Pennsylvania Primary At Center Of Dry Campaign Probe
Witnesses describe Anti-Saloon League activities in the Pennsylvania Republican primary. Wayne B. Wheeler admits funds and speakers aided Pepper Fisher and Pinechot efforts while naming several congressmen and senators linked to dry campaigning. Campaign costs exceed 1.62 million dollars in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Volstendam
Todey
Senate Campaign
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Senator Reed
Missouri
Wheeler
Reed
Pennsylvania
League
Fek
Briand Abandons Plan for Coalition Ministry
Paris reports Ariste Briand giving up a coalition government plan after Herriot refused to join a national cabinet. He plans to meet Herriot and Peincare again to pursue a cabinet of political leaders, but neither will necessarily join Briand's tenth ministry.
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Briand
Paris
Ariste Briand
Herriot
National Union
Peincare
Tragic Death of Sylvia Gaines Shocks Seattle
The body of 22 year old Sylvia H Gaines, Smith College graduate and niece of county board chairmanWilliam A Gaines, was found in a grove near Green Lake Seattle. Autopsy shows brutal beating with a rock and strangulation after a late evening walk. Police reported a burly man seen nearby and a heavy struggle at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia H. Gaines
Smith College
Seattle
William A. Gaines
Board of County Commissioners
Green Lake
F.S. Stokes
Miss Gaines
Robert Gaines
Northampton
Mass
Evidence in Support New Trial Revealed
Cambridge, June 17. A new affidavit is presented in support of Bartolomeo Vasaetl’s new trial bid. Celestino Madeiros, convicted bank holdup murderer, claims he and the Morelli freight car theft gang of Providence killed a paymaster and guard in 1920, an act for which Lace and Vanzetti were convicted. He also says William G. Thompson, defense chief, learned of the robbery proceeds at a Providence saloon the night after the murder, only to find his confederates had vanished. Thompson says the Morelli gang leader is in Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Bartolomeo Vasaetl Reatonle
Celestino Madeiros
Morelli
Providence
Lace
Vanzetti
Madeiros
William G. Thompson
Thompson
Leavenworth
Rogers Heads Rotary International at Denver Convention
Harry H. Rogers of San Antonio Texas was elected president of Rotary International at the seventeenth annual convention in Denver. His victory followed the elimination on the first ballot of Thomas Davis of Butte Montana and the withdrawal of Arthur H. Sapp. Davis moved Rogers receive the unanimous ballot. The resolutions committee will report tomorrow and the next convention date will be set.
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Denver
Harry H. Rogers
San Antonio
Tex
Rotary International
Rogers
Thomas Davis
Butte
Mont
Arthur H. Sapp
Huntington
Davis
Resolutions Committee
Grandmother Mary Parry Receives Honorary MA Degree
In Fairmont West Virginia on June 17 Mary Parry of Waynesburg Pennsylvania was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Waynesburg College. The event followed her grandson Albert Scott Jr of Morgantown receiving his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University. Parry is fifty six years older than her grandson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Albert Scott, Jr
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Mary Parry
Waynesburg
Waynesburg College
Proposed late closing for cabarets and clubs
Mayor Walker presented to the Board of Estimate a proposed statute to close all cabarets and night clubs at 3 a m with penalties up to one year in jail and a $500 fine The measure would push closing an hour beyond the police curfew set by Commissioner Mclaughlin and applies to New York venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of Estimate
Walker
Mclaughlin
Fifteen Dead in Pennsylvania Railroad Wreck Near Blairsville
I F Farrell among the fifteen killed when the Cincinnati limited collided with the Washington Express near Blairsville. Rescue teams cleared rails, with 1060 feet of track replaced, as survivors and officials assessed the casualty scene in Westmoreland County.
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I. F. Farrell
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cincinnati Limited
Washington Express
Blairsville
Johnstown
Latrobe
Limited
W.S. Gordon
Derry
N. L. Hollingsworth
Pennsylvania Railway
D.S. McDonald
McDonald
Cleveland
Interstate Commerce
Washington
Commission
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
West Moreland County
Pittsburg Wide Open in Recent Primary Saloons Sold Real Beer
Washington report says Pittsburg was wide open during the Pennsylvania primary as saloons displayed Pepper-Fisher placards and sold real beer. Ex dry agent E. M. Updegraff testified before the house alcoholic traffic committee, alleging pressure to falsify dates on affidavits and citing prior misconduct by officials including Mr Cavanaugh and Frederic C. Baird.
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Washington
Ittsburg
Pennsylvania
E. M. Updegraff
Pittsburg
House Alcoholic Traffic Committee
Updegraff
James Britt
Prohibition Unit
Wm. F. Davidson
Los Angeles
Prohibition
Cavanaugh
United States
Knox
Frederic C. Baird
Nine Years in School Never Absent Nor Tardy
Rives Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rives KR Jones of 316 North Street, completed his ninth year of school without a tardy or absence. He also had allive summers of school with the same record and finished junior grade with twenty six credits.
