Britain braces for crisis as defense program reviewed
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons Britain will review its colossal defense program in response to German eastward drive. He outlined three steps including rallying democracies, countering German economic pressure with a Romania trade mission, and continued talks with Soviet Russia. Conscription was also discussed as part of national safety measures.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons Today
Britain
Germany
Europe
Gressor
Romania
Bucharest
Maisky Lees Halifax
Russia
Empire
von Minsk
Viscount Halifax
Foreign Office
Lord Halifax
Czecho-Slovakia
France calls out soldiers over Romanian crisis
Paris reports a government move toward regional mobilization along the Rhineland frontier as a warning to Germany to stay away from Romania. Premier Daladier would use the new dictatorial powers to show an armed demonstration, with secrecy guarding a hastily called cabinet meeting and plans awaiting presidential signature.
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Paris
Rhineland
Germany
Daladier
Romania
Albert Lebrun
Grafton Sentinel Invites MRS Floyd Hebb to Tonight's Screenings
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Floyd Hebb of 529 Walnut Street to attend tonight's presentation of Jesse James in technicolor at the Strand theatre featuring Tyrone Power Henry Fonda Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott, or Going Places with Dick Powell at the Dixie theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Floyd Hebb
Walnut Street
Jesse James
Tyrone Power
Henry Fonda
Nancy Kelly
Randolph Scott
Strand Theatre
Dick Powell
Dixie Theatre
Germany Eyes Memel Protectorate Move Across Versailles Line
Berlin observers report German and Lithuanian officials discussed Memel fate with indications of a near reunion with greater Germany. Memel Diet meets March 25 as editors note growing momentum toward incorporation while talks touch Lithuania’s role in Europe’s balance. A protectorate over Lithuania was denied by responsible circles.
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Berlin
Juozas Orbsys
Lithuania
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Memel
Germany
Hitler
Britain
Czecho-Slovakia
Meiel
Europe
Memel Langtag
Von
Ribbentrop
Urbsys
Rumanians resist political concessions to Germany
Bucharest reports show Rumania ready to increase trade with Germany while rejecting surrender of political rights. Negotiations with German trade expert Helmut Wohlthat progress toward a conclusion amid mutual understanding. No political points yielded. talks exclude broader German Rumanian relations.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Germany
Helmuth Wohlthat
Rumania Finance Ministry
Bohemia
Randolph Urges U S To Prepare For Conflict
Rep. Jennings Randolph warned in Morgantown at the postal workers banquet that small European nations bowing to dictators threaten democracy. He urged immediate notice to dictatorial powers and that the United States prepare to defend its people to avoid weakness that leads to conquest.
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Morgantown
Jennings Randolph
America
United States
Randolph
Northern
West Virginia
Southwestern
Pennsyyvania
Hotel Strike Ends With Union Favoring Members
Washington march 20. The strike of union employees at 13 capital hotels ends in a compromise. Hotels retain right to promote transfer or discharge employees but agree to give preference to union members in filling vacancies. Strikers to be rehired. demand for a union shop noted.
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Washington
Capital
John R. Steelman
Labor Department
City Employes Hope Paycheck Receives Funds This Week
Grafton city workers missed March 15 wages due to a cash shortage in the city treasury. Officials said a renewed push to collect delinquent water rents might provide enough money to cover the first two weeks of March, but confirmation was unclear.
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Grafton
WPA Plans on drastic slash for relief rolls
Washington March 20. The WPA informed state administrators that 400,000 will be dropped from relief work starting April 3 unless Congress adds funds. Col. F C Harrington released a state by state list of reductions if lawmakers do not act. Roosevelt sought $160 million to continue work relief to July 1 but was refused earlier this session. Further details outlined in Harrington's letter to administrators.
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Washington
WPA
Congress
Col. F. C. Harrington
Roosevelt
Harrington
Missing Pruntytown youths sought after car theft
Two junior warders from the Boys Industrial School of Pruntytown, George Nelson of Buffalo West Virginia and Leon Steel of Charleston, are missing after a car stolen from guard Roy Sesse was found wrecked in Fayette City Pennsylvania. State police report local officers had no prior notice of the disappearance or theft and learned of the case when Morgantown police reported the abandoned vehicle.
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Boys Industrial School
Pruntytown
Pennsylvania
Roy Sesse
Instituton
Fayette City
George Nelson
Buffalo
W. Va
Leon Steel
Charleston
Corp
Fred Strader
Grafton
State Police
Moscow Calm Despite Nazi Move To East
Moscow remains calm as Nazi troops approach within a few hundred miles of the Soviet border. The government condemned Hitler’s annexation of Czecho Slovakia as arbitrary and violent, while plans for Western cooperation are discussed. Vice Defense Commissar Mekhils warned invasion would backfire by multiplying Soviet republics. Continued on page five.
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Wade Werner
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Czecho-Slovakia
L. 2
Mekhil
Soviet Russia
Charleston Girl Falls Six Floors In Hotel Incident
Maxine William Thomas, 23, of Charleston, fell six floors from a hotel window into an inner court area, then to a loading platform roof. Hospital reports show a fractured arm, severe head injuries, possible internal injuries. condition improved to critical. Detective Lt. Edgar Bourne investigates.
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Charleston
Maxine William Thomas
Daniel Boone
Edgar Bourne
Blood Rushes Across State To Aid Young Girl
A pint of blood was rushed 300 miles by train to save 16 year old Kathleen Leathern in Pittsburgh. She suffers from staphylococcus septicemia, a rare fatal blood infection. The donor's name is withheld. The bottle was sealed in a sterile container and kept refrigerated for transport.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Kathleen Leathern
Corporations Attacked Over Firearms and Tear Gas Purchases
The Senate Civil Liberties committee urged legislation to curb use of firearms and offensive chemical weapons by large employers in industrial disputes. It also called limits on armed company guards to plant property and cited $1,255,312 spent on tear and nauseating gas between 1933 and 1937, mainly by corporations.
