Epidemic of Strikes Halts Production Across Regions
An Associated Press report describes a nationwide strike wave halting production in 50 firms and affecting more than 27,000 workers. Men and women walked out and used sit-down tactics while Chrysler seeks peace and unions press for recognition and seniority terms amid ongoing talks with Chrysler and General Motors.
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Associated Press
Chrysler
Detroit
Suria.a
Chrysler Automobile Corporation
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Electric Boat Company Submarine
Groton
Conn
Basques Gain On Oviedo Hill Amid City Siege
Basque besiegers claim takeover of Naranco Hill as fighting tightens grip around Oviedo. Street by street, miners push toward insurgent fortifications in the San Claudio quarter, dawn brings an ominous quiet before a likely final assault on the devastated provincial capital.
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Bayonne
Oviedo
Naranco Hill
San Claudio
Union parley date is fixed
Detroit February 25 officials of the United Automobile Workers arranged for weekend talks to draft demands for Chrysler. A first session was set for Wednesday with the conference to follow next week. The union aims to complete negotiations and press for care of secondary roads. County actions involve public auction plans for Taylor county road machinery and county property, with March 22 as the sale date.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler Corporation
Automobile-Manufactrmng
U. A
Chinery
Taylor_county
General Motors
Commis
Stoners
Frank Bennett
Frank McEnteer
Traffic Policeman In Chicago Leaves Wealth
Chicago probate court valued the late traffic officer Mike Ryan estate at 57806.98 after years directing traffic in the financial district. A brother said Ryan profited from tips from prominent men he encountered on duty.
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Chicago
Mike Ryan
Financial District
Ryan
Drys Petition to Bar Beer Sales On Sunday
Charleston reports a petition signed by more than 9,000 people urging the legislature to prohibit beer sales on Sundays legal holidays and election days. Superintendent Ewing notes 4,027 signers come from McDowell County with others from Doddridge Lewis Fayette Harrison Marshall Pocahontas Preston and Wood. A separate petition by Hodson chair of the House Labor committee seeks a bill to license coal miners with over 15,000 miners supporting.
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Charleston
B. E. Ewing
Ewing
McDowell County
Doddridge
Lewis
Fayette
Harrison
Marshall
Pocahontas
Preston
Wood
Hodson
House Labor Committee
Dr Michaels Unopposed In Belington Election
Belington on February 25 reports Dr Guy H Michaels and four incumbent councilmen will be returned to office in the upcoming municipal election. Nominees of the Peoples party, while Citizens party backed by L L Bennett withdrew after stating satisfaction with the current administration.
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Belington
Guy H. Michaels
People's Party
Citizens Party
L. L. Bennett
Russia to Deport Ten Germans From U S S R
Moscow reports the Soviet government will deport ten Germans arrested in November on suspicion of sabotage and espionage. Four detainees are in Moscow, six in Leningrad, while the German embassy says it was not informed about 34 other detainees.
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Moscow
Russia
Leningrad
Count Friedrich von der Schulenburg
Ger
Ger, ‘Mhans
N. N. Krestinsky
Mines Riot Seethes as Hungarians Invoke Army Rule
In Pecs Hungary military control was declared over the coal region to halt a hunger strike by 267 miners. Three dead and six wounded in rioting at pit shafts. Army also closed the university to head off student demonstrations. Miners, led by a militant minority, sought a union visit. authorities refused access. The strike aims to raise pay from $1 to $1.20 daily, recalling 1914 threats of mass suicide to force wage gains. Gentarmes manned shaftheads to curb Comuard actions.
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Pecs
Hungary
Autoclyies
Council forms committee on short wave police radio
Morgantown municipais appoints special committee to meet county and state authorities to work out an arrangement for a short wave police radio. City Manager Elmer C. Prince has prepared cost figures for the equipment installation. Nearby Clarksburg and Fairmont already operate short wave radios.
