Hoover Seen As Candidate Again For Presidency 1936
Washington dispatch reports Herbert Hoover as a potential 1936 presidential candidate with a California letter seen as a rallying call for Republicans. The note signals a sharpened party divide as Roosevelt delays on the New Deal and work relief, while GOP leaders push toward campaign readiness ahead of the forthcoming conventions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Herbert Oover
Hay
California
Henry P.jetcher
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Hoover
Fall Fatal To Holden Woman
Battle Creek Michigan March 23 a fall from a third floor sanitarium window caused the death of Mrs W A Hunt 40 of Holden West Virginia Her husband superintendent of Island Creek Coal company planned to come to Battle Creek to take her body to Huntington West Virginia for burial Tuesday She had been ill for several months and was brought to the sanitarium a week ago for treatment of nervous ailment Mrs Hunt formerly was Miss Cona Bennett of Central City Kentucky She is survived by her husband and two sons William 18 a student at the Georgia School of Technology and James 15 a student at the Kentucky Military Institute
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Associated Press
Battle Creek
Mich
W. A. Hunt
Holden
W. Va
Ye Island Creek Coal Company
Battle
Hunt
Cona Bennett
Central City
William
Audent
Georgia School Ofechnology
James
Kentucky Military Institute
Mrs Browning Dies After Brief Illness Saturday
Mrs Wavie Lilly Browning aged 23 wife of A C Browning Ta High died in a local hospital yesterday evening after an illness that began with an acute section of the upper lip She leaves one daughter Lola Mavie three Funeral services are planned at Glen Hedrick church tomorrow with burial in the over cemetery handled by Caffee Undertakers The service hour was not fixed last night
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Wavie Lilly Browning
Two Men Injured In Claremont Street Brawl
In Claremont a street brawl left two men hospitalized at McKendree with severe head cuts. Houston Adkins suffered head eye and arm injuries while Virgil Copps had a head wound. Six to eight men fought before officers arrived. no arrests were reported.
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Claremont
McKendree Hospital
Houston Adkins
Virgil Copps
Adkins
Copps
West Virginia split over Wheeler Rayburn utility bill
Washington March 23 West Virginia’s delegation to Congress shows sharp divisions over the Wheeler Rayburn bill to abolish public utility holding companies by 1940. Rep Joe L Smith Beckley says the district opposes it with no supportive letters. Rep Jennings Randolph Elkins plans to actively fight it. Rep Robert L Ramsay Folllawsbee leans for the measure awaiting hearings.
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Associated Press
Washington
West Virginia
House
Congress
Roosevelt
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Joe L. Smith
Beckley
Jennings Randolph
Elkins
Robert L. Ramsay
Follawsbee
Site Of Liquor Stores Studies In Beckley This Week
M G Gilmer a state liquor commission field representative will visit Beckley to study possible liquor store sites. He will recommend locations but the commission makes final picks. Beckley is likely to have a store with agencies in Sophia Rhodell and perhaps other Raleigh County towns. Mercer county may vote to reject stores and agencies with local option elections expected in Princeton and Mercer counties within six months.
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M. G. Gilmer
State Liquor Commission
Beckley
Liqua
Sophia
Rhodell
Raleigh
Mercer County
Princeton
Italy Moves To Strengthen Standing Army At Home
Mussolini calls 1911 class to the colors, lifting available Italian troops to over one million as Paris talks among France Britain and Italy seek cautious unity on the German rearma ment crisis. Hitler returns to Berlin to engage in bilateral non aggression talks aiming for peace for two decades. UK, Italian and French ministers plan to meet in stress, Italy on April 11 to discuss the German question.
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Associated Press
Italy
France
Paris
Germany
John Simon
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Wiesbaden
Anthony Eden
Fulvio Suvich
Pierre Laval
Simon
Ialian
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Party
Two Girls Injured In Mount Hope Crash Near Bailey Farm
Two young Beckley women were injured when their car skidded and collided with a large trailer truck on Mount Hope road near Bailey Farm Friday night. Miss Myrtle Ogle, 19, and Miss Eloise Honaker, 19, were taken to Beckley hospital.
