Utilities Plan Fight on City Tax Proposals
Public utility corporations plan to oppose the city tax measures, aiming to delay action and prepare a fact filled presentation for the ordinance committee meeting Friday at two. Leaders from West Virginia Water Service and Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone indicated they will coordinate a broader challenge, likely pushing for a gross sales tax rate of about one sixteenth of one percent amid anticipated council opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
M. F. Biatheny
Matheny
Queeaney
Carl Davis
Bernardo Reiter
Unit-1_uel Gas company
Jus van den Berg, Jr
West Virgin W Water Service Corporation
Altizer
Chesspeake and Potomac’ Telephone Company
An Davis
Resignation of County Relief Chief Shifts W P A Role
Grover Smith Sr resigns as county relief administrator to become district director of the Works Progress Administration under F Witcher McCullough. The new district will cover eight counties including Kenawha Fayette Raleigh Logan Boose Mingo McDowell Wy. Souith had served as county relief administrator since July 9 1934 succeeding J R Sheridan. Smith who came to Charleston in 1904 previously led a railroad company and served with the Red Cross in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Smith, Sr
Works Progress Administration
F. Witcher McCullough
Kenawha
Fayette
Raleigh
Logan
Boose
Mingo
McDowell
Souith
J. R. Sheridan
R. H. Mermaul
Ortzander
Smith
Charleston
Couitand
Key
Chicago
Detroit
Plan to Avert War in Africa Involving Ethiopia
France Britain and Italy back a five point formula to delay the Italo Ethiopian crisis for a month and avert war by granting Italy eventual control of Ethiopia. Premier Laval and Anthony Eden draft the plan to be discussed by the League Council, proposing an arbitration committee and possible joint talks under the 1908 spheres treaty.
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U.S
Geneva
France
Great
Britain
Africa
Italy
Eeene
Russia
Premeter Laval
Fruyieg
Anthony Eden
Ances
Tenge Council
Acad
Ethiopia
Aubuist
League Council
League of Nations
Pierre Laval
England
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
League
Eden
Baron Aloisi
Mary
Associated Press
Thrifties Favored As Charitable Gift Deduction Debated
Washington July 31 Democrats on the house ways and means committee voted to allow corporations a limited deduction for charitable gifts. The move surprised party leaders as President Roosevelt had suggested no such proviso. Vice President and other officials commented on tax evasion by the wealthiest, while Doughton dissented on the exemption. Lawmakers aim to pass the bill by the weekend with discussions about finishing by August 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Ion
Wice
United States
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
N.C
Bulletin
Associated Gas and Electric System
Senate
Senate Committee
Howard C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric
E. V. Sellers
Patton
D-Tex
Texas Power & Light Company
Kift
Ben Cohen
Company
Originaly
Jews Told To Quit Berlin Nazi Crisis Deepens Across Germany
Berlin reports warn Jews to leave the city as Nazi pressure mounts amid rising anti Semitic agitation. In Saar basin and Saarbruecken, Jews are expelled from public baths and fear spreads. Washington plans to answer Germany’s Bremen protest while New York’s mayor faces criticism for alleged race baiting as Hamburg liner Deutschland sails under heavy police guard. Extraordinary Berlin police step up precautions after indications of further turbulence this week.
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Berlin
Forbach
France
Saar Basin
Saarbruecken
Washington
State Department
Germany
Bremen
Darrow
New York
le Guardia
Frisco Mayor Nominates San Francisco for Democratic Convention
Frisco Mayor Angelo J. Rossi formally nominated San Francisco as the Democratic National Convention city in a welcoming address at City Hall to Postmaster General James A. Farley. Farley, aboard en route to Honolulu, praised the city and urged neutrality in committee deliberations while predicting strong Philadelphia, Cleveland, and St. Louis bids. He lauded Roosevelt and forecast re election in 1936 and optimism for next summer regarding public works funding.
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Sam Francisco
San Francisco
Angelo J. Rossi
James A. Farley
Honolulu
National Committee
San
Lands
Farley
Roosevelt
Kump Urges WV Bodies Seek Public Works Funds
Governor H G Kump urged West Virginia levying bodies to strain every resource to fund useful public works projects to create unemployment relief and gain additional benefits, while pursuing outright grants for eligible projects. The letter stresses matching grants concerns and calls on education and road programs to contribute.
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Kump
H. G. Kump
Fred L. Fox
West Virginia
Jetter
Ofc
Hans
Dead and Injured In Burning Missouri Freight Train Wreck
Temple Texas July 21 four ambulances raced to the scene after a Missouri Kansas Texas freight train derailed near Bruneville. About twenty injured and from ten to fifteen believed dead were reported as flames engulfed cars. Witnesses said passengers seen fleeing a burning car while wreckage showed several crushed cars and a buckled middle section.
