Ex-convict questioned in Mattson kidnapping murder case
An ex convict James G. McDonald was questioned about the abduction and murder of 10 year old Charles Mattson. Washington state police chief William Cole said McDonald fit the kidnapper description and his movements appeared suspicious. Witnesses were urged to confront him as part of the investigation.
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Seattle
Charles Mattson
James G. McDonald
Wilai Cole
Washington
Cole
William and
Laurie] Mattson
Teoma
Virginia Chatfield
Little Charles
Tacoma
Everett Wash
W. W. Mattson
McDonald
A. B. Kuehl
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mattson
Sales tax debate dominates House calendar in Charleston
Charleston February 10. The house opens with a major discussion on making the two per cent consumer sales tax permanent. Governor Holt signals possible retention of some food exemptions while Senate Finance would tax restaurants and retailers at half the existing rate. Two bills seek city option to levy additional gross and consumer taxes amid a two hour session that ended just before seven.
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Charleston
Holt
Tis
Senate Finance Committee
House
High School Girls Form Wally Simpson Club
Front row includes Othel Darty Bernice Cunduff and Kay Musgrove. Back row shows Vinita Mae Cherrington Jo Ann Hubbard Betty Jane Caldwell and Delores Fisher. The club forms with plans for future opportunities if they arise.
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Othel Darty
Bernice Cunduff
Kay Musgrove
Vinita Mae Cherrington
Jo ‘Ann Hubbard
Betty Jane Caldwell
Delores Fisher
Wage Parley Huge Affair in Appalachian Soft Coal
Washington dispatch says the wages and hours conference for United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators will be the world’s largest collective bargaining meeting. About 400,000 miners will be affected as the April 1 contract seeks a 30 hour week and at least 15 percent pay rise. John L. Lewis will read the miners' demands in New York with hundreds of operators and union officials listening in.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Appalachian
New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Lewis
Biltmore
John L. Lewis
United Mine ‘Workers
Inmates Ill With Influenza At State Penitentiary
MOUNDSVILLE Feb 10 One hundred nine prisoners in the state penitentiary were ill of influenza in an emergency ward today Dr C F McClintic warden urged all sheriffs in the state to keep in county jails other prisoners awaiting transfer to the state prison The outbreak followed an epidemic of diphtheria during which 14 prisoners were ill.
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Moundsville
State Penitentiary
C. F. McClintic
McClintic
Reform Efforts Fail As Jail Bird Vanishes
Spokane, Feb 10. Mrs Hilma Kisrow a social worker helped Franklin H Lohr 35 out of jail to reform him. She took him home but he soon disappeared. One of her husband shirts and 41 dollars in cash also vanished. She signed a petit larceny complaint against Lohr.
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Spokane
Wash
Hilma Kisrow
Franklin H. Lohr
Broaddus Reopens After Recess Due to Sickness
Alderson-Broaddus College classes resume after a two day recess for jaw influenza. Dean J. A. Woolfer and 13 students in dormitories were sick. Officials said other town residents also ill.
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Philipps
Alderson-Broaddus College
J. A. Woolfer
Mitchell Wins Suit Against Oil Firm on Appeal Likely
A $1,160.83 jury verdict for B R Mitchell against Pure Oil for breach of contract may be set aside in Taylor county circuit court this term, with a possible appeal to the state supreme court if the verdict is overturned. The four day trial concluded with Mitchell seeking $5,000 damages after he arranged a garage and service station lease and expected to be hired as manager, but Pure Oil hired Harley Haller instead.
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Bonafede
West Main Street
Pure Oil Company
Mitchell
Harley Haller
Assumpsit
H. W. Dent
Children of Man Held For Murder Are Jailed
In Pineville Wyoming county officials consider returning three young Burdine children from Leadville Colorado where Hugh Burdine alias Carl Cook is jailed for the slaying of his wife. He confessed beating her with a wrench. the couple's children reportedly slept beside their mother believing she was ill. Panzie Burdine to receive a pauper burial unless funds are provided by relatives of C Witcher Cook of Jeese Wyoming county. Public assistance officials at the county weigh next steps.
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Pineville
Wyoming County Public Assistance Council
Hugh Burdine
Leadville
Colo
Burdine
Carl Cook
Panzie
C. Witcher Cook
Jeese
Wyoming County
Davis argues suit for a. p. free press in labor ruling
Government lawyers face the Supreme Court to answer John W. Davis who contends the labor relations act violates the free press guarantee as applied to the Associated Press. He says news writers are intrinsic to the product and must be chosen by the writers authoring it. Davis spoke for AP amid board orders to reinstate Morris Watson, a discharged editor.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John W. Davis
National Labor Relations Act
Associated Press
Davis
National Labor Relations Board
Morris Watson
U. 8
Speaks Watson
American Newspaper Guild
Charles E. Wyzanski
Highway Death Toll In January Shows Increase
Charleston report from Col. P. R. Shingleton state police shows 39 traffic deaths on West Virginia highways in January, up two from 1936. A total of 315 injuries occurred in 472 accidents, with a call for stricter highway patrols.
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Charleston
P. R. Shingleton
West Virginia
Shingleton
Glass strike talks loom as parley nears peace accord
Detroit February session of the Governor Murphy peace conference proceeds amid efforts by John L. Lewis and the UAW board to craft a settlement with General Motors. Discussions hinge on recognizing the Glass Workers’ Federation as sole bargaining agent for at least 20 of GM’s 69 plants, per Libby-Owens-Ford precedents. Continued on page five.