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Morgantown
Wit
Elmer C. Princes
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Dionne quintuplets plan for normal life in Ontario
Ontario welfare minister David A. Croll outlined a future normal life for Oliva and Elzira Dionne and their sisters. The five girls are valued at 549000 in government bonds and will reach about 1,000,000 in two years. Contracts will yield 200000 yearly for the next two years as the government seeks greater family life with their siblings.
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Toronto
Ontario
David A. Croll
Croll
Oliva
Elzira Dionne
Klein and Company To Dissolve Corporation Notice
Dissolution of Klein and Company, a West Virginia clothing firm, was announced. The Main street store will stay open under sole ownership of I C Klein, who owns all stock. Attorney J C Holt managed the dissolution steps.
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Klein and Company
West Virginia
Sentinel
Main Street
I. C. Klein
J. C. Holt
Applicants for Trade Secretary Interviewed
A West Virginian applicant for the full time secretarial job at the Taylor County Board of Trade will be interviewed this afternoon by a special committee of directors to recommend a secretary for appointment by March 15. J. L. Evans Jr. heads the committee with Lee Bennett and G. T. Bartlett Sr. as colleagues. Several other applicants have lined up personal interviews the last of this week and the first of next, Evans said.
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Taylor Conty Board of Trade
Spcral
J. L. Evans, Jr
Lee Bennett
G. T. Bartlett
Evans
Red Cross Chapter To Elect Officers Friday
The Taylor county chapter of the American Red Cross will elect officers at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the Andrews M. E. church. Rev. William Knox, chapter chairman, urged all officers and directors to attend. National Red Cross representative C. H. McFarland cannot attend.
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Taylor County
The
American Red Cross
Andrews M. E
William Knox
C. H. McFarland
National Red Cross
Mr. Knox
Barbour Petit Jury Summoned For March 1
PHILIPPI Feb 25 Petit jurors in Barbour circuit court report Monday March 1 with six civil docket cases and a criminal docket starting Monday March 8. The grand jury, after a two day session, was dismissed last night after returning nine indictments eight felonies and one misdemeanor. Judge Herbert W. Dent of Grafton will preside with Herman J. Poling who was awarded 1200 by the state legislature for past services as county prosecutor representing Barbour as the recently elected prosecuting attorney.
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Philippi
Petit Jurors
Barbour
Herbert W. Dent
Grafton
Herman J. Poling
Barbour County
Selassies Son-in-law Executed by Italian Forces
Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie and last Ethiopian chief to resist Italian occupation, was captured and executed after an Italian scouting party seized him west of Addis Ababa. The death is seen as the final end of organized resistance to Italy’s occupation.
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Addis Ababa
Ras Desta Demtu
Haile Selassie
Italy
Grafton Surgeon Featured in Elk Hunt Magazine Article
Dr E R Bucklew of Grafton and a noted sportsman is the subject of a feature in the March issue of Ssuncer Trader Trapper. The piece by L Kettering, “The Doctor and the Bear,” recounts Bucklew’s elk hunt in the Kootenays, a bear encounter, and a twenty day expedition that yielded three grizzlies, two elk and two mountain goats.
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E. R. Bucklew
Grafton
L. Kettering
Kootenays
Canada
Doc
Bill
Kettering
Dr. Bucklew
Bucklew
West Virginia
Destruction of Trees Brings Stiff Penalty
In Key West Florida on February 25, Judge William V. Altury sentenced Franklin H. Gates and Troy P. Harmon to six months at hard labor for destruction of trees. They must replace the trees and water them daily until maturity.
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Key West
Fla
Franklin H. Gates
Troy P. Harmon
William V. Altury
Dahmer Death Case Reopening Planned Experts Are Fooled
Chief A. E. Lockard hinted at reopening the investigation into the two week old death of Mrs. Lillian Dahmer by gunshot. A ballistics report from the West Virginia Criminal Identification bureau suggested the gun owned by Jack Dahmer may have fired the fatal bullet, though authorities say this is not conclusive.
