West Virginia fixes utility property valuations for 1931
The state board set 1931 public utility property valuations at 571,961,400, up 7,130,550 from 1930. Interstate steam railroads gained 4,550,000 to 299,675,000 while interstate street railroads fell 1,910,000 to 5,790,000. Other groups mostly rose, including electric, telephone and gas sectors, with notable changes across railways, bus lines, water, and pipeline companies. New entry Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier railroad added at 1,500,000.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Board
Interstate Street Railroads
Interstate Bus
Water and Electric
Interstate
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Chesapeake and Ohio
Virginian
Western Maryland
Kanawha
Michigan
Pittsburgh
Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Railroad
Interstate Steam Railroad Group
Guyandotte and
Tug River
Indian Creek and Northern Railroad
Kanawha, Glen Jean and Eastern Railroad
Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad
Kelly's Creek
Northwestern Railroad
Wheeling Traction Company
Interstate Street Railroad
Kanawha Traction and Electric Company
Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company
Tri- City Traction Company
Monongahela
West Penn Public Service Company
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Wheeling Electric Company
West Virginia Power and Transmission Company
Virginia Public Service Company
Northern Virginia Power Company
Potomac Light and Power Company
Main Power and Light Company
Potomac Transmission Company
Potomac Valley Power Corporation
West Virginia Light, Heat and Power Company
Amere Gas Utilities Company
Municipal Gas Company
United Fuel Gas Company
Hope Natural Gas Company
Bluefield Gas and Power Company
Huntington Development and Gas Company
Independent Gas Company
Inland Gas Distributing Company
Kentucky and West Virginia Gas Company
Manufacturers Light and Heat Company
Pennsylvania
Natural Gas Company of
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Dawa Ciel
Ohio jury dooms woman to death in electrocution
Julia Lowther, a 23 year old West Virginian, is found guilty of first degree murder for the May 29 1930 killing of Clara Smith in Ashtabula Ohio. The verdict sentences her to electrocution at the Ohio penitentiary with a possible new trial motion to be filed within three days.
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Jefferson
Ohio
Julia Maude Lowther
West Virginia
Clara Smith
Ohio Penitentiary
Tilby Smith
James Oglevee
Caroll County
Ashtabula
Smith
Earl Frush
Elvie Lowther
Death of Fairmont minister during funeral service
Rev. Herman G. Stoetzer D D 71 Presbyterian pastor died suddenly today in the pulpit during a funeral service. He led First Presbyterian Church whose edifice rose during his tenure and was born in Germany. A Wheeling hotel bell boy earlier in life he later studied at West Virginia University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He collapsed from heart disease while officiating for Mrs H B Hungerford, a longtime parishioner. He is survived by widow Margaret Brown Stoetzer and son John J of Fairmont.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Herman G. Stoetzer
D. D
First Presbyterian Church
Germany
Wheeling
E. M. Staller
West Virginia University
Princeton Theological Seminary
Klondike Memory Sets Governor White’s Image
Columbus Ohio June 9 Three years in the Klondike during the gold rush of 98 gave Governor George White of Ohio a tough, affable image fit for governing. He is jovial, reads Dickens, golf mad, and a steady smoker. He brushes off presidential talk as a mere possibility.
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Columbus
Ohio
George White
Klondike
Governor White
Impersonator jailed in Detroit big swindle case
Detroit officials say Alex F. Lewis a 130 dollar a month welfare clerk impersonated officials and ran a large fraud. He allegedly defrauded the city of 207000 through fake grocery orders cashed by a non existent firm he owned. Investigators trace a spree of purchases including two cars a yacht a chauffeur and a home and seaside cottage.
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Detroit
Alex F. Lewis
Department of Public Welfare
Bank
Lewis
Tennessee House Defeats Articles Against Governor Horton
Nashville AP reports the Tennessee house of representatives voted 56 to 40 to defeat seven impeachment articles against Governor J Henry Horton, ending the four-month federal probe into state affairs. Horton praised the vote, claiming Tennessee has been saved as charges were rejected beyond reconsideration.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee House of Representatives
J Henry H. Horton
House
Tennessee
Hoover asked to probe Lowman dereliction in enforcement
New York June 9 President Hoover was asked by Major Maurice Campbell former prohibition administrator in New York to investigate charges of insincerity in enforcing prohibition against Seymour Lowman assistant secretary of the treasury. Campbell released two letters accusing dereliction in office by Lowman and unnamed treasury officials and said he would press charges against them once those against Lowman are disposed of.
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New York
Hoover
Maurice Campbell
Prohibition
New York District
Seymour Lowman
the Treasury
Campbell
Lowman
Treasury Department
Andrew W. Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Poseidon Submarine Loss Rocks British Navy Off Shantung Peninsula
London reports a collision near Weihaiwei sank the Poseidon a large submarine. Two dead eighteen missing five officers and twenty six sailors saved. Hermes Berwick and Cumberland reached the scene as the Chine port mourns. Poseidon built 1929 part of final class of submarine construction.
