OSTS Students To Visit Bluefield Churches This Week
OSTS of the Christian Endeavor Society will visit Bluefield this week as guests of the First Presbyterian First Christian and Westminster Presbyterian churches. The convention is described as a city history event with potential lasting impact for world peace and fellowship.
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Osts
Christian Endeavor Society
Bluefield
First Presbyterian
First Christian
Westminster Presbyterian
Pride and town spirit in small communities
A discussion on local pride warns readers against belittling a town or its residents. The American Society of Newspaper Editors president recalls a trade trip where Moville welcomed visitors with excitement, while Soville offered no reception, illustrating how a community’s pride can adapt a welcome.
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The
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Moville
Soville
Manchurian War Lord Withdraws On Special Train
Chang Tso Lin renounced power and left Peking for Mukden after two years as ruler of northern China. He predicted an early end to civil war and Bolshevik threats, leaving control to nationalist leaders. An armored car, escort, and two bands accompanied the departure as the committee of elders took charge.
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Peking
China
Chang Tso-Lin
Mukden
Manchuria
Chang
South China
Wang Shih Chen
Foreign troops brace Tokyo as Nationalist vanguard nears
Dispatch from Pekin says foreign commanders in Tokyo ordered defense of legation quarter as Chang Téo-Lin travels to Mukden. Guards tightened at entrances while evacuations in Peking proceed without disturbance. Rengas notes arrival and departure of Chang Téo-Lin and peaceful Northern army withdrawal.
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Tokyo
Japan
Rengos Agency
Peking
Legation Quarter
Chang Téeo-Lin
Mukden
Rengas
Tientsin
Teo-Lin
Three Fox planes missing with seven airmen in Alaska
Anxiety grew in Fairbanks over seven missing airmen and three airplanes as radio failures kept contact with Point Barrow from the Arctic search. The missing crew includes Noel Wien and R S Merrill plus Fox Film crew members. relief fliers Nieminen and Heyser were en route from Kotzebue May 25 and last seen May 13 between Fairbanks and Point Barrow.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Point Barrow
Noel Wien
R.S. Merrill
Anchorage
Jack Robertson
L. Virgil Hart
Charles G. Clarke
Fox Film Corporation
Arctic Prolange
Matt Nieminen
Richard Heyser
Nieminen
Heyser
Kotzebue
Barrow
Hoppe Trial Set On Anniversary Of Crime
In Toledo Ohio Judge Charles Milroy set Stanley Hoppe’s first degree murder trial for June 25. Hoppe is accused of dragging 7 year old Dorothy Stelagowski from a bed and killing her. Hoppe offered a Cullen front during arraignment and refused to answer court questions.
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Toledo
Ohio
Stanley
Charlies) Hoppe
Sey
Dorothy Stelagowski
Charles M. Milroy
Hoppe
Cullen
Tornado Lifts Coaches From Rails Near Stanbridge
A tornado swept from the west near Stanbridge Quebec killing one man identified as Mr. Lapointe of Montreal and injuring nine others on a Canadian Pacific passenger train between Stanbridge and Bedford. Two coaches were lifted from the rails and toppled, while the locomotive remained on track. Mrs Lapointe and Rev Brestaithe Breault were seriously hurt. Seven others had minor injuries.
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Stanbridge
Quebec
Pongeee
Bedford
Lapointe
Montreal
Bestaithe Breault
Sherbrooke Theological School
Norwegian ice breaker Braganza sails to aid Nobile search
Kings Bay Spitzbergen June 2 The Norwegian ice breaker Braganza left for the Arctic to search for General Umberto Nobile and the Italia crew. Fifteen Italians plus eight Alpine soldiers transferred from Citta di Milano boarded with supplies for an overland trek to Wilde Fjord. The expedition plans hinges on ice conditions and may last a week or longer with air surveys possible via a Norwegian seaplane arriving tomorrow.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Bragcanza
Umberto Nobile
Norway
Mossel Bay
Minlopen Strait
Braganza
Svendsen
Citta di Milano
Sora
Wilde Fjord
Green Harbor
Luetzow Holm
Mountaineer Officers Pursue Jackson Probe After Slayings
In McAlester Oklahoma on June 2 officers searched for Jackson after the discovery of three bodies in a remote Jack Fork mountains area. Victims include Myrtle Lee Jackson 15 Orvil 16 and Abbie 10 stepmother and two children. Neighbors report jealousy tied to Jackson and shots heard Tuesday evening. Jackson, free on bond pending cattle theft charges, had been missing since Tuesday.
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McAlester
Okla
Jack Fork Mountains
Here
Myrtle Lee Jackson
Ed Jackson
Orvil
Abbie
Jackson
Liberty
Eighteen U S Customs Guards Suspended in Liquor Smuggling Probe
New York June 2. Eighteen United States customs guards at the Chelsea pier were suspended tonight after a federal investigation alleged collusion with liquor smugglers. Treas ury agents charge guards often received up to ten dollars a case to allow liquor to reach shore from foreign liners.
