$1,600,000 Sought For 19 Schools
Kanawha county board of education selects 19 building projects to pursue with PWA funds. Sus Virgil L. Flinn states plans to seek about $1.6 million for sites including Frampton, East Bank, Capitol, Mount Oval, Toft, Quick, Dry Branch, Dunbar wards, and several Negro schools. Architects chosen to prepare plans and directions. bond issues previously trimmed.
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PWA
Kanawh
Deulow
Frampton and Bowers
East Bask
Herbert S. Kyle
Lincoln
Montgomery and
Patteson
Capitol
Nater Sry
Mt. Oval
Toft School
Montgomery
Quick
L. T. Rengteos
Big ‘Ng
Dry Branch
Tucker and
Billing
Dunbar
1St Ward
Ind Ward
Silling
Sid Ward
Tucker
Point Harmony
Crost Lanes
Lowland
Bird Hill
Rocky Fork
Negro Schools
Charleston
Shrewsbury
Herbert
Kyle
Wake Forest
Meanor
Hendloser
Stop
Handloser
Vanderbilt Weds Girl Race Fan in Bermuda Romance
Vanderbilt famed handicap horse owner and 1933 top money winner, a Cornelius Vanderbilt descendant, marries at age 25 after a romance sparked at Santa Anita. Bride, niece of Charles Howard, joins a life split between Sagamore and Maryland breeding grounds.
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Htémeymoon
Bermuda
Vanderbilt
Discovery
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Newport
New York
Emerson
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Santa Anita
Charles 5
Howard
Viderbilt
Sagamore Worthington Valley
Maryland
Bombings at Canton Campus Spark U.S. Protest
Japanese bombs struck the Longnan university campus in Canton injuring no Americans. Addison E. Southard American consal general protested to the Japanese consul general in Hong Kong, noting the American ownership and financing of the institution. Britain and France had already protested earlier bombings during a heavy aerial campaign on Canton.
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Washington
University of Longnan
Canton
China
State Department
Addison E. Southard
Hong Kong
Southard
France
Can
British Considering Appeal to Duce Over Union Jack Attacks
Britain weighs appealing to Mussolini to curb insurgent attacks on ships flying the Union Jack. The Italian premier may be urged to press the insurgents to halt yards while highlighting risks to British interests. Sanctions discussed, seizure of Franco ships eyed but deemed risky due to possible reprisals. British warnings to ships sailing to Spanish ports noted. Artificial mowers exports from Sonn last year valued at.
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Asan
Franco
London
Sonn
Figueras
Gandia
Britain
Britain Seeks U S Help to End Chinese Butchery
Prime Minister Chamberlain signals a push for American support to halt violence in China as public opinion in the British Empire reacts to bombings. Australia and New Zealand press for a strong protest to Japan, with a meeting set to decide next steps.
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Britain
U. S
China
Net
Chamberlain
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Free School Books Urged by Governor
A West Virginia political page notes the election results and legislative appointments. Homer A. Rovxy Holt greeted the crowd as the governor. Miller named state officials including police heads, tax and road officials, budget and public service appointees, and court leaders John Amos and William Kidd.
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House
Senate
William Davis
Bluefield
Richard Malcolm
Clyde Judy
Fairmont
James O'Connor
Weilsburg
Judy
Jack Lawson
Weirton
Dale Simmons
Ronceverte
West Virginia
Homer A
Holt
Charleston
Miller
Kenneth Skidmore
Elkins
William Bates
Clarksburg
Larry Patterson
Piedmont
Leslie Stifel
Wheeling
William Ezell
Bernard Hebner
Moundsville
William Fitchke
Gary
James McCogar
Camden-on-Gauley
William Pednesu
Princeton
Public Service Commissioners
Earl McCarus
Thomas Orr
Hinton
Fred Byrer
Martinsboro
Board of Control
John Amos
Supreme Court
William Kidd
WPA Politics Ban Pushed by Democratic Bloc
A group of Democratic senators led by Adams Colorado Bulkley Ohio Burke Nebraska George Georgia Gerry Rhode Island Baron New Mexico King Utah McAdoo California Wagner New York push a measure against the president’s court bill. Rep. Lewis challenges the effort as Nye endorsement from Norris Ind-Neb signals a liberal congress goal for this fall election.
