House Votes On Candidate Filing Fees Amid Betting on Primaries
The House approves a bill to require filing fees from all candidates to deter publicity seekers while the Senate passes two bank bills to limit state supervision and allow deposits of county funds without interest. The chamber also records 17 new House bills and 13 Senate measures including limits on beer sales, restricting prison-made goods, exams for healing professionals, higher sheriff payrolls, and limited liability for automobile operators. The beer bill moves to further consideration with related notes on page four.
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Taylor Af Fayette
Oldham
Ohio
Sonsie
Tre
Samant
Mipervision
Banking Department
Sitte
Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Barbour County
HM. J. Poling
125000 Men Take Holy Communion in Manila Park
In Luneta Park Manila an estimated 125000 men from four nations gathered at night to receive communion. Cardinal clergy including Archbishop Michael J. O Doherty and Archbishop John Minty presided with Brione lighting turning the park into an open air cathedral. The sermon invoked Isaiah's prophecy and the gathering as a sign of spreading faith across nations and tongues.
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Luneta Park
Inala
Brione
Michael J. O'Doherty
John Minty
San Francisco
Isaiah
Rory
Pur mutners ain't good says Willie Willis
In a punchy remark attributed to Willie Willis, the phrase suggests prudence about tasting floor candy, highlighting a humorous, colloquial quip from Robert Quillen's piece. The comment underscores a folksy warning about cleanliness and appetite.
Dike Defenders Winning Battle Against Floods
Mississippi River floodwaters recede as engineers and levee defenders count progress from Cairo to New Orleans. Ohio falls slow, 400 deaths linked to the disaster, $550 million in damages, and a 1000 mile levee line remains under watch. Safe passage to the Gulf is forecast as crews stay vigilant.
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Associated Press
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Mississippi River
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Hickman Wause
Eugene Reybold
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Birds Point
New
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Pontiff Leads Anti Communism Drive Amid Spanish Orphan Crisis
Pope Pius Xl, aged 78, after late stage surgery, launches renewed crusade against Communism. He seeks housing and food for Spanish war orphans amid reports of 50,000 starving children and chilling finds of five frozen bodies in a cave near Magueda. The Vatican notes Red atrocities against the Catholic church fuel his effort.
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Pope Pius
Onight
Spain
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Tne
Pius
Vatican
Magueda
Santa Cruz de Retamar
Chamber Seeks Save for Auditorium Project
The Charleston Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Committee authorized its chairman to form a committee of prominent citizens to urge PWA officials in Washington to reconsider the city auditorium project. Mayor D. Boone Rawson expressed optimism the project can be saved with proper city work and chamber support. A resolution authorized the outreach and possible discussion of the Elk River bridge Kanawha Boulevard project during the Washington visit.
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Pame
Pon Pwa
Washington
Robert L. Smith
I Chamber Groun Ater
D. Boone Dawson
Kanawha
Dawson
PWA
Charleston
Boone Rawson
Beaspee
EWA
Mmayor
Elk River
Kanawhai Boulevard
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Many Join Move For New Hospital
Citizens supported by Samuel Sloman of the West Side Business Men's association circulate 250 petitions urging Charleston to seek federal funds for a 4800 bed city hospital. Backed by Kanawha Medical Society and most local physicians, the plan promises grants and loans to build a large public hospital, claiming private hospitals would close if realized.
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Samuel Sloman
West Side
Charleston
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Alumnae protest male president at Mount Holyoke College
Boston report on February 4 details protests by Mount Holyoke alumnae over appointing Dr Ross well G. Ham as the first male college president. Some alumnae accuse the committee of packing and say wills were changed in protest. others show less unanimity while some oppose the move.
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Boston
Rosswell G. Ham
Mount Holyoke College
Ham
Pa Emma Woolley
Miss Woolley
Dr. Ham
End of Maritime Strike Opens Job Rush for 40000
After a 98 day walkout, the maritime strike ends at 2 45 PM PST sending 40000 workers and 239 ships into a scramble for jobs and new contracts. Union leaders report strong ratification of tentative agreements on wages hiring control and eight hour days, with one union, marine firemen, narrowly opposing but accepting arbitration.
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San Francisco
Teaders
Ted
Henry Schmidt
Marine Firemen
Io. Ida ‘Ip
Rebels Launch Major Push Toward Malaga Capture
In a major bid to seize Malaga Spain, Franco forces with over 20 000 insurgents push from Marbella toward Fuengirola on the coast aided by nine aircraft and several ships. A fierce day long battle raged as loyalist militiamen defended the road and coast threatening the last siege obstacle to Malaga.
