Cuban Officers Demand Ousting San Martin Amid Hotel National Siege
In Havana the new Cuban government disbanded 509 former army officers barricaded at the Hotel National to push Ramon Grau San Martin from the presidency. Reports of rebel activity in Pinar Del Rio and near Sancti Spiritus emerged, while Batista reinforced the hotel with machine guns and a field piece. Thirteen Americans vacated the hotel, and strict access restrictions remained, with only the American ambassador permitted entry.
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Associated Press
Havana
National
Ramon Grau San Martin
Pinar del Rio
Consolacion del Sur
Fernando Aran
Gran San Martin
National Hotel
Aran
Will 4
Taylor
Sumner Welles
Horacio Ferrer
Jose Lorie
Plant Equipment To Be Dismantled At Naval Plant
Officials of the naval ordnance plant at South Charleston have received orders from the navy department in Washington that four boilers, stokers and accessory equipment are to be dismantled and transported to the Washington navy yard. The plant originally had eight boilers, four were moved two years ago and the remaining four will be shipped now.
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Naval Ordnance Plant
South Charleston
Navy Department
Washington
Washington, D. C., Navy Yard
Ordnance Plant
Navy Calls Bids to Dismantle South Charleston Plant
The navy department announced bids to dismantle and move boilers and equipment from the South Charleston naval ordnance plant to the Washington navy yard. Bids are due September 27 and the contract will be awarded shortly after.
Willie Willis by Robert Quillen
The column quotes Willie Willis remarking on a family with seven children and lacking adenoids or tonsils. The light jab targets poverty and health in a small town context, reflecting Quillen’s humorous social commentary style.
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New Smiths
German Chiefs Accused in Note
London reports a memorandum alleging that Goering and Goebbels engineered the Reichstag fire to boost Nazi support, while communists are to be tried in Leipzig. Dr Gustav Sack defends Ernst Torgler, arguing his innocence and warning against immediate reArrest and concentration camps for alleged reds.
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London
Goering
Joseph Goebbels
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Leipzig
Ernest Oberfohren
Hitler
Oberren
International Tribunal of
Gustav Sack
Ernst Torgler
Sack
Universal Service
Torgier
Marius van Derluebbe
van Derluebbe
Torgler
Germany
Hatchery at White Sulphur Springs Kept Open
Washington Sept 15 under the economy program the bureau of fisheries decided not to abandon the White Sulphur Springs fish hatchery in West Virginia. Funds for hatcheries were cut about 50 percent and several hatcheries were planned for closure but White Sulphur Springs will be retained.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Fisheries
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Bureau
Beckley Junior College Chooses J Lewis Bumgardner President
Elected president J Lewis Bumgardner, a prominent Beckley attorney, led Beckley junior college’s first annual meeting. The civic project, organized this year, aims to establish the new institution and guide its early development.
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Beckley
J. Lewis Bumgardner
Beckley Junior College
Plea For Inflation Pushes White House Action
Senator Fletcher of Florida urged President Roosevelt to use supreme powers to expand credit and currency to cheapen the dollar and lift prices. Senate leaders and many Democrats press for immediate inflation to aid farmers selling crops. Fletcher urged the Reserve Bank to buy at least 100 million dollars of government bonds weekly and the Treasury to issue equivalent notes.
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Washington
Congress
Fletcher
Florida
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Roosevelt
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Treasury Department
Reserve Bank
Treasury
Pratt Man Dies In Train Mishap
John Joseph Waldron, 24, of Pratt, was killed instantly when struck by an eastbound Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train near Hansford, his body hurled 50 feet. Coroner Dr. W F Work said the skull was crushed and both legs broken. Burial planned in Pratt. Survivors include mother Kathleen Waldron, grandfather Dennis Brannen, sisters Mary Ida Elizabeth Kathleen Waldron, and brother Edward Waldron of Elkins.
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Montgomery
John Joseph Waldron
Pratt
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hansford
Waldron
W.F. Work
Kanawha County
Mulligan
Kathleen Waldron
Dennis Brannen
Mary Ida
Elizabeth
Edward Waldron
Elkins
Missing Local Man Verdict for 10000 in Auto Crash
A Kanawha county common pleas jury awarded C. E Woodruff ten thousand dollars for injuries after an auto driven by Rev. Joseph Gilliam struck him on the Midland trail below St. Albans last December 23. Woodruff, missing from the trial, prompted unusual proceedings as attorneys hunted for him with a reward. The case, last jury trial of the term, was before Special Judge J. F. Bouchelle.
