Forest land purchases begin as 20 acres go to Parsons Nurseries
National Forest Reservation Commission approves expanding Monongahela National Forest by about 1 million acres across Webster Greenbrier Pocahontas Nicholas and Randolph counties in West Virginia. Purchases total 4.472 acres for 4472 and include 20 more acres for Parsons Nurseries to grow up to 10 million seedlings yearly. President Roosevelt’s forest plan funds aid. Wood and Rep Adolph attend meeting with Secretaries Wallace Dern and Ickes. A statewide tree planting program meeting is set for Ogilbay Park to organize efforts across 19 counties west of Buckhannon.
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Washington
National Forest Reservation Commission
Boundry
Monongahela National Forest
West Virginia
Webster
Greenbrier
Pocahontas
Nicholas
Randolph Counties
Seneca Creek
Penleton County
Tucker
Randolph
Parsons Nurseries
Arthur A. Wood
Adolph
W. Va
Wallace
Dern
Ickes
Plan Tree Plantin
Wheeling
Oglebay Park
Crispin Oglebay
Buckhannon
Code on coal calls for big wage boosts
Washington August 31 nearly completed bituminous coal code faces disputes over price fixing in retailer charter and Ford attitude. Hugh Johnson pushes two major codes toward completion as Ford matter is reported to Roosevelt. Ford declines to sign code. three alternatives eyed as possible action.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Hugh Johnson
Boston
Roosevelt
Ford
Johnson
Detroit Motor
Hyde Park
New York
Ford Motor Compay
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Neon Motor Company
Ramsey Seeks WV Action for Federal River Work
Representative Ramsay warns West Virginia must form a state water power commission and policy to unlock federal funds for flood control projects. He argues federal aid hinges on keeping water power resources under state control and questions federal construction of dams without state action.
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Washington
Ramsay
W. V
West Virginia
Water Power Commission
Committee on Oil Named by President
President Roosevelt named a fifteen member committee to govern the oil industry and pressed Ford to join the new deal. James A. Moffett, ex Standard Oil of New Jersey VP, heads the NRA representation with Donald Richberg and M. L. Benedum on the panel. Ickes remains oil administrator as the group prepares to meet in Washington on new working code enforcement.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Presure
Henry Ford
Moffet
James A. Moffett
Standard Oil of New Jersey
National Recovery Administration
Kes
NRA
Donald Richberg
M. L. Benedum
Pittsburgh
Ickes
Three Nabbed For Breaking Squirrel Law
Weston August 31 three men were arrested as they left a woods near Jacksons Mill state Four H camp with two squirrels and a gun. Those detained were Charles Gay James Marsh and Richard Straley all residents of the section. Arresting officers were Corp C C Wilson L W Eemrick aided by William Grant game warden and head of the Lewis County Rod and Gun Club. They were jailed in Lewis County and await a hearing in the next few days.
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Weston
Jackson's Mill
Charles Gay
James Marsh
Richard Straley
Corp. C
Lewis County
Henry Cano Given Life for Slaying Deputy Sheriff
Ripley August 31 A jury spared Henry Cano from the death penalty and imposed life imprisonment for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Roy Shamblin and jailer Ralph Harper during a highway gun battle a month earlier. Judge mercy compelled a life term. Frazier’s death sentence stood with Harper and another brother, Charles, also jailed for the officeremains.
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Ripley
Henry Cano
Roy Shamblin
Ralph Harper
Caino
Harper
Louise Frazier
Leo Frazier
Elizabeth Mairs
Charleston
Jackson County
Frazier
Charles Harper
Cano
Base Gasoline Price Under N R A Plan Likely Five to Six Cents
Washington August 31 A base price for wholesale refinery gasoline between five and six cents a gallon is planned under the N R A trade code as a first major step to stabilize the oil industry. The price links to a crude barrel cost of 18.5 times the refinery price, with a 90 day testing window and no set longer period yet decided.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Coroner's Jury Seeks Manslaughter Charge in Wreck
A coroner's jury in Waynesburg Pennsylvania recommended voluntary manslaughter charges against Carl J. Coughlin a 24 year old from Clarksburg West Virginia after testimony on the death of Edward Siers of Clarksburg in an automobile crash. A physician and a highway patrolman testified Coughlin appeared to have been drinking prior to the sideswipe of a truck near Waynesburg last Sunday. The officer reported finding a pint bottle said to contain moonshine in Coughlin's car. James W Hawkins district attorney attended the hearing. Coughlin is jailed.
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Waynesburg
Carl J. Coughlin
Clarksburg
W. Va
Edward Siers
Coughlin
Fort Myers youth lands in Bethany with $2.80
Joe Pendleton, of Fort Myers Florida, who says he is the great grandson of Bethany College's first philosophy professor, arrived in Bethany with only two dollars eighty cents in his pocket.
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Bethany
Joe Pendleton
Fort Myers
Fla
Bethany College
Clash of Hosiery Strikers and Officers Leaves One Dead
Philadelphia August 31 One striker was killed and several others wounded in a melee when 12 hosiery workers and sympathizers tried to enter Cambria Hosiery Mills by truck. Pickets charged the truck and shots were fired. The dead man was Clem H. Nored. Eleven people including a police sergeant and two women were hospitalized. Union recognition blocks settlement of the Cambria strike.
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Philadelphia
Cambria
Clem H. Nored
Texas Girl Kidnapped By Couple Of Negroes
Albert Bates, charged as a kidnapper in the Urschel case, was moved from a Denver jail by federal officers and reportedly boarded a plane bound for Oklahoma. Armed squads with machine guns awaited at the Oklahoma City airport, though official confirmation was not available.