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Dahmer
Lillian Dahmer
A. E. Lockard
Criminal Identification Bureau
West Virginia Department of Public Safety
Jack” Dahmer
Paul P. Warden
Conley Liability For School Fund Up To Court
Charleston reports the Supreme Court will decide if former Governor William G. Conley and three other officials are personally liable for 62018.32 tied to investments in bonds of the Consolidated Fruit Company of Bluefield and Williamson, later tied to creditors. Also named are former Auditor Edgar B. Lawson, former Treasurer William B. Johnson, and former Superintendent William C. Cook.
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Charleston
William G. Conley
Supreme Court
Conley
Edgar B. Lawson
William 8. Johnson
William C. Cook
Sonley
School Fund
Consolidated Fruit Company of
Bluefield and Williamson
Jar
Maple Avenue group seeks plan to repave and relaid bricks
A Maple avenue property owners committee met with Mayor E Otto Waugh and city commissioners to discuss completing repaving from Warder avenue to Walnut street and relaying brick pavement between Maple and Beech streets on Walnut. Appointees Lloyd Shackelford Oral Jones Ona C.
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Maple Avenue
Warder Avenue
Walnut Street
Maple
Beech Streets
Walnut
City Commission
E. Otto Waugh
City Hall
WPA
Lloyd [Shackelford Oral Jones
Ona C
Dr. Aspinall Cancels Talks After Auto Wreck
Dr Richard Aspinall of West Virginia University faculty had to cancel morning appearances at Grafton High School assembly and the Grafton Rotary club after his car ran off the road and went off the highway between Morgantown and Fairmont. Superintendent E Guy Kuhn received a call stating the icy roads and car condition prevented further engagements.
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Richard Aspinall
West Virginia University
Grafton High School
Grafton Rotary Club
Morgantown
Fairmont
E. Guy Kuhn
Aspinall
Dam Pouring To Resume In Early April At Tygart Dam
Frederick Snare Corp will resume full time pouring at Tygart dam on Monday April 6 with work starting between April 1 and April 15. NRS manager Luke B. Ross said Capt. B. C. Fowlkes of the U S Engineers confirmed the project would restart in the first half of April.
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Frederick Snare Corporation
General Contractors
Tygart Dam
The
Sentinel
Luke B. Ross
NRS
B. C. Fowlkes
U. S
Judge Flays Third Degree In His Charge
Somerse Pa February 35. Supreme Court Justice George W. Maxey sent the case of State Trooper Stacy Gunderman to a mixed jury at noon. He urged rejecting first degree murder, allowed verdicts of second degree murder voluntary manslaughter or acquittal, and warned there was no conspiracy evidence. He condemned third degree methods and cautioned the jury not to be swayed by sensational photographs.
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Pennsylvania
Somerset
Stacy Gunderman
Frank C. Monaghan
Uniontown
Monaghan
Gunderman
Anthony Saiute
Supreme Court
George W. Maxey
Mnaiden
Frank ¢. Monaghan
John C. Wall
Maxey
Two men die after high voltage accident at Rivesville plant
Carl Dunn and Maurice E Cartwright Jr died after contact with 66 000 volts while building a power plant addition for Monongahela Steel in Rivesville. Dunn, of Fairmont, was a 32 year old electrician with a widow and one child. Cartwright, a three week newlywed welder from Wheeling, was buried there after St Joseph Cathedral services.
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Carl Dunn
Fairmont
Maurice E. Cartwright, Jr
Gratton
Rivesville
Monongahela
Cook Hospital
Cartwright
Sanderson and Porter, Company
Dunn
Wheeling
St. Joseph’s Cathedral
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State Road Commission
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Red Cross Chapter
Selassie
Big Magazine
Avenue Group
Maple Ave
Dr. Aspinall
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Maurice Cartwright
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