Kump Warns Utilities Against High Rates
Huntington Aug 18 Gov H G Kump warned public utilities they sell services people can produce themselves and urged voluntary rate reductions. He said the utilities failed to act after his request, risking costly investigations to set fair rates. He warned that poor service and high rates invite ruinous competition and potential public ownership.
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Huntington
H. G. Kump
Publc Service Commission
Pete
West Virginia
Kump
Commission
Ubs
Cagney Denies Aid Beliefs Amid Red Raid Letters
Sacramento dated report states James Cagney denied funding California Communists as letters tied to Red raids surface. Detective Ray Kunz says letters from Ella Winter to Caroline Decker link to the Cannery and Industrial Workers Union.
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Sacramento
Calif
James Cagney
Screen
California
Sacramento II
Republican Committee to Meet in Huntington
The Republican state executive committee will meet in Huntington next Saturday to select a new chairman for the election campaign. Charles J. Schuck, who resigned last week, said the meeting was called in the same city as Senator Henry D. Hatfield the Republican candidate for reelection.
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Wheeling
Republican State Executive Committee
Huntington
Charles J. Schuck
Henry D. Hatfield
Salaries of NRS Office Staff in Taylor County
John Evans manager lists office personnel and monthly salaries for the National Reemployment Service in Taylor County. Names include Miss Alice Knight interviewer and Charles Englehart statistical assistant with stated pay. Evans notes the office, begun last year to aid workers, has placed 906 county residents in jobs, about 250 on the flood control dam project above Grafton Park.
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Taylor County
John Evans
National Reemployment Service
Alice Knight
Charles Englehart
Cone Bute
Evans
Grafton Park
Philippi
Repeal Tied to 100 Percent Rise in Traffic Fatalities
The Anti Saloon League notes a doubling of traffic death tolls in the first half of 1934 and a rise in drunken driving arrests from 112 to 165 compared with the same period in 1933 34, linking the increase to repeal though acknowledging no causal agreement.
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Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Laura Lindley
League
Two Belgian Balloonists Break Altitude Record
Brussels reports Max Cosyns and Neeree Vanderlist allegedly reached 22,000 meters 172,178 feet in a stratosphere flight. Wireless call at 9 20 a m EST claimed the balloon above Czechoslovakia with five hours remaining. They were described as cold but well. sighted near Bad Aussee Austria.
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Brussels
Max Cosyns
Neeree Vanderlist
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Bad Aussee
Aus
Four Italian Flyers Die in Airport Plane Crash
Rome reports four crew members of an army bombardment plane were killed when the aircraft crashed into a hangar at Casino Malpensa near Milan during a practice flight. Victims named Capt. Omeara Cavallaria, Sgt. Instructor Mario Lazzaro, Radioist Mario Severo, and Mechanic Perazzini.
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Rome
Casino Malpensa
Milan
Italy
Omeara Cavallaria
Mario Lazzaro
Mario Severo
Perazzini
Campaign Against Drunken Driving Continues In State
West Virginia authorities push a drive to curb alcohol related road deaths. State police will arrest all traffic violators and push rigid prosecutions. Superintendent P D Shingleton says troopers arrest about 400 monthly. License revocation may follow for any deemed sufficient cause.
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P. D. Shingleton
State Road Commission
West Virginia
Lor
Dale Ah
Debates and Minutes of Wheeling Convention Edited as FERA Project
Charleston August 18 The debates and minutes of the 1861 63 Wheeling constitutional convention are being typed under a federal relief project A copy will be presented to West Virginia University for research The Wheeling convention had representatives from 4% counties with Webster county unrepresented The records were purchased years ago from Granville Davison Hall longtime Wheeling Intelligencer reporter, who died recently in Chicago
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FERA
Charleston
Wheeling
West, Virginia University
Webster County
Granville Davison Hall
Hall
Chicago
Go-Between Arrested In Canadian Snatch Case
Edgar Chard, 26, was jailed in Toronto on charges of attempting theft and extortion connected to the Labatt kidnapping. He allegedly made calls to Hugh Labatt to arrange ransom payment as authorities hunted for the abductors. John S. Labatt, 55, was freed in London, Ontario after three days in captivity. family members would not confirm ransom payment.
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Toronto
John S. Labatt
Edgar Chard
Hugh Labatt
Labatt
London
Ont
W. F. Tillman
Pinchot Urges Drafting of Capital in War Time
Erie Pa August 18 Governor Gifford Pinchot urged drafting capital alongside men during war, addressing an American Legion convention. He called for removing private profit from war as the best path to guaranteed peace and backed the legion’s plan for broader resource mobilization.
