Senate Pushes Vote on Relief Bill Amid Budget Clash
Senate leaders expedite action on the $1.735 billion relief bill after House passage and a 14 hour session. Debate centers on WPA and PWA allocations and new spending limits as economy bloc fights to curb growth and avoid administrative confusion before June 30.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Appropriations
Adams
Colo
Barkley
WPA
Col. F. C. Harrington
PWA
Roosevelt
Sen
Mead
N. Y
National Youth Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Big Air Show in Charleston Opens All-West Virginia Meet
Aviation enthusiasts from across the state gather at Wertzfield near Dunbar for the first All-West Virginia Air Meet. The event, organized by the West Virginia Sportsman Pilots association and The Gazette, features Don Walters and John L. Thompson, a Krazy Kat act, a balloon burst contest, and a 30 mile light plane race.
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Charleston
Wertzfield
Dunbar
West Virginia Air Meet, Inc
West Virginia Sportsman Pilots’ Association
the Gazette
Don Walters
Columbus
John L. Thompson
West Virginia
Charles S. Blood
Hubert Stark
Aero
Page Nine Briefs Feature On Page Nine Part One
A compact column fills Page Nine Part One with short notes from local life. It highlights community happenings, small events, and brief notices that reflect daily town concerns.
Danzig Union Inevitable Says Goebbels
In Danzig Goebbels declares union of Free City with Germany inevitable. He tells a cheering crowd that no power can prevent it and urges Danzig residents to return to the Reich, insisting Germany is strong under Hitler and that Danzig is German.
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Danzig
Goebbels
Free City
Free City OF Danzig
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbles
Reich
Vistula
Warsaw
Poland
Rotterdam
Rhine
Adolf Hitler
Power to Cut Dollar Fought in U S Senate
Washington June 17. A bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Glass presses to strip Roosevelt of devaluation powers on the dollar. The plan would extend presidential authority for two years from June 30 and preserve the 2 billion stabilization fund plus silver purchases above world prices. Western senators Thomas and McCarran seek a separate measure to extend domestically mined silver purchases through 1941.
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Washington
Sen. Glass
D.-Va
Senate
Roosevelt
Glass
Treasury
Thomas
D.okla
McCarran
D.nev
183 Named In Indictments In Kanawha County Court
The Kanawha county intermediate court grand jury returned 183 true bills including two murder indictments. Eva Mitchell 38 and Clyde William Neal 25 are named in murder charges. Albert Canterbury 34 faces two counts for arson at a hatchery and nearby home. Also 22 entities charged with misdemeanor reports to the unemployment department.
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Kanawha County Intermediate Court
Eva Mitchell
Cody Harrison
Charleston
Clyde William Neal
Rayford
Charles Murphy
Cabin Creek
Albert Canterbury
Davidson Brothers Hatchery
Davidson
State
David Aliff
Oda K. Apple
Samuel Arnold
Staunton Waldron
William Waldron
James Matheny
Jack Avis
James Badger
A. W. Ball
Columbus Beaver
Peebles Benefit Draws Near 3000 From Baseball Expos
An itemized report on Gen. Henderson Peebles latest promotion and a Brooklyn Chicago game shows a profit near 3000. White Cross workers received 1750 for Hillcrest sanitarium bed maintenance, and Boy Scouts 1100 to settle an old note and equip Walhonde camp. Weather cut attendance by 2000, affecting Y M C A Comfort camp proceeds, with plans for another major league exhibition to cover the shortfall.
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Henderson Peebles
White Cross
Hillcrest Sanitarium
Walhonde
Peebles
Comfort
Scientists Seek Method Of Making Cheaper Fuel
Paris June 17 AP Frederic Joliot co winner of the 1935 Nobel prize for chemistry seeks a way to make a two pound量 of uranium yield heat or power like ten thousand dollars worth of coal. He works independently of Irene Joliot Curie, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, as he studies uranium fission with neutron bombardment to release energy.
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Paris
Frederic Joliot
Joliot
Irene Joliot-Curie
Pierre and
Marie Curie
College de France
Weather Hits 104 as Cleveland Boston Postponed
Hill City Kansas recorded 104 degrees as baseball fans learned the Cleveland at Boston game was postponed due to the cold weather, leaving locals to cope with the heat and the postponed matchup.
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Hill City
Kas
Cleveland
Boston
Rabbis Assail Fr. Coughlin for Prejudice
A report to the central conference of American rabbis charges Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin with promoting racial and religious prejudice. The social justice commission calls out Coughlin as exploiting social justice rhetoric to discredit democracy and warns citizens against anti-Semitic propaganda. It condemns Communism Fascism and Nazism as materialist dictatorships opposing spiritual life.
