Proposals Emerge To Preserve NRA Principles And Codes
Washington outline of three paths to maintain NRA aims includes taxation, voluntary codes, and inter state compacts. Congress advances an abridged NRA bill while Roosevelt studies gift and inheritance taxes to sustain social goals of the blue eagle.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Henry P. Parkman Jr
Massachusetts
NRA
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
High Court Acts On Several Gases
The West Virginia Supreme Court grants Wheeling Ice and Storage an appeal from a $25,000 damage verdict after Theodore Becker claimed injury from a company truck. Governor Dawson has an appeal denied on gambling convictions. Elizabeth Young loses a divorce cross-bill. Rehearing denied in Kanawha and McDowell counties for automobile accident damage cases. The Buhl Optical Company and O.
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Charleston
W. Va
Wheeling Ice and Storage Company
Supreme Court
Ohio County
Theodore Becker
C. L
Elizabeth Young
A. H Young Jr
Cabell County
Joseph A. Gilliam
Kanawha County
McDowell County
Bertha Bowles
Mack Hagerman
Buh! Optical Company
Ransom Messenger Fails To Deliver Cuban Kidnapping
Havana reports a ransom of 286000 dollars for Antonio San Miguel, 78, a rail magnate, and four others kidnapped. The money messenger failed to contact the captors, who held back release awaiting an exchange with new notes. Police arrest a suspected seller of the mango cart used in the abduction and monitor ships and planes for escape.
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Antonio San Miguel
Cuba
Jose Franco
San Miguel
Gardner
United States
Army Secret Service
Camp Columbia
Arturo Mujica
Associated Press
Simon Arleta
Pedro Herrera Sotalunas
Eutimio Falla Bonet
Modesto Iglesias
Constantino Prieto
San Miguel Road
Vibora
Baldwin to Lead New Cabinet as MacDonald Expected to Resign
London reports a new cabinet under Stanley Baldwin will take control tomorrow with Ramsay MacDonald likely to resign after 1929 tenure. Baldwin, current lord president and Conservative leader, would replace him. Quarters predict further cabinet changes after the general elections with Baldwin as both titular and active leader.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Buckingham Palace
Baldwin
Conservative
MacDonald
Cause of Peace
Laborite
Kump Urges Rapid Action On WV PWA Requests
Governor H G Kump urged department heads to speed up federal public works applications in West Virginia. He named the school road and relief departments to accelerate road and school projects and to show their reach to the unemployed. He expects proposals ready for federal review within a week and notes that outright federal grants are needed to fund self liquidating projects.
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Charleston
W. Va
H. G. Kump
Road Department
Relief Department
West Virginia
Congress
NRA
Randolph attacked in stormy House session over D C crime probe
Washington June 6 Representative Randolph Democrat of West Virginia, chairman of the house committee on crime in Washington, was attacked by Representative Blanton Democrat of Texas during a session devoted to District affairs. Blanton censured Randolphs appearance as a character witness and removal of District Attorney Garnett. Randolph was away in West Virginia delivering a commencement address. Representative Schulte defended Randolph, calling Blantons remarks the first such attack he had seen between two house members.
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Washington
Randolph
West Virginia
House
District of Columbia
Blanton
Texas
Leslie C. Garnett
Texan
Washington Court
Representative Schulte
Indiana
West
Schulte
Sheriff Hott Takes Hardy County Office After Brother’s Death
Moorefield West Virginia June 6 W C EB Hott was sworn in as sheriff of Hardy County succeeding his brother D E Hott who died last Friday. The new sheriff was appointed by the county court yesterday and posted a 40 000 bond.
