West Virginia Senate defeats bid to end three day marriage rule
The West Virginia Senate repulsed a drive to abolish the three day marriage license law and the requirement for a physician certified syphilis test. Sen Fleming urged that until disease and social problems are solved, marriages should be restricted to ensure public health, while Sen Pelter questioned limiting rights of matrimony. The bill, backed by the Federation of Women’s Clubs and the health department, passed the House and advanced to third reading after hours of debate.
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West Virginia
State Senate
Fleming
D.-Pleasants
Senate
Sen
Pelter
D.logan
House of Delegates
Sen. Moler
D.berkeley
Federation of Women’s Clubs
State Health Department
Walkout Halts Parkway Work Near Delaware Avenue
The Kanawha parkway extension toe-wall project paused at about 1 p m when the Charleston Building Trades council AF of L affiliate demanded a closed shop contract with Pinnell and Prost of Ripley. Dravo Contracting quarrying rock on Elk River road is not involved, per a Dravo official.
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Delaware Avenue
Charleston Building Trades Council
American Federation of Labor
Pinnell and Prost Company
Ripley
Dravo Contracting Company
Elk River
Frank Rebhan
Trades Council
Dravo Company
Pinnell and Prost
The
Legislature Speeds Work On Budget Bill And Bills
The 44th legislature pushed more than 30 bills to schedules as committees meet Friday and Saturday to advance administration and department measures. Leaders plan to push the $62,400,000 budget bill through by Monday with rapid committee activity in both houses. The Senate also approved the administration’s industrial home work bill and moved two other measures.
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House
Senate
Rules Committee
Hurricane Boy Dies After Car Crash
George Bird Hall fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hall of Hurricane died in a Charleston hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile Wednesday on the way home from school. A technical manslaughter hearing will be scheduled. the driver W G Crowe of Lexington Kentucky said the accident was unavoidable. He was a Hurricane High student and Pentacostal church member. He leaves his parents two brothers and four sisters. Burial at Barlow mortuary.
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George Hall
Hurricane
Charleston
Nitro
W. G. Crowe
Lexington
Barlow Mortuary
Marcellus
Paul Gordon Hall
Ernestine Hall
Earl Kincaid
Cincinnati
Virginia Hall
Bruce Lyons
Huntington
Hurricane High School
Pentacostal Church of
Motion Picture Academy Awards Honor Davis and Tracy
Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy won the Academy Awards for best actress and actor for the past year. You Can't Take It With You topped as outstanding film. Capra’s film wins directing. Others honored include Walter Brennan and Fay Bainter for supporting roles, and Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for special awards.
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Los Angeles
Bette Davis
Spencer Tracy
Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
Davis
Jezebel
Tracy
Columbia
Mr. Deeds
Miss Davis
Walter Brennan
Kentucky
Fay Bainter
Frank Capra
Dore Schary
Eleanore Griffin
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
W. P. Lipscomb
Cecil Lewis
Ian Dalrymple
Hal B. Wallis
Warner Brothers
Irving G. Thalberg
Cold Weather Takes 2 Lives
Two deaths attributed to the severe cold were reported as temperatures plunged to near zero. Luther Ketterman, 45, was found frozen near Dry Fork Randolph County after leaving a neighbor’s home in a blizzard, and Jim Murphy, 60, of Warrior, was found near Welch. Several areas logged their coldest readings of the year with 14 below at Midvale and subzero lows elsewhere. roads were largely clear aside from mountain regions.
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Dry Fork
Randolph County
Jim Murphy
Warrior
Welch
Midvale
Phipps
U. S
Charleston
United Fuel Gas Company
Mercury
Fairmont
Belington
Weston
Rowlesburg
Preston County
Point Pleasant
Clarksburg
Huntington
Martinsburg
Tucker County
Parsons
Davis
Thomas
Tucker
Randolph
Pocahontas
State Road Commission
Miners Strike 61 Stay 250 Feet Below Surface
Sixty-one hard coal miners refuse to leave their mountainside Hazelton mine demanding $28,000 owed since 1937 and current wages due Feb 20. Ambulances stand by as families cook and support lines form while officials prep deep road access for emergency exits. The action, labeled unauthorized, follows a three year back-wage moratorium agreed in 1937 during bankruptcy reorganization.
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Pennsylvania
Hazleton
Wolfe Collieries Company
Hugh V. Brown
Hoover links intolerance to fifth horseman in world crisis
Former President Herbert Hoover says intolerance ideologies ride with war famine pestilence and death over two thirds of the world. He urges national support for smaller colleges at a Pittsburgh banquet launching a 10 million dollar campaign by the Presley group.
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Pittsburgh
Herbert Hoover
Presley
Business Eocan Spurt Hint In April Says Morgenthau
Government economists expect an April upturn and Morgenthau states there will be no new tax legislation unless extending existing excises. A possible farm benefit measure of about 200 million dollars is considered. Hopkins planned a Des Moines radio address to outline government business cooperation. Speaker Bankhead noted Roosevelt’s clear stance.