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Maryland
Baron
New Mexico
King
Utah
McAdoo
California
Wagner
New York
Congress
Paris
Sen
Nye
Norris
Kidnap Case Stirs Federal Action as Search Continues
Federal officers tested, questioned, then released without comment. Investigators probe articles linked to the kidnapers but disclose no leads. The public and volunteers keep searching, driven by the belief that Jimmy was slain before the ransom was paid. The Miami Daily News offers 1000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction, bringing total rewards to 4000. The FBI also doubles the payout for the finder of the first 100 ransom bills among about 1100 in existence.
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Jimmy
Miami Daily News Today
Postman Brings Good and Bad News for Widow Manssen
In New York on June 8, Mrs Sadle Leslie Manssen received two letters from the federal government. One, with Roosevelt’s approval, announced that the destroyer DD-436 would be named Manssen in honor of her late husband Lieut Mons Monssen. The other advised the Home Owners Loan Corporation planned foreclosure of her Brooklyn home. Monssen, a 1904 hero who saved the battleship Missouri by locking himself in a magazine and beating out the fire with his bare hands, died in 1960.
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New York
U. S. Navy
Sadle
Leslie Manssén
Roosevelt
Manssen
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Brooklyn
Monssen
Lieut
Mons Monssen
Congressional Medal
Missouri
Pensacola
Fla
Flesh and Bone Pylons Support Bamboo Bridge in China
Japanese engineers hurriedly laid a bamboo bridge in Central China as troops advanced under fire. Pylons stood neck deep to bear the flimsy span, while the Far East war nears its first anniversary. Reports estimate Japan spends about 5 million dollars daily.
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China
Japan
Burial Today for Mrs Weimer of Kanawha Valley
Mrs Hanah Weimer 86 widow of George Weimer died at 3 15 am at her St Albans home. Services at 2 30 pm at the residence with Rev H M Sturm in charge burial in Teays cemetery flowers omitted. Born February 25 1852 in Burning Springs she was active in church and social life and survived by three brothers three stepsons six grandchildren and six great grandchildren plus other relatives.
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Hanah Weimer
Kanawha Valley
George Weimer
St. Albans
Weimer
H. M. Sturm
Teays
Burning Springs
Kanawha County
John Roberts
Eliza Stephenson Roberts
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
James B
E. B. Roberts
Harry E. Roberts
Charleston
James Weimer
George C. Weimer
William Weimer
Amelia, O
Rmieces
Harlan Sex Use Revealed in Trial
Testimony details a plan to coerce a union supporter with a dance and a taxi ride toward an implied arrest. A deputy allegedly offered $100 for each man tipped off, and mentions of visiting an elder Musick the night his home was shot at raise further questions about organized actions.
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Sheriff's Office
White
Howard
Old Man Musick
Musick
Som Ben
Luion Eganizer
Blain
Ten Chinese Are Held As Jap Finger Men
Large buildings lie in utter ruins as rescue workers struggle amid relentless bombings. Canton's largest power plant partial demolition hinders medical efforts and blocks X-ray use. All raid alarms are silent as casualties mount.
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Canton
Obituary notices from Fayetteville and Kanawha City area
Obituaries and funeral notices for M. F. Wilson 62 of Prudence Rev Homer Sloan officiating at Fayetteville Baptist Church burial in Wilson Cemetery Also Herbert Fin ton Nichols 36 of Mink Shoals died after a self inflicted gun accident in Charleston hospital burial at Spring Hill cemetery Honorary and active pallbearers listed Mrs Honorine V Golfaux 79 of Seventh Avenue requiem mass at St Anthony Catholic burial Glendale cemetery Napoleon K Holmes age unknown died at Tupper's Creek residence services at 2 pm burial Holmes cemetery William A Rippert 30 of Charleston funeral at Cunningham Funeral Home burial Suttes Cemetery Earl Wells McCann 61 Roosevelt Avenue East Kanawha estates requiem mass at St Agnes burial Mt Olivet Knights of Columbus rosary and pallbearers listed Mrs Violet Opal Miller 19 daughter of George Snodgrass funeral at home burial Gillispie cemetery on Trace Fork David Ashby Hart 63 Rockbridge Baths Va brother of Elonga Hart of Charleston died recently services held near Rockbridge Burial in unspecified location Mrs Mary Griggs 86 Pratt died Monday burial Pratt Cemetery today at Seacrest residence
