Big Money For Virginia Schools Faces Legislature
Virginia faces major debates in the 1936 session on Social Security old age assistance costs, state aid to dependent children and the blind, and a proposed $6 million education program. Officials expect substantial school funding, with Governor-Elect Price backing increased instructional cost coverage and a nine month teacher salary baseline of 720 dollars plus retirements reforms and free textbooks. Other items include highway plans, jail and penal reforms, and modernization of state offices and tribunals.
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Richmond
Virginia
Weaver Commission
Legislative Advisory Council
State Board of Education
Virginia Education Association
Assembly
James H. Price
Board of Education
Peery
Advisory Council
Supreme Court
Virginia “Antilynch
Seashore
Paternity Charge Ordered To Trial In Morganton
Ned A. Parks, a Washington soda dispenser, faces trial on a non support charge tied to a son born six weeks before Martha Barkley’s marriage to Basil Ryan of New York. The case was postponed to January 12 as key party figures were absent from a crowded Morganton courtroom.
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Morganton
N. C
Ned A. Parks
Washington Soda
Martha Barkley
Basil
Pat) Ryan
New York
Ryan
Thomas Fortune
Eight Reformers Are Put To Death
MOSCOW reported that eight former Armenian Soviet officials were executed for conspiring to disrupt farming as part of a separatist plot. The Erevan newspaper said sentences of death were imposed without appeal and were greeted with applause in court.
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Moscow
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Erevan
Armenia
Soviet Union
Noted Mining Engineer Is Dead
Eli T. Conner, 73, dean of mining engineers in the anthracite field and a national figure for his mining problem work, died in a Scranton hospital. He served on the John Hays Hammond Commission on underground repair problems and pioneered flushing voids in mines to protect the surface above mine workings.
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Scranton
Eli T. Conner
Conner
John Hays Hammond
Man Freed After Ice Swim Punished As Harsh Deterrent
Sufficient Baltimore report states Harry Rock aged 36 was freed of drunkenness and disturbing the peace by Magistrate August Mueller after a Sunday swim in Jones Falls. The judge deemed the icy plunge punishment enough and released him.
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Baltimore
Harry Rock
Jones’ Falls
August Mueller
Suit Against Turner Dismissed Without Explanation
Washington January 4 A suit by J H Barbour Daingerfield seeking 100000 for alienation of Mrs Daingerfield's affections against E Pendleton Turner has been dismissed without explanation. Daingerfield alleged Turner induced Mrs Daingerfield to leave him and barred him from her Washington home. Turner’s lawyer said he knew of the dismissal but not the reason. Daingerfields married in Baltimore November 16 1907 with Mrs Turner formerly Miss Alice Regina Raisin.
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Washington
E. Pendleton Turner
Barbour Daingerfield
Daingerfield
Daingerfields
Baltimore
Alice Regina Raisin
Orders Trial of Bilbo Divorce Case
The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the divorce suit of United States Senator Theodore G. Bilbo must be tried in the Pearl River Chancery Court at Poplarville. Bilbo filed at Poplarville and his wife argued jurisdiction as a Jackson resident, contending the case belong there.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Supreme Court
United States
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Pearl River Chancery Court
Poplarville
Bilbo
Jackson
San Francisco Doctor Loses Fight Over Son Death
In San Francisco on January 4 a prominent physician Dr. Phillips Johnson failed to save his 12 year old son Phillips Jr. from hanging by a belt from his bed after the belt slipped. The boy, who was found unconscious, died within an hour. Patrolman Ray Freeman said the child had been playing with the belt when the accident occurred.
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San Francisco
Jan
Phillips Johnson
Phillips, Jr
Ray Freeman
Cardinal Mundelein Defends Wage Earners in Chicago
Cardinal Mundelein urged about one million Roman Catholics in the Chicago Archdiocese to stand with workers against employers who pay low wages. He warned against using Communism as a shield for social injustice and urged support for a minimum wage as a remedy for wage-earner hardships.
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Chicago
George Cardinal Mundelein
Presbyterians Seek $225000 For Foreign Mission Campaign
The Southern Presbyterian Church aims to raise 225000 for foreign missions with 100000 devoted to extraordinary costs caused by Sino Japanese hostilities. Dr C Fulton executive secretary notes the conflict harms China missions. In addition to the emergency fund, the annual fund targets 125000. The drive closes February 6.
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Southern Presbyterian Church
C. Fulton
Church
Foreign Mission Committee
China
Presbyterian Church
United States
Far East
Fragmentary note on action and wages in Catholic context
The fragment mentions fifteen cents an hour and asserts a call for Catholic action, implying a stance or appeal within a religious or social reform frame. The text lacks clear actors, location, or date, leaving the exact event or organization unidentified.
Kozelah Returns to US With Decided Tennis Ideas
New York dispatch reports Kozelah, a veteran pro and former Davis Cup coach, back in the United States with strong views on the game and its players. He plans to coach in Florida this winter and defend his open title in April, praising Budge as an amateur and commenting on Von Cramm and Bobby Riggs.
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New York
Tenpro
Presen
United States
Florida
Europe
Bill Tilden
Don Budge
Budge
von Cramm
Bobby Riggs
Donny
Amteur
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W. B. Ofson
Turner
U. & Supreme Court
Morris Watson
Press Rter
Robert F. Wagner
Henry H. Dee II
Jucky
Bhetleyville
Taylor
Denhardt
Wast van Sweringen
Th van Suerineen
Seeotene
Yee
Allan P
Shove
Wilkes Barre
Stockton
Cal
Ige VI
Weser Abbey
London
Wallis Warfield
Monts
France
Ellis Parkers
Newark
N. J
Paul H. Wendel
Hauptmann
C. I
Ford
River Rouge
Baldy Mountain
Greer, Ariz
Dick Merrill
Jack Lambie
Atlantic
Spain
Windsor
North Pole
U. Oe
Ryan Valeri
Chkalow
Georgi Baidukov
Alexande Belaikov
Vancouver
Wasi
Camille Syantempe
Leon Blum
Twin
Ae Svaland
Republic Steel
Neville Chamberlain
Stanley Baldwin
Jay
Otto Idt
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr
King
Tom Girdler
Re Fic! Steel Corporation
Defyat Steel Unions
National Labor Relations] Board
Senate’ Post Office Committee
Monroe
Mich
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Presiden
Ethel. duPont
duPont Munitions
Wilming_ton, Del
Jean Harlow
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Miami
Fila
Cian
Cardinal
Kozelah
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