Legislative inquiry into Four Trunk Line merger approved
Charleston reports a legislative inquiry backed by Senator Roberts into courses offered at state supported colleges. The resolution seeks explanations from the boards on authority for non legally authorized subjects and cites concerns over denationalized funding draining denominational colleges. The piece also covers tax, classification, and levy proposals advancing in the WV Legislature with plans for adjournment and a public utilities rate study.
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Roberts
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Upshure
Board of Control
State Board of Education
Eastern trunk line railways to consolidate into four systems
The four great eastern trunk lines await final authorization to form four unified systems after a prolonged Interstate Commerce Commission process. Daniel Willard of Baltimore and Ohio praised the lineup, while negotiations over sales, exchanges, and traction rights continue. A separate note reports a brief clash near Kamchatka as Soviet guardships exchanged fire with two Japanese crab boats, injuring three Japanese.
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Great Eastern Trunk Line
Interstate Commerce Commission
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
New York
Wabash-Seaboard
Delaware and
Hudson
Pennsylvania Rail
Tokyo
Kamchatka
Illness Strikes 350 on Potomac River Picnic
About 350 people were stricken by poison like symptoms during a Potomac river outing aboard the excursion boat Charles MacAlester near Mt Vernon. Hospitals faced a surge with 150 to stay overnight. two Washington dairies organized the event and about 159, plus others, required medical care.
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Potomac River
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Ten Drown In Pontiac Lake Storm Rescue Efforts Continue
A sudden windstorm on Pontiac Lake swamped many small boats leaving ten confirmed dead with searches ongoing at night. An automobile with five Detroit negroes was found later, occupants presumed drowned. four Pontiac residents had not returned. Wires and lines were knocked down as hail and heavy rain hit, and most boaters sought refuge. Continued reports and searches expected.
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Slayer Hangs Self in Harrisburg County Jail Cell
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania on July 22 Burrney Godleski 31 the accused killer of his three children hanged himself in his county jail cell after tearing his shirt into strips to fashion a rope. He had been brought from Lykens last week following the axe deaths and had prior attempted suicide.
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Lykens
Hoover Signs Massive Federal Relief Bill
President Hoover signed a large relief measure totaling about 3.8 billion dollars to boost public works, unemployment relief, and private loans. The act expands the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to 3.8 billion, with 1.5 billion for public works and 300 million for state advances, plus funds for roads, parks, and building. Federal Reserve officials face new duties as credit authority expands and board members retire.
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Hoover
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Reconstruction Corporation
National Parks and Forests
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Federal Reserve Banks
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve System
Paul Bestor
Congress
Finance Corporation
Organization For Unemployment Relief
Fred. Croxton
Walter ~ Giffard
Gifford
Meyer
Bestor
Typhoid Germs in Wells Warn County Health Official
County Health Officer Dr Suddarth warns against drinking water not known to be safe as typhoid germs appear in wells in at least two county sections. No typhoid in Grafton proper, but cases in Flemington and Pleasant Creek. City water deemed safe, hospital case noted. warning continues.
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Flemington
Hayes
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Pleasant Creek
Uddarth
Sentinel
Old Democratic County Executive Committee Members Active, Court Rules
In Philippi a vacation court session ruled that Taylor County Democratic Executive Committee members unopposed in last primary remain active and entitled to full membership. Judge Warren B. Kittle allowed Moran to amend the petition, excluding most parties, and Dr Suddarth remains central. The case questions if last year's members have a current role in committee affairs.
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Democratic County Executive Committee
Taylor County
Democratic Executive Committee
Warren B. Kittle
Philippi
John F. Moran
Grafton
Suddarth
Moran
Kittle
Smotho
Bruce Talbott
Robert Warder
Gene W. Ford
Chaage
West Virginia Endures Furnace Like Heat Across Nation
The AP reports an intense heat wave with temperatures near 100 in Charlotte and Raleigh and in the 90s across West Virginia. The scorching heat has caused 36 deaths nationally, with 27 more attributed to lightning and drownings. Rescue teams search for 10 to 14 missing from boats overturned at Pontiac Lake, Michigan, amid a squall.