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M. F. Wilson
Fayetteville Baptist Church
Prudence
Homer Sloan
Wilson Cemetery
Fayetteville
Martha Wilson
Martin
Melvin
Major Wilson
Brennie Bremer
Ronda
Walter Ayers
Decota
Herbert F. Nichols
Wold
Herbert Finton Nichols
Mink Shoals
Charleston
Rev. B. Entsminger
Spring Hill
J. T. Moore
L. H. Oakes
H. P
Cather Greenlee
George Evans
E. A. Hughart
Neil Ranson
S. V. Lowe
E. E. Marshall
O. E. Simmons
J. C. Ehtin
Honorine V. Golfaux
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Seventh Avenue
Father Joseph
Glendale Cemetery
South Charleston
Owen and Barth Mortuary
Napoleon K. Holmes
Napoleon , Holmes
Rome
Cobble
Tupper’s Creek
Holmes Cemetery
Els Mortuary
Edwin L. Parsons
Jimmy Holmes
Wolfpens M. 1
Holmes
Tupper's Creek
Knights
Broad
Quarrier
Lew Cheesmat
A! Marshall
Harry Newton
Sam Noland
Charles W. Moran
Joe Marshall
Violet Opal Miller
Ge M. Snodgrass
Venable Avenue
Heril
Reynolds Street
Pat B. Withrow
Gillispie
Trace Fork
Davis Creek
Snodgrass Mortuary
Mary Griggs
B. O. Seacrest
Pratt
Seacrest
Penal Post Goes To Tobacco Heiress Cromwel
Governor A Harry Moore appoints Mrs Cromwel, famed tobacco heiress, to the New Jersey state board of control of the department of institutes and agencies. The honorary post carries no salary and oversees care for about 10 000 wards in penal institutions and hospitals.
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Renton
Cromwel
Guv
Sergt Wooster Honored With Dinner by Friends
Police Sergt John Wooster, senior Negro officer and 10 year veteran of major cases, was hosted to a slag dinner on his birthday at the Col Young American Legion home. Attendees included Fred Huskins Spencer Moore Fay Fanetenax Samuel Szatt Fred McArthur Razz Brown and A L Jones of Detroit.
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John Wooster
Col. Young American Legion
Wooster
Fred Huskins
Spencer Moore
Fay Faneteneax
Samuel Szatt
Fred McArthur
Razz Brown
A. L. Jones
Detroit
Jap Planes Spread Fires and Deaths Brews
War news reports describe multiple air raids by Japanese planes causing fires and heavy casualties in Canton South China including an American university site. Protests filed with Tokyo through the U S consul general while Britain mulls actions to curb insurgent raids amid fear of wider hostilities.
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China
Spain
Canton
South China
U. S
British
Ronzberg
London
Neville Chamberlain
Japan
Wage Hour Accord Heads Toward Final Form
The conference panel approved a wage and hour plan with a 25 cent first year raise, 40 cents second year, then a 30 to 40 cent range for five more years set by industrial boards under Justice Department supervision. After seven years, 40 cents becomes mandatory unless unemployment would result. Hours reduce from 44 to 40, wage overtime at time and a half. Senate debate noted a filibuster risk, with adjournment likely mid next week as river and harbor funds, plus a large deficiency bill, moved in Congress.
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Justice Department
Ellender
Sen
Pepper
Congress
Senate
House
Rahn Elected Shrine Potentate at 64th Imperial Council
Rahn was elected Shrine potentate in a secret, formal vote with 12 other offices filled by delegates. Walter PD Cline of Maskat Temple Wichita Falls Texas becomes deputy imperial potentate as Rahn moves up. The second day of the 64th imperial council featured a parade with an ambulating alphabet from Zor temple Madison Wisconsin and a neon lit camel patrol.
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Walter PD
Cline
Maskat Temple
Wichita Falls
Tex
Rahn
Imperial Council
Zor Temple
Madison
Wis
Is Camel Trio
Air delivery plan seeks $160000 for experiments
Dr L S Adams of Tri-State Aviation outlined a wire guided hook line system to drop packages from planes. He claimed the method could save millions and noted 141 ownings with eight stations already in operation across Washington Baltimore Charleston Uniontown Connellsville Greeneburg Morgantown Princeton Martinsburg and other cities. He urged senate approval to expand experimental routes.
