Supreme Court Declares Railroad Retirement Act Unconstitutional
Washington May 6 The United States Supreme Court held the entire railroad retirement act invalid affecting more than a million employees Justice Roberts read the decision upholding a lower court ruling that the intrastate carrier provisions and the method of computing annuities were unlawful The ruling notes the act cannot be partially saved and that it does not regulate interstate commerce The decision continues on page two
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Justice Roberts
Roberts
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Cartiers
Toledo Strike Poll Planned At Chevrolet Plant
Toledo Ohio May 6 Work for more than 33000 men hinges on a poll among Toledo Chevrolet plant workers to decide if the company settlement terms are acceptable. The plant, which shut down April 23 after a union strike, could reopen another facility in Muncie Indiana while Buick workers in Flint Michigan hold back actions until the Toledo poll is completed.
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Toledo
Chevrolet
Edward F. McGrady
U. 8
Annd
Ich
Muncie
Ind
General Motors Cortion
Buick Motor Car’ Co
Shotgun Trap Kills Woman in Chicken House Setup
Welch May 6. A woman, Mrs Sylvia Pannetto, was killed by a shotgun trap meant to deter chicken thieves. Her husband Pete Pannetto, 55, and their daughter were detained by police awaiting investigation after the incident in which the gun fired when the henhouse door opened.
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Welch
Sylvia Pannetto
Pete Pannetto
Grass Roots Parley Date Set for June
Republican leaders from nine Midwest states set June 10 and 11 for the grass roots party conference at Springfield to arouse America and battle the Roosevelt New Deal. They call for rejuvenating the Republican party and a constructive 1936 campaign program. They accuse Roosevelt of experimental schemes harming recovery and widening despair. The Lincoln Shrine hosts the meeting to formulate plans and a national platform.
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Chicago
Springfield
America
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Sunday School Training School Dates Are Fixed
Taylor Don's Ministerial Association endorsed a five day Leader Training at West Side School from June 3 to 7 during a monthly meeting at Andrews M E church. The Absolution freed city Sunday schools to support the training and offer financial aid if needed. Rev. James Fidler reviewed Aristen Kennedy De Blois' The Church of Today and Tomorrow.
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West Side
Taylor Don's Ministerial Association
Andrews M. E
James Fidler
First Baptist Church
Aristen Kennedy de Blois
Church of Today
Baby Bond sale tops $35,000 at local post office
The government baby bonds priced from 25 to 1.09 dollars reached 36,337.50 by last Saturday after going on sale March 1. Postmaster James T. Murphy announced totals of 4,425 dollars from May 1 to 4 and 7,406.25 dollars in April, tracking a March peak of 24,506.25.
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Dinber
James T. Murphy
Leaking Water Reveals 15-Year-Old Boy’s Death
Water leaking from a kitchen ceiling uncovered the body of Otis Ray Wright, 15, in Charleston. He died from inhaling gas after a flame was extinguished in a bathroom water boiler, and the tub overflowed. Westbreina
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Charleston
Otis Ray Wright
Wesbreina
King George V Opens Jubilee at St Pauls Cathedral
London May 6 King George V and Queen Mary I attended a solemn and festive service marking 25 years on the throne. Crowds filled the Buckingham Palace to St Pauls route as loyal subjects cheered through the night and a single incident interrupted the planned procession.
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Associated Press
London
British Empire
George V
Mary I
St. Paul's Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul's
Trial Date Fixed For Accused Murderer
Princeton on May 6 judge McGrath sets July 10 for Isaac T. Robinette murder trial in Mercer county. Tulsa arrest and return noted. Hoge and Martin named as counsel. Gardner wounded during arrest of two men. Henry Hollandsworth later convicted and given life term.
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Princeton
Joe Davidson
Isaac T. Robinette
Tulsa
Oklo
Mercer County
John M. McGrath
John H. Hoge
James H. Martin
Robinette
Gardner
Fayette County
Henry Hollandsworth
Red Cross Meeting Planned By Taylor County Chapter
Ralph H. Cline, chairman, calls Red Cross meeting for Thursday at 8 PM in the Baltimore & Ohio station office. All officers and executive coffee members of the QUNDUEE are urged to attend, along with other Red Cross members planning a summer program with multiple activities.
