Eleven jurors chosen for Gerald Chapman's trial
Hartford reports eleven jurors selected on the trial's second day for Gerald Chapman the noted maillooter and jail breaker charged with killing Patrolman James J. Shelley. A second panel was drawn as the jury remained one member short with a new juror panel ordered for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Netticut
Gerald Chapman
James J. Shelley
New Britain
Newell Jennings
Jennin
Chapman
Frederick J. Groeh
Theels
Groehl
Nathan O. Freedman
John Farnum
Springfield
Mass
Farnum
Court House
Jennings
Fargum
Rufus Downs Dies at Eighty in Farmington
Rufus Downs died of pneumonia at his Farmington home near his eightieth birthday. He spent most of his life in Farmington. He leaves a widow and a daughter Mrs Fred Flemington of Farmington. Funeral is planned for Friday afternoon.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Rufus Downs
Teddy
Farmington
Fred Flemington
Red Cross Relief Efforts Grow Across Tornado Regions
Contributions received through American Red Cross chapters for tornado relief in the Midwest reach over 59 thousand dollars. Red Cross officials say emergency relief work will be completed by week’s end as reconstruction progresses in Indiana Illinois Kentucky and Tennessee where the tornado did heavy damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
American Red Cross
Middle West
Red Cross
Indiana
Ilinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Public Service Commission Rules Against United Fuel Gas
Charleston March 25 The public service commission ruled against United Fuel Gas on most disputed rate issues in its rate case. The commission upheld present domestic gas rates 17 to 33 cents per thousand cubic feet and rejected a proposed 40 cent rate. An opinion set fair value of the company’s property near 36 million dollars and found 13.27 percent as a fair return, with higher returns cited for intercompany sales and subsidiary privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
United Fuel Gas Cay
Lewis
Bennett Witness In Own Defense
Chattanooga report details Bennett testifying for over an hour and twenty minutes as co defendant with Mrs Mae Bennett in the murder trial of his aunt Miss Augusta Hoffman He describes family ties and distant correspondence including a claim of a marriage to Mr Brown and denies harming Miss Hoffman The cross examination touched on statements by Harry Parker and a note from Santa Cruz Calif pointing to a possible alibi or missing linkage to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
W. H. Bennett
Mae Bennett
Augusta Hoffman
Miss Hoffman
Plan to Relocate Miners Hospital Blocked by House Vote
Charleston reporters detail the West Virginia House action as a decisive voice vote indefinitely postpones a bill to relocate McKendree hospital No. 3 citing miner access and cost concerns. Debate covers location on railroad, effect on Greenbrier coal fields and Montgom ery and Charlesto n hospitals.
Way to Eliminate Garlic Breath Found by Scientists
Washington on March 25. Agriculture scientists announce a solution to garlic odor and stale milk taste from cows. They say the only way is to stop cows from eating the weed they crave.
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Washington, Mar
Department of Agriculture
Department
Defense in Teapot Dome Fires Last Gun Point Blank
Cheyenne Wyoming March 25 The defense of Harry F Sinclair and Mammoth Oil closed its case in the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit with Martin W Littleton arguing for one hour and thirty minutes. He contended the lease terms, if enforced, would subvert congressional appropriations for the navy and that oil sales proceeds belonged to the treasury. He stressed good faith in all transactions and questioned potential connections to Fall and the Continental Trading Company. Government counsel Owen J Roberta summarized the lease and its defects with microscopic scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Mar
Teapot Dome
Harry F. Sinclair
Mammoth Oil Company
Martin W. Littleton
Iry K. Thaw
Truman Hl. Newberry
Mr. Littleton
T. Blake Kennedy
Owen J. Roberta
Atlee Pomerene
Mr. Roberts
Congress
Navy
Treasury
United States
Littleton
Sinclair
Fall
Albert B. Fall
Continental Trading Company
Roberts
More rioting trials in prospect at Niles
Warren Ohio March 25 With forty six of sixty one men indicted in connection with Ku Klux Klan and anti Klan rioting at Niles Ohio last fall convicted or recorded guilty by voluntary pleas two sentenced to six months in the workhouse forty one fined amounts ranging from 25 to 300 and three appealing from convictions more trials are in prospect Defense attorneys tonight had no announcements of clients planning to plead guilty and plans were laid for paneling a new jury when court opens tomorrow to try two reputed Klansmen on charges of carrying concealed weapons The two are Russell Brock of Holland Springs alleged victim of an assault for which Joe Jennings prominent Niles businessman was convicted and C E Gifford of Niles another of the special officers sworn in by Mayor Harvey Kistler on the day of the rioting
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Ohio
Mar
Niles
Russell Brock
Howland Springs
Joe Jennings
C. E. Gifford
Harvey Kistler
Woodlock Recess Appointment Sparks Senate Clash
President Coolidge named Thomas F. Woodlock to the Interstate Commerce Commission after the Senate failed to confirm Mark W. Potter’s successor. Georgia and Florida Democrats warned they would oppose confirmation citing South representation, signaling a fight in the next session. Salary questions linger over whether Woodlock can be paid before Senate action.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Thomas F. Woodlock
New York
Mark W. Potter
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Harris
Georgia
Fletcher
Florida
South
Woodlock
Charlies B. Warren
Michigan
Warren
Sargent
Bloodhounds Fail to Track Bevans in Maryland Escape
Snow Hill Maryland authorities led by Sheriff Wilmer Purnell failed to recapture Andrew and Luther Bevans after 36 hours on the run. A posse of 200 and bloodhounds could not follow the escaped prisoners scent across Croo rs Neck and Sinepuxent. Dogs redirected to Virginia as the trail grew cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snow Hill
