N W Road Wins Directed Verdict In Damage Suit
A directed verdict for Norfolk and Western in the 1929 death of Annie Terek is handed down in federal court. Mike Terek, administrator, sought 10000 for his 9 year old daughter who fell over a tunnel mouth onto electrified wires at Superior McDowell county. Plaintiff plans to appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals as civil docket clears for criminal work.
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United States District Court
Mike Terek
Annie Terek
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Terek
Annie
Superior
McDowell County
Norfolk and Western
M. D. Herzbrun
Welch
Momia
Saline McClintic
Felows
Charles H. Young
Fayette County
Hubert Young
John Hatcher
Carl Hodges
Stewart York
Woman acquitted in illegal operation death case at Keyser
Miss Luella Whetsel of Harrisonburg Va was found not guilty by a Keyser jury after five hours and six ballots on charges of complicity in performing an illegal operation linked to the death of Lonnie Beckone a Harrisonburg student nurse in 1928. Dr Otto Fisher serves a ten year term in West Virginia prison for performing an illegal operation. An explosion of a tear gas bomb startled the courtroom as Senator George A Conrad spoke for the defense.
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Keyser
Luella Whetsel
Harrisonburg
Lonnie Beckone
Aot
Miss Whetsell
Miss Whetsel
Otto Fisher
West Virginia
Miss Weisel
Ernest A. Lee
Miss Beekone
George A. Conrad
James G. Wright
Conrad
Model Husband to Die in Electric Chair for Murder
John Preston a 32 year old Chicago painter described as a model husband was sentenced to die in the electric chair on February 19 for the October murder of Miss Agnes Johnston. Johnston’s body was found after a Saturday night outing with Preston, Miss Mathilda Murphy, and another companion. she was beaten and strangled, Preston’s rented car found nearby and his wife testified Preston had been a model husband.
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Prestom
Bravery Of Workmen Will Be Recognized
A coroner's jury in Point Aux Outardes Quebec ruled the death of Peter Trans a diving accident and urged recognition of Arvo Silvala of Ottawa who, though untrained in diving, repeatedly descended to try to free Trans. The inquest covered the facts of the underwater death and the rescuers' efforts.
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Point Aux Outardes
Quebec
Arvo Silvala
Ottawa
Peter Trans
Silvala
Trans
Star Spangled Banner allegiance debate at Capitol Hill
Veterans and supporters fill the House Judiciary Committee room in Washington as two sopranos perform the national anthem amid calls for congressional recognition. Walter Joyce of the Veterans of Foreign Wars invokes San Juan Hill, declaring the song ours forever. A petition of 5 million plus letters and telegrams backs the measure.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Elsie Jorserenley
Grace Evelyn Bouldlin
Baltimore
Walter Joyce
Veterans of Foreign War
San Juan Hill
Priests Guard Bishop Anderson's Bier At St James
Mourners filed through St James cathedral in Chicago as priests kept vigil over the body of Charles Palmerston Anderson. The procession stretched outside as two hour guard changes continued amid preparations for tomorrow's funeral. Bishop Griswold will celebrate the requiem and Bishop Burleson will read burial sentences with clergy from across the country attending.
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Chicago
St. James
National Episcopal Church
Charles Palmerston Anderson
Sheldon M. Griswold
Hugh Latimer Burleson
South Dakota
Miners Walk Out At Horton Coal In Nortonville
Four hundred Horton Coal miners walked off two Nortonville shafts after a strike vote following a failed wage demand. District 23 president W D Duncan said a statewide action depends on international authorization. John Lewis had not called a meeting to resolve the dispute as a committee report awaits his action.
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Nortonville
Horton Coal Company
W. D. Duncan
John Lewis
Wheat hits new low as frost rumors lift later session
Wheat sank to a record low near 1.13 7 8 a bushel for March as frost in the winter wheat area sparked late buying. The close was unchanged to 3-8 cent higher than Friday with subsequent rallies lifting May, July, and September contracts to 1.20 1 2, 1.22 3 8, and 1.24 5 8 respectively.
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Chicago
Prohibition Debate Highlights Benefits Amid Enforcement Shuffle
Representative Franklin W. Fort argues that prohibition remains essential while allowing home production of beer and light wine. The House reconvenes to reconsider transferring enforcement to the Justice Department and to draft new industrial alcohol regulations. Senate actions involve investigations into city administrator Joan Herbert and possible hearings on repealing the eighteenth amendment.
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Washington
Franklin W. Fort
White House
New Jersey
Hoover
Fort
Friends of Temperance
Lehrbach
House Expenditures Committee
Prohibition Enforcement Unit
Treasury
Justice Department
Attorney General
Secretary of the Treasury
Williamson
Prohibition Bureau
Pubicea Department
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Prohibition
James M. Doran
Joan F. J. Herbert
Montana
Frank S. Flynn
Legal Department
The
Prohibition Unit
Herbert
Alfred EB. Smith
New York
House Judiciary Committee
Net Bloc
Graham
West Rum liquor ring testimony in Oklahoma City
Ruth Morgan May testified in federal court that she observed money collected for liquor protection and delivered to Randall Pitman and Frank Fox, county leaders, with Oscar Motley in charge of central collections. She described a three-way split of proceeds among Pitman Fox Knappenberger Fuller and Motley.
