Police Wage Bill Faces Senate Defeat in Tight Floor Fight
In Charleston on February 28 the municipal police wage bill, aiming to set minimum salaries and grant pay authority to a county police commission, faced stiff opposition from lawmakers who warned against centralized power. The measure, tied to a broader revenue issue, drew heavy debate as the State Municipal League urged a 10 percent liquor sales tax to aid cash-strapped cities and towns.
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Charleston
Paull
D. Brooke
House
Senate
State Municipal League
Mediation Bill Aims to Halt Strikes in West Virginia
Charleston February 28 A bold measure seeks compulsory mediation before strikes with penalties for illegal picketing. Delegate Jarvis introduces a 15 day mediation window for West Virginia disputes. The act would form a five member mediation board led by the state labor commissioner with four governor appointees. Officers of labor groups must register with the secretary of state.
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Charleston
Jarvis
Calhoun
West Virginia
Theatre ticket ad prompts visit to Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Mary Battle of 103 Latrobe Street to tonight's screenings at the Dixie Theatre and Strand. It advertises Thanks for Everything featuring Adolph Menjon Jack Oakie Jack Haley Arlen Whelan and others at the Dixie and Stand Up and Fight with Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor at the Strand, urging admission.
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Grafton Sentinel
Mary Battle
Latrobe Street
Adolph Menjon
Jack Oakie
Jack Haley
Arlen Whelan
Dixie Theatre
Wallace Beery
Robert Taylor
Grafton
Strand
BUSINESS MEN MEET PLANNED ADVISORY COUNCIL
Washington February 28 The secretaries advisory business council of about 60 industrial and financial leaders will meet Thursday to react to administration overtures toward government industry cooperation. They will consider no new tax pledges, labor peace proposals, and Hopkins plea for private investment stimulants, then assign committees to study taxes and labor support.
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Washington
Hopkins’ Business Advisory Council
Hopkins
Treasury
Good Council
Cardinals Begin Conclave On March First
Vatican City reports cardinals prepared for voluntary imprisonment ahead of the conclave to elect a new pope. They met in the congregation and tended to personal affairs after Cardinal O Connell of Boston and two Latin American cardinals were noted as arrivals. Vatican officials said a rapid conclave might elect a pope before Sunday.
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Vatican City
Pus XT
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Leme
Copillo
Vatican
Tobacco Road author wed to famed artist in Silver City
Erstine Caldwell, author of Tobacco Road, and photographer Margaret Bourke-White were married in Silver City Nevada. The couple planned a honeymoon by bus as they considered travel to Darisa Connecticut for future work and life together.
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Tobacco Road
Reno
Erstine Caldwell
Margaret Bowke-White
Labor Peace Advocated By CIO of Huntington
Huntington council CIO urges labor peace without conceding principles. Chairman Floyd Hill reports opposition to yielding any point of industrial organization and calls for CIO AFL leaders to confer.
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CIO of
Huntington
Huntington Union Council
CIO
AFL
Floyd Hill
School Probe Proposed After Joliet Tragedy
Joliet Illinois February 28 two young students Ruth Virginia Underwood seventeen and William Engimann eighteen were found dead in an automobile on a park road. Coroner Brannon said Underwood died of strangulation and Engimann likely died from carbon monoxide hours later. Engimann a star athlete. Officials plan a grand jury inquiry into conditions at Joliet Township High School and into Underwood’s death. Continued on page five.
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Joliet
Ill
Lover's Lane
Joliet, Township High School
Ruth Virginia Underwood
William Engimann
Brannon
Engimann
Miss Underwood
Engiman
Worth
Loupe Velez Finds Love Anew Amid Divorce News
Hollywood report says Lupe Velez insists she has found love again while awaiting finalization of her divorce from Johnny Weissmuller next August. She hints at a new romance with a New York playboy and returns to Hollywood for a film engagement after dining with Donahue in Florida.
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Hollywood
Lupe Velez
New York
Lupe
Johnny ‘Weissmuller
Florida
Woolworth Donahue
Weissmuller
Beryl Scott
San Francisco
Luckee
Ickes Attacks New Deal Foes in Cleveland Speech
Secretary Ickes denounces high powered mail order propaganda aimed at causing national confusion and government prostration. Speaking to the American Association of School Administrators he recalled Congress defeat of the New Deal reorganization bill and warned the next session will test how government handles future crises. He urged leaders to ride out the storm with steadfast leadership and restraint against coercive propaganda.
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Cleveland
Ickes
American Association of School Administrators
Congress
New Deal
Interior Department
T.kes
Kiwanis Meeting Moves Up To Six Oclock
The Grafton Kiwanis club will start the weekly meeting at six tonight at Debendorfer's Cozy Rest Inn due to tonight's basketball game. Secretary William Manley announced the change. The Philippi club will sponsor the program. Attendance has been reported at 1006 percent for two straight weeks.
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Grafton Kiwanis Club
Debendorfer
Cozy Rest Inn
William Manley
Philippi Club
Meernings
Oratory ends hope of quick senate action
Washington February 28 An outbreak of foreign policy debate stalled progress on the 358 million army expansion bill A dozen senators including Borah Nye waited their turns for lengthy remarks The bill would fund 300 million for air corps expansion 237.5 million for Panama canal defenses and 34.5 million for educational orders to acquaint many with army needs Clark Missouri senator warned of an amendment to limit the army to 5500 planes Johnson Colorado said a point of controversy was removed by the army dropping support for exempting educational orders from labor standards Lewis urged elimination of the provision delaying contracts with menfac
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Senate
Borah
Idahoy
Nye
N.D
Roosevelt
Air Corps
Panama ‘Canal
Clark
D.-Mo
House
Johnson
D.-Colo
Bee
Army
Lewis
Mencfac
Accused Gasoline Thief Arrested At West Hill
Artie Kennedy twenty of West Hill was arrested at his parents home by Deputy Sheriff Joe Maske and Trooper G F Randall and jailed to await a hearing before Justice Have G White Sr Kennedy allegedly stole gas from Webster months ago with John Hoffman cited as a camping witness in the case
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Webster
Artie Kennedy
West Hill
Joe Maske
G. F. Randall
Justice of the Peace
G. White, Sr
Kennedy
John Hoffman
Carloadings Slump In Last Week On B. and O.
