Train Bus Collision Kills 20 Students Near Salt Lake
A Salt Lake Telegram report from ten miles south of Salt Lake City describes a crash between a freight train and a school bus at a rural crossing. About 20 students are dead and twelve others were taken to Salt Lake county hospital in serious condition. The bus carried Jordan High students, ages 14 to 18, and the scene stretched along one mile of the Denver and Rio Grande right of way. The Freight, nicknamed The Flying Ute, was delayed by a snowstorm. Driver Farrel Silcox, other details pending continuation.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Telegram
Here
Grant Young
Salt Lake County Hospital
Jordan High School
Young
Midvale
R. G. Freight
Farrel Silcox
Silcox
Two Seek Senate Posts in West Virginia Legislature
Charleston dispatch notes a new West Virginia legislature begun with Democratic control and leadership races under way. Senators James Paull and John Pelter lead the bid for senate president as outgoing term ends. Charles Hodges chooses not to seek re election. Kay Thom as speaker plans to run again, seeking to be the first West Virginia speaker to succeed himself.
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Charleston
West Virginia
James Paull
Wellsburg
John Pelter
Stallings
Senate
Thomas
Charles E. Hodges
Morgantown
Kay Thomas
House
U S Monopoly Probe Begins
Washington reports the Federal Monopoly committee opened a two year inquiry into the nation's economic system. Six congress members and six government agency appointees compose the panel. Isador Lubin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics testified first, with Willard Thorpe and Leon Henderson to follow.
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Washington
Federal
Congress
Isador Lubin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lubin
Willard Thorpe
Commerce Department
Leon Henderson
WPA
Thorpe
Henderson
Gallipolis Lawyer To Be Executive Officer
Gallipolis attorney Harry M. Miller, 35, named executive secretary to Gov elect John W. Bricker at a salary of 5000 dollars. Bricker takes office January 9 alongside finance director William S. Evatt. Miller, former Gallia County prosecutor, chairs the county Republican executive committee. He attended Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio State.
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Columbus
Hary M. Miller
Gallipolis
John W. Bricker
Bricker
William S. Evatt
Miller
Times
Gallis County
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio State
Six Glass Windows Wrecked and Murder Conviction In Preston County
In Kingwood a playful scuffle led to a fatal shooting. George McLaughlin was convicted by a Preston County jury of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Enos DeBerry after testifying self defense. A new trial motion was argued in Huntington as Mrs John Conaway was arrested along with others.
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Kingwood
George McLaughlin
Mlaughlin
Enos DeBerry
McLaughlin
Huntington
Leslie J
Swann
John Conaway
Stite Sa DeBerry
Ross McNeal
DeBerry
West Penn Foreman Drowns After Car Skid Into River
Don C. Winemiller, 67, a track foreman for the Monongahela West Penn Public Service, drowned when his car skidded off street car tracks and plunged 40 feet into the West Fork river near Turner. He helped lay the tracks 25 years ago.
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Weston
Don C. Winemiller
Turner
Monongahela West -Penin
Public Service Company
West Fork
Newspapermen Hold Parley in Charleston
West Virginia publishers and newspapermen met for the annual West Virginia Publishers association and semi annual Associated Press session. The wage hour bill was the principal item of business with Cranson Williams of Chattanooga to study the wages and hours law. A. P. Members Meet with W Guy Terrickrick in charge. C E Smith of Fairfield on the National Bituminous Coal commission.
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Charleston
West Virginia
West Virginia Publishers — Association
Associated Press
Cranston Williams
Chattanooga
Clarksburg
C. E. Smith
Faimont
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Judge Knox defends fair trial in spy case
Federal Judge John C. Knox praised the trial of Ger man spy suspects Jo anna Hoffmann Otto Hermann Voss and Erich Glaser as fair and humane. He said he leaned over backwards to show other nations that the United States guarantees due process regardless of nationality or offense. The trio, convicted of conspiring to steal military secrets, face sentences tomorrow with up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Knox urged jurors to disregard nationality.
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New York
John C. Knox
America
Johanna Hoffmann
Otto Hermann Voss
Erich Glaser
Man Jailed As Drunk Is Wanted For Murder
Welch reports Northfork police chief Dean Spencer said Jerry Jackson, alias Smokey, arrested November 13 for drunkenness, is wanted at Natchez Mississippi on a murder charge. Jackson was taken into custody in Northfork.
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Welch
Dean Spencer
Northfork
Jerry Jackson
Smokey
Natchez
Miss
Jackson
Spencer
Streamlining of munitions making urged by Army
Washington dispatch reports Army orders to streamline munitions production design simplifying arms and supplies and speeding management for mass output to meet possible war needs. Louis Johnson urged procurement officers to avoid 1917 18 mistakes and asked Congress for a sufficient stockpile to bridge to steady industry.
