Republicans Win General Victory In Princeton Race May 1929
Princeton voters elected a Republican mayor and council, with W A Brown winning by 37 votes over J C McConnell. L E White, Charles Thorn joined by J F P Spangler on the council, creating a balanced city government with the mayor holding tie-breaking power. The recorder race featured E B King defeating A L Bowling by 22 votes. The outcome followed a Democratic margin in registration, and recounts were discussed as canvassing continued.
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Princeton
W. & Brown
J. C. McConnell
L. E. White
Charles Thorn
J. FP. Spangler
8. T. Bird
J. B. Shrevebury
L. J. Chambers
West Virginia Treasurers Report Shows Cash Balance
The monthly financial statement by State Treasurer W. S. Johnson shows a total cash balance of 11 790 17887 and investments totaling 21 490 850. The May 31 balance declined by 1 236 414.23 from May 1.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
W. S. Johnson
Proposes Large Expenditure To Control Cancer Scourge
Dr. James Ewing, Cornell pathology head, urged a nationwide cancer control program with cancer institutions in major cities each equipped with radium treatment, surgery staff, and scientific experts funded by state health departments and philanthropists. He warned pure research alone cannot solve cancer and stressed practical treatment to save hundreds of lives.
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Washington
United States
James Ewing
Cornell University
Public Health Service
Phlippine Islands
Pacific Coast
Ewing
Textile strikers' conviction ends long Elizabethton case
In Johnson City Tennessee on June 4 forty five of fifty defendants were convicted in chancery court for picketing and violating the injunction during the Elizabethton textile strike. Sentences ranged from fines to ten days in jail with up to fifty dollars, while guardsmen were deemed legal state police in the plant patrol. The ruling accuses labor leaders of participation in the unrest. In Abingdon Virginia the Crowe murder trial paused as defense witnesses disputed orders to halt during the pursuit of an automobile carrying Kendrick Phelps and Dutton.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Elizabethton
Chancery
S. E. Miller
Abingdon
James W. Crowe
Washington County
J. W. Kendrick
Emory and Henry College
James McReynolds
W. H. Worley
Crowe
Young Kendrick
Paul Phelps
Sterling Dutton
Phelps
Dutton
Senator Goff Urges Choice of Vocation at Linsly Institute
Senator Guy D. Goff urged students to choose a vocation over an avocation during the 115th commencement at Linsly Institute Wheeling on June 4. Eighteen high school and seven junior high grades received diplomas.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Guy D. Goff
Linsly Institute
Work to Resign as Party Head After Hoover Letter
Dr. Hubert Work announces resignation as Republican National Committee chair effective early fall. Hoover plans appreciative note. successors discussed including Good, Ralph Williams, and James Burke. Senate probing textile labor unrest heads toward federal trade commission and tariff commission inquiry.
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Washington
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
Hoover
White House
Dr. Work
National Committee
Kansas City
Work
Mitte
Good
Ralph Williams
Oregon
Com
James Francie Burke
Longworth
Tilson
Connecticut
Plane crash fatally burns pilot near Oakland Airport
David Jennings Baird Jr., 23, was burned to death when his plane nosedived and crashed at the western end of Oakland airport. He was flying a stone plane.
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Oakland
Calif
David Jennings Baird Jr
Inmate of Murderer's Row Unable To Sleep
Moundsville W Va June 4 Prison physicians treated Theodore Carr 50 Pocahontas county farmer under sentence to hang June 14 for the slaying of Lock Sharpe Carr terror stricken and unable to sleep doctors said His counsel has appealed to the governor for commutation on grounds of temporary insanity Warden Dr L H Robinson said Carr would be moved to the death house next Saturday
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Moundsville
W. Va
Theodore Carr
Pocahontas County
Lock Sharpe
Carr
Ashworth
L. H. Robinson
Opposition to Censorship of Radio Broadcasting
Chicago June 4 proposed censorship of radio broadcasting and legislation to make stations common carriers were denounced by Williams Hedges of Chicago, president of the National Association of Broadcasters. He warned government censorship would be the industry’s greatest evil and would let officials pull the wool over the public ears while injecting their ideas. A J Carter of Chicago noted fading interest in television as practical applications remain distant, though radiovision progress continues despite frequent frequency changes by the radio commission.
