Trials Open as U S District Court Handles Federal Liquor Cases
The summer term of the U S district court for the southern district of West Virginia opened with judge George W. McAclintic presiding. Sentences totaling 108 years and 6 months and fines of 250 were imposed for liquor law violations and related offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Mecaclintic
United States Court
District
West Virginia
Robert Miller
Bluefield
Cecil Harris
Kanawha County
Leavenworthworth
Battle on Jehol Chahar front in Sino Japanese clash
Tokyo reports a fierce battle between 80 Manchoukuan frontier guards and about 800 Chinese troops on the Jehol Chahar frontier north of Tushikkou. Rengo says the clash is the second engagement, with reinforcements ordered as Japanese regulars hold Jehol City in readiness.
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Tokyo
Manchoukuan
Chahar Province
Manchoukuan War Office
Reng
Jehol-Chahar
Tushikkou
Rengo
Hsinking
Manchoukuo
Jehol
Manchoukuoc
China
Kenji Dothare
Tot-Beater Chooses Jail In Preference To Lashing
Harry Gregory a 37 year old painter and his wife Jean chose jail for a year and six months respectively over a public flogging for beating their 3 year old adopted daughter Rose Mary. The punishment was to be carried out in the alley beside the police headquarters with a bull whip.
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Alexandria
Vadine
Harry Gregory
Jean
Rose Mary
Gregory
James R. Duncan
John
Arnold
Claude MacDonald
Duncan
Joel Tregor
Nean
Tregor
Harry
Jean Gregory
Alexandria Day Nursery
Germany imposes vast labor service for all citizens
Berlin reports a cabinet decree forcing six months of labor service in roads canals drilling farms and similar tasks for all Germans with the 1915 class called first and volunteers 18 or older allowed. The program aims to curb unemployment and supply military even as age limits are not specified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
Air
Polie
Passoporta
Germany
Confessed Attack Slayer Is Placed in Solitary Cell
Gerald Thompson, 25, arraigned for the attack murder of Mildred Hallmark, sat in a solitary cell at Peoria County Jail. He played a harmonica claiming loneliness while guards prepared for possible prisoner mob violence and a trial date was set for July 22.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Pretty Mildred M. Hallmark
Thompson
Marcus G. Olson
Decatur
Miss Hallmark
Springdale Cemetery
Henry Ingram
Obscene verdict upholds ban on Ecstasy film
A federal jury in New York found the Czech Slovakian film Ecstasy obscene and upheld a government suit to confiscate the import. The court gave 20 days for appeal to the U S circuit court while the film remains in government custody. The importer’s attorney argued the work depicts a refined woman seeking self respect without explicit nudity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John C. Knox
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Henry Pearlman
Eureka Productions, Inc
British envoy sails to Paris amid stalled East Africa talks
Capt. Anthony Eden left Rome for Paris after talks with Premier Benito Mussolini failed to yield prospects for peace in East Africa. Official sources indicated no bright outlook for agreement.
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Africa
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Rome
Paris
Stresa
Britain
Ethiopia
Sidney Barton
Mussolini
Innsbruck
Austria
Italy
Benito Mussolini
East Africa
Massachusetts Chief Signs Allegiance Bill
Governor James M Curley signed a bill requiring all public and private school teachers to swear allegiance to state and federal constitutions. College exchange professors are exempt. The bill faced a sharp legislative fight and opposed by most educational institutions. Veterans and patriotic groups supported it.
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Boston
James M. Curley
Commonwealth
Onatch Mobster Given Life Term
Walter Irish O Malley pleaded guilty to kidnapping August Luer a 79 year old Alton banker and meat packer on July 10 1933. Circuit Judge Dick H Mudge imposed life imprisonment as state witnesses tied him to the abduction. He was captured by justice agents in Kansas City after fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardsville
Ill
Walter
O'Malley
August Luer
Alton
Dick H. Mudge
Department of Justice
Kansas City
Tom Bush
Edward Conroy
Randall Norvell
Lillian Chessen
Percy Fitzgerald
Confusion Marks Tax Wealth Scheme Plans
Washington reports a White House comment that wealth taxes should not be rushed to passage by Saturday. Democratic leaders propose a separate bill and a two week hearing schedule after House Ways and Means debated a $500 million nuisance tax extension. President Roosevelt stated no plan to link taxes with nuisance levies and questioned rapid action. Senators engaged in pointed discussions as leaders met to chart the next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Congress
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Roosevelt
White House
Robinson
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Meridian Flyers Near Endurance World Record Peak
Fred and Al Key, Meridian brothers, push into the final 24 hours of their endurance flight seeking a new world mark. They monitor engine crystallization fears while staying in constant contact with ground crews and aiming to surpass 5523 hours 41 minutes 0 seconds set by the Hunter brothers in Chicago.
