President Signs Cruiser Measure Despite Executive Foe
President Coolidge approved the naval construction bill despite objections to its time restriction. The plan authorizes laying down fifteen cruisers and one aircraft carrier by July 1, 1931 with budgets of 25 to 40 million dollars for 1929 30 and a unspecified amount for the current year. The bill was sent to the president after talks with leaders of both parties on funding and avoiding further expenditures.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Hale
Senate Naval Committee
Navy Department
Senate
President Coolidge Signs Bridge Bills
President Coolidge signed bills authorizing river bridging projects. Allegheny County Pennsylvania across the Ohio near McKeesport. Youghiogheny bridge between Versailles and Boston. Cedar Point Bridge Co’s project across the southeast arm of Sandusky Bay at Sandusky Ohio.
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Washington
Coolidge
Allegheny County
Ohio
McKeesport
Youghiogheny
Versailles
Boston
Cedar Point Bridge Company
Sandusky Bay
Sandusky
Steamer Reaches Wrecked Vessel In Aleutians
On a stormy Aleutian coast the Japanese freighter Meiyo Maru ran aground as high seas battered the wreck. The 25 seamen were towed by the steamer Illinois after a line was prepared for a breeches buoy. Dutch Harbor meanwhile received news of Captain Healy rescuing 33 from the abandoned Alloway as the ship neared shore and peril.
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Seattle
Aleutian Island
Washington
Aleutian Archipelago
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Alktak
Ugamak Island
Ilindig
Richard J. Healy
Pole
Coolidge Chooses Mount Weather for Summer White House
President Coolidge has selected Mount Weather Virginia as the site for a summer White House to escape Washington heat. He proposed $48,000 to establish the residence on government property used as a weather station, with repairs and improvements to adapt buildings for executive use.
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Washington
Coolidge
Mount Weather
White House
Congress
Weather Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
Mt Weather
Widow shoots and kills self in Conn.
Willimantic, Conn. Feb 13 Mrs William E Jackson widow of detective Jackson who was slain January 29 shot herself in the kitchen of her home with a .22 rifle. Her daughter Juanita was a witness at the coroner's inquest. A special grand jury earlier indicted Trevor A Rice deputy sheriff for murder. No details of the witnesses' statements were given.
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Rice
Chaplain
Jackson
Juanita
Pittsburgh and West Virginia road seeks bridge bids
The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad asked for bids on five steel and concrete bridges to be built in the first ten miles of the Cochran Mill to Connellsville extension. Construction on the initial segment is underway.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad
Cochran Mille
Connellaville
Hoover to Return Soon from Florida Vacation
President elect Herbert Hoover will cut short his Florida trip and return to Washington Monday or Tuesday to finalize his inaugural address and plans for the extra session in April. He will hold conferences with party leaders at his Belle Isle headquarters and at his 8 Street home before taking the oath of office.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Hoover
Florida
Washington
Seventy-First Congress
National Capital
Belle Isle
Fort Myers
Coolidge
Last Civil War veteran Rufus A. French dies at 89
Rufus A. French, 89, Confederate artillery veteran reputed to fired the last Civil War shot, died Tuesday at his Chapel Giles County home from influenza complications. Survived by two daughters, J. M. Burton and R. E. Sizer. Funeral at 11 this morning at Chapel home with family cemetery burial.
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Rufus A. French
Chapel
Giles County
French
Appomatox
Robert E. Lee
Grant
Virginia
J. M. Burton
R. E. Sizer
Radio Commissioners Confirmed by Senate
The Senate confirmed the reappointment of Ira B. Robinson of West Virginia Harold LaFount of Utah and Eugene O. Sykes of Mississippi to the Federal Radio Commission today.
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Washington
Ira BE. Robinson
West Virginia
Harold LaFount
Utah
Eugene 0. Sykes
Mississippi
Federal Radio Commission
Senate
Paper Industry Seeks Higher Tariff In House Hearing
Washington February 13 Allied paper and pulp interests urged higher duties on twenty one tariff items before the House Wage and Means Committee arguing changes since the 1922 act. D C Everest of the American Paper and Pulp Association cited economic shifts and evasion issues while noting no demand for newsprint. Other witnesses urged higher duties on paperboard pulp board tissue stereotype copying Bible India and carbon paper.
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Washington
House
Wage and Means
D. C. Everest
American Paper and Pulp Association
Everest
Garner
Democrat
Texas
India
Prohibition Bills Spark West Virginia Senate Clash
West Virginia senators clashed over liquor law amendments and inmate sterilization proposals. Amendments set tougher penalties for transporting intoxicating beverages and for second offenses, while a sterilization bill faced procedural fights and debate. A separate fatal train strike occurred in Portsmouth, Ohio, as Robert Watkins, 55, was killed.
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Portsmouth
Robert Watkins
Portamouth
Norfolk and Western
Hoover cabinet picks advance with most posts filled
President-elect Hoover appears to have completed his cabinet with the exception of attorney-general and the secretaries of navy and commerce. Named are interior secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur from California treasury secretary Andrew Mellon from Pennsylvania and state secretary Henry L. Stimson from New York. Also listed are coastmaster-general Walter F. Brown of Ohio labor secretary William N. Doak from Bluefield West Virginia agriculture secretary William M. Jardine of Kansas and war secretary William J. Donovan of New York.