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Taylor County
American Red Cross
Ralph H. Cline
Baltimore & Ohio
Qunduee
Red Cross
National Advertisers In White Sulphur Convention
The Association of National Advertisers opened its annual convention with a closed executive session. Bernard Lichtenberg read the government relations committee report and Paul B. West reviewed the ANA’s last six months of work.
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Bae Sulphur Springs
Mtn
Association of National Advertisers
Bernard Lichtenberg
ANA
Paul B. West
John Hanley Stricken on Street and Dies at 76
John H. Hanley Sr., 76, a retired Baltimore and Ohio passenger conductor, collapsed from a heart attack on Thayer Street near St. before help could arrive. He had been in Salem, West Virginia, returning home when the incident occurred around eight o'clock Saturday night.
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John H. Hanley, Sr
Baltimore and Ohio
Dewey Avenue
Hanley
Salem
W. Va
Thayer Street
Gambling dispute ends in fatal shooting in Ashland
Ashland Ky May 6 31 year old Stephen Rock carnival concession operator died yesterday in a local hospital after being shot in the brain during an argument over a gambling debt. Suspect Henry Morman 22 surrendered to police but faces no charges yet. Sergeant Hodge said Morman shot Rock after Crooked me out of 20 dollars.
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Ashland
Stephen Rock
Henry Morman
Hodge
Ashland Police
Morman
Rock
Radicals Not So Tough These Days Say Vets
Chicago veterans George Roycroft aged 88 Andrew O Day 81 and Frank B Tyrell 76 three surviving Haymarket Riot Veterans gathered yesterday to mark the Chicago Haymarket Riot anniversary on May 4 1686 and declare radicals are not as formidable as once feared.
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Chicago
George Roycroft
Andrew O'Day
Frank B. Tyrell
Haymar‘ket
Teachers Appointed by Taylor County Board Parley
Meeting to comply with legislative fiat, the Taylor County Board of Education named teachers for 1935 36 with several exceptions. Superintendent Lloyd D. Shriver explains many factors will not be cleared up until mid summer. No vacancies filled, no principals named. The board returned several teachers on leaves of absence and left off several. Continued on page three.
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Taylor County Board of Education
Gue
Lloyd D. Shriver
Junior Durkin Funeral To Be Held Tomorrow
Holywood Calif May 6 The film colony will pay last respects tomorrow to Trent Junior Durkin who brought Huckleberry Finn to the talking screen Funeral services for the 19 year old actor killed Saturday in an automobile accident near San Diego also killing three others will be held at Wee Kirk O the Heather Glendale Absent from the rites will be his closest friend Jackie Coogan who was Tom Sawyer in the latest screen version Coogan was painfully injured in the same accident Also killed were John Coogan Sr Robert Horner 25 radio actor playwright and Charles Jones 24 foreman of the Coogan ranch
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Holywood
Calif
Trent Junior
Durkin
Huckleberry Finn
San Diego
Heather
Glendale
Jackie Coogan
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Coogan
John Coogan
Robert Horner
Charles Jones
Coogan Ranch
Edwards Goes To His Death With Courage
Robert Allen Edwards, labeled an American tragedy, was executed at Rockview Prison in Bellefonte Pennsylvania for the murder of Freda McKechnie a church worker who told him she would become a mother. He walked to the electric chair unassisted, prayed as the cap fell, and was pronounced dead at 12:34 a.m. by prison physician Dr J C Weixel. He bid farewell to his father, maintaining a calm demeanor throughout the death watch.
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Rockview
Bellefonte
Robert Allen Edwards
Freda McKechnie
J. C. Weixel
Robert Len Iwards
Daniel Ed
Shifts at Dam Project Changed by Snare Corp
Laborers at the Tygart Valley flood control dam above Grafton City park shift to daylight time. Frederick Snare Corporation started the morning shift at 6:30, 45 minutes earlier than before. Noon shift at 12:15 p m with subsequent shifts about five hours 45 minutes apart.
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Tygart Valley River
Grafton City Park
Frederick Snare Corporation
Republicans to Take Over Charleston City Govern
A group of young Republicans assume control of Charleston's municipal government tonight. City Judge Daniel Boone Daw son, elected by about a 2000 vote margin over Democrat J Horner Davis, takes the oath at a council meeting succeeding R P DeVan, the Republican mayor for four years who did not seek reelection.