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Oklahoma City
Ruth Morgan May
Swertheart
Randall Pitman
Pottawatomie
Frank Fox
Oscar Motley
Bharlasboro
Fox
Pitman
Roy Grace
Fox and Pitman
Herman Knappenberger
Marion Fuller
Earnsboro
Motley
Senate votes to restore hydraulic cement to free list
The Senate approved restoring hydraulic cement to the free list. Director General Jones of the U S employment service clashed with Representative Free on Mexican immigration. A year-old speech by Senator Grundy criticizing President Hoover for lack of legislative experience was heard by the Senate lobby committee. Representative Fort told the House the prohibition law satisfies Americans by permitting beer and wine production.
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Associated Press
Senate
Jones
United States Employment Service
Representative Free
Senate Lobby Committee
Senator Grundy
President Hoover
Representative Fort
House
Tme
Alderson Sexton Dies After Illness At 32
Henry Alderson Sexton 32 Bluefield attorney and former American Legion commander died Friday at Bluefield sanitarium after an operation for ruptured appendix. Funeral Sunday at parental home in Bluefield Va with multiple pastors officiating. Interment Maple Hill cemetery follows. Born May 19, 1897 in Tazewell Va, he moved to Graham as a youth.
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Henry Alderson Sexton
Bluefield
American Legion
W. L. Sexton
Sanders Drive
Mr. Sexton
Tazewell
Graham
Conflicting Testimony in Iron Police Case at Franklin
At Franklin Pennsylvania on January 31 testimony conflicted over whether coal miner John Borkowski died from a fall or from blows. Defense argues a fall caused rib fractures while a physician says shock from injuries and blows led to death. Defendants Lyster Watts and Slapskas face involuntary manslaughter charges related to the February death.
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Franklin
John Borkowski
Coal and Iron
Walter J. Lyster
Harold Watts
Frank Slapskas
Borkowski
Charles B. Schildecker
Pittsburgh
F. M. Somerville
Oil City
Watts
Imperial
Allegheny County
No Indictment In Coast Guard Death Case
A Buffalo grand jury returned a no bill against three US Coast Guard members in the December harbor shooting of Eugene F. Downey Jr. The panel found insufficient evidence on a second degree manslaughter charge as Downey died after being shot when he failed to stop his speedboat. his companion escaped.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Grand
United States Coast Guard
Eugene F. Downey
Downey
Coast
Wife Keeps Husband Awake Nights Reading Verse
New York real estate broker Alden 8 Condict testified that his wife read her own verse at night, kept him awake, in a suit for 170000 dollars for alleged alienation of affections against his former parents in law.
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New York
Alden
Condict
John Alden
Oo Beins Beer
de Ste Seo Cou
Biffle Perjury Charge Dismissed in LA Court
In Los Angeles on January 31 the superior court dismissed perjury charges against Garland Biffle a law book salesman who testified for theater magnate Alexander Pantages in his assault trial removal of the count ends the case linked to the high profile Pantages matter.
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Los Angeles
Garland Biffle
Alexander Pantages
Biffle
Pantages
Penny Pair Held for Grand Jurors on Four Charges
New Castle Pennsylvania January 31 Mrs Irene Schroeder and W Glenn Dague were held for the grand jury on murder felonious assault battery highway robbery and manslaughter charges in the death of Highway Patrolman Brady Paul. A preliminary hearing followed and witnesses including Howard Kelly Dr Paul Wilson Private Ernest Moore and Ray Horton testified. Schroeder smiled during the hearing while Dague remained sullen.
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New Castle
Irene Schroeder
W. Glenn Dague
Brady Paul
Paul
Paul Wilson
Ernest Moore
Ray Horton
Moore
Butler Road
Dague
Horton
Lobby probes hear Grundy’s old views on Hoover
Senate investigators reviewed a January speech by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Joseph R. Grundy given before Hoover’s inauguration. Grundy said the president “doesn't know anything at all from experience what legislation means” amid tariff bill concerns. Hobbs of Boston said the Wool Manufacturers Association did not share that view.
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Washington
Senate
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Hoover
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Grundy
Congress
Franklin W. Hobbs
Boston
Wool Association
Taxicab Officials Deny Internal Strife Slayings
Chicago officials from the Checker Taxicab company denied internal strife motivated the killings of Barney J. Mitchell, a company treasurer, and George Jackson, a driver. President Robert McLaughlin and others answered questions at detective headquarters after the bodies were found in a cab at dawn.
