Goodwill Party Tours Fayette County Cities
A Bluefield led goodwill tour gathered sixteen Mount Hope Oak Hill citizens with twenty four Fayette county business and professional leaders at the Hotel Mountainair Mount Hope. Will Fasley chaired the event and plans for more tours were outlined by Will Bailey and others. Speakers from Bluefield Mount Hope Oak Hill pledged cooperation and closer ties between communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biuceld
Mount Hope
Oak Hill
Mountainair
Fayette County
Bluefield
Wil . Fasley
Arin Montgomery
Harry Heatham
Will C. Bailey
W EB. Tissue
Chamber of Commerce of
K. ©. Minter
Beckley Chamber of Commerce
Jones
J. E. Lilley
Romeo Hutchinson
J. S. Salisbury
C. E. Lilley
Joe Hoge
Ray Evans
Harry Cheatham
Chas. Minter
Will C. Basley
C. M. Montgomery
Dr. Lepper
Claude Taylor
E. Omar
W. J. Cole
J. T. Thornton
N. Crawford
F. M. Knight
A. E. Burgess
Mt. Hope and
P. D. Holland
L. S. Tulley
W. E. Tissue
Fred Cornuwell
Fred Morgan
E. M. Tutwiler
P. M. Snyder
P. H. Garrett
T. H. Snyder
W. N
Modified Income Tax Return Inspection Rules
Washington June 11 federal income tax returns may be inspected by state tax agents under strict conditions. A governor signed application and heir at law must prove material interest. approval rests with the Internal Revenue Service commissioner.
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Washington
Wille
Cas
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Merger Leaders of Chicago Banks Plan Two-Institution Deal
Walter W. Head of Foreman State National and Melvin A. Traylor of First National discuss a $ merger of Foreman State National and First National into the First National Foreman State bank. Central Trust and National Bank of the Republic joined the consolidation.
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Chicago
Walter W. Head
Foreman State National
Melvin A. Traylor
First National
First National-Foreman State Bank
Central Trust and
National Bank of the Republic
Tornado Strikes Fort Gideon Farm Home
A tornado hit Fort Gideon ten miles northwest of town destroying a farm home. Mrs. McGowan and her daughter were inside. the girl was buried under rubble. Roofs were torn from several houses within a one block area as witnesses traced the storm’s looping path.
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Fort Gideon
Here
Absence of Icebergs Stuns Coast Patrol Mission
Washington June 11 The coast guard ice patrol, normally busy warning ships of drifting ice, has no icebergs to warn mariners about this year. A cutter was ordered to a 5000 mile Labrador coast to Greenland and back to St Johns seeking the cause of the missing ice movement. The patrol began after the Titanic collision of 1912.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Fee
Labrador
Greenland
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Floods Drown Thirty in Angora Territory
Thirty persons drowned in floods around Angora after heavy rains. Three hundred houses were evacuated as residents sought shelter in mosques and tree tops. Fields and vineyards were submerged and many cattle swept away.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Angora
Jurors Summoned for Elkins U S District Court Term
Twenty five grand jurors and sixty petit jurors are subpoenaed for the Elkins term of the U S district court convening June 25. The subpoenas were sent by registered mail from the U S marshal's office. Deputy marshals are serving subpoenas on seventy grand jury witnesses this week.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Elkins
United States District Court
U. S. Marshal
City and Goalfield News Dress Sale and Events
A local shopping and events blurb lists a dress sale at Frettwell's with bargains including a $1 dress after a $8.50 purchase. It notes dance nights at Jake Shawnee with Mark Goff Orchestra, chaperone, 9 to 2, plus new hat shipments at French Hat Shoppe and beauty services at Ideal Beauty Shoppe with a $7.50 head permanent wave and appointments by phone.
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Jake Shawnee
Mark Goff
Chaperone
Tulip
Eugene
Frederic
Idealeauty Shoppe
West Virginian Hotel
Tongue Twister Lands Autoist Before Judge
Uniontown Pa June 11 John Dabalansky was acquitted of driving while intoxicated after a physician testified his difficulty with Rs showed intoxication. The doctor cited his inability to rattle off a tongue twister during arrest as evidence. He was ordered to pay costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
John Dabalansky
Mine Explosion Kills One and Injures Another in Ohio Betwee
A premature dynamite blast at the Belle Valley coal mine near Caldwell Ohio killed 52 year old Andy Meschrchik of Belle Valley and critically injured 48 year old Mike Egait of Macksburg. About 100 workers escaped injury as officials investigate the cause.
Great air adventure of the giant DO-X shown on map
The DO-X flying boat route from Lisbon to the Canary Islands, Villa Cisneros, Bolama, Cape Verde, and Natal is traced with a solid line. A dotted line shows its later course from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, back to Natal, then along the South and North American coasts to New York.
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Lisbon
Portugal
New York
Canary Islands
Villa Cisneros
Bolama
West Africa
Cape Verde Islands
Atlantic
Natal
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
North American
Mine Union Chief Urges Parley of Operators and Miners
The United Mine Workers of America executive board urges President to convene a joint meeting of operators and miners. They argue that the joint wage agreement has stabilized the industry and appeal to federal leadership for action to restore balance and justice in mining communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mine Union
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Epon
Ohio to Raise Auto License Taxes Under New Levy
Columbus Ohio June 11 A house approved a bill raising auto and truck license taxes by 11 million to total 23.5 million with a horsepower based scale replacing old rates 7 10 and 25 dollars and trucks by weight. Proceeds share 5 percent counties 45 percent by motor registrations 25 percent municipalities and 25 percent state highway department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
House of Representatives
Senate
State Highway Department
Berlin denies talk on German naval power at Chequers
Official Berlin dismissed reports from Paris naval circles claiming a German diplomat met with the British admiralty head at Chequers. The denial said no conversations occurred with the first lord of the British Admiralty during the Breuning Curtius visit in England.
