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Newspaper
The West Virginian
Location
Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
1
Police officers encountered a tense situation on Jackson Street leading to managed de escalation. No injuries were reported as authorities secured the area and investigated the disturbance.
Fragmentary OCR places sorehead event as an eight o clock manifest across page four. Little readable detail. confirms timing and page but not clear participants or place.
A Republican rally and banquet at the Masonic temple drew a larger crowd than expected this evening. Attendees will be served a well presented dinner, with seating for late arrivals to hear speeches by Emmett Showalter and other speakers including Harry Shaw W J Wiegel Senator Meredith and George Bowers. Political expressions from across the county will be represented.
Fairmont engineers in the West Virginia chapter of the American Association of Engineers backed licensing. A committee was appointed to push uniform laws in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The chapter supports the good roads movement and will show a related film. Forty members attended. five joined. C. L. Kirk of the Pittsburgh chapter spoke on organization and next steps.
The West Virginian announces a joint newsletter service with The Washington Star beginning March 15. The daily letters will cover national and world events with fairness and accuracy, free of propaganda and bias, and written by Star staff.
Federal Reserve Bank rules bar marriage for single employees earning under 125 a month without chief clerk approval. Vice Governor McKay calls the figure the minimum for two people to live on amid economic strain. Separate dispatch notes suffrage battles in Charleston with legislative delays, adjournment efforts, and moves to reconsider ratification of a constitutional amendment.
Very little police court this morning. Lovall Gray forfeited $10 for failing to appear on a charge of blocking traffic near the Watson hotel. The youth of D B Ollker reported a mail wreck near Main and Madison due to rain and slippery road. he rammed an automobile. The mayor released the lad with a warning and no fine, while Arnett arrested Gray who resisted and taunted the officer. Gray paid a $10 forfeit at the station, not returned to him.
President Wilson will soon nominate two additional members of the Interstate Commerce Commission as provided in the railroad bill. Names of several candidates are under consideration, with announcements expected shortly.
Coal cars on the Monongahela division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad loomed up as well today with 64 mines active. West Virginia and Pennsylvania districts reported car placements totaling 23 leftover from yesterday, 24 placed in West Virginia and 103 in Pennsylvania. A forty percent car supply is forecast for Saturday as cars for tomorrow arrive via P and L E from Youngstown and New York Central lines. Continued on page eight.
Charleston reports M A Williams a member of the house of delegates from Ohio county announced he would seek the Republican nomination for Congress in the Prat district.
New York March 5. Announcement says a group life insurance policy has been taken out covering 42500 employees. The policy is one of the largest ever issued and combines with a savings plan.
Surveying work continues near the old Monongahela River bridge as plans emerge to raise it. The B and C rail road may provide a connecting adme with the city. Fourteen carloads of tall to complete the M R branch between Shinnston and Winterpiss lie on the ground.
In a Tokyo cable report, Japan reportedly plans to abandon the Siberian expedition and establish a buffer state between Japan and Soviet Russia. The message notes troop withdrawals around March 20 and references a Soviet peace offer tied to recognizing de facto government and diplomatic ties. Officials in Washington fear Bolshevik spread and weigh troop movements as discussions continue.
In Columbus Ohio March a debate over citizenship ends with the miners amending their constitution to require full citizenship for all United Mine Workers of Ohio members. A foreign-born applicant may no longer gain membership without completing naturalization.
London march 6 the proposition to sell the British West Indies to the United States to balance war debts is to be discussed in the House of Commons by Lloyd George next Monday. Government members decline public comment but private opinion suggests the proposal would not be considered if formally raised.
Deputy Sheriffs James Barratt and Howard Woodward responded to a drowning incident when a man around forty entered the harbor with intent to end his life. Railroad workers notified authorities as the individual waded out, then returned to shore before officers arrived. A gold watch and sixty dollars were found upon the man, who was later identified as Verguenn a Lithuanian.
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