Bluefield N I A Compliance Unit Members Chosen
Seven members will form the Bluefield NRA compliance board to administer the second phase of the blue eagle drive. Nominees include Frank P. Taylor and Robert L. Agee for employees, J L Alexander and C E Lilley for employers, Mrs F L Black for consumers, and A G Fox for the medical profession. The board will meet at NRA headquarters and can be given federal authority for forty five days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Chamber of Commerce
Hugh S. Johnson
Frank P. Taylor
Brotherhood of Railway
Robert L. Agee
Bluefield Furniture Company
J. L. Alexander
Bluefield Milling Company
Blueagle
C. E. Lilley
Superior- Sterling Company
Bluefield
F. L. Black
A. G. Fox
Walters May Resign Post As Interior Shakeup Rumors
Washington September 15 Theo dore A Walters Idaho first assistant secretary of interior reportedly considers resigning in protest at department management. Walters denies plans while rumors say E K Burlew, aide to former secretary Wilbur, runs the department under Ickes. Burlew, a Sunbury PA native, joined Washington service 23 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Theodore A. Walters
Idaho
Walters
E. K. Burlew
Wilbur
Friends of the
Idahoan
Ickes
Burlew
Sunbury
War Department
Wilson
Interior Department
Pratt man killed by C&O train near Hansford
John Joseph Waldron, 24, of Pratt, was killed when struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train near Hansford. The accident occurred as the unnamed train moved through the area. Local authorities investigated the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
John Joseph Waldron
Pratt
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hansford
Insull Loses Appeal in Extradition Fight Over Embezzlement Charges
Toronto man Martin J. Insull brother of Samuel Insull a former Chicago utility magnate loses a point in the effort to block extradition. Justice W H Wright rules no appeal lies from a judgment refusing a commission to hear witnesses in Chicago for Cook County authorities. Insull now resides in Orillia Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Martin J. Insull
Samuel Ineull
Chicago
Hhe
W. H. Wright
Ineull
Cook County
I. F. Helmuth
Helmuth
Insulie
Orillia
Ontario
A. C. Kingstone
Wright
Insull
Court of Appeals
Pollard Names Local Public Works Committee Chairs
Governor Pollard selected chairmen for emergency public works committees in Virginia's first class cities and urged rapid action. He planned a September 22 meeting in Richmond to set programs and create local employment through projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Pollard
State Planning Board For
Capitol
House of Delegates
T. M. Carrington
G. R. Spratley
Hopewell
W. A. Smott
Alexandria
A. L. Watson
Charlottesville
A. B. Carrington
Danville
Powell Glass Jr
Lynchburg
Major Raymond
Bottom
Newport News
Albert L. Roper
Norfolk
W. H. Crutchfield
Petersburg
J. Davis Reed
Portsmouth
E. A. Johnson
Roanoke
H. L. Opie
Staunton
John B. Pinner
Suffolk
H. B. McCormac
Winchester
Absent Plaintiff Wins $10000 in Auto Injury Suit
A jury awarded C. E. Woodruff of unknown whereabouts $10,000 for injuries from a car owned by Rev. Joseph Gilliam of St Albans. Woodruff did not appear at the trial, though his attorney pressed for proceedings. The defense objected but the judge allowed the trial to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
C. E. Woodruff
Joseph Gilliam
St. Albans
Woodruff
Alexander
New dissolvable sutures promise safer wound repair
Chicago reports at the Century of Progress as Dr. George L. Clark of the University of Illinois cites a new suture method. The sutures can be absorbed in two days to a month with controllable strength. Produced from animal substances and developed under x rays in Illinois labs, they show strong potential for timed, predictable healing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Chemical Society
George L. Clark
University of Illinois
Ilinois
Clark
Troops Could Land in Cuba Amid Hotel National Siege
Barricaded officers bolster the Hotel Nacional as more soldiers and armaments are placed around the site. A mob threatened an American factory at Manzanillo, heightening tension in the Caribbean crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel National
Manzanillo
Cuban Unrest Sparks Talk of U S Landing Invasion
Washington sources Friday night saw a greater likelihood of American troops landing in Cuba amid disorder. The new Cuban government quelled a Pinar Del Rio uprising, consolidated interior and war, and faced 500 officers barricaded at the Hotel National. Guards expanded around the hotel as 23 U.S. warships stood by nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Washington
Pinar del Rio
Interior
War
Hotel National
Manzanillo
Santiago
Cienfuegos
Antilla
State Department
Associated Press
Havana
National
Ramon Pie San Martin
Consolacion del Sur
Fernando Ara
Norfolk Prepares as Tropical Storm Aims for Coast
Norfolk weather chief J. J. Murphy warned the tropical storm near Cape Lookout would reach the Norfolk area tomorrow morning between 6 and 9 oclock with center passing near 2 PM. Winds of 60 mph plus expected and tides described as the highest in history from Lookout to New Bern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lookout
N. C
Norfolk
J. J. Murphy
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cape Lookout
