Three-Man Road Commission Plan Is Defeated
Charleston February 20. The House of Delegates upheld the existing one man road commission by killing a bill to create a three man commission. Roads committee urged rejection while supporting an administration measure granting authority to regulate weight speed and load limits on highways. Civil Service Bill Passed The House approved a bill to place police in all communities with 2500 plus population under civil service. The measure would exempt five year veterans from exams. The House also passed a school bus liability insurance bill. Delay Vote Announcement Senate delayed nursing vote pending Tuesday. A companion nurses training bill was held on the calendar. Continued on Page Fight.
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Charleston
House of Delegates
House
Senate
Jackson
Lewis
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Spain
Reconstruction Corporation
Civilian Conservation Corps
Mediation Sought to End Fan Steel Strike in Waukegan
Federal and state conciliators urged settlement of the sit down strike at Fan Steel Metallurgical in Waukegan to curb new violence. A riot near the plant involved about 200 deputies and 500 bystanders, with injuries to three strikers and several deputies in clashes as deputies repelled armed activists guarding factory doors.
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Waukegan
Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation
Chicago
Parlier
L. Doolittle
Nong
Z—Re
Reckless Driving and Public Safety on Highways
A discussion notes that drunkenness and reckless disregard for safety heighten fatal highway crashes. It argues that reckless drivers, whether drunk or sober, must be kept off the road to protect lives, stressing the need for clear standards in enforcement.
Peggy Attacks Rubinoff Defense Principals in Suit
Peggy Garcia, a former hat check girl, files a $400,000 breach of promise suit in New York against radio violinist Dave Rubinoff. She initially claimed $100,000, then raised the amount, denying defense insinuations about her past. Garcia says Rubinoff and Central Press caused her to lose her job and husband.
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New York
Dave Rubinoff
Peggy
Garcia
Hatcheck
Miss Garcia
Rubinoff
Central Press
Fire injures 7 and traps 3 at Nashville factory
Seven firemen were injured and three men appeared trapped beneath a collapsing roof as a four story W. E. Stephens Manufacturing building burned near Nashville's business district. The blaze left only walls standing after spreading to a second structure. none of the wounded rescuers were reported in serious condition. Continued on page 4.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. E. Stephens Manufacturing Company
Man Arrested On Worthless Check Warrant
A warrant issued in Justice Hoye G White's court led to the arrest of G G Brown yesterday afternoon. Brown, husband of Georgia Brown the woman in the red hat, joined his wife in the county jail after a three day panhandling sentence. Officer Stafford Sturms served the warrant on Main Street apartment. A hearing before Magistrate White was planned for later today.
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Hoye G. White
G. G. Brown
Georgia Brown
Ee County
Stafford Sturms
Brown
Main Street
White
Young Mother Held For Abandoning Child
In Bluefield police detained Mildrea Davis, 19, of Wytheville Va, after a baby was found in her car near a bus terminal. She claimed her husband and parents are dead and she has no means of support. The case cites her past residence in Wayne W Va and notes her husband’s death.
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Bluefield
J. B. Belcher
Mildrea Davis
Wytheville
Train rider jailed after trespass arrest
Lester Emonz was picked up yesterday by Bowing and O Patrolman Fred G. White for train trespassing and riding. He was sentenced to five days in county jail by Justice of the Peace Hove G. White after failing to pay a $5 fine plus costs. Emonz admitted the charge.
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Lester Emonz
B. and
Fred G. White
Justice of the Peace
Hove G. White
Emonz
Metal dog tags ordered for use of assessor and sheriff
Taylor county court met in special session and ordered fifteen hundred metal dog tags for canine tax enforcement. The tags will go to County Assessor Harry Batson to ease tax collection and help distinguish taxed dogs from strays. President Harvey A. Poe and commissioners Harvey Scranage and Opha Bartlett approved the purchase for to be used by the assessor and later the sheriff Herbert Evans. The assessor certifies all dogs not paying taxes to the sheriff. Under the law, the court is not continued on page eighty.
