Huge Jobless Fund Surplus Outlined in WV
John T. Fonda presented a 25 page report to the West Virginia State Chamber of Commerce detailing the unemployment compensation fund. He projected a surplus of about 35 million dollars by the end of three years, with 19.96 million on hand on January 1 1941 after a transfer of 900 thousand to the railroad retirement fund. The convention session also included critiques of 1941 legislation and a flood control outlook claiming underwrite would benefit far less than one tenth of one percent of the state.
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West Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce
John T. Fonda
Committee On Social Security
Fonda
Clarence McD
England
Chamber of Commerce
Selling of Mortgaged Stock Brings Sentence
CHARLESTON May 9. L S Stonestreet of Braxton county was sentenced by Federal Judge George W McClintic to three years in the Petersburg Va federal reformatory for selling livestock mortgaged to the Clarks burg Production Credit association which held the mortgage for 7500 dollars. He pleaded guilty April 11.
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L. S. Stonestreet
Braxton County
George W. McClintic
Petersburg
Stonestreet
Clarksburg
Axis Seamen Sentenced For Sabotage Here
In Wilson North Carolina on May 9 two officers and eight seamen were convicted in U S district court of sabotaging engines on the Italian freighter Villaperosa before Coast Guard seizure. Judge I M Meekin sentenced Captain Adriana Bersia and Chief Engineer Carlo Novella to three years each in Atlanta federal penitentiary, and the others to 18 months each. U S Attorney General Robert Jackson had urged uniform punishments for alien seamen.
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Meekins
U. S
Robert Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Reseen
Widely Known Architect Dies After Brief Illness
Charles Delavan Wetmore, 74, a prominent New York architect, died at his Park Avenue home after a brief illness. He belonged to Warren and Wetmore, the firm that designed Grand Central Terminal and the Ritz, Commodore, Vanderbilt, and Biltmore hotels.
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New York
Charles Delavan Wetmore
Park Avenue
Warren& Wetsmore
Grand Central Terminal
Ritz
Commodore, Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Train strikes car killing Wheeling woman in New Jersey
Coroner reports Regina Nedick of Wheeling killed and four others injured when their car was hit by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Asbury Park New Jersey while returning from a church entertainment. The group was en route home when the collision occurred.
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Wheeling
Regina Nedick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
John Gaynor
Asbury Park
N. J
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