Analysis of AGT Fails to Disclose Benefit 10 State
Morgantown West Virginia December 19. A law school analysis of the 1929 West Virginia water power act finds it favors private utilities and could grant a permanent monopoly on an entire watershed. Professor J W Simonton says the act permits licensing of full river development by public utility corporations at nominal cost with minimal state recapture power. The study compares U S statutes and cites extensive authorities. It concludes the act risks gifting valuable resources to utilities and may burden future generations.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia
J. W. Simonton
West Virginia University
West Virginia Law Quarterly
Simonton
Law College
United States
Chinese suspect takes what experts call peculiar oath
In a candle lit San Francisco prison room Lui Fook swore a purification oath to prove his innocence in the fatal strangling of widow Mrs Roseta Baker. An indictment against Fook was dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence, with no motive established and the body found at her apartment.
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San Francisco
Lui Fook
Roseta Baker
Lui
Fook
Ministers Conference to Name Officers in Clarksburg
Clarksburg West Virginia will host the state ministers conference next Monday morning to elect officers and set the date for the next state gathering. Dr A H Rapking secretary from Laceneer announced the plan.
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Ministers
Clarksburg
W. Va
State Ministers’ Conference Commission
A. H. Rapking
Laceneer
Washington Drought Relief and Senate Funding Movements
The House and Senate approved a $45 million drought relief bill. A $116 million public works measure saw House rejection of three Senate amendments. The Senate campaign funds committee heard that Robert H. Lucas aided in opposing Senator Norris’s re election. Walsh proposed oil shale probe. The House approved a $213 million agri department appropriation. Senate confirmed Ralph B. Williamson and Claude L. Draper to the power commission as Commissioner Doran ordered probes into deaths from suspected poison liquor.
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Associated Press
House
Senate
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Executive Committee
Norris
Lucas
Walsh
Montana
Agrione Department
Ralph B. Williamson
Claude L. Draper
Power Commission
Doran
Christmas Tree Fund Drives On To Reach Goal
About $1200 has been collected and pledged for the Community Christmas Tree fund as of midnight at WHIS. The radio station will stay on the air until the extra $300 is raised, with $500 already pledged. Donations may be made at WHIS or the Daily Telegraph Printing Co. The December 25 program featured local artists and groups and aims to aid ~1000 children. Boy Scouts will collect and repair donated toys, with dolls prepared for girls listening to the tree. 7T. O. J. Wilson chairs the committee.
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WHIS
Daily Telegraph Printing Company
Ridge Runners
Lions
Rotary Quartet
Bozo and His Gang
Amos and
Andy
Sketches
Santa Claus
Boy Scouts
Boy Scout
O'J. Wilson
Pittsburgh Officers Nab Robber Suspect
Pittsburgh detectives arrested Charles Forney 23 of Avonmore for the December 6 holdup of the Allengheny Trust company in Verona in which cashier Charles H. McFarland 35 was shot and killed. Detec tive Robert L. Ellwood Jr. found him at an aunt’s home after a week long surveillance prompted by a car left behind the dwelling. Letters on Forney hinted he was hiding and referenced relatives urging caution.
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Pittsburgh
Allengheny Trust Company
Verona
Charles H. McFarland
Charles Forney
Avonmore
Robert L. Ellwood Jr
Monongahela
Forney
Senegalese Soldier Runs Amuck at Fort Duserrat Siege
In Perpignan France a Senegalese soldier barricaded himself in a concrete vault at Fort Duserrat with 2,000 troops gendarmes and police at bay. He opened fire at noon killing three soldiers and wounding two before taking refuge in the vault. Two more soldiers were wounded during the capture attempt and the fort commander ordered a siege.
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Perpignan
France
Fort Duserrat
French Deputies Story: Steeg Wins Lock on Power
Paris reports Premier Theodore Steeg secured a presidential decree suspending parliament until January. The move astonished the opposition who expected a senate debate to gain a larger majority. Deputies adjourned for vacation amid furor and noisy protests in the chamber.
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Steeg
Paris
France
Theodore Steeg
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Oberon Sinks Off Danish Coast After Collision
Fourty persons drowned when the Finnish steamer Oberon sank in three minutes after colliding with the Arcturus off the Danish coast in dense fog. Vessels rushed to the scene and stood by as rescue efforts began.