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Sre
L. S. Adams
Irwin
Tri-State Aviation Corporation
Randolph
Washington
Baltimore
Charleston
W. Va
Uniontown
Connellzville
Greenburg
Morgantown
Princeton
Martinsburg
Senate
Baby Boy Left On Porch Steps in Princeton
An unidentified woman left a three week old baby boy on George Hale's porch in Princeton on June 8. A note asked Mr. and Mrs. Ilgin Miller to take the infant, a plea delivered to public aid head Mrs. Willie May Carr and Sheriff G. H. Crumpecker.
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Princeton
George Hale
Charleston Youth Killed In Elk River Road Crash
Rites for Russell F. Morgan 20 of Crescent road will be held at 10 a m at Wesley M E church on Gisley avenue with Rev C E Taump officiating Burial will be in Morgan cemetery at Point Pleasant Morgan a Charleston high school class of 1936 graduate and former Sigman Radio service employee Surviving are his wife Mrs Margaretta Hayes Morgan his parents two sisters Opal and Syball Morgan and one brother Wayne Morgan all of Charleston Honorary bearers include James Dotson A L Maynard Wilbur Sigman Bruce Seafler Cecil D Kelley Roland Lucas Ed Hall Mack Haucklander E S Bowles and Delvin Rogers Active bearers are Lacy Evans Frank Faulkner Clyde Hicks Carl Wyatt William Evans and Albert Lowe
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Russell F. Morgan
Crescent Road
Elk River Road
Wesley M. E. Chorch
Gisley Avenue
C. E. Taumpon
Morgan Cemetery
Point Pleasant
Morgan
Charleston High School
Sigman Radio Service
High Court to Get Ford-NLRB Fight
Ford Motor Company seeks a stay from the Fifth Circuit after the May 5 order granting the NLRB motion to withdraw the case without prejudice. If denied, Ford plans a writ to the Supreme Court to challenge compliance with the board order. The board seeks to remove issues tied to procedures questioned by a Kansas City stockyard decision.
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Covington
Ford Motor Company
National Labor Relations Board
LU. S. Supreme Court
Ta Fs
Ford
Si Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Kansas City
Department of Agriculture
Rebel bomber blast hits British port in Spain
Government dispatches report about 40 killed and 60 wounded in Figueras after bombs struck a hospital and other buildings. Insurgent General Francisco Franco concentrates attacks to crush government strongholds at Castellon de la Plana and Valencia along the east central coast.
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Figueras
Francisco Franco
Castellon de la Plana
Valencia
Mrs Ketchum Dies at Home
Mrs. Mabel E. Ketchum 60 wife of D A Ketchum vice president of Limited Fuel Gas died yesterday morning at her home 2915 Kanawha avenue 5 E of heart ailment Her body to Bartlett mortuary then home at 1030 today Flowers omitted ill for years Born Aug 21 1877 Clyde N J married Feb 12 1901 Charleston resident since 1910 Survived by husband four sons Dr Robert D Ketchum and John T Collins a brother R N Van Buskirk six grandchildren active in St Johns Episcopal church Services 4 p m tomorrow at St Johns Episcopal church Reverend Garsole to officiate Honorary pallbearers listed Active pallbearers listed
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Mabel E. Ketchum
D. A. Ketchum
Limited Fuel Gas Company
Kanawha Avenue
E. of
Bartlett Mortuary
A. M. van Buskirk
Clyde
Ketchum
Charleston
Old City
Marietta
Buffalo
Robert D. Ketchum
Smither's
Daugiter
E. A. Wallace
H. A. Ritz
E. F. Collins
W. G. Hubbard
R. C. Rowan
W. J. Hightower
J. C. Jefferds
J. B. Goldsmith
W. W. Hall
BR. L. Hartman
Trigger Man Wins Delay of Execution in Indiana Case
James Dathover, dubbed Al Brady by local press, won an indefinite delay from the U S circuit court of appeals on the murder of an Indiana state highway patrolman. His counsel seeks Supreme Court review after the postponement of his electric chair death sentence set for Michigan City at the Indiana State Prison.
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Chicago, Jung
INS
Rhwvel
James Dathover
Al_ Brady
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Indiana
U. S. Supreme Court
Michigan City
Spy Offensive Is Launched by FDR
The senate committee chairman announced a summer probe into subversive activities on ships carrying the American flag. A bill signed by Mr. Roosevelt imposes a $1,000 fine and up to two years imprisonment for force agents who fail to file or misstate their activities, with all statements published by the state department.
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Senate
Roosevelt
State Department
Wee 2
Eye Ceparm
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Rockbridge Baihs
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N. J
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