Merger Plan Considered In Government Regulated Communications
Washington reports an intense study of communications problems with a proposal to merge telephone telegraph and radio agencies under strict federal control. Three options are outlined including continued conditions, government ownership, or merger of Western Union and Postal Telegraph. Roosevelt will forward findings to Congress while reserving judgment.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
ABE
Eure
Man Found Dead Near Flemington in Shack
Paul Williams about 40 was found dead this morning by neighbors in his shack near the Berry mine below Flemington where he lived alone. A physician said he had been dead several hours when found about 7 o'clock. He suffered a prior flux attack but had seemed to recover. Williams came to Flemington coal fields five years ago and worked at various coal outfits. He lived alone in a company hotel. Relatives are unknown and undertakers McGlumphey Brothers were notified. efforts to locate relatives are under way.
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Paul Williams
Berry
Flemington
Williams
Coal Company
House Will Vote Today on Liquor Control Law
Charleston dispatch reports a two part drive in West Virginia to ease access to legal liquor for residents of nearby wet states. The House of Delegates plans a vote on a legal liquor importing bill after the Senate rapid ratification of the federal child labor amendment with only one dissent.
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HOUSE
Charleston
West Virginia
West
Clarence E. Martin
American Bar Association
Senate
House of Delegates
Public appeals for Salvation Army Christmas Cheer drive
A stirring letter from Mrs Captain W H Arnold urges Grafton residents to support the Salvation Army Christmas Cheer Campaign. A toy depot at 35 W Main Street welcomes toys clothing and foodstuffs to help ensure all children share in Yuletide joy this year.
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Salvation Army
Captain Arnold
W. H. Arnold
Grafton
Army
Main Street
Bids Asked for Road Building
Charleston dispatch reports the road commission seeks bids to build 12 437 miles of highway costing about 500 000 with a December 28 opening. Funded by a federal grant of 4 475 000 for West Virginia projects including Randolph county 1 167 miles Elkins street concrete paving 5 019 miles grading draining and gravel surfacing.
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Charleston
Road Commission
West Virginia
Randolph
Elkins Street
Bulge In Shipping Orders Sparks Steel Operations Rise
New York December 13 A bulge in shipping orders against expiring contracts has largely driven a rise in steel operations. Iron Age pointed this out today in a brief market note.
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New York
Urschel Kidnapper in Confinement at Leavenworth
Assistant Attorney General Joseph B Keenan said Alfred Bates one of the Urschel kidnappers is in solitary confinement at Leavenworth to extract from him the whereabouts of 100000 in ransom money. Bates has been isolated about six weeks without yielding information. Bates is linked with gangsters like George Machine Gun Kelley.
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Washington
Joseph B. Keenan
Alfred Bates
Urschel
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Keenan
Bats
Former Local Man Dies at Monongah
Carroll Currey 64, Monongah resident and Marion county figure, died at St Mary's Hospital Clarksburg yesterday morning after a several week illness. He had been in poor health for months and recently worsened. He was admitted to St Mary's last Sunday and had gallstone surgery. Pneumonia developed.
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Carroll Currey
Monongah
Marion County
St. Mary’s Hospital
Clarksburg
Currey
St. Mary's Hospital
Boats Hunt Victims Marine Disaster Off San Francisco Coast
Rescue boats searched five miles offshore and 85 miles south near Point Pinos for survivors of a marine disaster after an unidentified vessel reportedly sank in rough seas. Coast guard messages described an explosion and a sinking, with a salvage team locating air tanks and charred timber. A ship’s fate remains unconfirmed with reports placing a vessel named Richfield Oleaner about 45 miles south of St. Pinos.
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San Francisco
Calif
Was
Coast Guard
P Pinos
Monterey
R. F. Studd
Richfield Oleaner
Worry Doheny
St. Pinos
Child Labor Amendment Ratified by West Virginia Senate
West Virginia lawmakers ratified the federal child labor amendment, joining 16 other states. The Senate heard a former American Bar Association leader attack the measure as socialism, while the West Virginia Federation of Labor defended it saying the nation’s 28 million civil and patriotic groups support action to curb abuse of child labor.