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Berlin
Paris
Chequers
Germany
France
Admiralty
Breuning
Curtius
England
Justice Holmes Names Personal Secretary
Cambridge, June 11 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has chosen Horace C. Rose 24 of Columbus Ohio Harvard law graduate Princeton class of 1928 as his personal secretary for the coming year. Rose was president of the Princetonian and helped renew athletic relations between Harvard and Princeton after a four year rupture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
U. S. Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harvard Law School
Horace C. Rose
Columbus
Ohio
Princeton
New Jersey
Rose
Princetonian
Harvard
Police clash as 12000 communists march in Berlin protest
Berlin reports a massive communist mass meeting protesting emergency tax decrees. Scores of arrests occurred as police searched about 12,000 participants for weapons. Officers used clubs and blank cartridges to control crowds after the meeting. Police guarded major newspaper offices to prevent window smashing as marchers dispersed.
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Berlin
Broker and film star are too busy to wed
Robert Ritchie, a New York broker, and Jeannette MacDonald, the film star, postponed their June wedding indefinitely. Ritchie cited his schedule and Miss MacDonald’s filming commitments as the cause, noting past delays due to her acting work. They had finally set June 9 but delays continued.
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Hollywood
Cal
Robert Ritchie
New York
Jeannette MacDonald
Miss MacDonald
Ritchie
Effort 10 Forge Release Striking Miners Balked
Hanna company general manager HR Ireland and Belmont county prosecutor Waddell said they would travel to Columbus to seek state aid from Governor White if the miners situation was not under full control by tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HR. A. Ireland
Hanna Company
Waddell
Belmont County
Columbus
George White
Coal strike ripples through Pittsburgh area with talks planned
In Pittsburgh and neighboring regions the tenth day of a coal strike saw United Mine Workers propose talks with Pittsburgh Terminal Coal officials to end the stoppage affecting over 1,000 miners in five mines. Arrests occurred in Frederickstown and Jefferson county amid rising tensions as police and federal mediators monitor potential trouble in Ohio West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Ohio
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation
Allegheny
Rainey Coal Company
Frederickstown
Washington County
Jefferson County
Dillonvale
M. A. Hanna Coal Company
Fairpoint
Hanna Company
Shinnston
Bear Mountain
van A. Bittner
Bittner
George H. van Fleet
William Rodgers
Department of Labor
Monongalia
Doak
Frank Borich
National Miners’ Union
Vincent Kemenovich
Pinchot
National Mine Union
Tremont
S. M. Spears Company
Bellevernon
Fayette County
Elizabeth
Davis and Company
East Millsboro
J. A. Seaman
Wheeling
W. Va
A. M. Long
Knights of the Grip at United Commercial Travellers Meet
Winnipeg dispatch reports more than 500 delegates from United States and prairie West attend the international grand council convention of the United Commercial Travelers in Winnipeg. Arch McFarlane calls salesmen true ambassadors and urges restraint from exaggerated moodiness amid cross border trade.
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Winnipeg
Man
Knights of the Grip
International Grand Council
United Commercial Travelers
United States Points
Prairie West
Arch McFarlane
United Commercial Travellers’ Association of America
Watkins remarriage tied to Chicago baby mix up case
R and Mrs William Watkins of Chicago are pictured after remarriage before Judge Francis Borrelli. Mrs Watkins holds Charlee, one of the children involved in the infamous Watkins Bamberger baby mix up that sparked suits and counter suits last summer.
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William Watkins
Chicago
Francis Borrelli
Watkins
Charlee
Railroads Seek Rate Boost Amid Shipping Forecasts
Regional advisory board members discussed freight rate increases and trucking restrictions, urging coordinated rail and truck transport. They forecast third quarter need for cars down 11.9 percent from last year, with inventories low and a potential buyer’s panic. The board also predicted shifts in shipments of grains, fruits, vegetables, chemicals, bricks, rubber, and petroleum products, with declines in coal, lumber, autos, and cement. Acquitted of murder, Burke was ordered to a state insane hospital after a confession of multiple holdups.
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Allegheny Regional Advisory Board
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Panhandle
Maryland
R. S. Enler
Pittsburgh
Lester Bernstein
Sam Wilcox
Circuit Court
Burke
John Brown
John Fisher
Fisher
Brown
One Man Crime Wave Committed to Asylum
In St. Joseph Missouri Michael Burke, 16, labeled by police as the city's one man crime wave, is committed to an asylum after a spree. No further details are provided in the fragment.
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St. Joseph, Mo
Michael Burke
Get Rid of Pimples With Petersons Ointment
A promotional note touts Petersons Ointment as a cure for pimples with claims of rapid clearing. Mary Metinko of Rankin Pa endorses its effectiveness and notes her long battle with pimples ended after using the product sold in drug stores.
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Peterson
Mary Metinko
Rankin, Pa
Archduke Otto to Wed Princess Marie of Italy
It was reported today that Archduke Otto of Austria will marry Princess Marie, youngest daughter of the king and queen of Italy, in October.
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Archduke OF
Austria
Rome
Otto of Austria
Marie
Ialy
Economic forces face statesmen
Washington faces a world economic crisis born in wartime and swollen by a general malaise. The piece notes Europe’s reparations and allied debts, the Dawes and Young commissions, and the idea of international collaboration without making U S reparations interdependent.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
England
France
Hoover Administration
America
Chequers
MacDonald
United States
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Dawes and Young
Bruening
Curtius
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