Wage-Hour Bill Tension Is Eased
Labor experts say current conditions will ease the strain of the new wage and hour law on industry. Fewer workers face higher pay with the 25 cent minimum and a 44 hour week. vast plants like auto factories will be little affected. Only garment factories and a few textile mills face notable impact, with apparel and southern fertilizer sectors singled out. Some 1,000,000 workers may see hours shortened as business slows from last summer’s pace.
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Washington
Beckwith to host next Scout event in August
Scout Executive M. H. F. Kinsey announced Beckwith Four-H grounds will host the next area council camporee in August. About 62 Boy Scouts packed tents as rain soaked the three day camp. The event will run on a troop camping basis with food as the only cost to scouts. The steady rain during the camporee limited outdoor activities.
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Beckwith
M. H. F. Kinsey
Area Council
West Virginia News Briefs Counted by AP in West Virginia
Beckley prosecutors note horses parked at meters without payment in a humorous item. Fairmont mine inspector P L McGraw pushes a northern WV miners safety memorial park. Pineville agents seize moonshine from England and Scarberry factions. Grafton funeral held for G Nelson Stansberry. Welch man charged with attacking wife, knife injuries. Princeton judge sets aside $11,000 verdict over Goforth Freight Lines injuries. Pineville mayoral recount confirms original figures. Wheeling bandit steals from a cash register. Logan car wreck injures 22 year old Don Totten, ex athlete. Beckley Herman Dean elected president of WV Association of Office Equipment Dealers.
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Fairmont
P. 5
McGraw
West Virginia
Koppers Company
Beckley—Herman
Dean of
Huntington
West Virginia Association of Office Equipment Dealers
Clarksburg
Braddock to Broadcast Louis Schmeling Fight Week
Radio editor reports heavyweight boxer James Braddock set to comment on the Louis Schmeling bout on a Monday WABC CBS show with his manager Joe Gould. NBC WEAF Red network plans a Heavyweights of the World special, featuring eight former champions. Braddock and Schmeling to discuss the bout.
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Woman Against Woman at Capitol with Marshall and Bruce
The Capitol screens Woman Against Woman featuring Herbert Marshall Virginia Bruce and Mary Astor along with Robert Benchtes in Music Made Simple and a crime doesn’t pay feature. Also present You and Me at The Virginian with Sylvia Sidney and George Raft and Blockade at The Hearse with Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll. Screen Varieties Movietone news and more.
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Capitol
Herbert Marshall
Virginia Bruce
Mary Astor
Robert Benchtes
The
Virginian
You and
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George Raft
Henry Fonda
Madeleine Carroll
Screen Varieties
Movietone News
M G M declines Mussolini offer for Quo Vadis film
Hollywood notes reveal Moetre-Goldwyn-Mayer rejected Mussolini's bid of 75 600 for Quo Vadis. Janet Gaynor moves to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on loan and stars in Three Loves Has Nancy after The Young in Heart. Marlene Dietrich contemplates Paris film work amid poison label buzz.
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Moetre-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mussolini
Tree
Italy
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Nero
Rome
Henryk Sienklewicz
Poland
England
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Selznick
Culver City
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Nancy
Janet
Robert Montgomery
Robert Young
Richard Thorpe
Marlene Dietrich
Paris
Marlene
Europe
Harry Cohn
Gideons Dedicate 425 Bibles at West Virginia Meeting
In Wheeling on June 19 17 the West Virginia Gideons closed their annual convention by dedicating 425 Bibles for Ohio county schools. Delegates reported teaching in Sunday schools and churches in the Wheeling district. J M Hickman of Charleston was elected president with officers H A Dunbar E T Edmonds H H McMullin M G Kyle J J Greenlee and Harry L Bond named in roles.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Aged Man Buried As A J Tabor Remembered
Funeral services were held today for A J Tabor a 74 year old retired employee of the Mill Creek Coal and Coke company at Coaldale He served the company for 47 years and was widely respected in the community.