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Congress
Morgenthau
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Des Moines
Bankhead
U.S.-British Status Debated in Commons
In London February 23 a heated Commons session debated Anglo American relations amid charges that private interests delayed the trade treaty. Laborites pressed for explanations of the delay as Ronald Cross denied business pressure and cited complex trade systems as the cause.
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London
INS
House of Commons
Great Britain
U. S
Neville Chamberlain
Wedgewood Benn
Ronald Cross
Board of Trade
Cross
Britain
John James Davidson
Chamberlain
France Hears Debate Over Franco Recognition Rise
France faces a sharp split as opponents demand immediate debate on recognizing Franco's regime in Spain. Daladier and Bonnet discuss steps ahead of Sen. Berard's return as France and Britain prepare for a joint decision under mounting political pressure.
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Aris
Spain
Francisco Franco
France
Great Britain
Daladier
Bonnet
Georges Bonnet
Paris
Sen
Leon Berard
Burgos
Billings Pardon Opposed by California Board
In Sacramento on February 23 the California advisory pardon board voted 3 to 2 against recommending a pardon for Warren K. Billings, life prisoner in Folsom for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing. Only Lieut. Gov. Ellis Patterson and Court Smith supported the recommendation.
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Sacramento
Calif
INS
California Advisory Pardon Board
Warren K. Billings
Folsom
San Francisco
Billings
Tom Mooney
Culbert Olson
Ellis Patterson
Court Smith
San Quentin
Earl Warden
Clyde Plummer
Clarence S. Morrill
State Division of Criminal Investigation
State Supreme Court
Olson
State Advisory Pardon Board
High Tribunal
Navy builds farsea defense plan in Atlantic maneuvers
Washington reports that the Atlantic fleet exercises titled problem XX emphasize hemisphere defense and testing intercepts of any Atlantic naval attack Far from canal defense the maneuvers lie 1500 miles east of Panama The real strategy remains undisclosed and likely shielded from congressional review The article notes past calls for war plans and a Roosevelt era test of similar probability theories during the current maneuvers
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Washington
Atlantic
Houston
Panama Canal
Canal
Central
South America
Navy Department
Senate
Sec. Daniels
Senate Committee
Roosevelt
Soviet Troops Renew Allegiance Oath Across Russia
In Moscow on February 23, the Stalin regime compelled 1,545,000 armed forces members to renew loyalty. Each officer and soldier nationwide signed a personal declaration pledging allegiance to the regime amid fears of trouble in Europe or the Far East.
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Moscow
INS
Europe
Far East
Russia
Britain and France vow mutual aid amid European crisis
Lord Halifax stated that Britain will not seek third party mediation in the Italo French dispute and will cooperate with France. Chamberlain said Britain cannot yet recognize Franco's regime in Spain. Reported Anglo French talks at Burgos face difficulties amid Mediterranean tensions as U S relations come under scrutiny.
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Ndon
Ely
Francesa Great Britain
England
France
Lord Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
Rome
Paris
Lordax
Halifax
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Francisco Franco
Spain
Burgos
Franco
U. S
Frederick S. Cocks
Bill to Revamp Bureaus Revived
Administration supporters push a compromise reorganization bill to grant the president more power to reshuffle agencies while omitting last year’s contentious provisions. Congress retains veto power by majority vote on any government-structure changes in the new measure.
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Washington
Administration
Roosevelt
House
General Accounting Office
Civil Service Commission
Department of Public Welfare
Ambulance Crash Injures Sixteen St Mel's Pupils
In Chicago on February 23 a racing ambulance carrying a sick woman skidded on ice and struck a car then rammed into a group of 50 St Mel's parochial school pupils. Police officer Raymond J Payne pulled several children to safety as 16 youngsters aged six or seven were injured in the incident.
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Chicago
INS
St. Mel’s
Park District
Raymond J. Payne
House rejects Guam outpost plan for defenses
After a three day debate the House defeated the Guam outpost measure 205 to 168 as part of a broader national defense package. The vote split along party lines with 64 Democrats, 138 Republicans, two Progressives and one Farmer-Laborite against the base. The Senate already backs a separate $358 million defense bill.
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Washington
House
Naval Air Bases
Pacific
Guam
Japan
U. S
Senate
Army Air Corps
Friends of the
America
Tokyo
Orient
Hines Frames Prosecution Attack in Frameup Claim
New York February trial of District Leader James J. Hines focuses on alleged conspiracy links to the Schultz policy racket. His attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker denounces key witnesses as corrupt, while tying the death of George Weinberg to testimony.
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James J. Hines
Italy
General Sessions
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Hines
Stryker
Weinberg
Ness
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
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