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Washington
INS
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Barnett R. Brickner
Cleveland
Father Coughlin
National Socialist Movement of
Germany
Commission
Scrap Iron Quota Aimed At Japan and Exports Policy
Washington officials outline a proposed export quota system for scrap iron and steel intended to curb Japan's metal purchases. The plan averages past shipments over about ten years and would set licenses limiting exports to roughly one third of recent totals, applying generally without naming any nation.
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Washington
Japan
Congress
State Department
Clipper Starts Preview Trip to Azores on Transatlantic Flight
Port Washington dispatch reports Atlantic Clipper, with 18 passengers and 12 crew, departing for the Azores on a test run ahead of Pan American Airways passenger service. Captain Culbertson at 10:30 p.m. radioed position 1,161 miles at sea as the mammoth flying boat heads for Horta and Lisbon.
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Port Washington
N. Y
INS
Culbertson
Azores
Devon Francis
Atlantic
Long Island
Pan American Airways
Horta
Lisbon
Portugal
Wallace D. Culbertson
Mother Confesses to Killing 10 Week Old Baby
Fremont Ohio June 17. Prosecutor A L Hyzer said Velma Baker Fink confessed orally to killing her 10 week old son Halden Buster whose body was found in a creek near Clyde Ohio several days ago.
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A. L. Hyzer
Velma Baker Fink
Halden “Buster
Clyde, O
71 on French Sub Mourned as Phenix Sinks
Paris mourns 71 officers and sailors lost aboard the submarine Phenix off Indo China. A 24 day search yielded only an oil circle as a faint trace. 196 lives among U S British and French subs have been lost in a three week span. A commission is probing the catastrophe as Indo China fleet searches continue.
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Indo-China
Far East
Persee
Phenix
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France
China Sea
Sam-Ranh Bay
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Saigon
Arms Embargo Bill Reported by House Committee
The House Foreign Affairs Committee reported favorably the neutrality bill permitting wartime sales of munitions to Britain and France with a cash and carry option. Vice President Garner plans an early adjournment, staying on call at Uvalde to avoid breaking with Roosevelt, while Sen. Pittman would guide a Senate filibuster if needed.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Britain
France
Garner
Senate
Uvalde
Tex
Sen
Pittman
Nevada
Roosevelt
Bloom
N. Y
Favorite Sow Candidates Hold Political Spotlight
Washington reports a surge of favorite son candidacies for 1940 across both parties with Paul V. McNutt leading the field for Democrats as he plans to return to the United States to pursue the presidency. The piece lists prominent names such as Garner, Farley, Hall, Stark, Bennett Clark, Bankhead and other potential contenders shaping the early race.
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Washington
Francisco
McNutt
Garner
Texas
Farley
New York
Sec
State Hall
Tennessee
Lloyd C. Stark
Bennett Clark
Missouri
Bankhead
Alabama
Sen
George
Gov. E
Japan demands Britain drop China policy over Tientsin crisis
Tokyo reports North China army commander says Britain must abandon Chiang Kai-shek support to resolve the Tientsin stand off. He notes Britain must revise China policy and may require U S cooperation, while interviews are blocked and four held Chinese remain unresolved.
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Tokyo
Japan
North China Army
Tientsin
Britain
Chiang Kai- Shek
Domei
Yen Sugiyama
North
China
North China
Pavers Move Up Kanawha Street Renovation
Street work begins on Kanawha with Stellhorn and Beightler using a pavement breaker and power shovel to tear the north half to Morris street. Water and gas crews trench and utilities aim to finish downtown by week’s end. Judge Bouchelle may rule on eviction cases as condemned tenants await action.
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Kanawha Street
Broad-Brooks Street
Stellhorn
Beightler
Morris Street
Water and Gas Company
Water Company
Capitol
Court Broad Street
Bouchelle
Morris-Bradford
Philip H. Hill
Sweltering Heat Drives West Virginians to Seek Relief
The second hot day pushed thousands to mountains and cool country camps as temperatures stayed near 90 or higher across West Virginia. Charleston reached 95, one of the state's highest readings, with little relief in sight per the weather forecast.
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West
Revenue Reform House Panel Backed Bill To Reduce Taxes
The Ways and Means Committee reported a 1.6 billion dollar tax bill dubbed business appeasement with plans for quick action Monday. Republicans and Democrats backed revising corporate taxes to restore about 1 billion to the treasury and extend nuisance levies and postage. Republicans urged immediate repeal of the undistributed profits tax, arguing for a flat 18 percent corporate levy starting Jan 1.
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Cecil B. Dickson Washington
INS
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Treasury
Plot to murder Carol shakes Romania with arrests
In Bucharest on June 17 authorities rounded up Iron Guard supporters amid claims of a plot to assassinate King Carol and top officials. Police questioned seven suspects, including an Orthodox priest, as 22 hand grenades were recovered.
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Carol
Iron Guard
Armand Calinescu
Grigore Gafencu
Corneliu Codreanu
Romania
Hitler
Iron Guards
Codreanu
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