House Ready For Vote On Repeal Issue
Charleston January 31 The House of Delegates votes 78 to 14 to submit repeal of the state prohibition amendment to voters in 1934. The measure moves to the senate after third reading and includes an amendment to bar distilled liquor on premises where sold with legislature deciding sale and consumption areas.
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Cherlestenfi
House of Delegates
Senate
Charleston
Jen
Congress
Oppoints
Man Who Went To Foreclose Farm Mortgage Is Shot
Luther D. Marr a 67 year old Kansas City real estate dealer hired to foreclose a farm mortgage was found fatally wounded on a highway in Mound City Kansas He died at Fort Scott after being shot several times His body had been dragged from his bullet pierced car as he was returning to Kansas City.
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Mound City
Kan
Luther D. Marr
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Marr
Daladier Forms New French Cabinet as Premier
Edouard Daladier announced he formed a new French cabinet with himself as premier and war minister. Joseph Boncour becomes foreign minister and George Bennett heads finance while Lucien Lamoureux takes the budget and Camille Chautemps the interior. The Socialists back the cabinet but its tenure remains precarious.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Albert Lebrun
Socialist Party
Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Deladier
Joseph Paul Boncour
George Bennett
Radical Federation of the Seine
Lucien Lamoureux
Camille Chautempts
Edouard Herriot
Pointees
Saneeee
Socialist Participa Pny
Radical Socialist Party
Herriot
Paul Boncour
Bankruptcy Bill Passes Senate Amid Debt Relief Push
In Washington the House response to growing debtor distress yields an unprecedented bankruptcy reform bill. The measure broad in scope speeds relief for farmers and railroads, with other debtors also covered. It sails through the Senate 201 to 43, while Thacher’s suggested modifications loom. The day also sees extensions of the federal gasoline tax and the Glass-Steagall currency bill.
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Ashington
House
Senate
Thacher
White ‘House
Chinese Thrash Repeatedly at Chinmenkow Pass
In Chinchow Manchuria on January 31 the Chinese attacked Chinmenkow twelve miles north of Shanhaikwan for the fourth time in five days. The two and a half hour fight ended with Chinese forces repulsed as Japanese troops held the Great Wall pass.
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Chinchow
Manchuria
Chinmenkow
Shanhaikwan
Great Wall
Court reverses Randolph County case in receivership suit
The West Virginia Supreme Court reversed a Randolph County circuit court ruling in a suit to collect receiver expenses from Mrs Hallie Elkins in the Davis Colliery Company case. The appellate court had upheld demurrers to Elkins answer, ruling creditors may not collect from a party initiating receivership unless assets cover expenses.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Randolph County Circuit Court
Davis
Hallie Elkins
Speedy action eyed on beer bill in senate
Washington reports swift push to legalize 3.05 percent beer and wine as the Collier Blaine bill gains a chance of passage. The finance committee blocked extended hearings and backed the revenue provisions, with Senate leaders prioritizing repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment over the beer measure, though both may be voted this session. Senator Blaine aims to move repeal after the treasury post office bill is settled, while Senator Harrison backs precedence for repeal. Delay possible due to other appropriation and relief bills.
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Washington
Senate
Mynt
Finance Committee
Reed Smoot
Utah
Blaine
Wis
Congress
Treasury-Post Office
Harrison
Attorney General Ruling on Endorsements Reissued for Interest
Charleston January 31 Attorney General Howard B Lee ruled county orders endorsed by sheriffs as presented for payment must be re endorsed to bear interest beyond December 1 that year. If second endorsement is delayed after December 1 interest may not cover December 1 to the second endorsement date. Maximum interest on unpaid funds orders is one year six months from issue.
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Charleston
Howard B. Lee
Clarence W_ Mea_dows
Raleigh County
Handbills Urging Open Rebellion Confiscated in Berlin
Berlin police battled Communist gatherings protesting Hitler’s chancellorship. Handbills urging open rebellion were seized in Magdeburg. A communist was killed in Breslau, and a policeman and a Nazi were wounded in a clash as Nazi Communist clashes continued in Berlin and other cities with many arrests.
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Berlin
Breslau
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Magdeburg
Canadian coal group opposes rail rate increase
Sixteen Canadian coal buyers and dealers joined opposition to a proposed 30 cent per ton Lake Caro rate hike for coal to points east of Mackinac and west of Brockville. Carriers urged ICC approval, arguing current rates favored western shipments and short hauls. John Galsworthy, British novelist and Nobel laureate, died of anemia linked to a cold.
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Washington
Mackinac
Brockville
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
London
John Glasworthy
Three Prisoners Die in Camp Quarry Cave-In
At Camp Folsom California a cave-in at the stone quarry killed three prisoners. Two died trying to rescue others believed buried under rocks after a 100 foot fall. Warden Cort Smith blamed recent heavy rains for loosening the soil and triggering the collapse.