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Detroit
John L. Lewis
General Motors
Board of Strategy
United Automobile Workers of America
Frank Murphy
Washington
Posig
General Is
Libby-Owens-Ford Glass
Toledo
Glass Workers’ Federation
Automoble Workers
Automat
Life On Farm Never Dull For This Gent
Wayland New York farmer Harry Shaver recounts nine months of farm life with five rescued baby rabbits freed by his cat, a four year old cow bearing twins totaling 107 pounds, potatoes winning first prize at the state show, and a leghorn hen laying an egg about 6 by 8 inches.
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Wayland
N. Y
Harry Shaver
Bluestone Reservoir Needs Special Appropriation
Army engineers told Representative Joe L. Smith of Beckley West Virginia a special appropriation is needed to buy lands for the Bluestone reservoir in southern West Virginia. Lt Col John F Conklin said sufficient funds are not available for full acquisition. Representative John Kee of Bluefield estimated about 12 million dollars is needed to build the reservoir. Initial work began under a one million dollar allocation made by the president.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Joe L. Smith
Beckley
W. Va
Bluestone
West Virginia
Edwin Markham Declared Incompetent by Court
Edwin Markham the 84 year old poet behind The Man With the Hoe was declared mentally incompetent by a New York court due to encephalitis and memory impairment. Four volumes of his poetry were present as physicians testified to his unsound capacity. sister in law Miss Mary Murphy testified to his inability to manage his estate.
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New York
Edwin Markham
Mary Murphy
Supreme Court
Brooke
Mary
Women of Madrid Courage Amid War Time Hardship
Madrid women endure scarce food, shelter danger, and constant shelling as civil war defies comfort. They wait in lines for rice, beans, bread, olive oil, and cabbage while bombs fall nearby. Some pay with their lives for staying put as Valencia and Barcelona aid arrives. The city relies on the countryside for relief amid relentless hardship.
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Madrid
Spain
Valencia
Barcelona
Ira Robinson to Speak at Republican Lincoln Dinner
Ira E. Robinson former member of the federal radio commission will speak at the Lincoln day dinner sponsored by the United Republican club Thursday night in Clarksburg. Republicans from Weston Buckhannon Fairmont Philipp and other central West Virginia cities will attend.
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Clarksburg
Ira E. Robinson
Federal Radio Commission
United Republican Club
Weston
Buckhaynen
Fairmont
Philipp
West Virginia
Ohio Democrat Attacks Roosevelt Court Reform Plan
Rep Lamneck of Ohio assailed President Roosevelt's court reform on the House floor calling it a path to a Hitler or Stalin style regime. He warned against executive usurpation as Congress prepared to vote on a retirement age of 70 for Supreme Court justices as part of the reform package.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Lamneck
Ohio
Hitler
Piscolini
Stalin
Ohioan
State WPA to spend half million on flood area repairs
Charleston reports WPA administrator F Witcher McCullough will meet district directors Forsythe Harding Roth Kramer to authorize a $500000 program. Projects must be finished by May 1 1937 and funding mainly covers WPA labor with sponsors providing materials. Over 3000 WPA workers are engaged in flood cleanup sanitation and refugee care.
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Charleston
F. Witcher McCullough
WPA
Forsythe
Huntington
Robert Roth
Parkerssburg
Harold Kramer
Fair~mont
McCullough
Harry L. Hopkins
Wendel Tells of Torturing in Lindbergh Case
Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton lawyer, testified that Ellis H. Parker Sr. assigned him to establish contact with the underworld during the Lindbergh kidnap investigation. Wendel described agreeing to a Chicago contact and another in New York as Parker sought to recover the baby. The witness testified on the second day about the alleged torture and coerced confession.
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New York
Paul H. Wendel
Trenton
N. J
Ellis H. Parker
Burlington County
Wendel
Netp Parker
Doctor Delivers Twins Amid Flood Mud
Dr. C. A. Poindexter rushes to Meigs County Infirmary Emergency Hospital during heavy rains and flooded roads to attend Mrs. Russell McDaniels, a flood refugee, delivering twins, a boy and a girl, after arriving barefoot due to mud.
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Pomeroy
C. A. Poindexter
Meigs County Infirmary
Russell McDaniels
Republican Affairs In State To Be Discussed in Charleston
Charleston February 10 The Republican party affairs will be discussed Saturday in a session called by Walter B Hallanan a national committeeman Hallanan said those requested to be present included State Chairman C E Boone of Ronceverte Paul Summers of Morgantown Matt Simmons of Ripley Jim Shott of Bluefield George W Sharp and Vice Chairman Robert H C Kay
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Charleston
Walter 8
Hallanan
C. E. Boone
Ronceverte
Paul Summers
Morgantown
Matt Simmons
Ripley
Jim Shott
Bluefield
George W. Sharp
Robert H. C. Kay
Old Fashioned Valentine Social at W Main Church
An Old Fashioned Valentine Social is planned at the M. E. Church on W Main 8 St. Thursday February 11 at 8 p m Admission is 40 cents and 15 cents for the program and refreshments.
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St. Paul's M. E. Church
Valentine
W. Main
M. E. Church
Transport Crash Near Airport Sparks Mass Rescue Effort
A United Airlines plane with 11 aboard crashed near Mills Field San Francisco Bay last night. Searchers faced strong tides as divers prepared to recover wreckage and determine if any passengers survived. The incident raises Western transport deaths to 43 since December 15.
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San Francisco
United Airlines
San Francisco Bay
B. M. Doolin
Mills Field
Ita
William Reed
Federal plan urged for Great Plains long term relief program
The president's Great Plains committee asked Congress to create a federal agency to enact a vast long term relief program for drought and dust storms across the region from Canada to Mexico. It called for conservation of land and water and new agricultural methods to halt economic deterioration, with the commission reporting in a 194 page document and promising continued discussion on page six.
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Washington
Great Plains
Congress
Canada
Mexico
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