Ross Names New Workers For State Home Loans Office
Walter Virgil Ross announced eight new employees for the State Home Owners Loan corporation to speed loan closings. Among appointees are Howard Caplan as assistant state counsel and Carl B. Galbraith as Caplan’s successor in Wheeling, with others filling roles in appraisal, supervision, and field representation. The moves aim to shorten processing times as weekly activity reports show loans closed and new applications.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Home Owners Loan Corporation
Walter Virgil Ross
Wie
Federal Name Loan Bank Board
Washington
Ross
Howard Caplan
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Carl B. Galbraith
F. Bedell
Robert H. Kidd
Grafton
G. H. Crumpecker
Princeton
Alex L. Garred
Huntington
John L. Marsh
House of Delegates
D. Blain Shaw
West Virginia
Hall Speaks on Electricity Charges for Coal Mines
A speech compares electric power billing to horse teams, arguing for a fixed charge covering investment costs and a variable charge per hour for used energy. The speaker aims to clarify kilowatts and kilowatt hours to reduce confusion and lower the cost per ton of coal produced.
Kump Plans Continuation Of Bank Reopenings
In a Reconstruction Corporation session Kump outlined plans to reopen banks and reported the federal government aims to aid banks and keep them open. Holt, the attorney general, said test cases on municipal bonds depend on municipalities and that his apartment plans none. Several sewer and water projects await bond issue studies.
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Reconstruction Corporation
Holt
Washington
Roosevelt replies on monetary policy and inflation plans
Senator Hastings questioned President Roosevelt about money and inflation as business groups voiced distress over the lack of clarity. Reports suggest Roosevelt will soon harmonize his three main units the industrial farm and public works administrations amid discord over the retail code. NRA chief Hugh Johnson favors a ban on sales below cost plus ten percent to curb cutthroat competition while Secretary Wallace worries about higher consumer prices for farmers, leading to White House deliberations.
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Roosevelt
Hastings
R- del
Farm
Hugh §. Johnson
NRA
Wallace
White House
Farm Strike Debate Frays Farmers Rights and Costs
A long paragraph reports on a Holiday Association strike as a clash over farming costs and independence. Reno urges broad support against perceived industrialists and urges action to restore farmers purchasing power with production costs including interest and charges. A separate dispatch from Sinala Romania notes a rail collision killing nine and injuring six after trains carrying passengers and flammable petroleum collided and burned.
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Reno
State Association
Republic
Bucharest
Romania
Sinala
Glenn Best Bet Instate for WVU Change
The Charleston Gazette notes coach Albert Glenn of Charleston High School as the likely local candidate if WVU undergoes a change. Glenn, former Mountaineers star back, has coached five years and shows reluctance to discuss the matter while acknowledging supporters have approached him. Earle Neale is in his third year. Alumni seek new leadership after a poor season.
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Charleston
W.va
Charleston , Gazette
Albert
Glenn
West Virginia University
Mountaineers
Earle
Neale
West Virginia
the Gazette
US Russian recognition debate stirs in Dallas crowds
Edward A. Hayes of the American Legion urged opposition to any recognition of Soviet Russia at a Texas mass meeting in Dallas. He argued government officials should not engage with a regime he described as insulting to American families. The remarks followed reports that Roosevelt invited Kalinin to negotiate recognition.
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Legion
Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Edward A. Hayes
American Legion
Soviet Russia
Fair Park
Texas Legionnaires
Hayes
Washington
Moscow
Roosevelt
Mikhail Kalinin
Russia
M. Kalinin
Wash
Graf Zeppelin To Stop In Florida For Day Visit
Graf Zeppelin sails toward Miami for a one day goodwill stop on its Chicago Century of Progress expedition. It arrived tonight after departing Rio de Janeiro with Commander Hugo Eckener and 18 aboard including a ten month old infant.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Century of Progress
Chicago
Rio de Janeiro
United States
Hugo Eckener
Germany Withdraws From League of Nations
Geneva Oct 21 Germany formally declares withdrawal from the League of Nations citing Article 1, Paragraph 3 of the covenant. The League replies that Germany must fulfill international obligations before leaving. Debate swirls on possible disarmament talks and revival if Europe resumes negotiations.
