Coal Strike Postponement Predicted Amid NRA Talks
Washington faces a possible postponement as Democratic leaders push the emergency NRA plan toward passage before next weekend. A soft coal strike looms with 450,000 miners set to walk out Monday unless a wage and hours accord is reached, while O Neill says coal producers and United Mine Workers have agreed on a revised stabilization bill that could avert a broader stoppage.
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Washington
Supreme Court
NIRA
NRA
Charles O'Neill
Legis
United Mine Workers
Guffey
John L. Lewis
O'Neill
Utility Bill Vote Is Near
Washington June 10 A roll call to end the long senate controversy over the Wheeler Rayburn Bill to curb public utility holding companies appeared imminent. Senator Wheeler predicted approval and sending it to the house within a few hours. A substitute tax approach was proposed by some representatives to dissolve unw ant ing companies rather than letting the securities and exchange commission order dissolution. The debate centered on section 11 of Dill aimed at reducing the influence of folding companies in five to seven units.
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Washington
Senate
Wheeler-Rayburn
Rien Debate Limited
Wheeler
Mont
House
Ion
Securities and Exchange Commission
Old Interest Reestablished on PWA Loans
Washington reports restoration of the 4 percent interest rate on PWA loans to states and communities under the 4 billion works program. The change aims to attract private capital for expenditures not donated by the federal government. The move follows a May 24 rate cut to 3 percent and higher federal participation.
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Washington
PWA
Ickes
Tekes
Roosevelt
White House
Grafton High Band Plans Public Concerts This Month
Grafton High Band under director John Thomas Evans announces a busy summer schedule with practice at 7:30 on Wednesday evening. The first concert is set for June 14 at Station Square for Elks Flag Day exercises, followed by a public concert at Grafton Park on June 30.
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Grafton High
John Thomas Evans
Station Square
Grafton Park
Evans
Welch joins Sentinel as court house reporter
Herbert Welch, son of Mrs. Elia Welch, has joined The Sentinel as a reporter assigned to the court house beat. He recently completed his sophomore year in the West Virginia University School of Journalism and shows a promising future in the newspaper business.
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the Sentinel
Herbert Welch
Elia Welch
Court House News Beat
Welch
School of Journalism
West Virginia University
Busines
Youth Drowns As Boat Drifts on Kanawha River
A 17 year old boy drowned while setting a fish line across the Kanawha River. His body was recovered after search crews found his empty boat swinging on a trot line spanning the river with hooks at intervals.
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Charleston
Kanawha River
End to Chaco War In Sight Peace Plan Amid Hope
Buenos Aires reports a peace formula from neutral mediators may end the Chaco conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia. Paraguay accepted. Bolivia's concurrence expected. Plan calls for armistice direct talks, demobilization, and possible Hague arbitration if talks fail. Fighting continues as leaders study terms.
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Buenos Aires
Chaco
Paraguay
Bolivia
United States
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Brazil
Hague Tribunal
Hugh
Gibson
Huntington Wins Right To Tax Utility Revenue
The supreme court refused to enjoin Huntington from taxing public utilities on gross revenues. It denied Huntington Water Corporation’s petition for a temporary injunction seeking to restrain a one percent tax. The emergency ordinance, enacted by Huntington council, applies to all utilities except steam and railways operating in the city.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Huntington
Huntington Water Corporation
Huntington Council
Taxi Drivers Strike Amid Shrine Convention In Washington
About 50 capital cab drivers quit in protest during the 61st annual Shrine convention. They complained of insults and disputed a statement that drivers could not charge more than regular zone rates. With 100000 visitors, officials feared a transportation crisis as about 4000 cars could join the strike.
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Washington
Shriners
William A. Roberts
People's Counsel
District of Columbia
Shrine
Roberts
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Lowden Opens Grassroots G.O.P. Parley in Springfield
Elder statesman Frank O. Lowden urged Midwest Republicans to defend the constitution at the Grass Roots conference in the Illinois state fair Coliseum. Delegates from 10 states gathered under placards, while Lowden pressed for balance between industry and agriculture and for protective measures benefiting farming.
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Springfield
Frank O. Lowden
Republican Party
Illinois State Fair
Lowden
Ilinois
New London
Thinning G A R Banks Gather at Encampment
In Wheeling the Grand Army of the Republic prepares for the fifty fourth annual state encampment with delegates arriving. A reception is held tonight ahead of business sessions tomorrow as allied groups join the G A R for the event.
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Tietsin
Yang Stan
Yangstan
Port Arthur
Fietsin
Wheeling
Grand Army of the Republic
Charleston
Ladies’ Relief Corps
Ladies of the Grand Army
Daughters of Union Veterans
GIA R
One Man Dead and Several Hurt in Martinsburg Crash
Charles Town report states one man died and several others injured in a collision on the Martinsburg road. John B Brazier 22 of Charles Town a West Virginia University student died instantly yesterday. An inquest was tentatively set for Wednesday at the Heverile towers.
