West Virginia Governor urges sales tax hike for road bonds
Governor E F Morgan calls for raising gross sales tax to raise 1 to 2 million annually and immediate authorization of 20 million state road bonds. He seeks state board of control oversight for high school construction and caps on capitol costs, arguing savings and prudent planning for capital needs.
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Charleston
W. Va
E. F. Morgan
West Virginia
Board of Education
State Board of Control
Morgan
General Revenue Fund
Capitol Building Commission
State Road Commission
Road Commission
Northwestern Turnpike
Panhandle
Kentucky Line
Pennsylvania
Virginia Line
Wheeling
Fairpont
Pruntytown
Two Gun Bill Hart Loses Fight to Wife
Los Angeles January 19 William S Hart film hero known as two gun star lost a court battle with his separated wife Winifred Westover Hart The superior court allowed Mrs Hart to return to work in pictures lifted a prior ban and kept the Hart trust funds The decision also let her use her married name The baby’s trust provides $387 monthly while hers yields $375.
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Los Angeles
William S
Bill
Winifred Westover Hart
Hart
Massive merger planned for Appalachian and Virginia Power firms
Plans call for consolidating Appalachian Securities Corporation, Virginia Power Company, and American Gas and Electric Company into a new firm with 600 000 preferred shares and 2 250 009 common shares. The move aims to ease financing for development and reduce legal entanglements while preserving local management.
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Appalachian Securities Corporation
Virginia Power Company
American Gas and Electric Company
Associated Press
New York
The
Securities Corporation
Appalachian Power Company
Appalachian First Preferred
Herbert Markle
Markle
Appalachian Securities Company
Virginia Corporation
West Virginia
Weaver strike protests wage cut in Boston mills
Boston January 19. Several hundred weavers at Maverick Mills in the east Boston district struck to protest a ten percent wage reduction. The company employs about 2,000 operatives in cotton goods manufacturing.
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Boston
Maverick
United States Free to Take Any Course Desired
The Paris reparations agreement prompted administration assurances to ease fears while irreconcilables in the Senate press for a full inquiry into Versailles. Secretary Hughes stated the U S is not bound to reparations enforcement and retains treaty rights though the United States may participate to protect its interests.
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Washington
Senate
Hughes
White House
United States
State Department
Paris
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
Republican
California
Kelloy
Designate
Dew
German steamer Deutschland damaged in fog collision
Dispatches from Hamburg report the German steamship Deutschland lightly damaged in a fog collision in the Elbe with the Wildenfels and Mont Blanc. Deutschland proceeded to Hamburg and later arrived there. Wildenfels returned to Hamburg after bow damage. Mont Blanc headed for England with stern damage and lost anchor and chain.
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London
Lloyds
Hamburg
Elbe
New York
Bombay
Mont Blanc
England
Wildenfels
Oil prices boosted by Louisiana refinery rise
Shreveport Louisiana January 19 The Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation raised prices on Smackover Arkansas light oil by ten to twenty cents per barrel with top grade oil now $1.15 per barrel.
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Shreveport
Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation
Arkansas
Trotsky Relieved as Chairman of Revolutionary War Council
Bon Trotsky has been relieved of duties as chairman of the revolutionary war council by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia. The action marks a significant shift in Soviet leadership dynamics and may affect wartime policy coordination.
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Bon Trotsky
Revolutionary War Council
Communist Party
Russia
Trotzky Relieved as War Minister by Communist Body
Moscow January 19 Leon Trotzky was removed from his post as chairman of the revolutionary war council by the Communist party central executive committee the party signals possible expulsion if he does not renounce attacks on Leninist principles Trotzky bows to the edict apologizes and offers to work under party control
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Moscow
Leon Trotzky
Revolutionary War Council
Communist Party
Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Central Committee
War Department
Lifers death ends failed Baltimore escape bid
Baltimore January 19 John Kelly a lifer was killed during a failed escape from the penitentiary. Kelly and four others slipped from their cells to descend an elevator shaft after a wire shorted the lights. Kelly fell fifty feet and died at the base of a window, warden Claude B. Sweezey reported. The others reached their cells safely.
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Baltimore
John Kelly
Kelly
First National Bank
Sandy Springs
Francis M. Hallowell
Claude B. Sweezey
Arizona House Ratifies Child Labor Amendment
The Arizona House approved by forty one to three a resolution ratifying the federal child labor amendment. The measure now moves to the Arizona Senate for consideration.
