Washington centennial fever grips society and markets
The era marks a widespread celebration of Washington’s 200th anniversary with parties, fashions, candy and pies profiting from Bicentennial branding. Society figures parade red white and blue outfits while speeches surge, and political discourse shifts to patriotic revival across the nation. A man from West Virginia visits our office, recalls coal era names, and notes historic figures from Mercer and McDowell counties.
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George Washington
Washington
Hoover signs expansion bill to defend economy
President Hoover signed the Glass-Steagall expansion measure calling it a national defense act. He praised nonpartisan action and voiced optimism that the bill would free gold reserves, expand credit by up to 10 billion dollars and currency by 3.5 billion, stabilizing agriculture, industry, and commerce amid a end to foreign economic blows. The plan would rediscount for smaller banks and release gold backing, with about 750 million in gold freed from currency reserves.
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Washington
Halling
Federal Reserve Banks
Hoover
Congress
United States
Federal Reserve System
Bandit 6 Killed In Casing Hold Up
In Miami a six foot armed bandit led a casino raid at Embassy night club. A. Y. Yarborough, Lakeland grocer, was killed by a watchman during the confrontation. T. Philip Perkins, former British amateur golf champion, and five others were wounded as police and casino guards fought the robbers who took no money. Perkins forfeited the Dixie amateur golf title to Tommy Goodwin after the wound.
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Miami
Fla
T. Philip Perkins
Embassy
Perkins
Tommy Goodwin
Monroe
N. Y
A. Y. Yarborough
Lakeland
Fila
Bert Muth
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Peanut Lodged Air Passage Removed From Young Patricia Francis
A two year old girl, Patricia Ann Francis of Mullens, formerly Bluefield, had a peanut lodged in her airway. It was removed yesterday at the Jackson Clinic in Philadelphia after being in the right lung since last Sunday. The child was moved from Bluefield to Philadelphia with family help after hospital treatment at Bluefield Sanitarium.
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Uttle
Patricia Ann Francis
M. R. Francias
Mullens
Bluefield
Jackson Clinic
Philadelphia
C. E. Francis
Third Street
Bluefield Sanitarium
C. E. Francia
Sanitarium
McKinley Evans Found Guilty of Murder in First Degree
McKinley Evans, former Honaker police chief, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Russell county circuit court and sentenced to life imprisonment after a two hour jury deliberation. Deputy Sheriff Henry Yates was mortally wounded on December 26, 1931, during an arrest in Honaker. he died the next day. Ham Evans faces separate trial starting Monday.
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McKinley Evans
Honaker
Henry Yates
Russell County
Lebanon
Yates
Evans
Richlands
Ham Evans
McDowell County
McComas Man Fatally Shot by Singleton Law at McComas
James Lawson, a Black man, was shot to death at McComas late last night by Singleton Law, another Black man. Sheriff J Otis Bowling, unaware of the dispute, with state police, traveled from Princeton to McComas after being notified early this morning.
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James Lawson
McComas
Singleton Law
J. Otis Bowling
Bowling
Sheriff Bowling
Princeton
McComag
High Water Takes Toll Of Fourteen
Seattle dispatch reports fourteen dead as flood waters from heavy rains and warm weather following record snowfall cut roads and isolated towns in Washington and north Idaho. River overflows, avalanche deaths in the Cascades, and widespread property damage prompted Red Cross relief funding and emergency measures.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Idaho
Cedar Falls
Cascades
State Highway Department
Edrewick
Skagit River Canyon
Newhalem
Cottonwood
Davenport
High Point
Issaquah
Red Cross
Casualty List Reports Injury in Roller Skating Accident
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27. Springtime began with a minor casualty note as Mrs. F. A. Brown, 29, fell during a roller skating outing with her husband and broke one leg.
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Oklahoma City
F. A. Brown
Two More Divisions Reinforce 19th Army in China War
Shanghai reports show Japan preparing for a major push on Kiangwan with fifteen planes bombing Chinese positions. Chinese defense holds in Kiangwan despite Japanese claims of victory as reinforcement divisions move toward Shanghai and neutral zone talks surface in Geneva.
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Japan
China
Geneva
Shanghai
Apalmamoru Shigemitsu
Tokyo
Tsuneo Matsudetra
London
Chapel- Kiangwan
Astor House
International Settlement
Kiangwan
Shanghai- Woosun
Gener Nely
Associated Press
Woosung
Tsai Ting-kai
Nanking
United States
Yangtze River
League of Nations Council
Washington
Chapei-Kiangwan
Miaochungchen
Whangpoo
Dry plank looms as Borah backs convention pledge
In Washington on February 27 Senator Borah expressed confidence the Republican national convention would stick to the dry prohibition pledge. He recalled 1928 as a model and anticipated debate over a repeal or modification plank amid New Jersey and eastern Republican pressure.
