Grand Jury Finds 110 True Bills and Discharges Group
The United States district court grand jury, after a session that began Tuesday, was discharged yesterday by Judge George W. McClintic with 110 true bills found. Two jury trials were decided, others plea and guilty entries continued, and total sentences issued reached fifty two years six months and two days.
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Grand Jury
United States District Court
George W. McClintic
James Harman
McDowell County
Andrew Osborne
Harman
McClintic
Hill Austin
Raleigh County
Helen Taylor
Samantha Barker
Federal Institution For Women
Alderson
Southern Flyers Oct New Endurance Record
At Meridian Mississippi Municipal Airport the airplane Ole Mis piloted by brothers Fred and Al Key set a new world endurance flight record of 554 hours 41 minutes 30 seconds after 24 days aloft from June 4. The crowd cheered as the Key brothers waved from the oil smudged monoplane surpassing the previous record by Kenneth and John Hunter of Chicago.
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Municipal Airport
Meridian
Miss
Ole Mis
Fred
al Key
Kenneth
John Hunter
Chicago
J. D. Sellers
Official Denies Shift Of Duty In CCC Death
Bland county commonwealth's attorney W S Dunn says Edward Fewell 19 of Bond Hill Virginia who died near the Bastian CCC camp was killed by his own action or accidental death. Fingerprint evidence and a coroner jury verdict leave murder unproven with no motive identified.
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Edward Fewel
Bond Hill
Bastian CCC
W. 8. Dunn
Commonwealth
Bland County
Fewel
Bland
Breckenridge
CCU
Fewell
Dunn
Federal prisoners moved from Wheeling jail over abuses
The Department of Justice announced ten federal prisoners were removed from the Ohio county jail at Wheeling West Virginia amid charges of selling special privileges liquor and poor conditions. Prisoners were moved to Marion county Morgantown and Fairmont jails as inspectors flagged insecurity sanitation and discipline. Over 300 federal prisoners have been transferred from various county jails nationwide for similar issues.
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Washington
Ohio County
Wheeling
W. Va
Department of Justice Today
Sanford Bates
Cummings
Fairmont
Monongalia County
Morgantown
Bates
Nephew of Chief Justice Hughes Shot in Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson a New York attorney and nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was found shot to death in Rouge Park Detroit. Police suspect a holdup and identified the body after a call to Charles E. Hughes Jr. Detectives found no cash in Dickinson's hotel room though he had told his wife he carried a large amount of money. The body lay along a park road with two close range bullet wounds.
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Detroit
Howard Carter Dickinson
New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Rouge Park
Dickinson
John S. Navarre
Charles E. Hughes Jr
Archibald Broomfield
George Knapfel
Government Dropped Charges Against Luke Lea in Tennessee Case
Knoxville, June 27 The federal government reaffirmed a 1933 agreement and dismissed charges against Luke Lea former Nashville publisher now in a North Carolina prison for alleged misapplication of Holston Union National Bank funds. Lea has petitioned for a pardon and Gov. Ebringhaus considers it. A Raleigh warrant remained auto-voided if Lea is pardoned or paroled.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Luke Lea
Nashville
North Carolina
Holston-Union National Bank of
Lea
J. C. B. Ebringhaus
United States District Court
Raleigh
N. C
U.S
George Taylor
Tennessee
House Approves OAIP Subsidy Bill
Washington June 27 by a slim eight vote margin the house approved a measure to develop the merchant marine through government subsidies for ship construction and operation. The 194 to 186 vote reflected a Democratic split with 55 Republicans supporting the bill and 40 Republicans voting no. The bill, framed after executive and presidential recommendations, would subsidize costs and raise ship owner liability for sea losses. It now proceeds to the senate amid expected opposition.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Merchant Marine Committee
Congress
Legislaon
Roper
Republicans Threaten House to Pass Budget Balancing Tax
June 27 reporters describe six congressional blocs pushing for changes to Roosevelt wealth tax plans. House and Senate move nuisance tax extension and social security bills while hearings on July 8 loom. Republican threats to repeal gas tax and balance the budget dominate debates and highlight intra party tensions.
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Senate
Washington
Republicana
Morgenthau
Herman Oliphant
Treasury
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Coughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Hastings
Delaware
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Snell
New York
Dillinger's Lawyer Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Louis Piquett, once a city prosecutor, was sentenced in federal court to two years in Leavenworth and a $10,000 fine for harboring Homer Van Meter, a Dillinger associate. Judge Sullivan said he lacked proper duties of a lawyer as Piquett stood silent at sentencing after being convicted of arranging a hideout used while officers hunted Dillinger and Van Meter.
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McClintic
D. C. Villersoni
Beckley
Clarence Nester
Coalworld
William Drumheller
Fayette County
Atlanta
Villerson
Chicago
John Dillinger
Louis P. Piquett
Homer van Meter
Dillinger
Piquett
William Hale Thompson
Philip L. Sullivan
Leavenworth
van Meter
Man Who Refused to Testify Is Jailed
In Charleston West Virginia on June 27 a man who refused to testify against a trio charged with robbing him is jailed on a compounding a felony charge. D J Savage, investigator for the prosecuting attorney, filed the charge after T W Rogers of Marmet declined to testify against Estelle Pauline Louise Mc Coy and Estin Pauley. The state says the trio held on one occasion in April and robbed him of valuables.