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Geneva
Germany
League of Nations
League
Japan
Hitler
Europe
Konstantin von Neurath
Krauer
J. A. M. CG. Avenol
M. Avenol
Baron von Neurath
Avenol
France
Local social calls and shoppers visit Rhodell and Beckley
East Gulf West Virginia residents and guests are noted as callers and shoppers in Rhodell Beckley and Corrine with names including Verna Whitt Martha Burdiss J R Brooks Basil Lilly Sue Sweeney and others. A stray line mentions Salt Lake City lam bing ton event and Texas Legions Posts installation.
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Roppe Dent
Verna Whitt
Rhodell
Martha Burdiss
Beckley
J. R. Brooks
Keith
Kitty Clark
Willis Gilmore
Harless Hylton
Jack Clark
Mullens
M. H. Lester
W. F. Clark
Thomas McEwan
John Brooks
Corrine
Billie Prentice
Ruth Little
Amigo
R. N. Smith
Nancy Jo
Bobbie
Isabelle White
Faith
Easter
Elizabeth Kerns
Velma Farley
J. L. Hager
W. G. Mead
Wiley
Dorian Setliffe
Killarney
Basil Lilly
Sue Sweeney
Princewick
Keith Clark
Douglas McNult
Farmers Week observed at West Virginia University contests
Morgantown October 21 The fourteenth annual judging contests during Junior Farmers Week sponsored by West Virginia University College of Agriculture announced at a meeting of 483 visiting vocational ag teachers and 45 teachers. Winners named across livestock crops poultry dairy cattle plant disease identification and farm shopwork with multiple ties and top teams from Weston Cairo Masontown Morgantown Wallace Buffalo and others.
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Associated
Proas
Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia
University College of Agriculture
vThree-man High Schools
Harrisville
Min Creek
Greenville
Weston
Daybrook
Omer Rex
Sutton
Surveyor
Buffalo
Masontown
Middlebourne
Kermit Teets
Terra Alta
Elmer Howley
Clifford Dunn
Cairo
University H
Wayne
Grantsville
Alvins Morris
Lawton Hoover
Edwin Harris
Wallace
Williamsburg
Pete Palumbo
Carl Singer
Kenneth White
Billie Boggess
Clyde Cornell
Ralph Kinsley
University H. S
Henry Galutsky
Deval Craft
Everett Yoho
West Milford
University High School
Rail Prices Reduced by Major Steel Firms in 1918
New York reports major steel companies led by Carnegie Steel Illinois Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron cut rail prices to 37.75 per ton, effective Oct 30, aiming to secure over 1 million tons of rails and fastenings. Roosevelt encouraged low bids with public works loan support and railroads showed strong purchase appetite this autumn.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Times
Roosevelt
American Iron and Steel Institute
Carnegie Steel Company
Illinois Steel Company
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
White House
Joseph B. Easton
Epethian Sisters Meet at Rainelle and Local Socials
Raleigh West Virginia district Epethian Sisters convened in Rainelle on October 6 with Raleigh attendees led by Mrs. Bob Thompson and others. A Ray Iilton hosted a October 19 party with Edith Allen Earnes line Nolan Garnet Keaton and more. Additional brief notes mention Bill Qualls returning from Bluefield, visits by Gladys Bennington and Mrs. Cecil Dobbins, and other local social movements.
