnesses for the Agriculture Department argued Appalachian output was too small to affect national prices.
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As & Federal Trade Commission
Aber Lipscomb
Commission
Self
Appalachian Service, Inc
Martinsburg Va
John B. Pewers
Gardners
Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc
Peach Glen
Peters
Knouse
8. R. Smith
Agriculture Department
Virginia
West Virginia
Peasania
Frank Hier
Department of Agriculture
J. R. Samuels
Cooperative Marketing
Appalachian Area
Appalachian Services
C. H. Musselman
Tow Official To Study Harvey Matusow Story
The Justice Department dispatched its top internal security official to New York to assist a federal grand jury investigating Harvey Matusow. Matusow has sworn statements claiming he lied as a witness in trials against Communist leaders and in congressional inquiries. Assistant Attorney General William F. Tompkins led the effort to present the matter for grand jury scrutiny.
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Washington
Justice Department
New York
Harvey M. Matusow
Matusow
Congressional
Department
Asst
William F. Tompkins
Internal Security Division
U.S. District Attorney
Senator Symington Has Big Surprise On Way
Senator Symington of Missouri is targeted by a parkway station postal card urging support for a bill to grant postal workers a 10 percent raise. The card measures 4 by 8 feet, weighs 27 pounds, and would cost $12.84 to mail to Washington.
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Senator Symington
Kansas City
Symington
D-Mo
Parkway Station
Washington
AFL Appeals Unions to Support German Rearmament Policy
The AFL Executive Council unanimously urged Western Europe's free trade unions to back Germany's rearmament, arguing military strength deters Soviet aggression. George Meany stressed Germany's responsibility to defend the free world despite past wars. CIO leaders arrived for talks on an AFL-CIO merger, with cautious optimism.
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Fla
AFL Today
Germany
APL
Europe
Russia
AFL
George Meany
Free World
CIO
Afl-Cio
Meany
Classmate questioned in brutal girl slaying at New York University
A married classmate Ernest Jackson 30, a father and former pupil of Miss Anne Yarrow, questions intensified as police probe the death of the New York University graduate student. The coed, a Guilford College honor graduate from North Carolina, was found murdered in a cluttered sixth floor walkup with severe mutilation and sexual assault noted by medical examiners.
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Senate
West Virginia University Board of Governors
New York
Anne Yarrow
Ernest Jackson
Jackson
Miss Yarrowet
Universiy
Miss Yarrow
Hera Payson
Moss Yarrow
Guilford College
Greensboro
N.C
Guilford
Frances Carr
Sax
McClellan Finds No Evidence of $300 Payment Claim
Sen McClellan said he searched the Senate Investigations subcommittee files and found no reference to a $300 payment from a Communist official to a Democratic senator as alleged by Sen McCarthy. He cited Rose Engel and Charles Tracy memos lacking any mention of the case or payment.
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Washington
Sen McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
Miwaukee
Charles Tracy
Brooklyn
N.Y
Subcommittee
Tracy
McClellan
Miss Rose- Wary Engel
West Coast
Red Ground Guns Blaze Away At Seventh Fleet
Red ground guns yesterday fired on U S Seventh Fleet planes as the withdrawal from the Tachens began. Nationalist sources report 41 000 soldiers civilians and guerrillas to be moved, with heavy naval forces sweeping for mines and a slow beach withdrawal due to tides and poor beaches.
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Taipei
Formosa
U.S
Peiping
Yikiangshan
China
U. S
Tachens
Chande
Yikuangshans Gum
Lu Lien-yi
Tachen
Princeton
Pinay Seeks French Cabinet Backing in Talks
Paris February 7 Former premier Antoine Pinay held exploratory talks in a bid to form a new French cabinet. He aims to present a lineup and secure support from about 300 deputies when he seeks approval from the National Assembly on Thursday. Current support tallies show Pinay at roughly 185 votes with key parties undecided.
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Paris
Antoine Pinay
Pinay
National Assembly
Pierre Mendes- France
Economic Ministry
Assembly
al Jose
Independent Republicans, Peasants and
Social and Republican Action
Popular Republican Movement
Charles de Gaulle
Radical Socialista
Pierre Mendes-Pfrance
Britain Favors Full Withdrawal of Nationalist Forces
London reports indicate Britain urged the United States to remove Chiang Kai-shek's forces from the offshore islands including Quemoy and the Matsu group as a first step toward a cease-fire. Eden deflected questions while noting negotiations continue and support for evacuations.
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Britain
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Ma‘su Quemoy
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Eden
Ren
Churchill
India
Nehru
Commonwealth
Tachen Islands
Western Pacific
Dulles Predicts Reds Avoid War If Treaty Passes
Secretary of State Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that U S ratification of the mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China could cool tensions with the Chinese Communists He warned war is unlikely unless the United States abandons the pact and Formosa policy The discussion followed Dulles visits with allied diplomats and the U S Navy fleet showed resolve in the Formosa Strait during tensions with Beijing
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Dulles
U.S
China
United States
Senate
Formosa
Ogether
Nationalis
Pescadores Islands
Tachen
Leslie Knox Munro
New Zealand
U.N
Far East
Munro
Makins
Henry Suydam
State Department
Bahamas
Chou
Chiang Kai-shek
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Formosa Strait
Chiang
Tachen Islands
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Pescadores
Library Reaches Ten Million Volumes At Congress Library
The Library of Congress announced it now holds 10,000,000 books and pamphlets plus 14,200,000 manuscripts and millions more items bringing total catalog to over 33 million. Visitors in 1954 included Crown Prince Akihito and Haile Selassie as experts cataloged wide interests from 18th century novels to Elizabethan prayer books. A standout manuscript was Charles Lindbergh’s "The Spirit of St. Louis" drafts, revealing the author’s growing literary talent.
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Arthur Edson Washington
Library of Congress
Library
Congress
Rudyard Kipling
Washington
George
Coolidge
Calvin
Ussr
Akihito
Japan
Haile Selassie
England
United States
Oregon
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Louis
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