Too Many Miners Too Many Mines Strike Threat Faces Coal Industry
Washington June 17 The United Mine Workers threaten a major strike to push the Guffey Snyder coal stabilization bill amid industry fear of price cutting and NRA collapse. Wages rose under code but remote mines fueled profits later fading as contracts expire and proposals alter land buy and price controls.
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Associated Press
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
NRA
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
John L. Lewis
Appalachian Coals, Inc
Lewis
Gopher Hole
Guffey
D-Pa
Snyder
D— Pa
Ion
Joseph F. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Senate
United Mine Workers
United States
Epworth League held weiner roast with friends and neighbors
Members of the Epworth League enjoyed a weiner roast last Monday night after games. Attendees included Jimmie and Vernon Doyle Hope and Jewel Via Macie Shrewsbury Ruth Ferguson Macie Graham Virginia Anderson Ruth Payne Mrs Clarence Wykle Humphrey McMillan Rudolph Belcher Kharr Wykle Billy Johnson Frank Mitchell Elgie Smith and Sam Ross.
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Epworth League
Jimmie
Vernon Doyle
Hope
Jewel Via
Macie Shrewsbury
Ruth Ferguson
Macie Graham
Virginia Anderson
Ruth Payne
Clarence Wykle
Humphrey McMillan
Rudolph Belcher
Kharr Wykle
Billy Johnson
Frank Mitchell
Elgie Smith
Sam Ross
Construction on 237-mile Los Angeles aqueduct power line project
Los Angeles announces that construction on a 237 mile high tension power transmission line from Boulder Dam to pumping plants along the Los Angeles aqueduct will be among the initial projects funded by the district’s 36 million dollar loan from the RFC.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Boulder Dam
RFC
Supreme Court Review Sought in TVA Case
Supreme Court to review the Tennessee Valley Authority on constitutional grounds as Alabama Power investors urge a declaratory decree preventing TVA from competing in power generation and transmission or contracting with municipalities. The briefing follows a Fifth Circuit appeal challenging Judge Grubb's injunction and questions TVA authority over utilities in North Alabama.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
United States Supreme Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Forney Johnston
Alabama Power Company
W. I. Grubb
Birmingham
Local notes from Sophia and Hot Coal area
Sophia West Virginia reports John Gray of Beckley hospitalized after injuries at Hot Coal mine, his foot badly crushed but progress favorable. Other items note Edith Smith visiting Oak Hill, Ruble and Mitchem families visiting in Hot Coal, Ritter visiting Pu laski, Sally Pugh visiting Eccles, Rowles calling on Ritter, Marie Deck visiting Stotesbury, Audra Deck family visiting Williams, and a claim that snakes are not feared as none seen this far north.
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N. L. Bolin
Spanishburg
J. R. Turner
James Houck
Crater Marsh
Fleetwood
N. C
Will Crysal
Mollie Rakes
Keystone
Leon Kirk
Dorothy Bougess
East Gulf
James Rowe
Edna Crysal
FE. R. Patterson
Carson Booth
Coal City
Eldon Grannaway
Beckley Hospital
Ilene Bragg
Beckley
Lois Tyree
Willis Trent
Mullens
Vera
Frances Crysal
L. M. Houck
Sophia
Colie Minter
Martinsville
Claude Jarrett
Willard Farley
G. C. Farley
Camp Creek
Gus NeSmith
Jackie
G. E. Via
Doyle Shrewsbury
Noah Gunter
Glen Fork
John Gray
W. A. Gray
Hotcoal
Alvin Deck
Audra Deck
Betty Lou
Doral Ann
Marie Deck
Stotesbury
W. FE. Williams
Man with two hearts found in Tokyo
Dr Shigeyoshi Kawakami head of a local hospital reports a railway station lunch vendor with two hearts. The startling discovery was announced as a medical curiosity from Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Shigeyoshi Kawakami
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