Three One Lives to Heroic Firemen in Poison Tragedy
Mrs. Mattie Lambert of Bluefield Virginia poisoned her three youngest children with rat paste from a jar. Jack three, Evangeline five, and the infant Annie aged two, faced death while Annie showed no effect. Evangeline is gravely ill as doctors predicted death for the baby and Jack. Annie recovered enough to go home. The poison came with chipped beef and phosphorous fumes, while the mother’s note instructed burial details. The family awaits the mother’s funeral as Evangeline fights for life.
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Mattie Lambert
Herbert Lambert
Bluefield
Jack
Evangeline
Ath
Bluefield Sanitarium
Annie
SUE FORD UNLESS HE RETRACTS STATEMENT
Aaron Ko, counsel for several farmers groups, mails to Henry Ford a preliminary retract statement for a $2,000,000 libel suit. Sapiro alleges Ford’s Dearborn Independent linked him with Rosenwald Kahn Baruch Lasker and Myer in a Jewish conspiracy to control American agriculture. The suit may be filed in Detroit if Ford does not retract within 30 days.
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Chicago
Aaron Ko
Farmers’ Cooperative
Henry Ford
Ford
Sapiro
Michigan
Detroit
the Dearborn Independent
Julius Rosenwald
Otto Kahn
Bernard Baruch
Albert D. Lasker
E. Myer, Jr
America
Three Headless Youths Found Near Skyland Tracks
In Ashville North Carolina on January 7 three mangled bodies of young men about eighteen were found along the Southern Railway tracks near Skyland seven miles south of the city. All were beheaded and one cap bore a Chicago firm’s mark. Officials believe they were struck by the Carolina Special and are investigating.
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Ashville
N. C
Southern Railway
Skyland
Here
Chicago
Carolina Special
Old Swimmin Hole to Join Riley Park in Greenfield
Greenfield Indiana January 7 The Old Swimmin Hole once famous from James Whitcomb Riley will become part of Riley Park. The move followed the expiration of the protest period for a 12500 dollar bond issue to purchase the land.
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Riley Park
Greenfield
Ind
Brandywine Creek
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Olson plans exhumation in McClintock death probe
Chicago January report says Chief Justice Harry Olson intends to file a formal written application for exhumation and autopsy of Dr. Oscar Olson, the family physician who died three years earlier. Olson seeks to verify causes beyond typhoid fever and will study information from doctors and others across states. Foster father William Shepherd calls Olson’s charges lies and considers a conspiracy suit.
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Chicago
Harry Olson
Municipal Court
William N. McClintock
Oscar Olson
MocClintock
Olson
McClintoc
Washington
Ludwig Hektoen
McCintock
McClintock
Texas
California
William D. Shepherd
Isabelle Pope
Albuquerque
N. M
Buncombe
Shepherd
Woman Justice Fines Defendant in First Case
Parkersburg West Virginia January 7 Mrs Leona C Satterfield Wood county's first justice of the peace tried her first case finding the defendant guilty Bus Burdette nineteen was charged by a South Parkersburg merchant with contending in loud and angry words and constituting a nuisance Justice Satterfield fined the youth 1 and costs Mrs Satterfield is a Republican and was elected November 4 She has several children The magistrate is a former schoolmarm.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Leona C. Satterfield
Wood County
Bus Burdette
Anglo American Differences Over Damages Settlement at Paris Conference
At the Paris talks the Anglo American dispute over war damages and claims neared settlement. The US won extended repayment for occupation costs and shared in the Dawes plan annuities, while Belgium resists relinquishing its priority. Leviathan ships issue left in abeyance with credit potential against German claims. Private talks between Logan, Churchill, and others shaped the progress.
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Paris
United States
James Alan, Jr
Winston Spencer Churchill
Spa
Belgium
Mr. Logan
Nee
Italy
M. Thevnis
Brussels
James A. Logan, Jr
Finance
Mr. Churchill
M. Clementes
Relief plan focused on cattle, commission says
Washington Jan 7 The president's agricultural commission decided to concentrate for the present on the livestock situation and prepare by week end its recommendations for relief measures. Chairman Robert D Carey announced progress is rapid and that the commission expects to shape its course by week end.
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Washington
Jan
President's Agricultural Commission
Robert D. Carey
Views of Gore and Hoover on Agriculture
Washington January 7 Secretary Gore and Hoover spoke at the national council of farmers cooperative marketing association. Gore urged expanding markets through cooperative marketing and serving the farmer in peace as in war while Hoover outlined goals for food self sufficiency farmer organization and reduced waste. Kehoe of the Burley Tobacco Growers Association said tobacco farmers are not threatened by reformers since tobacco differs from alcohol and offers calories of happiness.
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Washington
Gore
Hoover
National Council of Farmers’ Co-Operative Marketing Association
J. N. Kehoe
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Association
Agricultural Department
Matt M. Johnson Named Deputy U S Marshal
Matt M Johnson of Huntington police for five years was appointed deputy United States marshal for the southern district of West Virginia by Seigel Workman at Charleston. He will fill the post left vacant by the resignation of E J Buskirk who had led the Huntington office for years.