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Shangtung Peninsula
China
London
Great Britain
Wethalwel
Shantung Peninsula
England
Admiralty
Weihaiwei
Hermes
Berwick
Cumberland
Portsmouth
Perseue
Pandora
China Station
Winter wheat crop down 3 million bushels in 1931 forecast
Washington June 9 A winter wheat crop of 649 060 000 bushels was forecast today by the agriculture department, reduced about 3 000 000 bushels from the May 1 estimate due to adverse conditions. Despite the decline the 1931 production remains about 45 000 000 bushels above last year and 102 000 000 above the five year average. May 1 forecast had placed output at 652 000 000 bushels.
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Washington
Articulture Department
Baltimore and Ohio to Build Hudson River Bridge at Fifty Seventh Street
The War Department announced plans for a Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge across the Hudson River at Fifty Seventh Street New York City. For years B&O sought to move trains into New York City, currently requiring passenger transfer by bus from the New Jersey side.
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Washington
War Department
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Hudson River
Fifty Seventh
New York City
Baltimore and Ohio
New Jersey
Metropolis
Arkansas Divorces Delayed By Referendum Issue
Little Rock Arkansas June 9 AP Arkansas is blocked from quick divorce by a potential injunction and the upcoming November 1932 vote. Petitions to refer the ninety day divorce act have been filed with Secretary of State Ed F McDonald, suspending operation if found insufficient within ten days. A nonresident divorce colony has gathered in Hot Springs awaiting the new law.
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Little Rock Ark
Arkansas
Ed F. McDonald
Home Protective Association of Arkansas
Hot Springs
Houghton Warns Germany Finance Could Impact World
Former ambassador Alanson B. Houghton told Carnegie Tech graduates that Germany's financial collapse would reverberate globally. He argued any U.S. debt remission would do little to alter world conditions and urged collective relief funded by all nations, not by America alone.
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Pittsburgh
Germany
United States
Alanson B. Houghton
Great Britain
America
Paris Bulletin Notes Breslau Steel Helmet Protests
Paris reports on the Breslau steel helmet demonstrations, describing how the protests have affected daily life and prompting readers to turn to page three for further details about the unrest and reactions from authorities.
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Paris
Breslau
Hatchet man as sheriff appeals trailed in Ohio for added help
Dayton Ohio June 9 with meager crews police seek a hatchet man who early today entered the home of Thomas Benge 50 killed him and seriously wounded his wife and daughter The attacker believed to be a Negro left a four year old granddaughter Bernice Johnson unharmed The child said a black man entered at daybreak and struck Benge seven times then attacked Miss Benge and Mrs Benge who barely survived Steubenville June 9 Sheriff Yost joined with coal company officials asking for extra deputies to guard mines during a strike by 600 men at five mines Officials warned they could not cope if operations continued during the walkout backed by the National Miners union
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Dayton
Ohio
Thomas Benge
Benge
Margaret Benge
Laura
Bernice Johnson
Miss Benge
Neliber
Steubenville
W. J. Yost
Jefferson County
Yost
National Miners Union
Robert Ireland
Cleveland
Hanna Coal Company
P. R. Nicholson
Joseph Bainbridge
J. R. Clark
United States Coal Company
East Ohio
Dillonvale
Howard Duff
Belmont County
Capone asks tax appeals board for review
Ralph J Capone of Chicago has asked the board of tax appeals to review a charge of income tax deficiency covering three years. He contends he lost more than he made in gambling during that period.
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Washington
Ralph J. Capone
Chicago
Board of Tax Appeals
Hidden gunmen kill four in Kentucky hills
Sheriff Adam Carpenter leads twelve deputies and a bloodhound posse into Magoffin county along the Upper Licking valley after two men and two women are found slain in a corn field. Victims are Dave Wireman 50 his wife 48 their son Floyd 22 and a daughter-in-law. One Wireman family member linked to a prior double killing by a posse member.
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Kentucky Hills
Salyereville
Adam Carpenter
Licking River Valley
Here
Magoffin
Salyersville
Dave Wireman
Floyd Wireman
Wireman
Carpenter
Vic
Ins
Frank Johnson
Ie Pinks
Johneson
Robert Johnson
Robery
Porce
Johnsons
Grand jury returns 28 indictments in Marshall County
Moundsville West Virginia June 9 the Marshall county grand jury returned 28 indictments today with 16 true bills naming penitentiary fugitives. The men will be arraigned in court Wednesday for pleas.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Marshall County
Oklahoma officers face murder charges in two students killings
Ardmore Oklahoma forces of justice moved to prosecute deputies Bill Guess and Cecil Crosby for the killings of Emilio Cortes Rubio cousin of President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico and Manuel Gomez as the two youths whose American college trip ended in death were prepared for transport to Mexico under escort. Funeral Mass planned at St Mary's church with Bishop Monnot officiating. Salvador Cortes Rubio said he would return to St Benedict's College in Atchison Kansas next year. Nearly 7000 people viewed the bodies over two days.