Baltimore and Ohio carloadings for the week ended January 25 totaled 37,695 with 24,180 cars loaded on line and 13,515 from connections. This compares with 32,488 in the same week last year and 66,154 in 1920. Previous week loads were 39,664 with 25,405 on line and 14,159 from connections.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Masaryk sees no hope of avoiding conflict
In Cleveland on February 28 Masaryk, the Czechoslovakian minister to England, warned there is no bright star of hope on the international horizon. He denounced organized hate and state subsidized totalitarianism, saying the situation after Munich is worse and that democracies lack a timetable like Mein Kampf to guide them.
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Cleveland
Jan Masaryk
England
Munich
Supreme Court Drives Labor Board Critics to Action
The Supreme Court reversals against the National Labor Relations Board sparked AFL and CIO critics to seek new limits on the agency. AFL official calls the Fansteel ruling a justification of AFL policies. Senator Burke says changes to the Wagner Act are likely. The CIO and AFL leaders weigh impact as sit-down strikes face condemnation and progress toward negotiations continues.
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National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Labor Board
Burke
Neb
CTO
Roosevelt
Cio
NLRB
John L. Lewis
William Green
Hughes
Holt Questions Cooperative Gestures in Washington Speech
Senator Holt of West Virginia warned against trusting conciliatory gestures by government spokesmen saying it is hard to coax a dog time after time when he has seen the coaxing result in tin cans tied to his tail.
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Washington
Holt
D.-W.va
Heaviest February Snowstorm Paralyzes Iowa
A 17 inch storm blanketed Iowa on February 28, described by the weather bureau as the heaviest February snowfall in state history. Traffic stalled across the state, trains and street cars halted, roads blocked, planes grounded, and bus service interrupted. central and northern Iowa were hardest hit. Continued on page six.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Sally Rand Eyes Nude Ranch At New York World Fair
Sally Rand arrived from the west coast as New York World’s Fair officials weigh a possible nude ranch at Flushing Meadows to showcase the World of Tomorrow. Rand insists there be no restrictions on costumes or nudity, and a seabottom revue with nude nymphs in a mirror sea is also under discussion with the entertainment committee.
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New York
Sally Rand
Flushing Meadows
Sally
West Coast
NVA Director Explains Work at WV NYA Plant
Charleston February 28 Glenn 8 Callaghan state director of the National Youth Administration spoke at a joint session of the West Virginia legislature to outline the NYA work experience project at the naval ordnance plant near the end of World War I site now valued at 22 million dollars. He outlined training in metal and mechanical trades and noted the program aims to prepare young men for postwar employment.
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Charleston
South Charleston
Naval Ordnance Plant
West Virginia
Glenn
Callaghan
National Youth Administration
House
Senate
NYA
Huntington Faces Huge Deficit In City Budget
Huntington officials warned the city faces a deficit not less than 160000 as of February. Finance committee chair E H Thornburg said income fell short of estimates and urged retaining only indispensable workers to finish the year ending June 30 within the budget.
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Huntington
E. H. .Thornburg
Thornburg
Navy selects 472 lieutenants for promotion to commander
President Roosevelt approves naval selection board report naming 472 officers eligible for promotion to lieutenant commander. Among them is Frederick B. Warder of Portsmouth Navy Yard and Grafton West Virginia, listed with present station and home address, and Franklin W. Slaven of USS Saratoga, Williamsburg West Virginia.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Selection Board
Frederick B. Warder
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Grafton
West Virginia
Franklin W. Slaven
USS
Saratoga
Williamsburg
Azana Quits as Chief of Dead Regime
Manuel Azana resigns as president of the Spanish Republican government in a letter publicized today. The note, written by hand, was sent to Paris amid shifts in recognition by France and Britain of Franco’s regime. Azana’s resignation follows his return from Paris as newsmen gathered at his villa to report the event.
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Collognes-Sous-Saleve
France
Manuel Agana
Diego Martinez Barrio
Cortes
Azana
Paris
Britain
Spain
Cipriano Rivas Cherif
Rivas Cherif
Battio
Martinez Barrio
Salesman Held for Big Theft in Martinsburg Case
Federal agents announce the arrest of Albert A. Scher a 40 year old salesman from Bayonne New Jersey in connection with the theft of 35000 worth of merchandise from the Dunn Woolen company of Martinsburg He is charged under the federal stolen property act and is a fugitive from the northern West Virginia federal court where he has been indicted The arrest followed a New York pickup last night marking him as the second person taken in a series of thefts alleged by woolen company officials to span two years
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Huntington
Albert A. Scher
Bayonne
Dunn Woolen Company
Martinsburg
Walter. V. Moe Laughlin
Scher
West Virginia
New York
Woolen Company
Sal
Harry Ene
Invitation to Manhattan Merry-Go Round at Opera House
Admission may be required for tonight's presentation at the Opera House theatre. Mrs Garfield Heck of 479 Maple Avenue invites attendance for a screening featuring Ann Dvorak Lewis Cab Calloway and other stars at the local venue in Grafton Sentinel.
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Grafton Sentinel
Garfield Heck
Maple
Manhattan
Ann Dvorak
Lewis
Cab Calloway
Opera ‘House
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