Davis Funeral This Afternoon
Evan Davis 91 died Thursday night at a daughter’s home in Stotesbury of heart trouble. Funeral services begin at 2 pm in Jose Funeral Home chapel, with burial at Mt Tabor. The Rev J E Knight will conduct. He leaves one daughter Mrs S L Deck and one son G W Davis, plus a half brother.
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Evan Davis
S. L. Deck
Stotesbury
Mt. Tabor
Jose Funeral Home
J. E. Knight
Glen White and
Pax Branch
John
Mary Davis
Davis
Dry Hill Road
Sweeneyburg
Pax
Hiss Olive Sweeney
Mary Deck
St . He
5. L. Deck
G. W. Davis
Huntington
Emmett Davis
Mf. Tabor
Japanese Premier Stays Alive as Rebels Seized Government
Rebels who had held government buildings since last Wednesday attempted to overthrow the government. They shot and killed Admiral Makoto Saito and Lord Korehiyo Takahashi and killed Col. Denzo Matsuo believing he was Okada’s secretary. Admiral Kantaro Suzuki survived though gravely wounded and recovering after a blood transfusion.
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Okada
Iit
Viscount Makoto Saito
Korehiyo Takahashi
Jotaro Watanabe
Kantaro Suzuki
Imperial Court
Suzuki
War Office
Col
Denzo Matsuo
Colonel Matsuo
State Faces Road Repair Costs and Funding Gaps
Rump warns against new taxes as recovery lags and wage industries suffer. March relief is estimated at 582 900 dollars with 220 000 appropriated and 186 in commodities on hand. Kump notes lack of model conformity bill and social security rules for a special session and cites 80 million owed on 160 million spent on primary roads with many highways past usefulness requiring urgent work.
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Kump
Social Security Board
Lawmakers Favor Teacher Tenure and Retirement Measures
In Charleston on February 29 a special committee heard 26 legislators favor considering teacher tenure and retirement measures in a special session. Of 42 replies, 21 would consider the measures, six left it to the governor, three urged regular-session study, one opposed the plan, and one wished to discuss with the governor and committee members first.
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Associated Press
Charleston
J. H. Hickman
Kump
Hickman
Children’s Home Plan Considered in Beckley County
A meeting is set for March 10 at 2 30 p m in the Memorial auditorium to discuss building a county poor farm children’s home separate from the aged poor. Churches King’s Daughters and Woman’s Club groups plan joint support with pledges already offered for clothing bedding and furnishing. The gathering will decide subsequent steps and broad community cooperation.
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County Poor Farm
Memorial Auditorium
Beckley
King’s’ Daughters
Woman's Club
H. M. Kilgore
Talmadge Fails To Obtain Cash
In Atlanta on February 29 Governor Eugene Talmadge sought 2 000 000 of impounded state funds from banks to add to 10 000 000 he claimed to have in the treasury. He fired Marion Smith and named David J. Barron to replace him while demanding 2 149 516 16 in general funds. He also announced school fund checks and highway department payments to meet funding certificates.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Marion Smith
University , System Board of Regents
Lindley W. Camp
Atlanta Clearing House Association
State Highway Department
Smith
George B. Hamilton
Fulton National Bank
J. B. Daniel
Talmadge
David J. “Red” Barron
Georgia Tech
Hoffman letter claims incontrovertible proof of multiple suspects
A month ago Hoffman sent Schwarzkopf a brief asserting incontrovertible proof that more than one person was involved in the crime. He suggests that if Schwarzkopf now believes Hauptmann’s arrest and conviction solve the case, he should inform the governor and answer the question posed in an earlier January 26 letter.
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Hoffman
Schwarzkopf
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Parole Board Set to Meet in Moundsville March 10
Warden C F McClintic said the parole board will convene in Moundsville on March 10 to consider more than 160 parole applications. The Charleston based report notes the governor's office was informed of the meeting.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
C. F. McClintic
Governor's Office
Moundsville
Garten Is Head Of Press Group 39
The Associated Press reports Thomas Garten of Charleston was elected president of the tenth annual convention of the United High School Press Association. George Turley of Clendenin was chosen president of Journalism Instructors, with a call for a survey of journalism curricula for the state board of education.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
United High School Press Association
Thomas Garten
George Turley
Clendenin
State Board of Education
William McClue
Clarksburg
Annie Warde
Pax
W. Page Pitt
Marshall College
Pitt
John Hull
Beckley
Carl Cummings
Kingwood
W. C. Tucker
James E. Allen
Marshall
James W. Barrett
Press Radio Bureau
New York
Landon Attacks New Deal Plans in Nebraska Rally
Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas attacked the Roosevelt administration and urged fighting a purge of federal relief. He charged discrimination in agricultural policy during Nebraska Republicans founders day at the Coliseum, with about 5,000 in attendance and a "Landon for president" banner visible.