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Ardmore
Okla
Oklahoma
Forces of Justice
Emilio Cortes Rubio
Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Manuel Gomez
Bill Guess
Cecil Crosby
W. H. Murray
Charles Clowe
St. Mary's Church
Morrow
A. F. Monnot
Oklahoma City
Mexico City
Salvador Cortes Rubio
St. Benedict's College
Atchison, Kas
United States
Italian Government Replies to Protests
Rome June 9 AP the Italian government formally replied to two notes of protest from Pope Pius XI expressing regret at violence toward the pope and Catholics but charging the Vatican with violation of the Lateran treaty and concordat. The reply avoided definite excuses and asserted that the culprits would be punished while noting efforts to clear the atmosphere between government and Vatican.
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Rome
Pius XI
Vatican
Virginia highway commission to surface Bluefield Wytheville road
Bluefield readers learn that the Virginia highway commission plans to surface the Bluefield Wytheville highway this season. H G Shirley chair of the commission writes to the Bluefield Automobile Club promising a mudless dustless smooth road from Blandeou line near Bluefield to Wytheville.
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Bluefield
Virginia Highway Commission
Bluefield-Wytheville
Kirkland narrowly avoids life term in slaying case
Virgil Kirkland 20 of Gary was sentenced to one to ten years in Pendleton Reformatory after being found guilty of assault and battery with intent to rape in the Arlene Draves slaying. Circuit Judge Grant Crumpacker cited the 1929 juvenile felony act as the applicable law, rejecting plea for heavier punishment.
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Valparaiso
Lad
Virgil Kirkland
Arlene Draves
Gary
Grant Crumpacker
State Reformatory
Pendleton
Porter Courty Court
Crumpacker
James M. Ogden
Kirkland
State rests case against Pantages in San Diego trial
The estate rested its case against Alexander Pantages, a wealthy showman, and three co defendants on conspiracy and morals charges in San Diego California. The jury was excused until tomorrow as defense motions to strike parts of testimony were launched. Judge L N Turrentine sustained objections to admitting an Italian document claimed to be a birth certificate for Lidia Nitto amid conflicting age testimony.
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San Deigo
Calif
Alexander Panteges
L. N. Turrentine
Thomas Whelan
Lidia Nitto
Plane Hitches to Navy Dirigible in Flight
Lakehurst New Jersey June 9 AP The navy dirigible Los Angeles at night picked up a navy plane piloted by Chief Aviation Pilot J J O'Brien a few miles north of the air station and later released it from special dove tail gear The flight pick up and release were accomplished successfully Weather prevented testing over the metropolitan area O'Brien returned to the station after the test The dirigible remained in flight
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Lakehurst
N. J
Navy
Los Angeles
J. J. O’brien
O'Brien
Rail men to unite in revenue move
Washington june 9 twenty three traffic executives of southern carriers urged cooperation with eastern and western railroads to form a unified effort to combat falling revenues possibly by raising freight rates. simultaneously southern railway shopmen may vote on a five day week to reduce expenses without layoffs ballots from about 8000 workers returnable tomorrow in knoxville tenn and somerset ky turn to page three.
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Washington
Southern
Southern Railway
H. J. Carr
International Association of Machinists
Southern Railway System
Knoxville
Bluefield approves hawker and peddler ordinance after narrow vote
By a three to two vote the city board passed the ordinance regulating transient merchants and peddlers, effective July 1. Mayor Lilley and Directors Sublette Walk voted yea, McCue and Phelps voted nay citing excessive fees. City Solicitor Easley clarified exemptions for farmers and garden product sellers as originally drafted.
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McCue
D. M. Easley
Mr. Bailey
Scott Street
Ramsey Street
Commerce Street
Commerce
Raleigh Street
W. C. Easley
Bluefield Publicbrary
F. T. Ridley
John T. Wilson
Bplmer C. Barton
Bluefield
Tri-City Traction Company
City Board
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Norfolk and Western
Virginian Railway
Bluefield Telephone
Railroad Group
Electric Companies
Julia Lowther
White
Associated Press
Tennessee House
Horton
ACKS
U-Boat
OHIP
Qubmarine
Hudson Bridge
Houghton
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Eeks
Capone
Mountain Cornfield
Posse
Friends of
Bluefield-Wytheville Road
Reformatory
Phelps
Easley
Mr. Easley
J. W. Johnson
W. Tf. Dudley
Bramwell
Giles Street
Princeton Avenue
A. H. Hoge
E. W. Horton
Dr. Hoge
Mr. Dudley
Hoge
Lilley
Dudley
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