Mine Owners to Oppose Rail Rate Increase Request
Southern West Virginia coal operators oppose a blanket 15 percent freight rate rise sought by major railroads. In a letter to J J Bennet of the Chesapeake and Ohio line, Justus Collins argues rates are oppressive and urges substantial tariff cuts instead. He warns railroads could lose income if rates rise and cites a 1930s living-cost decline to justify wage and tariff reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Virginia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Justus Collins
Charlestown
Smokeless Coal Company
J. J. Bennet
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Collins
A. C. Needles
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Cc. H. Hicks
Virginian Railway
Bennet
Department of Labor
Doolittle Survives High Speed Plane Tear at Curtiss Airport
Major James H. Doolittle escaped uninjured when fabric tore from the wings of his home built land plane at about 235 mph during speed tests at Curtiss Steinberg airport near East St. Louis. The craft, damaged severely, lacked wing strength for such tempo. Doolittle said the incident was his closest call.
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East St. Louis
James H
Jimmy) Doolittle
Army Air Corps
Doolittle
Curtiss-Steinberg
Dolittle
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Faced With Forgeries Starr Faithful Letters Debated
Mineola N Y June 23 The Nassau county grand jury examined two alleged death by own action letters from Starr Faithful to Dr G Jameson Carr ship’s surgeon of the liner Franconia The letters deemed fakes by Starr Faithful's step father who insists they are a frame up The district attorney said handwriting experts will decide and that the probe continues as to whether Starr died by her own acts or was killed The jury adjourned until Friday and a diary is also under review with investigators keeping an open mind
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R. G. Jameson Carr
Cunard Steamship Line
Starr Faithfull
New York
England
Dr. Carr
Starr
Mineola
N. Y
Starr Faithful
G. Jameson Carr
Franconia
Nassau County Grand Jury
Stanley Faithful
Long Beach
Harold R. King
Elvin Edwards
King
Trial of Rubios Gomezes Opens In Ardmore
Ardmore Oklahoma June 23 A murder trial of two former deputy sheriffs opens to seek criminal liability for the killings of two Mexican students. Prosecutors including Governor Murray and Mexican officials may focus on William Guess who admits firing at Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez while Cecil Crosby covers another suspect Salvador Cortes Rubio plans to testify. The state says the officers identified themselves as deputies and showed badges.
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William E. Guess
Oklahoma
Ardmore
Okla
W. H. Murray
Emilio Cortes Rubio
Ortiz Rubio
Manuel Garcia Gomez
J. B. Champion
Guess
Cecil Crosby
Cortes Rubio
Gomez
Crosby
Salvador Cortes Rubio
Kansas
Salvador
Murray
Bishop Cannon Sues Hearst Papers for $1 Million Libel
In Chicago on June 23 Bishop James E. Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South filed a $1,000,000 libel suit in U S district court naming William Randolph Hearst and 29 Hearst newspapers as defendants. The bill claims a newspaper account of his marriage last summer libeled him and aimed to undermine his leadership in the prohibition cause.
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Chicago
James FE. Cannon Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
William Randolph Hearst
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Hearst
United States District Court
Helen Hawley McCallum
Ruth Nichols Refuses to Halt Ocean Flight Ambitions
Ruth Nichols in Saint John New Brunswick voiced resolve to continue her bid to fly solo across the Atlantic after a crash fractured two vertebrae and a layoff in support. She said she would resume once she recovers and has funds to recondition her plane.
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Saint John
N. B
Ruth Nichols
Society Aviatrix
Electrical Storm Kills Three in Maryland Counties
A severe electrical storm across three Maryland counties killed 68 year old Carroll County judge Wilson Lee Crouse near Middleburg and fatally injured farmer Andrew Wolseleberger of Maugansville. The storm also felled buildings and dumped 3.75 inches of rain in an hour on Clearspring.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Clearspring
Frederick County
Wilson Lee Crouse
Carroll County Orphants’ Court
Middleburg
Andrew Wolseleberger
Maugansville
Washington County
Bluefield City Board Drafts Tentative Budget
The Bluefield city board adopted a tentative July budget based on last year’s valuations with a $1.10 levy per $100 assessed. Despite a 25 percent drop in valuations, directors aim to keep the levy at $1.10 and offset losses by trimming departmental expenses to avoid tax increases.
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City Board of Directors
Winnie Mae Flight Toward Berlin Sees Slow Signals
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty embarked from Roosevelt Field on a transatlantic air route to Berlin aboard the Winnie Mae. They aimed for a 19 hour three minute leg to cover about 2,860 miles, hoping to break the Graf Zeppelin record, with only one ship reporting signals during the crossing.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Newfoundland
Winnie Mae
Berlin
Drottningholm
ATR
Grace
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Here
Major Atlantic Flight Listings and Market Calm Across World
A historical roundup notes eleven transatlantic flight feats from 1919 to 1929 detailing crews, routes, and distances. Separately New York and international markets show a measured pullback after a streak of advances amid war debt holiday optimism, with bonds and currencies mixed and cotton and grains easing late.
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New York
London
Berlin
Paris
Chicago
Wall Street
One Man Killed in Glash Strike Clash at Arnold City
In Arnold City Pennsylvania on June 23 one man, Mike Phiolovich, 40, was killed and four were wounded as officers and mine strikers clashed in the village center. Eight officers were jailed without bond pending a coroner’s inquest. Two officers were coal and iron policemen, others deputies. Walter Wozniak, 25, witnessed the scene. The violence marks the second fatality in southwestern Pennsylvania’s current coal strike.
