Norfolk and Western Agent Shoots Employee in Yard Fight
Norfolk and Western Agent Maynard shot Bill Payne a negro employee early yesterday at Mamson yards during an attempted arrest over stolen property. Payne wounded in the heart area taken to Welch with slim chances of recovery. Maynard turned himself in to the Mingo county sheriff after the incident.
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Bill Payne
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Atsoa
Norfolk and Western
Maynard
Mamson
Payne
Welch
Mingo County
Porter injures leg as suspect escapes in train yard
Nor folk and Western special agent PB Porter of Radford is struck in the leg during an arrest attempt as two unidentified Black suspects flee toward Bluefield after knocking the officer’s public safety item from his hand. Porter's injury is not considered serious.
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PB Porter
Radford
Norfolk and Western
Nesoe
Bluefield
Porter
T. L. Songer
Bluefield Sanitarium
Mr. Songer
Methodist church faces crisis of spiritual vitality
Chicago June 27 at the world service commission session Dr F E Kohlstedt urged workers to mobilize members with strong character to tackle core issues. Dr R J Wade echoed the need for a race wide social economic and personal spiritual rebirth within the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Chicago
FE. D. Kohlstedt
Philadelphia
World Service Commission
Methodist Episcopal Church
Kohlstadt
Church Board of Missions and
Church Extension
R. J. Wade
Commission
Dr. Wade
West Virginia Spanish American War Veterans Hold Encampment
Huntington WV June 27 The fourth annual encampment of the West Virginia department of the Spanish American War veterans convened with about 150 members from across the state. The gathering will conclude tomorrow with officer elections, a city sightseeing tour, and a banquet. Noel Markham senior vice commander in chief from Washington represents the national group.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia Department of the
Noel Markham
Washington
Osteopathicians Meet For Annual Convention
Clarksburg West Virginia June 27 A banquet with Stanley Mor rie lawyer of this city as main speaker concluded the first day of the West Virginia Osteopathic society convention. Dr J J Henderson of Charleston spoke to the forty members attending this afternoon. Tomorrow officers will be elected and a city selected for the next convention.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Stanley ©. Morrie
West Virginia Osteopathic Society
J. J. Henderson
Charleston
Mountain State Bus Schedule From Bluefield Terminal
Mountain State Transportation Co lists bus departures from Bluefield Union Bus Terminal to Tazewell Lebanon Abingdon Bristol Matoaka Beckley with multiple daily times. The schedule notes Bristol connection at Bristol City and Knorvie Beesley with connections at various points and states times may change without notice.
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Bluefield Union
Tazewell
Lebanon
Abingdon
Bristol
Matoaka
Beckley
Bristol City
Knorvie Beesley Boo
Charlies
Local ads and notices blaze across Bluefield page
A collage of small ads lists beauty salons, dancing events, lumber deals, a church hall dance, a Moose membership drive, a serious medical case, travel plans, legal notices and plant sales. It catalogues June 29 and July events, a tax warning, a car crash report, and local business promotions.
Radio beacon to aid army aviators at Makapuu Point
Honolulu June 27 The Makapuu Point radio beacon station will be completed and begin operation July 1 to aid navigation for airplanes and steamships from the mainland. It sits on Oahu east of Honolulu, with the Maui Hamakuapoku beacon already in service and coordinated with San Francisco for transoceanic signals guiding Maitland and Hegenberger toward Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Makapuu Point
Oahu
Hamakuapoku
Maui
San Francisco
Maitland
Hegenberger
Oakland
Army
Evans Klan Chief Plans Ban on Books
Charleston West Virginia June 27 Hiram Wesley Evans imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan says a penitentiary offense is being drafted to bar use of certain books in parochial high schools with Klan support. Imperial wizard W F Zumbrunn warns of ongoing religious war until Al Smith's defeat in 1928.
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Charleston
W. Va
Ku Klux Klan
Hiram Wesley Evans
Klan
W. F. Zumbrunn
al Smith
Boy finds long missing sister via art calendar
In Dailis Texas Issack Baskowitz spots an art calendar face resembling his sister Gertrude missing from Russia ten years. He contacts the lithographer, learns the subject is Gertrude now 18, and heads to New York for a reunion.
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Baskowitz
New York
The
Alrl
Plane Forced to Land in Nebraska Cornfield
The City of Cleveland aircraft, piloted by Kenneth R. Cole with aviation secretary Clifford Quilders aboard, ran out of gas and landed in a cornfield three miles south of Fort Crook Nebraska. Both occupants escaped unharmed after losing course while heading north along the Missouri River.
