Tax reform hearings heat up at Wheeling session
Ten citizens voiced views at the first meeting of West Virginia tax commission hearings in Wheeling. Recommendations called for repeal of the gross sales tax, new taxes on gas and oil depletion and corporate net profits, plus a state budget under the governor and a broad property tax classification. Speakers urged local reform and noted the state’s share of tax dollars remains under twenty five percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Wheelan
Governor's Tax Commission
D. A. Burt
Gray Silver
Huntington
A. W. Paull
H. C. Ogden
Chamber of Commerce and Business Interest
Wright Nueus
W. S. Willikin
Wellsburg
James Paull
Welleburg
H. S. Sands
George Oldham
Jon
Jesse A. Bloch
Julian G Hearne
Carl O. Schmidt
Burt
West Virginia
More
Ogden
West
Three Children Die In Waterbury Landslide
A landslide of a thirty foot sand bank in Waterbury Connecticut kills three children and injures two others. The dead are Eugene Chesney John Bowen Harold Serrell Robert Williams and Edward McDonald. two others are recovering from suffocation after rescue at a local hospital. Firemen battled to free victims as tons of sand collapsed onto the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Conn
Eugene Chesney
John Bowen
Harold Serrell
Robert Williams
Edward McDonald
Four Die in Rooming House Fire at Hamlet
Four persons are known to have perished when a rooming house burned in Hamlet North Carolina early today. Victims include B. B. Baker the manager, a man named Kelly a mechanic a railway clerk named Eagleska and an unidentified person. Ten persons were believed in the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roowing House
N. C
B. B. Baker
Baker
Kelly
Eagleska
Former Huntington Policeman Sought in 7-Year Sentence Escape
Huntington West Virginia June 4 county officers searched for G. Rutherford a former Huntington policeman after he failed to appear at the expiration of his stay of execution. He was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for shooting Herbert in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Home Makers Unite In Partnership As Women’s Club Rally
Atlantic City June 4 The General Federation of Women’s Clubs closes its biennial federation convention with a call to make home making a partnership between husband and wife. Mrs Maggie Barry Texas warns training in science and life is needed for both partners and a moral social and spiritual contribution by men. Resolutions decry postal book discrimination oppose a Shepherd Towner Act limit and back retirement for WWI officers. Invitations for 1928 conventions are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
General Federation of Women's Club
Memphis
New Orleans
San Antonio
Grand Rapids
Abandon Patrol Santa Monica Bay in McPherson Case
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of missing evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, says the patrol of Santa Monica Bay front by her congregation will be abandoned tomorrow after day and night searches since May 18. Beach hunts will continue by car and indefinitely. Sheriff Traeger received a letter from The Willow of the Wisp alias The Gyp suggesting McPherson may be held by kidnappers in the Santa Barbara mountains or near the Canta Ynez River. letter turned to homicide bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ton Angeles
Minnie Kennedy
Aimee Semple McPherson
Santa Monica Bay Front
Ocean Park
Wm. IL. Traeger
Long Beach
McPherson
Santa Barbara
Canta Ynez
Sheriff's Homicide Bureau
Lions name James King district governor at convention
James King of Wheeling was unanimously elected district governor of the Lions club as the two day convention concluded. The event touted as the most successful yet featured five governors in attendance with former governors John J. Cornwell William A. McCorkle and Walter E. Clark among honored guests at the luncheon and reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
James King
Wheeling
Lions Club
John J. Cornwell
William A. McCorkle
Walter E. Clark
Alaska
Cornwell
Nineteen Crews Enter Intercollegiate Rowing Championship
Entries for the intercollegiate rowing championships at Poughkeepsie on June 28 include a record nineteen crews. The four mile varsity event will feature eight shells with participants from Naval Academy Columbia Washington Wisconsin California Pennsylvania Cornell and Syracuse.
