Bluefield Debates Repeal of Consumers Tax and New Gross Sales Plan
A Bluefield committee proposes repealing the municipal sales tax and replacing it with a gross sales tax. Retailers would pay 50 cents per $100, wholesalers object to applying it to their sector. The city board deferred action while considering effects on real estate and a constitutional amendment. The meeting also discussed federal funding for a community center and armory and approved a sanitary sewage disposal bonds plan. Dr David Lepper was confirmed as health officer for two years.
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Bluefield
Armistead
Chamber
T. O.J. Wilson
Wilson
Community Center
L. BE. Poe
American Legion Community Building Committee
National Guard Armory
W. A. Light
Sanitary Board
Lepper
Public Health Council of
West Virginia
David Lepper
City of
Mayor McNair Begins Talmadge Presidential Boom
Mayor William N. McNair of Pittsburgh released a statement praising Governor Eugene Talmadge and pledging to back his presidential bid in the Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania. McNair blasted Roosevelt policies, touted Georgia as cutting government costs, and framed Talmadge as a pure Jeffersonian Democrat opposing the so called gimine crowd.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
William N. McNair
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Talmadge
McNair
Roosevelt
Georgia
Washington
South
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Father Coughlin
Paton Sinclair
Battle Reported in Sonora State
Reported clash near Tobari Sonora last night between Mexican troops and rebels said to be armed with American guns and money. Two Mexican planes damaged. six soldiers wounded. rebel force around 650 with 250 armed with modern US rifles. Merchants said the insurgents had American funds for goods.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Tobari
Ciudad Obregon
Ahia~bampo
Young Republican Urges Tariff Bar
W Chapman Revercomb leader of the West Virginia Young Republican league criticized Roosevelt and Governor Kump, urged a prohibitive tariff to bar foreign goods, and warned of the collapse of farming and industry without protective measures. He called for high farm prices, subsidized distribution, and a return to a tariff that protects American labor and production.
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St. Marys
W. Va
W. Chapman Revercomb
State
Young Republican League
Charleston
Revercomb
Roosevelt
Kump
United States
Republican Party
Clrcue
Williams College students stage satirical Red White and Blue day
Williamstown Mass November 5 students at Williams college arranged a musical comedy setting for a ceremony in which faculty took oaths of allegiance to the constitution under a new state law. Flag waving students marched and saluted with Nazi gestures while fraternity houses bore hunting decor and Francis B Sayre Jr son of an assistant secretary of state and President Wilson’s grandson held a Swastika banner.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Francis B. Sayre Jr
Wilson
White Houses
Miami Pleads For Money To Fix Storm Damages
Five dead and 137 injured after a November hurricane struck southern Florida. Miami officials seek immediate relief funds of 50 000 dollars from Red Cross and state and federal sources to cover emergency repairs on water mains docks streets and other damage in Dade county.
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Red Cross
Dade County
A. D. H. Fossey
J. P. Newell
Dave Sholtz
Vivien Collins
Henry Hansen
FERA
Conrad van Hyning
Mark Wilcox
Wilcox
Washington
W. Randal Becker
Dade Disaster Relief Finance Committee
Coast
Lusitania Wreck Claimed Found By Salvage Vessel Orphir
London reports the salvage ship Orphir located off Kinsale a wreck identified as the Lusitania torpedoed in 1915 with 1 198 lives lost including 124 Americans. Civic guards question confirmation while Orphir works from Kinsale harbor en route to winter quarters after two expeditions in 1935 and 1936.
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London
Kinsale
Ireland
The
Press Association
Orphir
Civic Guards
Cunard
New York
Tilson Shooting Mystery Stuns City
Investigators probed the Tilson murder at his Bland street home as authorities and state police pursued leads that yielded no breakthrough. Tim Neal, the 40 year old janitor who found the body, was released after questioning. Neighbors and family corroborated Neal’s movements on the day of the killing.
