Cannon Libel Suit Targets Tinkham Over Corrupt Practices Claim
Washington reports Bishop James Cannon Jr filed a $500,000 libel suit against Representative Tinkham alleging the Massachusetts Republican harmed his reputation by charging violations of the federal corrupt practices act. The suit references $65,300 Jameson funds used against Smith in 1928 and follows prior Hearst-related actions.
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Washington
James Cannon, Jr
Alfred E. Smith
Virginia
Tinkham
Republican
Massachusetts
Southern Methodist
Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Bishop Cannon
BP. C. Jameson
New York
Smith
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Tinkham Denies Knowledge of Bishop Cannon Libel Suit
Representative George Holden Tinkham, sued for criminal libel by Bishop James Cannon Jr., says he has not seen the complaint. He suggests it concerns a statement about money received by Cannon during the last presidential campaign and not accounted for under the federal corrupt practices act. He declines further comment.
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Boston
George Holden Tinkham
James Cannon Jr
Supreme Court to Review Three Gases and Cases
West Virginia Supreme Court grants three reviews and denies three others. Cases involve Sidney F. Davis estate, Co. L White, Amanda McClung, Mary B. Bernhard, City of Mullens, Monongahela Transport Co. and others across Raleigh, Wyoming, Marion counties and Uniontown area with appeals on land deeds, scrip redemption, damages and wrongful transfers.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Supreme Court
Sidney F. Davis
Mike Courey
Cassis
Raleigh
Andrew Bsharah
Beckley
Supreme Court
W. H. File
Co. L. White
Wyoming County
Releigh-Wyoming Mining Company
Amanda McClung
Central Trust Company
Percy Cook
Cook
Mary B. Bernhard
Morgan County
Jacob Bernhard
City of
Mullens
Wyoming
James Damewood
Deai Monongahela Transport Company
Marion County
Nannie Belle Cook
Uniontown
OUSTER MOVE INSPIRED BY POLITICAL MOTIVES
Nashville Tennessee June 3 impeachment moves open in the Tennessee house over Governor Henry H Horton charges impeachment articles allege conspiracy with Luke Lea and Roger Caldwell to gain control of departments in exchange for political support Debate begins with Rep John Tipton urging indictment and arraignment before the senate Boswell leads opposition to impeachment preserving the governor.
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Nashville
Tenn
Henry H. Horton
Tennessee House of Representatives
Luke Lea
Rogera Caldwell
John Tipton
Senate
W. Y. Boswell
Shott and Cook Address Pupils at Bluefield State College
Congressman Hugh Ike Shott spoke at Bluefield State Teachers College commencement urging education to fit citizens for government and duty. He warned against communism and praised compulsory schooling while stressing intelligent citizenship as America’s path through changing times.
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Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield State Teachers’ College
Shott
Mr. Shott
Third International
Moscow
United States
Duringer Convicted of First Degree Murder in Brannen Killing
Rudolph Duringer was found guilty of first degree murder for the shooting death of Virginia Brannen at an automobile party. The jury reached its verdict in Justice Albert Cohn's Supreme Court after witnesses testified to Duringer's character and the jurors viewed the sedan involved.
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Virginia Brannen
New York
Rudolph Duringer
Hosteas
Supreme Court
Albert Cohn
Duringer
Katherine Kramm
Catholic Action Leaders Arrested in Italy Amid Fascist Tightening
Rome reports reveal Catholic Action leaders including attorney Corsanego under arrest as Mussolini’s regime orders 9,000 fascist groups to tighten control. A push to recruit Catholic youths into fascist clubs follows amid church protests over dissolutions and concordat protections.
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Catholic Action Quiety
Italy
Rome
Muesolini
Vatican
Catholic Action Society
Catholic Action
Corsanego
Lipari
Fascist Groupe
Gannett Outlines Future Bill of Newspaper Advertising
Frank F. Gannett, founder of the Gannett group, told a radio audience that effective newspaper advertising spurs business and prosperity. He described the industry as a billion dollar venture, with ads able to promote health, social welfare, and global peace through enlightened messaging.
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New York
Frank F. Gannett
Gannett Group
Gannett
Colonel House backs Roosevelt for Democratic nomination
Col Edward M House reenters national politics signaling support for Franklin D Roosevelt. From his Aten Maes summer home he said his praise is for Roosevelt personally and politically and that he believes Roosevelt offers a true Democratic path against Republican rivals.