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Washington
Army
Louis Johnson
High Command
Roosevelt
Congress
Johnson
Retary
Grand Champion Steer Brings $3.35 A Pound
The grand champion Aberdeen-Angus steer named Mercer sold at the 1938 International Livestock Exposition auction for $3.35 a pound, the top price since 1929, to Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron. Irene Brown, 14, of Aledo Illinois, showed the steer weighing about 1130 pounds, earning her $3,785.50 from the sale after buying it for $60 last January.
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Chicago
Irene Brown
Aledo, I
Firestone ‘Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Horace Milhone
Farm Service Bureau
Police warn against reporting imaginary razor attacks
London reports a crackdown on false razor attack stories as police cite public mischief after a 14 year old girl confessed her Manchester suburb injury was accidental. Halifax records another slashing, bringing its total to 14 during the spree over nine days.
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London
England
Manchester
Halifax
Razor Blade Maniac
Roosevelt Starts Work On Congressional Program
President Roosevelt returns from vacation at Warm Springs to outline a new congressional program. Speaker Bankhead plans a Alabama visit for a party strategy talk and to discuss a legislative slate, including defense proposals. The relief outlay may exceed 1.0 billion dollars, with Hopkins, WPA administrator, set for a second conference with the president. Bullitt, American ambassador to France, is noted in the dispatch.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Bankhead
Alabama
Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
William C. Bullitt
France
Daladier moves to punish leaders after abortive strike
Paris reports Premier Daladier consolidates control after a failed one day general strike. He orders a three year economic mobilization to back the recovery plan while Italy presses claims on Tunisia. A few disorders flare in Toulouse and Clermont Ferrand as authorities quell unrest and labor counts shrink.
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Daladier
Paris
France
Italy
Tunisia
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
North African
Andre Francois-Poncet
General Confederation of Labor
Perio
Toulouse
Clermont Farrand
Father fatally wounds his two year old girl
Stanley Costy of Summerlee told Police Sergeant J. B. Childers he had been playing with a shotgun when it discharged. The volley struck his two year old daughter in the chest, killing her in Oak Hill on December 1.
Ten Maintains A A Averages At Grafton High
Grafton High announces second six weeks nine students earned all A averages ending November 23 led by seniors Mary Elizabeth Clark Jean McCue Richard McProuty Virginia Shafferman and Juniors Alice Austin Lynette Baker Florence Kunst Florine Friedman with others on honor roll above B. Senior list includes Grace Bartlett Marjorie Bennett Gladys Carlyle Howard Carr Marjorie Cole Maxine Corbin Frances Dawson Edward Dougher Barbara Gerkin. Robert Gilligan Mathilda Grow and others noted among the B or better achievers.
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Grafton High School
Torlock Rasmussen
Mary Elizabeth Clark
Jean McCue
Richard McProuty
Virginia Shafferman
Alice Austin
Lynette Baker
Florence Kunst
Florine Friedman
Betty Turvander
Willa Copenhaver
Grace Marie Bartlett
Marjorie Bennett
Gladys Carlyle
Howard Carr
Marjorie Cole
Maxine Corbin
Frances Dawson
Edward Dougher
Barbara Gerkin
Robert Gilligan
Mathilda Grow
Rail Embargo Shuts Chicago Stockyards Amid Strike
Chicago December 1 embargo on livestock shipments to commission men halted activity in the strike bound stockyards. Railroads refused consignments to open markets while direct shipments to packing firms were accepted. CIO Livestock Handlers strike enters 11th day as talks set for Monday. A stay-in strike affected Armour and Company's East St Louis plant.
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Chicago
Chicago Livestock Exchange
E. L.kemp
CIO
Union Stock Yard and Transit Co
Armour and Company
East St. Louis,linois
Test to challenge federal labor standards act underway
Wage hour investigators sift about 1800 complaints, with roughly 450 involving real violations. Administrators expect within two weeks to file lawsuits to seek a Supreme Court test of the act, which aims to set a wage floor and hour ceiling. The effort continues in field investigations.
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Washington
Wagehour
Elmer F. Andrews
Supreme Court
PWA Grants For Parsons School Project Approved
The Public Works Administration announced loans totaling 1,857,500 and grants of 2,070,536 for 14 projects with a combined construction cost of 4,601,751. Among the allocations is an 81,180 grant for Parsons, West Virginia, to build a new school, with funds revised from other projects.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Parsons
W. Va
Abduction Probe in Oxon Hill Seizes Two Suspects
An 18 year old Mary Brown was abducted by two rough dressed men near Oxon Hill Maryland. Her sister Lucy 15 escaped and ran to help police. Maryland state police Captain Edward Johnson led the search with armed residents and eight state troopers from Baltimore. FBI involvement considered. Two young men in a truck questioned by Washington police.
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Washington
Maryland
Mary Brown
Lucy
Mary
Oxon Hill
William B. Brown
Edward Johnson
Aal Sichaz
Johnson
O#on Hill
Ford Favors Aid to Jews in U S Immigration
Detroit December 1 Henry Ford, accused by critics of anti Semitism, says admitting Jews seeking haven from Nazi persecution would give a new impetus to American business. He spoke at Dearborn after meeting Rabbi Leo M Franklin on his 75th birthday observance.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Leo M. Franklin
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