Bluefield Chamber Elects Markle President by Acclamation
Herbert Markle was elected president by acclamation at the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce meeting. W C Warlick named first vice president and J L Alexander re elected treasurer. The new board urged Norfolk and Western Railway to equalize summer fares for Bluefield with Roanoke Tazewell and Pembroke, citing travel patterns and Bluefield's status as a top city and resort area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Markle
Bluefield
W. C. Warlick
W. A. Bodell
J. L. Alexander
Conrad Brevick
Monager
Norfolk and Western Railway
Roanoke
Tazewell
Pembroke
Radford
W. Saunders
Norfolk and Western
Chamber of Commerce
Two Deaths Tied to Alleged Death by Own Action Pact
Long Branch July 10 Detective Sergeant Henry D Walling 28 and Miss Mary A Linse Mayer 22 were found shot in Walling's automobile near Rumson. Prosecutor John J Quinn reviews evidence of a possible joint death pact. pathologist could not determine if one or both acted, or if homicide was involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Branch
N. J
John J. Quinn
Monmouth County
Henry D. Walling
Walling
Mary A. Linsemayer
Alling
Rumson
Harvey W. Hartman
Revolution in Ecuador Without Bloodshed
In Guayaquil and Quito a military movement led to the capture of civil and military authorities and the proclamation of General Francisco Gomez de la Torre as military chief. No bloodshed occurred as the movement aims to end maladministration and place full military control until a civil government is formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Quito
Francisco Gomez de la Torre
Pra
West Virginia to move Negro inmates from state hospital
Weston West Virginia July 10 Dr Cecil Denham said the state hospital for the insane will relocate most Negro inmates to a new separate facility at Maxxie Mason county nearing completion under 1923 appropriations The new hospital will hold 225 inmates and attendants Weston currently cares for 251 patients with about fifty to be moved to Magie September 1
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magaie
Denham
Passenger train derailed by landslide near Freeport
Freeport Pennsylvania July 10 A Penn gens Railroad passenger train 6741 derailed and overturned slightly at Monroe ten miles from Freeport on the Butler branch of the Conemaugh division. All passengers were shaken but none injured. Shuttle trains were provided to take riders to Butler Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Penngens Railroad
Monroe
Here
Butler
Butler Junction
Back To Farm Movement Evident Amid Population Shifts
The Department of Agriculture estimates the U.S. farm population fell by about 182000 last year. New England and the South Atlantic gained farmers while most other regions declined, though a net shift toward rural areas appears modestly reversing urban migration. The 1922-24 figures show large outflows from farms, with births narrowing the net loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
New England
South Atlantic
Mountain States
Mother Admits Forcible Kidnapping of Son by Fleeing to New York
Mrs. Virgin Canady acknowledged kidnapping her five year old son Roscoe Jr from his paternal grandmother in Forest Hills New York. She described the escape by car and train to San Antonio and said disguises included large shell rimmed glasses and minor makeup. Private detectives pursued but were blocked by construction workers aiding the getaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Texas
New York State
Virgin Canaday
Roscoe, Jr
Mary One
Pore Hills
N. Y
Roscoe
First Arrest Under Speculation Law in Milan
The first arrest under Italy's speculation law focusing on causing Lira depreciation was made in Milan. Simone Lutarminski, head of a firm, is charged with buying large amounts of dollars and pounds sterling at high prices without plausible reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Simone Lutarminski
Organizing County Scout Council Talk In City Today
Co D Carmack a division executive of the Boy Scouts of America for West Virginia Kentucky Ohio and Illinois arrives today to address Mercer county residents at the West Virginian Hotel at 2 00 p m The meeting aims to organize a county Scout council with a Scout executive in charge and draws interest from Bramwell Neeton Athens Matoaka and other Mercer county towns Local church members civic clubs and others interested in boys are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D. Carmack
Boy Scouts of America
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Illinois
West
Miners Ignore Non-Strike Talk in New Scranton Talks
Atlantic City July 10 The joint scale sub committees of anthracite operators and miners opened talks and adjourned to next Tuesday after noon. Both sides avoided arbitration and post September 1 work questions, while pressing on substitutes and production pledges. John L. Lewis denies miners’ high incomes claimed by Warriner figures as he critiques coal commission data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
General Way
W. W. Inglis
Glen Alden Coal Company
Scranton
James A