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Charles Town
Martinsburg
John B. Brazier
West Virginia University
Heverile Towers
University Alumni Meet To Elect New Officers
Morgantown June 10 West Virginia University alumni meet to elect association officers and attend the class of 1935 graduation. Dr Gary Hogg of Lewisburg presides over the gathering considering a new alumni secretary. The event marks the 68th annual commencement week opening with Bishop R B E Strider asserting education is becoming essential.
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University
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Alumni Association
Gary Hogg
Lewisburg
Mountaineer
R. BE. L. Strider
West Virginia
Payroll Stolen From Mine Payroll Pouch on Truck Route
Missing payroll of McKeefrey Coal Company valued at 1 200 was in a registered mail pouch aboard a Wheeling to Sistersville truck. Police and inspectors from post office and state police joined the six mile search between Moundsville and McKeefrey after the driver reported the pouches vanished near arrival. The robbers are suspected to have boarded the truck in transit and stolen the payroll pouch while other mail left behind.
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Moundsville
McKeefrey
McKeefrey Coal Company
Mc ‘Keefrey
James E. Fox
Fox
P.O
Wheeling
Sistersville
Veteran of Stonewall Jackson Brigade Dies
Shepherdstown reports the death of John Allen Link, 93, a veteran of the Stonewall Jackson brigade and last Civil War survivor in this West Virginia section. He fought with Confederate forces at Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg and died at his home last night.
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Shepherdstown
John Allen Link
West Virginia
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Tragic Huntington Train Crossing Accident Claims Two
William R. Stewart and Marietta Saunders, both Huntington residents, were injured at a street crossing when a switch engine moved freight cars over them. Stewart, 23, barely escaped death, describes lying between rails as the cars passed. Saunders, 18, lost both legs and faces unclear prognosis. Police investigate as doctors warn recovery is unlikely.
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Huntington
William R. Stewart
Marietta Saunders
Stewart
Newly Wedded Couple Killed in Car Wreck Near Brownsville
In Zanesville Ohio on June 10 a newly wed couple died when their auto rolled six times after sideswiping a truck on a curve a mile west of Brownsville. The dead are Walter Tomich 94 Granite City and Anna Tomich 20 formerly Miss Anna Park Union City Pa. Also killed were none. Walter’s sister-in-law Mrs. David Tomich 35 and her daughter Dorothy 16 were injured and hospitalized expected to recover.
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Zanesville
Brownsville
Here
Walter Tomich
Granite City
Anna Tomich
Anna Park
Union City
Ex Singling Star Barred Up to Landis
Albany club ordered to cancel Edwin Pitts contract as National Association rules him a professional and barred from play. Johnny Evers vows appealing to Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Governor Lehman to be asked for pardon once available. Pitts had joined Albany at Syracuse after release.
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Albany
National Assuation of Professional Baseball League
Albany, International
Edwin
Alabama
Pitts
Herbert H. Lehman
Johnny Evers
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Supreme Court of Baseball
War- Ten Giles
Rochester
W. G.bramham
Association
Sing Sing
Byers
Giles
Pips
Bermuda
Evers
Lehman
Bramham
Syracuse
Three State Liquor Stores Opened Today
Charleston June 10. Liquor stores in Clarksburg Weston and Martinsburg were scheduled to open today, the liquor commission announced. M Harrison district manager will act as Martinsburg manager until a permanent appointee. Liquor was to leave the warehouse today for Fairmont Grafton and New Martinsville with no opening date given for Fairmont.
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Charleston
Clarksburg
Weston
Martinsburg
Liquor Commission
M. Harrison
Fairmont
Grafton
New Martinsville
Three Loaded Cars Derailed Blocking Main Line
A Chesapeake and Ohio freight train derailed three loaded coal cars near Greens Ohio on June 9, blocking both main line tracks. Trains were routed over the Folk and Western from Colville to Kenova. No injuries reported.
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Huntington
Chesapeake and Ohio
Greens
Folk and Western
Colville
Kenova
Two confess their parts in abduction
Federal agents in Salt Lake City hold two confessed gang members linked to the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. Harmon Waley and his wife admitted involvement, while a third suspect, William Mahan, was pursued with a bulldog restraint aiding a halted car. The Waleys’ daughter-in-law passed a ransom bill in a local store. family ties to a Pacific Northwest lumber mill figure in the narrative.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
George Weyerhaeus
West
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Harmony W. Waley
Coe
Pation
Tacoma
Wash
Bulldog
Willam Mahan
Bive: Ee
Ogra Mahan
J. E
Mooney
George Thulin
Waley
Third suspect saved by dog in Montana kidnapping case
In Butte Montana June 10 a bulldog helped stop William Mahan thirty two, a suspect in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. Mahan and two others were held at Bast Lake City after a detective credited the dog with flushing the man from a motor car. Police questioned a driver’s license found on Mahan from Salt Lake City and noted ransom money involvement totaling fifteen thousand one hundred fifty five dollars.
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Butte
Mont
William Mahan
George Weyerhaeuser
Ase
Bast Lake City
Mahan
J. EB. Mooney
Weyerhaeuser
Salt, Lake City
George Waren
Salt Lake City
Harmon M
Waley
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