Legislature closes midnight session with 80 million budget
A 10 member conference panel finalized an 80 93 847 budget bill for the next two years after a tense session that included a fist fight between a delegate and a senator. The measure cuts 10 percent from the 21 million sales tax and includes 1 593 166 in deficiency spending. The legislature also abolishes the convention system for judiciary nominations and authorizes small city councilmen pay and war bond payroll deductions. Adjournment followed after a turbulent session noted as unusual in West Virginia history.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
M. M. Neely
House
Senate
Axis convoys off Sicily are pounded
Allied air forces and naval patrols smashed Axis sea traffic off Sicily and attacked Tunisian rail docks. Eisenhower said German and Italian efforts in Tunisia are doomed, as 11 days of front fighting show the Allies must eject the Axis from North Africa, with heavy bombing of Sousse Enfidaville and Tunis docks and barges sunk in Sicilian straits.
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Daniel Deluce
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Tunis
Sousse
Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Mareth
S&s
Enfidaville
R.A.F
Sedjenane
Beer Bill Fate Still Uncertain
Charleston reports the beer bill remains unsettled as delegates reconvene in conference. The compromise rejects local option beer elections, seeks no Sunday sales for 90 days after passage, and narrows license revocation to circuit judges, amid previous senate walkouts and house revisions.
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Associated Press
Charleston
House
Senate
Red Cross War Fund Gifts and Balance Report
The report shows gifts received totaling 6,460,462 dollars with a remaining balance to raise of 18,539,37 dollars. It reflects ongoing fundraising through the Red Cross War Fund campaign.
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RED Cross War Fund
John P. Morgan Dies at 75 in Boca Grande
John Pierpont Morgan famed financier dies at 3 15 a m in a Boca Grande cottage on Florida Gulf coast after three days coma from heart ailment. At bedside are his younger son and daughter. Elder son and daughter away on family duties. Morgan had sought rest at Gasparilla Inn since Feb 25. New stories note no Wall Street upheaval following his death.
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Associated Press
Boca Grande, Fla
John Pierpon
Morgan
Wall Street
House of Morgan
E.W.T
Gasparilla Inn
Gulf of Mexico Island
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Naval Reserve
Paul G. Pennoyer
Comdr
Junius Spencer Morgan
George Nichols
Boca Grande
Roosevelt to hear plea for closer coordination with Allies
Democratic and Republican senators will ask President Roosevelt to back a plan for a permanent Allies coordination body and a postwar peace institution. The resolution seeks immediate wartime unity, a temporary United Nations to govern liberated areas, and future joint force for deterring aggression. It envisions an ongoing international body to settle disputes and a mechanism to assemble and deploy a joint military force if needed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Senate
Sumner Welles
United Nations Organization
Barkley of
Essen Bombed by RAF and USAAF in Major Night Blasts
London dispatches report the RB 4F heavy bombers and RAF aircraft dropping over 1,000 tons of bombs on Essen, targeting Krupp works as fires raged. daylight raids hit rail yards near Rouen Amiens and Abbeville Poix to disrupt German supply lines along the coast.
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Associated Press
London
Rb.4.f
Essen
Krupp
French
Amiens
Rouen
Channel
Somme
Seine
Dieppe
Abbeville
Poix
U.S.A
Germany
Cologne
R.A.F
Neely's Plea Goes Unheard
Governor Neely urged restoration of the five food exemptions bread flour milk butter eggs arguing the 40 cent exemption would not reduce taxes. Lawmakers questioned the impact while Finance Committee chair Hansbarger noted possible tax department errors and pledged to fix any mistakes if needed.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Neely
House
Senate
Hansbarger
D.mc Bowel
Horse Finance Committee
Tax Department
Tax Commission
Petain Near Death Shapes North Africa Crisis
In Algiers reports quote Petain near death after a stroke as Allied forces push for a unified Fighting French under Giraud. The piece notes removals of Bergeret Nogues Megidal for Vichy ties, appeals to Martinique and Alexandria, and rising calls to unite under one leader.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Alexandria
Martinique
Northwest
Africa
Henri Giraud
E.W. T
Pvith
Testatrican
Irene
Giraud
Vichy
Nogues
Gergeret
Megidal
Georges Robert
Rene Emile Godfroy
Axis
North Africa
Charles de Gaulle
Marshal Petain
Petain
French North Africa
France
Girdud
Combat
de Guatte
Allied planes attack eight ship Japanese convoy near Wewak
Allied planes halted a Japanese convoy of eight ships near Wewak New Guinea. The force included three destroyers and five merchant vessels protected by fighters. Bombers hit an 8,000 ton transport and a 4,000 ton cargo ship, both set afire or near sinking.
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Associated Press
Australia
Wewak
New Guinea
Measure to add delegates dies in West Virginia senate
The West Virginia senate amended then killed a bill to increase house of delegates from 94 to 96 by adding Raleigh and Kanawha delegates and in several counties. After motions and amendments failed, the senate struck the enacting clause and the measure died.
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Iskan Nonmcnation
Hudson
Cabell
van Sicker
D. Greenbrier
Associated Press
Charleston
State Senate
House of Delegates
Raleigh
Milton
Monongitia
Kanawha
Nartison
Mingo
Senate
Holt loses glasses in Capitol corridor fracas
In Charleston Holt, a former U S senator and current delegate, clashed with State Senator Winters after Holt condemned the administration over a one year state expenditures probe. A bystander intervened as Holt and Winters argued and Holt carried on a lengthy castigation of Neely aides and patronage.
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Associated Press
Charleston
U. S
Rush Holt
House of Delegates
A. R. “Snooks
Huntington
Holt
House
Senate
John Hudson
Winters
Floot Alse
M. M. Neely
Hames
UMW Rejects Forfeit Of Miner Bargaining Rights
United Mine Workers district head Sam Caddy warned Southern salt coal operators not to assume miners would abandon collective bargaining. He urged real negotiations rather than outside imposition, as northern and southern miners resist basic wage offers and proposals to pause negotiations until after the war.
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Associated Press
New York
Southern
United Mine Workers ‘Union
Sam Caddy
U.M.W
Kentucky
Daddy
Sam
UMA
John [. Lewis
War Tabor Board
Soviet Troops Press Forward At Kharkov Front
Soviet dispatches report fresh German gains around Kharkov meet heavy counterattacks as Red Army falls back to new positions. Moscow says defenders endured attritional fighting with huge losses while Nazi forces push toward the main railway station amid continued clashes north and south of the city.
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Associated Press
London
Kharkov
Moscow
Ukraine
Paris
Red Army
Jap Battleships Sunk In Solomons
Navy Avenger planes raided Munda in the Solomon Islands and set enemy installations afire. A US submarine reportedly sank a Japanese anti submarine patrol ship after a surface duel. Two Japanese battleships were said sunk in the Guadalcana l battle last November, replacing an earlier report. Liberator bombers also hit Ballale and Vila near Munda. One American plane did not return.
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Associated Press
Washington
Munda
Solomon Islands
Navy
United States
Guadalcanal
Autemarine
Munday
Ballale
Shortland Island
Vila
Marine
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Bill
Algeria
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Shaded Arrow
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Black Arrow
Ksar Rhilane
John P. Morgan
Colossus
Financial World
H. S. Patterson
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