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Chicago
Williams
A. J. Carter
Carter
Radiovision
Radio Commission
Former pastor shot dead in New Jersey home
In Harrison New Jersey on June 4 Rev Paul Niezmvinis former pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was found dead from a gunshot wound in the home of Mrs Rose Silkaitu. A 25 year old woman Helen Olyta of Kearney was seriously wounded with two bullet wounds in the head. Police say he appeared to shoot the woman then himself claiming temporary insanity.
Wellesley Student's Death Blamed on Inferiority Complex
Miss Louise F. McBride 18, Weston West Virginia, a sophomore at Wellesley College, died by poisoning in her dorm room Sunday night. College president Miss Ellen Fitzpendleton attributed the death to an inferiority complex. A roommate said she had fits of despondency though she appeared cheerful last week. the progression followed a party she hosted for close friends Sunday evening. Her body was found Monday morning after missing breakfast.
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Wellesley
Mass
Louise F. McBride
Weston
W. Va
Wellesley College
Ellen Fitzpendleton
Henrietta H. Brannon
Miss McBride
Promise of Aud Helps Recovery of Grain Prices
The grain market reacts to a proposed $500 million relief appropriation to stabilize agriculture. Wheat futures rise sharply as traders respond to the expected Congressional action, with July at 1.08 6 8 to 1.08 7 8 and September at 1.13 to 1.13 1 2. Corn climbs from 77 8 to 99 8 cents.
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Chicago
Farmers seek half billion for stabilization amid tariff bill talks
Washington officials indicated support for a 500 million dollar stabilization fund for agriculture once the farm relief bill is enacted. Wheat futures rose as market watchers awaited the conference committee's stance. Senate and House conferees debated clearing houses and price-support rules while leaving the export debenture provision unresolved.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Senator McNary
Oregon
Senate Agriculture Committee
Chicago
Conference Committee
Senate
House
White House
Department of Agriculture
Farm Conference Committee
Woman to Serve Life in Prison in California
Mrs. Eva Rablen pleaded guilty to the murder of her husband Carrol Rablen at Tuttletown. She was sentenced to life in San Quentin with no parole recommendation after poisoning his coffee. Rablen, once a "mail order bride" from Quanah Texas, married him about fifteen months ago through a matrimonial agency.
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Sonora
Calif
Eva Rablen
Carrol Rablen
Tuttletown
San Quentin
Fire Aboard Steamship Ugo Maru Enlists Russian Passengers
Tokyo reports the steamship Ugo Maru with 700 passengers, mostly Russians, on fire between Vladivostok and Kamchatka. Other ships rush to aid as Nich Nichi Shim Bun notes the incident.
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Tokyo
Vladivoetock
Kamenchatka
Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Woman 15 Held On Murder Count In Indictment
Valparaiso Indiana June 4 A first degree murder charge is filed against Mrs Catherine Cassler for the death of Cameola Soutar the housekeeper and rival for her husband. Bonds set at 3000 for husband Truman Cassler their adopted son and Cheater Johnson as material witnesses. Cassler previously was freed after a death sentence for William Lindstrom's murder was overturned.
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NCE
William Lindstrom
Catherine Cassler
Chicago
Sameela Soutar
Valparaiso
Ind
Catherine Caseler
Cameola Soutar
EB. H. Miller
Cassler
Truman Cassier
Johnson
Gypsy Women Outwit Teller and Get Money
Two Gypsy women in Depew near Buffalo escaped with several hundred dollars after one distracted teller J Christian Krehl while the other emptied the cage of cash. The incident occurred today as the women allegedly told fortunes for the teller.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Depew
Here
J. Christian Krehl
Goal men arrive with coal buyers going to Kentucky and Illinois
A group of twenty two large coal buyers from the northwest arrived in Bluefield from Killarney West Virginia. They are guests of the Old Ben Coal corporation and will tour Cinderella mine Sovereign mine Kona Kikhorn property and Old Ben mines in Franklin county Illinois before returning home on trains 15 and 16 and motor buses.
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Killarney
W. Va
West Virginian Hotel
Williamson and
Majestic
Old Ben Conl Corporation
Great Northwest Region
Bluefield
Automobile
Williamson
Senate rails at stock market orgy and calls for reform
In Washington a Senate debate denounces the stock market speculation boom and considers remedies including a stock transaction tax a rediscount rate rise and revision of the Federal Reserve Act. Hoover Coolidge and other officials are criticized. a new short term government security plan is studied.