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Mount Hope Road
Bailey Farm
Myrtle Ogle
Beckley
Eloise Honaker
Beckley Hospital
Oglesuf
Attle Warden Youth Dies From Pneumonia
A three year old son of Mr and Mrs Earl Warden of Wollasway Heights died of pneumonia in a local hospital Friday afternoon at 9 30. Funeral services led by Dr Ritchie Ware will be held at the Christian Church and burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park with Foster undertakers in charge. A brother Earl Warden Jr also survives the parents.
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Creorge Ward
Cathinas Heights
Carl Edward Warden
Earl Warden
Wollasway Heights
Uly
Ritchie Ware
Thehristian Church
Foster
Earl Warden, Jr
Miss Angie Marlin Succumbs Suddenly
Miss Angie Mae Marlin, 15, an orphan living with Mrs. Rosa Stayer at Maynor, died yesterday morning from heart and kidney disease complications. Funeral plans call for burial in Shady Spring cemetery. she is survived by a sister, Opal, 14, whose location was unknown. A native of Harlan, Kentucky.
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Angie Mae Marlin
Rosa Stayer
Maynor
Shady Spring
Opal
Harlan
Wriston Car Halts Journey After Crash Near Glen Daniel
Dr Robert Wristons Ford coupe stolen early Thursday crashed into a power pole near Glen Daniel. The car demolished the pole snapped, two occupants fled into bushes. Powers lines and gym blackout at Trap Hill High. State police investigated. no arrests by nightfall. Time fixed at 5 55 as school clock stopped.
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Robert Wriston
Glen Daniel
Trap Hill High School
Road Income In State Is Shown
A map comparing West Virginia road income with neighboring states shows Ohio Kentucky Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia receiving far more for road building and maintenance. For 1984 Ohio 4,744,100 Kentucky 12,159,398 Pennsylvania 58,056,928 Maryland 11,433,289 Virginia 17,818,916 West Virginia 2,609,002. State income from registration fees and gasoline taxes totaled 9,748,002 with 7,139,000 used for bond interest and redemption.
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West Virginia
M. J. Meadows
L. R. Taylor
Princeton
State Road Commission
Ohio
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Little Colored Girl Burned In Fire at Home
Christine Thomas four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Thomas colored of Fire Creek was seriously burned yesterday morning when a dress she wore caught fire as she stood before a grate fire in her parents home The child was burned over a large part of her body before her mother removed the burning dress Christine was taken to Mc Kendree hospital where the burns though serious were not necessarily fatal
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Christine Thomas
John Thomas
Fire Creek
Christine
McKendree Hospital
Pan American Seaplane Sets World Distance Record
In Miami on March 23 commercial aviation showcased trans Pacific readiness as the 19 ton Pan American Clippers lands on Biscayne Bay after a 2,504 mile circle flight to the Virgin Islands. Officials credit three new records to the aircraft including the world seaplane distance mark. The flight lasted about 17 hours and six minutes and traced several hundred miles beyond the target distance from California.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Commercial Aviation Today
trans-Pacific Air Service
Biscayne Bay
Virgin Islands
California
Couple Held on Whiskey Charge in Daniels Raid
Binum Wells about 20 and Mrs Allan Cole of Daniels were arrested last night by county officers and jailed on whiskey possession charges after a raid on Allen Coles home. Deputies Howard George TL A Green and Elliott Cook and Constable Deck Holdren seized two half gallon jars of moonshine and a thumping keg.
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Binum Wells
Allan Cole
Daniels
Allen Cole
Howard George
Tl. A. Green
Elliott Cook
Deck Holdren
Body Of Missing Man Found In Reservoir
In Farmington Massachusetts on March 24 the body of Dr George H ala e former superintendent of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston was recovered from a reservoir. He had disappeared in Boston on December 3 and was identified by medical examiner Dr M ea Shaughnessy.
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Farmington
M.ea Shaughnessy
George H.alae
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Bigelow
Kew Arrests Saturday Evening In Beckley
In Beckley police report a quiet county jail compared with last weekend when 166 people were jailed. At 12 o’clock last night 9 men and 1 woman were incarcerated, all on misdemeanor charges. County and state officers took in eight, city police two.
