WPA payroll rows reveal rising admin costs in Fairmont district
Calvert L. Estill reports that the Fairmont district of the Works Progress Administration shows 155 employees with total annual pay of 13,000 dollars after recent cuts. Records indicate personnel increases despite announced reductions, with critics accusing acting administrator F Witcher McCullough of misleading the public while WPA officials insist cuts are ongoing.
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Calvert L. Estill
TON
Fairmont
Works Progress Administration
F. Witcher McCullough
WPA
West Virginia
McCullough
Harry L. Hopkins
M. 9. Holt
Parkersburg
Relief Work Planned Out in Charleston
The Relief Administration outlined plans to enroll 10,000 men to work on road projects starting March 1 in nearly every county. Each man will work four days a month, earning 40 cents an hour from relief funds, totaling about 12 dollars monthly. The program aims to run two to three months or until alternative work is found, with oversight by Administrator C. L. Allen and Assistant O. W. Allen.
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Charleston
Relief Administration
C. L. Allen
Allen
Kump
OW. W. Allen
Ely
Million Dollar Payroll To Go To Central Coal Miners
Union leaders estimate next weekend will bring a million dollars in miners pay in West Virginia district 31. Heavy fuel demand and cold weather boosted pay rolls for the first two weeks of February. International UMWA representative Joe Angelo cited 418,000 miners receiving full pay for five or six days. district includes 23 north central counties. Continued on page three.
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
Angelo
Joe Angelo
United Mine Workers of America
North Central
Missing Girl Search Intensified Near Rennerdale
Police and volunteers intensified efforts near Rennerdale for 16 year old Elizabeth Louden missing since January 16. Her coat umbrella and purse were found after snow melted, suggesting possible foul play or weather danger as investigators seek her whereabouts.
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Pittsburgh
Rennerdale
Elizabeth Louden
Robert Allott
Walker's Mills
Causes Public Water Fountain Blast Hurts Two Children
McMECHEN Feb 27 Explosive blast at a municipal drinking fountain injures James Stewart 10 and Walter Wally 9 as the boys quenched thirst. A gas buildup apparently caused the flash. the fountain cover flew off and struck Wally. Stewart sustained burns.
Maryland to Take Ferrier in Assault Case
James Edgar Fortier aged 23 is held in county jail on charges tied to an assault on Tony Olivia, a Route 50 roadhouse operator. Maryland authorities will extradite him to Prince George's County to face an assault with intent indictment while local charges remain open. Chief Lockard said he wired Hyattsville officials to secure transfer and that Taylor County will pursue further proceedings if acquittal occurs in Maryland.
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Maryland
James Edgar Fortier
Tony Olivia
Route 50
Raadhouse
Prince George County
A. E. Lockard
J. J. Crawley
Hyattsville
Ferrier
James C. Holt
Taylor County
Ike Underwood Seeks Congress Nomination in Fourth District
Charleston February 27 Delegate Ike M. Underwood of Middlebourne filed notice as Republican candidate for U S representative from West Virginia's fourth district. He joins Raymond Humphreys Harry Hitchshew and Herbert DeBussey as contenders. Underwood served Tyler county prosecutor two terms and three terms in the House of Delegates. Born 1879 in Shirley Tyler County.
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Charleston
Ike M. Underwood
Middlebourne
U.S
Underwood
House of Delegates
George W. Johnson
Parkersburg
Raymond V. Humphreys
Huntington
Harry O. Hitcshew
Herbert R. DeBussey
Tyler County
House For Delegates
Shirley
UMVA County Group Meets Next Monday
Taylor County's part in the Upper Monongahela Valley Association program will be explained as members of the county branch and the Grafton Board of Trade plan a 7:30 p.m. meeting Monday at the courthouse. Lloyd L. Shriver will preside as officials and E. B. Smith discuss ten months of activity and future plans for Taylor, with Grafton presenting views of the general county committee for area improvements.
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Taylor County
Upper
Monongahela Valley Association
Grafton Board of Trade
Court House
Lloyd L. Shriver
The
Valley Association
E. B. Smith
Fairmont
Rural Mexican teacher kidnapped and murdered near Queretaro
Be nito Lopez, a rural school teacher, was seized near Queretaro by four men and killed. Authorities say opponents of socialist education carried out the crime. A police official who was with the teacher when seized was not harmed. Troops were sent in pursuit of the slayers.