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Taylor County Court
Harry Batson
Harvey A. Poe
Harvey Scran
Age
Opha Bartlett
Herbert Evans
Seven Reported Lost On Australian Plane
Seven persons including W Fountain a New York architect were unreported on a Brisbane to Sydney flight under gale winds. The craft with five passengers and two pilots disappeared about 475 miles north of Sydney and last word had it over open sea near the shore route. Search along the route halted at nightfall 24 hours after disappearance.
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Sydney
Australia
W. Fountain
New York
Brisbane
Bank Receiver Awarded $130 Judgment in Court
The receiver for the closed Bank of Flemington won a $130 judgment in Magistrate Hoye G. White's court against Douglas McDonald, a stockholder, in a suit over liability for bank stock. Justice White heard the case without a jury.
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Bank of
Flemington
Hoye G. White
Douglas McDonald
McDonald
Justice White
Pick Friends to Work Out Mining Pact
New York February 20 A ruddy faced coal operator of Irish background and a miner of Scottish origin led wage and hour talks in soft coal negotiations. Charles O Neill president of United Eastern Coal Sales acted as spokesman for the industry while Philip Murray vice president of the United Mine Workers presented the miners case. Both began in the mines as boys to aid their fathers in digging and loading coal. O Neill born in Clearfield County Pennsylvania 45 years ago Murray already at work in Scotland. O Neill formerly a union official. Continued on page 4.
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New York
Shamrock
Heather
Charles O'Neill
United Eastern Coal Sales Corporation
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
O'Neill
Clearfield County
Pennsylvania
Murray
Scotland
Ford Opposes Plan To Pack The Supreme Court
Ford says he opposes President Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of supreme court justices. In a rare interview at his Bryan county estate he calls the plan give one man too much power. He advises workers to stay out of labor organizations and blames international financiers for backing unions to control industry and spark strikes.
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Ways
Henry Ford
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Bryan County
Ford
Building Of Retaining Wall Starts On Route 50 Work
Construction of a retaining wall on U S Route 50 near Dr E R Bucklew and Gene W Ford between here and Pruntytown began today with WPA labor. W O Bolin county supervisor of the State Road commission supervises. Har old Kramer WPA district director notes the fix targets a long standing road hazard from guard posts dropping into a field after a section failed. Native stone is used.
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E. R. Bucklew
Gene W. Ford
Here
Pruntytown
WPA
State Road Commission
W. O. Bolin
Harold Kramer
Nations join to stop warfare in Europe embargo
European nations impose an embargo to halt the Spanish Civil War turning the continent into a battlefield. A land and sea blockade is planned around the peninsula by March 6 with 27 nations pledged to enforce measures by midnight. Portugal resists joining but observers expect a compromise allowing British inspectors to verify adherence.
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London
Europe
Spain
Portugal
International Non-Intervention Committee
Green Demands Probe Of Bidding On Steel
Washington february 20 william green president of the american federation of labor said he would ask the justice department to probe possible irregularities in bidding on government steel contracts. he opposed any move to loosen labor standards under the Walsh Healey act to speed steel to navy shipyards. john l lewis committee for industrial organization has begun a campaign to unionize unorganized steel workers.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Justice Department
A. F. of L. Council
Walsh- Healey
John L. Lewis
U. S. of L
Judge's Secretary To Marry Ex-Big League Star
ELKINS February 20 The engagement of Miss Pauline Edwards formerly of Martinsburg to Del Gainer deputy marshal was announced today Miss Edwards is secretary to Federal Judge William E Baker She is daughter of the late T Albert Edwards of Martinsburg Gainer a Randolph County native is a former major league player who began his career at Grafton and later played for the Detroit and Boston clubs in the American League and the St Louis club in the National League His last pro engagement was in Fairfield where he managed that city's Middle Atlantic League club
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Fairmont
Senate Can Block Action On Court Reform Forever
Washington reports both sides in the court reform debate acknowledge enough Senate opposition to block action indefinitely via filibuster. Administration leaders doubt any group would sustain a vote-block, while opponents say they aim to defeat the reorganization with sufficient votes and will mount a public education push on the issue.