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Washington
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
la Follette
Republic
Jury Commissioners Meet To Pick Venice Jury
Taylor county jury commissioners met in Circuit Clerk Frank M. Hollis office to select grand and petit jurors for the April Taylor county circuit court term. Commissioners G. G. Selvey and John Musgrove preside, with Sheriff Herbert Evans to notify those drawn.
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Taylor County
Frank M. Hollis
Hollis
G. G. Selvey
John Musgrove
Herbert Evans
Centenarian ex‑Speaker Hanen dies at 100
Samuel R. Haven a 100 year old Marshall County resident and former speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates died of pneumonia in a Cleveland hospital. Born in Scioto County Ohio he moved to Marshall County as a schoolteacher at age 20 and served in the Civil War. He aided Lincoln era politics and was Marshall County's first superintendent of schools. Last year he attended a Moundsville birthday banquet. His body will be returned to Moundsville for burial Wednesday.
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Moundsville
Samuel R. Haven
Marshall County
Cleveland, C
Scioto County
Ohio
Washington
Hanen
Abraham Lincoln
Parking Meters Yield Sizeable Sum Saturday
Parking meter collections for the last two weeks ending Saturday totaled 170.65 dollars. City Finance Commissioner Joseph Bradford said receipts were exceptionally good despite the St. Marys Street bridge closure. Fifteen percent of the total goes to the city treasury with eighty five percent applied to the purchase price of nickel-ana hour devices.
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Joseph Bradford
St. Mary's Street
City Treasury
Probe crash of huge ship in Stratoliner disaster
Aviation experts converged on Alder Washington to explain the crash of the new four motor Boeing Stratoliner. Ten occupants perished in a 10 000 foot plunge. Victims include A G von Baumhauer aeronautics engineer for the Netherlands government Peter Guilonard assistant manager of Royal Dutch Airlines and several prominent American airmen. Federal and Boeing officials study wreckage.
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Alder
Wash
A. G. von Baumhauer
Netherlands
Peter Guilonard
Royal Dutch Air Lines
Boeing
Stu
Jackie Coogan Agrees To Settlement of Case
Jackie Coogan the child star expressed regret that more money isn’t left as he plans to seek court approval of a settlement yielding about 126000 from his stepfather and mother Arthur and Bernice Bernstein. He had sued for four million dollars on earnings as a child actor after a court receiver valued the estate at roughly 291715.
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Los Angeles
Jackie Coogan
Kid
Arthur Bernstein
Young Coogan
Bernsteins
Jackie
Four Die in Logan Fire Destroys Shantytown Homes
Logan county records show four deaths from a March 2014 fire in Logan's shantytown area. A warehouse and nine homes burned, with 12,500 dollars in damage from three fires of undetermined origin. Victims include Mrs. Mary Brown and three grandchildren, Freddie Burch Flora Mae Burch and Edward Burch. The mother Eva Burch escaped with Freddie and later died in hospital. husband away at work.
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Logan
Logan County
Mountain State Machine Corporation
Mary Brown
Freddie Burch
Flora Mae Burch
Edward Burch
Eva Burch
Freddie
Young Girl Sacrifices Life to Save Baby in Street
CHICAGO March 20 Miss Helen Oleczewski 18 died after pushing a 15 month old friend’s baby to safety as a car sped toward them. She hurled the infant over her shoulder then was struck by the vehicle. The baby escaped with only minor scratches.
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Chicago
Helen Oleczewski
Patricia Szymonik
Miss Oleczzewski
Moving Nude Dummies Protested By Dallas Couple
In Dallas on March 20 a middle aged couple urged Officer E B McDonald to act as nude dummies moved past an upstairs window. Three officers investigated and found the figures were doll props used by a designer of women’s clothes.
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Dallas
E. B.mcdonald
SEC CHAIRMAN NAMED TO SUPREME TRIBUNAL
Douglas, 40, chief of the Securities Commission, is picked by President Roosevelt to join the Supreme Court if confirmed. A Yale law professor, he is a known New Deal supporter born in Minnesota, with reformist stances on trading rules, and would replace Justice Louis D Brandeis who retired February 13.
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Washington
Wilahho. Douglas
The
Securities Commission
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Senate
Douglas
Louis D. Brandeis
Yale Law
Connecticut
Minnesota
Washington State
Carles Evans Hughes
James C. McReynolds
Pierce Butler
McReynolds
Yale
Tax Revision Far From Dead in Senate Finance Panel
Washington March 20 Sentiment grew in the Senate finance committee for independent action to overhaul business taxes if President Roosevelt does not recommend revision. The president said Treasury studies are under way to gauge effects of proposed changes while keeping revenues at current levels. Senator George and Chairman Harrison signaled readiness to cooperate with Morgenthau Hopkins on possible tax revisions to spur business.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Treasury
George
Harrison
D.-Miss
Finance Committee
Morgenthau
Hopkins
D.-Ga
Mr. Roosevelt
Invitation to Opera House Theatre Evening
Sentinel invites MRS. R. M. PARRISH of Brownlow Park to attend The Newsboys Home at the Opera House theatre starring Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie and an all star cast, with identification may be required.
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The
Grafton. Sentinel
R. M. Parrish
Brownlow Park
Jackie Cooper
Edmund Lowe
Wendy Barrie
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