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Associated Press
Lincoln
Neb
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Landon
Nebraska
Harrison Hannah Held For Grand Jury Action
Harrison Hannah, accused of the murder of Newt Holland on Dry Creek Feb 1, was held for grand jury action after waiving examination. He was remanded to jail without bond. Prince Dickens, of Dry Creek, is held on bond in the case. Hannah allegedly fired the fatal shot after Holland, who had fired at Hannah, approached Dickens house early that morning.
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Harrison Hannah
Newt Holland
Dry Creek
Squire H. F. Hancock
Prince Dickens
Hannah
Holland
Dickens
Dickens House
Rotary plans National Youth Week observance in Beckley
Beckley Rotary Club announces April 26 to May 2 as National Youth Week with both girls and boys participating. A Junior Woman's Club committee led by Mrs. Beverley Hume handles girls activities. special day committees include Recognition Day Rev Ritchie Ware and Floyd M. Sayre, Vocational Day H A Sloan and E M Payne Jr., Health Day George Parker and doctors, and Youth’s Evening at Home Ted McDowell and G P Stinnette. The club also names twelve director nominees for six open positions.
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Beckley
W. T. Blakely
Rotary Club
Beverley Hume
Mary Alice Bruster
Lanier File
Hume
Blakely
Ritchie Ware
Floyd M. Sayre
H. A. Sloan
E. M. Payne Jr
George Parker
A. A. Tieche
M. M. Ralston
Ted McDowell
G. P. Stinnette
G. H. Thompson
Ross Irle
Clarence Bibb
George Cole
C. D. Crawford
George J. Parker
W. T. .Blakely
Karl Kraus
Robert Davis
A. K. Canterbury
Mt. W. Powers
William McCathern
E. E. Bibb
Robert R. W. Twohig
Robert Campbell
George Kellman
P. B. Earwood
R. M. French
E.G. Larrick
W. W. McCathern
M. W. Powers
E. H. Shriver
Lover Of Slain Girl Is Quizzed
Assistant District Attorney Jacob Kalson questioned John Herleman 26, named the slain girl Elizabeth Londen 16 as her sweetheart, in the investigation of her death near Walker's Mills after six weeks missing in a blizzard. His brother Carl 23 was also detained as detectives sought a tire iron and possible blood stains on clothing.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Jacob Kalson
John Herleman
Elizabeth Londen
Herleman
Carl
Walker’s Mills
Frank Ritz
Circulators Plan West Virginia Newspaper Meeting
Beckley Newspapers circulation manager B F Stout and team members A J Adams and J H Cline met Bluefield Daily Telegraph executive R L Longworth to arrange the West Virginia Newspaper Circulators quarterly meeting. The gathering will be at the West Virginia hotel on April 19 with part of the proceedings and the after-dinner program broadcast on WHIS radio.
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B. F. Stout
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
A. J. Adams
J. H. Cline
Bluefield
R. L. Longworth
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sunset News
West Virginia
Circulators
Adams
WHIS
The
Transfusions Fail Leave Princeton Youth Dead
Robert Wibber a 14 year old of Princeton died in a hospital after injuries from a fall six weeks earlier despite receiving blood transfusions. The incident was reported by the Agsnoiated Press with date February 29.
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Agsnoiated Press
Princeton
Robert Wibber
Polish Marriages Decline Noted in 1935 Reports
Polish newspapers lament the low marriage rate for 1935. The Figura! is 64 per thousand, compared with 11.5 in Germany, 3.9 in Holland, and 7.6 in France. Canada is noted as highly auto minded with one car per eight persons after the United States.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Germany
Holland
France
United States
Canada
England Target Of Jap Attack
London reports Lieut. Commander Tota Ishimaru of the Japanese navy argues in a book that England is the likely target of a Pacific war and that war with Britain is inevitable unless Japan stops expansion or England concedes. He predicts British empire collapse with Japan gaining India Hong Kong Australia and New Zealand. England and America must give way, he says.
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Associated Press
London
England
United States
Tota Ishimaru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Japan
Britain
Ishimaru
Pacific
India
Hong Kong
Australia
New Zealand
America
Fayetteville Social Notes Highlight Regional Visitors and Church Gatherings
Fayetteville residents reported several visitors including J M Goodwin of Princeton and Elmer Tood in Charleston. The Women’s Auxiliary of the Fayetteville Presbyterian Church met for a pot luck supper with Bible quiz contests and multiple prize winners. Local officials and citizens such as W H Vickers and C E Mahan improved from illness while Romeo Bennett remained critically ill in Gauley Bridge hospital.