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Queretaro
Mexico
Benito Lopez
Here
Breedlove Resigns to Seek Boone County Office
A. G. Breedlove of Boone county resigns as assistant district supervisor in the WPA division of finance and statistics citing rules against holding public office while employed by WPA. He intends to run for the Democratic nomination for Boone county assessor. He had asked Gov. Kump to accept his House of Delegates resignation, but the governor declined, noting the resignation is an officials record.
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Charleston
A. G. Breedlove
Boone County
WPA
Division of Finance and Statistics
S. Grover Smith
Breedlove
Kump
House of Delegates
House
102-Year-Old Resident of Hinton Dies After Illness
HINTON, Feb. 27. Miss Rachael Wiley died after a year's illness at age 102. Born near here in 1843 she lived in the vicinity all her life and until recently spun wool for clothing.
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Hinton
Rachael Wiley
West Virginia
Gannett Named Second Choice by Borah for Ohio Delegates
Idaho Senator Borah’s forces pick Frank E. Gannett of Rochester New York as a second choice to help Borah win Ohio’s 52 delegates. Borah praises the choice as admirable while noting Gannett is not a vice presidential candidate. The announcement came at Columbus after a prior secrecy about delegate selections.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Ohio
Frank E. Gannett
Rochester
Senate
Buckeye
Gannett
Columbus
Union Pickets Nabbed After Boston Disorder
Boston police arrested about 25 to 30 people in two clashes with pickets after union leaders called a strike in Greater Boston. Cambridge police reported at least two dozen arrests, including several women, in front of Cosmopolitan Manufacturing Company. One man was arrested in a clash between police and women garment workers. the disorder ended with arrests on both sides.
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Boston
Greater Boston
Don Erwin
Eastbank
Cambridge
Cosmopolitan Manufacturing Company
Armen
Four Transients Die In B. and O. Freight Wreck
WHEATLAND Ind Feb 27 The toll rose to four as wrecking crews finished clearing about a score of derailed cars along the tracks near here The victims were transients killed when a derailed tank car telescoped the box car they rode in The dead are Jozef Bart Detroit Wayne Smith Atlantic City Norman A Koranda Fort Bayard N M and William Baker Birmingham Ala
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Wheatland
Ind
Baltimore and Ohio
Jozef Bart
Detroit
Wayne Smith
Atlantic City
Norman A. Koranda
Fort Bayard
N. M
William Baker
Birmingham
Ala
Denials of Poison Plot Repeated by Girl's Cousin
In Hamlin West Virginia a 15 year old boy Ellsworth Payne says the charge he conspired with his cousin Gladys Dillon to poison her family is false. He met Gladys in the jail after waiving preliminary hearing and protest his innocence as Deputy Sheriff William Thompson and Prosecutor W F Damron observed. The girl allegedly claimed he helped plan the plot.
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Hamlin
W. Va
Ellsworth Payne
Gladys Dillon
William Thompson
W. F. Damron
Gladys
Ellsworth
Rebels End Fight as Old Regime Yields in Tokyo
In Tokyo on February 27 insurgent troops tied to the Okada cabinet fell back after a 24 hour siege, evacuating police headquarters as high military authorities mediated for a Nationalist government. The next premier’s identity was debated, with Baron Kiichiro Hironomu named as a leading candidate amid imperial court mediation.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Okada
Domei
Kiechiro Hiron~uma
Privy Council
M Gee Brothers To Get Hearing Later in Day
M Gee brothers Edward and Virgil, 20 and 18, were apprehended Tuesday night by State Trooper L W Emrick on U S Route 50. Police say they confessed to burglarizing James Trimble’s residence west of Pruntytown and obtaining a shotgun and two rifles. They faced justice of the peace court arraignment today as Emrick planned further questioning before a preliminary hearing in Magistrate O C Jefferys' court.
