West Virginia House Debates School Funding and Segregation Amendments
The House debated amendments to a bill on education funding and school construction. Delegates discussed contracts, teacher job promises, and state authority. Provisions for voting in campaigns, mandatory schooling in districts, and race-based school terms were argued, with multiple amendments defeated or modified.
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Senate
Goodwin
D. Jackson
Ross
Kanawha
Calhoun
McDowell
Randolph
Harrison
Yoke D
Monongalia
West Virginia
Lubliner
Mercer
Morgan's influence and power in private banking examined
A Brackettt analysis for the Associated Press surveys the Morgan firm’s unseen figures, public interest in its power, and calls for disclosure. It notes Morgan's voluntary Fed filing, private depositors, and the role of Morgan's in bond issues while denying majority control in ventures.
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J.B. Brackett
Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
Morgan's
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Morgan’s
Morgan
Winthrop Aldrich
Chase National Bank
H. P. Davison
Pujo
House
United States Steel Corporation
United Corporation
Thomas la
Mont
Senate Finance Committee
Tis
Grafton Residents Attend Meeting Amid Tensions
The quarter report lists numerous Grafton attendees including Mr and Mrs Ault Beavers Burke Bartlett Chenoweth Collins Hamilton Evans Fleming Jolliffe Jones Keefer Kuhn Loar Pain ter Robinson Thomas Thayer and others. Harold Poulkrod cites communist influence as the reason for rejecting government camps.
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Grafton
J. W. Ault
W. A. Beavers
W . Beavers
C. E. Burke
G. T. Bartlett
Hugh Church
Helen Chenoweth
F. C. Collins
Lon Hamilton
J. Lee Evans
Woman Dies After Jump From Bridge Into River
A woman about 26 years old wearing a black satin dress with a wedding ring and bracelet plunged into the river from a bridge. She had reddish-brown bobbed hair.
Education Levy Debate At District Meeting Sponsored By Holt
Delegate Holt led amendments allowing voter ballots on district school levies and extra levies if counties lack funds for nine month terms. Proposals included a black assistant county superintendent in districts with 50 or more black teachers and keeping demonstration high schools in higher institutions. Large crowd planned attendance with a program featuring Gibson Hoff man and other local speakers and performances.
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Holt
D. Lewis
Joan Crawford Divorced In Jealousy Drama Says Trial
Joan Crawford ends four year marriage to Douglas Fairbanks Jr after a mental cruelty case and a yearlong prohibition on remarrying. The divorce stems from a jealous husband case amid an alienation suit filed by Dietz. The action notes Fairbanks’s famous lineage and Hollywood ties as context for the high profile split.
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Joan
Los Angeles
Joan Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Mary Pickford
Fairbanks
Ets Dietz
Chemit
Business men study plan to stabilize work program
A special Roosevelt committee and budget director Lewis W. Douglas push for a balanced budget funded by higher taxes to back a $3.3 billion public works bond issue. An industry wide plan, led by Robert L. Lund, aims to restore jobs by tempering production and wages with antitrust relaxations, supported by a National Association of Manufacturers delegation.
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Lewis W. Douglas
National Association of Manufacturers
Robert L. Lund
St. Louis
J. H. Rand, Jr
New York
Lammet DuPont
Wilemington
Del
O. Max Gardiner
North Carolina
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Communists Quit Camp To End Criticism
Emanuel Levin and Harold Hickerson resign from the veterans convention to remove the charge of communism. They state the move aims to allow right wing bonus seekers sleeping in the rain in Washington to join a larger delegation at the Fort Hunt tent settlement in Virginia. Levin denounces political beliefs being questioned while in service.
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Washington
Emanuel Levin
Harold Hickerson
Veterans Convention
Assembly of the Veterans
Jed
Fort Hunt
Levin
Barbour County Negro Ends Life Near Olive Hill
Philippi May 13 Freeman Croston a 40 year old colored farmer near Olive Hill church shot himself in an outbuilding. In excellent health with no financial worries the motive remains a mystery. County coroner Arthur F Bennett said an inquest would be necessary. Sheriff Allen M Dyer Deputy George Kines Forrest B Poling and Dr W Scott Smith attended. Croston's widow and four children survive at home. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Hanson Croston Sr of Philippi.
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Philippi
Freeman Croston
Olive Hill
Croston
Arthur F. Bennett
Coronore
Grafton
Kingwood
Allen M. Dyer
George Kines
Forrest B. Poling
W. Scott. Smith
Hanson Croston
Mystery Shrouds Death Of Woman In River Near Xenia
The body of an unidentified young woman with a bullet wound to the head was found in the Little Miami River, six miles north of Xenia. Authorities theorize she was slain by someone in an automobile.
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Xenia
Little Miami River
Here
Rubber firms and construction pick up pace in April
A federal reserve survey shows rubber firms rising more than usual from March to April, yet April sales lag 1932 by 9 percent. Cleveland reports the month’s bull permits at their two year high, with heavy construction contracts tracked by Engineering News Record totaling 8.609 million dollars for the week ending May 8. Fort Worth building permits exceed 1 million for the year.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Cleveland
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H. R. Gibson
Hi Jackers Orchestra
J. R. Brown
E. A. Hoffman
C. D. Powell
W. I. Rowland
L. O. Dotson
Jed W. Robinson
Hl Jackers Orchestra
White House
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C. V. Miller
Grafton, W. VA
Barbour County
Harvey Otis
Virginia Atrl
Brooklyn
N.Y
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Beavers
Patrick Grogan
8. C. Jones
Andrews Methodist, Episcopal Church
Frank Patrick
Tunnelton
Melvin Snyder
Preston County
Rotary
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