FARMER RELIEF DEBATE LOOMS IN CONGRESS
Washington May 15 The interstate commerce commission orders Pennsylvania railroad and its Pennsylvania Company to show cause June 24 why they should not divest holdings in Wabash and Lehigh Valley railroads. The case mirrors conflicts with Kansas City Southern and other lines. Moscow reports constitutionally inspired religious freedoms may soon come to Soviet Russia via an amendment to the Soviet constitution. In West Virginia Grand Commandery Knights Templar open conclave with about 1500 Knights present in Grafton, West Virginia.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hiioad Investment
Pennsylvania Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wabash
Lehigh Valley
Commission
Interstate Commerce
Clayton Wat
Pennsylvia
Kansas City Southern
Wabash Preferred
Wabash Company
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Alexei Rykoff
Council of Peoples’ Commissars
All-Russian
Congress of| of Soviets
West Virginia
Knights Templar
Demolay
Sinclair Re-Elected Chairman Amid Oil Co Dividend
Harry F. Sinclair, serving a contempt sentence, was re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. The board declared an extra dividend of 25 cents and the regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents on common stock, payable July 15 to stock of record June 16.
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New York
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
Broken Wheel Cause Of B&O Derailment Near Engle West Va
A broken wheel caused the Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailment near Engle West Virginia on November 25 1928. Two people died and 21 were injured. The wreck scattered across an adjacent track and the National Limited passenger train, at 50 miles an hour, struck the wreckage. The engineer and fireman on the passenger train were killed and four passengers two Pullman employees and 15 railway workers were injured.
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Washington
Baltimore and Ohio
Engle
W. Va
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. P. Borland
Bureau of Safety
National Limited
Tose
Grafton ISD Sealed Bids Sought for Coal Use 1929 30
Board of Education of the Grafton Independent School District invites sealed bids for coal to be used in six school buildings for the 1929-30 school year. Previous year consumption 680 tons. Bidders must state price per ton delivered and may specify run of mine coal. Bids due by May 31 to A Rice Box 8 Grafton W. Va. The board reserves right to reject any or all bids.
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Board of Education
Grafton Independent
Board of Badycation
Grafton
Wilbur proposes oil pact for conservation
Tulsa World reveals Secretary Wilbur's plan for an interstate oil conservation pact. It calls for a conference of at least three oil states with the Federal Petroleum Conservation Board to draft tentative legislation for signatory state legislatures. An Interstate Conservation Board would be formed with governors appointing experts in geology and petroleum.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa World Today
Wilbur
Department of Interior
Federal Petroleum Conservation Board
Texas
Oklahoma
California
Interstate Conservation Board
King George Returns Home After Long Illness
Windsor England May 15 King George and Queen Mary return to their Windsor fireside as the monarchs are cheered by all Windsor and surrounding countryside after months of illness that kept him from them. The king and queen were welcomed as a conquering hero and then rode through the loyal crowds at Windsor.
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Windsor
Eng
George
Mary
McClintic Act Halts Battle Over Insurance Contracts
Federal Judge George W. McClintic granted a temporary injunction restraining State Auditor Edgar Lawson from interfering with contracts between foreign fire insurance companies and their West Virginia agents. The action extends to firms not members of the West Virginia Uniformity Association, with Attorney General Howard B. Lee not seeking an injunction. The ruling affirms federal jurisdiction and limits the auditor’s power to set commissions.
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Charleston
W. Va
George W. McClintic
Edgar ©. Lawson
West Virginia
McClintie
Howard B. Lee
Lawson
Jlawson
McClintic
Craigwell House
Bognor
President Gill Urges Day Law in Mexico
President Emilio Portes Gil starts a broad temperance campaign aiming at eventual prohibition within five to ten years. The government will fund the effort and form a national temperance committee next Monday to oversee activities and push for prohibition, allowing beer and wine sales only in sealed bottles and restricting access for women and children.
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Mexico City
Emilio Portes Gil
Sixty Six Die In Cleveland Hospital Blast
Cleveland dispatch reports sixty six killed when an explosion and fire hit Crile Hospital in Cleveland on May 16. The blast occurred in the X ray room with subsequent fumes and a fast spreading fire. Authorities say tolls may rise as responders ferry patients to nearby hospitals.
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Bernard McKenna
Painesville
Ohio
W. EB. Brown
Grafton
Crile Hospital
Catherine Shepley
Grafton High School
Elizabeth Hanley
Beech Street
Cleveland
Cleveland Clinic Hospital
George W. Crile
City Plans Road Upgrades for Bluemont Cemetery Access
Bluemont Cemetery Association met at the Y M C A center to seek city aid for a Knotts Avenue improvement from Christiana Street to Bluemont cemetery entrance. Secretary C A Keefer cited past funding gaps and said the group now focuses on the road project with up to 1500 dollars expected from city cooperation. Mayor Charles O King noted city cooperation and Finance continued the report.
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Hothe
Washington Street
Tygart Valley
Barbour, Taylor, Harrison and
Marion Counties
Baltimore and Ohio
G. T. Bartlett
Arthur G. Yates
W.M. Watkins
Knotts Avenue Road
Christiana Street
Bluemont Cemetery
Bluemont Cemetery Association
C. A. Keefer
Charles O. King
Eckener Flays French Action On Graf Zeppelin Flight
Friedrichshafen May 15 Passengers and crew aboard the Graf Zeppelin delay takeoff due to a French aviation restriction. Eckener denounces the move as insanity as the dirigible prepares to cross France en route to Lakehurst. Eleven aboard, forty two crew, cargo includes a piano, a painting, and a goose. The craft aims for the Bay of Biscay then Lakehurst with a southern route possible. French officials claimed authorization was sent long ago.
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Cleveland
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
Weltona Snow
Miami
Fla
South American
Europe
Atlantic
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Foreign ‘Office
Zeppelin Company
France
Lakewood
N. J
A. Im
Sunener
Hugo Eckener
Orient
Susi
Gosling
Barrela
Berlin
Friedrichshafei
Bay of Biscay
Agores
Lakehurst
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Hinton
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Wikins
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Roy Nestor
Clyde N. Mays
C. P. Campbell
Chas. R. Skaggs
J. T. Pilgon
J. B. Bradford
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Leslie J. Loar
Sam Keller
L. W. Starcher
B. B. Bryant
Dallas D. Wolfe
Fred B. Watking
H. B. Plesher
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Frank Ross
Clare J. Batson
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Walsh
Massachusetts
McNary
Agriculture Committee
Capper
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Ransdell
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Nebraska
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South Carolina
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Federal Farm Board
Capitol Hill
Sinclair
Coal Bids
King George
Opebta
Royal Car
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Fire Insurance Company of Hart
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Associated Press
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GAS Company
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Uni Ted Fuck Gas Company
Warfeld Natural Gas Company
Ashland
Kentucky
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
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