President calls for silver policy to balance monetary stock
President Roosevelt urged Congress to adopt a policy to raise silver in monetary stock to one fourth while keeping three fourths in gold. He asked for authority to buy silver as needed to reach the goal, with present holdings valued at about 50 cents an ounce and profits taxed at 50 percent. Stocks in New York traded quietly as traders awaited the silver plan details and market reaction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congressional
New York
Wall Street
Vote Near on Sales Tax in Nearby State
Frankfort May 2 The Kentucky House prepared for final action on the controversial three per cent sales tax after demonstrations for and against the measure. Opponents gathered to protest while educators and farmers led a large counter demo, but adjournment stopped passage. The bill would return one third of revenue to counties. officials warned of constitutional challenges. The Senate stalled on revenue measures during the special session while an income tax bill neared a final vote. Shirley Haas of the Kentucky Retail Merchants Association warned the court of appeals may strike down the plan.
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Frankfort
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Shirley Haas
Kentucky Retail Merchants Association
Louisville
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Grafton Park to Open Next Sunday May 27
Grafton Park the municipal playground and bathing beach will open to the public Sunday May 27. The grounds and attractions have been leased to B C Duskey for the season at a rental of 100 dollars. Seven applicants sought the park lease including several from outside the city. Mayor King announced that J A Glaze Amusement Co of Keyser has permission to set up a merry go round and other features on the Bons fede lot between Main and Latrobe streets near McGraw alley during Decoration.
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Grafton Park
B. C. Duskey
West Main Street
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Native Shoots Standard Oil Co Employe to Death in Venezuela
Pennsboro May 22 William Rogers 34 son of a Ritchie county man was shot and killed by a native Sunday noon at an oil field camp in Venezuela South America according to word received here today No details of the slaying were received by the victim's father J D Rogers of near Pike The notification was sent to the father by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey for which
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Pennsboro
William Rogers
Ritchie County
Venezuela
South America
J. D. Rogers
Pike
Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Sheriff Bennett Sued Over Cash Placed In Bank
A suit in debt was filed today in circuit court by the State of West Virginia, at the relation of John H. Weaver and others, against Sheriff Lee 8. Bennett Jr. Attorneys Steptoe and Johnson of Clarksburg handle the case. The action concerns money collected by Sheriff Bennett. (Continued on page six).
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Lee
Bennett Jr
West Virginia
John H. Weaver
Steptoe and Johnson
Clarksburg
Sheriff Bennett
Bennett
Supreme Court ruling on Morgantown bank dispute
Charleston May 22. The Supreme Court upheld the position that funds deposited in the Morgantown Bank and held in ceivership be treated as trust for depositors when the Bank of the Monongahela Valley became insolvent. The Morgantown case involves Rem’s Drug Store River Stream Coal Company and Pursgrove Coal Bank.
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Supreme Court
Morgantown
Charleston
Dhosceva Company
Celver
Monon
Monongahela Valley
Rem’s Drug Store
River Stream Coal Company
Pursgrove Coal
Urge oil punishment for drunks in Grafton courts
Organized drys seek to sentence drunks with castor oil as punishment citing the Union Signal. Mayor Charles O. King’s court would reportedly adopt the oil dose, based on stories of success in Denver where Police Judge Alvin H. Pickens implemented a novel punishment for excessive drinking.
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Justice Courts
Grafton
Union Signal
Charles O. King
Sentinel
Denver
Colorado
Alvin H. Pickens
Baltimore Bank Slashes Rates for Cooperatives
The Baltimore Bank for Cooperatives reduced its loan rates to three percent per year for funds loaned to farmers’ cooperative associations. The bank previously cut rates from four to three and a half percent in March, and from three and a half to three percent a year ago. It provides short and long term loans to cooperatives in West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Delaware Virginia and Puerto Rico.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Bank For Cooperatives
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Virginia
Puerto Rica
Ten Indicted for Felonies by Grand Jury
Ten defendants face felony and misdemeanor counts after a Taylor County grand jury indictment. Included is Fred A. Hall charged with murder in the Corrothers slaying in Dalton's shop on April 29. Other names appear linked to assault, robbery, and conspiracy indictments from Flemington and Gaston, with arrangements for arraignment before Judge H W Dent.