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Meridian
Miss
Fred
al Key
Meridian Brothers
Hunter Brothers
Chicago
Mrs Coo Faces Execution Refusing Family Visit
Sing Sing prison inmate Eva Coo awaits the electric chair with no reply from Governor Lehman to a clemency petition. She declines seeing relatives, hoping for a last minute reprieve. The 43-year-old, once buxom, is exhausted by worry and pain as authorities guard the death hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schohanna Trail
Herbert Lehman
New York State
Death House
Alaska colonists air grievances over Matanuska project
Palmer Alaska June 26 colonists who failed to find the promised Matanuska valley life voiced their complaints to Eugene Carr a relief administration official. They claim misrepresentation of the project inadequate homes tent life medical facilities and high grocery prices while some protest pay for their work and jealousy over farm allocations.
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Palmer
Alaska
Matanuska Valley
Eugene Carr
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Carr
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate
Hopkins
Patrick Hemmer
I. M. Sandvik
Hopkins Defends Alaskan Colonization Plan Before Senate
In Washington on June 26, Harry L. Hopkins rebutted charges that the Matanuska valley project harbors disease and discontent. He cited a telegram from colony administrator Irwin saying 225 more workers are being rushed in to complete homes for colonists by winter and downplayed disease fears as limited to common childhood illnesses.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Matanuska Valley
FERA
Senate
Vandenberg
Michigan
Palmer
Hopkins
Irwin
Father Son Prepare To Die On Gallows In Canada
In St. Thomas Ontario Frank Temple and his son Fred 21 face the death penalty for the May 7 1934 murder of Constable Colin C McGregor. The killing stemmed from a bicycle theft and the two men will be executed tomorrow while the family and Mrs Temples attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Thomas
Ont
Canada
Frank Temple
Fred
Colin C. McGregor
Temple
Pis
Frank Temple Jr
Counterfeiting Gang Broken Up in West Virginia Case
Four members of a Parkersburg counterfeit ring were sentenced in Elkins West Virginia with Minnie Marehall the alleged leader receiving eight years at Alderson federal prison Walter Schwendeman got two years and Frances Hendricks and Nellie Golden one day in Randolph County jail all pled guilty Three men had been sentenced earlier in the case
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Bill Willis Hall
Clyde Scarberry
Gertrude Baker
McDowell County
Hall
Atlanta
Scarberry
Chillicothe
Alderson
Charles Kermit Hunt
Wyoming County
Jim Stacey
Walter Blankenship
Paineville
Stacey
Blankenship
Elkins
W. Va
Parkersburg
Minnie Marehall
William E. Baker
Federal
Walter J. Schwendeman Drew
Northeastern
Lewisburg
Frances Hendricks
Nellie Helen Golden
Randolph County
New Deal Agency to Train Youth for Jobs Under Work Relief
President Roosevelt launches a fifty million dollar youth program to place up to 500,000 youths aged 16 to 25 in private industry and provide high school and college training. Miss Josephine Roche and Aubrey Williams head the effort under the Works Progress Administration with an average $15 monthly support for work relief and $6 for students in high school.
