Dean Armstrong Elected New W V U Head
Dr. Robert Allen Armstrong will become acting president January 1 and serve until June 30, 1933 or until a new president is elected. A WVU alumnus and longtime educator, he has served nearly half a century as professor, English department head, vice president and dean. He succeeds Dr. John C. Turner whose term ends November 31.
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Morgantown
Robert Allen Armstrong
West University
Theiversity Board of Governors
Armstrong
West Virginia ‘University
West Virginia
West Liberty State Normal School
Wheeling
Harvard
Tug Sinks in Storm Near Detroit With Crew Rescued
A 25 ton steel tug Lakeside III sank early today three miles northeast of Detroit river light in Lake Erie during a gale. Captain Jack Metro and three deckhands clung to a section of docking and were washed ashore near Amherstburg, Ontario, after the vessel rolled over. The tug carried 2,000 gallons of grape juice from Middle Bass Island to Detroit. Coast Guard alerted at Trenton.
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Detroit
Lake District
Lakeside III
Detroit River
Lake Erie
Amherstburg
Metzo
George Mizla
Elmery John M
Elmer Eberly
Oast Guard
Metro
United States Robust Guard Station
Trenton
American Legion Bazaar Moose Dance Grand Prize Night
The American Legion bazaar and Moose home held a last night dance awarding the grand prize. One dollar coupling prize details are noted among events and community participation.
Dionne Girls Make Great Weight Gains Says Doctor
Callander Ontario December 1 The five Dionne girls who astonished the world six months ago are now reportedly making weight gains as they grow toward quadruple weights. Dr A R Dafoe who delivered them and has supervised their care says each quintuplet has practically quintupled her weight. He notes the dramatic improvement is to be compared with ordinary child growth. Continued on page three.
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Callander
Dionne
A. R. Dafoe
Frigid gales sweep Northwest states
Winter arrives early in the western United States as frigid gales lash from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. The Henry W Cort freighter ran aground at Muskegon breaking harbor, 25 crew rescued. a surf boat capsized, John Diepert died. Lakeside NT sank with no fatalities. two duck hunters possibly drown at Lake of the Ozarks. storm claims two in Iowa and one in Minnesota. Snow blocks highways across Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa as crews work to clear roads.
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Kansas City
United States
Great Lakes
Pacific
Henry W. Cort
Muskegon
Mich
Coast Guard
John Diepert
Cort
Lakeside NT
Detroit River
Harry Hickey
Roscoe French
Lake of the Ozarks
Missouri Mill
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Gas Rate Increase Sought by Huntington and Charleston
Huntington and Charleston asked for gas rate reductions, while the utilities United Fuel Gas Company and Huntington Development and Gas Co. asked the Public Service Commission to raise charges to ensure a fair and reasonable return on investments. The cities’ protest via attorneys sought lower bills for consumers.
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Charleston
Huntington
United Fuel Gas Company
Huntington Development and Gas Company
Public Service Commission
Manufacturing of cheap machine guns is probed
Washington reports a senate munitions inquiry into a spike in cheap machine gun production. Investigators seek sources from small shops as they prepare to hear echoes of the killings of federal agents Cowley and Hollis next week.
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Washington
Senate
Samuel P. Cowley
Herman Hollis
Senatorial Committee
Coast Guards Rescue Crew From Vessel Henry Cort
Coast guards rescue twenty five sailors from the whaleback freighter Henry Cort after it struck Muskegon harbor breakwater during a 60 mile gale. Crew members reached shore after an over one mile crossing on a lifeline amid heavy seas. one coast guardsman, John Dipert, 23, drowned in a previous attempt.
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Muskegon
Mich
Henry Cort
Muskegon Harbor
John Dipert
Coast Guardsman
Los
Cort
Dipert
Atay
The
Cort's
Our
Grand Prize Awards To Be Won At Legion Bazaar
Local residents await 11 o'clock as 12 grand prizes are drawn at Taylor County Post No 12 American Legion closing night of merrymaking. Bazaar crowds have filled the Moose home main floor since last Saturday with high turnout and satisfaction.
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Taylor County
American Legion
Legion
Moose Home
New York Eyes Shakeup in Liquor Law Administration
New York moves toward a possible radical change in liquor control after less than a year under a combined state authority and county boards system. The 1934 legislature left liquor control with both state and counties, but current debate centers on placing total control solely with the state authority, ending county boards amid partisan fighting.