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Danish
London
Copenhagen
Arcturus
Oberon
Doomed Obern Sinks After Collision in Fog
About a dozen people are missing after the 3000 ton Finnish steamer Obern sank near Lessoe Trindel lightship following a collision with the Arec turus in dense fog. Obern carried nineteen passengers and sixty crew. lifeboats were launched and many were found by Arc turus as search continued with Swedish gunboat Svenskund arriving on scene.
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Copenhagen
Obern
Lessoe Trindel
Arecturus
Arcturus
Svenskund
Oberon
Bodies of Victims Sought After Fishing Launch Capsizes
San Francisco authorities search for nine missing and presumed drowned from a capsized fishing launch off Tomales Bay. Two farm youths Ornburn and Grant Gray barely survived after attempting to help, recounting how a woman aboard jumped into the water and pulled others into a perilous rescue. Names linked to the Augustine and Frease families are among the missing.
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San Francisco
Ornburn
Grant Gray
Ornburn Gray
Jack Frease
Marconi
Tomales Bay
Helen Frease
Mary Frease
Antone Augustine
Marshall
Bayside Village
Gertrude
Virginia Augustine
Daniel Augustine
Manuel Augustine
Lindberghs Fight Flames In Plane
Charles A. Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow rapidly controlled a motor fire in their mono plane at Baltimore on December 19. Lindbergh acted with a fire extinguisher while Mrs. Lindbergh shut off fuel and ignition to prevent disaster delaying their flight to Newark.
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Baltimore
Charles A. Lindbergh
William H. Wilmer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hoover Sends Christmas Greetings To Veterans
President Hoover issued a Christmas message to disabled veterans expressing grateful remembrance for their service. He wished happiness in the new year and hoped for health restoration and comfort for those in hospitals and at home.
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Washington
Hoover
Princeton Rail Men Win Decision
The U S circuit court of appeals at Richmond Va affirmed the West Virginia court ruling for Chambers Fitzgerald and Hylton all of Princeton against the Virginian railway for back wages in a labor dispute dating to 1922. Each man was awarded about 2500 for lost wages after being kept from regular jobs during a Brotherhood strike.
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United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
United States Court For
Southern District
West Virginia
Chambers
Fitzgerald
Hylton
Princeton
Virginia Railway
Brotherhood of the Locomotive Engineers
Virginian
Chambere, Fitzgerald and Hylton
United States Labor Board
Labor Board
Southern District of
Bluefield
Virginian Railway
States Circuit Court of Appeals
Ritz
Pizzino Indicted in Buckley Murder Case
Detroit December 19. Ted Pizzino once proprietor of a local night club was indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Gerald E Buckley last summer. He was extradited from New York after a four month fight and joins Joe Bommarrito and Angelo Livecchi among those charged. Buckley, a political commentator for WMBC, was shot in the La Salle hotel lobby on July 23.
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Detroit
Ted Pizzino
Gerald E Buckley
Pizzino
New York
Buckley
Joe Bommarrito
Angelo Livecchi
WMBC
la Salle Hotel
James Dunn Found Guilty of Murder in Tyler County
A Tyler county jury convicted James Dunn of voluntary manslaughter in the slaying of three year old Garlan Bayless at a Grandview Island party. The jury rejected first degree murder. Dunn faces one to five years, with sentence deferred to December 26. Ray Pat Henry will be retried starting December 26 after a hung jury in his earlier trial.
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Ray Pat Henry
Middlebourne
W. Va
Tyler County
James Dunn
Garlan Bayless
Grandview Island
Ohio River
Charles Henry
Clyde McBee
Dunn
Eva Bailey
McBee
Tyter
Wetzel
Virginia officer slain in dry raid near Warsaw
James Newton Woods, 28, a top prohibition officer in Virginia, was killed during a raid near Warsaw. Randolph Cox, 39, a local farmer, was jailed after being charged with the shooting. State Inspector R. S. Durette and Frank M. Wood reported Cox fired after being wounded.
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Richmond
James Newton Woods
Saunders
Warsaw
Randolph Cox
R. S. Durette
Frank M. Wood
Richmond County
Durette
Cox
J. N. Wood
Newton
Master Of Adventure Boat Planning North Pole Voyage
Commander Danenhower will lead the Nautilus on Sir Hubert Wilkins polar submarine expedition. The voyage targets under ice travel from Nova Scotia to Spitzbergen and Alaska with undersea charting and scientific data collection.
