Executive Call Of Legislature Probable Today
Governor completes note for an extra session proclamation and signals unemployment relief and tax measures will be stressed in the call. Capitol talk centers on finance and redistricting committees with changes anticipated in leadership as session nears. Buy Now
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Kump
Howard O. Hunter
Lee G. Lauck
Federal Relief Administration
Hunter
Capitol
A. J. Lubliner
Mercer County
C. F. McClintic
McClintic
State Penitentiary
House
Lubliner
Roy Yoke
Monongalia County
House of Delegates
Yoke
Byron B. Randolph
Harrison County
Randolph
Louis A. Henderson
West Union
Senate
The
Loan Corporation
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Liquor Control Plan Is Offered
Clarksburg reporter Melvin G Sperry proposed a substitute for the liquor control amendment on the 1934 ballot. The plan allows the legislature to ban manufacture and importation, create state agencies to handle licensing and sale, and regulate or tax such liquors within any county or city.
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Clarksburg
Melvin G. Sperry
Revision of Relief Rolls Is Considered
Washington November 3 President Roosevelt said he is weighing a revision of National relief plans that would remove more than 2 million heads of families from charity rolls. The proposal shifts part of the burden from state and emergency relief funds to the Public Works Administration and would place former charity workers on regular federal payrolls. The public works fund would cover 30 percent of costs with 70 percent split between state or municipal governments and the emergency relief administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Public Works Administration
Emergency Relief Fund
Public Works Fund
Emergency Relief Administration
Miners Move Toward End Of Western Pennsylvania Strike
miners agreed to return to work after a conference with Hugh Johnson and President Roosevelt while farm strike talks with Secretary Wallace failed to yield concrete results. Ford plant workers in Edgewater press for action, calling the company uncaring and demanding concessions. picketing continues amid reduced production. Governors from five farm states study parity prices quotas and processor licensing as a solution to farm distress.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Washington
Hugh
Johnson
Roosevelt
Ford
Edgewater
Detroit
J. Glenn Anderson
Newark
United States
Wallace
Nebraska
Wyoming official accounts cited for eight thousand dollars
F E Shannon prosecuting attorney of Wyoming county said short ages totaling about 8000 exist in accounts of some former county officials. He did not name the officials whose accounts were examined by representatives of the state tax commissioner’s office.
Speaker Smiles Over Straw Men Charge In State Clash
The Tax Commissioner accuses Speaker Ralph M. Hiner of erecting straw men to knock down the tax limitation amendment. Hiner denies aiming at controversy and resigns from a LOANC post to focus on legislative duties. Dr. C. F. McClintic resigns from the legislature before starting prison work. Fox urges harmony to defend the amendment and avoid phantom attacks while stressing a majority supports it.
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Fred L. Fox
Ralph M. Hiner
House of Delegates
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Fox
Hinev
Buy Now Roosevelt Eyes Future of NRA
Roosevelt keeps an open mind on the future of American business while the recovery organization focuses on codes and a November 13 hearing for a new wholesale trade charter. The president aims to curb violent economic swings and uplift those at the financial bottom, per White House notes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Suspect Held in Plot to Kidnap Mrs Reynolds
DOJ agents arrested John Thomas Lanier in Winston Salem N C after he mailed an extortion letter demanding ten thousand dollars to R J Reynolds Jr heir to a twenty million estate. The case links to the Reynolds family turmoil and ongoing kidnap investigations.
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Washington
R. J. Reynolds, Jr
Department of Justice
Winston-Salem
N. C
John Thomas Lanier
Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
Reynolda
Libby Holman Reynolds
Lanier
Urschel
Lauer
Hamm
Farm Holiday Truce Breaks as Midwest Strikers Rail Mayhem
Militants in five midwestern states defy a farm strike truce with roadblocks gunfire and dairy sabotage. Violence spreads from Wisconsin to Iowa and Nebraska as pickets halt trucks dairy plants and a freight train. Governors and Roosevelt administration press for a workable plan while farmers claim out of control and vow no end to the action.
