Evening star., 1934-06-03
OIILO URGED AS HARONZER NNEW YORK RACE
WEST VIRGINIA TO SEND
CONVICTS ONROAD WORK
One Thousand State Prisoners Will Be
Given Highway Jobs to Relieve
Congested Jails.

relieve congested conditions, at least
temporarily.
Five hundred prisoners held in
county jails will be taken to the
Moundsville Penitentiary as soon as
the road work program is fully un-
der way.
Guards for the convicts will be
supplied by the prison, and super
visors by the Road Commission.
Gov. Kump said every convict
qualified for outdoor work" will be
assigned to highway labor wherever
practicable.
The transfer is the most sweeping
step taken by State officials to re-
heve overcrowding at the prison.
Further conferences on the road
work program will be held next week
by the Governor with the State Board
of Control Road Commissioner E. L.
Bailey and Warden McClintic.
Strike Is Settled.
A week-old strike Of 100 workers
on relief projects at Grafton was set
tied after intervention by the State
Relief Administration.
The workers walked out claiming
the 30 cents an hour paid them was
less than the prevailing wage in the
community. The pay was boosted
to IS cents.
Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox will
make a thorough check on all busi-
neSSes in various cities Of the State
to determine whether they are paying
the 2 per cent consumers sales tax
and other license fees.
He ordered all field agents to report
in Charleston on June to start the
census of the capitals business estab-
lishments.
One phase Of the application Of the
consumers tax will await a Federal
court ruling.
Owners of the river steamer Wash
ington, whose purser was arrested,
charged with failure to collect the
tax. filed test action, claiming boats
plying navigable streams in interstate
commerce are subject to Federal
jurisdiction and not to a State tax.
Practically every city and town in
the State joined in observance of
Memorial day.
Gov. Kump led the memorial serv-
ices with an address at the national
cemetery in Grafton. He pleaded for
a sympathetic understanding by our
people" to preserve the fundamental
ideals that made our Nation great"
Mrs. Roosevelt's Visit.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt mac
| her first visit into Southern West Viz
ginia to inspect the Anderson Fedora
Industrial Institution for Women.
The First Lady described 1t as a
wonderful institution" and ate the reg
ulsr fare given the $50 woman in
mates, all sentenced for violations OF
| Federal laws.
The Kanawha County Common
Pleas Court dissolved the first injunc-
ton granted under the States N. r.
A. enforcement act which restrained
price cuts by three Charleston dry
cleaners.
Dissolution followed the N. R. AS
action in removing the ce-fxing
clauses from the cleaning and dyeing
industry.
Other news developments of the
week included:
A $4,000 fire swept Maiden, the old
est town in Kanawha County, blocking
traffic on the principal highway
through Southern West Virginia.
Monroe Jack Clancy, IA, Of Hunt
ington, was decapitated, and Fred
Lane, 13, was drowned. as their skiff
ran into the stern wheel Of towhoat
at Huntington.
S. H. Jegg, so. of Quinwood, an as
sistant mine foreman, and Tom Ca
vello, also of Quinwood, were killed
in an automobile wreck.
Miss Cloe McCumber, 18, Of Mill
Fork, died in an automobile crash near
Glenville.
A zero milestone was established in
Charleston by the road commission for
measurement of all road distances.