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Moorefield
W. Va
C. EB. Hott
Hardy County
D. E. Hott
Royalists clash with police as Laval forms new French cabinet
Paris reports mounting street tension as Laval secures a coalition cabinet after a two day crisis. Royalists staged protests injuring three people while police guarded boulevards and Elysee. President Lebrun urged Laval to form the ministry and key left groups pledged support.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Chamber of Deputies
Laval
Associated Press
France
Foreign Office
Elysee Palace
Albert Lebrun
Fernand Bouisson
Edouard Herriot
Herriot
Palace of Justice
Rene Renoult
AFL WIRE SURVEY SHOWS WAGE CUTS AND UNEMPLOYMENT
The American Federation of Labor reports a telegraphic survey indicating at least a million workers lost wages or had hours lengthened in eleven days since the NRA ruling. The AFL executive council lists minimum requirements for unemployment relief, including a new NRA act, Wagner bill, 30 hour week, economic security measures, and coal stabilization.
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AFL
Federation
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
Executive Council of
Roosevelt
NRA
Schtchter
Wagner
Black Connery
Guffey
Senate
Council
William Green
Eighteen Year Old Girl Held On Bigamy Complaint
Wheeling West Virginia June 6 Eighteen year old Rose Marie Grimm of Brownsville Pennsylvania was arrested and held for the grand jury on a bigamy complaint sworn by both her mother and Clyde Clayton s mother of Wheeling They allege she married Clayton here Saturday and is separated but not divorced from a Grafton West Virginia man It is charged she married the Grafton man in 1933
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Wheeling
W. Va
Rose Marie Grimm
Brownsville
Clyde Clayton
Clayton
Grafton
Strikers Return to Power Posts in Toledo Case
Toledo Edison workers end strike in Toledo Ohio as power plants and several plants resume full operations. Union votes to return to work after midnight pending talks set for next week in New York.
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Toledo
Ohio
Toledo Edison Company
Power Company
Electrical Workers’ Union
New York
Congressmen turn cold shoulder on NRA job hunters
Washington, June 6. NRA employees seeking new jobs through senators and congressmen report a chilly reception on Capitol Hill. A Texas Democrat says he will refer applicants to the White House, noting most NRA jobs came from inside connections. Others praise the departing brain trusters while the recovery agency employs about 5,400 workers, with estimates that no more than 1,500 will be needed for proposed research and contract supervision under the skeletonized NRA.
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Washington
NRA
Capitol Hill
Maverick
Texas
White House
Recovery Agency
Roosevelt
Hundreds toil to strengthen Kaw River dikes in Kansas City
Kansas City faces cresting Kaw River at 27 feet with engineers saying dikes will hold as hundreds toil along a 9 mile system. Missouri River crest also nears, causing evacuations and widespread flooding of North Lawrence and lowlands.
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Missouri River
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Lawrence
Missouri
Omaha
Kaw Valley
Topeka
Kansas
North Lawrence
Completion urged for Philippi Bridge and Route 29
A Charleston delegation urged Road Commissioner E L Bailey to finish this summer the Philippi bridge over the Tygarts river and state route 29 from Nestorville to Evansville. They reported plans nearing completion and to submit them to federal officials along with other projects. The group also sought extending route 92 to Belington with about 10 miles of paving.
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Charleston
W. Va
Philippi
Tygarts River
Nestorville
Evansville
E. L. Bailey
L. J. Sandridge
Barbour
Belington
Elephant Rampage Kills Child in Crookston Circus Tent
A 9 year old girl, Margaret Ann Francis, was crushed to death and about 20 people injured when the Atterbury Brothers circus elephant Virginia bolted through seats and a wall in a Crookston tent. Trainer William Woodcock subdued the animal with a bull-pike. coroner may hold him for manslaughter. The elephant’s owner is Mrs Neilie Orton Hoogewoning of Ottumwa Iowa. The circus will stay in Crookston for Friday’s inquest.
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Crookston
Minn
Atterbury Brothers
Margaret Ann Francis
Wiliam Francis
Virginia
William H. Wodcock
Ottumwa
Woodcock
Francis Stadsvold
Neilie Orton Hoogewoning
Steel industry aims to keep wages hours as code debates defer price fixes
Eugene Grace asserts NRA code keeps fair competition and labor terms. 425,000 steel workers unaffected by code. industry to maintain current wages and hours. Open price fixing deferred while third quarter schedules stand. Grace emphasizes labor protection, public fairness, and stewardship of funds. Payroll near 40.9 million monthly. 492,000 stockholders hold stake.
