Airplanes chase wild Afridi tribesmen near Peshawar
British bombers and fighters attacked Afridi hill tribesmen southwest of Peshawar, driving them from caves after a month of menace. Five thousand bombs were dropped as European officials reported the release of two British officers and Mrs Frere by raiders across the border.
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Bombay
Peshawar
India
Afghanistan
F E. L. Farley
J. C. Frere
Yesteray
Balisiai
Bengal Police
Midnapore
Eighteenth
Royal Rifles
Abbotabad
Carol of Romania to ascend throne after renunciation
The article reports that Carol of Romania is set to become king again after renouncing the throne. Premier M Mironescu will also serve as foreign minister. Miahi Popovici as interior minister. General Condesco as war minister. Princess Helen may reconcile with Carol as son Michael remains heir. Prince Nicholas plans a Europe tour. Dowager Queen Marie has departed for Oberammergau. Carol spoke to his son after years apart. the boy asked if his father perished in a shipwreck he watched on film.
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M. Mironescu
Miahi Popovici
General Condesco
Helen
Carol
Michael
Nicholas
Bucharest
Europe
Marie
Oberammergau
Romania
Prince Nicholas
Queen Marie of Romania Arrives in Munich
Dowager Queen Marie of Romania arrived in Munich and will return to Bucharest on June 14 instead of staying four weeks in Germany. Her plans remain unchanged despite her son Carol’s return to bid for the Romanian throne, which he renounced in 1925.
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Munich
Bavaria
Marie
Romania
Bucharest
Germany
Carol
Glenwood Park Opens With Discount Tickets To Theatre
Starting Sunday June 8 Tri City Traction offers round trip tickets to Glenwood Park for 50 cents. Each ticket grants admission to the Park Theatre where Mabel Bye and troupe perform nightly with vaudeville between acts. Tickets are sold by conductors on interurban cars.
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Glenwood Park
Tri-City Traction Company
Park Theatre
Mabel Bye
Mountain State obtains permit for Bluefield Roanoke bus line
The Mountain State Transportation, based in this city, gains state commission approval to run a bus line from Bluefield to Roanoke via Glen Lyn Narrows Pearisburg Christiansburg and Salem. The firm, which recently acquired Seneca Transportation, will start with one daily round trip using a twenty passenger bus, running 10 p.m. from Roanoke and 6 30 p.m. from Bluefield, with plans for expanded service as roads improve. The route covers 107 miles with about four hours travel, and the company also gains authority to operate Bluefield Crockett's Cove via North Tazewell, linking to Crockett's Cove Yukden War and Newhall. Principal stockholders are Claude Sumpter J D Abshire and Thomas H Scott.
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Mountain State Transportation
State Corporation Commission of Virginia
Bluefield
Roanoke
Glen Lyn
Narrows
Pearisburg
Christianenburg
Salem
Mountain State Company
Seneca Transportation Company
Mountain State Transportation Company
Crockett’s Cove
North Tazewell
Yukdén, War
Newhall
Bluefield- Bristol Line and the Bluefield- Mullens
Claude Sumpter
J. D. Abshire
Thomas H. Scott
German Minister Slain in Lisbon as Extradition Sought
A German minister was killed in Lisbon and the killer said the act was chance. Police reported no regret from the prisoner who will be examined by alienists before extradition to Germany for murder proceedings.
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Can
Germany
Wheat harvest begins early in west state
Ottawa Kansas June 7 Wheat harvest began today in Franklin two weeks earlier than usual. W H Pearson started a binder on a forty acre tract one mile north of town. The grain is of good quality, the ears are short and the stand is even.
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Ottawa
Kas
Franklin
W. H. Pearson
National Guard to Join Legion Parade in Clarksburg
Adjutant General Carlton C. Pierce informed Louis A. Johnson, Legion convention chair, that the 201st Infantry Band and a National Guard battalion will participate in the American Legion parade in Clarksburg during the August 1 to September 3 convention period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Carlton C. Pierce
Charleston
Louis A. Johnson
American Legion
201Let
National Guard
Bluefield Notices and Business Openings
Various Bluefield notices include finance offers from American Finance Co and real estate loans in the Bluefield area, plus announcements for secretarial courses, business college enrollment, and a memorial service by labor unions at Grace Church. Also listed are rental ads, power outage notice by Appalachian Electric Power Co and a brief railway worker notice.