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New York
Poughkeepsie
Naval Academy
Columbia
Washington
Wisconsin
California
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Syracuse
Poland installs Moscicki as president amid Communist protests
Moscow aided by public protests, police arrest leaders and seize printing plants as Moscicki takes the oath before the national assembly. Marshal Pilsudski declines the post, leaving an interim cabinet to govern. Rumors grow of an unofficial triumvirate guiding Poland with Moscicki, Pilsudski, and Bartel issuing general orders in the president's name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Moscicki
Marshal Pilsudski
M. Bartel
Warsaw
Janes
Poland
Moscick
National Assembly
Pileudski
M. Rataj
Wojciechowski
Witos
Bartel
Roanoke Builds First Of Ten K-3 Mountain Locomotives
The Roanoke shops of Norfolk and Western completed the first of ten K-3 mountain type locomotives. The unit, numbered 200, will be delivered to the transportation department after a test run. Production will deliver one engine every 30 days through 209. BOILER PRESSURE up to 225 pounds and wheels at 63 inches. The locomotive carries 16,000 gallons water and 23 tons coal, with a total length near 93 feet 2 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railrads
Roanoke World-News
Transportation Department of the Road
Norfolk and Western
Mrs Nellie Loehr Dies At 72 In St Petersburg
Mrs Nellie R Loehr seventy two a Florida chapter organizer of the League of Women Voters died in St Petersburg. She was a native of Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Lochr
St. Petersburg
Fla
Nellie R. Loehr
Searce of Women Voters
Florida
Indiana
Borah seeks full briefing on British Panama concessions
Senator Borah introduced a resolution to obtain all available state and war department information on British concessions in Panama near the canal zone. White House officials indicated the deal involves surface and subsoil rights to a British corporation with prospecting for gold and minerals in two large areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Panama
Canal Zone
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State and
War Departments
White House
Coolidge
State Department
Expenditures in Pennsylvania Senate Primary Probe Initiated
Washington May 4 The special Senate campaign investigating committee will open public hearings next Wednesday on expenditures in the recent Pennsylvania Republican senatorial primary. Subpoenas are directed for chairmen and treasurers of Ware Pepper and Pinchot campaigns to produce books for inspection. The panel may call additional witnesses as reports say two to five million dollars were spent in the campaign ending May 18. The panel also plans a preliminary look at Illinois Republican primary expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pennsylvania
Special
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Representative Ware
Pepper
Pinchot
Illinois
Grand Jury Fails to Indict in McSwiggin Case
A Chicago grand jury reported no indictments in the McSwiggin murder case, blaming a conspiracy of silence and broad violations of the Volstead act for unsolved gang murders. The panel urged removal of parole officials and criticized reform groups while noting several liquor-law indictments and old gang killings.
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Chicago
Cook County
William H. McSwigein
Auocrasy
Itso
Steds
McSwiggin
James Doherty
Thomas Duffy
Young McSwiegin
Will County
Erand
Will Colvin
Parole Board
Chauncey H. Jenkins
Department of Public Welfare
Washington
Body of Baby Is Found in River at Blennerhassett Island
Parkersburg police investigate the discovery of a baby’s body near Blennerhassett Island. Autopsy suggests the infant was alive when thrown into the river, with air in the lungs and restraints on arms and legs. The baby, about four months old, was well clothed and appears from a middle wealth family. laundry mark R A D found. No identity clues surfaced as police probe up-river cities for information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Blennerhassett Island
Coupe Tragedy: Father Kills Himself and Two Children
William Barnes thirty eight used a car exhaust to kill himself and his two children Lois nine and John three in a village school yard. Coroner ruled double homicide and death by own action. Bodies enroute to Newcastle Pennsylvania for funeral services as Barnes had been despondent after wife left him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Ohio
William Barnes
Barnes
Lois
John
J. Warren Barnes
Newcastle
O. P. Barnes
William
Los Angeles Youth Wins National Oratorical Championship