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Appalachian
Great Lakes
Southwest
Charlotte
Raleigh
North Carolina
West Virginia
Pontiac Lake
Michigan
Mayor's Son Crash Victim Found Dead in River
James King 19, son of Maple Avenue mayor, suffered severe arm and head injuries when his father's car crashed through a wall on Northwest Turnpike by Blueville. He was treated and returned home after stitches while three other youths escaped uninjured. Details note the carté junction error and enbankment plunge.
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High Street
Chevalier Files Suit for Divorce in Paris
Paris on July 22 actor Chevalier filed petition for divorce from wife Yvonne Vallen Chevalier citing desertion. Friends say she may countersue.
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Paris
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Gronau Rides a Seaplane for Third Ocean Flight
Gronau the German aviator and hero of two prior trans Atlantic flights left Sylt at 11 a m with a crew of three, heading toward Chicago. The run is planned largely along the same Iceland Greenland and Labrador route as his 1930 and 1931 journeys, with Iceland his first stop and Montreal the planned North American entry.
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Sylt
Wolfang von Gronau
Germany
United States
Chicago
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Greenland
Labrador
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Montreal
Strife Grips Six Countries in South America
Buenos Aires July 22 Public tension was acute across six South American nations Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Chile Peru and Argentina. The region faced civil unrest revolts and a long standing Chaco dispute with governments and military plans amid cabinet crises and border tensions.
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Peru
Argentina
Negro to face preliminary hearing for disturbance at Abell
Dorsey, a Negro, will be tried for disturbing a woman after police say he peered through a bedroom window screen in Abell and grabbed her leg. Mrs Nellie Webster Owens identified the assailant and described the assault. Dorsey denied the charge but offered conflicting alibis and was jailed in St. Mary’s county pending proceedings.
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St. Mary's County
Nellie Webster Owens
Bodies Found Shot Beside Busy Bayside Drive
In Bayside Queens two men were found shot in the head with lips sealed by tape, their hands tied behind with sash cord, abandoned under a tree on a lonely drive. Neighbors heard no shots. police say the killings occurred hours earlier and initial checks could not identify the victims.
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Bayside
Queens
Train wrecks when it hits stalled auto in Dauphin county
Harrisburg July 22 A Pennsylvania railroad passenger train wrecked at Dauphin fourteen miles north of Harrisburg when it struck an automobile stalled on the track. Four of the five cars left the rails and rolled on their sides. Only three passengers were slightly hurt. The engine pulled the damaged auto about two hundred feet down the track before bursting into flames and being destroyed. The train was bound from Wittmannport to Harrisburg.
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Witt Mannsport
Park Avenue Cafe Quietly Raided by Prohibition Agents
New York July 22 The Marguery on Park Avenue, once among the city’s finest cafes, was raided last night by prohibition agents. An undercover officer, dining there for two weeks under a charge account, led the operation and carried out the seizure.
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Marguery
Park Avenue
Four New Biblical Paintings in Andrews Church Rededicated
George Blaney and Will Ridenour complete four new Biblical panels for Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church main auditorium. The works honor departed loved ones of Miss Blanche Guard and others, bringing the total such paintings in the building to eight.
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Andrews Church
Blaney
Andrews Methodist’ Episcopal
George Blaney
Will Ridenour
Grafton
Miss Blanche
Guard
D. Grant
French and Italian clash at disarmament talks in Geneva
In Geneva a heated interparliamentary session broke up after a violent row between French and Italian delegates over who knew the most international law. Amid the turmoil a deputy from Boel shouted a taunt linked to the assassination of Como Mats teottit, a sensationalEar incident. Rival candidates for a Martin, S.D. school board vacancy agreed to withdraw and let the board appoint a new member at a cost of $325.
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Gitcomo Matsteottt
Boel
Fapoistre Healy
Candi
Martin, 8. D
Bakery Saturday Specials and Bread Selections
The ad lists pecan rolls, cream pound cakes, raisin bread, cinnamon rolls, raisin and sugar cookies, lager cakes, and various breads including sliced tasty jumbo and Town Talk. Vendor Kleen Krust Bakery promotes the sale at the grocer with multiple dozen quantities.
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