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Folsom Prison
Cal
Cort Smith
Test of Levy Amendment Begun in Court Today
Charleston and Warm Springs reports show a legal challenge to West Virginia's levy limitation amendment. Petitions seek mandamus to force tax classification under the amendment for judicial validity. The core issue is publication timing in counties with newspapers.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Friends of the
Herold
Braxton
Tax Commissioner
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Senator Glass
Virginia
Young
Italy Accepts U S Offer To Discuss Debts
Rome reports Italy accepts the United States offer to discuss war debts soon after President elect Roosevelt takes office. Sir Ronald Lindsey sails for London to assist Britain in planning the debt talks. Britain and Italy will join the conversations with the incoming administration as requested.
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Italy
U.S
Sir Ronald
London
Rome
United States
Roosevelt
Washington
Ronald Lindsey
England
Great Britain
State Department
Lone Girl Cashier Faints In Noon Daylight Robbery
A bold daylight holdup at Monongahela West Penn Company offices at 224 W Main St left cashier Irene Kunst fainting as a man demanded Hands up and fled with $900 from a desk. The robber, described as clean cut and well dressed, asked for light bulbs and produced a pistol before escaping with the cash, while a second $600 note package was overlooked.
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Monongahela West Penn Company
W. Main Street
Irene Kunst
West Wilford Street
PF. C. Kley
Kley
F. M. Bennett
Miss Eunst
J M Hensley Ex State Senator Dies at 78
Pt. Pleasant Jan 31 James M Hensley 78 former state senator died last night at his Hartford home from cancer A Republican Hensley served in the senate in 1905
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Pt. Pleasant
James M. Hensley
Senate
Hartford
Hensley
Capone Appeals Fight for Freedom to U S Circuit Court
Atlanta Jan 31 Capone former Chicago gangster carries fight for freedom from Atlanta penitentiary to the U S circuit court of appeals. Attorneys for public enemy No 1 were granted application to appeal from the dismissal of his habeas corpus petition and the appeal was entered in the circuit court immediately.
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Atlanta
al Capone
Chicago
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Public Enemy No
Federal District
E. Marvin Underwood
Capone
Circuit Court of Appeals
Aged Woman Victim Of Open Wood Fire
West Union January 31 Aged and infirm Mrs Joseph Carr 86 died in the ruins of her Bush Run home near Big Flint after flames from an open wood fire ignited her clothing. The two story farmhouse and two cellar houses burned with property loss around 4000 dollars Miss Rose Lewin has returned home on Walnut Street after several days in Bridgeport
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West Union
Joseph Carr
Bush Run
Big Filnt
Rose Lewin
Walnut Street
Bridgeport
Dredge Chinook Anchored Off Brown Shoals in Delaware Bay
Philadelphia dispatch reports the army dredge Chinook anchored yesterday at Brown shoals in Delaware Bay nine miles north of the Delaware Capes after leaving Philadelphia Friday for Norfolk with 75 to 89 men aboard. Norfolk had some anxiety over its whereabouts due to last weekend's coast storm.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
Brown Shoals
Delaware Bay
Delaware Capes
Norfolk
Harry Sheets Out on Bond in Texas City
Requisition papers for the extradition of Harry W. Sheets to Clarksburg from Amarillo Texas were sent to Governor Conley for signature. A hearing is set for February 10 and Sheets remains out on a $3,000 bond. He has appeared as A J Kelley in Amarillo with ties to the former A J Kelley Investment Company.
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Clarksburg
Harry W. Sheets
Amarillo
Tex
Harrison County
William G. Conley
Charleston
J. Philip Clifford
Conley
Fitzhugh Reynolds
Amar
A.J. Kelley Investment Company
A Sheets
Wyoming House votes to repeal prohibition amendment
The Wyoming House of Representatives approved by 43 to 18 a bill to submit to voters in 1934 the question of repealing the prohibition amendment to the state constitution. The Senate had earlier passed the measure with a one‑third vote, awaiting the governor’s signature.
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Cheyenne
Wvo
Wyoming
House of Representatives
Senate
Sacrilegious Picture Forbids Red Cross Activities
Somerville school committee voted unanimously to discontinue all Junior Red Cross activities in public schools. The January issue of the National Junior Red Cross News was banned and the current Red Cross News drawing was denounced as sacrilegious. An apology from the publishers was demanded before any further action.
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Sommerville
Mass
Red Cross
Somerville
Someryville
Junior Red Cross
American Red Cross
Silk Cargo Stolen In New York Heist
Robbers stole a truck with 10000 worth of silk on 36th Street today. They kidnapped the driver and helper, released them after seizing the silk, and abandoned the truck.
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New York
36Th Street
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