Payroll rumor ties to big dam project in Grafton
Witness tells jury about payroll nearing ten thousand dollars weekly for workers at the Tygart Valley river flood control dam project near Grafton. Frank Wardwell, Snare press representative, disclosed that 390 laborers are employed by Frederick Snare Corp and Sutton Construction Co. at the site while reporting on site conditions and funding flows.
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Grafton
Frederick Snare Corporation
Tygart Valley River
Grafton Park
Sutton Construction Company
Sentinel
Frank Wardwell
Snare Press
Graftonian
Carr
China Pottery
Army Engineers Corps
Graft City Park
Snare Corporation
Frank Warrell
Snare
Kump Proposes Changes to State Liquor Stores
Charleston February 7 Governor H G Kump seeks absolute authority for the state commissioner to set the number and location of state owned liquor stores under the control plan. He argues it will aid in rooting out bootleggers and proposes limits by town population and a broader restriction on agency selling. Continued on page six.
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Charleston
H. G. Kump
Ornor
Pittsburgh
Tri-State Authority
PWA
Pennsylvania
W. G. Gravell
W. B. Rodgers
West Virginia
Kanawhan
Benefit Card Party by Welfare Department of Woman's Club
A benefit card party hosted by the Welfare Department of the Woman's Club takes place this evening Thursday February 7. Public invited. tickets likely priced around 35 cents. Proceeds support club welfare efforts and community aid.
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HE Welfare Department OF Woman’s Club
The
Homie
Additional Relief Cash Sent Into West Virginia
Federal Emergency Relief Administration grants $600000 to sustain aid for 30000 West Virginia families until February 22. State relief administrator William N Beehler says relief will run on a minimum basis until new funds arrive.
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Charleston
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
West Virginia
William N. Beehler
Beehler
Trunk murder uncovered by border police
Sacramento report details a 2000 mile car flight carrying a victim’s body from Kalamazoo to California. Clarence Frechette, 25, driver, allegedly killed Robert Brown, 25, near Howell Michigan on January 29 after Brown claimed relations with Frechette’s girlfriend. Frechette confessed after travel with hitchhikers near Truckee California, with three others present.
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Sacramento
Calif
California-Nevada
Kalamazoo
Mich
Clarence Frechette
Joseph Blake
California State Highway Patrol
Robert Brown
Howell
Holt
Truckee
Captain Blake
Frechette
Brown
Blake
Kalamazon
Pontiac
CCC Youths Would Form Army Reserve Plan
General Douglas MacArthur drafts a bill proposing an enlisted reserve force of over 100,000 partially trained CCC camp graduates. The plan offers two months of intensive training followed by inactive status, with voluntary enlistment.
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Washington
CCC
Douglas MacArthur
Army Chief of Staff
MacArthur
House Military Committee
Germany's Aero Power Recognized by Rivals
Berlin officials hailed Anglo French air accord talks as a sign of Germany’s rising air power. Spokesmen noted the convention calls for immediate mutual assistance, framing it as implicit acknowledgment of Germany’s secret military air fleet.
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Germany
Aero Power
Berlin
Reich
Wilhelmstrasse
Good Citizenship Program Planned at West Main Church
Under the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, a Good Citizenship program is set for West Main Street M. E. church on Friday February 16 at 7:30 PM. Grafton’s prominent men and women participate, helping make the annual event possible and promising strong interest.
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Woman's Christian Tempprance Union
West Main Street
M. E
Grafton
Paris Quiet After Riot Fears Mark Anniversary
Paris observes the anniversary of Bloody Tuesday with 1200 communists jailed and no civilian deaths this year. Authorities report minor injuries to one civilian and five police, while red paint on Place de la Concorde is cleaned by workers.
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Paris
Place de la Concorde
Farmers to Get Half Billion During Year
Government economists announced that U S farmers will receive checks totaling 422,230,000 this year. Under the AAA program started May 12, 1933, more than 10 million checks amounting to 629,614,037 have been issued. Administrator Chester C. Davis noted the AAA cost from inception to this year reached 783,983,535.
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Washington
AAA
Chester C. Davis
Sale of Crown Jewels Angers Chicago Police
In Chicago on February 7 reports say the so called Russian Crown jewels are being sold frequently. Mrs. Minnitzen bought them for 3800 dollars though an appraiser valued the pieces at 1.50 each in glass. Mrs. Elizabeth Wrothenstein bought similar stones for 965 dollars recently. Police think the same swindler gang is behind the sales.
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Chicago
Minnitzen
Elizabeth Wrothenstein
New Water Supply Plant For Reform School Will Be Erected During Year
Plans for a new water system at the Industrial School for Boys Pruntytown call for a six inch main from the river to the campus, a 250000 gallon reservoir, and a filtration plant. Cost is set at 45157 with county labor and local supplies favored. The project awaites funding in Governor Kump’s budget and board of control approval. The reform school item follows reports of an escape incident in Aurora involving Jesse Doyle and federal agents.
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Reform School
Pruntytown
R. J. Btrock
Weston
Board of Control
H. G. Kump
R. P. Bell
Bell
Police Fire on Pickets in Anthracite Mine War
Wilkes-Barre Pa February 7 police fired on pickets in the Pennsylvania anthracite miners strike at Glen Alden Coal Company collieries Luzerne county. Shots were fired from a police cruiser at an automobile carrying four fleeing pickets a rear tire was punctured and the car halted in the chase.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Glen Alden
Joseph Bruno Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter
In Pottsville Pennsylvania the jury of ten men and two women found former county detective Joseph J. Bruno guilty of voluntary manslaughter for the Kelayres election eve shootings that killed five. The verdict carries a possible sentence between six and twelve years. The jury, deliberating 65 hours, faced a potential mistrial due to juror illness.