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Bluefield
American Finance Company
Law and Commerce Building
W. Va
McAdoo Dies at 76 Former New York Chief Magistrate
William McAdoo longtime New Jersey and national political figure and chief magistrate of New York City died at dawn after a brief illness. Born in Ireland he served as congressman, assistant secretary of war, and police commissioner before leading the city courts from 1910. Survived by widow Eva Lee Tardy and daughter Eva. Funeral from St George's Church Monday.
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New York
William McAdoo
City of
New Jersey
County
Donegal
Ireland
McAdoo
United States
Congress
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
Roosevelt
Eva Lee Tardy
Richmond
Eva
St. George’s Church
Kansas blue laws upheld banning Sunday motion pictures
The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed fines against Mankato theater owner Sam Blair for operating a motion picture show on Sabbath. The court ruled the blue laws do not violate religious freedom, rejecting Blair’s claim that Sunday rest requirements infringe his faith and liberty.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Supreme Court
Mankato
Sam Blair
Blair
George K Evans Dies in Knoxville
George K Evans longtime Bluefield resident and former Norfolk and Western locomotive engineer died of paralysis at his Knoxville Tennessee home yesterday afternoon. He retired in February and moved to Knoxville where his children live. He served over thirty years on the Pocahontas division and will be buried at Monte Vista Park cemetery after services Monday. Survived by his widow, two children Mrs Gwynn Carrico and George R Evans, and several siblings.
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George K. Evans
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western
Knoxville
Tenn
Evane
Pocahontas
Pythians
Engineers and
Eagles
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Evans
Gangster's body found in canal after jail release uproar
The body of a gangster, released on bond in October 1927 after a New Jersey arrest, was found in a canal following controversy over his Joliet release. The Chicago crime commission called him a murderers gunman jewel robber ex convict and among the most dangerous criminals in the United States. Identification records show a three year Pontiac reformatory term beginning June 1921 for robbery. In 1928 he was sentenced for assault with intent to kill but the case was reversed by the supreme court and he was freed.
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New Jersey
Joliet
Chicago Crime Commission
United States
Bureau of Identification
McLaughlin
Pontiac Reformatory
Supreme Court
Reed Cites 1932 Candidacy And Federal Reserve Critique
The speaker blasts Republican officials for "prostituting" the federal reserve system to fuel a gambling stock market. He accuses stock firms of draining funds from legitimate business to back rotten stocks. He also denounces Radio Corporation of America as a monopoly and praises DOJ activity.
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Thian
Federal Reserve System
Stock Exchange
Radio Corporation of America
Reed
Department of Justice
Mellon Aluminum Trust
Teapoth
Elk Hills
Pinchot Faction Loses Control Of Pennsylvanias Republican Committee
Philadelphia June 7 The Republican organization in Pennsylvania solidly backed Brigadier General Edward Martin for state chairman by a 77 to 37 vote over Gifford Pinchot's candidate Van Brown. Allegheny and Philadelphia backed the state machine, turning back Pinchot who argued the winner should name the campaign leader. Pinchot praised the party, urged utilities to act fairly, and called for an end to vote stealing. The meeting drew 100 percent attendance as leaders, including James J. Davies, watched. Pinchot’s unofficial plurality was about 20,000.
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Philadelphia
Republican Organization
Pennnsylvania
Gifford Pinchot
Edward Martin
Martin
van Brown
Lycoming
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
Pinchot
General Martin
Keystone
State Committee
James J. Davies
United States
Davis
Joseph R. Grundy
Francie Shunk Brown
Luzerne County
Pinechot
Trial of former cops postponed to June 17
Martinsburg West Virginia June 7 The trial of former local policemen Jack Manor Harry Files and Stanley Mathias a railroad brakeman on charges from a disturbance at the police station early Friday was postponed to June 17 at the defendants counsel request The trio are charged with malicious destruction of property and drunkenness A new city administration took office Thursday night Manor and Files were among the city employees relieved of their jobs
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Jack Manor
Harry Files
Stanley Mathias
Manor
Files
Bus crash victim awarded damages in Grafton court
Mrs. Eileen Bennett of Pruntytown won a $17,500 damages verdict in circuit court in a suit arising from injuries suffered in a January 1928 bus crash on the Clarksburg Grafton route near Pruntytown. The Bartlett Brothers Bus Co. faced the claim of permanent injury.
