Bluefield adopts 1930-31 tax rate of 1.10 per hundred
Bluefield’s city board sets the fiscal year 1930-31 tax rate at $1.10 per $100 valuation and budgets $343,515.74 in disbursements. The administration hopes to lower the rate by at least ten cents next year as finances improve while retiring $81,925 in bond obligations and a $150,900 loan balance. A petition seeks a fire hydrant at Cornett and Valley View avenues amid new hydrant rating changes by West Virginia Underwriters.
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Bluefield
S. J. Sublette
Cornett Avenue
Valley View Avenue
Elmer C. Barton
Barton
Mem Ra
West Virginia Underwriters Association
West Virginia Water Service Company
Cornett
Schroeder and Dague seek new trial in death case
Irene Schroeder and W Glenn Dague of West Virginia appeal to Pennsylvania Supreme Court after Lawrence county court denied new trials for the December 1929 slaying of Corporal Brady Paul. They allege trial error over rejecting evidence of Schroeder being driven by irresistible impulse. If denied, they will petition Governor Fisher and the pardon board. no execution date has been set.
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Pittsburgh
Irene Schroeder
W. Glenn Dague
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Lawrence County Court
West Virginia
Brady Paul
Pennsylvania State Highway Patrol
New Castle
Schroeder
Germans Land Plane In New York Harbor
Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau completed an eight day flight from Germany landing in New York Harbor with three companions. They spoke of a mixture of storms and fog but remained optimistic about a possible return route. The welcome included the tug Macom and a harbor flotilla as crowds gathered near the Battery.
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New York
Wolfgang von Gronau
Germany
Iceland
Greenland
von Gronau
Chicago
Macom
Battery
Lon Chaney Dies in Los Angeles After Illness
Lon Chaney the silent film star known as the thousand faces died in a Los Angeles hospital from complications of pneumonia throat ailment and anemia after a ten day struggle. He was 47 and is survived by his wife Hazel Hastings Chaney and his son Creighton. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon.
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Los Angeles
Lon Chaney
Notre Dame
Chaney
Creighton
Hazel Hastings Chaney
Colorado Springs
Col
Universal Pictures
Hell Morgan
Carl Laemmle
Smedley Butler
Eddie Gribbon
Hoover names Thomas Walker Page to tariff commission
President Hoover appoints Thomas Walker Page to the Hawley Smoot tariff commission, with Page to take office September 16 alongside Henry P. Fletcher as chairman. The six member bipartisan body will have three Republicans and three Democrats, with four seats remaining to fill.
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Washington
Hoover
Tariff Commission
Thomas Walker Page
Page
United States Tariff Board
Taft
Wilson
Harding
Henry P. Fletcher
Pennsylvania
Edgar B. Broussard
Utah
Alfred P. Dennis
Maryland
Rev Dr David G Wylie Dies Outspoken Church Leader
The 73 year old Rev Dr David G Wylie president of the Lord's Day Alliance and longtime Presbyterian figure died suddenly at his summer home in Stony Brook New York after presiding at the twenty third annual general bible conference. He was a Yale Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary graduate and author of several religious books.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
David G. Wyle
Lord's Day Alliance
Wylie
Yale Divinity School
Union Theological Seminary
Collins Leads in Mississippi Congressional Contest
In Jackson Mississippi August 26 unofficial returns show Congressman Ross Collins leading Robert Harrelson Leake County state representative by about three to one in the only congressional contest in the Democratic East. Final percentages indicate Collins ahead by a wide margin.
Wellsburg officers probe wide robbery ring
West Virginia authorities pursue a large theft ring with about forty robberies across the western panhandle and neighboring states. Seven arrests made. more suspects sought. Windland confessed to seven Steubenville robberies including a $3000 Manu facturer's Light and Heat office heist. Cutlip and Dorsch named accomplices. Wives of Cutlip and Windland held as witnesses. Additional arrests in Bertha, Sabraton, and nearby counties. A trunk of stolen items tied to a Scio, Ohio robbery was found.
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Wellaburg
W. Va
Western Panhandle
Pennsylvania
Easttern Ohio
William J. Yost
Jefferson County
Ohio
Wellsburg
Clinton Windland
Bertha
Windland
C. J. Cutlip
Sabraton
Irvin Dorsch
Steubenville
Scio
I. W. Charnock
Brooke County
Windhland
Cambridge
Zanesville
White House drought relief court to use local banks
At a White House drought relief conference a plan was approved to use state or local credit corporations as the financial conduit between farmers and intermediate banks with a six percent maximum interest. A three banker subcommittee led by Melvin Traylor Nicholas Dosker and Morton Prentis will outline recommendations for state and federal action.
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Washington
White House
Hoover
Hyde
National Drought Committee
Melvin A. Traylor
Chicago
Nicholas Dosker
Louisville
Morton Prentis
Baltimore
Agriculture Department
Federal Farm Board
Federal Farm Loan Board
Federal Reserve Board
Henry M. Robinson
Los Angeles
Farm Board
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Ohio
Alabama
Cylde Hendricks
Tennessee Valley Bank
Arkansas
J. H. Stanley
State Bankers Association
Indiana
Elmer W. Stout
Indiana State Bankers Association
Illinois
Kansas
Spanish Legion Founder Milan Astray Plans U.S. Visit
General Jose Millan Astray founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion, scarred from battle and missing an arm and an eye, sails to visit America. He recalls a mysterious "Yanqui" who bought candy and flowers for his wife in a Moroccan hospital, a gesture he cannot forget.