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New York
The
Herald Tribune
Col
Edward M. Houge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
House
Roosevelt
Wilson
Texas
Aten Maes
Colonel House
Mayors in Rheims Dine in War Torn City Hall
Mayors from Strasbourg arrived in Rheims and sat down to dinner at the 300 year old city hall scarred by German bombardment. Tomorrow’s program features a use in a dhampee cellar vests of M. net, agent or umms firm.
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Rheimse
France
Strasbourg
America
Rheims
M. Net
Umms
Stock Market Rally Mirrors Easing Margin and Mergers
New York stock market shows its strongest rally in nearly a year with 3.3 million shares traded and a 3 to 8 point net rise in top equities. Traders cite a potential consolidation move as Standard Oil units merge into a billion dollar General Petroleum and banks cut margin requirements to 20 percent, boosting confidence in stock prices.
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New York
Standard Oil O, New York
Vacuum Oil Company
General Petroleum Corporation
Wall Street
Standard Oil
Stock Exchange
Gypsy Queen In Omaha Hospital In Critical Condition
Queen Mary Soken-John of the Soken-John Gypsy tribe lies critically ill in a Omaha hospital. King Soken-John remains at her bedside as doctors and top attendants are provided. The 50 year old queen’s illness is undiagnosed. The caravan traces back to Brazil with about 500 tribe members in 24 families.
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Omaha
Neb
Queen Mary Soken-John
Soken-John
Mary
King John
Loken-John
Brazil
Gray-haired soldiers honor Davis in Montgomery commemoration
Gray-haired veterans recall Jefferson Davis as soldiers, statesmen and patriots during a June 3 ceremony in Montgomery. General Rice A. Pierce eulogized the Confederacy's only president as ideals that remain sacred, while Brig. General George H. Armistead hailed veterans as a constructive force after surrender, saying the South’s heroic era endures.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jefferson Davis
Rice A. Pierce
Union City
Tenn
Pierce
George H. Armistead
Nashville (Tennessee
Armistead
South
Appomattox
French Planes Fly Over German Forts
Three French seaplanes swept along German coast near the East Frisian islands today passing over Lyut Lyits area and later over Borkum and Norderney strongholds coast guards reported. A French military plane with two sergeants landed at Enkenbach well inside German territory saying they lost their bearings.
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Norderney
Germany
East Frisian
Lyit
Borkum
Enkenbach
Logan Deputies Face Court Contempt Charge Over Jury Custodian Duties
Logan county deputies Ed Taylor and Frank Edmondson are charged with contempt for allegedly letting jurors drink moonshine and gamble while guarding a murder trial jury at a Logan hotel. The attorney general seeks show cause hearings with $500 bond set for June 22.
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Logan
W. Va
Logan County
Howard B. Lee
Naaman Jackson
Ed Taylor
Frank Edmonton
q@ted
Lee
Browning
Minton Julius Williamson
Ed .Taylor
Frank Edmondson
Edmonson
Taylor
Alva Walls
Si Messer
Injunction Halts Reno Divorce Efforts in Chicago Suit
Superior Judge Rudolph F. De Sort in Cook County enjoined Joseph L. Sylvan of Chicago from pursuing or obtaining a Reno divorce. The order supports Mrs. Edith Sylvan, alleging the husband sought divorce in a foreign jurisdiction to evade Illinois law, depriving his wife and children of their home-court rights.
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Chicago
Superior Juge
Rudolph F. de Sort
Cook County
Joseph L. Sylvan
Reno
Illinois
Edith Sylvan
Rev
de Sort
International tangle menaces married life
Windsor Ontario June 3 The married life of Mr and Mrs Reginald Grudge is strained by international issues after he stood on the Ambassador Bridge with her on opposite sides during their wedding ceremony She was denied entry to the United States and he could not join her due to lack of proof of a year’s residence Two children of Mrs Grudge formerly Mrs Emily Hunt are in Rochester New York but denied entry to Canada Grudge was divorced from a Mexican wife whose separation decree is not recognized in Canada
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Windsor
Ont
Reginald Grudge
Ambassador Bridge
Grudge
United States
Emily Hunt
Rochester
N. Y
Canada
Mexico
Bathtub dispute ends in court over missing item
Chicago June 3. Herman Floring took the family bathtub when the Floring family separated on April 12 and refuses to return it. Lillian Floring filed the complaint before Judge Rudolph De Sort, who promptly ruled in the case.