Murphy
Cape Hatteras
Hatteras
Cape Henry
Virginia Capes
Coast Guard
Pamlico
New Bern
Pittman Studies Inflation Powers Under Farm Aid Law
Senator Pittman proposes an emergency measure to authorize Roosevelt to use freshly mined silver to expand currency. He would mint silver into coins and deduct minting costs, turning the remainder to silver producers, as a temporary response to inflation fear under farm relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rosevelt
Pittman
Nev
Roosevelt
Thomas
Utah
United States
Visions of universe turning into gas study by Dr Bachem
Chicago reports Albert Bachem of the University of Illinois spoke at the American Congress of Physical Therapy on evolution in the inorganic world. He argued all elements transform into other elements, citing radium from uranium and a star containing a mother-element of the universe, with cosmic rays and isotopes supporting radioactive decomposition ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Congress of Physical Therapy
Albert Bachem
Unit of Illinois College of Medicine
Bachem
University of Frankfort
Germany
Twenty-Two Hurt as Bus Plunges Over Embankment
A Memphis to Nashville bus in thick fog plunged down a high embankment near Camden Tennessee on approach to the Tennessee river bridge. Twenty two passengers were injured with two to five seriously hurt and some burned against the engine as the body separated from the chassis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
Tenn
Memphis
Nashville
Tennessee River Bridge
Here
J. M. Smythe
Pittsburgh Stages Blue Eagle Parade
In Pittsburgh on September 15 a 15 000 strong crowd watched a Blue Eagle parade. Bugles blared and drums rattled as peace-time soldiers from businesses large to small marched downtown. The procession started early evening, lighting up streets and windows with floats and military units in the city’s largest show since 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitteburgat
Pitteburgh
Steel City
Transcontinental Night Flight Race Planned at Roosevelt Field
A first of its kind transcontinental night flight trophy race was announced by John S. Reaves. The event runs October 2 from Grand Central Airport Glendale California to Roosevelt Field New York in two legs over a 2660 mile course with a midway control at Wichita Kansas following the western mid continental route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John S. Reaves
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Grand Central Airport
Glendale
Calif
Wichita
Kans
Storm Kills Over a Dozen on Mexican Coast
Heavy rain and wind sweep Mexican coast killing more than a score and driving ships ashore. New Jersey section reports lightship off Carolina coast with 100 mile per hour winds. In Tampico 1,000 are reported homeless as storms lash the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Score
Mexican Coast
Carolina
Tampico
Mexico
Hurricanes Strikes Mexico and Atlantic Coast Leave Dozens Dead
AP reports thirty two believed killed in a tropical hurricane in the Mexican region with 1000 left homeless in Tampico. Two deaths attributed to a gale along the central Atlantic coast as warnings extend from South Carolina to Norfolk. A sailor died off Cape Hatteras and a fisherman near Roanoke Island amid rough seas and 80 to 100 mph winds three dozen miles offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Atlantic
New York
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Tampico Mexico
United States
South Carolina
Norfolk
Jersey
Cape Hatteras
Atlantic
Sun
Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Hurricane Claims Two Lives Off North Carolina Coast
Winds of gale force lash the Carolina coast as a tropical hurricane nears the Atlantic seaboard. A Sun crewman drowned near Cape Hatteras while Roanoke Island reported a death. Morehead City Beaufort lose telephone links as New Bern floods deepen. Coast guard and Red Cross mobilize for relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Coast Guard
Red Cross
Washington
Raleigh
Albert J. Berres Jr
Roanoke Island
Lester Bryant
Lone Cedar
Morehead City
Beaufort
Cape Lookout
New Bern
East Fort Street
Neuse
Mother of Young Man Freed of Charges in Cop Slaying
Chicago. A jury acquitted Mrs. Rose Scheck fifty releasing her from complicity in the killing of Policeman John Sevick. Her son John Scheck and a companion, both under trial for bank robbery and murder, allegedly used the revolver smuggled to him by a man identified as Pretty Boy Floyd during an attempted breakout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rose Scheck
John
John Scheck
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Special Assistant to Attorney General Injured in Wreck
Robert L. Vann of Pittsburgh, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings, was critically injured in a head on collision near Hagerstown Maryland. Five people in the other car from Uniontown Pennsylvania were hospitalized. two were believed fatally injured. Police say Vann attempted to pass another vehicle on a hill and may have suffered a fractured skull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Robert L. Vann
Pittsburgh
Cummings
Uniontown
Washington County Hospital
Josephine Simms
Venn
Quiet Prevails As Coal Strike Erupts In Pennsylvania