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New York
United States
Chelsea
Federal
Treasury Department
Veteran Woodson to retire from Democratic committee
Washington June 2 Urey Woodson Kentucky member of the Democratic national committee and oldest member of that body has announced he will not be a candidate for reelection this year Woodson was elected to the committee in
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Washington
Urey Woodson
Kentucky
Democratic National Committee
Woodson
West Virginia delegates in doubt as Smith anti-Smith fight continues
Mayoral contest in West Virginia closes with Smith leading Reed for the presidential race while delegate-at-large splits remain undecided. Early results show Smith ahead 10.5 to 5.5 among delegates, with district tallies still unsettled as precincts report.
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Charleston
W. Va
Smith
al Smith
New York
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
C. W. Osenton
Lilly
Sutherland
Bradley
White
Choice
Gaines
Jarrell
Marshall
Young
Hoover
Morg A Icholice
Poffenbarger
Johnson
Man- Smith
Conif
Sawyers
Sale
McWhorter
Anti- Smith
Trent
anti-Smith
Chitwood
Mann
Byrd
Barnes
Lambert
McClintie
Pinson
Price
Grove
Brexton
Brooke
Calhoun
Clay
Grant
Jackson
Logan
Mason
Monroe
Eindleton
Harman
Wright
York
Justice
McNab to Place Hoover Name at Republican Convention
Ames W. Good announces John L. McNab of California will place Hoover’s name in nomination at the Republican national convention. Kansas City dispatches say McNab is an old Hoover friend and noted orator from Pro Alto, living a few blocks from Hoover.
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Ames W. Good
Herbert Hoover
John L. McNab
California
Hoover
Kansas City
McNab
Pro Alto
Italian plan breaks record in endurance flight
Rome reports a new world endurance flight record of 58 hours 34 minutes 26 15 seconds set by Captain Arturo Ferrarin and Major P Delprete in a Savio Marchetti-64 with A-22 Fiat motor. They flew along the Tyrrhenian coast between Nettun and Sata Marinella with Italian French aero club observers present.
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Rome
Arturo Ferrarin
P. Delprete
Nettun
Sata Marinella
Tyrrhenian
Schwab Critiques Coal Probe After Senate Hearing
Pittsburgh June 2 Charles M Schwab chairman Bethlehem Steel criticized the senate committee investigating the coal strike saying it did no good and only stirred ill feeling He noted his presence in Washington and desire for a bipartisan settlement between parties but doubt the committee approach was right.
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Schwab
Pittsburgh
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Senate
Senate Committee
Washington
National Forests in State to Be Enlarged
Purchase of 250 tracts totaling 163053 acres for additions to national forests in the Eastern Lake and Southern states has been authorized. The rops include 43799 acres in West Virginia across Randolph Pendleton Pocahontas and Tucker counties.
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Washington
Lake
National Forest Reservation Commission
West Virginia
Randolph
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Tucker
Editor Condemned And Upheld For Scoring Lindy
Amarillo editor Gene Howe faced widespread criticism for accusing Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh of a “big head.” Supporters praised Howe while opponents denounced his remarks about Lindbergh’s airport greeting.
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Lindy
Amarillo
Texas
Gene Howe
Republicans Near Convention City Amid Battle for Delegates
The Republican drive to Kansas City tightens as factional fights flare over farm relief and Coolidge veto fallout. Hoover trails with about 700 delegates claimed, needing 545 to win, while Lowden draws support from farmers angry at Coolidge’s veto. Draft Coolidge talk resurfaces as chieftains seek harmony amid a field of possible dark horses.
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Washington
Kansas City
Hoover
Commerce
Lowden
Illinois
Corn and
Wheat Belt
Coolidge
West
Mr. Coolidge
McNary- Haugen
Curtis
Kaneas
Dawes
Hughes
Democrats Still Scarred By Convention Battle Ahead
The Democrats plan to convene in Houston on June 26 amid lingering scars from the 1964 convention dispute at Madison Square Garden. Alexander Smith leads delegates toward a two thirds majority while rivals seek southern states to derail him, hoping a deadlock could influence the nomination.
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Madi‘gon Square Garden
Houston
Smith
Smith Soes
West Virginia Delegates Finish Battle In Republican Races
In West Virginia the last Republican delegates were chosen with Hoover allies claiming nine to ten of nineteen despite a prefer ential result that was not binding on delegates. Democratic contest saw Smith and Reed of Missouri vie for support while 136 of 1100 delegates remain unnamed, mostly from the South, with Indiana bound to Evans Woollen.
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West Virginia
Hoover
Commerce
Goff
Smith
Reed
Missouri
Houston
South
Indiana
Evans Woollen
Indianapolis
Monoplane Southern Cross Lands at Barling Sands Kauai
The Southern Cross landed at Barling Sands Kauai from Wheelerfield Honolulu to prepare for its flight to Sydney via Suva and the Fiji Islands.
