Guffey Measure S May Be Changed In House Group
The Associated Press reports that amendments to strengthen the Guffey coal bill were released to stimulate public reaction. The plan adds a national bituminous coal commission with wage, hours, fair trade provisions and price controls, includes a consumers council, and hearings to ensure districts are not harmed by price setting.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Democrat
North Carolina
Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bituminous Coal Commission
Consumers’ Council
Three WV Counties Back Liquor Referendums in Local Votes
Three West Virginia counties held special local option elections on liquor sales under the state control act. In Ritchie county most precincts reported 3 177 to 612 against liquor with McFarlan town voting for it. Grant county showed about three to one against liquor in eight of fourteen precincts. The eastern panhandle county reported 654 against to 235 for liquor stores in eight precincts. Upshur county yielded 2 091 against and 944 for in 19 of 37 precincts. Missing precincts are rural and will be tabulated today. All three counties opposed repeal of the prior prohibition amendment.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Ritchie County
McFarlan
Grant County
Panhandle
Upshur
Fire breaks out in engine room of cruiser Quincy
A five hour battle extinguished a fire in the engine room of the recently launched U. S. S. Quincy in Quincy Massachusetts. Deck plates were too hot for officials to descend and assess damage.
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Associated Press
Quincy
Mass
U. S. S. Quincy
Whitesville Votes To Incorporate As Town
Whitesville voters approve incorporation in a special election by 231 to 127. The move aims to speed water and sewer system plans funded with W P A money and to elect a mayor and councilmen and other officials.
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Associated Press
Whitesville
Hurley critiques utilities hunt amid senate probe
Washington August 7 Patrick J Hurley Hoover secretary of war testified to the senate lobby committee that his law firm had received 100000 dollars in the last three years from the Associated Gas and Electric system He described a visit by house lobby investigators to his Leesburg Virginia home seeking missing witness H C Hopson as a disgraceful outrage Hurley argued the investigators lacked authority to search his house and pressed why they did not search the White House for Hopson The scene drew newspapermen to Hurley estate as he accused the inquiries of persecution and invoked the joke Bologney Bologney Horsefeathers and Bologna about the probes
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Associated Press
Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Hoover
Senate Lobby Committee
Associated Gas and Electric System
Leesburg
House
H. C. Hopson
Patrick Hurley
Hopson
William H. Collins
Here
Collins
Hurley
Hoover Secretary of War
William Weber
Henry Clausen
Rules Committee
O’connor
House Rules Committee
Utilities
Basil O’connor
House Lobby
Roosevelt
White House
Congressional Utilities Lobby
Bologney, Bologney, Horsefeathers, and Bologney
Two Raleigh General nurses pass Charleston exam
Miss Dorothy Toney and Miss Sally Swope, graduates at Raleigh General hospital, were notified they passed examinations given in Charleston by the state board of nurses examiners. Graduation exercises will be held at the local hospital on August 10.
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Dorothy Toney
Sally Swope
Raleigh General Hospital
Charleston
State Board of Nurses Examiners
Burned remains found after Mt Lebanon apartment fire
Pittsburgh Aug 7 The burned and unclad body of Willard J Hollinger 40 a utility company employee was found today after a fire in a fashionable Mount Lebanon apartment house.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Willard J. Hollinger
Utility Company
Mount Lebanon
Levy Proposals Put Beckley on Tight Municipal Budget
County Court and Board of Education endorse a top levy of 1.01 for class four property as Beckley faces a 20,000 budget with scant funds for streets sewers and lights. City records show apportionments across classes and a state tax commissioner approval pending. The article notes WPA paving plans on Clyde street and a tally of street work done with FERA labor while detailing school and county maintenance costs and salaries. Final levies for counties and districts are to be set August 20 after state approval.
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Beckley
J. T. Hollandsworth
Charleston
Hollandsworth
Clyde Street
R. M. French
Walter Campbell
FERA
Raleigh County
Board of Education
Memorial
Harry Anderson
Shady Spring
Slab Fork
Trap Hill
Marsh Fork
Clear Fork
Richmond
More Officers Are Called Out
Rome Aug 7 The war department summoned more potential officers from home and abroad as Mussolini’s Ethiopian policy provoked renewed public ardor. Prospective officers born 1909 to 1914 who have not completed training must resume by November 15. The order also applies to pensioned officers under 39 seeking readmission and those who left service for foreign residence.
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Associated Press
Rome
War Department
Mussolini
California man awarded after six years in jail
California grants $2000 to a man who served six years in prison as his accuser later admitted she committed perjury while testifying against him. The case underscores potential courtroom errors and measures to compensate wrongful imprisonment.
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State of
California
Post And Rogers Head For Alaska
Wiley Post and Will Rogers launched a flight from Seattle toward Alaska with plans to reach Moscow via Alaska and Siberia. Mrs. Post chose not to fly, citing possible strain, while Rogers described the experiment as a test of the new ship.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Juneau
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Renton
Post
Moscow
Siberia
Rogers
Matanuska Valley
Rhode Island Names Risk As Congressman
Rhode Island's First district elected Republican Charles F. Fisk of Salesville who campaigned to repudiate the administration, defeating Democratic State Treasurer Antonio Prince of Woonsocket by 48,023 to 35,054 in yesterday's special election to fill the seat held by a Democrat.