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Arnold City
Charleroi
Fayette County
Coal and Iron
Mike Philopovich
Pennsylvania
Wildwood
Walter Wozniak
Woznaik
Wozniak
Canoeist Drowns In Kanawha River Near Steam Boat
Thomas P. Kirk Jr., 20, drowned when his canoe overturned in waves behind a steam boat on the Kanawha River in Charleston. Police began a search for his body.
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Charleston
W. Va
Thomas P. Kirk, Jr
Kanawha River
Akron aviatrix Stinaff dies after plane crash
Mildred Stinaff an Akron woman who held a world looping record for women died from injuries after her Air Service plane plunged from about 1500 feet near Akron airport. Witnesses said she shut off fuel and ignition as the craft dived. parachute remained in cockpit.
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Athryn
Ohio
Mildred Stinaff
Akron
Akron City
Miss Stinaff
Air Service Corporation
Charles Stinaff
Taninman Pleads Guilty In Charge Of Robbing Carl
Two jury trials in U S district court delayed summer term proceedings. Alex Holley of McDowell County was found guilty and sentenced to three years in Atlanta. Other defendants pleaded guilty or were tried on federal prohibition law violations with sentences ranging from six months to over two years.
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Alex Holley
McDowell County
Atlanta
United States District Court
Allford Ferguson
Coolridge
W. Va
George McClintic
William Wake
Rainelle
Wake
John H
Lon M. Crookshank
John Crookshank
Chillicothe
Ohio
Lon Crookshank
Fred Smith
Glenwood Park
Nicholas County
Chris Rider
Pocahontas County
John Blackburn
Yukon
Lacy Mullens
John D. Meadows Jr
Bluefield
Chill
Mafia sentence shocks Palermo crowd at mass trial
In Palermo a court sentenced 124 Mafia members to about 500 years total. Thirteen receive life terms and others face sentences from one to 25 years for 43 murders and related crimes. Prisoners screamed and hurled shoes as they were led away after the verdicts. The trial began last July and lasted over a week for the jury to decide.
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Palermo
Italy
Mrs. Vanderbilt Answers Divorce Suit in Reno
Mrs. Mary Weir Vanderbilt filed an answer to Cornelius Van derbilt Jr.’s divorce action in Reno. She denied cruelty allegations and sought temporary and permanent alimony. She stated she owns $50 and an automobile, while his income exceeds $2,000 monthly.
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Reno
Mary Weir Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Vanderbilt
Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt
France Promises Quick Decision On War Debt Problem
Washington June 23. The Wickersham Commission advances a swift war debt decision effort as nine men and one woman push to complete eight crime reports by June 30. They stay on site, await Monte Lemann's signature before submitting to President Hoover, hoping to finish before July 1 when funding ends.
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France
Washington
Wickersham Commission
Monte Lemann
Hoover
Lemann
Shott Backs Hoover Debt Postponement Plan
Hugh Ike Shott congressman from West Virginia's Fifth District replies to Herbert Hoover's telegram by pledging support for the proposal to defer war debt payments for one year. He states full accord with the postponement and endorsement of Hoover's program in the House.
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Hugh Ike Shott
West Virginia
Herbert Hoover
House
Hoover
Congress
Washington
Shott
House backs one year moratorium on war debts
A large majority of U S House members favored a one year moratorium on war debts in interviews with the Associated Press. Representatives Maas Buriness Frear Reilly Sutphin voiced support or optimism that the plan would boost European morale and aid investment and business.
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United States
House of Representatives
Assocases
Maas
Minnesota
Congress
Buriness
North Dakota
James A. Frear
Wisconsin
Michael K. Reilly
William H. Sutphin
New Jersey
Abducted Iowa Candidate Reappears After Five Months
John M. Smith, a Perry insecticide maker and 1930 gubernatorial hopeful, was found bound and gagged near Garner after five months missing. He said captors kept him in a basement, then released him amid questions about a supposed five month detention and a state insurance fraud claim totaling 350000.
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John M. Smith
Farmer-Labor
Garner
Iowa
Smith
Perry
Here
France Circles Hoover Debt Moratorium Move
France evaluates President Hoover's one year debt holiday while Britain Germany Austria Italy accept the plan and France weighs its response after parliamentary consultation. Premier Laval says no change to the Young plan and cabinet will report to the chamber with Paris awaiting France's stance tonight.
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Laval
Associated Press
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Italy
Hoover
France
Boening
Salvati
Edge
Dent
Stimson
United States
State Department
Berlin
Washington
Congress
Nce
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Thirty Die? Actually Thirty Injured In Trolley Wreck
Thirty persons mostly women and children were injured when a Pittsburgh street car returning from a picnic jumped the track at Bedford and Herron avenues. Three were seriously hurt the motorman John Marmuth 62, Sterling Jackson a Negro with possible skull fracture and Kenneth Jackson seven months with fractured skull. Conductor John Wachta said brakes did not appear to work properly. Passengers took cover on the floor and many attempted to escape by breaking windows. The car struck an electric pole broke a fence and landed on a terrace.
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Pittsburgh
Bedford
Herron Avenues
John Marmuth
Sterling Jackson
Kenneth Jackson
John Wachta
Harvest Begins In Kansas and Southwest Regions
Harvest starts as Kansas and neighboring states push maturing wheat under a hot sun. Farmers face unusually low prices while combines move across hundreds of miles from Kansas to Oklahoma and the panhandle to finish gathering the crop.
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Kansas City
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