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Borah
Idaho
Chicago
New Jersey
Ths
Resolutions Committees
Theansas City
Hoover
Nicholas Murray Butler
Wadsworth
New York
Republican Party
Raskob
Congress 6
Strange Tricks on Chicago Roads End in Odd Fates
Chicago report describes two drivers meeting peril after crashes. Vernon Baker rammed a pole, was electrocuted while handling tangled wires after returning to the scene. Louis Wisener collided with a freight train. a door flew open and saved his life as he was tossed to a siding 40 feet away.
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Chicago
Vernon Baker
Louis Wisener
Wisener
Capone Tax Case Appeal Denied by Circuit Court
Chicago reports that Al Capone s income tax sentence of 11 years and a $50,000 fine was sustained by the United States circuit court of appeals. The decision leaves Capone with two potential avenues for relief: a rehearing by the appellate court and a review by the Supreme Court. Capone’s underlings failed in their appeals. On learning of the ruling, Capone turned away, his face hidden, in his county jail cell.
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Chicago
Scarface al” Capone
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Geangeter
United States All- Preme Court
Nome
Capone
James H. Wilkerson
Con Mo
Capon
Wilkerson
Gangster slain as truce fails in Cleveland area
Cleveland crime wave flares with a fourth killing in two days. Police identify Charles Gentile, 26, a beer baron, found slain in a ditch near the airport, his body riddled with eight bullets and a half smoked cigar clenched in his hand.
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Cleveland
Charles Gentile
Death Edict for Kidnappers Sought
Washington reports that House Judiciary Chairman Summers backs a Cochran bill to bar transport of kidnapping victims across state lines as a federal tool against the kidnapping racket. He vows to keep the death penalty provision. midwest cases cited show terror, ransoms up to 150000, and organized circuits of robbers turning to human victims.
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Washington
Sam
Summers
House Judiciary Committee
Police scout kidnap story of Detroit police scout
Detroit February 27 police tonight scouted Albert B. Plater story that he was kidnapped beaten and robbed by two armed men who set his automobile afire Friday night Plater a former officer of the American Friendship society linked to slayer Harry Powers claimed threats by letter and telephone and a garage fire before a motorist found him near New Baltimore with his car burning in a grove a mile from the scene
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Albert B. Plater
Plater
American Friendship Society
Harry F. Powers
Clarksburg
W. Va
New Baltimore
Boissevain Mine Explosion List Of Missing Miners
Officials from Pocahontas Fuel Co list twenty five of thirty eight miners unaccounted for after the Boissevain mine blast. Among the names are white workers Sid Thomas Warren Harless Clayton Hodge J L Phipps and others, plus colored workers Dallas Fitzgerald Ed Pegram Sam Robinson and more, with one Mexican Victor Augis Leo. Most men are Boissevain residents and married.
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Boiesevain
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Boissevain
Sid Thomas Warren Harless
Clayton Hodge J. L. Phipps
Dave Wire Walker Thomas
Robert Hardy
Orbie Hardy C. R. Janes
JL. O. Brown Mason Shupe Burton Brooks
Tom Yates
Charles Yates Garnet M'Cormick
James Hardy John Heck
Sam Abrams
C. R. Brown
Sam White
Claude Baldwin Homer Baldwin Garnet Shupe Mont Miller
John Baker
Dallas Fitzgerald
ED Pegram
Sam Robinson Lewis Moton Lee Baker
Will Johnson
William Saunders
Ben Saunders
ED Saunders
Brady Adams
W. S. White
Howard Petty Mexican
Victor Auguis Leo
Conferees Approve Lame Duck Measure
Washington reports nine years of effort culminated in unanimous conferee approval for a constitutional amendment abolishing the lame duck session. Senator George W. Norris predicted swift action. ratification window seven years. The bill ends the short session and sets January 3 as the start of each Congress with new members serving two months after election.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
George W. Norris
Nebraska
West Virginia Air Mail Line Surge Planned
Washington Feb 27 A concerted movement to place West Virginia on the air mail map has begun. West Virginia lawmakers aim to extend air mail routes through the state and are assembling data for the Post Office Department. Possible routes include Cincinnati to Washington via Portsmouth Ashland Huntington Charleston White Sulphur Springs Covington Lexington Charlottesville and a route to Charlottesville from Charleston Beckley Roanoke Lynchburg. A second route would go from Pittsburgh to Winston Salem via Wheeling Parkersburg Charleston Beckley Bluefield and other points in West Virginia.
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Washington
West Virginia
House
Senate
Contiguous
Post Office Department
Rep. Smith
Representative Bachman
Rescue Efforts Continue As 38 Trapped In Basin Main Mine
Debris slows teams as 38 men remain entombed in the Basin Main section of the Pocahontas Fuel Co mine at Bossevain after a Saturday blast. Rescue crews work in six hour shifts, battling gas and wreckage two miles from the shaft, with officials stating likely fatalities amid grim after damp and blocked entries. Local inspectors from West Virginia and Virginia assist, while volunteers and company crews tote gear, offer coffee, and watch the shaft from hillside vantage points as hopes fade for survival.
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Bossevain
Basin
Thomas Stockdale
Bramwell
West Virginia
Robert M. Lambie
Henry Watkins
Edward Kirtly
Bluefield
Watkins
Kirtly
Boye
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