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Tetuan
Spanish
Morocco
Africa
Jose Milan Astray
Spanish Foreign Legion
America
United States
French Foreign Legion
Yanqui
Millan
Yangui
Alfonso
Spain
Foreign Legion
Millan Astray
Borah Named Unopposed for Reelection in Idaho
Senator William E Borah Republican and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be unopposed for reelection in November. The Democratic and Republican state conventions in Idaho decided not to field a candidate against the veteran Borah.
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Idaho Falls
Ida
William FE. Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Idaho
St. Anthony
Borah
East River Bluefield Oakvale road approved and funded
Mercer county court announced the Bluefield to Oakvale mountain road will be built with about 17 miles of new route from Shumate's place to Ingleside plus grading on Crescent area. A Bucyrus-Erie steam shovel costing 10381.92 will aid earthworks as surveys begin and levies set for 1930.
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East River Mountain Road
Cumberland Pike
Bluefield
Oakvale
Mercer County
Shumate’s
East River
Ingleside
Wade Bailey
Court and Road Department
Bluestone Junction
Virginia
Pigeon Creek
Hale's Gap
Willowton
Close Democratic runoffs seen in South Carolina primary
In Columbia on August 26, 1924, South Carolina Democrats faced tight races with runoffs likely for the U S Senate and the governorship. Senator Cole L. Blease led among 592 of 1,528 precincts, tallying 29,141 to Byrnes 25,259 and Harrie 10,230.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolinia
United States Senate
Cole L. Blease
Blease
Byrnes
Harrie
Fire destroys Bloomsburg iron plant of 300 workers
The American Car and Foundry plant in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, burned completely destroying fifteen frame buildings. Officials estimate losses between 400000 and 500000. Heat and explosions aided spread. cause undetermined as fire crews from nearby towns fought to prevent spread to homes and businesses.
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Bloomsburg
American Car and Foundry Company
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Rolph Leads Republican Governor Primary in California
With 51 precincts reported out of 10 283 in California, Mayor James Rolph Jr leads the GOP primary. Rolph shows 22 478 votes, incumbent C C Young 14 017, Burton Fitts 10 355, Milton Young 232.
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Rolph
San Francisco
James Rolph Jr
C. C. Young
Burton Fitts
Los Angeles
Milton Young
Rum Runner Speedboat Captured Off Newport After Shootout
Three alleged rum runners were captured aboard a liquor laden speedboat off Newport after a chase in which one man was shot and wounded. The wounded crewman, known as Chips Munson of Fall River, Mass., lay under guard at a Newport hospital. The vessel, described by coast guard officers as elaborate, had three Liberty motors and a mahogany hull.
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Newport
R. I
Chips” Munson
Fall River
Mass
Coast Guard
134
Prudence Island
Providence
Munson
Peru Junta Accepts Leguia Resignation and Plans Trial
Lima reports the provisional government accepted Augusto B. Leguia’s resignation after a naval surrender of the cruiser Almirante Grau. The junta outlines aims, pledges amnesty for political prisoners, and vows Leguia will face trial for his eleven years in power.
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Lima
Peru
Augusto B. Leguia
Almirante Grau
Callao
McCormack
Leguia
Associated Pross
Panama
la Prensa
Luis Sanchez Cerro
Arequipa
Sanchez Cerro
Manuel Maria Ponce
el Commercio
Congress
Californians Die In Suspected Beach Murder Near Ensenada
A man identified as Francis Conlon of Monrovia and his fiancée Lois Marion Kentle were found stabbed to death on a beach south of Ensenada, with a second man missing. Police and military hunted the missing companion, suspected of killing the couple in a possible drunken rage or jealousy. Items found include a copy of The End of a Honeymoon and receipts showing Monrovia purchases. The couple had traveled from Monrovia to Pasadena with another married couple.
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San Diego
Cal
Francis Conlon
Monrovia
Lois Marion Kentle
Ensenada
Lower California
California
Conlon
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Reading for zest guides West Virginia teachers
Annual Teachers Institute session at Beaver High School in Bluefield draws about 400 junior and senior teachers from southwest Virginia and West Virginia. Dr. J. N. Deahl and Prof. Oliver Shurtleff urge sane reading, biographies of sports figures, and student freedom to choose materials to foster lifelong learning.
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Oliver Shurtleff
Pairmont College
Bluefield
High School Institute
Beaver High School
Southest
Virginia
Spenkere
J. B. Shouse
Mars College
Huntington
Fairmont College
Fairmont
James Edward Rogers
National Physical Loecration Service
New York City
C. W. Jackson
J. N. Deahl
West Virgin
Cement States College
West Virginia
Connie Mack
Walter Johnson
Yest
Shurtles
West Virginia University
Memphis Woman Wins Dixie Derby
Mrs. Phebe Omlie of Memphis won the women's class B Dixie air derby from Washington, D C, at Curtiss Reynolds Airport Chicago finishing at 3 16 p m in 11 hours 42 minutes 21 seconds. Runner up was Mrs. Martie Bowman of Hempstead New York with 14 hours 48 minutes 89 seconds. Laura Ingalls of St Louis finished third in 16 47 26. Two competitors did not place and another was reported out.
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Curtiss Reynolds
Chicago
Phebe Omlie
Memphis
Tenn
Washington, D. C
Omlie
Martie Bowman
Hempstead
N. Y
Laura Ingalls
St. Louis
Nancy Hopkins
Garden City
Charity Langsdon
Norfolk
Vera Dawn Walker
Los
Birmingham
Ala
Miss Houme
Miss Langdon
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David G. Wylie
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Panhandle
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Banker
U. S
South Carolina
American Iron Plant
Junta
Chieftian
Bluefield High
Memphis Woman
Phoebe Omlie
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