Miners Picket Illinois Plant During Rising Labor Strife
Picketing miners estimated by police at several hundred posted to day on highways to Woodside mine on Springfield outskirts. Guards vigil’d city jail where three UMWA members are held on Easter Sunday slaying charges against an MPI member. Contingents encamped in two city parks. authorities feared violence and mobilized all special police and deputies.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Woodside
Illinois
Progressive Miners of America
United Mine Workers of America
Roosevelt Announces New Governmental Divisions for Program
The Roosevelt administration disclosed a new progress division to monitor agency performance and ensure funds are spent swiftly. A list named Ickes Wallace Perkins and others on the allotment board with several posts yet to be filled, including rural electrification and grade crossing elimination.
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Hopkins
Progress Division
Roosevelt
Ickes
Wallace
Perkins Frank C. Walker
Christian J. Peoples
Daniel W. Bell
Army Engineers
Edward M. Markham
Elwood Mead
Hugh H. Bennett
Forest Service
F. A. Silcox
Robert Fechner
Bureau of Public Roads
Thomas H. MacDonald
Rexford G. Tugwell
Horatio B Hackett
Business Advisory Council
Harry Kendall
Organized Labor
Farm Organizations
American Bankers Association
Emergency Council
Allotment Board
Newest Nail Polish Colors Debut Dull Silver Gray and Marina Green
The latest nail polish shades feature a dull silver gray and a Marina green hue. These two tones offer a muted metallic and a bold green option for fashion forward looks.
School board votes to close athletic field and addresses hires
The board approved ceasing use of the athletic field at Shady Spring and names Mark Twain and Winding Gulf High as part of the plan. Delegations urged reappointment of Randolph Norton as Shady Spring High principal and U S Akers as Glen Hedrick Grade principal for 1935 36. County health chief Hume flagged Affinity colored school as unsanitary and poorly lit. The board ordered investigation, banned school dances, and noted transportation cost fell to six and a half cents per pupil per day, the lowest figure reported.
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Institute Grade
Shady Spring High
Mark Twain
Winding Gulf High Schools
Glen Morgan
Glen Hedrick
Blue Jay
Daniels
Randolph Norton
Shady Spring
U. S. Akers
W. W. Hume
Affinity
John Elliott
Hume
Helen
New Formula In Guffey For Coal Allocation
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania announced a new allocation formula for coal production. The plan, to be offered as an amendment to the Guffey coal bill, would set allocation by a cooperative formula developed with coal operators and United Mine Workers officials. He spoke in Washington amid reports President Roosevelt disfavored current allocation discussions at a White House conference.
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Associated Press
Washington
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Senate
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
White House
NRA Extension Asked Congress
Washington April 26 Senate Finance Committee began drafting a new N R A bill but faced a push for a temporary extension of the recovery law to allow the next session to review constitutionality after Supreme Court rulings. Senator Clark proposed the extension while Chairman Harrison planned amendments on anti trust relaxation and price fixing. He predicted Section 7 A protecting labor organizing would stay in its current form.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harrison
Pemberton Lad Involved in Truck Incident
A Pemberton fifth grade pupil led youngsters away from a moving truck. Witnesses say Virgil fell from the right rear of the machine, unseen by the driver propelling backward on the left side. Police said no charges would be filed. He is survived by his parents and five siblings Irene James Beatrice Ruth.
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Virgil
Pemberton
Mack Meador
Irene
James
Beatrice
Ruth
Pemberton Man Dies. Pallbearers Named for Burial
The obituary notes the death of a Pemberton man and lists pallbearers from the Pemberton Boy Scout troop. The body was moved to Rose Funeral Home for preparation ahead of a sunset memorial park burial, with arrangements incomplete at press time and a return to the parents’ home this afternoon.
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Jack Cummings
Pemberton
Pemberton Coal and Coke Company
Rose Funeral
Sunset Memorial Park
Dillon Williams
Thomas Maynor
James Bryant
Ray Jones
Thomas Snodgrass
Ray Cox
Tommy Samples
Terence Holt
James Cummings
Henry Bryant
Frank Carter
Dan Williams
Eugene Sink
Bob Shultz
James Higgins
James Tate
Marnie Dangerfield
Woman Assessor for Preston County Named
Preston County appointed Mrs Effie Browning to fill the unexpired term of her husband J D Browning who died this week of pneumonia She has been chief deputy assessor since 1921 and her term will end December 31 1936 Located in Kingwood West Virginia the move makes her the county s first major woman public official in this role
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Associated Press
Kingwood
W. Va
Preston County
Effie Browning
J. D. Browning
Gatewood Visitors and Local Checks In Oak Hill Life
Gatewood West Virginia residents Miss Emma Withrow and Miss Iris Dooley visited Oak Hill on Monday. Mrs. Julia Jones is listed as a patient at Oak Hill Hospital. Mrs. James Monday hosted Wednesday with Mrs. Carl Michael. S S Goff and daughter Virginia visited Mrs. Jones at the Oak Hill Hospital Monday night. Gatewood Brotherhood Sunday School visited Union Mission in Charleston Sunday. Albert Tilley is on the sick list this week. Miss Irene Clower recently visited Oak Hill. Mary Ann White was a business visitor in Fayetteville Wednesday. George Ramsey spent Sunday here with his parents.
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Emma Withrow
Iris Dooley
Oak Hill
Julia Jones
Oak Hill Hospital
James Monday
Carl Michael
S. S. Goff
Victoria
Gatewood Brothern
Union Mission
Charleston
Albert Tilley
Irene Clower
Mary Ann White
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Pemberton Boy Scout Troop
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Lee Jones
James Akers
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Evertee Bushley
L. O. Lamie
J. H. Johnson
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