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Josephine Roche
Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
the Treasury
Aubrey Williams
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
Mr. Roosevelt
Senators Decline Attend Meeting In West Virginia
Governor Kump will attend a Democratic banquet in Charleston as senators Neely and Holt refuse invitations. Neely cites Washington duties and possible coal stabilization talks. Holt has a prior engagement in North Carolina. The governor says he organized nothing and was unaware of their declines.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kump
Neely
Holt
Herman Bennett
Young Democratic Club of
Washington
North Carolina
Congress
Senator Neely
West Virginia
Operator Attacks Pending Coal Bill, Union Rift Flares
New York Central announces public offer of 12.5 million Toledo & Ohio Central Railway refinancing bonds at 3 34 percent, due June 1 1960. The issue described as the lowest railroad bond rate in 25 years, with the Toledo & Ohio Central operating from West Virginia coal fields through southern Ohio and Ohio's manufacturing district.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Company
Toledo & Ohio Central
New York Central
West Virginia
Ohio
BelcherChild Crushed by Lumber Truck Death at Georgia Lumber Yard
Walter Bird Belcher seven dies after being trapped under a tilting two wheel lumber truck at the Georgia Lumber company yard near Locust street Bluefield. Found by Eddie Burge about 3 30 pm he died en route to Bluefield sanitarium. Funeral at Belcher cemetery Littlesburg conducted by Rev R J Tyler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Bird Belcher
O. C. Belcher
Bluefield Avenue
Georgia Lumber Company
Eddie Burge
Lumber Company
W. E. Hume
Bluefield
J. C. Wallace
Union Street
Southern Maid Dairy Products Company
Locust Street
Littlesburg
This County
Thoreau Belcher
Bertha Smith
Belcher
R. J. Tyler
Calvary Baptist Church
Laval open to Franco German peace talks for Europe
Premier Pierre Laval said he would negotiate a peace arrangement with Adolf Hitler if it could be agreed upon soon and respected by all European powers. He noted any accord must involve several powers and aim at general peace and reconstruction of Europe.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Adolf Hitler
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Laval
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Soviet Strato Fliers Seek Cosmic Rays Data
The U S S R One Bis stratosphere flight piloted by Kristoff Zille reached 52 165 feet covering 150 miles in 155 minutes. Radio contact with a Moscow military station remained constant as the craft designated itself moon while ground called back Venus.
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Moscow
One Bis
Kristoff Zille
Moon
Venus
White Named W P A Consultant for Education Projects
Slated for post ChaNeston West Virginia June 26 the appointment of H Laban White dean at Glenville State Teachers College as consultant on educational projects for the state works progress administration was recommended to Harry L Hopkins today by Witcher McCullough state administrator.
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ChaNeston
W. Va
H. Laban White
Glenville State Teachers College
State Works Progress Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Witcher McCullough
Craft Unionists Seek Rider To Bill Permitting Mine Machinists
Washington hearings on the Guffey coal stabilization bill feature craft unionists pushing to let mine machinists sign separate contracts. UMWA argues it would split the industrial union and vows to fight to the last ditch. Industry leaders warn the bill would raise New England coal costs by about 20 million dollars annually and put 100,000 to 150,000 miners out of work. Francis of Island Creek Coal flags market dangers and calls the bill unconstitutional and unworkable. He suggests inter-district sales pacts as a substitute to prevent below-cost selling.
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UMW
Plar
Washington
Craft and Industrial Unioniata
American Federation of Labor
House
Ways and Means
Guffey
Arthur Wharton
International Machinists Association
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Mine Workers
NRA
New England
James D. Francis
West Virginia
Francis
Island Creek Coal Company
Francie
Huntington
Congress
Ilinois
Indiana
Iown
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia claims robber suspect identified by state police
A. W. Beasley 25 admitted robbing the Bank of Alberta Virginia on June 4 and will be turned over to Sheriff H. E. Valentine of Brunswick County. His wife Ray Beasley 24 faces theft charges in Richmond and may be returned with him. Police noted no formal confession. Bank loot totaling 1808 remained unrecovered.
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Ray Smith
Drill
Chillicothe
Armistead Jackson
Bluefield
Samuel Rice
Raleigh County
James Doyle
Mercer County
Clyde Roy
Luther Hale
Princeton
W. H. Wallingford
Wallingford
John R. Pendleton
Sutton
W. Va
A. W. Beasley
Bank of Alberta
Alberta
H. E. Valentine
Brunswick County
Ray Beasley
Richmond
Virginia
Valentine
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U. S. District Court
Grand Jury
J. 8. Butts
Harry Capehart
Welch
Charles R. Bowling
Jewel Frontier
Keat
Duce
The
Associated Press
Massachusetts
Onatch
O’malley
August Lear
Michi
Lenagan
Senator Barkley
Democrat-Kentucky
Finance Committee
North Hopkins
NEW Deal Agency
Plan
France
Strato
J. D. Francis
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