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Chicago
Florings
la Granges
Floring
Herman
Lillian Floring
Rudolph de Sort
Floriney
Unger Jsn
Bordering States Reply To Query On Hawker Tax
Four states have no legislation discriminating against non residents and border states reply to a Mercer County farmer inquiry. Kentucky notes gross sales tax may apply, while Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland deny similar statutes. Attorney General Lee sought responses from neighboring states, finding no uniform hawker and peddler tax policy.
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Kentucky
Howard B. Lee
West Virginia
Lee
Bluefield
Mercer County
Ohio
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ecourt
J. W. Cammack
Eral
Harrisburg
William A. Schnader
Wired
Wilis R. Jones
Court of Appeals
Mercer
Harve
Cal Coolidge Quietly Chats With His Dogs
Northhampton Massachusetts June 3. Calvin Coolidge known for silence enjoys talking to his dogs and calls them doggies. He follows a strict schedule with meals naps candy at work and a post dinner cigar then a nap even when guests are present.
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Associated Press
Northhampton
Mags
Calvin Cooolidge
America
Mre. Coolidge
David H Clark Denied Bond in Murder Case
Los Angeles June 3 David H Clark former deputy district attorney awaiting trial on murder charges found bail bond difficult to obtain. He was defeated in yesterday’s municipal election for judge and remains in county jail after being bound over to the superior court in the Crawford Spencer killings.
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Los Angeles
David H. Clark
Charles H. Crawford
Herbert F. Spencer
Cuba Faces Deep Economic Crisis Under Machado Rule
General Gerardo Machado, president of Cuba, explains the island’s grave economic woes not of political origin, urging unity and calm to endure wartime inflation after sugar boom prosperity. He states he seeks liberal ideals, denies dictatorship, and calls for coordinated effort to avoid chaos during convalescence and recovery.
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Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Associated Press
Havana
Sach
American pilot cites apathy delaying Schneider Cup entry
Lieut. Alfred J. Williams from the United States said after landing in Southampton that the U S would not be represented in the Schneider Cup race this fall due to apathy. He added that America talks fast but flies slow and expressed hope to attract aviators from several countries to the national air race in Cleveland in August and September.
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Southampton
England
Alfred J. Williams
United States
America
Williams
Cleveland
Peasants Flee Toward Safety Zones Amid Civil War
About fifty thousand peasants flee southern Kiangsi seeking safety in Kwangtung Canton area as red armies scourge the province. Dispatches report hundreds of children dead from hardship, looting and massacres force the mass exodus toward Canton's vicinity while 10 000 government troops withdraw.
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Shanghai
Kiangsi
Kwangtung
Canton
Outlawn
China
Aupeh
Matoaka Highway Maintained as State Road Says Fortney
Major C P Fortney, head of the state road commission, informs Mercer County officials that the Matoaka to Carr schoolhouse road remains a state road and will receive necessary maintenance. The statement responds to inquiries about upkeep after the Matoaka to Kegley route designation and aims to reassure local leaders and the Bluefield chamber.
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C. P. Fortney
State Road Commission
H. A. Shumate
Mercer County Court
Princeton
Matoaka
Carr School House
Major Fortney
Shumate
Kegley
Lashmeet
George Richardson Jr
Bluefield
Kegler
Carr School
Wounded Abductor Slays Girl Captive at Beaten Abortive Escape
A 12 year old girl in Winona Minnesota seized the abductors revolver and wounded him as she tried to escape. He shot her dead near Beaver Dam Wisconsin. The wounded abductor may die from the abdomen wound.
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Winona
Minn
Johe
Burkrdt
Beaver Dam
Wis
Scone
Evelyn Brown
Ashley
Presbyterian Assembly selects Denver for next meeting
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A chose Denver Colorado as the next meeting site and then dissolved. A summer Princeton NJ draft plan aims for union with United Presbyterian and other bodies while a New York daily newspaper on Christian principles was tentatively approved. The centennial Western Foreign Mission society was celebrated.
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Pittsburgh
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
Denver
Colo
Southern Presbyterian Church
Lewis. Mudge
Philadelphia
Princeton
N. J
United Presbyterian Church
New York
William H. Foulkes
Newark
Frank E. Gannett
Brooklyn
N. Y
Eagle
Western Foreign Mission Society
Byterians
Body recovery planned after drowning at Lima gravel pit
In Lima Ohio on June 3 authorities prepared to dynamite a gravel pit near town to bring to surface the bodies of Har Truesdale 20 and Misa Thelma Woods 17 who disappeared after their car fell into the pit.
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Lima
Har! Truesdale
Misa Thelma Woods
Vna
Truesdale
Woods
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Gypsy Queen
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H. B. Lee
Goolidge
David Clark
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