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Chicago
Checker
Barney J. Mitchell
George Jackson
Robert McLaughlin
Harry S. Gordon
Max Raifman
Samuel Weinshanker
Lester Bauer
Tragic Death Of Four Year Old In Beckley Fire Accident
Wanda Jean Thomson four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Thomson of Affinity died in a Beckley hospital from burns suffered when papers near an open fireplace ignited her dress. The incident occurred after she was playing with papers near the fire.
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Beckley
W. Va
Wanda Jean Thomson
William Thomson
Affinity
Beckley Hospital
Nanuk air crew tied to Siberian crash search continues
Nome Alaska January 21 six pilots and airplanes from the fur trading vessel Nanuk remain iced in at North Cape Siberia while Carl Ben Kielson and Earl Borland missing since November are sought. Wreckage from the Eielson Borland plane was located ninety miles southeast of North Cape last Saturday.
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Nome
Alaska
North Cape
Siberia
Carl Ben Kielson
Earl Borland
Joe Crosson
Eielson
Borland
Fourteen Sailors Lost As Tug Sinks In Gulf
A Standard Oil tanker report says the tug Edgar F. Coney sank in the Gulf of Mexico with the loss of 14 crew members. The tug, on its first trip after overhaul, was towing a barge from Port Arthur to Mobile when the disaster occurred. The cause is unknown and a search by the tug Asher J. Hudson was begun.
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Beaumont
Texas
Liebre
Edgar F. Coney
Gulf of Mexico
M. T. Ball
Sabine Towing Company
Port Arthur
Asher J. Hudson
British Motor Ship Seized as Suspected Rum Runner
San Pedro California January 31 UPI A British motor ship the Northern Register was seized by a U S coast guard patrol off San Nicholas Island suspected of rum running A preliminary search found a half case of whiskey and twenty four bottles of beer The coast guard said the vessel had already landed liquor on the American coast
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San Pedro
Cal
UPI
Northern Register
United States Coastguard
San Nicholas Island
Crabtree Kin Build Defense in Murder Trial
In Romney West Virginia on January 31 relatives of Walter Crabtree testified to his alleged mania for killing animals and abusing family members as part of an insanity defense in the triple murder case. They described threats with guns knives and fists and incidents including cats killed and a stove set to kill a rat.
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Edith Crabtree
Pruntytown Reform School
bin E. Miller
British Delegates Stall Five Power Conference Draft
The London meeting halted as Britain could not fill two seats on a special committee representing all dominions. France proposed a six class tonnage plan with transferable percentages, but gaps remain and full conference talks will continue to fill them.
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London
The
Frenne
New Spanish Dictator Ends Student Strife
Madrid reports the new government under General Daumaso Berencuer releases detained student leaders and pardons Maria Sbert amid early moves to calm university unrest. The Duke of Alba as education minister signals conciliatory policy after Primo de Rivera’s downfall.
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Madrid
Daumaso Berencuer
Primo de Riveria
Duke of Alba
Maria Sbert
Primo
Soviet Orders Envoys to Close Mexican Post
Moscow orders Russian legation in Mexico City closed, marking full severance of relations after Mexico recalled diplomats in protest of anti Communist demonstrations outside Mexican embassies in Washington Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro earlier.
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Mexico City
Alexander Makar
Mexico
Moscow
Thies
Washing
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Doctors identify mystery disease in Virginia deaths
Bristol reports doctors linked a rare pneumonia with blood poisoning to four Rector deaths in Clinchburg and a fifth victim, 2 year old Bertha McAllister of Saltville, with no family contact between the two families. The disease is Bacillus cosus capsulatus septicemia.
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Bristol
Charlie Rector
Clinebburg
Bertha McAllister
Dan McAllister
Saltville
Clinchburg
R. P. Campbell
Rector - McAllister
Senator Goff urge freight cut on export coal
West Virginia Senator Guy D. Goff met with Secretary Lamont and Secretary Davis to press for reduced freight rates on coal exports. He cited rising 1928 1929 export volumes and foreign competition, arguing a 50 cent per ton cut is needed to help U S coal reach Mediterranean and South American markets and boost 1950 employment.
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Washington
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Lamont
Department of Commercce
Davis
Department of Labor
Goff
Shipping Board
Great Britain
Germany
Poland
Mediterranean
South America
Tidewater
Senators push sober standards for federal officers
Senate Judiciary Chairman Norris and Senator Borah signaled a shift toward enforcing the wider duty of law enforcement over the dry law. They said nominees must enforce all laws and questioned personal habits but avoided probing unless there is a clear charge. They oppose fanaticism and uphold prohibition without total abstinence tests.
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Washington
Norris
Senate Judiciary Committee
Marshal
Borah
Idaho
Judiciary Committee
Mitchell
Filipino Dance Halls in Los Angeles Closed
Los Angeles police announced the temporary closure of a Filipino dance hall at the request of Filipino patrons. Three Filipino youths were beaten by Americans. the incidents were reported as disturbances in the northern part of the city, with details linked to local actions by authorities and the hall's ownership.
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Los Angeles
RK. J. Chambers
Aluia
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