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Washington
Senate
Federal Reserve Board
Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Couzens
Michigan
Glass
Virginia
Grace
Couzena
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Mellon
United States
King
Utah
Watson
Indiana
Edge
New Jersey
Odd Fellows Conclave Opens in North State
Cameron West Virginia June 4 Sessions of the triarch militant uniform rank of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows opened the sixty fourth annual state encampment. Departmental council sessions were held and a large class received the grand encampment degree with Col W H Wilson presiding. About 150 visitors registered and 200 more expected for encampment sessions tomorrow and Thursday. Officers to be elected Wednesday afternoon a motor trip to Moundsville and Wednesday night the degree of chivalry will be conferred on candidates from across the state. Convention closes Thursday.
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Moundsville
Son of Senator Reports Shots Fired at Him
Sumner Fess of New York, son of Senator Simon OL Des Fess of Ohio, told Hamilton police he was shot at from a passing car near a bridge over Gregory creek between Hamilton and Middletown. He was uninjured and suspects bootleggers. police see no clear motive and doubt gang involvement.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Sumner Fess
New York
Simon OD. Fess
Cincinnati
Gregory Creek
Middletown
Fess
Fesslice
Fees
Missing Wisconsin Toddler Found After Eagle Attack Theory
Edith Dor schell, a 3-year-old from Sturgeon Bay, disappeared during a picnic amid reports that two large eagles had attacked local sheep. After three days of search, she was found near death in a wooded area, having wandered seeking safety.
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Edith Dorschell
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Edith
Banker's Wife Found Dead in Los Angeles
Mrs. Frank Patty, a banker's wife, was beaten to death in an apartment here. Police sought William Tallman, former radio company employee in San Francisco, as a suspect. Patty had lived with his wife three years and Tallman had left for Oakland after the murder, with police dispatching a radio message for his arrest.
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Los Angeles
Frank Patty
William ‘Co. Tallman
Sradio Broadcasting Company
San Francisco
Patty
EK. Lowell
W. (. Johnson
Portland
Ore
Tallman
Santo
Admiral Benson
Oakland
Calif
Reapportionment Bill Amended After Close Votes
Washington reports the house tentatively accepted two amendments to reapportionment measures. One would exclude aliens from the count and another would drop nonvoters over twenty one from voting eligibility. Both amendments passed 145 to 124 with fierce debate and were set for another vote.
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House
Washington
Men to be prosecuted for wives offenses in Albania
Six men were arrested after their wives allegedly poured scalding oil on a choir during a solemn high mass in Delyine South Albania. The wives were singing in Albanian for the first time instead of Greek. A special court for political offenses will try the six husbands. Nicholas Ost of the Divine Church will be tried for refusing to use Albanian.
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Tirana
Albania
Delyine
National Church of
Nicholas Ost
The
Divine Church
Vesuvius Erupts With Renewed Fury Endangering Nearby Towns
Naples reports Mount Vesuvius reigniting in a violent eruption. An hour of lava flows and red-hot stones rose from the crater while ash and smoke billowed three miles high. No injuries yet, but the eruption sent tourists scrambling to safety as lava output nears half the 1906 destruction.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Valley of
Hell
Vesuvian Conservatory
Vesuvius Eruption Threatens Pompeii and Villages
June 4 Naples reports two six foot high lava walls streaming from Vesuvius toward Pompeii threatening woods vineyards and towns. Inhabitants evacuated Barre Terzigno and fled to Torre Annunziata. Lava, moving at ten feet per second, split toward the gulf and the eastern rail line threatening Barre and other communities.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Barre
Terzigno
Torre Amepunziata
Gulf of Naples
Hell
Gulf
Boscotre
Morrison's Testimony Opens Willmot Murder Trial
Mor rison, slated for hanging in September for the Bowen slaying, testifies at the Willmot murder trial opening in Charleston. Morrison describes a Jersey to West Virginia trip and the fatal highway shooting after Willmot halted for aid. Juror connections to the Bowen family are raised by Morrison's attorney Mason as plans for an appeal begin amid venue questions and public opinion pressures.
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Charleston
W. Va
Janes
Millard Morrison
Frank Bowen
Walter Willmot
James Mason
Morrison
Mason
Bowen
Leas
Trevern Morrison
Elizabeth
N. J
Willmoor
Willmot
More Rison
Attorineys
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Mercer County
W. A. Brown
Daily Telegraph
Senator Goff
Republican
New England
Manufactures Committee
Hale
Maine
Federal Trade Commission
Tariff Commission
Wheeler
Montana
Senate Manufactures Committee
Trade Commission
New England Mills
Northern Mills
Murderer’s Row
Northwest
Jenatorg
ODD Fellows
North OF
Radio Company
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