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Robert A. Tilson
Bland Street
Tim Neal
F. Morton Wagner
Neal
Walter Rose
Rose
Need of new NRA to be discussed
Washington November 5 a conference of thousands of business and labor leaders to decide if a new NRA is needed was set for December 9 by George S Berry coordinator for industrial cooperation. He said the session would be self determined and that attendees would write their own tickets with broad participation from labor and various industries.
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Washington
NRA
George S. Berry
Berry
Lumber Manufacturers Association
Roosevelt
Witness recounts threat of death by own act in Stavisky case
Paris reports Raoul Desbrosses testified that Stavisky forced him to sign irregular bonds to prevent the financier from killing himself in the office with a revolver at Stavisky’s forehead. Stavisky later died by gunfire as Mme Arlette Stavisky cried in court. Emile Farault denied knowing jewels were false after 24 years at the Orleans pawnshop.
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Paris
Stavisky
Raoul Desbrosses
Orleans City
Serge Stavisky
Mme
Arlette Stavisky
Emile Farault
Farault
Orleans
Makale City Faces Rain Halt and Leaders' Move
Rain halts activity in Makale as Warrious evacuate the city. Ethiopia’s opponent described as the Emperor’s son in law is expected to lead Italian efforts toward Makale amid new peace talks reported in Rome.
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Ethiopia
Selassie
Makale
Rome
Italy Halts Makale Push as Ethiopian Resistance Stalls
Fascist forces pause for two days near Makale while plans to reassemble 125000 troops proceed. Degiac Gugsa, son in law of Haile Selassie, leads pro Italian forces advancing on Makale, with Ethiopians seemingly evacuating. Mussolini and Drummond discuss Mediterranean battleships and Libyan troops amid sanctions pressure and a Geneva plan to curb Italy’s economy.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Makale
Degiac Gugsa
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Eric Drummond
Britain
Mediterranean
Libya
Egypt
Duce
London
Italians Halt Makale Drive By Rains In Ethiopia
In northern Ethiopia, 125000 Italian soldiers halted near Makale as heavy rains pause combat a two day breathing spell lets trucks push forward to restore supply lines. Italian commanders still expect Makale to fall Friday signaling a major occupation advance.
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Makale
Ethiopia
Prisoner returns to stripes after six years on the run
Raleigh N C Navy prisoner Deitz, once jailed for second degree murder, was recaptured in Jackson Ohio after six years of freedom. He claimed to have worked at an Ohio oil company and to have married, with a daughter, while using the alias W R Nutter in West Virginia and Ohio before his 1929 escape from Caledonia prison farm.
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Raleigh
N. C
Navy
Grenville
Deitz
North Carolina
Ohio
Caledonia
Halifax County
Columbus
Jackson
Florida
Southern Pines
Kelly
Maine
West Virginia
W. R. Nutter
Independent leads in Eighteenth district race in Virginia
In Virginia's Eighteenth district covering Tazewell Russell and Buchanan counties, independent candidate Dr. J Witten led Democrat Harry C Stuart for the state senate by 345 votes as 53 of 60 precincts reported. Early tallies show Democrats winning several county offices while Republicans claim others.