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Berlin
Barling Sands
Kauai
T. H
Southern Cross
Wheelerfield
Honolulu
Sydney
Australia
Suva
Fir Islands
World’s Beauty Queen to Be Picked Tuesday
Galveston Texas June 2 Aspiring for the title of beauty queen of the world young women from two continents will parade in bathing suits on Galveston beach boulevard Sunday as the climax of the four day international pageant of pulchritude Monday night Miss United States will be chosen from more than thirty entrants and Tuesday night she will compete with contestants from Europe Cuba Canada and Mexico for the world title Internationally known artists have been named as judges.
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Galveston
Texas
Continents
Beach Boulevard
United States
Europe
Cuba
Canada
Mexico
Mob slayings renew tension after deputy’s death
In Boyce Louisiana three weeks after Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Phillips was killed by William Blackman, brothers Lee and Dave, kin to Blackman, were seized from Rapides Parish and found shot to death. Deputies report a mob halted their convoy, demanded custody, then opened fire as they were threatened with further violence. Investigation promised by Sheriff Downs and the coroner.
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Boyce
J. Frank Phillips
William Blackman
Phillips
Lee
Dave
Blackman
Rapides Parish
Shreveport
Leesville
Downs
Negroce
Hill and Lawson in tight GOP state auditor race in West Virginia
Returns from Tuce dey's primary show P Dear C Lawson leading Bonner H Hill by 2 632 votes as of June 2 in West Virginia. Lawson 49 249 Hill 46 617 from 2 150 of 2 506 precincts. Alfred Taylor leads Dr Gary Hogg by about 4 000 votes in early returns.
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J. Alfred Taylor
Gary Hogg
Charleston
W. Va
Tucedey
Pdear C. Lawson
Bonner H Hill
Lawson
Hill
Alfred Taylor
Bopt Taylor
Hogg
Suitor of Slain Girl Sought by Police In Milton
John O'Brien a Boston taxi driver told police he drove Mary Mahan and her suitor John Tartar to a sand pit near Milton where he heard shots. O'Brien said Tartar ordered him to leave and later Tartar was dropped at his brother’s Randolph home and dismissed.
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Milton
Mass
John O'Brien
Boston
Mary
Mahan
John Tartar
O'rien
Tartar
Randolph
Mellon’s Former Wife Granted Divorce in Reno
Nora Lee, formerly Nora McMullen and wife of Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, was granted a divorce from Harry A. Lee in Reno Nevada. She and Lee wed in New York in 1923 and had two children. The cross action alleged nagging and failure to provide. Lee, said to be English, was the defendant.
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Reno
Nevada
Nora Lee
Litchfield
Conn
Andrew Mellon
the Treasury
Harry A. Lee
New York
Lee
Nora McMullen
President of Class May Recover From Wounds
Annapolis Md June 2 Donald M Angle of Pittsburgh president of the sophomore class at St Johns was taken to the naval academy hospital with slash wounds on throat wrist and ankles police say self inflicted with a razor blade he had just finished exams and told doctors he was despondent physicians say he has a chance to recover
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Annapolis
Donald M. Angle
Pittsburgh
St Johns
Naval Academy Hospital
Angle
Physiciane
Senate Committee Considers Subpoenas in Hoover Smith Probe
The Senate investigation into the 1928 presidential campaign hears from George Van Namee and witnesses on Wall Street sentiment and fundraising for Hoover and Smith. Subpoenas for Osbar Miller, Sulzer, and state managers in West Virginia are planned, with Washington hearings to resume Monday.
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New York
Tammany Society
Alfred B. Smith
Wall Street
Herbert Hoover
Smith
George KR. van Name
Julius Senne
Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Straces
Washington
Hoover
Ohio
Senate
B. E B. Eldred
John J. Cury
Frank J. Hague
Jersey City
New Jersey
Osbar R. Miller
Albany
Civic League
Miller
van Namee
Sulzer
Salzer
Salvers
New York State
Woo
North Carolina
Steiner
West Virginia
Missouri
Goff
Prisoner Charged in Stabbing at Mercer County Jail
Criss Scott, 27, of Fayette County, is to face grand jury action in Marshall County court on charges of stabbing James Weatherford, 30, a Mercer County inmate, in the state prison Friday. Weatherford is reported to be seriously wounded but with a fair chance of recovery, according to Deputy Warden W. H. Yates.
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Manndeville
W. Va
Criss Scott
Fayette County
Marshall County
James Weatherford
Mercer County
W. H. Yates
Weatherford
Prohibitionists of State to Convene in Fairmont
Fairmont West Virginia June 2 The West Virginia state convention of the national Prohibition party will convene here Monday to nominate a presidential electoral ticket for the state and delegates to the national convention at Chicago in July.
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Fairmont
W. Va
West Virginia
National Prohibition Party
Chicago
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