Decisions On Several Bills Expected Soon
A state legislature report notes bills likely to pass this week in either house. Proposals include public service commission, water power, and primary nomination changes, with tax, billboard, road maintenance, and redistricting measures advancing through readings. A people’s counsel to represent the public in utility rate cases is also proposed.
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U. Leslie
Public Service Commisson
House
Senate
House Finance and Taxation Committee
State Road Commission
Public Service Commission
Scott
Randolph
Derezate Morton
Cabell
Peoples Counsel
Delogeee- Watkins
Taylor
Benator Hodges
Monongelia
Butcher
Wood
Supreme Court To Pass on Dry Act
The Supreme Court may pass this week on the validity of the national prohibition law. It reconvenes after recess with 46 cases ready for decision and expected rulings this term. The court has accelerated work, docketing 30 more cases than last year and hearing 112 so far.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Fact
Pedersl
Clark
New Jersey
Cate
Aupremé Court
Nome
Mrs Schroeder Faces Death Row In Pennsylvania
Irene Behroeder and W Glen Dague await execution for the murder of a state highway patrolman at Rockview Prison near Bellefonte Pa on Feb 22 1947. They slept through the night and took ordinary meals as their final hours approach.
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Irene Schroeder
Glenn Dagne
Inset
Kady Paul
Pennsylvania Pardon Board
Harrisburg
R. Lindgren
Rockview Penitentiary
Bellefonte
Ife
Irene Behroeder
W. Glen Dague
Waltrens
Pines
Inex
United States
Joseph Crawford
John Crawford
Dague
Democratic Leaders Clash Over Prohibition Debate Plans
Washington reports say Democratic leaders in Congress oppose raising the prohibition issue at the March 5 national committee meeting. Raskob plans to seek approval to erase the party debt before 1932, while others argue the national convention alone should decide policy.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Raskot
Democratic Nations Committee
Congress
Democratic Councilg
Raskob
Robinson
Arkinson
Alfred EB. Smith
Jouett Shouse
Raakob
Sdebt
Trosa
City Dedicates Drinking Fountain in memory of Dr Johnson
Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and others gathered in Little Park at Lee Street and Capitol to dedicate a newly erected drinking fountain in memory of the late Dr Henry T. G. Johnson. Mayor W. W. Wer dis received the memorial, with Rev Clarence W Kemper leading devotion and a Glendale quartet singing.
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Women’s Christian Temperatce Union
Little Park
Lee Street
Capitol
Hen. T. G. Johnson
D. D
J. A. Kuhn
W. W. Werta
Clarence W. Kemper
The
Baptist Temple
Great Commission
Dr. Johnson
Glendale Quartet
America
Charleston High School
J. Walter Barnes
J. B. Workman
Central
M. E
B. P. Taylor
Ernest, Thompson
J. F. Frame
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Charleston
Huntington Man Killed On Gauley Bridge Road
Thomas Joanson, 36, of Huntington, was found dead in his wrecked car on Gauley Bridge Road yesterday morning. No witnesses to the crash were reported, and the vehicle lay in a roadside ditch after the impact.
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Huntington
Gauley Bridge
Thomas Joanson
Liberty Bell Bell Rings Again for Washington Birthday
Philadelphia observes Washington’s birthday with the Liberty Bell ringing thirteen times. Mayor Mackey, Dr. Carlos Davila, and Rep. Bloom attend as color guards stand at attention. The bi-centennial celebration runs from Washington’s Birthday for ten months, ending Thanksgiving 1982.
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Philadelphia
George Washington
Harry A. Mackey
Brandon
Rational
Inde
City of
Philadel
Sid Ny
Phia
Ples
Mackey
Carlos Carvila
United States
Go] Bloom
New York
Biocentennial Commission
United States Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Davila
Bloom
Washington
Rebels Control Peruvian City
Lima reports say Arequipa was in rebel control after clashes with loyalist troops. Government censorship hindered confirmation of further southern Peru rebel dominance. A 1,000 volunteer reserves call was issued for 60 days, and trials for those linked to Friday’s Callao abortive revolt were planned, with possible sentences up to 20 years.
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Lima
Peru
Arequipa
Luis BM. Sanchez Cerro
Callao
Mercurios
Santiago
Chile
Tacas
Augusto B. Leguis
Arra
Pedro Pablo Martinec
Cesar Zarrila Lujan
London bishop attacks trial marriage as American trend
Rt. Rev. A. F. W. Ingram, bishop of London, denounces companionate marriage during a Royal Chapel sermon. He calls it an insidious American teaching creeping into society, criticizing it as unchristian and damaging to moral standards. The bishop recalls difficulties in convincing a young married woman that leaving with a man who is not her husband is wrong.
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London
UPI
America
A. F. Winenington Ingram
Lona Ios
Royal Chapel
Domes
Ford
Rutledge Man Shot in Brawl
Bailey Drake, 94, of Rutledge, was shot in the chest during a drunken brawl in Rutledge. John Weight, 22, is jailed on charges of the shooting after a large 45 caliber revolver was used. Drake remained in serious condition at McMillen Hospital as police investigated the incident near the raid site.
