West Virginia Eyes New Welfare Department In 1936 Plan
Welfare Director Francis W. Turner hails a proposed social security program as a forward step. A legislative committee supports creating a Department of Public Assistance absorbing welfare and relief. Governors eye a special session likely mid June with plans for county welfare boards and a state advisory board.
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State Department
Charleston
W. Va
Kump
Francis W. Turner
West Virginia
Turner
Department of Public Assistance
Welfare Department
State Relief Administration
Sixth insane fugitive captured as Minnesota manhunt widens
St Peter Minnesota June 8 a sixth inmate escaped from a state asylum has been captured Walter Gunderson 35 seized in Belle Plain railroad yards while authorities believe ringleaders Lawrence De Vol and accomplices crossed into Iowa The manhunt stretches across 15 counties and a national guard unit watches roads while police pursue possible sightings near Sleepy Eye and Elmore.
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St. Peter
Minn
Minnesota
Iowa
A. F. Mesenbrink
Scott County
Walter Gunderson
Minneapolis
Gunderson
Belle Plain
National Guard
George Freeman
Freeman
Lawrence de Vol
Barker-Karpis
Elmore
Barker- Karpis
Sleepy Eye
Saroko
Donald Reader
Veterans of Civil War meet at 55th encampment in Wheeling
A small group of elderly Civil War veterans gathered in Wheeling for the 55th annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment. Only 30 West Virginia G A R members remain, with three veterans joining preliminary events. Attendees include William M. Smith Joseph M. Smith and Lorenzo D Allom. Also meeting are the women relief corps daughters of union veterans and other allied groups.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Grand Army of the Republic
West Virginia
William M. Smith
Shady Side
Ohio
Martinsville
Joseph M. Smith
Killed When Stands Collapse At Boy Scout Rally
In Bucharest Romania June 8 King Carol and Crown Prince Mihai aided victims after grandstands collapsed at a Boy Scout rally. Official counts ranged from 14 dead to 42, with about 400 injured and hospitals overwhelmed. Four architects and two supervisors were jailed for alleged negligence.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Carol of
Mihail
Carol
Mihai
Marie
Italy threatens to quit League if sanctions stay
Paris reports Italy warned France it would leave the League of Nations and seek an alliance with Germany unless sanctions are lifted at the Geneva meeting. The Italian ambassador delivered the warning to the French foreign office and urged Geneva not to force an impossible situation for Italian honor. France reviews diplomatic lines as officials return to Paris for talks with Yvon Delbos.
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Paris
Italy
France
League of Nations
Germany
Geneva
Europe
Yvon Delbos
Czechoslovakia
Nanking Warships Reported Near Canton as Tensions Rise
Hongkong dispatch notes 15 Nanking warships reaching Amoy while Formosa ships may sail to Swatow. Canton and Nanking negotiate amid rising Cantonese hostility. The death of Hu Han-Min shifts balance as Chiang Kai-shek's influence grows.
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Hongkong
Kwangsi Province
Kwantung
Kwansi
Japan
Nanking
Canton
Hu Han-Min
Canton-Nanking
Chiang Kei-Shek
China
Kwangsi
Settle Loses Bid to Regain Coal Stocks in Supreme Court
In Charleston on June 8, Thomas Henry Settle, Bluefield coal operator, lost a bid to recover stocks in Virginia Smokeless Coal Co. after the supreme court refused a rehearing, upholding a Mercer circuit court ruling that the stock belonged to Katharine St. Clair Settle. The court also reviewed Agra Ross’s damage claim against Moundsville in a separate case, seeking $25,000 for injuries from a fall blamed on defective sidewalks.
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Charleston
W. Va
Thomas Henry Settle
Bluefield
Virginia Smokeless Coal Company
Katharine St. Clair Settle
Supreme Court
Mercer
Settle
Agra Ross
Moundsville
Marshall Circuit
Moundaville
Ross
Ransom Money Turned Over to Col Lindbergh Representatives
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck said he delivered the remaining 14,700 of the 50,000 ransom paid for the Lindbergh baby to Col Charles A. Lindbergh's New York representatives. Hauck and Col Henry Breckinridge deposited the funds in Bankers Trust in Lindbergh's name with instructions the bank hold it intact. The move follows a note from Lindbergh advising return of property used in the case.