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Pinchot
Erie
Gifford Pinchot
American Legion
Roode Found Guilty and Given Life in Murder Case
Sutton Aug 18 Prosecuting Attorney James Cutlip voiced confidence after Camden Roode of Frametown was convicted of the murder of Earl Turtle Bland Braxton county jailer. The jury returned a first degree verdict with a recommendation of life imprisonment after two hours and fifteen minutes deliberation.
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Sutton
James Cutlip
Camden Roode
Frametown
Earl “Turtle” Bland
Braxton County
Roode
Raymond Mace
Chemical
Elliott Keener
Richwood
California Girl Choked to Death After Attack
San Diego police say 16 year old Celia Cota was found dead in her backyard after an alleged attack. Her father Edward Cota, a San Diego customs broker, said she left for a walk about 8 pm and did not return by midnight prompting a search.
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California
San Diego
Cnly
Celia Cota
Edward Cota
Evangelist Freed After Kidnapper Trio Detains Him
R H Askew a 28 year old North Carolina evangelist walked into the Nashville police station claiming he was held by three abductors since last Tuesday. He said his clothes were taken in Washington and he was driven around the country until early today when dropped on the edge of Nashville. He described a crossroads abduction near Raleigh and a car with three men who forced him into the vehicle and gave him money before taking him away.
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Nashville
R. H. Askew
North Carolina
Washington
Askew
Milk Strike Blockade Near Fort Worth Reported
Aug 18 fort worth motorists faced road blockades as striking milk producers planned to dump milk unless a flat price of 2.50 per hundred pounds is agreed. Six men halted an Alford Creamery truck driven by Roy Stamps and dumped 100 gallons of milk last night. no injuries reported.
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Fort Worth
Roy Stamps
Alford Creamery Company
Stamps
Six Grafton Persons Given Honor Awards At Baptist Assembly
The twenty fifth annual West Virginia Baptist assembly at Alderson Broaddus College Philippi closed with 241 attendees the largest in years. Grafton honorees Alice Hill Mrs Ethel Jones Josephine Poe Dorothy Bennett received certificates toward Baptist assembly diplomas.
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John C. Carpenter
Philippi
Alderson- Broaddus College
T. H. Binford
Assembly
Julius Fischback
Morgantown
Hugh Pickett
Pairmont
J. E. Fidler
Alderson-Broaddus College
Hugh Shaffer
George S. White
Ralph Moore
J. A. Young
West Union
Catherine Moore
Fairmont
Richard Tibbs
Mabel Barth
New Martinsville
L. J. Priestly
Hamlin
J. C. Musser
Glenville
W. A. McQueen
Romney
Grafton
Baptist Assembly
Alice Hill
Ethel Jones
Josephine Poe
Dorothy Bennett
Unemployed Council Plans Mass Meeting Tonight
The Unemployed Council of Taylor county led by Earnest Lee calls a second mass meeting of FERA workers for seven o clock this evening in the courthouse. The group disavows ties to One Big Union led by Robert Dotson, which held a meeting last night with about 500 people and adopted a resolution urging fair relief distribution by restoring the former workday schedule.
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FERA
Court House
Taylor County
Earnest Lee
Robert Dotson
Ramsay Decries Copying Error Limiting Congress Power
Representative Ramsay of West Virginia argues a copyist error in the Constitution, the omission of a semicolon and replacement of a period, reduced congressional power. Correcting the punctuation, he says Congress could fund debts and defend general welfare, while uniform duties across states would grant broader authority to pass necessary measures.
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Ramsay
Congress
Washington
D W. Va
United States
Mass meeting protests over FERA staffing cuts in Taylor county
About 500 FERA workers gathered at the courthouse last night to adopt resolutions denouncing salary levels and payroll exclusions. They urged Hopkins Beehler and Governor rump to stop high harmful salary practices and ensure fuller work hours, criticizing us of top heavy relief.
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FERA
At & B
Court House
Algos
Taylor County
Harry L. Hopkins
William N. Beehler
H. Grump
FERA mattress work to aid 2000 women in WV
A new phase of the federal relief program in West Virginia focuses on mattress making to employ about 2,000 unemployed women in 15 cities. Factories opened or planned include Charleston, Elkins, Keyser, Lewisburg, Bluefield, Wheeling, Welch, Madison, Huntington, Wayne, Parkersburg, Weston, Fairmont, Clarksburg, and Morgantown.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Elkins
Keyser
Lewisburg
Bluefield
Wheeling
Welch
Madison
Huntington
Wayne
Parkersburg
Weston
Fairmont
Clarksburg
Morgantown
Grace P. Wylie
West Virginia Relief Administration
Morganton
Ethelland
Monongalle County
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Merchants of Death
Legion
Betiehitn
Trio
Four Square Gospel Leader
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Ft. Worth
A. B. College
Beehler
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