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Taylor County
Tomorow
H. W. Dentsh
Fred A. Hall
John Corrothem
Lucretia Addition
Dalton’s Gaage
Hall
Sman
Yeyter Smith
John H. Gerkin
Grafton
Clifford Mayle
J . B. Bailey
Democratic Executive Committee
Woodrow Marks
Howard Hert
Flemington
Standard Supply Company
Sylvester. Smith
Theodore McDonald
William Boston
Paul Philpott
George Jones
Gaston
John Gerkins
Leeman Lee Cain
Howard
Shaw
Otto Rosier
Sam Gerard
Wen
May Day Observed at Alderson Broaddus College
Philippi on May 25 at 5 15 p m the annual May Day celebration at Alderson Broaddus College crowns Miss Pearl Rector Queen of May with student prince Ray bert Snead training bearers John Eddy Priest Emily Ann Sturm Joan Wilson under Miss Valera Lynch supervision Queen represents nations including Hungarian Danish English Swedish Dutch French American Greek and Irish May Pole dance central to the gala event
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John C. Carpenter
Philippi
Alderson-Broaddus College
Miss Pearl Rector
D. Rector
Ravenswood
Ray Bert Snead
Whitesville
W. Va
John Eddy Priest
John Priest
Emily Ann Sturm
W. D. Sturm
Walnut Street
Joan Wilson
Herbert Wilson
South Main Street
Valera Lynch
May
Social Work Chiefs Flay For Program
Miss Mary Van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation declared at the national conference of social work that the Roosevelt administration must present an adequate unemployed relief program. She argued relief is a test of political leadership and warned against accepting stranded workers as permanent rural subsistence. Tugwell discussed work relief proposals and long term solutions.
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Kansas City
Roosevelt
Mary van Kleeck
Russell Sage Foundation
van Kleeck
Department of Industrial Studies
New York Foundation
Natonal Conference of Social Work
Cifnieing Ete
Tugwell
Hundreds of FERA workers reject return to work motion
In a lively meeting at the court house more than six hundred laborers voted down a motion to resume work under PERA. They authorized a telegram to Harry Hopkins demanding fair treatment for Taylor county welfare workers amid wage disputes on two FERA projects.
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Court House
Harry J. Hopkins
Washington
Taylor County
Taylor County Welfare Board
W. C. Hall
M. L. Willis
C. A. Keefer
Dotson
Fera Sjlabor
South Side City
Robert Dotson
D. E. Lymer
Simon J. Friedman
FERA
Mr. Fenton
Marion Fortney
Utility Probe Finances Adequate Says Auditor
Charleston May 2 The Public Service Commission investigation of utilities will be well financed. Nearly all of the 150000 appropriated to the commission already is available. The board seeks utility replacement and original construction costs. The last legislature boosted appropriation from 60000 to 150000 annually, with the extra 90000 from a special assessment on utilities. The commission will employ about 20 accountants and engineers to gather data for rate fixing.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
Commission
Friedman in Defense of 30 Cent Rate
FERA workers declare a twenty four hour holiday amid wage dispute with local FERA officials. Administrator Simon J. Friedman announced a truce after a mass meeting at the courthouse, with a three member committee seeking federal investigation. Workers refuse to work at thirty cents per hour, demanding forty five cents. Friedman promises settlement without malice or retaliation.
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FERA
Simon J. Friedman
Court House
M. 8. Fenton
D. E. Lymer
Marion Fortney
Friedman
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Works
Students Seize Belgrade University as Police Cordons Form
In Belgrade on May 22, about six hundred students including forty women occupied two university buildings. Police rushed from surrounding campuses to create a cordon around the district, cutting water and access as officers tried to suppress the takeover.
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Belgrade
Noted radio speaker to address Potomac State graduates
The thirty first annual commencement at Potomac State School runs May 30 to June 4 with events each evening. Rev Frank Richardson will deliver the sermon to graduates at Grace M E Church South and Lowell Thomas will give the commencement address in the gymnasium, with seating for about 2000 and all invited to attend.
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Potomac State School
Department of Music
Frank Richardson
Grace M. E. Church South
Richardson
Baltimore Southern Methodist
Virginia “Polytechnic’ Institute
Blacksburg
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Lowell Thomas
Lowell
Thomas
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