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Messrs
Gilbert
Charles‘ Smith
Staunton
J. M. Goodwin
Princeton
Court House
Elmer Tood
Charleston
Denver Brown
Montgomery
Fayetteville
W. H. Vickers
Fayetteville Presbyterian Church
L. L. Diehl
L. S. Tully
AL. Monteith
Betty Diehl
Susie Warner
Rob Gover
W.H. Haines
E. McDornall
Gilbert Smith
BK. Hesse
E. R. Crouse
W. C. Neel
Kathleen Henderson
John Zorio
Yolanda
A. L. Monteith
The
Presbyterian Church
L. J. Diehl
B. K. Hesse
W. H. Haynes
E. O. Wiseman
L., S. Tully
Roy Caldwell
Harold McClung
Philadelphia
E. L. Nichols
J. L. Rhyan
C. E. Mahan
W. H. Ramsey
Harlinger
Texas
Romeo Bennett
Gauley Bridge
Kent Summerfield
H. O. Boley
State Road Commission
Virginia Brooks
Mary Miller
Margaret Brown
West Virginia Boxers Defeat Washington and Jefferson in Better Meet
Morgantown Feb 29 West Virginia Metalsineer six stars stay unbeaten with a 7 1 decision over Washington and Jefferson. West Virginia’s only point came in the 145 pound class by forfeit. The feature 153 pound bout saw Sammy Littlepage KO Jap Reed of the Presidents in 1 5 of the third round with a sharp right cross.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
West Virginia Metalsineer Fisth Stars
Washington and Jefferson
West Virginia
Sammy Littlepage
Jap Reed
Littlepage
Miss Kinzer to Represent Woodrow Wilson High in DAR Contest
Miss Hausey Florentine Kinzer from Woodrow Wilson High School was chosen from the senior class to represent the school in a nationwide citizenship contest sponsored by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Runners up were Miss Blanche Hutchinson and Miss Myrtle Stewart. The winner from each state will receive a free trip to Washington, D C in May. The contest aims to promote good citizenship and considers scholastic standing and school spirit.
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National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Hausey Florentine Kinzer
Woodrow Wilson High School
Blanche Hutchinson
Myrtle Stewart
Miss Kinzer
Washington, D. C
Hitler Signals New Peace Gesture With Britain
London reported Reichsfuehrer Hitler agreed to negotiate a proposed Anglo German naval treaty. Four points reportedly include limits on aircraft carrier armaments and cruiser sizes, plus restrictions on submarine armaments, with communications from Berlin to London expected next week. Continental weather coordination and meteorology education were also approved at a Rio conference.
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London
Associated Press
Italy
Rio de Janeiro
Ickes Accepts River Project Milestone in Boulder Dam
Secretary Ickes formally accepts the Boulder Dam project praising its early completion. He notes it will harness the river and bring benefits to millions. The $40 million PWA allotment funded the dam with power generation expected to begin around June or July.
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Associated Press
Washington
Boulder Dam
Ickes
West
PWA
Hoover Dam
Bureau of Reclamation
Increases Seen In Retail Trade
Washington reports continued rise in retail trade for January based on 1935 figures. Commerce data show 35 cities largely up over last year with no big weekly gain. total 1935 retail sales hit 32.6 billion, up 14 percent from 1934 and mail order and auto sectors lead gains.
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Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Department
Securities Commission
Market figures show large share gains and bond sales
The report cites 661 912 000 shares traded with a gain of over 200 000 000 shares from 1934. Bond sales reached about 4 722 000 000 dollars, roughly equal to 1934. The east up 11 percent and the middle west up 5 percent.
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East
Middle West
Chicago Adopts Ahead-One Hour Time Shift
Chicago ends central standard time and moves clocks to eastern standard time. The ordinance, adopted last November, sets the change at 2 a.m. Sunday with no penalties. Suburban communities in Cook Lake and DuPage counties also adjusted their clocks.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ritter Lumber to Cut 25 Million Feet in Wyoming County
G F E Davis of Glen Rogers announced a contract with Ritter Lumber Co to log about 25 million feet on Ritter land in Wyoming county. Operations start soon with logs due at the Maben mill April 1 and about 80 men employed for three years.
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Associated Press
Pineville
W. Va
G. FE. Davis
Glen Rogers
Ritter Lumber Company
Ritter
Wyoming County
Maben Mill
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Georgia
Parole Board
Garten
Pat Fourney
New Deal
Rotarians
Barbara Hutton
Haughwitz-Reventlew
Woolworth
Haugwitz - Reventlow
Lloyd's
Huberman
Creek
United. States
Fayetteville, W. Va
Hitler
Ritter Lumber Co
Wyoming Timber
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Mailcaupontoda
Johnison
Michigan
Ae Ee State
C. Stoe
Foster’s Is
E. W. Foster, E. D. Foster and
G. E. Hedrick
Raleigh
Foster
Raleigh County
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