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McGee
Edward
Virgil
L. W.emrick
James Trimble
Pruntytown
Emrick
Fellowsville Brothers
O. C. Jefferys
Power Company Walkout Halts El Paso Utilities
A 4:07 am walkout by power company employees cut electricity to El Paso and surrounding areas, stopping streetcars and many plants, leaving homes without light or heat. Governors of New Mexico and Texas were asked for emergency aid as the strike stretched into the day.
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EL Paso
Tex
New Mexico
Texas
Dynamite Used to Clear Water Obstructed State Roads
Charleston reports road engineers used dynamite to clear high waters blocking U S 220 south of Keyser after ice jams on New Creek a Potomac river tributary. The commission expects the highway open later today but notes the Potomac North Fork flood damaged a bridge causing weeks of closure. One way traffic was ordered in Logan and Mingo counties while the Midland Trail between Smithers and Kanawha Falls broke into chunks from thawing along Buffalo Creek south of Wellsburg.
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Charleston
New Creek
Potomac River
U. S. 220
Keyser
Potomac
Logan
Mingo
Smithers
Kanawha Falls
Buffalo Way
Wellsburg
SC Congressman condemns Hagood suspension over WPA charge
Chairman John McSwain of South Carolina voiced indignation in the house military committee over Major General Johnson Hagood being relieved as commander of the Eighth Corps Area. Hagood had criticized administration spending and called WPA disbursements stage money that yields nothing tangible.
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Johnson Hagood
Eighth Corps
John McSwain
South Carolina
House Military Committee
Solon
Hagood
Farm girl acquitted in killing father is found insane
Emma Willis, 16, was judged insane after being acquitted of murder in the December 21 slaying of her snare-cropper father Iddis H. Willis. She demanded to go home and resisted hospital care, saying she felt no different after the verdict. The defense contended brutalities and improper advances by the father affected her mind.
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Anadarko
Okla
Emma Willis
Iddis H. Willis
Three Men Die as Mine Roof Collapses in Brooke County
In COLLIER West Virginia February 27 three men died when a mine roof fell on their car as they left a West Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal Company mine. Two others were hurt and one escaped. The dead are Louisene 25 Joseph Reitter 19 and John Sarinsky 24. Clarence Smedley and James Yori were injured.
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Collier
W.va
West Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Brooke County
Louisene
Joseph Reitter
John Sarinsky
Clarence Smedley
James Yori
Bottle of Whiskey Stolen After Attack
PARKERSBURG Feb 27 UP A man attacked W M Lewis and grabbed a pint bottle of whisky. Officers accused John Leasure of robbery. Police had earlier charged Albert Mason with stealing 249 dollars from J B Hartley who said Mason asked him to step into a garage and then robbed him.
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Parkersburg
W. M. Lewis
John Leasure
Albert Mason
Hartley
Mason
Federal man visits here three days
An undercover federal probe into employment methods on PWA and WPA projects in Taylor county was conducted this week. The investigator met with Luke B. Rose of the National Reemployment Service and reviewed Reemployment Service records and contractor referrals, focusing on the Frederick Snare Corporation at the Tygart river flood dam project. Liaison with WPA official W. J. Frey and U S Engineers Lieut. W. E. Potter was noted, with officials denying knowledge of the inquiry. Continued on Page Five.
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PWA
WPA
Taylor County
Sentinel
Luke B. Rosé
National
Tygart River
Frederick Snare Corporation
Potter
Washington
W. E. Potter
U. S. Engineers
Ross Pwa
NES
W. J. Frey
Frey
Plan Parley on New Taxes
Washington leaders were summoned to the White House for a general discussion of tax legislation to finance a farm program costing about 500 million dollars. The President warned that new taxes would be required for appropriations not covered in budget estimates.
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Washington
Congressional
Treasury
White House
Roosevelt
Garqner
Burns
Morgenthau
Barkley
The
Harrison
Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Representative Doughton
N. C
the ., the
Herman
Stephen T. Early
Capitol Hill
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Kramer
W. J. Gates
Airmont
Gates’ Associates
MOOSE
Cowboy Ropes Gould Heiress
Mrs
Herman H. Elsbury
Moffat
Colo
Anne Gould Meador
New York
Cody
Wyo
Gould
Elsbury
Wyoming
Ike Underwood
Congress
Umva County
Valley Development Organization
Idaho Solon
M’gee Brothers
Power Company
Walkout
Labor Department
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