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Rives Jones
Rives KR. Jones
North Street
Premier ousted as Gomes da Costa seizes Lisbon
In Lisbon General Gomes da Costa deposed Premier Jose Mendes Cabacedas and occupied strategic points. Cabacedas accepted dismissal, while Gomes seeks to form a new ministry with help from officials. Tranquility reportedly holds across Portugal as the army moves to stabilize the government.
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Jalbon
Portugal
Jose Mendes Cabescedas
Gomes da Costa
Gomes
Cabacedas
Commandan Cabecedas
Lisbon
Republic
Five Men Narrowly Escape Death In Buckhannon Embankment Crash
Five men from the state highway department's engineering staff and a Buckhannon taxi driver survived a late evening crash near Gaston on the Buckhannon Weston road. After striking a wandering horse, the taxi went 20 feet down an embankment. Dennis Armstrong sustained a broken collarbone and is hospitalized at Weston. The four engineers C G Haney Herb BosleyKhera Vassar and the driver Dennis Armstrong were all involved. Armstrong the only one injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckhannon
W. Va
Engi Department of the State —— Commission
Orelock
Gaston
Weston Pike
R. C. Taylor
C. G. Haney
Herb Bosley
Khera Vassar
Dennis Armstrong
Buckhannon Taxi Company
Last Creek
Armstrong
Weston Hospital
Permanent injunction ends taxicab pickups on bus route
In Charleston West Virginia on June 17 Circuit Judge Arthur P Hudson granted a permanent injunction in favor of the Charleston Ripley Bus Company restraining Dewey Shafer Will Young and M A Edens from picking up passengers on the bus route. The bus company argued it held a state road commission franchise to carry passengers along the route and that the three drivers violated the law by taking pickups there. Albert M Belcher represented the three men and said the case would be taken to the state supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Dewey Shafer
Will Young
M. A. Edens
Charleston-Ripley Bus Company
Arthur P. Hudson
Albert M. Belcher
State Supreme Court
State Road Commission
State rests in Kermit election battle cases
Wayne West Virginia June 17 state rests in its case against Lee V S Curry Grant Walters and Ken Kirk in the Wayne county circuit as defense witnesses begin tomorrow after about twenty five witnesses examined. The men are charged with shooting and maiming Ken Chapman a special officer wounded in the May 19 1925 election battle for a special school district at Kermit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit
False Entries Charged to Assistant Cashier
Steubenville Ohio June 17 Brindley Jones twenty four assistant cashier of the Union Savings Bank Yorkville Ohio was charged with making false entries in a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace W D Downer Jones home Martins Ferry Ohio had not been taken into custody late tonight according to Roy Merryman Jefferson county prosecutor W E Jones cashier and brother of Brindley and Thomas B Jones vice president are at liberty under heavy bond on charges connected with the state investigation which resulted in the bank's closing a month ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
Ohio
Brindley Jones
The
Union Savings Bank
Yorkville
Justice of the Peace
W. D. Downer
Jones
Martins Ferry
Roy Merryman
Jefferson County
W. E. Jones
Brindley
Portrait of Pennsylvania wreck heroism by Farrell
Dr. Wm. Bentz, among the first physicians at a Pennsylvania wreck, recalls T. F. Farrell of East Orange New Jersey choosing to save others at the cost of his own life. Farrell urged aid for women and injured passengers while he weakened, dying after being removed from the wreckage. The scene unfolded as bystanders and Alexander Ditmar assisted, with rescuers battling darkness and heat to provide care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairsville
T. F. Farrell
Orange
N. J
Pennsylvania
Wm. Bantz
Blakeville
Rrell
Bentz
Eos Gracy White
Farrell
East Orange
Alexander Ditmar
Bluesville
Dr. Bentz
Alr
Two Men Hurt When Fuses Explode in Rail Yard
In Huntington West Virginia on June 17 two men suffered serious injuries after a carload of fuses exploded in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway yards. The blast shattered windows blocks away as Chesley Fowhble nineteen was struck by an iron bar and Fred Miller forty six, a switchman, was crushed by a flying piece of iron. Officials blamed the extreme heat and the jolting kick of the gondola for the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chesley Fowhble
Fred Miller
Governor Smith Heads West on Midwest Political Trip
Albany dispatch reports Governor Smith began a Western tour departing for Grand Rapids Michigan and Chicago Illinois. He plans to attend Catholic Eucharistic Congress and will use the visit to discuss political significance of the trip with local officials and church leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Smith
Grand Rapids
Mich
Chicago
Two Men Killed as Train Hits Truck Near New Castle
In Wampum near New Castle Pennsylvania two men died when the truck they rode in was struck by a Pittsburg and Lake Erie passenger train. The victims were John S. Kline 17 of Portersville and John H. Luis 28 of Elwood City.