Sales Tax Overestimates Led WV to Extra 2 Million
West Virginia consumers tax collected 2,115,845.45 more in the first 15 months than lawmakers expected. The final June deposit pushed total to 8,615,845.55. Officials noted June totals reflect cars no longer taxed under the tax, now an extra fee via the road commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Treasury
State Tax Department
Absodaco
Tax Department
Peoria Slayer Guilty Must Pay in Chair
Gerald Thompson, 27, machinist, was found guilty of slaying Mildred Hallmark, 19, a waitress, last month and sentenced to die in the electric chair. The verdict came after a four hour jury deliberation, reached at 8:36 CST in Peoria, with Judge Daily presiding.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Public Shies From Prober's Public Shies From Prober's
New York city voters largely ignored special racketeering prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey as he sought public help to clean up vice gambling and political factions. Dewey did not appear, citing a radio appeal had drawn few supporters and a large police guard was planned for the expected crowd at his Woolworth building headquarters. Officials warned the inquiry would take time amid past grand jury investigations yielding little.
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U. S
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dever
Woolworih
Dewey
Tabor
Hig
Army pursuit plane vanishes off California coast
Los Angeles July 31 19 Twent aerial search crews combed a quarter mile offshore near Point Vincent lighthouse for the army pursuit plane piloted by Lieut Arthur Skaer Jr missing since a test flight yesterday. Oil slicks marked possible wreckage as Lieut Van Dusen led the search hoping the craft plummeted into the sea. Skaer from Walnut Park was last seen near Patos Verdes hills heading toward Sarita Cataling gland, with only a few hours of fuel remaining.
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Los Angeles
Twen Aireles
Treshhair
Point Vincent
Licut
William van Dusen
Jeader
Arthur H. Skaer, Jr
Coast Guard
Doctor Slain Rival Sought In Chicago Bride Murder
Chicago July 3 A 35 year old chemical research scientist and new groom Dr Walter J Bauer was kidnapped in Ann Arbor forced to drive to Chicago and there killed after a crude operation. Police seek former suitor Miss Lowise Schaffer and question Manville Zenka about the jealous romance and suspects.
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Chicago
Walter J. Bauer
Ann Arbor
Bauer
Lowise Schaffer
Kirksville
Manville Zenka
Fifty five Aboard Soviet Submarine Perish
Moscow reports the submarine B-3 sank in the Gulf of Finland on July 25 after colliding with an unknown vessel while returning to the surface after an underwater cadet trip. Fifty five officials and naval school cadets perished. The Tass agency released the first disaster news a week after the event.
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Moscow
Aug. T
Semen
Naval School
Gulf of Finland
Tass
Heat Death Toll Surges Across Plains States
Heat siege grips central states as temperatures soar above 100 degrees with Topeka at 106 and Lincoln 105. States report fatalities totaling over 60, with Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Illinois and more impacted. Weather brings brief relief in parts, but heat persists across the region.
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Associated Press
Imid-west
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Souttlekota
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Ilinois
Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Texas
Iowa
Arkansas
Mercury
Topeka
Lincoln
Web
Pierre
St. Louis
Carbondale
Oklahoma City
Kansas City
South Dakota
Dawson Names Five Appointees to City Jobs
Mayor D. Boone Dawson announced five new appointees, three in the Police department and two on the city ball maintenance staff, all effective today. Finley Cook, ex US marshal deputy, becomes plain clothes officer in charge of automobile theft cases replacing Harvey Dunlap. Robert Jarrett, former traffic clerk, is named clerk of the municipal court succeeding A. J. Pilzer, who is reportedly slated for police desk sergeant after radio exam."
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D. Boone Dawson
Finley Cook
United States Marshal
Harvey Dunlap
Rober Jarrett
A. J. Pilzer
George M
Junior Payne
Jarrett
Picase Tura
Operators Say Guffey Bill Will Not End Controversy
Washington July 31. Soft coal operators oppose the Guffey Snyder plan saying enacting the measure would not end the dispute over wages hours and conditions. Miners seek a three hour week and 10 percent wage increase while operators offer a 35 hour week and current scale. Both sides fear the bill could trigger a strike and fail to resolve the deadlock ahead of the September 15 contract expiring date.
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Washington
Guffey-Snyder
Atl
Comemantee
2000 One Roomr Schools Doomed
H Cliff Hamilton assistant supervisor of rural schools told county school superintendents and assistants that the state aims to abandon 2000 one room schools in five years. He noted 800 such schools have been closed in the past two years aided by road development. He said one in six children are now transported to school for safety. Lt Harry C Myers of the State police said troopers would cooperate with county boards to stop school buses at designated points.
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H. Cliff Hamilton
Hamilton
Harry C. Myers
County Boards of Education
Pill Says Boys Began Their Race Too Early
Fragmentary telegraph style dispatches from Santa Monica report a heated political scene. Figures such as Sim Doakes and Dr. Jasko appear in garbled quotes about equality, mental disease, and public office, with references to Roosevelt and Republicans in a chaotic strand of headlines and commentary.
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Pill
Santa Monica
Calif
Tig
Sim Doakes
Roosevelt
Woodrutt
Michit
Aviliiauie
Bobunk
Renuli
Moscow
Jasko
Specialiss
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W.F. McCullough
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Nazi
Reich
Ver Hulldorf
Berti
Frisco
Joseph E. Daily
Ward
Tse Vor
Peoria County
Fur
Hen Thurman
Prober
N.Y
Mease
Fts
Hopson
U. S. Marshal
Horley
Associated Gas
Garrett Claypool
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Southern Obi Electric Borhspany
Onio
Rep
Chander
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Black
Mt. €. Hansen
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Doctor Slain
Tien
Mid-West
Dawson
R. Jarrett
van Winkle
Anderson
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