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Des Moines
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Milo Reno
National Farmers Holiday Association
Vern McFarland
Ward Libby
Odeboldt
Moville
Sioux City
Glenwood
Council Bluffs
Merrill
Fleet Returns to Atlantic Ordered by Roosevelt
The United States fleet will concentrate in the Atlantic next spring for the first time in nearly four years. Roosevelt authorized the first line of defense to move from the Pacific to the east coast after winter, returning to the Pacific in the fall. The force totals over 50,000 enlisted and 4,500 officers, with about 11,000 enlisted and 900 officers remaining on the West Coast.
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Washington
United States
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Pacific
Panama Canal
Hoover
Virginia Capes
Navy
Far East
Henry L. Roosevelt
West Coast
Warcraft
Favorable Rail and Trade Reports From Major Centers
The American Railway association reported revenue freight loadings for the week ended Oct 28 at 636,670 cars, up 19,390 from the year prior. New York wool top exchange service noted retail men’s clothing sales rose substantially in many regions. Plymouth Motor corporation announced weekly sales to Oct 28 reached 5,649 units, up 3.4 percent from the prior week and about eight times last year’s figure. Lake Erie coal loadings at Cleveland docks for the week totaled 916,434 tons, up from 773,905 the week before.
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Washington
American Railway Association
New York
New York Wool Top Exchange Service
Chicago
Plymouth Motor Corporation
Cleveland, O
Lake Erie
Beehler Named Deputy Relief Head for West Virginia
William N. Beehler of Lexington Kentucky was named deputy unemployment relief administrator for West Virginia. The appointment came with R J Russell of Huntington joining the relief staff to oversee surplus food distribution. Lauretta K Muir becomes director of field work. Major F W Turner ill. Governor Kump and federal official Howard Hunter discussed needs. Hunter and Lauck praised the state effort and urged swift funding to match federal aid.
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William N. Beehler
Lexington
West Virginia
Charles K. Payne
State Relief Administration
R. J. Russell
Huntington
Federal Relief Administration
Lauretta K. Muir
Relief Administration
F. W. Turner
Kump
State Administration
Howard
Hunter
Major Turner
Relief Organization
Beehler
State Welfare
Public Relief Administration
Kentucky
Lee G. Lauck
Lauck
Reedsville Colony Plans Homes for Miners Families
Mrs. Roosevelt leads a White House committee with Bushrod Grimes and Louis Howe to select families for Arthurdale, the farm factory project in Reedsville West Virginia. Grimes will bring a tentative list of 50 first families as Nancy Cook assists with planning. The idea stems from Franklin D Roosevelt and Hyde Park furniture factory ties.
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Washington
White House
Grimes
Roosevelt
Nancy Cook
Hyde Park
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Society of Friends
West Virginia
Divorce Suit Filed by Invention Innovator
Reno Colorado brief reports Marjorie A. Maxwell Birk filed for divorce from Nicholas Birk on cruelty grounds. Married in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1920. Birk now resides in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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Reno
Marjorie A. Maxwell Birk
Nicholas Birk
Johannesburg
South Africa
Birk
Jefferson County
Dollar Slumps As Roosevelt Gold Buying Moves Markets
The dollar weakens on foreign exchange as Roosevelt’s gold program prompts buying abroad. The pound slips to 4.855 dollars, franc also falls, and London signals possible actions while U.S. advisors seek to reassure that aims are domestic. Wheat, corn, and cotton rise, aiding stock gains despite a high London bullion price.
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Washington
London
Paris
Britain
America
Great Britain
Execution date set for Joseph Corey in Ghiz murder case
The Intermediate Judge Henry K. Black scheduled December 8 as Corey's hanging date after the Supreme Court mandate upheld the death sentence. Corey, 44, has been a state penitentiary inmate since last spring, with prior reprieves from Governor Kump and a stay of execution during the Supreme Court submission. He previously claimed insanity at trial, and is also indicted for his wife Ada Corey's slaying, though not tried on that charge.