Seniors To Stage Friday Play At Woodrow Wilson High
The Senior Class of 1935 presents a comedy mystery The Death by Own Action Specialist Friday night in the Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium. Cast includes Annabelle Keyser Betty Jordan John Laren Bob McCulloch Tony Sparcino Betsy erring Mary Ann Maxwell Amerigo Cappellari Bill Ford Ruth Fink Thelma Vanney with Miss Garnet Mundley directing.
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Dispatch
Woodrow Wilson High School
Auditoridea
Annabelle Keyser
Betty Jordan
John Laren
Bob McCulloch
Tony Sparcino
Betsy Erring
Mary Ann Maxwell
Amerigo Cappellari
Bill Ford
Ruth Fink
Thelma Vanney
Garnet Mundley
W. W. U. S. Dramatics
Three Trainmen Escape Train Wreck Near Uniontown
Three railroad workers leaped from a locomotive and caboose as a rain softened track caused a derailment into a 40 foot embankment near Uniontown on March 23. Two others in the caboose were unable to jump but survived, while the others escaped unharmed.
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Associated Press
Uniontown
Four Escape Injury In Automobile Crash Near City Limits
Four occupants escaped injury when their car ran off the Harper Hill road outside the city limits and flipped over, landing on its wheels. Driver Ralph Dorsey of Mount Hope said a wheel struck a rock deflecting the car off the road. Sam Chegory, also of Mount Hope, and two young women were shaken but unhurt.
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Harper Hill
Ralph Dorsey
Mount Hope
Dorsey
Sam Chegory
Abandoned Ford Roadster Found Near Harper WV
A 1929 green Ford roadster with West Virginia plates 194-887 was found abandoned last night on the roadside near Harper by Deputy Sheriffs Howard George and I. Green and Sergeant W. C. Hut of the state police. They request the owner to contact police with information on ownership.
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Kate
Harper
Howard George
I. A. Green
W. C. Hut
West Virginia
Senate Approves Relief Bill By Large Majority
The Senate passed the administration’s 4.88 billion relief bill by 68 to 16 after eight weeks of debate. A 375 million silver rider was accepted as a procedural move, with plans to strike it in conference. The measure aims to provide work for 3.5 million on relief and directs money from direct aid.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Thomas
Okla
Noel
Garner
Carter
Roosevelt Signs Philippine Bill
President Roosevelt signed the Philippine constitution in the White House cabinet room with Filipino delegates and Hull and Dern watching. The measure grants home rule during a 10 year transitory period while the United States retains key authority as Manuel Quezon and other Filipinos express approval. Governor General Murphy cables Manila to set a date for elections on accepting the constitution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
Dern
White House
Manuel L. Quezon
United States
Frank Murphy
Manila
Kansas City Stage Liners Win A A U Title by Rally
Kansas City Stage Liners captured the A A U basketball championship with a 45 to 26 rallying victory over the Globe Refiners of McPherson Kansas. The March 23 final featured strong defense and clutch play to secure the title.
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Denver
Kansas City
Globe Refiners
McPherson
Kansas
Mormon Belief To Be Explained at Moose Hall Lecture
Elder Max T. Waddock will present an illustrated talk on the Mayan Riddle at Moose Hall Tuesday at 7:30 PM. Slides depict Mayan and Aztec ruins across Central America Mexico Peru and Bolivia with Len Rider Paul W. Martin aiding. The lecture, free to attend, cites the Book of Mormon as a solution to the riddle.
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Max T. Waddock
Moose Hall
American
Central America
Mexico
Peru
Bolivia
South America
Palenque
Yucatan
San Juan Teotuakin
Paul W. Martin
Salt Like City
Elder Haddock
Bloomington
Idaho
Haddock
Weather forecast mixed with shifting warmth and showers
The forecast calls for a fair start with slowly rising temperatures. Rain is expected across the west Monday and Tuesday, with warmer conditions Tuesday and Tuesday night. A colder spell unfolds Sunday night and midweek, then a warmup by Friday followed by possible showers into Saturday across the Ohio Valley and Tennessee regions.
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North
Uyserree
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
West
East
Calder
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Woodrow Wilson
Lorna Blevins
Hill District
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Mullens High School
Virginia Vantorn
Concord State Teachers College
Athens
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Morgantown
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Mark Twain
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