Mar
Croors’ Neck
Sinepuxent
Andrew
Luther Bevans
W. W. Davis
Wm. L. Purnell
Baltimore
Wilmer Purnell
Bevans
Girdle Tree
Jackson Firm
Newark
Virginia
Rail car loadings rise despite weekly drop in coal and grain
Washington reports that railroads loaded 924149 cars in the week ending March 14, up from all prior years, despite a 5860 decrease from the prior week. The American Railway Association cites reduced coal grain and grain product shipments as the reason for the week to week decline from March 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Mar
American Railway Association
Photographers Elect Association Leaders in Mid Atlantic
Edmond B. Edmonson of Washington DC was elected president at the Photographers Association of the Middle Atlantic States annual convention closing. R G Phillips of Bloomsburg PA was chosen vice president, W Archibald Wallace of Huntington WV secretary, and F W Brown of Philadelphia treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Edmond B. Edmonson
Washington, D. C
Photographers’ Association of the
Middle Atlantic States
R. G. Phillips
Bloomsburg
W. Archibald Wallace
Huntington
W. Va
F. W. Brown
Ten Fall at Park Apartments. workers escape serious injuries
Five workmen fell from a ten story roof section at the Park Apartments on Jefferson avenue and Twenty third street Toledo. They dropped to the basement but suffered no serious injuries as physicians assess the injuries and the concrete and reinforcing steel also fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Mar
New Park Apartments
Jefferson Avenue
Twentythird Street
Doubts About Success of New Arms Parley
Senator Borah after meeting with President Coolidge says he favors a second arms limitation conference but doubts its success. He cites lack of European public opinion and Russia's need for diplomatic recognition, with France blocking disarmament until its security is assured. He supports engaging foreign powers for a fall naval talks.
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Washington
Mar
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Coolidge
Europe
Russia
France
Mine explosion inquest permits for engineers
Washington March 25 The interior department granted permission for bureau of mines engineers J W Paul and George S Rice to appear at the Fairmont mine explosion inquest in West Virginia. Governor Gore requested the permission and Acting Secretary Finney granted it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Mar
Interior Department
J W. Paul
George 8. Rice
Bureau of Mines Engineers
Fairmont
West Virginia
Gore
Bby
Finney
Ellingson Girl Faints In Murder Trial
Dorothy Milingson sixteen known as the jazz girl faces court for the murder of her mother amid a crowded room. She fainted in the corridor and was cared for in the prison hospital as juror selection plans continued with eight peremptory challenges left for both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Dorothy Milingson
May
Mother
Senate action on Bluefield charter changes and local bills
West Virginia senate discussed a resolution to invite Pennsylvania Governor Pinchot on conservation and advanced a 4-H camp funding bill. It passed an amendment limiting future solvency claims and approved a Bluefield charter amendment and a rearrangement of the eleventh judicial circuit terms while referring other items to required committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Judiciary Committee
Charleston
W. Va
Pinchot
Senate
Judiciary Committee On Conservation
Johnson
Hugus
Fia
Virginia
Senator Byrer
Mercer County
Hoge
Kee
Supreme Court
Asolvent Banka
Parkersburg
House
Bluefield
Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Bituminous Production Trend Still Downward
A weekly decline in bituminous coal output continues. Preliminary figures from the National Coal Association show about 8.4 million net tons mined, while the US Geological Survey places the week of March 14 at 8.623 million net tons, suggesting the downward trend persists but extent unclear.
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Bureau of Coal Economics
National Coal Association
United States Geological Survey
Pittsburg Coal Co Elects New Treasurer
Pittsburg March 25 F J Le Moyne was elected treasurer by company directors replacing A F Fell who retired. Other officers were re elected including W G Warden as chairman and W K Field as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Pittsburg Coal CO
Pittsburg
Mar
F. J. LeMoyne
Pittsburg Coal Company
A. F. Fell
W. G. Warden
W. K. Field
Automobile Victim Dies From Injuries in Collision
Weston West Virginia March 26 Mr Duke Dent forty one of this place died this morning of injuries from a Monday accident when a car was struck by an extra freight train near the Baltimore and Ohio depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
W. Va. Mar
Duke Dent
Baltimore and Ohio
Release Denied for W D Shepherd in Murder Bail Fight
Chicago judge refuses bail in the murder case of William D Shepherd charged with typhoid murder of his foster son William N McClintock to gain a estate. Judge Hopkins says trial speedy if desired and stresses jury credibility of accomplice Far man and issues of proof evident or presumption great.
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Chicago
Mar
William D. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
Jacob Mopkins
Criminal Court
Farman
Hopkins
C. C. Fairman
Billy McClintock
Faiman
Shepherd
Billy
Illinois
W. S. Stew
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Connecticut
Red Cross Disaster Relief Organization
United Fuel Company
Bennett
Miners Hospital
McKendree
McKendree Hospital No. 3
House of Delegates
Ee. M. Tutwiler
Mount Hope
Fayette County
Greenbrier
Rainelle
Lookout
Tutwiler
Midland
Montgomery
Berkeley Springs
Board of Control
State Health Department
Ohio County
Barbour County
Pleasants County
Prospect
Thos. Woodlock
Engineers OF
Bureau OF Mines
Ellingson
W. D. Shepherd
Maiman
Art
Robert E. Crowe
Stewart
Mr. Crowe
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