Samuel D. Warriner
Anthracite Operators
Indifferen & 4
John L. Lewis
United Mned Workers
Warriner
Poner
United States Coal Commission
Methods C C Used Appraisal Questioned by Southern Railway
Washington July 10 The Southern railway questions the Interstate Commerce Commission appraisal of its properties at 251 538 900 arguing many large railway properties terminals and labor cost differences before and after the war were omitted and the proper value should be 879 727 503 far above the balance sheet figure 625 468 723 as of June 30 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Railway
Southern
Slayer and two officers escape from Blountville jail
Bristol Virginia dispatch reports that Nie Wagner, a recently convicted killer who had killed two Kingsport, Tennessee officers, escaped Blountville jail tonight after overpowering the jailer and guards. Seven other prisoners fled with him as posses pursue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Nie Wagner
Kingsport
Tenn
Blountville
Recognition Granted in Vital Statistics
Clarkehtore West Virginia July 10 West Virginia has been granted recognition by the federal bureau of vital statistics announced by City Health Officer R L Osborn. Past lack of intercounty organization and sparse returns from back counties hindered recognition until now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarkehtore
W. Va
West Virginia
Federal Bureau of Vital Statistics
R.L. Osborn
Scopes Trial Opens Amid Humor and Tense Spotlight
Dayton Tenn December coverage recalls the opening of the Scopes trial in Rhea County Court. William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow drew attention as crowds and press filled the plaza while Judge Raulston set proceedings for the state antievolution law case. Scopes sat with his father and adviser as jurors listened to the opening charging the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Tenn
Oes
Rhea County Court House
Es Wan Larence Darrow
Pold and
Loeb
Wis Dany
Raulston
Scopes
Darrow
Bryan
Tan m
Grand Jary
Coune
R. Appleyn
Funeral plans set for Genna gangster amid gangland war
Tony Genna, third of the Genna brothers slain in six weeks, will have a simple funeral with little ostentation. Police seek the shooters as the feud devastates the family, with two brothers already dead and the remaining mobsters planning to flee to Sicily amid federal liquor injunctions against twenty-one others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tony Genna
Genna
Conape
Tony
Tree
Rothers
Sicily
Peter
Fire Engulfs Far Reaches of Osage Coal Mine
Fire of unknown extent burns in an abandoned section of the Osage mine in Scott's field, Nongalia County. State Mine Chief R M Lambie and District Inspector William Moore coordinate rescue crews from Bethlehem Mines, with Robert Reid leading the effort at Barnackville Mine No 41, where a deadly explosion occurred in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Fairmont
W. Va
Osage
Brady-Warner
William Moore
Preston
Marion
Bethlehem Mines Corporation
Robert Reid
Safty
Bethlehem Corporation
Barnackville
Death of Edwin W. Rouse Former West Virginia Grand Master
Edwin Willard Rouse aged sixty three former grand master of the Odd Fellows Lodge in West Virginia died at his Clarksburg home. A Wetzel County resident for thirty years he was foreman for the South Pennsylvania Oil Company at oil discovery time. He will be buried in Oil City Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Edwin Willard Rouse
Odd Fellows Lodge
West Virginia
Wetzel County
South Pennsylvania Oil Company
Oil City
Rockefeller Without a Home in Major Estate Sale
New York July 10. John D Rockefeller Sr sells his Pocantico Hills and Lakewood New Jersey estates and New York city town house to son John D Rockefeller Jr for over 3 million dollars. Lakewood estate 600 acres. sale cited as cash and securities exchange not tax avoidance. elder Rockefeller to live on other properties but still use them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Pocantico Hills
Lakewood
N. J
New York City
Ormond
Fla
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
A Pleasant
Greensburg
N. Y
Rockefeller
West Fifty-Fourth Street
Cone
Rockefellers
Governor Gore cites lacked funds for Benwood bank probe
Benwood West Virginia July 10 Governor Howard M Gore said in a letter that he has no funds at his command to defray the expenses of a proposed special investigation into the Bank of Benwood closure. He expressed sympathy for depositors and pledged to pursue recovery with minimal cost while staying in touch with the banking department through the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benwood
W. Va
Dee
Howard M. Gore
Bank of Benwood
Justice of the Peace
Paul Riedel
Depositors’ Protective Committee
Henwood
Goreowever
Fire destroys many buildings in oil town near Smackover
Dispatches from Shreveport report fifteen to twenty business buildings burned in Louann Arkansas an oil town near Smackover causing about 100000 dollars in losses with late word of the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Louann
Ark
Smackover
Debts and China to be discussed at Coolidge Kellogg talks
Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew travels from Washington to Swampscott Mass to join President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg for a weekend conference on debt funding and Chinese situations. The talks come amid ongoing negotiations with European debtors and anticipated August diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swampscott
Mass
Washington
Coolidge
Kellogg
White House
St. Paul
Minn
Grew
White Court
United States
Italy
Belgium
American Debt Funding Commission
Essex County
Joseph C. Grew
Kogg
Minnesota
Dept
Dozen Montana towns shaken by earthquakes
Helena reports quakes in more than a dozen cities including Helena Butte Great Falls Manhattan Three Forks Trident Willow Creek Livingston and May. Minor damage noted nowhere and Yellowstone Park unaffected according to Superintendant Albright. Tourism to the park increased following the quakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
Montana
Butte
Great Falls
Manhattan
Three Forks
Trident
Willow Creek
May
Livingston
Edith Parker Davis Denies Shooting Husband
Mrs Edith Parker Davis denied shooting her husband Allan Davis actor last Tuesday night. She was arraigned on felonious assault and firearms charges and released on 10000 dollars bail. The case was adjourned until Monday pending Allan Davis condition. Her mother Mrs Josie Parker of Washington DC accompanied her in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edith Parker Davis
Allan Davis
Desire for Super Thrill Ties to Penella Taxi Murder
Police identify a craving for danger as the motive in taxi driver Louis Penella's death near Hempstead. Deserter Phillip Knapp, Cornell alumnus and army air service recruit, is sought as the killer after a car sale and checks linked to Penella's cab. Knapp reportedly fled Albany after July 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
N. Y
Loeb-Leopold
Robert Franks
Chicago
Louis Penella
Phillip Knapp
Cornell
Army Air Service
Syracuse
Penella
Camp Mills
Knapp
Albany
Kauapp
Penella If
Hempstead
Island
Army
William H. Ensley
Mitchell Field
Water supply emergency prompts emergency Beaver Pond switch
Health officer Dr C J Reynolds warns Ada residents to boil drinking water due to a Beaver Pond Spring supply interruption. A shortage at Ada station forces use of the Beaver Pond source as an emergency measure with mud contamination noted. residents urged to boil before drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Reynolds
Bine
Ada Station
Beaver Pond
Chicago Youths Confess Slaying Two Young Girls
Chicago youths admit slaying two girls in and around the city. Raymond Costello, 24, says he and two others attacked Madeline White, 16, who was found under a porch. Co-defendants included William Mulholland, Peter Delphine, and Leonard Bornac, with Delphine and Bornac admitting involvement in Mary Seclak’s death, body found near LaSalle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Raymond Costello
Madeline White
Sirl
Costello
Pontiac Reformatory
William Mulholland
Mulholland
Oo Sen
Peter Delphine
Leonard Bornac
Mary Secak
LaSalle
Delphine
Suit for Two Million Dollars Is Instituted
Otis W. Howe of New York files a $2,000,000 suit against John M. Van Heusen alleging he designed a stiff roll collar fabric and weave and aided Van Heusen in establishing the business in Boston in 1918 with a promised share of profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Otis W. Howe
New York
John M. van Heusen
van Heusen
Howe
Fez as Objective in Abd-El Krim Rebellion Talks
Paris dispatch reports that Abd-El-Krim’s goal centers on Fez with French and Spanish mediators preparing draft terms from the Madrid Franco-Spanish conference. Horatio Edvarrieta, a ship owner and minister, is said to present these terms to the rebel leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Morocco
Prinel
Tri
Abd-El-Krim
Fez
Horatio Edvarrieta
Madrid
Ebd-El-Grim
The Last Frontier science column launches in Telegraph
Columnist David Diets begins a daily science frontier feature in Telegraph on page 4. He will report on discoveries conquering diseases and new substances, with updates from pioneers exploring unknown territories and new stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Diets
Telegraph
Telegraph Today
Twelve jurors chosen to try Scopes case in Tennessee
Dayton Tenn July 10 twelve jurors selected for the Scopes trial over the Tennessee law prohibiting teaching evolution. The grand jury was sworn and a new bill presented. Defense plans to bring scientists and Bible students to testify while the state asserts the peer of evolution is testable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Tenn
John Thomas Scopes
Tennessee
Grand Ju
Act
A. T. Stewart
Clarence Darrow
Stewart
Darrow
W. F. Robinson
J. W. Dagley
Decense
Rch
J. Wey
Riley
W. B. Taylor
R. L. Gentry
J. A. Thompson
Scopes
Counder
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NEW Insane Asylum
Mother
Virginia Canaday
Boy Scouts
Gorman
C. C
Slayer
C. F
J. D. Rockefeller
China
Yellowstone Park
Albricht
Mary Secjar
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