New Deal Leaders Rally to Push Social Security Plan
Washington May 7 AP Roosevelt followers press the social security program toward law despite a Supreme Court ruling affecting related pensions. Officials say the bill rests on constitutional grounds beyond the railway retirement act, with White House and Congress signaling continued support and possible new retirement measures for railroads.
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Gambling Cases Are Continued In State Trials
Trials of 18 defendants in raids on gambling dens continued as judge postponed verdicts until the June term. The judge said court would adjourn today or tomorrow pending the state supreme court decision. Dan Dajar and operator Matthews were among those connected to Summers Street operations. (Please Turn to Page 3)
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Willie Willis By Robert Quillen
A fragmented item presents Willie Willis in a sketchy context with garbled phrases and uncertain surrounding notes, leaving unclear characters, actions, or setting and no coherent events to summarize.
Dr R H Walker Tackles Checkoff Practice in West Virginia
Dr R H Walker, president of the state medical association, denounces the checkoff system in industrial medicine as a tool of corporate profit. He cites cases where company or contracted doctors profit by handling employee medical fees, worst abuse seen in coal camps. He urges unified action by the association to curb the practice.
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State Trooper Forces Stolen Car to Stop in Weston
Weston May 7 1947 A state trooper hooked the rear bumper of a speeding car and dragged it to a halt after a chase out of Weston. The youth identified as Terman T Brown 19 of Salvadors Pa claimed the stolen vehicle belonged to his grandfather from Saltborg. He was held on driving a stolen car charges.
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Berne
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Field Testing Of Television Ready to Open
In New York on May 7 RCA announced a $1,000,000 field demonstration of television. David Sarnoff pledged the project could birth a new industry and create vast employment. He said RCA leads in laboratory results and field progress. The program aims to run about 18 months beginning immediately with a three point plan including erecting the first modern facilities.
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Radio Corporation of America
RCA
David Sarnoff
Europe
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Radio transmitter out of order in fatal Skychid crash
MACON Mo May 7 The Skychid airliner's radio transmitter was dead on both the eastward and westward legs, yet ground messages reached the plane. Inquest heard pilots tried flashing lights to show ground contact as coroner and NTSB-like probes open into the disaster that killed Senator Bronson Cutting and four others.
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Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
W. H. Gooch
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TWA
Manuel H. Davis
Kansas City
Ange
Albuquerque
Enea
Winslow
Los Angeles
O. R. Haueter
Harvey Bolton
Amarilla
Wichita
Bolton
Princess Barbara Hosts Reporters Without Statements
Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani entertains reporters on the Thatcher lawn in Reno as she nears a divorce filing. She declines to discuss her romance with Count Court von Haughwitz-Revenilow or her ex-husband Prince Alexis Mdivani, while aides offer hints of possible late developments and a scheduled divorce filing the following Monday.
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Alexis Mdivani
Georgia
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Thatcher
Senators to Play Akron Club In Basebal Opener
The 1935 Charleston Senators open their Mid-Atlantic League season tonight at Kanawha Park against the Akron Yankees, with Governor Kump and Mayor Dawson among expected spectators. Pavlovic returns, Russell Young guides the club, and Watt Powell leads a youthful squad promising a first division finish. Akron, managed by Johnny Neun, enters its first year in the circuit as a farm club for the Yankees.
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Watt B. Powell
West Virginia women’s clubs hold thirty first annual convention
The West Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs opened its 31st annual convention with 167 delegates registered and hundreds more expected. State president Mrs. Cyrus W. Hall presides, with officers including Mrs. Claudus West, Mrs. Tom Davis, and Miss Mabel Ann West. District presidents arrive from multiple towns for sessions, as districting is announced for administration ease. Mayor D. Boone Dawson welcomed delegates, and a program led by Mrs. Chester Dixon was noted, with invocation by Dr. Ernest Thompson and piano by Le Roy Clemans.
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West Virginia Federation of. Women's Clubs
Woman's Club
Claudus West
Clarksburg
Cyrus W. Hall
West
Tom Davis
G. W. McAlpin
E. H. Thornburg
Huntington
T. . Haught
Buckhannon
Mabel Ann West
Clarks-burg
John B. Garden
Wheeling
W. E. Ri. Byrne
John S. Harvey
General Federation
Hall
Lloyd Viets
Wierton
F. E. Cooper
Keyser
J. J, Eastman
Elizabeth
U. S. Jarrett
St Albans
Grace Yoke White
Shepherds
Tower
Anna Stratton
H. D. Rummel
Woodman T. Wills
Ernest Thompson
John Mason
Roy Clemans
D. Boone Dawson
Chester Dixon
Charleston Woman's Club
Charleston Grocer Elected President
The West Virginia Retail Grocers association elected George W. King of Charleston as president at its Parkersburg convention and set Wheeling for the 4th annual gathering. Officers include BE. D. Armstrong treasurer and John Stamm Jr. of Clarksburg as directors. A 12-member board includes George W. Reeves and Roy Smith among others. A resolution opposed direct sales of foodstuffs to consumers and denounced the 30-hour week bill and sales tax proposals.
