Pittsburgh Coal Firm Accused of Aiding Radicals
Senate coal committee heard charges that the Pittsburgh Coal Company funded radical activities among miners. Louis McGrew, editor of the Labor World, alleged communist outreach tied to the company. Don Rose denied the accusations as malicious. Rose warned he could reveal more to expose alleged misconduct.
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Washington
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Senate Coal Committee
Louis McGrew
Labor World of Pittsburgh
Don Rose
McGrew
Pittsburgh Company
Rose
Pennsylvania
Save the Union Committee
Pennsylvania and Ohio Relief Society
Senate Committee
Charce
Pitts Coal
Save the Union
J. D. A. Morrow
Committee to Watch Presidential Campaign Funds
Senate approves a five member committee to scrutinize all expenditures in this year’s presidential campaigns. The group, to be appointed by Vice-President Dawes, will investigate funding for candidates seeking nomination or election. Senator Robinson notes the move aims to inform the public and the Senate on campaign spending.
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Washington
Senate
Dawes
Robinson
Arkansas
Ular
Bowers 10 Make Keynote Address
Claude G. Bowers was chosen as keynote at the Democratic national convention by the Democratic national committee. He will serve as a New York delegate pledged to support Governor Smith and spoke at a January gathering urging adherence to Jefferson and Jackson principles. The gathering in Houston approved his selection unanimously with Shaver presiding.
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Washington
Claude G. Bowers
New York Evening World
Democratic National Committee
Houston
Bowers
Jefferson
Jackson
New York
Governor Smith
Shaver
Theald
Beaufor Tl
Senator Dill
Dill
National Committee
Madison Square Garden
Charles A. Greathouse
Indiana
Representative Cannon
Missouri
Jesse H. Jones
W. A. Julian
Ohio
Urey Woodson
Kentucky
Howard Bruce
Maryland
Jail for One Death for Other Quarrel Result
Huntington W Va April 30 no man is dead and another held in Cabell county jail after a dispute over a road right of way near Blue Sulphur Springs Albert Johnson was arrested and jailed reportedly claiming he shot Frank Cyrus in self defense after Cyrus fired several shots
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabell County
Blue Sulphur Springs
Albert Johnson
Frank Cyrus
Cyrus
Yale and Harvard Students Battle for Prize in Mock Exam
Yale and Harvard competed in a first of its kind contest in New Haven to win a $5,000 prize donated by Mrs. William Lowell Queen. Ten scholastic athletes from each school took part in the classroom battle of learning amid silent scrutiny and delayed lunch breaks.
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New Heaven
Conn
Yale
Harvard
Cambridge
William Lowell
Poo Sasee Goed
New York Welcomes Bremen Aviators With Mass Parade
Thousands line Broadway as Major Fitzmaurice Baron Koehl and Captain Koebl return from the trans Atlantic Bremen flight. A harbor tour, wreaths at memorials, and a city reception mark a five hour triumph with police and troops leading the parade through a festive, crowded New York.
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New York
Bremen
James Fitzmaurice
Gunther von Huenefeld
Hermann Koebl
Fitzmaurice
Fitsmaurice
Koehl
Patsy
Bay
Koeh
Fits
Madison Square
Eternal Light War Memorial
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Washington
Teapot Dome Committee Faces New Salt Creek Lease Probe
The Senate Tea pot Dome committee, nearing the end of its inquiry into Continental Trading and Harry F Sinclair, will study Salt Creek field leases in Wyoming. Chairman Nye said procedure decisions and extensive research are needed, with testimony postponed unless voluntary witnesses appear. Senator Norris, who proposed the inquiry, saw the measure pass with debate and without roll call. The Salt Creek leases date to Wilson and early Harding administrations amid fraud charges.
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Washington
Continental Trading Company
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Senate
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Nye
Norris
Nebraska
Audit
Wilson
Harding
Lowden Stays Out of State
Frank C. Lowden of Illinois, a Republican presidential possibility, explains his decision not to enter the West Virginia preferential primary. He says the policy is to keep his name out of states with a candidate of their own and asks friends to refrain from entering his name in that primary. The West Virginia results show two Democrats for state offices and one for treasurer. No major changes in the Hoover versus Goff and Smith Reed Democratic presidential contest noted.
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Charleston
W. Va
Frank C. Lowden
Illinois
West Virginia
Iowa City
Walter 8
Hallanan
George W. Sharp
Richard B. Talcott
Philippi
Roy Hugh Jarvis
Morgantown
Robert A. Armstrong
Congress
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Guy D. Goff
Alfred Smith
United States
James A. Reed
Poincare to Retain His Post as Premier
Paris reports say the plebiscite backing Poincare solidifies the union government for the time needed to finish his work. Observers cite the five percent loan decree as proof he will move quickly to stabilize France and hold the helm after elections.
