Big Program to Face New Congress in Next Session
Washington reports a looming agenda for the 76th Congress with railroads and unemployment relief high on the list. Lawmakers expect amendments to crop controls and tax law revision as priorities, while debate on a possible special session over rail finance continues.
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Washington
Iman O'Connor
D.-N
House Fules Committee
Wheeler
D.mont
Senate Interstate ‘Commerce Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Strike closes large papers in Pittsburgh district
A strike of office workers halted Pittsburgh newspapers affecting about a half million subscribers. The city loses Sunday editions as mechanical and office staff join picket lines, shutting down Scripps-Howard Hearst papers and the area's only Sunday papers. The morning Post-Gazette was largely unaffected.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburghewspapers
Scripps-Howard
PerestScripps
Hearst
Sers
Shop
Re Federation of
la Post-Gazette
Paul Ek
Pliteburgh
Grafton Sentinel invites Harry White to Strand shows
The Grafton Sentinel presents tickets for tonight’s Strand program featuring Walter Huston in Of Human Hearts and Jane Withers in Rascals. Identification may be required for admission at the Strand or Dixie venue.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Harry White
Lovelandition
Walter Huston
Jane Withers
Hip fracture proves fatal for Mrs Jane Ann Martin
Mrs Jane Ann Martin 71 died Friday at 6 30 pm at her Addison street residence. A hip fracture seven months earlier and pneumonia developed days before caused her death. Born March 10 1867 in Illinois she lived in Grafton many years. Surviving husband H E Martin a bank caretaker a daughter Mrs W R Jones of Middletown Indiana and brothers H C Milligan and Pen Milligan Pinckneyville Illinois. Funeral services Sunday at First Presbyterian Church. Continued on page six.
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Jane Ann Martin
Addison Street
Illinois
Martin
Grafton
Russell C
Minerva J. Brown Milligan
H. E. Martin
Salvation Army Drive Lagging Urged to Turn In Cards
Dallas D. Wolfe, general chairman, asks those who received Salvation Army campaign cards to turn them in immediately so headquarters at the First National Bank can assess progress. Less than one third of the anticipated funds have been paid or pledged after the first week. The home service fund drive, set to end this week, will likely continue into next week.
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Salvation Army
Dallas D. Wolfe
First National Bank
Home Service Fund
Funeral held for G Nelson Stansberry at Bartlett Home
Funeral services for G Nelson Stansberry a 57 year old WPA worker killed by B and O train No 12 near Curve bridge were held at 3 30 Saturday afternoon at the Bartlett Funeral Home on McGraw avenue Interment will be in Bluemont Cemetery under the direction of G r Bartlett.
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G. Nelson Stansberry
WPA
Curvebridge
Bartlett ‘Funeral
McGraw Avenue
Bluemont Cemetery
G.r. Bartlett
Friend of Rulers Hangs Himself At Indiana Pa
Indiana Pa June 18 A 61 year old Metro Kruchic once a royal retailer in old Austria hanged himself Tuesday. Unemployed and penniless he was buried in a private cemetery after friends donated funds for his funeral. Kruchic earned a Franz Joseph decoration for saving an Austrian prince and later came to the United States after the Hapsburgs fell to work as a coal miner.
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Indiana
Metro Kruehic
Austria
Potter's Field
Kruchic
Franz Joseph
House of Hapsburg
Four Flemington Lads Given Six Day Terms
Four Flemington youths were sentenced to six days in Taylor county jail by Mayor A N Stewart after conviction for shooting firecrackers in the village business section. Town Marshal Victor Menear filed the complaint.
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Flemington
A. N. Stewart
Clarence Waller, Jr
Ervin Waller
Frank Stanko
Ralph Biggs
Taylor County
Victor Menear
Inquiry into Monopoly to Be Huge Task
Washington report outlines a massive board inquiry into monopoly, chaired by Senator J. C. McHone with 12 legislators and executives. The panel will review anti trust laws since the Sherman Act of 1898 and prepare recommendations for the next Congress, backed by $598,000 in funds. Members include Borah King Summers Eicher and Reece, with six executive agency appointees to follow.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
O’mahoney
Congress
J. C. M'Honey
Borah
Idaho
King
Utah
Summers
Tex
Eicher
Iowa
Reece
Tenn
Commerce Department
Richard C. Patterosa, Jr
Youngest FDR son weds in Nahant ceremony
Clark Roosevelt and Anne Lind marry in Nahant Massachusetts at noon in a high profile family wedding. The ceremony marks a symbolic end of an era for the nation’s first family with both President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt cited by guests.
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Nahant
Mass
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Roosevelt
CIO Plans Campaign To Enroll WPA Workers
Paul W. Fuller of Cincinnati, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, announced a CIO plan to organize WPA workers nationwide. Speaking after a Washington conference, he predicted strong government spending would spur business and said the CIO would launch its largest ever organizing drive starting next week among WPA workers to challenge compliance with federal spending mandates.
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Charleston
Committee For Industrie
WPA
Paul W. Puller
Cincinnati
Federation of Flat Glass Workers
Fuller
CIO
Washington
Three From County On Jury Duty in Elkins
Three Taylor countians are serving on the petit jury in the U S district court at Elkins and will return Monday for further service after being discharged for the weekend. They are Charles Burke Jr Oscar N Rosier Jr of Gratton and Howard Hawkins Flemington. One Taylor county defendant Orlan Parsons is still held in the Randolph county Jail after entering a guilty plea to possession of non tax paid liquor.