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Senate
Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt Program Encounters Opposition Within Party
The second Roosevelt administration faces a stormy start as aims for basic economic reforms long with social legislation meet stiff resistance. In Congress, a mix of support and opposition forms, with 30 senators against, 29 for, and 37 not committed, while internal critics urge caution on judiciary reform and budget priorities.
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Edward J. Duffy
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Iftammann
Ane Taeias
Supreme Court
Senate
Miner Fined After Assault Plea in Taylor County
Wendel Miner, also called Mike Hiib, was arrested Thursday on an assault warrant from a Taylor county mining village resident. He pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace H. G. White Sr. yesterday afternoon and paid a $5 fine plus court costs.
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Mike Hiib
Taylor County
Gulty
Justice of the Peace
H. G. White
National Cemetery Superintendent Gets Higher Post
G B Alexander longtime National Cemetery superintendent in Grafton has been transferred by the War Department to head a new cemetery in Baltimore. He will leave Grafton in a week with his wife and son, Jack, expressing gratitude for the public’s kindness and noting the move as an advancement.
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G. B. Alexander
National Cemetery
War Department
Baltimore
Grafton
Jack
Alexander
Hagerstown
Arguments Awaited In Trial Of Young Lawyer
In Winchester Virginia February 20 submission to a corporation court jury of the states case against Thomas G Schully charged with manslaughter in the death of two men on a highway Christmas night awaited completion of final arguments by prosecution and defense attorneys Each side had two hours The defense rested yesterday after presenting witnesses to refute prosecution claims that Schully was intoxicated while the men were killed Dr P W Boyd the chief defense witness testified that Schully was not intoxicated
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Winchester
Corporation Court
Thomas G. Schully
Scully
P. W. Boyd
Banker Held For Shortage In Martinsburg
Marion L. Gano, assistant cashier of Merchants and Farmers Bank, Martinsburg, was bound over on embezzlement charges after state bank examiners found funds missing. The warrant cited $1,000, though officials say the real amount was higher. Gano admitted the defalcation in writing. he had worked fifteen years and resigned. Hearing set for February 26.
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Martinsburg
Marion
Bonn A. Poland
Gano
Poland
Thhe Bank
Union Plans Drive To Organize Oil Workers
Pittsburgh February 20 John A Brophy executive director of John L Lewis committee for industrial organization disclosed today an intensive union drive is planned next spring in the nations oil fields Brophy said the oil field gas well and refinery workers international union a CIO affiliate has had such a program under consideration for some time.
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Pittsburgh
John A. Brophy
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Brophy
Refinery Workers International Union
Defense nears finish of third degree case in Somerset
In Somerset Pennsylvania on February 20 the commonwealth presented Florence Deans signed statement implicating Frank C Monaghan in the slaying of Detective John C Wall during the trial of a trooper charged with beating Monaghan to death in a third degree case. Attorney General Margiotti pressed Assistant District Attorney Harry W Byrne about the timing and content of Byrne's written statement and whether Byrne had publicly spoken after indictment.
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Somerset
The
Commonwealth
Florence Dean
Frank C. Monaghan
John C. Wall
Monaghan
Charles J. Margiotti
Chambermaid
Harry W. Byrne
Stacy Gunderman
Byrne
Union
Dean
Margiotti
R “Margiotti
Rebels Lose Coveted Hill Near Madrid
Madrid February 20 government troops feint toward insurgent lines northwest of Madrid to divert pressure on southeastern defenses as renewed assaults loom. fascists abandon the hill near vaca as insurgents concentrate along the Coruna highway. George Washington Birthday observance noted at Hasanic Temple with Grafton Lodge honoring past masters.
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Madrid
Grafton Lodge
A. M
Washington
John R. Beall
Charles H. Payne
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Taylor County Safety Council
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Justice Court
Green
Martinsburg Bank
George Washington
Hasanic Temple
First Baptist Church
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