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Epethian Sisters
Rainelle
Raleigh
Bob Thompson
John Brezack
W. B. Fisher
George Calloway
Jim Nolan
John Yost
Bob Scott
John Rogers
Mackey
Eads
Ray Iilton
Hilton
Bill Stanley
Willie Jean
George L
Gladys Bennington
Cecil Dobbins
Rees
Glen Morgan
Ward Ribsby
Blurefield
Roy Young
Geneive West
Homer West
Albert Martia
Beckley Area Residents Attend Hospital Visits and Travel
The report notes Wanda departed Saturday for Huntington to winter there. Morse Wilmer J A Perkins John Bennington and Bert Mann of East Beckley drove to Narrows Virginia Sunday. Kenneth Keaton underwent Tuesday surgery at Beckley Hospital for a fractured collarbone from a Sunday fall. Mrs Jerry Waddell visited Mrs George Qualls Thursday. Jimmie Welsh recently returned home from Beckley Hospital after a brief stay. Louise Mildred Maddy Sybil Rees and Walter Bennington visited at Beckley Hospital Wednesday evening. Earle and Jimmie Rees visited their sister Mrs Cecil Dobbins Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Cecil Dobbins hosted dinner guests Mr and Mrs Adam Paine and daughter Marie of Coolridge Sunday.
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Wanda
Huntington
Morse Wilmer
J. A. Perkins
John Bennington
Bert Mann
East Beckley
Narrows
Virginia
Kenneth Keaton
Beckley Hospital
Jerry Waddell
George Qualls
Jimmie Welsh
Louise
Roosevelt urges cooperation over dictatorship in Chestertown talk
President Roosevelt, in Chestertown Maryland after accepting an honorary degree from Washington College, urged the nation to pursue cooperation rather than dictatorship. He criticized five and ten year plans, said progress can occur faster without a defined term, and called for colonial spirit of cooperation while cautioning goals require time beyond a few months. Audience in the colonial setting reacted with applause as he spoke extemporaneously.
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Russia
Far East
Izvestia
Roosevelt
America
For Industrialization
Heavy Industry Commissariat
Washington
United States
U.S. S. Rk
Mikhail Kalinin
Soviet Russia
Komosomolskaya Pravda
Germany
League of Nations
Associated Press
Chestertown
Old Washington College
Maryland
Japanese Emperor Heads Army Maneuvers on Sea of Japan Shore
Emperor Hirohito left by special train to direct annual army maneuvers held on the Sea of Japan shore, with Premier Saito and ministers to join in Fukui Prefecture on October 24 to 26. Fukui is closest Japanese shore to Vladivostok, a potential Soviet landing area in a Russo Japanese war.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Hirohito
Sea of Japan
Cias
Russia
Asia
Saito
Sadao Araki
Mineo Osumi
Navy
Fukui Perfecture
Government approves $825 million defense allotment
Washington reports a Public Works Administration decision to fund national defense with 825 million dollars for several hundred more fighting planes and a 10 million army motorization program. An additional 6.41 million is set aside for other federal projects to spur employment, with 15 million for aviation construction to be divided between the army and navy.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Defense
Public Works Administration
War
Navy
Ranger
Army
Ohio farmers split on farm strike in Ohio counties
Columbus Oct 24 Farmers line up on the farm strike remained unsure. Herbert A Hard of Columbus member of the national executive committee of the Farmers Workers Federation announced that farmers in Paulding and Champaign counties would join the strike. Allen Lane who led last spring said Ohio reps of Farm Holiday movement supported action.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Herbert A. Hard
Farmers' Workers Federation
Paulding
Champaign
Allen Lane
Ohio farm strike support wanes as groups plan meetings
C A Dyer of Columbus says few Ohio farmers back the strike move ment while National Holiday Farmers' association claims 125,000 Ohio members. The Japanese emperor donates 5000 yen to the Salvation Army in San Francisco, first such recognition of a foreign social service group. Meanwhile the University of Florida cafeteria and bookstore run under NRA rules.
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C. A. Dyer
Columbus
Ohio State Grante
Ohio
National Holiday Farmers’ Association
Salvation Army
San Francisco
Sai
University of Florida
NRA
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