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Trenton
Anthony M. Hauck
Hunterdon County
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Lindbergh
Mauck
Henry Breckinridge
Bankers Trust Company
Col. Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Widow of Eugene Field Dies in Wisconsin
Mrs Julia Field, 80, widow of the poet Eugene Field, died of heart disease at Heatford Junction Wisconsin. She passed two weeks after her Crystal Lake estate was saved from mortgage sale by her poet-husband's fraternity. Eugene Field, 2nd, was with her when she died and said she had been improving since the May 23 estate sale avoidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heatford Junction
Wis
Crystal Lake
Julia Field
Eugene Field
Flood Damage Estimated at 1 Million in Northwest
Officials put flood damage at 1,009,000 as rivers rose in British Columbia and the Yukon. Residents anchored homes to trees while a river steamer sheltered flood sufferers at Mayo. Yukon river overflow flooded Dawson for five blocks. many families were homeless.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Yukon Territory
Catholic Church
Mayo
Yukon
White River
Yukon River
Dawson
French strikes hit coal mines
Paris reports the strike focus moved underground to coal pits where 150 000 miners ground to work stoppages. The General Federation of Labor urged a million others to return under a proletarian victory plan as northern France unions called a general strike over wages and German labor competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
General Federation of Labor
Sopt-Disners
Oregon Senator Steiner to keynote Republican Convention
Senator Frederick Steiner of Oregon, serving as temporary chairman, opens the Republican Convention in Cleveland and is set to deliver the keynote address.
WVU Alumni Urged to Carry University Pride Statewide
Morgantown June 8 President C S Boucher urged 175 WVU alumni to act as a radiating agency for good will and pride in the university saying its worth must be appreciated across the state. Alumni elected A Brooks Fleming president and listed officers and speakers at the meeting. The report also notes federal tax conference talks between Roosevelt and tax bill conferees, and Congress momentum on coal and government contract bills amid adjournment talks.
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Morgantown
W. Va
C. S. Boucher
West Virginia University
Boucher
Logan
W. H. Kemper
Sistersville
Roy M. Hawley
Association
Robert A. Armstrong
Frank B. Trotter
University
Thompson
Fleming
Frank H. Babb
Keyser
Cleveland Seibert
Martinsburg
Harriett French
Bluefield
Arthur B. Koontz
Charleston
Board of Governors
Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Cleveland
King
Utah
Southwest
Ashurst
D.-Ariz
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Bankhead
Walsh-Healey
O'Connor
D- NY
Rules Committee
O’connor
Washington Evening Star
West Virginia University Establishes College of Pharmacy
Morgantown June 8 The board of governors announced the creation of a College of Pharmacy with Professor J L Hayman as dean. Hayman has been a faculty member in the department of pharmacy, part of the university's school of medicine. The department has operated since 1914.
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NEW College
Morgantown
W. Va
Board of Governors
West Virginia University
College of Pharmacy
J. L. Hayman
Hayman
Department of Pharmacy
University
School of Medicine
Problem of Getting Pages for Cleveland Convention
Cleveland June 4 Diminutive John W McCabe a House of Representatives page vows to recruit pages for the Republican national convention He laments that boys are not what they used to be and pursues candidates by haunting hotel lobbies seeking volunteers with no pay offered for pages
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Cleveland
John W. McCabe
House of Representative
Johnnie
Black Legion members face murder charges in Detroit
In Detroit on June 8 a judge ordered 12 Black Legionnaires held for trial on murder and kidnapping in the alleged execution of Charles A. Poole a 32 year old PWA worker. The case includes testimony about a whipping at a Black Legion meeting while others deny flogging. The examination resumes tomorrow.
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Detroit
Elmer A. Benson
Black Legion
Common Pleas
Ralph W. Liddy
Black
Poole
Mis
Liddy
Harold Lawrence
Wilbur Robinson
Charles King
Ecorse
Penlan
Bond
Gulley
Platform Planks Spark GOP Convention Tensions
Idaho Senator Borah demands a hearing for his anti monopoly and money policy planks while accusing current lines on foreign affairs and constitutional amendments of being drafted by convention forces. He pushes for a strong neutral stance and anti price fixing laws amid fierce platform debates with Landon aides denying GOP gold standard shifts.