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Navy
Commerce
Hoover
Ray Lyman Wilbur
California
Interior
Andrew W. Mellon
Pennsylvania
Treasury
Henry L. Stimeon
New York
Lower
Walter F. Brown
Ohio
William N. Doak
Bluefield
W. Va
William M. Jardine
Kansas
Agriculture
William J. Donovan
Changes in State Finances Urged
The West Virginia House urged prompt passage of an anti-blanket appropriation bill to let the budget commission adjust the pending budget. The measure, already passed by the Senate, would require state institutions to send revenue to the treasury for specific appropriations. Verbal clashes occurred on both floors over amendments to bills.
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Charleston
W. Va
Budget Commission
House of Delegates
Harold Mathews
Taxation and Finance
Walter 8.Nallanan
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
House of
J. Wiliam Cummins
M. L. Brown
Marion
M. FP. Leonard
Cabell
J. PF. Bennett
Wood and
G. Martin
Jefferson
Congress Confirms Hoover Curtis Victory In Electoral Count
Congress held a joint session to officially acknowledge Herbert Hoover for president and Charles Curtis for vice president after tallying 531 electoral votes.Vice President Dawes announced 444 for Hoover 87 for Smith and 444 for Curtis 87 for Robinson with ceremonial parity from the galleries.
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Hoover
Smith
Washington
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Charlies Curtis
Curtis
Robinson
Arkansas
Alfred F. Smith
Charles Curtis
Joseph T. Robinson
Senate
Shortridge
California
Kine
Utah
House
Longworth
Gifford
Massachusetts
Jeffers
Alabama
King
Diamond found in bucket of lard in Huntington
A Huntington store bucket of lard yielded a surprise when Mrs. E Young found a diamond worth about $700. A local jeweler confirmed the gem’s value after she brought it in for appraisal.
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Huntington
W. Va
Young
Judges Penstong Keenly Opposed in West Virginia Pension Bill
Charleston, Feb 15 An optional pension bill for state supreme court judges returns to the House of Delegates for views on pension principles for officials. The proposal would allow retirement at 65 with a $6000 annual pension after 12 years of service. The measure, which passed the Senate, faced opposition but survived amendment attempts.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
A. C. Harold
Braxton County
Jacob D. Smith
Lincoln County
Senate
Harold
M. T. Miller
Boone County
House
Smith
Wright Hugus
Ohio County
B. W. Weat
Cavell County
West
Circuit Court
State Supreme Court
House of Delegates
Hiner
Pendleton
Lindbergh Eyes Daily U S Panama Air Mail Service
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh envisions daily air mail between the United States and Panama within months. He completed a first Pan-American Airways mail round trip, notes better communications and refueling fixes, and says passenger traffic will wait until transport and communication details are resolved.
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Miami
Fla
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bia
Daily Mail
United States
Panama
Panama Mail
Pan-American Airways
Fivyinge
Paris
Atlantic
Anne Morrow
Mexico
North
South
Americas
Lindbergh
Cozumul
Yucatan
Havana
Belize
British Honduras
Cozumel
Caribbean Sea
Lake Bay
Menace of cold paralyzes Europe across continent
European nations face severe winter as a week long cold wave strains coal and food supplies. Influenza rises and some areas near semi starvation due to halted food deliveries. Scientists link soaring gulf stream temperatures to disrupted atmospheric patterns driving easterly winds and record highs in central Europe.
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London
Europe
Spain
Italian
Balkan Peninsulas
Balkan States
Scandinavian Peninsula
Stockholm
Baltic
England
RIGGINS SUCCEEDS BRAMWELL BOOTH
Sudbury on Thames England February 1 Edward J Higgins was elected commanding general of the Salvation Army, succeeding General Bramwell Booth. The high council ousted Booth as unfit to lead, a move seen as freeing the army’s assets from Booth family control. Four Booth family members were among five dissenters.
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Sudbury-on-Thames
Eng
Edward J. Higgins
England
Salvation Army
Bramwell Booth
High Council
Booth
Marks Higgins
Army
Chif
Staf
General Booth
Heran
Catherine
Mary
Ludh Booth-Hellberg
Comannaer
Alister Smith
Council
Mother accused of killing eight grandchildren and a son in Dowagiac case
In St Joseph Michigan Sheriff says Mrs Ethel Lewis confessed poisoning and strangling infant son Clarence Wesley and alleged eight infant deaths linked to the grandmother. Younger woman Mrs Okee Gorham claims she witnessed the murder and may be subjected to mental examination.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Fred G. Bryant
Okee Gorham
Ethel Lewis
Dowagiac
Elk Horn Students Visit Classmate in Bluefield
Elk Horn district high school pupils Misses Ellen Hensley Nora Batley Elizabeth Farmer Katherine Sho bard Comerance Harris Hay Wilson Elwood Hensley and Clif ford Ferguson motored to Bluefield to see classmate Howard Leedy patient at St Lukes hospital He lost his right hand in a mine accident last Saturday and is recovering nicely after arrival Saturday afternoon.
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Ellen Hensley
Nora Batley
Elizabeth Farmer
Katherine Shobard
Comerance Harris
Hay Wilson
Elwood Hensley
Clifford Ferguson
Elkhorn District High School
Bluefield
Howard Leedy
St. Lukes Hospital
Jardine to Quit Cabinet Position
Secretary Jardine will retire as head of the agriculture department on March 4 to become counsel for the Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Washington. He said family obligations and personal interests require private life, while offering to aid Hoover's administration.
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Washington
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers
Hoover
Arthur R. Rule
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