Film Funny Man 5 Mixed in Suit
In Los Angeles on June 18 the trial over $11,500 in promissory notes between Harry Langdon and Thomas J. O'Brien unfolded. Mrs Helen W. O'Brien testified Langdon and she married in 1929 after years of divorce, denying impropriety and recounting alleged gifts and hush money related to a threatened alienation case.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Harry Langdon
Thomas J. O'Brien
Helen W. O'Brien
Langdon
O'Brien
Lanedon
O’brien
Rainy season halts salt works moves in India
In Gujarat and Bombay authorities press tax enforcement and protest suppression as rainy season slows nationalist salt protests. Motilal Nehru leads a Bombay parade while troops press into Peshawar areas near hostile Utman Khel forces with air bombing reported against hiding tribesmen.
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Bombay
India
Gujarat
Mahatma Gandhi
Pandit Motilal Nehru
All- India National Congress
Congress House
Peshawar
Tangi
Halji
Turangzal
Keesee Plans Expansion Of Bluefield Ave Plant
W R Keesee and Company announces a major enlargement of its Bluefield avenue plant. Crews demolish an old building west of the current site to replace it with a modern structure. The expanded sales storage and repair facilities will make the agency the largest motor vehicle establishment in the city, stretching over half a block from Pearis street to Amiacon Fruit plant access.
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W. R. Keesee and Company
Bluefield Avenue
Dodge Brothers
Pearis Street
Amiecon Fruit Company
L V S Curry to Enter Fifth District Race
Williamson West Virginia June 18 attorney L V S Curry announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for congressman from the Fifth West Virginia district. He favors repeal of the eighteenth amendment and state control of the liquor problem.
Beautiful Colors In Forest City Paints and Lumber Ads
Bailey Lumber Company promotes color options and wholesale prices for homes. Mercer Lodge 160 A F and A M holds stated communication at Masonic Temple June 19 730 pm with officer election and installation. District 10 Royal Arch Masons school of instruction June 20 in Masonic Temple. Chaperones attend Friday 9 to 130 am. Admission 150. Music by Country Club Orchestra Beckley.
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Forest City
Bailey Lumber Company
Mercer Lodge
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Norman McDowell
Royal Arch
R. D. Payne
Country Club Orchestra
Beckley
Bluefield Charleston Air Service Planned
Pocahontas Air Transport plans daily air service between Bluefield and Charleston with direct route times around forty to fifty minutes. Officials say flights will likely go via Beckley and add about ten minutes to travel, with schedules being drafted.
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Pocahontas Air Transport Corporation
Bluefield
Charleston
Beckley
Confessed Strangler May Enter Guilty Plea
Detter Churchill Dayton, a 26 year old who confessed to strangling Marjorie O'Donnell a former Pittsburgh newspaper woman, may plead guilty to a second degree murder charge. His victim's body was found in a Hotel Roosevelt room last October 7 after Dayton told elevator boys to call the police. He reportedly confessed he was drunk and intended suicide but lost his nerve.
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Washington
Detter Churchill Dayton
Marjorie O'Donnell
Pittsburgh
Miss O'Donnell
Hotel
Roosevelt
Dayton
Hope for early vote on river and harbors bill
Senator Johnson of California said a vote on the remaining controversial section of the rivers and harbors bill could come tomorrow or Friday. The section covers federalization of the Illinois waterway and Lake Michigan diversion, with opponents pessimistic about passage amid a $122,000,000 set of appropriation authorizations.
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Washington
Johnson
California
Illinois
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Great Lakes
Guardian of Prodigy Fears Kidnap Threats
Miss Beth Lackey guardian of nine year old violin prodigy Ruggiero Ricci testified in supreme court that threats to kidnap the boy led her to refuse entry to a strange man who accompanied the boy's father Pietro Ricci last night. She denied barring the father from entry and said she barred all strangers due to the threats.
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New York
Beth Lackey
Ruggiero Ricci
Supreme Court
Kidman
Pietro Rice
Miss Lackey
Ricci
Ruggiero
Giorgio
Ricel
Kidnap Probe Follows Sydney Newsman's Fate
London dispatches report Sydney mobsters abducted Murray Hullett of the Truth after he wrote about local gangs. Hullett, 25, vanished after leaving work and is feared killed. four men attacked him near Surrey Hills as police probe links to gangster violence in the city.
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London
Byler
Australia
London Daily Herald Today
Alfred Lingle
Chicago
Murray Hullett
Sidney “Truth
Sydney
Hulett
Surrey Hills
Lamont Expected to Explain German Bond Sale Plan
Washington invites Lamont, Stimson, and Mellon to testify before the House Banking Committee on June 24 and following days regarding the plan to dispose of 100 million dollars in German reparations bonds in the United States. The session aims to consider the McFadden resolution to bar federal reserve and national banks from buying the bonds. The State Department has said it has no objection to Morgan marks sale, while McFadden links the bonds to Young plan reparations.
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Washington
Stimaon
Mellon
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan and Company
House Banking Committee
McFadden
Lamont
Stimson
Federal Reserve and
National Banks
Federal Reserve System
State Department
Senate
Boy Fatally Struck by Car in Erie Home Driveway
Alfred Wagner, two, ran into his driveway while his mother backed the car from the garage in Erie Pennsylvania. He was struck by the vehicle and died almost instantly.
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Erie
Alfred Wagner
Senate Debate Rages Over Rivers and Harbors Bill
The senate continued discussion on the rivers and harbors measure as treasury officials cautioned against extending the income tax cut next year. The house judiciary committee approved one Wagner unemployment relief bill, while the federal reserve board announced wholesale prices hit their lowest level in thirteen years.