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Charleston
Daniel Boone Dawson
J. Horner Davis
R. P. DeVan
DeVan
Officer Helms Expected Back Here in Two Weeks
Officer J. C. Helms, hospitalized in Washington since December 18 for facial injuries from an auto wreck, is due back in Grafton within two weeks. Chief A. E. Lockard said he will likely need more time after arrival before resuming local police duties.
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J. C. Helms
Washington, D. C
Grafton
A. E. Lockard
Helms
Oath of Allegiance For All Teachers Is Sought
Bluefield May 6 a drive to require all teachers to take an oath to defend the United States in time of emergency and pledge allegiance The resolution was prepared for presentation to the next American Legion session by the state department The annual mid year conference urged legislation for all young persons and proposed a draft resolution naming Claude Smith as state commander to ensure teachers are employed only after taking the oath
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Bluefield
United States
State Department
American Legion
Claude Smith
Bank Bandits Trapped in Bryson Bank Robbery
Officers surrounding two robbers at the First State Bank in Bryson Texas killed one man and wounded the other as they fled firing at police. The dead man, about 35, was shot three times and taken to an undertakers. the wounded man was hospitalized in Graham. Both wore overalls over business suits.
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Bryson
Tex
First State
Graham
Hoover Attacks Regimentation in Civic Address
San Francisco May 6 Hoover denounced regimentation as a threat to freedom saying the government should not be the main source of security. He warned a regimented environment would not produce free individuals, urging against citizens being labeled and controlled by self-appointed keepers. About 2,000 delegates applauded at the California Conference of Social Work.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
California Conference of Social Work
Thirteen Apply For Weston Postmaster
Thirteen residents seek appointment as Weston postmaster. The position, to be filled by Senator elect Rush D. Holt, follows acting postmaster George W. Harris, named in February on Holt’s recommendation.
Liquor Store Opening Delayed By Shipment Shortage
Charleston May 6 The state's first liquor store opening likely will be delayed at least a day as liquor shipments arrive The State Liquor Commission reported 15 carloads have been received at the central warehouse in Charleston and three more are expected Trucking from the warehouse to stores has not yet started.
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Charleston
State Liquor Convision
District M E Meeting Opens Tonight in Morgantown
The Morgantown district of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church begins with a 6:30 PM banquet at St Pauls Church on Thayer Street, running through Wednesday. Keefer will toast, followed by a 7:30 PM district men's rally with speakers C W Evans Fairmont Charles Hartley Morgantown and E Ray Jones Oakland Md.
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Morgantown
West Vila
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Paul's Church
Charles Hartley
E.ray Jones
Oakland
Four Others Die in Air Crash in Georgia
Senator Cutting of New Mexico and at least seven others perished when a Transcontinental Western Airlines twin engine airliner crashed near Macon, Georgia. Harvey Bolton and Kenneth Greeson, both of Kansas City, were among the identified dead. a middle aged unidentified woman also died. Nine people were hospitalized in Macon with injuries including Mrs. Dor Meteger and baby, Mrs. D. L. Mesker, Paul Wing, Charles Wing, Henry Sharpe, and C. B. Drew. Cutting occupied seat 11 and died with $576 in his billfold plus papers bearing Olivia M. Cutting.
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Atanta
United States
Bronson M. Cutting
New Mexico
Transcontinental ‘Western Airlines
Harvey Bolton
Kansas City
Kenneth Greeson
Samaritan Hospital
Macon
William Kaplan
Dor Meteger
D. L. Mesker
TWA
Paul Wing
Charles Wing
Henry Sharpe
Hollywood
Surrender of Marion Williams in fatal Flemington crash
Marion Williams, 41, accused in the death of Barbara Jean Sheets, 7, in Flemington, surrendered to state police after being hunted since April 27. He traveled from Rayford with his brother and denied intoxication, claiming he panicked after his car began to shimmy and crashed. he was brought to the county jail for troopers and questioned by Prosecuting Attorney Jamies C. O'Holt.
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Marion'Williams
Werthél
Barbara Jean Sheets
Flemington
Elkins
Rayford
Williams
Jamies C.o'holt
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