Roosevelt dedicates Gompers monument amid labor strike talk
President Roosevelt dedicated a monument to Samuel Gompers and urged unity amid a Pennsylvania coal strike. He warned against employers preferring government by a privileged class and noted violent tactics by some workers. Johnson advanced the next phase of the recovery drive with a broad “now is the time to buy” campaign aimed at offsetting higher wages and payrolls.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Samuel Gompers
Organized Labor
Hugh S. Johnson
Gomperg
Labor Federation
Presiding Elders to Get Charges
In Knoxville Tennessee Bishop W N Ainsworth announced that about thirty percent of the 230 Holston conference pastors will receive new appointments for next year. Three presiding elders J A Burrow J M Carter and S D Long will be moved to pastorates after completing four year terms. A resolution urged the general conference to drop the assessment benevolence plan in favor of voluntary local church collections.
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Knoxville
Tenn
W. N. Ainsworth
Holston
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
J. A. Burrow
Bluefield
J. M. Carter
Feds Hand Sentences in Urschel Kidnapping Case
Federal Judge Edgard S. Vaught imposed life terms on four convicts and ten to five year sentences on others in the Urschel kidnapping. The lineup includes Harvey Bailey Albert Bates Mr and Mrs R G Shannon Armon Shannon Edward Berman and Clifford Skelly with George Kelly cited as alleged brains who pleaded not guilty.
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Edgard S. Vaught
Charles F. Urschel
Harvey Bailey
Albert Bates
R. G. Shannon
Armon Shannon
Edward Berman
Clifford Skelly
George
Kelly
Tousands
Federal
Urschel
Bates
Mrs. Kelly
Ursechel
Nazi plan on euthanasia sparks moral debate in Germany
Berlin reports a justice ministry memorandum proposes allowing physicians to end the suffering of incurable patients upon request, with two doctors and the attending physician confirming the case. The move raises religious and legal questions about the value of life and the state’s role.
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Berlin
Ministry of Justice
Germania
Bureau of Mines reports output week of September 28
The bureau of mines notes West Virginia bituminous production at 2,258,000 tons for the week ended September 28, compared with 2,260,000 tons the prior week and 1,718,000 tons in the same week of 1932. Maryland production was 46,000 tons for the week ending September 23, versus 25,000 tons the prior week and 22,000 tons in the 1932 period.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines Today
West Virginia
Maryland
Plan to Issue Capias for Dr Rutherford in Cabell County
Huntington W V Oct 7 moving to bring about trial of Dr A G Rutherford former superintendent of Welch Emergency hospital on indictments charging larceny and embezzlement Cabell county officers planned tonight to issue a capias for his arrest Monday Rutherford indicted on five counts for removal of hospital property upon retirement He denied taking anything from the hospital but his personal property Indictments returned after Cabell county case was before the supreme court for a mandate halted in McDowell county Merile H Stevenson of Huntington not indicted though property valued at 20000 found in his garage by state officials
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Huntington
W. Va
A. G. Rutherford
Welch Emergency Hospital
Cabell County
Capias
Monay
Rutherford
Welch Hospital
Supreme Court
McDowell County
Holt
Merile H. Stevenson
Urschel kidnaping culprits receive life terms in federal court
Harvey Bailey Albert Bates and Armon Shannon plus Mrs R G Shannon and Mr and Mrs G Kelly were sentenced in Oklahoma City. Bailey Bates and the Shannons drew life terms for Urschel kidnapping. Armon Shannon got a ten year suspended sentence. Two Minneapolis men Edward Berman and Clifford Skelly received five year terms.
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Oklahoma City
Harvey Bailey
Desperado
Albert Bates
Denver
R. G. Channon
Texas
Charles F. Urschel
Edgar S. Vaught
Armon Shannon
R. G. Shannon
Paradise
Tex
Urschel
Minneapolis
Edward Berman
Clifford Skelly
J. B. Dudley
Costigan moves to prolong market inquiry for reform
Senator Costigan of Colorado urged delaying the Senate stock market investigation to push Wall Street reform. He said the inquiry should continue beyond January 1 if needed, even if Pecora resigns as counsel to run for New York district attorney, to establish legislative safeguards against destructive practices.
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Washington
Senate
Wall Street
Ferdinand Pecora
Senator Costigan
Colorado
Pecora
New York
Costigan
UMW President Says Ready to Negotiate With Operators
John L. Lewis announced that Philip Murray told Thomas Moses the union is ready to negotiate with captive coal mine owners under the settlement proposed by President Roosevelt. The statement signals willingness to discuss terms to end tensions over labor disputes.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Philip Murray
Thomas Moses
H.C. Frick Coke Company
Roosevelt
Tales Of Moundbuilders Revived In Kanawha
Charleston West Virginia October discovery of a skeleton near a mound in South Charleston excites local interest. Excavators unearthed the bones at a new house site prompting plans for a careful study to link the find to prehistoric mound builders and possibly to a man slain in recent times.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha Valley
Ameica
Asia
Bering Strait
U C A Gents Trap Mail Robber Gang
Federal agents report twenty two in custody across six cities and 150000 dollars in bonds recovered in the Chicago mail robbery case. The raid netted seven Chicago arrests including McLaughlin and associates. Lebensberger’s death exposed underworld links and indictments followed.