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Alabama
House
Phoenix
Ariz
House of Representatives
Arizona
Senate
Senate votes down big gun elevation on thirteen ships
The Senate, 45 to 22, opposed a McKeller motion to suspend rules for funding a $6.5 million gun elevation on thirteen battleships. Only one Republican supported the move, eight Democrats and one Farmer-Labor member voted no, amid administration and arms conference criticisms.
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Washington
America
Coolidge
Senate
McKeller
Tennessee
Johnson
California
Swanson
Virginia
Naval Committee
Farmer- Labor
Shipstead
Father Accused of Poisoning Little Roy Haufschild
Milwaukee Jan 19 Arthur Haufschild was arrested on a murder warrant in the death of his three year old stepson Roy Haufschild who fell ill a week earlier and died from poison. District Attorney Eugene Wengert led the inquiry with Haufschild and his wife questioned. Roy, heir to about 15000 dollars from his mother, faced a potential estate for Arthur if death occurred. A salve analysis from the Haufschild home showed traces of poison.
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Milwaukee
Arthur Haufschild
Roy Haufschild
Eugene Wengert
Hausschild
Haufschild
Wheeling trio arrested in conspiracy against government
A. Frendh Cox Merley V Huebel and J W Balch all of Wheeling were arrested in Wheeling by Deputy US Marshal Charles Welch on a conspiracy against the United States charge connected to Real Estate Guarantee Mortgage Co and Belmont Securities Co. They were indicted by a federal grand jury and released on $5000 bond each for appearance in Parkersburg district court Monday.
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Wheeling
W. Va
A. Frendh Cox
Merley V. Huebel
J. W. Balch
Follawsbee
United States
Charles Welch
Real Estate Guarantee Mortgage Co
Belmont Securities Co
Welch
Parkersburg
United States District Court For
West Virginia
J. W. Kindleberger
Constable Irving on trial for inciting riot in Carnegie
Carnegie constable Ira Irving faced a criminal court in Pittsburg on a charge of inciting to riot tied to an August 25, 1923 clash between parading Ku Klux Klan members and townspeople. Witnesses said Irving drove a car to block the parade and struck a man on Glendale bridge while a flag was allegedly contested.
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Pittsburg
Ira Irving
Carnegie
Irving
Knife and Blackjack Found in Griffiths Cell at West Virginia Prison
In Moundsville officials report a three pound blackjack and a ground eight inch knife seized from W Holly Griffiths solitary cell. Griffiths, a three time life term murderer, is kept under tight guard and isolation with limited contact. Police say a stool pigeon tip prompted the search and details on how the weapons were obtained or intended use remain undisclosed.
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Moundsville
W. Va
W. “Holly” Griffith
West Virginia
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Griffith
C. 0. Thompson
Gassaway
Henry Lewis
West Virginia Penlgatiary
Ira Roush
Point Pleasant
Liberty
Lewis
Diliget.t
Harress
Chapman to be moved from Indianapolis to Atlanta prison
Gerald Chapman alias The Professor and The Duke of Gramercy Park, an escaped convict and famed robber, was captured in Muncie and will be sent to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. Authorities say two assistant deputy wardens will escort him out of Indianapolis to avoid a possible train hold-up by suspected hijackers while Connecticut seeks him for a New Britain policeman murder.
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Indanapolis
Ind
Gerald Chapman
Duke of
New York City
Chapman
Indianapolis
United States
Linus Meredith
Connecticut
Shelley
New Britain
A. J. Cavins
Atlantic Penitentiary
Death of Fire Island beachcomber identified as Andrew McMillen
Photographs identified by relatives confirm the Bayshore Fire Island hut resident known as Old Mac is Andrew Sherman McMillen a 60 year old former Bridgeville lawyer and contractor who disappeared seven years ago. Relatives exhumed the body from Bayshore potter's field and will move it to Bridgeville. Bank records show a prior balance of 3000 dollars with only three dollars left at death and his belongings yielded six cents.
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Bayshort
N. Y
Fire Island
Andrew Sherman McMillen
Bridgeville
Washington
McMillen
Clarence E
George B. McMillen
George H. Baird
Pittsburgh
Bayshore
Hiks
New York
Mac
Economy Pledges Set Tone in West Virginia Legislature
In Charleston the West Virginia Senate and House adopt economy pledges as keynotes for the session. Governor Morgan submits a biennial message calling for state road bonds of 20 million dollars and a federal labor amendment, with committee appointments and various bills to follow.
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Charleston
W. Va
Senate
House
Morgan
House of Delegates
Keatley
State Road Commission
Commission
Huntington
Harold 8. Mathews
Kanawha County
Harry W. Bayer
Morgan County
Delecate G. L. Armstrong
Cabell County
Hartington Park
Enaraton
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