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New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
Board of
NRA
Eugene G. Grace
Institute
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Supreme Court
Grace
The
Iron and Steel Institute
Holt Opponent Sums Up Case On Holt Seat
Grant P. Hall of Charleston WV argues before the Senate Elections Committee that seating Rush D Holt as senator from West Virginia would violate the constitution by lowering age requirements from 30 to 24. He urges voiding the election to preserve constitutional intent and precedents.
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Washington
Senate
Holt
West Virginia
Grant P. Hall
Charleston
W. Va
Elections Committee
Rush D. Holt
Hall
Three Killers Die In Electric Chair At Boston Prison
Charleston West Virginia notes that three killers died in the electric chair at a Boston prison after the execution occurred. The report details the executions and the context of the punishment carried out in the prison facility.
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Boston
Trail of Kidnap Gang Draws In Federal Inquiry
Tacoma dispatch reports photographs of potential suspects added to the search for George Weyerhaeuser's kidnapers. Six men named by Portland police as persons questioned include Jack Bailey Milo Eggers E Nott Michener Richard Franseen Lester Johnstone and Harold McAtee with leads centering on ransom payments and federal investigations spreading from Spokane Huntington and Seattle.
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Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
Jack Bailey
Portland
Spokane
Huntington
Ore
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Bailey
Keegan
Milo Eggers
Aberdeen
Eggers
E\Nott Michener
Richard Franseen
Lester Johnstone
Harold McAtee
Peewee
St. Louis
Three Millen Millen Faber gang members die in electric chair
The Millen Millen and Faber trio were executed at Massachusetts state prison for the Needham Trust robbery murder of Policeman Forbes McLeod on February 2, 1934. Morton and Irving Millen and Abraham Faber died at 12:10, 12:31, and 12:30 p m eastern daylight time respectively. Irving gave a final salute to Morton. Rabbi Sedar recited Psalm 23 as each dying man entered the chamber.
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Millen- Faber
Morton
Irving Millen
Abraham Faber
Massachusetts State Prison
Forbes McLeod
Needham
Mass
Truet
Murton Millen
Irving
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Champer
Faber
Moses L. Sedar
Rabbi Sedar
Irvin
Norma Brighton Millen
Dedham
Needham Trust Company
Tri State Area Pushes Coal Production as Strike Near
Pittsburgh June 6 With the zero hour of a national soft coal strike set for June 16 coal production in the tri state area is being pushed to the limit. About 64 000 miners in Western Pennsylvania will draw a payroll of roughly 2 225 000 for the first two weeks of June. District steel mills plan a 30 day coal supply by the strike start. Current production is 8 to 10 million tons a month. Operators say they will not open mines during a strike and no disorders are expected.
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Pittsburgh
Tri-State
Pennsylvania
Coal production climbs as nationwide strike talk grows
Coal output in the Pocahontas district rose to 440,607 net tons last week, up 14,959 tons from the prior week. The year to date production reached 8,831,717 tons, still about 22,000 tons short of the 1934 week.
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Pocahontas
School head refused liquor store clerk post
Weston West Virginia June 6 Thomas Miles county superintendent of schools refuses appointment as clerk in the state liquor store. He is not qualified to hold the job under the county unit law and remains a school official in question.
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Joe Weston
W. Va
Thomas Miles
State Aum Board Figures Profits from Liquor Sales
The liquor control commission said paying cash for intoxicants saved $8,962.95 in 23 days and will average about $15,000 monthly due to 1-2 percent discounts for early payment. Fifteen stores are now in operation including Princeton and Charleston opened May 9. Total income to May 31 reached $185,644.99 with $100,688.84 in liquor sales and White Sulphur Springs contributing $12,313.25.
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W. Va
The
Liquor Control Commission
Princeton
White Sulphur Springs
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