Revision of code changes fate of company stores
Washington October 7 The proposed revision of the retail trade code would put company stores and commissaries under presidential investigation. The amended draft keeps the credit ban tied to guaranteed wages but suspends its effect for six months while a commission studies feasibility.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Presidential Investigation Commissions
NRA
William F Merrill Dies Former Remington Rand Leader
William F Merrill former president and general manager of Remington Rand Inc died at his Park Avenue home in New York today. He was in his fifty seventh year.
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New York
William F. Merrill
Remington Rand, Incorporated
Park Avenue
Virginia Side Woman Reunites with Soldier Son after 22 Years
Mrs. BE Caudill of Bluefield Virginia travels to Washington DC after receiving a War Department notice that her son William Kent Caudill, missing for 22 years, was located in a government hospital where he had been gassed in World War I. The Caudill family plans further travel to confirm his identity and condition.
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BE. C. Caudill
Bluefield
Washington, D. C
Wiliam Kent Caudiil
Secretary of War
Kent Caudill
Roosevelt Urges Miners to Return to Work amid Negotiations
President Roosevelt urged strikebound miners at steel company mines in western Pennsylvania to resume work with conditions similar to commercial mines. The White House said owners would enter good faith negotiations and, if needed, the president would guide settlements under rules mirroring those for commercial mines. Eight settlement points cover representation, government assistance, and prompt reopening with order.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
White House
Hugh §. Johnson
Donald Richberg
NRA
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Johnson
Lewis
Farmer Massacre Ends in Tragedy Near Appleton
Appleton Minnesota October 7 a farmer William E K McKeever 43 killed his son 12 and daughter 14 with a hammer and severely beat his wife and a 21 year old son. After slashing his throat he died by suicide. The wife and older son survived in serious condition.
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Appleton, Minn
William EK. McKeever
Near Here
Tax Commissioner warns brewers and beer distributors
Charleston West Virginia October 7 Tax Commissioner Fox warned brewers and beer distributors that control of dispensing equipment will be grounds for license revocation. He cited reports of distributors installing equipment for dispensing beer to be used only by their beer and said such arrangements conflict with the law by allowing direct or indirect control of retail sales.
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Charleston
W. Va
Fox
President Roosevelt dismisses Humphrey from Federal Trade Commission
President Roosevelt orders William K. Humphrey removed from the Federal Trade Commission. George C. Matthews of Wisconsin is named to replace him. Humphrey contests the action as unlawful while Republicans vow to challenge presidential removal authority.
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William E. Humphrey
Trade
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
William K. Humphrey
Federal Trade Commission
Humphrey
White House
George C. Matthews
Wisconsin
Public Service Commission
Matthews
Hoover
Securities Division
Commission
Securiies Law
Trade Commission
Independent Commissions
Mrs. Sweet Heads West Virginia D A R Chapter
Mrs. Robert C. Sweet of St Albans was elected president of the West Virginia branch of the Daughters of 1812. New officers include W H Conaway Fairmont and Gary Hogg Lewisburg as vice presidents and Nelle Price Morgantown as recording secretary.
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John Campbell
Morgantown
M. B. Gibbens
Barkereburg
Robert G. Reed
Wheeling
Mises Florence C. Kuhn
Marmet
J. F. Holewade
Huntington
8. Brady
Isabell Hayes
Plan to pay off depositors of all closed banks
Washington report outlines Representative Ramsay's proposal to fund every depositor in closed banks by inflating the currency to cover total deposits. The RFC would liquidate bank assets over years, using proceeds to retire the currency and restore public confidence while avoiding immediate inflationary measures.
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Washington
Ramsay
West Virginia
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Treasury
Giants Claim World Series Title In Extra Innings Thriller
The New York Giants defeated the Washington Senators 4 to 3 in a tense fifth game, clinching the 1933 World Series four games to one. Mel Ott hit a decisive homer in the tenth after a controversial umpire decision reversal, in a dramatic mound duel at Griffith Stadium.
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Clark Griffith
Washington
New York Giants
Washington Senators
Mel” Ott
Louisiana
Giants
Alolfo Luque
Jack Russell
Charles Pfirman
Ott
Pfirman
Emmett Ormsby
George Moriarty
Charles Moran
Schulte
Senators
Moran
Heinie Manush
Carl Hubbell
al Crowder
Hal Schumacher
Fred Schulte
Joe Croni
Bluefield College Faces Financial Crunch With Football Team
Coach Mullie LeNoir leads fifty players of the Bluefield college football squad as they seek merchant help to avert a money shortage that threatens this season. Merchants join a plan after earlier efforts to fund the program.
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Mullie LeNoir
Bluefield College
LeNoir
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American Federation of Labor
Sr. D Long
Bailey
Skelly
K. Shannon
Mrs. Shannon
A. Shannon
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Buckingham Palace
London
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Hills
Andover
Marsh
Arthur Lansbury
H. Metcalfe
Constitutional Hill
Hyde Park Corner
Bureau OF Mines
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Shannon
Wife
Draw
Kanawha
U.C
Chicago
Edgar Libensberger
Bandit
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John J
McLaughlin
Joe Sans
Walter Johnson
McLaughlin and Sons
Kansas City
Boston
Ralph Bergen
James Weinber
Sam Levick
Sol Stern
Joseph L. Vodak
Gus Anders
Clark Richie
Virginia
Fairmont
W. Guy Crigler
West Virginia Lumbering Dealers Association
A. B. Beltz
West Virginia Lumber Dealers Association
C. I. Cheyney
Architeque and Coordination
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Roosevelt Custer
Mrs
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Miracle Men
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Homer
Bluefield College Fund
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