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Kanawha County
St. Albans
Woodruff
Mad
Common Pleas Court
J. F. Bouchelle
A. 5. Alexander
Bouchelle
32 Lives Lost in Hurricane Hits Tampico
Pan American Airways reports 32 believed dead and about 1000 homeless after a hurricane battered Tampico. Wide damage described with no further details available. Strong gales forecast along the Carolina coast as the Atlantic coast sees intensified storm activity.
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New York
Pan American Airways, Inc
Tampico
Mexico
Coastal hurricane threatens Cape Lookout area
Winds reach 48 mph at Cape Hatteras with a crew member lost overboard from the Sun off Cape Hatteras. Warnings extend to Norfolk and Boston as the tropical disturbance nears. Red Cross and coast guard mobilize, shelters prepared, and preparations urged for possible distress. The storm center is expected to pass east of Wilmington by about 100 miles or more.
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Wilmington
N. C
Carolina
Atlantic Seaboard
Sun
Cape Hatteras
Coast Guard
Cape Lookout
Hatteras
Virginia Capes
Carolinas
Weather Bureau
Charleston
S. C
Boston
Norfolk
Virginia
Red Cross
Washington
Raleigh
Albert J. Berries, Jr
Storm Warning Warns Northwest Storms Along Carolina Coast
Weather bulletin from Washington assigns northwest storm warnings to Wilmington and Southport North Carolina and reduces warnings south of Southport toward Charleston A tropical disturbance of strong intensity centers about 100 miles south of Cape Hatteras and appears to move north northwest at about ten miles per hour with broad gale conditions offshore and along the coast A likely developing tropical storm threatening shipping and coastal areas with dangerous winds and seas through the night
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Wilmington
Southport
N. C
Charleston
Cape Hatteras
Pittman Plans Silver Coinage Expansion Under Emergency Powers
Senator Pittman studies executive inflation powers under the farm relief law and seeks Roosevelt’s guidance for a temporarySilver coinage expansion. He envisions a law allowing minting newly mined silver and paying producers with minted coins while deducting costs for minting services, intended only for emergency use.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pittman
Nev
Thomas
Utah
United States
Kidnap Money To Be Surrendered In Bailey Case
New York Sept. 15 The American Railway Express will hand over 690 dollars in marked ransom money to the Justice Department for use in the Bailey Urschel kidnapping case. Harvey Bailey faces trial Monday in Oklahoma City for the Urschel abduction as federal indictments name 13 defendants. The money was found with Albert Bates a Denver capture linked to the ring.
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Department of Justice
Oklahoma City
Harvey Bailey
Urschel
Bailey
Albert L. Bates
Bates
Denver
Colorado
Express Company
American Railway
Jailed Youth May Be Eddy
BECKLEY Sept 15 Two youths held on loitering charges as state troopers quiz Charleston officers hunting Ralph Eddy 17 charged with killing his father and stepmother at Place Park near Ripley. The youths Richard Dillon and Frank Cole matched Eddy descriptions and said they were hitchhiking to Bluefield.
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Beckley
Charleston
Ralph Eddy
Richard Dillon
Frank Cole
Thomas Herman
Dillon
Eddy
James Frank Eddy
Bertie Eddy
Place Park
Ripley
Cole
Herman
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Clearfield, Pa
Police pursue Beckley youth as Eddy fugitive
Description of Ralph Eddy was given to Beckley police after a youth arrested there was believed to be the fugitive in the slayings of Rev. J. F. Eddy and his wife. Charleston police awaited word on identification by Beckley officers.
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Ralph Eddy
Beckley
J. F. Eddy
Charleston
Police hunt for Ralph Eddy after double murder near Trace Fork
State and county officers remained in a cornfield area near Dunbar late last night seeking Ralph Eddy, 17, a suspect in the murder of Rev. J. F. Eddy and his wife at Trace Fork in Jackson County last Monday. A youth matching Eddy's description was seen walking with a girl along a railroad track.
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Cornfield
Dunbar
Ralph Eddy
J. F. Eddy
Trace Fork
Jackson County
Young Eddy
Red Cross Ends Conference Here
West Virginia Red Cross regional conference at the Daniel Boone hotel reported improved finances and renewed public enthusiasm. 33 chapters joined national officers at round tables outlining the autumn roll call campaign from November 11 to November 30. Governor H G Kump addressed the luncheon, calling for immediate action to relieve hungry and unemployed residents.
