Ex Supreme Court Justice Homer B Woods Dies at 71
Former Supreme Court Justice Homer B Woods, 71, Republican legislator from Richie County, died in Charleston hospital after illness worsened overnight. A three time circuit judge, he served on the high court 1924 to 1936, returned to law practice, then won a seat in the 1940 House of Delegates, and was noted as a versatile jurist, teacher, editor and prosecuting attorney. He was born near a Richie County farm.
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Charleston
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Homer B. Woods
Richie County
Woods
Mountain State Hospital
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Budget Bill Before House Budget Bill Before House
Charleston dispatch reports two major points in the Neely administration legislative program labor relations and unemployment compensation law up for possible Senate amendments. The House of Delegates completed its budget draft, sending a biennial plan through the Senate with one dissent. The taxation and finance committee proposed about 71.846 million in appropriations, slightly less than the Senate figure. The Board of Public Works sent up its budget totaling 72.427 million.
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Charleston
Mar
Neely Administration
Senate
House of Delegates
House Taxation and Finance
Mmittee
Minnesota
Board of Public Works
House
Accord Still Not Reached In Thailand Indo China Dispute
Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka and French Ambassador Charles Arsene Henry met for forty minutes in Tokyo on a modified plan to end the border dispute but failed to reach an agreement. Indications point to another interview tomorrow as both sides race to issue orders before further delays.
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Tokyo
Yosuke Matsuoka
Charles Arsene Henry
Japan
Matsuoka
Accord
Work On Government Job Continues Despite Union Strike
In Holly Ridge North Carolina representatives for contractors said the Army anti aircraft firing range project worth fifteen million dollars kept moving forward despite a strike by the Wilmington Building Trades Council AFL. About three thousand workers crossed picket lines to reach the job site last night. State Labor Commissioner F H Shuford cited reports of four thousand to six thousand on strike, with ten thousand to fifteen thousand workers previously employed on the project. L H Rouse trades council agent said demands included a preferential shop overtime time and a half and double pay for Sundays and holidays with no settlement talks yet scheduled.
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Conciliators Begin Mediation In Ford-IUAW Dispute
Federal and state conciliators opened preliminary steps to mediate the Ford Motor Co. and the CIO United Automobile Workers dispute in Detroit. James F. Dewey, a federal conciliator with prior Ford-UAW involvement, was expected to meet with Michael J. Widjman Jr., union organizer at the Ford plants.
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Detroit
Mar
Ford Motor Co
Cio-United Automobile Workers
James F. Dewey
Michael J. Widjman, Jr
Ford
Rains Sweep Coast State Brings Hazards Across California
Heavy rains swept California causing hazardous conditions in many communities. Rail and highway travel were snarled and communications and power services disrupted. A flooded low section of old Santa Barbara saw rapid rainfall and Red Cross rescue crews responding.
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Los Angeles
Mar
California
Santa Barbara
Red Cross
Elkins Voters Ballot On Mayor Bond Issue
Elkins voters go to the polls to elect a mayor five councilmen and decide a $20,000 city hall bond. Incumbent L C Irons seeks a third two year term against Clay B Whetsell on the Peoples ticket. Bond issue support backs both mayoral candidates.
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Elkins
Mar
L. C. Irons
Citizens
Clay B. Whetsell
Peoples Party
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Bombardment destroys Cardiff in major air raid
Cardiff Wales endured a heavy air raid as incendiaries rained for hours. Fires raged across the city with widespread destruction and casualties undetermined. American Red Cross ambulance units from London aided the effort as German bombers struck again with high explosives.
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Cardiff
Wales
Mar
American Red Cross
London
Cardiffs
James Wilson
Bad Electrical Storm Sweeps Kanawha Valley
Kanawha Valley faced an early spring storm as electrical activity moved through last night. Temperatures dipped from a 60 degree high on Monday to 38 degrees at 8 am and 32 degrees by 11 am with the night bottom around 37.
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Kanawha Valley
Charleston
Mar
Two More Somaliland Points Are Captured
British imperial forces report capturing two additional Italia Somaliland positions in a night march toward the Ethiopian frontier. The formal communique states the main column has taken about 10,000 Italians overall, with Isola Baidoa and Buloburti also occupied.