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Virginia
Tazewell
Russell
Buchanan
J. W. Witten
Senate
Harry C. Stuart
Peta
Rptd
Stuart Witten
Russell County
Buchanan County
House of Delegates
C. M. Wagner
Clear Fork
R. ©. Anderson
Board of Supervisors
Daily Telegraph
Tazewell County
Richlands
Bluefield
State Senate
Stuart
Witten
Hunter
Strong
Kiser
Copenhaver
Surface
Painter
Peery
Kinzer
Hilton
Harman
Commonwealth
Hughes
Nine States Lose Federal Relief Grants
Washington reports that nine states have received their last direct relief grants from the FERA. Maryland Delaware and South Dakota were notified of their final allotments while Indiana Alabama Wyoming New Hampshire Vermont and Nevada had been off the dole since October 1. Hopkins said the rest would be cut off by mid November with further grants winding down.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Maryland
Delaware
South Dakota
FERA
Indiana
Alabama
Wyoming
New Hampshire
Vermont
Nevada
Hopkins
PWA
Bureau of Public Roads
J. R. McCarl
McCarl
Comptroller General
Public Roads Bureau
Lone vote costs city approximately $550
New York the city spent about 55 to allow Dr Nathan Wolf lone voter of the fortieth district in the tenth assembly district to cast a ballot He offered to move from the district if a new house were provided and disclosed he is a Democrat while voting in a barber shop at 206 West 38th Street
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New York
Nathan Wolf
Weat 38Th Street
Mussolini Initiates Boycott Reprisals in Italy
Rome Nov 5 Premier Mussolini begins reprisals against 49 sanctionist nations, launching an economic siege. He urges Italians to eat and buy Italian, with four moves including meatless Tuesdays, housewives’ control of home expenses, higher import prices, and voluntary trade restrictions to save light heat and paper.
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Italy
Geneva
United States
Germany
League
Il Duce
Rome
Mussolini
Africa
Eric Drummond
Duce
Veterans of Droop Mountain to dedicate park on anniversary
In Marlinton West Virginia Civil War veterans who fought at Droop Mountain meet on the 72nd anniversary to dedicate a memorial park. State CCC officials participate along with Governor Kump Rep Jennings Randolph and BE Morford. The ceremony marks the largest 1863 West Virginia battle with tours planned to attract visitors.
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Marlinton
W. Va
Droop Mountain
State
Civilian Conservation Corps
W. W. Averill
Echols
West Virginia
Stetec
Pocahontas County
Meadow Bluff
Lewisburg
Sinking Springs
CCC
Kump
Jennings Randolph
BE. H. Morford
Repudiation of New Deal Claims Shifts GOP Lead
Early returns show Republicans gaining ground nationally with New York assembly gains, New Jersey assembly contest uncertain, Democrats sweeping Hudson County. Philadelphia mayoral race favors Republican 8. Davis Wilson. Ohio cities largely vote GOP. Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi trends favor Democrats.
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New York State Assembly
New Jersey Assembly
Hudson County
House of Representatives
New York City
Virginia
Mississippi
Kentucky
Philadelphia
Davis Wilson
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio
New York State
Assembly
Republicans claim decisive NY gains end New Deal control
Republican leaders asserted New York voters repudiated the Roosevelt era claiming control of the state assembly after ousting at least eight Democratic incumbents. They cited a five seat margin and a Republican trend in mayoral elections with Melvin Eaton branding results as a shift away from the New Deal. Farley, a Democratic ally, contested the claims.
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New York
Empire State
State Assembly
Melvin C. Eaton
Irving M. Ives
Republican Assembly
Farley
Probe of Control of Goal Assured
Washington reports an immediate $100000 inquiry into federal control of soft coal production. BE Smith of the national bituminous coal commission announced the probe as court testimony in James Walter Carter's suit in the DC supreme court said such control is essential for industry stability and that the Guffey law may need amendment. Charles O Neill testified as the first government witness stating price controls could manage output for about a year, with eventual regulation of both output and capacity likely. O Neill led the operators' legislative committee and helped draft the bill. Smith defended commission activity amid Pittsburgh reports of a bogged down agency and said all departments are functioning and a report is forthcoming.
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Washington
BE. Smith
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Hells of Court
Charles O'Neill
Eastern Bituminous Coal Association
James Walter Carter
District of Columbia Supreme Court
O'Neill
O’neill
Smith
Pittsburgh
Commission
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Mayor McNair
Sonora State
Miami
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Jacksonville Weather Bureau
Key West
Gulf
Cedar Keys
Carrabelle
Lusitania
Tilson
Makale City
Associated Press
Ha Slight
Russell Grazie
New Jersey
John B. Kelly
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