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Loar
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Charleston
Wheeling
BE. D. Armstrong
Beckley
John Stamm, Jr
Clarksburg
W. Jack Wagers
Huntington
D. M. Davis
Clarky+burg
A. C. Rader
George W. Reeves
W. A. Drichorst
Roy Smith
L. E. Flowers
St. Marya
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R. B. Yaple
Bluefield
P. T. Saunders
William Shaftner
Wilbert Lowe
Spencer
C. H. Ross
C. H. Varian
Congress
Thursday Seen As Opening Day For Store On Kanawha Street
Thursday was viewed as the likely opening date for the first store on Kanawha Street as shelves neared stocking completion. The capitol noted the commission was ready and set tentative opening hours for different cities. Insurance agents were asked to meet on May 15 to discuss rates for fire theft robbery and burglary coverage for warehouses and stores.
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Democrat Reelected Mayor of Baltimore Early Returns Show
Baltimore May 7 385 of 685 precincts report Mayor Howard W Jackson Democrat leading Republican Blanchard Randall Jr 92 004 to 7 992 with 31 802 over 31 628 for George Sellmayer Democrat for city council. Charter tax cap amendment appears defeated 40 209 to 68 806 as exp noted. Art museum wing funding measure also seems defeated 6 729 to 31 628.
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Blanchard Randall
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George Sellmayer
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Carlo Cooling
Convention Ends At Greenbrier As Williams Blames Extremists
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS May 7 AP Former NRA chief S Clay Williams told the Association of National Advertisers convention extremists he termed the New Deal plus are behind the lack of confidence in the Roosevelt program He argued these substituters seek to extend the new deal beyond its bounds and impose an order of life and governance they favor Williams an official of R J Reynolds Tobacco Co spoke at length warning against the plans to alter the policy and structure of the New Deal
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Italy Calls More Troops for East Africa
Italy moved to mobilize new divisions to support East Africa operations as the chamber approved the colonial undersecretary's warning that the Ethiopian crisis is a matter of vast importance to the European civilizing mission. Officials estimated Italian forces in the colonies around 100,000, with plans to double. Lessona urged restraint to prevent repeat border incidents and to secure tranquil colonial governance amid uncertain regional policy.
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Winds Demonstrators Rally At Illinois Capitol
Five hundred demonstrators marched to the state capitol in Springfield demanding immediate reopening of relief stations. They gathered near the Lincoln statue while speakers urged action, as a delegation delivered complaints to Governor Henry Horner. Elite highway patrolmen protected the capitol and city police kept order amid fallout from the relief organization collapse.
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Senate Passes Patman Bonus Plan Despite Veto Threats
The Senate, 55 to 33, approved the Patman bonus plan funding 2.2 billion in new currency, defying White House opposition. Leaders warned a presidential veto would likely be sustained, while Clark of Missouri filed for reconsideration to delay final action.
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Paget
State Court Orders A New Trial in Loving Gaze Case
State court reversed a Wyoming County verdict awarding Deus Oney of Mullens $5,000 for injuries from an automobile wreck while the court noted the defendant’s lingering gaze with a companion. The August 25, 1933 crash involved Binford’s car plunging off an embankment as he stared at Oney. The ruling directs a new trial for reexamination of damages and causation.
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Boulder Kills Seven Miners in Pennsylvania Shaft
In Wilkes-Barre on May 17 an immense boulder fell 200 feet into the No.3 shaft cage at Heath Hill coal company, killing seven miners and severely injuring others. Four men were on the battered cage, three fell about 400 feet to the floor or foot of the shaft, and officials blamed the disaster on the falling rock damaging the cage. Names listed include Rickard, Givens, James Johnson, Nicholas Shields, Roberts, Walker, Maidment, and Owens, with the strike atmosphere noted as the area remains a center of United Anthracite miners’ actions.
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Heath
Solitery
Glen’ Alden
Faneabat
Thrau
Ed Rickard
Givens
James Johnson
Nicholas Shields
Dallas
Eareee Roberts
Wilkes
Paratert ‘Alker
Pymouth
Ann. Maidment
Robert Owens
Calliery
United Anthracite Miners
Pennsylvania
Weston Publisher Attacks NRA in Newspaper Talk
Weston West Virginia vice president of the National Editorial Association Robert H. Pritchard assails the NRA as ridiculous and a farce in New Orleans after the NEA convention. He calls the “brainstruatera” deal betraying great men who served in the White House and criticizes the NRA’s power amid Roosevelt praise for editors.
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Lusitania sinking told by U-20 officer 20 May account
An American publicized reminiscence quotes Karl Scherb chief officer of the German U-20 recounting the May 7 1915 sinking of the Lusitania off the Irish coast. He details the sub’s movements from the River Thames to Pasinet Rocks the pursuit of ships and the final strike on the 4 000 ton steamer and the 6 000 ton Centurion before the surface escape.
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FDR Utility Plan Faces Senate Opposition
Washington May 7 Senate opposition blocks President Roosevelt plan to abolish all public utility holding companies. An unofficial poll of the Interstate Commerce Committee shows nine votes against abolition, two undecided, and three not polled. Executive sessions continue as lawmakers weigh modifications to the administration drafted bill.
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Hhree
Plaines Foresees Foggy First Will Lick Air Travel
A garbled 1930s style piece hints at plans to tackle fog as a priority for early aviation. It mentions Los Angeles, California, a countdown to an event two days away, and rough passenger statistics, implying aviation safety concerns and public interest data from the era. The fragmented text references planes, ships, autos, and horses in a speculative, period tone.
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