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Sam Kendrick
Associated Press
New York
New York State
Rain Sweeps Army Navy Game At Franklin Field
A torrential downpour drenched the Army Navy football game at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, turning the 80,000 capacity crowd’s view into a mud slick less than an hour before kickoff. The heavy rain created a wind swept, muddy field as spectators endured the storm.
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Franklin Field
Phila
University of Pennsylvania
Grief and Dignity Mark Wholesome Farewell for Three Young Victims
In Carlisle Pennsylvania a community bore the three little girls Norma Dewilla and Cordelia Noakes back to the Blue Ridge mountains for burial after their bodies were found in the woods. Hundreds gathered in drizzle as mourners lowered the white coffins at graves donated by friends. The children were daughters of Elmo J Noakes of Roseville California and the bodies of a man identified as Noakes and his niece Winifred Pierce were found at Duncansville about 100 miles away. The brief cemetery ceremony followed short services at a Carlisle funeral parlor housed in a historic 100 year old building.
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Leo W. Sheridan
Carlisle
Cumberland Valley
Pennsylvania
Blue Ridge Mountains
Norma
Dewilla
Cordelia
Noakes
Elmo J. Noakes
Roseville
Calif
Win
Pierce
Duncansville
France Offers Saar Return Tie to Plebiscite
Paris reports Foreign Minister Pierre Laval publicly proposed a second chance for Germany to regain the Saar if the January 13 plebiscite voters choose to stay under League of Nations oversight. He said the league council could later decide to return Saar to Germany if desired. Socialist deputy Leon Blum attacked Nazism while urging peace and direct talks with Germany.
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John Evans
Paris
Pierre Laval
Germany
League of Nations
Chamber of Deputies
France
League Council
Saar
Leon Blum
Blunt
Honor system working says prison chief at Moundsville
West Virginia penitentiary warden Dr C F McClintie defends an honor system in which road camps operate with minimal supervision. He contrasts these camps with Virginia and Georgia chain gangs and notes two guards per project while many prisoners work unguarded miles from any foreman. He describes unguarded bunkhouses and two guards on duty, with prisoners moving under foreman direction. The piece notes the suggestion of a penal farm for short term prisoners.
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Moundsville
Hamilton Faron
Associated Press
West Virginia Penitentiary
C. F. McClintie
State’s Penitentiary
West ‘Virginia
Virginia
Georgia
West Virginia
Free Operation at Medics Frolic Draws Prizes
At the Medical Dental Round Table event in Chicago on December 8 attendees may win a free appendectomy, a tooth extraction, and three dye pills for dental work. The drawing is part of the annual midwinter frolic.
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Chicago
Medical Dental Round Table
Plan to Start Hop from Coast to Australia
Captain Charles P. T. Ulm and two companions test the Star of Australia plane in Oakland California as they prepare for a coast to Australia flight. G M Littlejohn co pilot and J A Skilling navigator assist. Weather reports and clear coast conditions frame the ambitious attempt.
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Australia
Oakland
Calif
Charles P. T. Ulm
Ulm
G. M. Littlejohn
J. A. Skilling
California
Advisers Divided Over Roosevelt Plan For Relief
Washington dispatch reports advisers split over how to tackle relief and unemployment in the coming year. Hopkins pushes a federal relief program of 8 to 9 billion dollars to replace the dole with public works jobs, while conservative voices favor cutting federal spending and stimulating private business with loan guarantees. Continued on page six.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hopkins
Harold L. Ickes
Harry L. Hopkins
Warm Springs
Fede Relief Corporation
Ickes
Field House Construction Supplement Approved for March Completion
A supplemental approval for continuing construction on the field house off Riverside drive was received by FERA officer W. D. Frey. About 55 men will work, with completion expected late March 1935, requiring about 17,100 man-hours. An $8,776 allotment funds floors dressing rooms showers and swimming pool excavation in the basement, pool roughly 35 by 75 feet, with walls floor and landing to be mixed and placed, and grounds cleanup to follow.
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Riverside Drive
W. D. Frey
FERA
Prey
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Dean Armstrong
University Board of Governors
Turner
Tug
American Legion Bazaar Moose
Public Enemy
Helen
Helen Gillis
Nelson
Gillis
Middle West
Eanester
M. D
Coast Guards
Muskegon, Mich
NRA
William S. Menden
New York Rapid Transit Corporation
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Labor Relations Board
Fred L. Fox
Laval
McClintic
Hopkins and
Public Works
Dole
Plan of
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