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U. S. District Court
Elkins
Charles Burke, Jr
Oscar N. Rosier, Jr
Gratton
Howard Hawkins
Flemington
Taylor County
Orlan Parsons
Randolph County
Show Goes On Despite News of Wife's Death
In Sharon Pennsylvania the Tom Mix circus performed despite head Ringmaster John R. Agee learning his wife was dying in Glendale California. He left after the evening show to try for a westward plane. Several mourners and other circus staff were present as the show continued with the audience unaware of the personal tragedy.
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Sharon
Tom Mix
John R. Agee
Glendale
Calif
Agee
Pease
Roosevelt Hull policy signals sterner approach to world
United States moves toward firmer foreign policy under Secretary Hull. With Congress out, the State Department hints at a policy to keep aggressor nations guessing. Public opinion condemns civilian bombings, while Washington signals restraint and readiness to act if needed.
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Milo Thompson
Washington
Congress
State Department
State Hull
Senate
America
Death of Senator Copeland Shocks Nation and Grips Allies
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, 69, physician and longtime Democrat, died at 7:45 p.m. after a general circulatory collapse complicated by kidney illness. He had worked to settle legislative differences in the closing session and was a prominent Commerce Committee leader. President Roosevelt and fellow senators expressed condolences. Copeland, a Tammany veteran, had recently clashed with the Roosevelt administration.
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Washington
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Harry Kaufman
Copeland
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Senate
Congress
Allard H. Gasque
D. C
Wires
Suffern
Roosevelt
Royal 8, Jr
Nahant
Mass
Wagner
Tteece
Senate Commerce Committee
Merchant Marine
Public Health
Tammany
Tammany Hall
New Yorker
Story of Salesman Is Probed By State Cops
A 60 year old monument salesman says he was struck on the head and held unconscious for two days as his car was driven to Rock Hill South Carolina by two assailants. State police investigated as the man's employer and family seek clues to the assault and possible motive.
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Robert M. Hooten
Rowlesburg
Roberta Ruth
Bobby" Shaw
Grafton
Grafton City Hospital
Bluefield
Monument
Rock Hill
8. C
G. F. Norris
Norris
Shady Spring
W. V
Trene Norris
Princeton
Court ruling limits defense in Harlan coal case
In London Kentucky Judge H Church Ford ruled Congress can secure coal miners rights under Wagner Act. Defense argued act did not apply as they were not interstate commerce. The judge indicated government need not prove labor policy as hostile to organization and two defendants were acquitted.
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London
Harlan’ County
H. Church Ford
Congress
Ford
Anti-C L I Man Named Chief of Typographers
Claude M. Baker of San Francisco, allied with the American Federation of Labor, won the International Typographical Union presidency over Charles P. Howard of Chicago. Baker secured 37,229 votes to Howard’s 23,344, with twelve of fifteen offices going to independents led by Baker in the May 25 election.
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Indianapolis
Claude M. Baker
San Francisco
American Federation of Labor
International Typographical Union
Charles P. Howard
Chicago
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. F. of
Baker
CIO
ALF. of
Howard
Independent Party
Farmers Pay Back Much Of Money Loaned Since 1934
The Farm Security administration loaned 19610 dollars to 60 Taylor county farmers unable to obtain credit. By June 1, 5189 had been repaid. Loans, for 1935 to 1936, are repayable over up to five years, aiding families to regain independence. Continued on page four.
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Farm Security Administration
Taylor County
L. Glenn Zinn
FSA
People's Bank
Philippi
Stolen Suitcase Mystery Solved by Police
Wheeling reports show police confirming the stolen suitcase mystery after a traveling bag found in a Windsor hotel contained papers and drawings tied to Dr. Carl Otto. An attorney in New York said the bag was stolen from Otto in Pittsburgh, including his diary in German, a panel of emohsande, a photograph of his wife and two daughters.
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Wheeling
Windsor
Carl Otto
New York
Otto
Icksant
Local corps to march in Clarksburg parade
The Sons of the American Legion drum and bugle corps will march in Clarksburg Monday as part of the Lions clubs convention opening there. They recently won first prize at Buckhannon’s Strawberry festival and will depart Moose Home at noon on a Lions club supplied bus. Under William Murray and John Roe the corps has impressed Washington street residents with their drills and playing.
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Sons of the American Legion
Clarksburg
Lions Clubs
Buckhannon
West Virginia
Lions Club of
William Murray
John Roe
Washington Street
Buy American parade seals tri state show of strength
A large Wheeling demonstration titled Buy American ended in a spectator lined parade and mass meeting. Delegations from East Liverpool Newell Moundsville and Canonsburg joined in the march. Afterward a bonfire destroyed foreign products while leaders Thomas Cairns Jamis Duffy and M J Gillooly spoke at the meeting.
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Wheeling
East Liverpool
Newell
Miners Chief to Address Big Rally in Eskdale
Charleston dispatch reports Pro gressive Mine Workers of America leader Joe Ozanic will speak at a mass meeting in Eskdale Cabin Creek area. Osmak’s group plans an intensive campaign to win United Mine Workers CIO members.
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Charleston
Joe Ozanic
Progressive Mine Workers of America
AFOL
Eskdale
Cabin Creek
Osmak
United Mine Workers (Cio
France Faces Huge Strike Threat Over Wage Demands
Paris reports the union of Public Service Workers plans a general strike by France's 750000 government employees to secure 10 percent blanket wage increases amid franc devaluation. Central committee mobilizes rail telegraph postal and civil service units to maximize preparations ahead of a state visit by the British monarchs. Premier Edouard Daladier leads government response as parliament adjourns early.
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Paris
Union of Public Service Workers
France
Tay
Civil Service Pesonnel
Ijimst
Halse
Edouard Daladier
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