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Associated Press
Providence
Rhode Island
National House of Representat Ts
Charles F. Fisk
Salesville
Risk
Antonio Prince
Woonsocket
Rainelle Woman Held As Killer
Rainelle, West Virginia. Connie Beller of East Rainelle faced a first degree murder charge for the poisoning death of her 13 year old stepson Lloyd Beller. The March death followed consumption of home made candy. other Beller children also fell ill but recovered at Hinton hospital.
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Associated Press
Lewisburg
W. Va
Connie Beller
East Rainelle
Lloyd Beller
Allotment Cut Triggers Relief Staff Reductions
County relief officials announced a 25 percent cut in staff as state relief funds shrink by 24 000 for August. E W Worrell Jr said 12 of 48 positions would go, with unfilled vacancies kept to a minimum and focus on retaining those most in need. New enrollments seek 167 C C C applicants plus 12 percent for rejections to meet quotas, while medical relief may be trimmed to bolster direct aid.
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County Relief Administration
State Administrator of Relief
C. L. Allen
E. W. Worrell Jr
County Relief Committee
Bair
Worrell
Raleigh
Sheriff Quick Escape Averts Mob in Indiana
Sheriff Fred Rodgers sped away with Frank Nace, a 50-year-old man accused of attacking a nine year old girl, after a mob gathered at Clinton County jail. Rodgers loaded an automobile with machine guns and tear gas bombs and drove to Marion County jail for safety.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Ind
Fred Rodgers
Marion County
Clinton County
Frank Nace
Nace
Final of Baseball Drive Set Today Beckley
The last round up of the civic campaign to raise funds for the Beckley baseball team will be staged today, chaired by J. T. Lynch. Workers meet at 9:30 AM in the Bair building headquarters to visit every prospect未donor. Donations accepted at headquarters throughout the day.
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Beckley
J. T. Lynch
Bair
Lynch
Motorman Hurts Leg In Bowling Green Accident
Tillen Wiseman a 34 year old motorman's helper was brought to Beckley hospital early this morning after a motor ran over him injuring his right leg severely above the knee. The incident description notes the limb was mangled by the impact.
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Tillen Wiseman
Helen
Beckley Hospital
Wiseman
Moonshine raid nets two men in Mercer County
Federal Alcohol Tax unit officers arrested William Randolph Hufford and Willie Hubbard for operating a 125 gallon moonshine still near Lake Shawnee. Both were detained after a raid at the Bluestone river site. Hufford fled into the river and Hubbard was captured along the riverbank. Hubbard on parole faced 2500 dollar bond. Hufford held for federal action with 1000 dollar bond.
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Mercer County
Princeton
Lake Shawnee
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
W. H. Chrisley
William Randolph Hufford
Willie Hubbard
U. S
Thomas H. Scott
Bluefield
Hubbard
Hufford
W. M. Ryman
Three Arrested On Theft Count In Laurel Creek Robbery
Mike and William Howard Adkins and cousin Burell Clemons are charged with breaking and entering the Laurel Creek store on July 6. The trio, arrested after a weeklong probe by Constable Frank E. Lemon and Conservator T. W. Harmon, confessed to the burglary and to carrying away three sacks of merchandise after breaking through a basement wall. About $25 in goods was recovered.
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Mike
William Howard Adkins
Raleigh County
Fayette County
Burell Clemons
Beckwith
Laurel Creek
William
Frank E. Lemon
Beckley
T. W. Harmon
Stanaford
Stan
Clemons
Lanark
Lemon
C. L. Hawkins
Faysetteville
Floods Cause Wide Damage Across WV Ohio and PA
Flood waters from heavy rain flooded dozens of communities in West Virginia Ohio and Pennsylvania. Glenville W Va faced rising Little Kanawha river and towns like Buckhannon Weston and Charleston faced isolation. Tourists were rescued from Middle Creek and a miner injured near Parsons as roads and farms suffered widespread damage.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
College Town
Glenville
W. Va
Kanawha
Panhandle
Albert Jefferson
Georgia
Middle Creek
Frank Miller
Miner
Albert Miller
Hamilton
Parsons
Burnsville
Braxton
Tanner
Gilmer County
State Road Commission
Buckhannon
Weston
Lewis County
West Fork
Vines Succumbs In East Beckley
A C Vines, 65, who moved to Beckley from Princeton a year and a half ago, died yesterday afternoon at 4 30 at his home near the Sylvia school in East Beckley due to a heart condition after prolonged illness. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 pm at the Holiness church in East Beckley led by Reverend G R June and Reverend J T Baker, with burial at Oak Grove cemetery. Keyser Funeral Home in charge. he is survived by his widow and no other near relatives.
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A. C. Vines
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Commissiin
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Brooke
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