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Charleston
House
Senate
American Bar Association
West Virginia Federation of Labor
Congress
Mitchell
Monroe
Clarence E. Martin
Martinsshore
390 Men Swamp Employment Headquarters
The busiest city spot is 749 West Main Street Reemployment as Service workers under Manager John H Evans enroll eligible workers not yet enrolled under the CWA. A long line formed outside the office with about three hundred people awaiting assistance as clerks process cards and enrollments for all county applicants.
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West Main Street
John H. Evans
CWA
Court House
Main Street
Simon J. Friedman
David Miller
Charles Englehart
Agnes Tierney
John Ford, Jr
Evans
Alice Knight
Hodges Calls For Study Of After Repeal Legislation
Senator Charles E Hodges argues the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment shows public will to end saloon era and bootlegger influence. He says liquor policy must focus on law observance rather than enforcement and that the issue extends to practical government administration. Continued on Page Six.
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Hodges
Need
Correction Adds Miss Proudfoot To Honor Roll List
A correction in the Sentinel fixes an omission in yesterday’s honor roll list. Miss Rosaline Proudfoot is now included among the high school pupils achieving places of preferment. In Grass Valley California the Piety Hill area features Bible named streets such as Zion Gethsemane Jordan Cross and Tribulation Trail.
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The
Sentinel
Rosaline Proudfoot
the Sentinel
Miss Proudfoot
California
Grass Valley
Zion
Gethsemane
Jordan
Former Local Man Thomas Hull Dies in Kansas
Relatives report the death of Thomas A. Hull at his Eldorado Kansas home on Sunday afternoon. He left Taylor County about forty five years ago from Knottsville district. He was a son of the late Samuel Hull and Elvira Jones. Continues from page three. There is one gift that is never duplicated Your Photograph.
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Elkins
Fairmont
W. E. Baker
Baker
Harry F. Hal
Teresa Burdett
Joe Bernard Gamble
Pittsburgh
Gamble
Grafton
Marion County
Nannio Camilleri
Jackson V. Blair
Blair
Thomas A. Hull
Eldorado
Kansas
W. W. McDaniel
Cecil
Knottsville
Taylor County
State of
Hull
Samuel Hull
Elvira Jones
Thieves Drill Through Brick And Mortar To Rob Post Office
Thieves drilled through 18 inches of brick and mortar to steal registered mail and about $10,000 in postage stamps from the Alfred Street branch post office. A clerk discovered the break this morning. 58 pieces of registered mail were taken. Post office officials cited potential losses up to tens of thousands, though they doubt the total would reach that level.
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Alfred Street
Poast
John B. Starkpoole
Washington Holding Up New Hospital
Mayor Charles O King returned from Washington after a midweek visit to push approval for a 150000 loan to build a modern free root municipal hospital. He warned of long delays due to 1455 applications ahead and red tape before federal board action and presidential sanction.
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Charles O. King
Washington
King
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Federal Board
Ging
Maine
California
Rang Sig Im
Sentinel
Public Works Board
Grafton
Irate Increase Varies as to Delivery Point
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered coal rate increases from Colona and Conway to Youngstown and from river transfer points on the Wheeling and Lake Erie to Canton Massillon Cleveland Lorain and South Lorain. The Youngstown rate is 13 cents higher per ton, with fixed river-to-rail transfers at 90 cents to Youngstown and higher amounts to other cities. The decision notes ex-river coal service mirrors that of mine coal served by tracks and cites impact on Pittsburgh Connellsville and Fairmont district mines unable to load directly to barges.
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Washington
Colona
Conway
Youngstown
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Canton
Massillon
Cleveland
Loraine
South Loraine
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railways
River Division
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Connellsville
Fairmont
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Western Union and Postal
Renart
House Interstate Commerce
Judge Baker
Berry Mine
Flemingt Nm
McGlumphey Brothers
United Brethren Church
Lindys
Manaos
Trinidad
U. S
Port-of-Spain
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
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West Indies
Puerto Rico
Miami
San Juan
Leavenworth
McGee
Eastern Bank
Turner's Falls
Mass
Drc
Crocker National Bank
Solons
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Sen
Charles E. Hodges
W. R. Loar & Son
New Hospital
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