Bert Wenig of Los Angeles won the third national oratorical championship over six rivals. The Hollywood High senior’s selection as best orator came from nearly 2,000,000 high school students in regional contests. He earns the right to represent the U S in the first international contest next October. Myrue Posey, 17, placed second. Helen Byland of New York was third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert Wenig
Los Angeles
Myrue Posey
Helen Byland
New York
Wenig
Hollywood High School
Taft
van de Vanter
Sutherland
Sanford
Butler
Death of Former Cincinnati Mayor Dr Lewis Schwab
Dr Lewis Schwab aged 75, former Cincinnati mayor in 1910 and 1911, died at his home in Cincinnati on June 4. The notice records his age and mayoral tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. S&s. Schwab
Cincinnati
Lewis Schwab
President Coolidge backs inquiry into gasoline price increases
President Coolidge favors a federal trade commission probe of recent price hikes in gasoline and petroleum products, seeing potential lawful restraint cases though noting contributions from fewer new oil fields and higher gasoline use. Officials say the inquiry could wrap up this year, with Senate approval and a Tremmell resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coolidge
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Tremmell
Florida
Th Trade Commission
Virginia
Hoover
Bomb destroys US legation in Montevideo amid Sacco-Vanzetti agitation
A bomb exploded at the American legation in Montevideo as radicals press for new trials in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Hugh Grant Smith was away. ten pounds of iron, steel and screws were recovered. Police guarded the building yet wonder how the device was planted.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
United States
Massachusetts
Nicolo Sacco
Bartholomeo Vanzetti
le Aires
Buenos Aires
Hugh Grant Smith
Manuel Garcia
Legation
Oll
Ace
Sacen-Vannett Coon Bee
South America
Peter Augustus Jay
Fifteen Indictments by Marion Grand Jury Reported
Fairmont West Virginia June 4 The Marion county grand jury completed the May term returning fourteen indictments eight on felony charges and six on misdemeanor offenses Earlier session total showed thirty felony and thirty two misdemeanor indictments for seventy six in May Five felony indictments today were for second offense whiskey and three misdemeanors were first offense whiskey charges
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Marion County Grand Jury
Washington Real Estate Dealer Sues for Malicious Prosecution
William B. Phillips of Washington sues Erastus D. Whited of Spencer West Virginia for 90000 claiming malicious prosecution. Phillips alleges Whited helped induce his 1923 Roane County indictment for real estate misrepresentation, which the West Virginia Supreme Court later dismissed, and that he spent 10000 defending the actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William 8. Phillips
Erastus D. Whited
Spencer
W. Va
Phillips
Whited
Roane County
Supreme Court of Appeals of
West Virginia
War Debt Settlement with Jugo Slavia Approved
The House approved the last of the American debt commission settlements, with Jugo Slavia, by eighty to fourteen and sent it to the Senate. The debt totals $62,850,000 to be paid by 1987, with Rep. Schaefer objecting over Jugoslavian payment capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Debt Commission
Jugo Slavia
House
Senate
Schaefer
Wisconsin
Capt Allen found guilty of illegal liquor possession
Omaha Neb June 4 Capt W B Allen Seventeenth Infantry Fort Crook was found guilty by an army court martial of illegal possession of liquor and taking liquor onto a military reservation after four hours deliberation. He received a reprimand and six months restriction to the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
W. B. Allen
Seventeenth Infantry
Fort Crook
Can't Kill Husband and Collect His War Bonus
A Washington report says a wife cannot collect her late husband’s war bonus. The Comptroller General ruled Florence William of Verona cannot cash the adjusted compensation certificate or be the beneficiary, and the certificate must be cancelled due to her conviction being suspended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Metarl
Florence William
Verona
MeCarl
Williams
Hatchet Buried by Thaw Family in Atlantic City Dinner
In Atlantic City Harry Thaw Evelyn Nesbit and Russell Thaw dined together amid denials that Russell dodged a Chicago hotel bill. Nesbit says Russell has not left Atlantic City since January and is a schoolboy. Thaw says they are merely friends and have buried the hatchet. Chicago reports cite an unpaid Congress Hotel bill and dispute over Russell Thaw’s identity.