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Texas
Bates
Oklahoma City
Denver
Col
Albert Bates
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma
Pair Attacked While They Sat In Auto On Lone Road
Dallas Tex Aug 81 Miss Katherine Prince 21 was kidnapped by two negroes who shot her companion McCarver through the neck as they sat in an automobile on a lonely road east of Dallas last night. Prince is missing and a search is underway amid fears she may have been slain. Carver’s car was found after midnight on the Seven road with his hat purse and hat inside. Carver semi conscious was found by the roadside and taken to a Dallas hospital in critical condition.
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Dallas
Tex
Katherine Prince
M'Carver
Carver
Seven Road
Squire Wells Injured In Auto Wreck Near Webster
Magistrate W T Wells suffered three broken ribs a fractured left shoulder and a sprained left leg when an Oldsmobile sedan he drove west on Gilesh curve east of Webster overturned around 4 30 Tuesday afternoon Attorney Sidney H Sommervile the other occupant was uninjured Both men were thrown from the car as it struck the high earth embankment and catapulted to the opposite side of the road The car sustained only minor damage and Wells reportedly lost control at the curve though no other factors are noted
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W. T. Wells
Gilesh Curve
Webster
Sidney H.sommervile
Wells
Ex-Soldier Seeks Human Trial in Sleep Sickness Fight
Henry Brown a 27 year old former soldier offers himself as an experimental subject to combat sleeping sickness. He cites tuberculosis leaving him unable to work and hopes doctors in St. Louis learn of his offer hoping a human trial may yield progress beyond animal experiments.
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Henry Brown
Brown
St. Louis
Stock Exchange Lists Drug Firms After Dissolution
New York August 31 The New York Stock Exchange announced the formal listing of Bristol-Myers Life Savers Sterling United Drug and Vick Chemical. These firms formerly formed the Drug Inc structure dissolved recently. Reports to the exchange show five months operatings Bristol-Myers net income 1 014 863 1 44 a share Life Savers 328 566 93c a share Sterling 3 982 098 2 27 a share Vick 792 624 1 13 a share United Drug six months deficit 549 715.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Bristol-Myers Company
Life Savers Corporation
Sterling Products, Inc
United Drug, Inc
Vick Chemical, Inc
of Drug, Inc
Stock Exchange
Bristol-Myers
Sterling Products
Vick Chemical
United Drug
Webster Man Ends Own Life
Webster Springs, Aug 21. Fred G Mills 65 a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad section foreman hanged himself in his smokehouse after a neuritis attack. His wife heard a noise and found him dying. he expired before help arrived. No inquest. Surviving widow and three children.
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Webster Springs
Fred G. Mills
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
J O Jaco Returns Home From Hospital
Mr Oscar Jaco a South Side merchant and former magistrate underwent a major operation at Mercy Hospital Baltimore August 23 for an abscess in the head and has returned home growing stronger friends report Joe Jaco a son and Mrs George Hamilton of Flemington a daughter accompanied him home and stayed in Baltimore during his hospital stay Aeotas An English corporation West Ham earned seven thousand five hundred dollars net last year by collecting waste paper and keeping it separate from other refuse
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Oscar Jaco
South Side
Mercy Hospital
Baltimore
Joe Jaco
George Hamilton
Flemington
Aeotas
West Ham
Bradford Orders Bond Committee Out Of West Va
Charleston August 31 Bradford deputy state securities commissioner ordered a bond holders protective committee for S W Straus and Company Inc to halt operations in West Virginia He sent a letter to Verne Brown New York chairman alleging the panel may be drawn from company officials and noting purchasers rely on the investment for a livelihood and that the bonds were bought through methods no longer permitted.
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Charleston
Harold J. Bradford
S. W. Straus and Company, Inc
West Virginia
Verne Brown
New York
Bradford
River and harbor funds allocate 70 million for nationwide projects
Public works disbursement to War Department funds 90 river and harbor projects nationwide. Includes 11.5 million for upper Mississippi river and 14.158 million for Missouri river channel work to Sioux City. West Virginia Kanawha river locks upgrades and Ohio improvements noted. Army engineers anticipate 40,000 man-years of employment.
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Washington
Public Arks Administration
War Department
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Sioux City
Army Chief of Engineers
Ohio River
Montgomery Island
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Kanawha
Ohio
Dismissal of Injunction Suit Asked in Tax Case
Attorney General Homer A. Holt filed in federal court a motion seeking dismissal of the Gulf Refining Company injunction suit against Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox over chain store taxes on gasoline stations. A similar motion was filed for Standard Oil and related suits set for hearing Sept 25 before a three judge court. Temporary orders restrain tax collections pending ruling.
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Charleston
Homer A. Holt
Federal District Court
Gulf Refining Company
Fred L. Fox
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Sinclair Refining Company
Ashland Refining Company
Treasury
Arewering
Guit Company
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Parsons Nursey
Moley
Raymond Moley
Brain Trust
Vincent Astor
Astor
State Department
Azz Moley
Aster
Center
W. Averell Har Hanan
Associated Press
Ramsey
U.S
W. Virginia
Group of
Urschel
Squire Wells
Taxpayers League
Meadland
Old Side Baptist Church
Blueville
Knottsville
M. E
Dorsey Cole
Pleasant Creek
Taylor County
Frank M.keane
J. O. Jaco
West Va
Gulf Refining
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