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U. S
New York
Jules Verne
France
Cristen
Philadelphia
Clean Danenhower
Hubert Wilkins
North Pole
Danenhower
Jean Jules Verne
Rouen
United States Navy
Nova Scotia
Pole
Bermunda
Spitzbergen
Azores
England
Norway
Bering Sea
Alaska
Drought relief bill passes Senate for loans to farmers
The senate approved a 45 million dollar drought relief measure to loan farmers in drought areas for next year. The bill goes to President Hoover after Democratic criticism over lack of direct food loan provisions. Officials say seed loan machinery will distribute funds promptly if approved.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Senate
Farm Board
Borah
Idaho
Black
Alabama
Interior Department
Howell
Republican
Nebraska
United States
Norris
McNary
Oregon
House
Georgia
Couzens
Michigan
Barkley
Kentucky
Caraway
Arkansas
Heflin
Connally
Texas
Barkeley
Red Cross
Europe
Russia
Department of Agriculture
Guzik Acquitted On Vagrancy Charge In Capone Era Case
Chicago reports Jack Guzik the Capone era watchdog was acquitted of a vagrancy charge after a quick jury decision. Federal sentencing for income tax fraud awaits, tied to a fortune earned in three years. Separately Danny Stanton and bodyguard Edgar Smith were ordered back to Wisconsin to face Jack Zuta murder charges after a habeas hearing.
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Chicago
Jack Guzik
al Capone
Treasury
Guzik
Swanson
Cook County
James Burke
Danny Stanton
Edgar Smith
Stanton
Smith
Wisconsin
Jack Zuta
Agriculture Supply Bill Passed by House
The 213 million dollar agriculture department annual supply bill was approved today by the House and sent to the Senate. It includes 125 million for federal highway aid 12.6 million for forest roads and trails and provisions for the weather bureau enforcing the grain futures act and combating crop pests and livestock diseases.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
House
Senate
Weather Bureau
Violent Upswing in Carrier Stocks Stuns Wall Street
New York December 19 violent rebound drives rail stock gains as bond values rise 10 to 20 per 1 000. Analysts call it a technical reaction from oversold conditions amid hopes of railroad consolidation plans in a four trunk line scheme.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Eastern Railway
Pennsylvania
Legih
Chesapeake and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Reading
New York Central
Lackawanna
Mercer Lawyers to Meet Dec in Bar Association Session
Mercer County Bar Association holds its twenty seventh annual meeting December 31 at the West Virginian hotel with discussions on compulsory auto insurance taxation and possible changes to West Virginia's tax system. Over twenty members expected to join in informal debates and prepare resolutions for adoption.
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Mercer County Bar Association
West Virginia
West Virginian
Bar Association
Budget Board Urged to Support Advertising Fund
Hearings on the 1931 West Virginia budget concluded with appeals for a $25,000 technical scholarship fund at Linsly Institute Wheeling and for state advertising. Proponents and opponents debated funding for an egg and poultry packing plant at Parkersburg as part of the two year revenue allocation.
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Linsly Institute
Wheeling
West Virginia
Parkersburg
Ralph Mason
O. R. Hardman
Spencer Banker
Guy F Holden
George C. Beneke
Thomas O'B. Flynn
Rees B. Johnston
State Department of Agriculture
Johnson
Gunmen Battle Riot in Southwest St Louis Streets
In a late night gun battle in St Louis 6D, gunmen in three motorcars exchanged heavy fire. gangster Louis Mulronney, 32, was killed with eight bullet wounds. Police tie the clash to a November machine gun slaying. Water department employee witnesses say a coupe, touring car, and large sedan fired on Mulronney and his attackers before fleeing.
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St. Louis
Louis Mulronney
Dewey
Lester Barth
Mulconney
Locomotive Firemen Cut Hours to Create Jobs
Five thousand Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad firemen have voluntarily shortened their working hours to free positions for additional workers. H. McGee executive vice president announced the plan aims to provide more than time employment for about 100 men not regularly employed.
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St. Louis
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rail
H. McGee
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Lindberghs
Anne
Virginia
Capone Watchdog
Mercer Lawyers
Budget Board
Charleston
State Budget Commission
John Roscoe Turner
Conley
Louis Streets
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