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Harry
Evelyn
Russell
Miss Nesbit
Atlantic City
N. J
Harry Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
Russell Thaw
Miss Nesbitt
Chicago
Cngress
The
Comets
Evelyn Nesbitt
Harry K. Thaw
Winchester
Sanquer
Reed
Poisoned Babies and Killed Self in Chicago Tragedy
Mia M. D. Tillman 35 poisoned her 18 month old son and 3 year old daughter and then killed herself. A nine year old daughter found the bodies on returning from school. A note blamed life’s misery and jealousy toward a secretary Melvin Tillman the husband claimed the wife resented his secretary who accompanied the family from Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mia
M. D. Tillman
Melvin Tillman
Tillman
Alabama
Virginian Railway admits failure to maintain telegraph offices
Richmond Virginia June 4 officials of the Virginian Railway testified before the state corporation commission in response to a show cause citation over requirements to place telegraph or telephone offices within fifteen miles. W A Gore Norfolk general manager said facilities were adequate and safe despite lack of offices between Sutton and Jarratt and Roanoke and Sere. The suit, filed last April by B W Jewell of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, seeks penalties for noncompliance affecting rail operations in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginian Railway
State Corporation Commission
W. A. Gore
Norfolk
Virginian
B. W. Jewell
Sutton
Jarratt
Roanoke
Rutledge Convicted on Three of Five Counts
In St Louis on June 4 Louis A Rutledge forty six, of the Preachers Magazine, was found guilty by a federal court jury on three of five counts charging use of the mails to defraud. He sold $258000 in stock to 1500 clergy and 500 laymen nationwide in the Economy Oil promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Louis A. Rutledge
The
Preachers’ Magazine
Economy Oil Company
United States
House Passes Rivers and Harbors Bill With Added Projects
The House approved an omnibus river and harbor bill after adding numerous projects, raising potential authorizations from 36 million to between 52 and 90 million dollars. Senate action was uncertain before adjournment, with Wadsworth announcing the Steering Committee’s support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOUSE
Washington
Senate
Wadsworth
New York
Masonic Temple Event Highlights Virginia Side Club Meeting
The Business Men's Club of Virginia Side held a Saturday night gathering at the local temple. A dinner, music by the Methodist Church orchestra, and a clever staged quarrel surprised guests. J. Dudley presided as Karl Thomas introduced Captain T. W. Orr who spoke on regional prospects and highway plans. H. J. Shott discussed investments. W. Hicks presented coalfield scenes. The Virginia Side club showcases activity and progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Men's Club of
Virginia
Sonic Temple
Methodist Church Orchestra
J. &. Dudley
America
M C
Messrs
Gillespie
Dudley
Hates
Tarvell
Karl Thomas
T. W. Orr
Villa Tasso
Fla
R. L. Longworth
Roy Early
M C. Hughes
H. C. Calloway
H. J. Shott
W. H. Hicks
Pocahontas
Fountain Pen Leads to Arrest in Highway Robbery Case
In Morgantown West Virginia on June 4 police arrested Harry Taylor after a red fountain pen identified him as one of three bandits who beat a taxi driver Sam Peters and robbed a car $27 a watch and a fountain pen on an early morning highway. Peters friend H L Meek recognized Taylor with the pen at police HQ. The other two suspects remain at large. The stolen items have not yet been recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
Harry Taylor
Sam Peters
Joneiy
Taylor
H. L. Meek
Peters
Robbery on United States liner linked to grudge
Albert Rosenberg a stowaway aboard the United States liner was charged with looting currency totaling about two million dollars discovered after eight days hidden in a smokestack jacket. Seaman Frank Bara also charged as an accomplice. Rosenberg cited a grudge against the United States after serving two years in Atlanta penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
United States
Albert Rosenberg
Washington
Worth St
Frank Bara
Rosenberg
Atlanta
Das
Senate subcommittee debates legality of Coolidge enforcement order
Washington reports a judiciary subcommittee again considers whether Coolidge's order authorizing state officers as federal prohibition enforcement agents is legal. Chairman Cummins predicts final action. debate centers on whether the appointment is within federal power and proper formal authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Judiciary
Pr Coolidge
Cummins
Missioner of Internal Revenue Act
Tragic Lansdale Father Fatally Wounds Son and Hurts Wife
A Lansdale man killed his 19 year old son Paul with a hammer and seriously injured his wife Jan in a June 4 public safety incident. Police report the attacker, identified as Norton Hill, then took his own life. Investigations are ongoing.
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Son
H Lansdale
Norton Hill
Paul
Jan
Wollen
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General Federation of Clubs
Santa Monica Bay
LIONS
Ignatz Moscicki
Transportation Department
M’swiggin
Costly Price
Minister Smith
Marion
Allen
Thaw
Rutledge
Masonic Temple
Side
Ouene
Gayety
Business Men’s Club
H. I. Shott
Fountain Pen
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