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West Virginia
Southrn
American Red Cross
Daniel Boone Hotel
National Red Cross
William Carl Hunt
Richard W. Thrush
Washington
Red Cross
Hunt
Connecticut
Speaks
H. G. Kump
Daniel Boone
W. C. Neel
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Patronage Row Brews in Capital Over Ickes Policy
Theodore A. Walters Idaho first assistant secretary of the interior is said to consider resigning in protest at how the department is run. Walters denies plans while senatorial circles discuss E. K. Burlew as de facto head under Ickes, a Republican, amid Western pressure for a western in high office. Walters, endorsed by western Democratic delegates, faces a political friction over department control and patronage.
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Washington
Theodore A. Walters
Idaho
Interior
Walters
E. K. Burlew
Wilbur
Friends of the
Idahoan
Ickes
Burlew
Sunbury
Pennsylvania
War Department
Wilson
Interior Department
West
White House
Senny Tgcho
Argre
Lamson Attacked By Prosecution At San Jose Trial
In San Jose California on September 15 David A Lamson faced prosecutors accusing him of bludgeoning his wife Arlene to death in their Stanford campus home. Prosecutor Allan P Lindsay delivered final arguments describing Lamson as a cold blooded killer while defense chief Edwin M Rea attacked the prosecution and questioned key forensic testimony.
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San Jose
Cal
David A. Lamson
William Edward Hickman
Frank J. Egan
Allan P. Lindsay
Lindsay
R. R. Syer
David Lamson
Arlene
Stanford
Edwin M. Rea
Defense Staff
Samson
Rea
Frederick Proescher
Santa Clara County
Coal Code Agreement Set for Roosevelt Submission
A committee of 18 leading bituminous coal operators completed a fair competition code and planned to submit it to President Roosevelt for approval. The draft sets a 40 hour work week and outlines district based wage rates from over 5 dollars daily in the Rocky Mountain area to undetermined rates for Alabama.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
Rocky Mountain
Alabama
Woodin predicts surplus as treasury eyes year end
Secretary Woodin returns to work after illness and says the treasury may show a surplus at the fiscal year end. He notes increasing revenues by classifications and anticipates a sharp rise from January to June 30. He also calls repeal of the 18th amendment probable, saying it would aid balancing government accounts as internal revenue officials collect Texas's third income installment.
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Washington
Woodin
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Texas
Quiet Prevails In Strike Zone In Southwestern Pa
Quiet prevailed in the southwestern Pennsylvania coal fields with over 30,000 miners on strike. State troopers were deployed after yesterday’s violence in Fayette and Westmoreland counties. The walkout centers on a demand for a labor code recognizing the United Mine Workers of America and a midnight Roosevelt deadline for agreement.
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Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers of America
Pinchot
Nho H.C. Prick Coke Company
Fayette County
Joe Beranek
Frick
Morewood
Washington Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Hannastown
Forbes Road
Crabtree and
Jamison
Jamison Coal and Coke Company
Crow’s Nest
Keystone Coal and Coke Company
Washington County
Water Company Seeks Permit for Structure
West Virginia Water Service seeks a permit for an intake and pumping station on the left bank of the Kanawha river at Montgomery. Objections may be filed with Major Fred W. Herman in Huntington until noon September 23. The plan includes an eight inch intake, discharge lines, and a motor-equipped superstructure 40 feet landward of the normal pool line and 36 feet high above it.
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Kanawha River
Montgomery
West Virginia Water Service Company
Fred W. Herman
Federal
Huntington
Kanawha Fair Opens for School Children Day
Children descend on the Kanawha fair near Dunbar as school groups visit the tenth day of the exposition. Open poultry shows win prizes for G A Queen Ellenboro Black Cochins and related breeds while rug weaving and roadside market demonstrations draw crowds. Five lost children were found with authorities directing them back to guardians.
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Dunbar
T. ¥. McGovran
Charleston
G. A. Queen
Ellenboro
Myrtle Dorsey
Clendenin
Arthur ‘Brennaman
Soviet Prefers Peace to Strife
In New York a Russian trade official says a good peace is better than a good war as the USSR negotiates the sale of the Chinese Eastern railway to the Manchuko government with Tokyo as referee. The road has long required Soviet troop protection and is a potential source of friction with Japan. The official asserts Russia seeks to avoid conflict over the railroad.
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New York
Russia
Manchuria
Tokyo
Japan
Soviet Union
Will Advises Cuba To Settle Affairs
Beverly Hills columnist notes Cuba must settle its government to regain front page relevance as sports scores and Notre Dame backfield chatter distract from widespread unemployment and poverty. The piece mocks rulers and praises continued national confidence amid hardship.
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Cuba
Beverley Hills
Calif
Giants
Washington
Notre Dame
Tasmania
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