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Omaha
Neb
Cleveland
Fort Crook
Kenneth R. Cole
Clifford Quilders
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Missouri
Army fliers plan first nonstop Pacific hop to Hawaii
Maitland and Hegenberger prepare to depart from the Pacific coast tomorrow in three planes for a non stop flight to Hawaii. Davison of the War department was advised late today while Major General Patrick denied reports he would fly. Weather indications promise favorable conditions for the hop off, and Davis praised the pilots and aircraft for reliable performance.
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Davison
Patrick
Davis
Maitland
Hegenberger
Hawaii
Navy not involved in Grace Honolulu flight plan
Secretary Wilbur stated the navy has no official connection with Richard Grace's planned flight from Honolulu to the Pacific coast. He suggested secrecy at Pearl Harbor stemmed from Grace's desire to prepare freely, and any help would mirror what the navy provides to other private pilots.
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NAVY
Washington
Wilbur
Richard Grace
Honolulu
Pacific Coast
Grace
Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station
Japans Favor British Naval Policy Amid Conference Talks
The article reviews reactions to naval limits talks with Japan leaning toward Britain on policy while the U S and Britain face gaps over reopening the Washington treaty. The tri partite committee reports progress on excluding small combatant vessels and plans a cruiser class discussion, with plenary sessions debated by British advocates.
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United States
M. Briand
Pax
Geneva
Paris
U.S
Tri-Partite Naval Conference
Themmittee
Washington
Two Suspects Loot Fireman Near El Centro Road
Two unidentified men forced city fireman Robert L. Crotty to surrender $76 on the Bluefield Prince ton road near El Centro. The robbers fled in a Chrysler roadster with the top down, one wielding a gun. Authorities from county and city are searching for the pair.
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Robert L. Crotty
el Centro
Bluefield-Princeton
G. H. Crumpecker
Radio Corporation Wins Patent Suit in Appeals Court
In Philadelphia on June 27 the United States circuit court of appeals ruled in favor of the Radio Corporation of America over the De Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph company in a patent dispute over vacuum tubes. The court upheld Judge Hugh M Morris’s Delaware district court ruling that Westinghouse Electric and its lamp subsidiary held implied limited licenses from General Electric to make tubes for RCA, via a manufacturing license from De Forest.
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Philadelphia
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Radio Corporation of America
de Forent Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company
Wooley
Hugh M. Morris
United States District Court of Delaware
Westinghouse Electric Ad Manufacturing Company
The
Lamp Company
Konjola advertised for stomach liver kidney relief in Bluefield
The Konjola medicine is promoted at the Easley Penn Drug Store 228 Princeton Avenue Bluefield with claims it eases gas pressure around the heart and digestive ailments. Huntington resident Idella Meadows testifies to dramatic relief after using Konjola noting better digestion and restored strength. Hale Pharmacy Princeton also stocks the product.
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Bivefield
Easley-Penn
Princeton Avenue
Idella Meadows
Huntington
Third Avenue
East
Konjola
Easley~ Penn Drug Store
Bluefield
Hale Pharmacy
Princeton
Three Held in Lindsey Slaying Investigation
Three people are in Mingo county jail at Williamson for the slaying of Joe Daniels aged 36 near Lindsey. Matt Justice, 80, is described as a fugitive. Daniels died after a heart wound. the shooting followed a drunken party. Ballard Justice’s home was the scene. Beas Carter is named among those held. The third suspect’s name was not learned.
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Mingo County
Williamson
Joe Daniels
Lindsey
Matt Justice
Justice
Daniela
Ballard Justice
Daniels Lard Justice
Beas Carter
Mingo
John Drew Described Extremely Weak in Hospital
San Francisco June 27 John Drew the actor confined to a local hospital since May 51 with arthritis and rheumatic fever was reported as extremely weak today. Despite illness he remained cheerful and physicians say his brain and vitality sustain him through relapses that would have proved fatal to many others.
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San Francisco
John Drew
Child burns to death playing with matches
A baby of 11 months, Francis Harvey Santee, son of Harold and Mia Santee of Hundred West Virginia, died after suffering burns from matches left within reach. The child was found alone by the mother this afternoon and died that evening.
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Hundred
W. Va
Francis Harvey
Santee
Mia
Harold Santee
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Care Telegraph
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Peery Roof Garden
Ampires Blue Boys Club
Blue City Blue Boys
South Bluefield
One Vs. Bailey Lumber Co
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Paul Rex
Henry Walk
Pocahontas
Ira C. Wills
William C Atwater
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Iceland
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Europe
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W. W. McNeal
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Eclipse
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Princeton Ave
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Radio Corporation
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