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Bailey Drake
Rutledge
McMillen
John Weight
Kanawhe
Wright
Riley Lucas
Sien
Masters
Pratt
Storm Ravages Sicily Killing and Damaging Wide Areas
A cyclone described as unprecedented struck Sicily, hitting Falermo Trapani Caltanissetta Agrigento Bona Siracusa with violent winds torrential rains and hail. Four deaths reported in Sicily as floods swelled streets and canals transformed parts of Palermo into watery corridors. Shipping disrupted and infrastructure damaged with a toppled derrick at a new post office, while communications and trees suffered extensive destruction.
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Opi
Italy
Falermo
Trapani
Caltaniscella
Agrigento
Bona
Siracusa
Sicily
Palermo
Passo Rigano
Uditore
Venice
Klapaiches
Houten
Washingtons Birthday Observed By President Hoover
President Hoover attended church in Alexandria and toured Washingtons development projects along the Potomac as the nation prepared for a bicentennial tribute to George Washington. The White House plans a nationwide program opening in 1932 and culminating at Thanksgiving with large scale commemorations.
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Washington
Hoover
George Washington
Congress
White House
Potomac
Wakefeld
Progresa
Mount Verna
Wy Bury Construction Center
Memorial
National Masonic Lodge
Capitol Hin
George Yiyaetangten
George Washington Bi-Cen
Tennis Commission
America
National Capitol
United States
Nonjose
Chicago Election Violence Sparks Police Mobilization
Chaos marked Chicago preselection Tuesday with two sluggings and two kidnappings as 70 000 rally for a guild against fraud. Alphore Capone rumored back, police doubt it, guards manned polls to curb violence. Swanson vows swift prosecutions, 6000 officers plus sheriffs deputies and Legion guards oversee voting.
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Chicago
Alphore Capone
Hig Winter
Miami
Sheriff's Department
Tomney
Wan Mage
American Legion
Three Killed In Crossing Crash In Springfield
SPRINGFIELD February 22 three members of a seven person family were killed and four injured when an automobile was struck by a passenger train. The victims include Mrs Mona McNamee 40 her son Shelby 20 and a daughter Etts 19. B S McNamee husband and father suffered a fractured skull while three other children Virgil 3 Vernon 8 and Viro Ex sustained lacerations. The family resided here and Shelby McNamee who was driving died at once while Mr McNamee and another daughter died later in hospital.
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Drity
Lesbi
State Senate
Special Citizens’ Committee
Senate
Mr. Wertz
J. T. Reynolds
L. 5. Helniger
Harold
Mathews
Benson
Comenlsteenisa
Millard E. Chambers
H. L. Webba
B. Lewis
Fred FP
Maple Coach
Edgewood
Thayer
Virginia Street
Sad
J. Shirley Foss
House of Deleg Pates
Parsons
Republican Council
Watts’ Aulce
Nomit Nees
Thefficiai
Springfield
Mona McNamee
Shelby
Etts
B.S. McNamee
Virgil
Vernon
Viro
Shelby McNamee
Washington and hereditary traits in a near-historian sermon
A sermon by Rev. C M Glark denounces modern near historians and praises George Washington as the epitome of hereditary virtues. It links Washington to royal blood and Stuart loyalties, notes exile under Cromwell, and hints at a deeper analysis of personality and environment. Page 10, Column 4.
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C, NM
Glark
Humphrey Memorial
M. 2
Boul
Fire Gazette
Washington
George Washington Washington
George
Waa
Wiliam Washington
Packington
Kent
George Viziers
Duke of
Buck Ingham
Washingtons
Cromwell
Sulgrate Manor
John
Andrew
American Matador Gored in Laredo Bullring
Sidney Franklin of Brooklyn, the only American matador, was gored in the right leg by the fourth bull at the 33rd Washington's Birthday fiesta in Laredo Texas. Spectators near 8 000 crowded the ring, with 3 000 turned away as Lalanda killed three bulls before Franklin was injured in the fourth.
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Nuevo Laredo
Mex
Sidney Franklin
Brooklyn
Marcial Lalanda
Laredo
Texas
Rio Grande
Ita
Mexico
America
Ylva Lalanda
Atta
Franklin
Lalanda
Tierce
Pitadores
Fifteen Escape From Arizona State Prison
Fifteen prisoners scaled the wall at the Florence Arizona State prison and fled into the desert. One escapee named Mexica, serving a life term for murder, was captured minutes later. Warden William Dellbridge said none of the escapees were believed to be armed.
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Florence. Aris
Walla
Arizona State
Mexica
Ufe
William Dellbridge
George Washington would have valued equal rights for all
A fragmented, early draft letter from Hollywood, California, dated February 22, argues that George Washington missed his birthdate by not joining the modern political call for universal rights and equal privileges. The writer claims seven million lack opportunity to earn and laments wartime wealth concentration, imagining Washington approving a peaceful, fair system.
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Hollywood
Cel
George Washington
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