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Huntingta
W. Va
Matt M. Johnson
Huntington
United States
West Virginia
Seigel Workman
Charleston
Johnson
E. J. Buskirk
Pratt Identifies Regned Letter in Conspiracy Trial
In Chicago on January 7, defense witness linked a letter from James W. Black to a Colombian utility concession, not to the veterans bureau. The document described Pratt selling one third of his interest to Elias H. Mortimer for 2500 dollars, noting Cardinal Dougherty hosting a Colombia president elect dinner. Black died in 1923. the Colombian project was later abandoned.
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Chicago
Veterans’ Bureau
W. D. Pratt
Kansas City
James W. Black
St. Louis
Cardinal Dougherty
Pratt
Elias H. Mortimer
Washington
Philadelphia
Colombia
New York
Charles R. Forbes
Veterans Bureau
J. W. Thompson
South America
Thompson & Black
Veterans’ Hospitals
Black
Norfolk's Mystery Man May Be Thurmond Steele
Parkersburg police and hospital authorities suspect an amnesia victim known in Norfolk as "Norfolk's mystery man" is Thurmond Steele of Columbus, Ohio. A photo from a Virginia druggist links Steele to an earlier admission at a Virginia insane asylum, aiding identification. He recovered his memory after a fall in his hospital room.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Norfolk, Va
Norfolk
Thurmond Steele
Columbus
Ohio
Virginia
Steele
First Promotions By WV State Police Chief O Connor
Major R E Pat O Connor new superintendent announces three first promotions. Sergeant Sam Taylor, long connected with the Charleston Huntington road patrol, becomes first sergeant. Sergeant CC M Arbogast, acting first sergeant of Company A, gains first sergeant rank. Sergeant Lawrence W Walker, veteran member, also promoted to first sergeant.
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Department
Rivers and Harbors Bill Set for Vote Next Week
Washington Jan 7 The rivers and harbors authoriza tion bill of 39 million dollars will come to a vote in the House next week under a program agreed by Republican leaders. The measure was pared from 40 million in the War Department bill and aims at new projects with future appropriations. The exact day depends on the disposition of the War Department supply measure and the McFadden banking bill.
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Washington
House
Longworth
Ohio
War Department
Dempsey
McFadden
Telephone Rate Case Now in Federal Court
Baltimore January 7 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company seeks an injunction to stop the Maryland Public Service Commission from maintaining low rates it contends amount to confiscation of its property The case questions how property value should be determined with the company urging current reproduction cost and the commission relying on a 1916 survey Present testimony begins tomorrow and Attorney General Robinson seeks full records from American Telephone and Telegraph Company before the federal judges
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Baltimore
Maryland
Public Service Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
United States Court
Telephone Company
Commission
Rose
Soper
Groner
Supreme Court
Howard
Robinson
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Muscle Shoals Decision Looms in Senate Vote
Washington January 7 A decision in the Mus Shoals fight loomed as a vote by the Senate was expected by 4 pm to substitute the Underwood leasing bill for Norris government ownership measure. Supporters voiced confidence though polls were not taken and estimates favored a close result. If favorable, a second vote would be required for enactment.
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Washington
Mus- Shoals
Senate
Underwood
Norris
Agriculture Committee
Senate Drives At Top Opec To Phase Two Supply Bills
Washington January 7 Driving forward the senate disposed of two more routine supply bills. The treasury post office bill totaling 768 million dollars was finished in fifteen minutes after the agriculture department bill of 125 million was passed following a long debate. An agreement to vote on Muscle Shoals tomorrow ended the standoff over the Underwood bill and allowed focus on supply measures.
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Senate
Treasury Post Office
Washington
Treasury-Post Office
Agricultural Department
Muscle Shoals
House
Public Health Service
John Snook Named Warden of Atlanta Federal Pen
John Snook, warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary, has been appointed warden of the Atlanta federal prison by Attorney General Stone. Announcement and acceptance were reported, with no date given for when Snook will assume duties. The post is currently held by T. B. White, who took charge after A. E. Sartain resigned at the attorney general’s request.
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Washington
John Snook
Idaho State Penitentiary
Stone
Atlanta
Snook
Department
A. E. Sartain
Oil Conservation Board Forms Cooperation Plan
Washington January 7 a sub committee of oil experts was formed to draft a program for cooperative inquiry with the oil industry toward conserving oil and gas resources. Director George Otis Smith Guy C Roddell Brigadier General Edgar Jadwin and Rear Admiral Harry Harwood Rousseau comprise the panel.
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Washington
Coolidge
New Oil Conservation Board
Edward 8
Rochester
Stone
Work
Weeks
Wilbur
Hoover
George Otis Smith
Geological Survey
Guy C. Roddell
Commerce Department
Bureau of Minerals
Edgar Jadwin
Harry Harwood Rousseau
Immense Bluefield Fire Traps Family on Third Floor
A three alarm blaze in the Waldren building Bluefield injures no one fatally as I A Catsiones wife and their five weeks old baby escape a second floor blaze to a third floor window aided by a mobile scaling ladder. Firemen fought flames from below using two lines of water as the baby and mother were removed to safety.
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Bluefield
I. A. Catsiones
Dough Boy
Waldren
Bluefield Avenue
Catsiones
Catstones
Babe
Mrs. Catstones
Rogers Street
Charley A. Shewey
Central Fire Station
Shewey
W. O. Davis
Davis
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Lambert
Little Jack
Wm. N. McClintock
Woman Justice
Question of
Leviathan
Conference of Ministers
U. S
J. W. Blagk
Forbes Defense
E. H. Mortimer
Dougherty
O’connor
Coast Guard
Father
L. A
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