In southwestern Pennsylvania quiet returns under state police as a 40 000 plus coal strike spreads through Washington and Westmoreland counties. Clashes injure workers and deputies while talks in Washington seek a code recognizing the United Mine Workers of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers of America
Pinchot
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Fayette County
Joe Beranek
Frick
Morewood
Westmoreland County
Carl Stohl
Stohl
C. H. Bubyauger
Frick Company
Edenborn
Bubyauger
Westmoreland
Hannastown
Forbes Road
Crabtree and
Jamison No
Jamison Coal and Coke Company
Crow's Nest
Keystone Coal and Coke Company
Washington County
Ellsworth, Cokeburg and Mariana
Bethlehem Mines Corporation
Bethlehem Steel
Isabella
Weirton Steel Corporation
Allison
Republic
Republic Steel Corporation
Gates
Boyd Cutright
Louis Kromer
Cutright
Kromer
Anthony Cavalcante
Harry E. Hackney
Two Young Men Held in Beckley
In Beckley West Virginia on September 15 two youths named Richard Dillon and Frank Cole were detained on loitering charges as state troopers questioned Charleston officers about missing Ralph Eddy 17 accused of killing his father and stepmother near Ripley Trace Fork. Eddy's whereabouts remain sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
W. Va
Charleston
Ralph Eddy
Richard Dillon
Frank Cole
Thomas Herman
Dillon
Eddy
James Frank Eddy
Bertie Eddy
Trace Fork
Ripley
Cole
Herman
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Clearfield
Pocahontas Tug River Production Curtailed by Labor Day
Production in the Pocahontas Tug River district for the week ending September 9 was heavily reduced due to Labor Day. The Pocahontas Operators' Association bulletin reports 415,117 tons mined in the first week of September, down 130,243 tons from the prior week, but up from 1932. Calendar year output reaches 13,590,238 tons, about 3,000,000 more than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Tug River
Roosevelt vetoes NRA boards interpretation on labor code
President Roosevelt rejects a joint statement from the NRA industrial and labor advisory boards and delays new interpretations of the recovery act to await a specific case. He backs plain English language and pushes to finish the soft coal code tonight while noting payroll gains and ongoing recovery efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Roosevelt
NRA
Induestrial
Recovery Administration
United Mine Workers of America
Perkins
METHODIST MINISTERS SET 1200 DOLLAR SALARY PLAN
Ministers of the Erie annual conference drafted a recovery code stipulating a 1200 dollar annual minimum salary for pastors. Higher paid ministers and large churches will be taxed proportionally to subsidize churches unable to meet the minimum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
Erie
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
RF C Chairman and Amtorg Discuss Large Soviet Credit
In New York on September 15 Jesse H. Jones head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation conferred with Amtorg Trading officials to arrange a credit of 50 to 75 million dollars for the Soviet agency. Funds would back purchases of cotton copper aluminum and other commodities with terms to be agreed including rate maturity and down payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Amtorg Trading Corporation
The
Herald Tribune
Reconstruction Corporation
Amtorg
Bridge Tourney Opens With Celebrities In New York
Thirty six bridge champions began a three day tournament to crown the ultra champion and 1938 holder of the individual masters gold cup. Bly Culbertson declined to enter while Mrs Culbertson played with Waldemar von Zedtwitz as her first partner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bly Culbertson
Approval matter of hours belief sets age limit
A committee of eighteen bituminous coal operators completed a fair competition code to be sent to President Roosevelt for approval. The code sets a 40 hour week with minimum wages varying by region, including 4.20 per day for inside skilled labor in southern West Virginia and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh 8. Johnson
Roosevelt
Rocky Mountain
Alabama
Federal
West Virginia
Kentucky
Upper Potomac
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Lower Peninsula
Michigan
Johnson
Donald Richberg
Counsil
Southeast Cattle Producers form to stabilize prices in region
In southwest Virginia and neighboring states graziers fear losses if cattle shipments rise. The Southeastern Cattle Producers Association formed at Bristol aims to curb market glut through regulated shipments. Tazewell county held talks to organize a local unit as 750 of the nation’s 4000 exports signed a price-stabilizing pact. First carload this year from Tazewell weighed 1450 pounds per head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Virginia
Southwest
Graziera
Southeastern Cattle Producers Association
Bristol
Tazewell County
West Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Kentucky
T. B. Fugate
Lee County
A. J. Steele
Tazewell
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Bluefield N. I. A
Laurence E. Tierney Jr
NRAA
Eagle
John Con
Igres Abatotant
T. A. Walters
Samuel Insull
Fulgencio Batista
Gran San Martin
National Hotel
Pinal del Rio
Alan
Tts
Will H. Taylor
Central Atlantic Seaboard
Carolinas
Wilmington
Atlantic Seaboard
S. C
Boston
Committee of Coal Operators
Pennsy
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