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Bluefield
A. J. Tabor
Mill Creek Coal and Coke Company
Coaldale
World War Hero Honored by VFW
Memorial service for Volney Wilson, who died in World War I, was held at the Presbyterian church in Parkersburg with his mother Rev. Mrs. Gill I. Wilson officiating. VFW officers elected included Charles A. Hammond, Harry Kleiman, Edward F. Kelly, Audry Heffling, T. K. Burke, Ford C. Waggoner, and Charles E. Brewster, with Mrs. Callie B. Lovett elected auxiliary president.
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Parkersburg
Volney Wilson
Presbyterian Church
Gill I. Wilson
Charles A. Hammond
Williamson
Harry Kleiman
Bluefield
Edward F. Kelly
Hollidays Cove
Audry Heffling
Clarksburg
T. K. Burke
McMechen
Ford C. Waggoner
Buckhannon
Charles E. Brewster
Eich
Callie B. Lovett
Welch
Radio Party Planned For Fight Wednesday
I B P O E W lodge hall in Lee hosts Wednesday fight night radio party announced by Carl L Dercas. Members and friends asked to bring lunch baskets and refreshments. New Zealand plans national health insurance expected to cost nearly 90 million dollars in the first year rising to about 125 million by 1970.
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Lewis- Schmeling
The
W. Lee
Carl L. Dercas
New Zealand
Minnesota Primary Voters Eye Benson Peterson Battle
Minnesota voters head to the polls to weigh Gov Elmer Benson against Farmer-Labor rival H Jalmer Peterson in the Democratic and Farmer-Labor tickets. The GOP slate includes Leach Welson and Stassen while Democrats select Schilp lin Gallagher Murrary Anderson Lethert and Joel Anderson. The primary also sets numerous congressional and local nominations.
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Benson
Hijalmer Peterson
Yeabel
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Peterson
George Leach
Martin A. Welson
Harold ®. Stassen
Fred Schilplin
St. Cloud
Thomas Gallagher
Michael F. Murrary
Victor E. Anderson
Charles A. Lethert
Joel Anderson
Grocer Foils Early Morning Holdup at Lucas and Lucas
Everett Lucas, manager of Lucas and Lucas grocery at 1401 East Washington Street, fired five shots at two young bandits during a late night holdup. The suspects, armed with a pistol and pump gun, fled in a Plymouth sedan after the clash near Bradford Street. Detectives describe one man as about six feet tall in tan pants and blue sweater, the other about five foot ten in gray pants and white shirt.
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Lucas and Lucas
East
Washington Street
Everett Lu Lcas
Bradford Street
Lucas
Shireley Grass
Edgar Bourne
War mayor Dr. C. S. Brown enters West Virginia Senate race
War mayor Dr. C. S. Brown announces Democratic nomination bid for the Sixth West Virginia Senatorial District. He arrived in McDowell County 12 years ago to practice dentistry after Maryland schooling and has since held multiple civic and party posts including War town council mayor district Democratic club president and Young Democratic club president. He helped establish the War Kiwanis and remains a key local Democratic activist.
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C. S. Brown
Town of War
West Virginia
Wayne
Wyoming
Mingo
McDowell
Dr. Brown
War
McDowell County
University of Maryland
Big Creek
Young Democratic Club
War Kiwanis Club
Dr. C. Brown
State Senate
War Mayor rises from Summers County roots to leadership
In 1937 he was chosen president to fill an unexpired term and later elected the president through 1938. Dr Brown is active in three lodges including Concord Lodge No 48 A F and A M in Athens, Chapter No 26 RB A M, Athens, and Welch Commandery No 27 Knights Templar. Born April 14 1901 at Lick Creek Summers County West Virginia he graduated Princeton high school and Mercier County and studied at Concord College Athens and the University of Maryland for dentistry graduate work.
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Dr. Brown
Mae Sonic Circle
Concord Lodge
A. F
A. M. Athens
A.M. Athens
Mathery
Knights Templars
Summers County
West Virginia
Lick Creek
Princeton High School
Mercier County
Concord College
Athens
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