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Pottsville
Entty
Joseph J. Bruno
Kelayres
Bruno
John Flanagan
C. M. Palmer
John Connors
James B. Heller
Defense Nearing End in Maj Shepard Murder Trial
In Fort Riley federal court Maj Charles A Shepard faces murder charges over the alleged poisoning of his second wife Zenana Shepard five years ago. The defense argues she had a mental disorder and likely took her own life. Lawyers for the 63 year old Army medical officer expect to finish presenting witnesses soon while prosecutors plan 15 rebuttals.
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Lopeka
Kas
Charles A. Shepard
Zenana Shepard
Fort Riley
Former bookmaker found guilty in kidnapping case
London Ontario February seven fifty five year old former Cincinnati and Detroit bookmaker David Meisner was convicted by a jury on three counts, two kidnapping and one armed robbery, and sentenced by Justice G F P McFarland to 15 years on each conviction to run concurrently. He protested innocence and was spared lashes due to his physical condition.
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London
Ont
David Meisner
Cincinnati
Detroit
John A. Labatt
Just Tice G. FP. McFarland
Laffoon Cancels Special Session Call on Primary Law
Governor Ruby Laffoon revoked the call for a special session of the general assembly to pass a compulsory primary law. An injunction followed, with a temporary restraining order issued in Franklin circuit court. The order was signed at 4 10 a m as the governor entered the state near Ashland Ky.
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Frankfort
General Assembly
Ruby Laffoon
Franklin Circus Court
Secretary of State
Ashland
Farm Bureau Chief Urges Action on AAA Amendments
Morgantown February 7 Edward A. O Neil president of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged farmers to tell America in no uncertain terms that action is needed on amendments to the AAA and other legislation. O Neal spoke during the farm and home week session which continues through Friday.
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Morgantown
Edward A. O'Neil
American Farm Bureau Federation
America
AAA
O'Neal
Friady
George Case Drag s Slowly at Fairmont
Continued slow progress in the trial of Drexel R. George, former deputy sheriff charged with embezzlement of county funds, drew ire from Judge Charles Miller who rebuked both sides for irrelevant questions. The questioning of State Trooper Andrew Morgan, who arrested George in St Louis and brought him back to West Virginia, prompted the judge to insist on focusing on the essential facts for the jury. Continued on page four.
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Fairmont
Drexel R.george
Charles Miller
Andrew Morgan
George
St. Louis
Morgan
St Louis
West Virginia
Fire BLAZE Drives Sixty From Chase Block
In Hudson Massachusetts on February 7 a major fire destroyed the Chase Block and damaged two adjoining buildings. Crumbling walls trapped one fireman and forced sixty people including about twenty guests at the Mansion House hotel onto the street. Firefighters from Marlboro Maynard and Berlin battled the blaze as temperatures plunged to 50 below zero, with insured damage estimated at $500000.
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Hudson
Mass
Chase Block
Mansion House
Marlboro
Maynard
Berlin
Reinforcements Called to Save Relief Bill Fight
Roosevelt leaders moved to rush reinforcements to stop insurgents on a senate committee from sharply cutting the work and relief bill. The appropriations panel had tied 10 to 10, keeping the bill at 4.88 billion rather than shrinking to a 2.8 billion dole measure.
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Washington
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Youth Seeks Enrollment at State Reform School
Supt. R. P. Bell of the State Industrial School for Boys received a letter from Eimer D. Jackson, a Waggy youth from Wagey, requesting matriculation to learn vocational work. The request will go to the state board of control for a decision on enrollment.
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Reform School
R. P. Bell
State Industrial School For Boys
Waggy
W. Va
Eimer D. Jackson
Wagey
State Board of Control
Eimer
Expert Says Nails Driven In Recently Insisted By Defense
A defense expert for Bruno Hauptmann testified the four nail holes on the Lindbergh kidnap ladder did not appear when he examined it less than a month after the crime. Dr. E M Hudson said there was only one square nail hole in a rail and that state or federal reports would not alter his view. He maintained new reports showing four holes would not shake his testimony.
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Associated Press
Flemington
N. 4
Bruno Richard
Hauptmann
E. M. Hudson
David A. Wilentz
Tal Dee
State Police
New Jersey
United States
Prisoner Faces Boy Slayer in West Virginia Murder Case
Philippi February 7 Special counsel for Lawrence Carroll 28 convicted by Barbour county circuit jury of second degree murder in the killing of Dale Jones 12 son of a Grafton barber plans no appeal Dayton Stemple Carrolls chief counsel asked for insanity verdict claiming Moatsville man an asylum inmate was mentally incompetent at time of slaying Jury out an hour verdict returned at 10 oclock Carroll made no comment as he heard guilty verdict The Baltimore Ohio Veterans Association of Wheeling W Va invites veterans and friends to a banquet at Windsor hotel February 12 7 30 p m for Graton Lodge No 11 births rates and information call W N Malone Secretary
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Philippi
Lawrence ‘Carroll
Barbour’ County
Dale Jones
Grafton Barber
Dayton Stemple
Carroll
Hig
Moatsville
Baltimore
Ohio
Association of Wheeling
W. Va
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Kump
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Army Reserve
County
Judge
Hurst
Courtroo
Philip Kennamer
John F. Gorrell, Jr
Pawnee
Oklaw
Tulsa
U.S
Aurora
Ill
Jesse Doyle
Bremer
Federal Department of Justice
Doyle
E. L. Matlock
Yorkville
Nading
Department of Justice
Joseph Bruno
Maj. Shepard
Laffoon
Farm Bureau Federation
George Case
Praintytown
STATE
Lawrence Carroll
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