Federal mediation alone can avert rail strike
A. F. Whitney announced that five railway brotherhoods authorized a September 6 strike to press for a 20 percent wage increase. Facing three weeks of talks and a flat rejection of the demand, the brotherhoods prepared their next move as federal mediation sought to avert a nationwide shutdown affecting 350,000 workers.
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Cleveland
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railway
Whitney
Chicago
A. m
Membarkon
Santander Besieged as Franco Forces Occupy City
Vanguard columns of Franco’s northern army mass at Santander to seize the provincial capital. Detachments numbering thousands have entered the city to suppress terror activities. Insurgent estimates place roughly half of Spain’s defeated army trapped in a 15 square mile area southeast of Santander.
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Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Santander
Perpetual
Conthaea
Rain Delays Park Rehabilitation Work
Workers waited as rain slowed the Grafton Park project with equipment arriving this week. Concrete walks have been bridged to allow heavy trucks, and Kish Company has a contract for trucks with Kish Brothers of McKeesport, Pa. Continued on Page Eight.
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Grafton Park
Kish Company
Kish Brothers Company
McKeesport
Complaints On State T. B. Hospital Are Discounted
Governor Holt said an unannounced inspection by two public health council members at Hope mont sanitarium found complaints from the critical patient segment are not greater than in other hospitals. Doctors Swint and West reported the overall conditions were not worse than typical hospital standards.
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Charleston
Holt
Public Health Council
Hopemont Sanitarium
H. B. Swint
W. E. West
Senator Neely To Talk At Pythian Convention
U S Senator M M Neely of Fairmont addressed the West Virginia Knights of Pythian and the Pythian Sisters at Charleston as the group resumed joint sessions after a banquet honoring former heads of the order.
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Neely
Pythian
Charleston
West Virginia
Knights’ of Pythian
Pythian Sisters
U. S
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
Heavyweight Title Bout Pushed To Monday By Rain
New York August 26 The heavyweight championship bout between Joe Louis and Tommy Farr was postponed due to rain. Promoter Mike Jacobs announced the four day delay after weigh ins at the state athletics commission offices. Farr weighed 207 pounds to Louis 199.
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New York
Joe Louis
Tommy Farr
Mike Jacobs
State Athletics Commission
Louis
Millions of New Homes Needed in the United States
PWA housing experts estimate the nation must build at least 5,600,000 new homes to replace the worst slums and provide families housing comparable to 1930 standards. They note the need includes 125,000 homes for 188,000 low income households.
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Washington
PWA
Ex Constable Green Found Playing in Ditch
City police answered a call about a shoeless shirtless man in a Market Street ditch. They found ex-constable Green with his feet in the ditch water, drifting, as Chief Lockard reported. Green, mentally ill, had told his wife he planned to go to town earlier that morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marketsand
Washington
Pee Greep
Lockard
Big Dollar Day sales kick off in Grafton stores
Weather pages promise sun as 64 merchants join the Dollar Day event. Radio Money Campaign aids sales as shoppers pack arena for bargains. Taylor Co regrets omitting O R Thomas from participating merchants list in today’s giant sale. Major D R Chaffee of the Taylor County Board of Trade issues apology.
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Grafton
Ee “Taylor Co
Isnerenaiia
O.R. Thomas
Mr. Thomas
D. R. Chaffee
Taylor County Board of ‘Trade
Parents of Explosion Victims Starting Suits
Oklahoma City reports two hundred lawsuits prepared for filing on behalf of parents of New London Texas school disaster victims. Attorney Howard K. Berry said suits will name Parade Gasoline Co. alleging negligence in gas line to the heating plant.
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Oklahoma City
New London
Texas
Howard K. Berry
Parade Gasoline Co
Berry
Parade Gasoline Company
Custody Awarded to Mother in Wehn Girl Case
In Taylor county circuit court Judge Herbert W. Dent awarded custody of Delores Wehn to her mother Mrs. Cleo Wehn Frame from her paternal grandfather Charles Wen. The 1935 divorce granted Mrs. Frame from Robert Wehn, who died recently, and the child had been with the grandfather. Mrs Frame lives in Pittsburgh where her husband works as an electrician.
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Little Delores Wehn
Charles Wen
Cleo Wehn Frame
Taylor County Circuit Court
Herbert W
Dent
Wehn
Robert Wehn
Bee Enemies Fail to Change Local Bee Law
Los Angeles August 28. Jack Jungmeyer and others urged the city council to permit beekeeping. They argued bees bite into ripe fruit and cause fermentation. Councilmen consulted experts who said bees have no teeth and could not bite into fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jack Jungmeyer
British Ambassador Wounded Near Shanghai Attack
Sir Hushe Knatchbull-Hugessen, Britain’s ambassador to China, was seriously wounded when two Japanese bombers struck the automobile carrying him from Nanking to Shanghai. He suffered a bullet near the envoy’s spine, was rushed to a Shanghai hospital, and blood loss left him greatly weakened. The incident marked a grave turn in the Sino Japanese war.
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Shanghat
Hushe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Ching
Ambandadt
Nanking
Shanghai
Hanghai
Start Drilling More Wells In Bradford Pa
Bradford oil field sees two new wells planned near the big gusher of Monday with 100 barrels an hour flow. The Minard Run oil company aims about 1000 feet away while Niagara Oil may drill a second well later. Flow fluctuates around 50 barrels hourly and about 1000 barrels valued at $2.85 per barrel were lost before a temporary cap was placed.