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Henry K. Black
Joseph Corey
Katherine Ghiz
Logan
Black
Supreme Court
Arthur P. Hudson
J. Blackburn Watts
Corey
Kump
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Ada Corey
Ghiz
Bodies of an American dancer and Indian official found near Gethsemane
In Jerusalem a dancer identified as Jean Winters and Mohammed Karaman a Madras civil servant were found dead in an olive grove near the Mount of Olives outside the city walls. Police reported no clues or motive. Winters had head injuries and Karaman eight bullet wounds. The site lies beside the Garden of Gethsemane owned by Franciscans and visited by pilgrims.
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Jerusalem
Jean Winters
Mohammed Karaman
Madras
Mount of Olives
Gethsemane
Judas
Jesus
Miss Winters
Mosiem
Karaman
Illness Ends Rev. O. M. Pullen Dark time for West Virginia anti-saloon ranks
The Rev. O. M. Pullen, 58, longtime state head of West Virginia Anti-Saloon League, died at a Washington sanitarium after two months of treatment. He resigned from the state post due to ill health and had preached briefly in Parkersburg before retirement. Survived by his widow, four sons, two daughters, a sister and three brothers. Born in Mason County, he helped drive prohibition there in 1912 and remained active in anti saloon work though weakened by years.
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M. Pullen
West Virginia
Anti-Saloon League
Washington, D. C
Mr. Pullen
Point Pleasant
Washington Street
Mason County
B. E. Ewing
Iowa
He. Pullen
City League
Parkersburg
Elizabeth Engle
South Charleston
Mary Pullen
Oden Pullen, Jr
Joseph Pullen
George Pullen
Paul Pullen
Charleston
Ida King
Lexington
Richmond
Charles Pullen
Eagle Rock
James Pullen
Chapel Hill
Nec
Pullen
Reallocation Needed For Tax Distribution
The state auditor reports $4,448,603.88 in taxes collected from 400 public utility companies. Funds cannot be distributed to counties and subdivisions until the legislature reallocates property taxes. Collections were based on estimated tickets assuming maximum county levies.
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State Auditor's
Crowds Attend 1933 Cooking School Final Day
The Gazette hosted its annual cooking and home makers school at the armory, ending with a record crowd from Charleston area. Mrs. Katherine Delaney praised wide housewife interest and demonstrated many recipes including cupcakes and pineapple caramel parfait.
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Katherine Delaney
Gazette
the Gazette
Armory
Charleston
Dies in Air Crash Over Navy Practice Collision
Lieut G D Hard 28 of Louisiana died when his single seated fighter crashed after a mid air collision during gunnery practice at a San Diego navy air base. Lieut C E Ekstrom managed to land the other plane safely. The crash sent both planes tumbling 14 000 feet in flames.
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San Diego
Cal
G. D. Hard
Louisiana
C. E. Ekstrom
Navy Air Base
City moves to buy Charleston water works option approved
Charleston city council adopted a resolution to exercise its option to purchase the Charleston water plant from West Virginia Water Service company. City attorney Charles Ritchie will meet company representatives to seek a fair price without arbitration. A chamber of commerce resolution opposes the purchase as not feasible now.
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Charleston
Charleston Water Works
West Virginia Water Service Company
Charleston Water Plant
Charles Ritchie
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
R. P. de van
DeVan
H. L. Wehrie
Ritchhie
Campaign Drive Nears End in New York Mayoral Race
In New York on November 3, Tammany Hall touted Mayor John P. O'Brien's momentum while LaGuardia and McKee backers surged. Madison Square Garden rally drew cheers at LaGuardia's charge against O'Brien and Tammany, with McKee gaining cross party support from Farley and Moley as the campaign entered its final phase.
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Tamaany Hall
John P. O’brien
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Joseph V. McKee
Tammany
O’brien
LaGuardia
McKee
Madison Square Garden
Independent Democrat
James A. Farley
National Democratic
Raymond Moley
Roosevelt
Farley
Moley
Ford and Johnson settle dispute in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills reports Rogers pleased by Ford and Johnson arbitration and settlement. The letter expresses strong support for Fords return to politics and criticizes measures aimed at the traveling public, framing the issue as a fundamental American life concern.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Ford
Johnson
Georges Head
Dellar
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