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Grafton
W. Va
Eileen Bennett
Pruntytown
Bartlett Brothers Bus Company
Clarksburg
Bennett
Bellanca airliner sets Cincinnati to Bluefield time record
The Pocahontas Air Transport Bellanca, piloted by H. S. Howard, completed the Cincinnati to Bluefield flight in one hour and forty minutes, with passengers W. E. Gilkeson, Ruessell S. Ritz, and Miss Jean Ritz. The party previously flew to Chicago for legal business, then returned toward Bluefield but landed in Cincinnati due to bad weather. The Cincinnati to Bluefield leg followed a Chicago run of about four hours.
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Cincinnati
Bluefield
Bellanca
Pocahontas Air Transport Corporation
H. S. Howard
W. E. Gilkeson
Bluefield Supply Company
Ruessell
Ritz
Jean Ritz
Chicago
Messrs. Ritz
Gilkeson
Anaes
Four Miners Die In Climax Mine Collapse In Leadville
In Leadville Colorado a cave in at the Climax Molybdenum mine killed four miners and injured three others as dynamite charges were being prepared. The dead are Louis Barton Sherman Fizier Ralph Port and Frederick McMahon. Survivors Wilson Parker and Baron aided rescuers after escaping debris. An inquest found no blame.
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Leadville
Colo
Here
Louis Barton
Butte
Mont
Sherman Fizier
Ralph Port
Denver
Frederick McMahon
Nick Baron
Archie Wilson
FE. C. Parker
Wilson
Parker
Baron
Climax
North America
American Metals Company
Continental Divide
Fremont Pass
Single vote could decide moves to discipline bishop
A single vote may decide whether to move to discipline the bishop or drop the matter. Walsh refused to state his preferred course. The senate lands committee followed a first plan in the case of Igarry F. Sinclair who refused to answer a question and was sent to jail.
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Walsh
Senate Lands Committee
Igarry F. Sinclair
Patent Damage Hearing in Coal Cleaning Suit Ends
The final hearing in the patent infringement case American Coal Cleaning corp versus Gulf Smokeless Coal Co and others before Special Master Luther G. Scott concluded yesterday afternoon. Plaintiffs will file briefs by August 1 with defendants by September 1, followed by replies ten days later. the master will then prepare a report for the U S court in the Southern district of West Virginia.
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Special Master
American Coal Cleaning Corporation
Gulf Smokeless Coal Company
Roberta and Schaffer
Luther G. Scott
Colonel Be, O'Toole
Cook
L. A. Updegraff
Coal Cleaning Corporation
Prof. Demarest
Ohio State University
United States Court For the
Southern District of West Virginia
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Carol OF Romania
Adanoke Bug Line
Magic City
Lisbon
West State
Legion
Glenwood Park Theatre
Gity
Bailey Block
Bluefield Post Office
W. H. Cunningham
West Virginian Business College
Honaker
Robins Rest
O. R
B. R. T. Lodge
Grace Church
Thomas and
Rogers Streets
Red Men's Hall
Thomas Street
Bluefield Avenue
Appalachian Electric Power Company
South Bluefield
Dearborn Street
George £. Evans
Pinghot
Pennsylvania
ShAee
West Virginia
J. S. Compton
Good Housekeeping
Warlick
Ohio City
Howard
Coushatta
Louisiana
W. H. Hawkins
Red River Parish
Matinee
Tiffany-Stahl
GUN
John Francis Natteford
Ricardo Cortez
Horace GreeLey
Nal 4No
Benny Rubin
Cliff Edward
America
Hollywood
Street OF Chance
Matoaka
Mullens
Bristol
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