Rule Issued in Coal Case in Maryland West Virginia Suit
An order from Taylor County circuit court issued December 37 1937 in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Galloway and J J Noll versus Maryland Coal Company of West Virginia will be enforced. Judge Herbert W Dent announced after a hearing to enforce a decree for bondholders that the company must pay five cents a ton into the court and report monthly tonnage. The motion seeks to sequester the property and force sale. A rule was issued against the company and its officers to show cause why they should not be held in contempt and why the property should not be sequestered. A May 17 hearing was set to resolve the matter. Present officers include Joseph E McGowan Frank G Kittle J G Crosby Earl B Jenkins John L Hechmer and W E Starford.
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Taylor County
Elizabeth Galloway
J. J. Noll
Maryland Coal Company
West Virginia
Herbert W. Dent
H. Robert Warder
Warder
John L. Hechmer
Dent
Deadlock in Appalachian contract talks outlined
Robison described a joint subcommittee progress on a new Appalachian contract. A drafting committee will finalize edits and report by 12:30 p.m. EST, with the general Appalachian conference to meet at 2:30 p.m. EST to act. Mines are closed April 1. Vernon Pottery and SKAGGS & CO. are noted in the text.
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Guic
Steelman
Robison
Appalachian Conference of Miners and Operators
Lewis
Miners’scale Committee
Miners Return to Work Under New Union Contract
In Paris subcommittee held talks, a new contract would send about 346,000 miners back to the soft coal pits next Monday with the same wages and hours as the old deal. Pay remains 6 dollars in northern mines and 5.60 in the south for a 35 hour week. The old contract expired March 31, and Appalachian area mines closed April 1 with outlying states following. 6,000 Kentucky workers returned to western Kentucky mines as the union shop and penalty clause issues were resolved.
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South
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Michigan
Virginia
Kansas
Missouri
UMWA
Roosevelt
Steelman
Perkins
Lewis
Dr. Steelman
Illinois
Poison Quiz Case Ties To City Murder Ring
Gaetano Cicanati an insurance salesman was arrested by Philadelphia police on conspiracy charges in the death of a victim tied to a murder for insurance ring credited with over 100 deaths. The Appalachian conference, deadlocked for nine weeks over the union shop proposal, reconvened under U S government oversight.
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Gaetano Cicanati
Philadelph
United States
Forest Fires Sweep New England Strain Under Control
Massachusetts towns faced danger as volunteers and CCC youths tamped down fires in Winchendon and Cedarville near the Cape Cod canal. New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut also tightened restrictions with 4 H ranger efforts, broad bans on woodland smoking, and penalties for noncompliance as dry conditions persisted.
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Massachusetts
CCC
Winchendon
Mass
New Hampshire
Shafron
N. H
Cedarville
Cape Cod Canal
Plymouth
Carver
New England
Maine
Vermont
Connecticut
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Joseph E. McGowan
Frank G. Kittle
J. G. Crosby
Earl B. Jenkins
W. E. Starford
Vernon Pottery
Skaggs & CO
Paris
Vesar Franck
le Havre
Frene
Doc
Kellogg's
Heinz
Bran
Chuck Roast
P&g
Builtmore Tissue
Walnut ST
Helen
Plymouth Coffee
East Main Street
Grafton, W. Va
A&p
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Iona Cocoa Qui
Sunnyfiele
White House
Ann Page
Witmer
Nutley
Fure
Grapefruit
Caligininhave A
Sunnyfiald
Pacific
Cocos
Vienna
Jane Parker
RSC
Aii
Sunnyfield
Agus
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