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New Castle
Wampum
Pittsburg
Lake Erie Railroad
Johns. Kline
Portersville
John H. Luis
Elwood City
Revised list of dead and seriously injured in Pittsburgh wreck
A Pittsburgh report lists dead and seriously injured from the Pennsylvania railroad wreck. Names include engineers W. L. Gordon and N. L. Hollingsworth, baggage master A. McLees, passengers Edwin G. Donaghy and Borman, and doctors and officials from Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Massillon, with several families affected and multiple injuries noted.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Gordon
Derry
N. L. Hollingsworth
Greensburg
ER. A. McConnell
Altoona
A. McLees
New York City
Edwin G. Donaghy
T. F. Farr
North Walnut Street
Orange
N. J
Bowman
Columbia Building
Columbus
Ohio
Erie Railroad
C. B. Carter
Mellon Institute
A. R. Dinsmore
Moundsville
W. Va
Peter Spanos
Farragut Street
Massillon
William Brooke Dunwoody
Wilkinsburg
Frances
Dunwoody
Thomas J. Porter
Locust Avenas
Washington
Claude Smiles
Cincinnati
George Powell
Crowink
E. Bryan
Owentown
Kyley
Ralph Johnes
G. F. Kelley
Two Men Face Bankrupt Act Violations in Federal Court
Vero Morrelli and Joseph Mastrandau faced arrest and preliminary hearings on charges related to the bankrup t act. Morrelli pleaded guilty to perjury and drew a two year sentence in Atlanta federal prison. Mastrandau’s case continued to the next term with a $5000 bond posted. The hearings followed investigations into concealed assets and conspiracies tied to Morrelli’s restaurant closure and subsequent bankruptcy filing.
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United States District Court
Vero Morrellis
Morrelli
Joseph Mastrandau
Atlanta
Mastrandau
Morreill
Mercer County
Allen Street
Greater Bluefield
Giotto
Meeting of Concern to Retail Merchants
A special meeting for all city retailers is held today at 12:15 at the Altamont Cal. Merchants are urged to attend, especially those unable to attend in person.
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Altamont Cal
Modification of the Monroe Doctrine debate in Chile
In Santiago on June 17 Deputy Edward Matte urged revising the Monroe Doctrine and the Latin America for Latin Americans slogan before the chamber of deputies amid plebiscitary tensions. Deputy Estay pressed to clear Chile of discredit from General Lassiter, while Urrejola defended Chilean honor against U.S. policy. The foreign ministry said it prepared a diplomatic note outlining Chile’s view on the plebiscitary situation.
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Santiago
Chile
Edward Matte
Tacna-Arica
Chamber of Deputies
Matte
Estay
Lassiter
United States
Mexico
Colombia
Urrejola
Foreign Ministry
Dean Madden to stay in present position
Morgantown West Virginia June 17 Announcement was made tonight by Dr Frank B Trotter president of West Virginia University that Joseph Warren Madden dean of the college of law will remain in his present position Madden was last week selected for a professorship in the college of law of the University of Pittsburg but through a plea from the state bar association and other state agencies sufficient financial inducements were offered Dean Madden to warrant his remaining here
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Morgantown
W. Va
Frank B. Trotter
West Virginia University
Joseph Warren Madden
College of Law
Dean Madden
University of Pittsburg
State Bar Association
Trotter
Sine Die Adjournment Resolution Set for June 26
Washington reports a sine die adjournment resolution for June 26 to be introduced Monday with Speaker Longworth Republican leaders and other officials backing it. Senator Robinson and President Coolidge favor quitting Congress. Madden opposes until rivers and harbors work is settled. Public works and radio control debates loom as key items.
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Washington
House
Longworth
Tilson
Snell
Rules Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
Coolidge
Congress
Madden
Applications Committee
Tragic passing of well known Mian stirs coal field
Thomas F. Ferrell former Bluefield resident rose from clerk to Pocahontas Fuel Co vice president and Pocahontas Coke general manager died in a train wreck en route to New York after Notre Dame graduation His career spanned New River Coal Co big Four Railroad and Pocahontas operations shaping freight rate practice and coal transport policy.
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Bluefield
Pocahontas Coke Company
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Thomas F. Farrell
Pocahontas
West Virginia
Ferrell
Pocahontas Fuel Company
National Coal Association
Cincinnati
Notre Dame College
Indiana
Sandusky
Ohio
New York
Coal and Coke
Interstate Commerce Commission
New River Coal Company
Pocahontas Field
Smokeless Coal Operators Association of
Racquet Club of
Washington
Whitehall Club
New Jersey
East Orange
N. J
Tragic death by self after horse dies in storm
Misato Kawahara a Japanese truck farmer living near Kansas City hanged himself today after his horse died. The horse became excited during a thunder storm last night and choked itself trying to break free from a tree to which it was tied. Kawahara used the halter rope to hang himself from the tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Misato Kawahara
Kawahara
Chandler owes life to presence of mind
Presence of mind saved George Chandler of Charleston from electrocution during a heavy electrical storm when a 2306 volt high tension wire fell on his automobile. He steered the car over a steep embankment and escaped with minor injuries while a companion escaped with bruises.
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Charleston
W. Va
George Chandler
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Alleghany County
L. D. Peebles
Parnassus
Pinechot
Peebles
Charles Anderson
Ater
Anderson
Vare Committee
Willis
Fess
Upshaw
Georgia
Cooper
Barkley
Kentucky
Lowry
Mississippi
Harrisburg
George Wharten
Gov. Smith
Veto Morelli
Jos. Mastrandau
Fuel World
Chandler
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