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Borah
Idaho
Cleveland
Boran
London
Landon
John Hamilton
Hamilton
New Solution of War Debts Hinted
Washington reports a British default on the June 15 installment and a Capitol Hill forecast that France Britain and Italy will offer new proposals to settle U S war debts. Senator Lewis suggests a plan of goods and services credited to current obligations. The British note cites a $668 474 071 payment due next Monday among 13 debtor nations totaling 1 160 122 766. Finland has met all payments.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
United States
Lewis
Illinois
State Department
Ronald Lindsay
Hull
Finland
Great Britain
Hoad
Railroad industrialist Colonel Edward H. Green dies at 67
Lake Placid New York June 8 Colonel Edward H Green railroad industrialist banker son of the late Hetty Green died today at the Lake Placid club He was 67 Green once served as his mother's personal assistant in her noted financial and business enterprises
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Lake Placid, N. Y
Edward H. Robinson Green
Hetty Green
Lake Placid Club
Colonel Green
Republicans Open National Convention In Cleveland Today
The Republican national convention in Cleveland will convene at 11 a.m. eastern, with formalities and committee selections, followed by an 8 p.m. adjournment. Senator Steiner, the temporary chairman, will deliver the evening address, with balloting for the presidential nominee set to begin Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Fletcher
National Committee
Steiner
Hallanan and Ebert Re-elected to West Virginia National Committee
West Virginia delegates to the Republican convention re-elected Walter S. Hallanan of Charleston as national committeeman and Mrs. Cara L. Ebert of Parkersburg as national committeewoman. The caucus also named A. A. Lilly chairman and assigned six convention committee seats. Hallanan and Ebert pledged a militant campaign to drive the new dealers from power in Washington.
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Cleveland
West Virginia
Walter S. Hallanan
Charleston
Cara L. Ebert
Parkersburg
A. A. Lilly
Alf M. Landon
Hallanan
Kansas
Carl G. Bachmann
Wheeling
William E. Borah
Idaho
Bachmann
Senator Borah
Borah
London
Howard Sutherland
Elkins
Townsend
John H. Meek
Huntington
David D. Ashworth
Beckley
George L. Bowers
Mannington
Mrs. Ebert
Showers Bring Hopes For General Rain To Save Southern Crops
Atlanta reports showers refreshing crops and pastures across drought hit southeast renewing hopes for broader rain. Governor Talmadge urges continued work and prayer citing recent rainfall for his Georgia farm counties Telfair and Monroe and noting drought relief prayers. A two hour rain preceded a drought thanksgiving service at Reidsville Primitive Baptist Church marking eight years since prayers for rain.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Baptist Church of
President Roosevelt Heads West for Weeklong Speaking Swing
President Roosevelt departed Washington by special train at midnight for a week long tour through Arkansas Texas and Indiana. He will join Arkansas Senator Caraway and aides visiting Little Rock for the 100th birthday celebration Wednesday night and speak later in Dallas and Vincennes with little politics expected.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Arkansas
Texas
Indiana
Senator Caraway
Carl A. Crowley
Post Office Department
Charles A. Jones
HOLC
Jook Hays
White House
Little Rock
Dallas
Vincennes
Oldest Royal Arch Magonic Lodge Celebrates 113th
The oldest Royal Arch Magonic lodge in West Virginia marked its 113th anniversary in Wheeling. The chapter, founded in 1823, has met continuously on the first Monday of each month, predating the city’s incorporation by thirteen years.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Idaho Senator Borah Aims To Shape Platform At Convention
Idaho Senator Borah declines to lead a bloc against Landon and lashes platform ideas on foreign policy, monopoly, and money as the Republican convention nears. He hints at drafting planks if allowed to present them, while Vandenberg and Knox maneuver for influence and delegates. The opening gavel falls tomorrow at 11 a.m. EST as Landon widens his nomination bid.
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Idaho
Cleveland
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Borah
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Vandenberg
Van
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Landon
Knox
London
Ford confirms sale of mines at Stone Kentucky
Edsel Ford announces Fordson Coal company sold to Eastern Coal company of Bluefield. Lawrence E. Tierney Jr is president. Mine idle about thirty days as new owners take over. Miners paid in full and may stay in company houses thirty more days. L C Skeen may stay as general manager. staff unaffected. Mine will continue supplying coal to Ford plants.
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Fordson Coal Company
Stone
Eastern Coal Company
Detroit
Edsel Ford
Lawrence E. Tierney, Jr
Bluefield
Ford
L. C. Skeen
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