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Charleston
W. Va
D. J. Savage
T. W. Rogers
Marmet
Estelle Pauline
Louise McCoy
Estin Pauley
Believe missing man is victim of amnesia
Huntington detectives search for C. H. Harvey 45, an electrician for the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, last seen at the railroad shops a week ago. Police traced him to Ashland Kentucky but the trail was lost. he had a prior mild amnesia episode.
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Huntington
W. Va
C. H. Harvey
Harvey
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Ashland
Validity of Securities Act Challenged By Promoter
J Edward Jones of New York challenges the Securities Act in a hearing as he defies a subpoena from the securities commission. He plans to move to quash the subpoena in the New York circuit court of appeals while the commission seeks a federal order to compel appearance. the case centers on alleged undelegated legislative power and state power usurpation.
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Washington
J. Edward Jones
New York
Securities Commission
Commission
Jones
New York Circuit Court of Appeals
New Yorker
William Green
West Virginia Pushes Relief Work Plans for $4 Billion Fund
West Virginia official M L O Neale returns from Washington to expedite approved works relief projects. He says no state allotment but projects weighed by relief served and merit, with early applications favored for speedy review by the advisory committee on allotments.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
M. L. O’neale
Washington
O'Neale
Committee On Allotments
PWA
Committee of Allotments
Roosevelt
PWA Division of Economics and Statistics
Advisory Committee
Repeal Minister Is Ordered Suspended
The Rev. H. E. McBrayer a Methodist minister was found guilty of unministerial conduct for aiding Georgia's May prohibition repeal campaign. A jury of 13 clergymen suspended him until the North Georgia conference meets again in November.
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Atlanta
H. EB. MecBrayer
Georgia
North Georgia
McBrayer
Wage Committee Seeks Terms In Coal Contract Talks
Washington reports the Appalachian joint wage conference failed to agree on a 30 hour week and a 10 percent pay raise. The scale committee, now reduced to four, must report to the conference by 2 pm tomorrow. The 1954-55 contracts expire Sunday midnight.
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Washington
White House
Duncan Kennedy
Charleston
W Va
Tema
Charles O'Neill
Pennsylvania
L. T. Putman
6000 Firemen Answer Cottage Fire Alarm
More than 6,000 firemen answered the alarm when Mrs Elizabeth Monahan’s cottage burned in Roosevelt Long Island during a tour of the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen’s association. The local department extinguished the blaze with damage estimated at zero.
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New York
Elizabeth Monahan
Roosevelt
Lone Island
Southern
New York Volunteer Firemen's Association
FDR Moves to Close Gold Loopholes in New Deal Policy
President Roosevelt urged Congress to block all gold lawsuits tied to government gold clause bonds. He called for swift legislation to ensure a uniform dollar value and keep courts from undermining the administration. The plan would allow paying $10.19 trillion in gold securities in devalued dollars and bar suits on securities and currency.
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Roosevelt
Treasury
Congress
Court of Claims
Cummings
White House
Justice Department
Mrs Eva Coo and Leonard Scarnici Executed at Sing Sing
Eva Coo 43 a roadhouse owner and Leonard Scarnici 29 a gangster were executed in the Sing Sing electric chair. Coo wore a blue floral dress and muttered goodbye as Rev. Petersen read Psalm 23. Scarnici, after smoking and swaggering, asked if he could speak to Albany, claiming to be a better man. The two convicts faced death after lengthy criminal histories and reprieves cited for Scarnici.
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Eva Coo
Sing Sing
Mra
Anthony N. Petersen
Mr. Petersen
Okey
Lewis Lawes
Searnicci
Albany
Searnici
Lawes
Upstate
John J. O'Connell Jr
Scarnici
John McCaffrey
Coo
Petersen
Lehman
Harry Wright
Wright
Former Justice to Get New Trial
Asheville N C June 27 Robert L Simpkins justice of the peace of McDowell county West Virginia convicted of liquor law violations and sentenced to three years in prison and a 5000 fine was granted a new trial by the U S circuit court of appeals The court held the district court erred in permitting collateral testimony and in refusing to give requested jury instructions The ruling reverses the judgment for prejudicial error in the charge and admission of evidence related to illicit liquor activity and Simpkins official capacity as a justice of the peace
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Asheville
Robert L. Simpkins
McDowell County
West Virginia
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court For
John J. Parker
Group of Colonists to Return to States From Alaska
Six families of the Matanuska valley colonization project announced they will return to the United States from Palmer Alaska. A larger group of colonists expressed intent to stay, while leaders who protested to Washington said they are reconsidering and may depart soon.
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Palmer
Alaska
Matanuska Valley
United States
Washington
Federal Relief Administration
Senate
Pat Hemmer
I. M. Sandvik
Hemmer
Russian laborer jailed for flag misuse in Monticello
A 41 year old Russian laborer Victor Yaroschuck of New York City began a 10 day jail term in Monticello New York after conviction on disorderly conduct for allegedly using the American flag as a handkerchief following spectator complaints to police.
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Monticello
N. Y
Victor Yaroschuck
New York City
Labor Disputes Bill 15 Enacted by Congress
Washington June 27 Congress cleared the Wagner Connery labor disputes bill and sent it to President Roosevelt for signature after swift House and Senate action. Supporters hail a guarantee of industrial peace while opponents fear increased strife as the bill creates a national labor relations board and defines unfair labor practices by employers.
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Congress
White House
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Friends
National Labor Relations Board
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