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Senate
Treasury
House
Judiciary Committee
Federal Reserve Board
Olaya’s Train Makes Fast Run to New York
President-Elect Enrrique Olaya of Colombia traveled from Washington to New York in three hours and 56 minutes on the fastest Pennsylvania system run to date. He greeted engineers Lou Towell and R. A. Manson whose soot-smudged faces lit up with the praise.
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New York
Enrrique Olaya
Colombia
Washington
Pennsylvania
Lou Towell
R. A. Manson
Mexican Divorces Cleared by Cuernavaca Bill
In Cuernavaca, Morelos state legislature approves a bill that ratifies 1917 1930 provisional governors laws including the 1927 Puente divorce measure. The act certifies divorces granted under Puente during 1927 1930 as lawful despite earlier Supreme Court ruling.
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Cuernavaca
Mexico
Puente
Morelos
Ambrosio Puente
Supreme Court
German Rye Bread Campaign Aims to Boost Crop Sales
The German housewives association launches an eat more rye bread campaign to promote demand for the German rye harvest. The effort centers on encouraging households to choose rye bread in daily meals to support farmers.
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German Housewives Association
Morrow's Count Climbs in Late New Jersey Primary
Washington reports a Morrow landslide in New Jersey as Republicans court Dwight W. Morrow for the soon to be open Senate seat. White House promises support and observers expect his quick appointment to succeed Senator Baird, with a London treaty session likely.
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Washington
Dwight W. Morrow
Senate
Baird
New Jersey
Morrow
White House
Blaine
Hoover
Morrow Spent About 44000 In Long Term Senate Bid
Newark report says Dwight W. Morrow spent roughly 44000 dollars in his successful bid for the long term senatorial nomination. Campaign manager Douglas Thompson announced the totals of 63608 dollars in contributions, including a 15000 dollar donation from the candidate.
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Newark
N. J
Dwight W. Morrow
Douglas Thompson
Anti Prohibition Tide In New Jersey Congressional Nominations
Final returns from New Jersey nominating contests show many dry candidates winning in eight of the twelve districts. In the Fifth and Ninth districts dry defeats alter the wet balance. Democrats Hart and Simms win in the Sixth and Tenth respectively, while Gopsill and Taft secure Republican nods in other districts.
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Newark
N. J
Congress
New Jersey
Ernest R. Ackerman
Wesley A. Stanger
Peter A. Cavicchia
Joseph C. Cassini
Meador Wright
Thomas M. Gopsill
Red Bank
Donald S. Bowie
Harold G. Hoffman
Irving W. Taft
William W. Britten
Archibald C. Hart
Bergen County
Edward A. Kenney
Edward Simms
John J. Cahill
Retirement Banquet Honors B and O Railroad Veteran
Clarksburg West Virginia June 18 banquet honors Millard Ross Hamilton of Belpre Ohio who retired from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad after fifty one years and eighteen days of service. Hamilton began as a clerk in 1871 rose to freight agent and finally traveling freight agent before retiring June 1 with seventy two associates in attendance.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Millard Ross Hamilton
Belpre
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Hamilton
APT R V Marast Opens Army Polo at Potomac Park
APT R V Marast prepares for a hefty swing at the ball in an opening match of the army polo season at Potomac Park in Washington DC. He and Lieutenant Benson, both from the field artillery, clash in the early game.
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Apt. R. V. Marast
Lieutenant Benson
Potomac Park
Washington
D. C
Field Artillery
Johnson Attacks London Ship Pact in Radio Address
Senator Johnson criticizes the London Treaty as failing to reduce taxes, demanding a new build program, and shifting naval policy. He cites navy objections and argues the pact would favor Japan with a 5-3 ratio, undermine American commerce protection, and force American cruisers to meet British specs.
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Japan
Navy
Johnson
Great Britain
America
Did the father warn him about the bride’s fate
The item reports a teasing exchange about a wedding where the bridegroom learns his fate from the bride herself. It frames a lighthearted moment of parental instruction and personal discovery at a marriage ceremony.
City of Chicago Plane Sets Endurance Record Attempt
The City of Chicago made seven days aloft at 4 40 p m as Kenneth and John Hunter piloted the plane and Walter and Albert Hunter operated the refueling craft. The endurance bid seeks to surpass the prior 420 hour world record set by the St Louis Robin in St Louis last year.
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Chicago
Kenneth
John Hunter
Walter
Albert
St. Louis
Dagrett Addresses Power Debate in Berlin Meeting
Frederick M. Sackett, Kentucky attorney and businessman, led remarks as an American envoy spoke on power industry pricing. The ambassador argued power costs far exceed production prices, urging scientific effort to reduce the gap for public benefit. Sackett, former president of Louisville Gas and Louisville Light, has long been active in public utilities and coal mining.
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Sackett
Insull
America
Blue Grass State
Frederick M. Sackett
Senate
Kentucky
Louisville Gas Company
Louisville Light Company
Pardons Sought for Boy and Man in Small and Large Theft
Harrisburg, June 18. A plea for Robert Charles McWilliams, a Philadelphia youth serving 4 to 8 years for stealing $1 from a church poor box, followed by a plea for Milton Carren of Allegheny County, who stole $15,000 from Westinghouse Electric, to the state board of pardons.
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Harrisburg
State Board of Pardons
Robert Charles McWilliams
Philadelphia
Rockview
St. Patrick’s
Milton Carren
Allegheny County
Westinghouse Electric
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L. V. S. Curry
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J. S. Compton
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Redpath
Phyllis Mackaye
Bluefield, W. VA
Olaya
Marion Davies
Mateo
T Richard
Fdge
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B. & C. Railroad
Jack Behe
White Atlaw
Tim McCoy
Wyoming
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