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Spain
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Prancisco Franco
Fuengirola
Straits of Gibraltar
Melilla
Ceuta
Nighthawk Slayer Story Ts Enlarged
Kansas City February 4 1907 Robert Kenyon enlarges his claim that a mysterious Nighthawk abducted and killed Dr J C B Davis Hoover calls the tale mythic and Kenyon the sole suspect in the case He admits writing ransom notes but says he acted under duress and a ransom demanded five thousand dollars was not paid Kenyon faces murder charges as the case unfolds with officials and Davis family involved
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Robert Kenyon
J. C. B. Davis
J. Edgar Hoover
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Jed
Willow Springs
Hill Country Farm
Wighthawk
Hoover
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Ted
Dr. Davis
Nighthawk
Davis
Youngest Tennessee bride learns housework under law debate
In SNEQDVILLE Tennessee on February 4 a nine year old girl Eunice Winstead Johns learns corn pone as her mother in law Ma Johns teaches her while in Nashville legislators pass a bill banning child marriages, raising the legal age to 14. The groom Charlie Johns says the law will not change their life, and the family discusses schooling and legitimacy of the union as news coverage notes unanimous senate support and expected house approval.
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America
Nashville
Senate
Tennessee
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Charlie Johns
Clinch Mountain
Eunice
Tennessee Hills
Monikey
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Lee Johns
Rogersville
Johns
Flood Refugees To Leave Today
Huntington flood refugees in Charleston centers are to be returned to Huntington this morning on a special Chesapeake and Ohio train. Maj. A. E. Haan, chairman of the disaster committee of the Red Cross, says the total is under 600 with some evacuated and some left centers without permission. Only 27 refugees in hospitals remain. Refugees at the naval ordnance plant will be returned in two buses.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Ohio
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Flashes of Life In These U S Bouncing Checks
Chicago reports detail a suspect, George Froelich, linked to a bogus check scheme as fourteen people identify him in a robbery finance context. A North Side Toy Library program plans a lending library for children with post use disinfection.
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George Froelich
Froelich
Toy Library
North Side
Amnesia Victim Arrested After Drugstore Robbery
Chicago February 4 Edward Monaghan collapsed from memory loss when police nabbed him for robbing a drug store. He allegedly returned to the scene asking for cigarettes, insisting he had been there before.
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Edward Monaghan
Andonaghan
Suspect in Mattson Kidnap Dies by Own Action
Auburn, February 4 05 John F Johnson, tied to the Mattson kidnapping and murder case, hanged himself in a jail cell after hours of interrogation by federal agents. The death marks the end of a high profile fast moving probe in this sensational case involving Tittle Charles Mattson.
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Auburn
Wash
John F. Johnson
Tittle
Charles Mattson
Johnson
Yacona Tide
Madson
Agreement To End 36 Day GM Strike Drafted At Governor Office
Detroit February reports indicate a near completion of a formal settlement draft to end the 36 day automobile strike. Gov. Murphy and mediators confer with GM executives and CIO leaders while guarded officials monitor Flint. A peaceful approach includes evacuation debates and stay-in demonstrators at Fisher Body Plant No 1.
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General Motors
Conferres
Washington
James 3
Dewey
Secretary of Labor
Murphy
Ooh United
Automobile Workers” of América
General Motors Corporation
Flint
Mich
Motor
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Fisher Body Plant No
Foster Parents Held in Slaying
In Bedford County Pennsylvania a coroner jury accuses the guardians of six year old Jean Seville of beating her to death on January 1 for tearing Pages from a boot. Glenn Sleighter and Elva Sleighter are jailed at Morrisburg. Alfred Davis of the state police testified Mrs Sleighter said her husband lashed the girl for two hours the night of January 40, then she died and he wrapped the body in blankets and took it to the ill house before reporting her missing two days later.
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Stanley Backus
Backus
Leona Elizabeth Roshia
Carthage
N. Y
Chhildren
Carl J Hynes
Albany
Bedford
Jean Seville
Glenn Sleighter
Elva
Franklin County
Morrisburg
Bedford County
Radiator Romeo Keeps Sit Down At Miss Hurlbuts Home
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS Mo Feb 4 Harold Hulen known as the radiator Romeo sat chained to a radiator in Miss Florence Hurlbuts apartment lobby to force an answer in love Miss Hurlbut remained undecided saying maybe yes and maybe no while neighbors ponder the odd scene He planned bicycle rides and card games to cope as the apartment house manager questioned the stunt.
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Excelsior
Springs
Harold Hulen
Florence Hurlbut
Hurlbut
Helen Chains
Inamorata
Miss. Hurlbut
Todiy
Hulen
Woman Convicted Of Manslaughter In Beckley
In Beckley on February 4 a jury found Mrs Lula Dillon guilty of voluntary manslaughter after nine days of deliberation in the shooting of Miss Galda Graham. The verdict carries a sentence of one to five years. Dillon, a grandmother, claimed she acted after years of carrying burdens and said she went to a Rhodes garden where Graham worked to confront her husband. Witnesses testified Dillon seemed unbalanced and influenced by personal turmoil surrounding her family.
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Lula “Dilton
Galda Graham
Dillon
Platt
Graham
Heerarden
Miss Graham
S. L. Dillon
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