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Kenya
Ethiopia
Isola Baidoa
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Roosevelt Begins Ninth Year as President in Routine Day
Washington dispatch notes Franklin Delano Roosevelt enters his ninth year as U.S. president without public observance plans. He continues a day-to-day program focused on defense and aid to Britain, consulting officials including Sidney Hillman and the secretaries of State War and See FDR/STARTING Page 4.
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Washington
Mar
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Britain
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Dynamite Found In Coal Pile At Wade Park School
Cleveland officials blame mine negligence after James Dwyer, assistant janitor, finds a stick of dynamite and fuse wire in a Wade Park school coal pile while shoveling coal. Police ballistic expert David L. Cowles says it likely would not have exploded. Brown orders full coal supply inspection for the 800 student school.
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Cleveland
Mar
James F. Brown
Cleveland Public School System
Wade Park School
James Dwyer
David L. Cowles
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Soviet Forces Reinforced Across Romanian Frontier
Sofia dispatch reports Soviet troops in Bessarabia across the Prut river from Nazi Romania are being reinforced. A Russian note to Bulgaria warned German troops entry would extend the war, while Bucharest reports accelerated mobilization under German direction aiming to amass about 1,000,000 men by March 15.
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Accused Divorcee To Take Stand In Murder Trial
Mrs. Hilda Neely Brown a 33 year old divorcee faces trial for the murder of Robert G. McClure in an intermediate court. The defense calls her mother Mrs. Alice Neely as a witness and the father Dr A G McClure testifies he found his son dead from a shotgun wound in the Brown apartment on December 24.
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Hilda Neely Brown
Robert G. McClure
Alice Neely
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McClure
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White House says poison used by foes
A presidential secretary warned of efforts to confuse and inject poison into the defense setup tied to opposition to the lease lend bill. Stephen Early said Roosevelt would advise with his cabinet after the British aid bill passes, while keeping OPM officials in their specific assignment.
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Mar
White House
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Roosevelt
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Office For Production Management
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Youth Admits Bronx Murder In Police Interrogation
The Bronx District Attorney announced that George Joseph Cook, 23, of Harrisburg Pennsylvania admitted the strangulation slaying of Mrs Catherine Pappas in her Bronx home last month. He also confessed assaults on women in Philadelphia Washington DC Newark New Jersey and other cities. Cook said he garrotted Mrs Pappas after entering the apartment by feigning friendship with her husband.
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Samuel J. Foley
Bronx
George Joseph Cook
Harrisburg
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Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Olaf Lawson to Opera House show
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Olaf Lawson of 118 Dorsey Street to tonight's presentation Melody and Moonlight featuring Johnny Downs and Dora Dunky Dents with Temple at the Opera House theatre.
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Engel tours army camps in the South
Representative Albert J. Engel of Michigan, a Republican, harshly scrutinizes defense progress by visiting six army camps in the South. He has driven over 2,200 miles in two weeks inspecting facilities and operations firsthand.
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Frozen List Expanded as Roosevelts Considers Wider Freeze
Washington reports Bulgaria's American assets added to frozen list raising questions if President Roosevelt will issue a sweeping order to freeze all other foreign holdings. Authorities say the blank remained on his desk after signing the Bulgarian list while Treasury officials push for broader action to curb assets used for Axis propaganda and espionage. The State Department stance remains unsettled.
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Bulgaria
Roosevelt
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German Troops Battle British Libyan Force
German troops clashed with British mechanized forces in Libya and reportedly won, with British units fleeing and prisoners and war matériel captured. Simultaneously, mass British attacks on the Giarabub oasis were met with heavy Italian artillery fire and a call for surrender.
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Hitler Sends Message to Turkish Leaders
A German mission arrived in Ankara and delivered what was believed to be a direct message from Adolf Hitler to Turkish President Ismet Inonu. Franz Von Papen accompanied the delegation and met with Inonu and Foreign Minister Sukran Saracoglu for about 30 minutes.
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Bulgar Stand Hit by Soviet Pressure on War Scope
Moscow warns that German troop presence in Bulgaria could widen the war. Soviet vice commissar Vishinsky told King Boris Bulgaria cannot back its current policy and will not share Western views on the Balkans crisis. See BULGAR STAND Page 4.
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