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Bradford
Minard Run Oil Company
Niagara Oil Company
Youths bravery stops holdup at gas station
Morgantown August 26 state police credited 17 year old Jimmy McGowan with thwarting a hold up at the service station where he worked. Investigators said the youth refused to open the cash register on orders from an armed man. They quoted McGowan as saying the would be bandit fled after the youth called for help when struck with the butt end of a gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
Jimmy McGowan
McGowan
Wounded War Correspondent Seeks U S Citizenship Help
FAIRMONT Aug 26 An thony J Billingham a New York Times correspondent wounded when a Shanghai air bomb struck a department store appealed last year to former playmates in Fairmont to establish his U S citizenship. Billinghams once lived in Fairmont and Grafton about 20 years ago but lost papers proving American parentage and residence during his travels.
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Fairmont
Anthony J
Billingham
New York Times
Shanghai
U. S
Billinghams
Graftan
Palymont
Ees
BiRing
Queen Silvia VIII Selected for Elkins Festival
Miss Jane Greer 19 of Morgantown chosen Queen Silvia VIII for West Virginia Mountain State Forest festival. Reign begins October 7 in Elkins with 32 princesses in her court. Governor to crown her amid Indian summer celebration.
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Elkins
Jane Greer
Morgantown College
Red and Gold Mountains
Silvia
Grady Whitman
Mountain State Forest Festival
West Virginia
Highlands
Miss Greer
Col
Herbert Chester Greer
iSite Ae Ras “Pot the West
Gantown
Emacs
Captain Sees Dan Project Enrich Grafton and Towns
Captain D. B Burns of the U S army engineers cites flood control funding as transforming western Pennsylvania towns like Tionesta and Redbank into boom towns. He notes Grafton, West Virginia as a parallel, with thousands flocking to work on a flood control dam project along the Tygart River, spending over ten million dollars.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Burns
Grafton
W.va
Tygart
State Police Revolver Team Off to Camp Perry
Charleston August 26 Five sharpshooters of the state police were en route to Camp Perry to defend rifle and pistol honors for West Virginia The national guard team chosen at Camp Dawson is already on the firing ground Corporal W M Beckett heads last years pistol marksman record while Trooper Ellis Lea and others earned honors This year s team includes Sergeant B E Sout Corporal L W Emerick and Trooper E Carson They will compete in the national team matches and in the individual events
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Charleston
Camp Perry
West Virginia
National Guard
Camp Dawson
W. M. Beckett
Ellis Lea
B. E. Sout
L. W. Emerick
E. Carson
Roundup of Dogs Begun Because of Fair Season
DERBY Conn Aug 26 There was a roundup today for Dog Warden Rol Parker s diligent roundup of straw the county fair season s coming on Cattle owners complained Parker that the dogs chased their cows and chewed the tails off A cow with its tail off the complainant pointed out isn t much good for exhibition purposes
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Derby
Conn
Rol Parker
Parker
King favors conservative Democratic nominee in 1940 scene
Rat York Aug 26. Senator King proposes a conservative nominee from outside the New Deal circle. He named Byrd of Virginia Bailey of North Carolina and Clerk of Missouri as possible picks and said he would not second Senator Minton or Paul V. McNutt. King avoids radical bids, cites opposition to the Roosevelt court bill, and notes McNutt’s ties to the New Deal. This report continues on Page Five.
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Rat York
King
Byrd
Virginia
Clerk
Missouri
Bailey
North Carolina
Minton
McNutt
Indiana
Philippines
Zinn and Sayre Attending State Knights of Pythias
Sam Zinn of West Grafton merchant and exchequer holder attends grand lodge sessions in Charleston representing Friendship lodge No. 8 of Graf ton. B F Sayre past grand chancellor also attends from Grafton. Mrs R L Campbell of Dewey avenue delegates for the Pythian Sisters at the convention.
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Sam Zinn
West Grafton
Woman Escaped, Starts Two Year Detention Hitch
Margaret Allen, who escaped while being taken to Alderson federal prison for women, will serve two years at a Milan, Michigan detention farm for conspiring to conceal $64,000 in bank loot. U S Marshal John J. Bare said she surrendered Monday after leaping from a train at Charleston, West Virginia, near Alderson.
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Detroit
Margaret Allen
Alderson
W. Va
Milan
Mich
U. S
John J. Bare
Charleston
Ato Te Alderson
Police hold unnamed girl in federal probe near Wheeling
In Wheeling Aug 26 a young woman was taken into custody for the Federal Department of Justice as investigators seek clues in the Mike Russell case. Chief Albert Mesgale declined to identify her or disclose charges while Lt. Hixenbaugh said no solid lead has emerged after questioning about two dozen witnesses. Deputy U S Marshal Jack Adams arrived from Clarksburg to aid the probe. Russell and three others faced a Monday trial on falsifying an income tax report. Continued on five.
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Wheeling
Mike Russell
Albert
Mesgale
Federal Department of Justice
Hig
Q. Lee
Pouseel
Russell
Isle
A. H. Hixenbaugh
A. 8
U. 8
Jack Adams
Clarksburg
Howard
Farm program check starts by eight workers
Eight workers under the direction of County Agent Carroll B Hawkins will start a county wide investigation tomorrow to check compliance with national agricultural conservation program requirements. The probe is a prerequisite to payment of federal subsidies to Taylor county farmers for preserving and building up soil fertility. The group will tour the county to conduct the investigations as part of the program funding.
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Carroll B. Hawkins
National Agricultural Conservation Program
Taylor County
Hawkins
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Taylor County Bafety Council
NLRB
Anna Svee
Jackie
National Labor Relations Board
New Cumberland
Weirton Steel Company
Anna Svec
Central Pr
T. B. Hospital
U.S
Constable Green
Ditch
Radio Money Campaign
Queen
Fair Board
Dan
FO Commodor
Gale
Capitol
POR
Utah
Clark
Zinn, Sayre
State K
Sure Russell
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