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Poincare
Paris
Monsieur Poincare
M. Poincare
France
Hubbard sues Fordson Coal for fifty thousand dollars
A. C. Hubbard of McVeigh Kentucky files a $50,000 suit in the United States district court against Fordson Coal Company operating at McVeigh. Hubbard claims the company destroyed his retail merchandise business by operating at the mines and conducting a cooperative store at McVeigh.
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Catlettsburg
United States District Court
A. C. Hubbard
Mc- Veigh
Fordson Coal Company
Hubbard
McVeigh
Prisoners’ Jail Break Bid Foiled by Squealing Helper
Eight federal and state inmates attempted to tunnel from a Wheeling jail led by Edwin Neptune the 11 year old Clarksburg youth A jail trusty overheard tempers and alerted authorities. Neptune traveled from Clarksburg on motor vehicle charge while the others faced burglary assault liquor offenses and related counts.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Liberty Today
Edwin Jackson
Neptune
Clarksburg
Pittsburgh
Odelle Whitehair
Harvey Grim
Matthew Walden
Charles Williams
Kenneth Charnock
Frank “Blackie” Williams
Bedwin F. Keller
Senator Bruce Attacks Anti-Saloon League over Washington arrests
In Washington on April 30 Senator Bruce of Maryland assailed the Anti-Saloon League after F Scott McBride claimed no recent drinkers in Washington or New York. Bruce cited a senate report showing rising arrests and called the movement hypocritical and politically and ecclesiastically dangerous.
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Washington
Senate
Bruce
Maryland
F. Scott McBride
New York
McBride
Lindbergh Completes Spirit of St. Louis Flight Farewell
Charles A. Lindbergh lands the Spirit of St. Louis at Bolling Field after a 725 mile hop from St. Louis to Washington in 4 hours 58 minutes. The historic aircraft is to be placed at the Smithsonian Institution with two enlisted guards beside it as Private Philip H. Mackenzie and Sergeant Rey Hope witness the moment.
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St. Louis
Bolling Field
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Eaid
Bollingfeld
Lindbergh
Sunn Institution
Bollingfield
St. Louie
Spirit of
Hope
Spicer
Yvers
Smithsonian Institution
Madison sawmill disaster blamed on heavy snowfall
Four men died at the Price Lumber sawmill on Pond Fork in Madison after a gob pile explosion caused by coal dust and slate mixing with steam from melting snow. A fifth man, Cal Price, escaped. a sixth worker, a Negro boy, was severely burned. State mining officials prepared an inquest.
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Charleston
W. Va
Madison
Pond Fork
West Virginia
State Mining Department
Coal Company
Dell Sheets
Everett, Delmar
Edward Sheeta
Dell Sheet
Gestaemyt
Fred
Caid
Cal Price
Gene Slane
Boone County
Educator Fromme Named WVU Dean of Agriculture
Morgantown WV April 30 Dr Fred Denton Fromme of Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg Va today was named dean of the college of agriculture at West Virginia University to succeed Dr Henry G Knight who resigned last fall for a federal post. Board of governors announced the selection. Fromme a botany and plant pathology professor at VPI since 1915 will begin duties June 1. An order authorizing the college of education to grant a bachelor of arts in education was entered by the board, replacing a previous plan for a bachelor of education degree.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Fred Denton Fromme
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blackeburg
College of Agriculture
West Virginia University
Henry G. Knight
University Board of Governors
Fromme
Virginia Institution
College of Education
Board of Governors
Illinois Pays Tribute to Madden At Washington Services
Illinois honored a veteran with a memorial service in Washington and a procession to Fairview Cemetery. A hundred or more joined in the services and burial procedures as mourners viewed the casket and followed the bier.
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Illinois
Madden
Chicago
Lilnois
Washington
Fairview Cemetery
Wwe
One Mine in Field Plans to Reduce Wages
Beckley West Virginia April 30 Several hundred miners were affected by a wage reduction effective May 1 announced here by the Winding Gulf Coal company of Winding Gulf Following the wage cut the Winding Gulf association said no other mines in the field contemplated a reduction A similar statement was issued by the New River Operators association of Mount Hope Company officials refused to disclose the amount of the reduction
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McGrew
United States
University of Es
John Browns
The
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Goff
West Virginia
B. Cooper
Joe Witebestain
John Brophy
Burgh Hotel
Vitchestain
Brophy
Rose
C. E. Lescher
John
Labor World
Goldman
William Z. Foster
Pennsylvania
Russia
Coa
Beckley
W. Va
Winding Gulf Cola Company
Winding Gulf
Winding Gulf Association
New River Operators’ Association of
Mount Hope
Goal rate meet to be held in Cincinnati rail talks
Pittsburgh reports the conference on lake cargo freight rates will proceed in Cincinnati Thursday despite Pittsburgh coal operators refusing to attend. Railroad chiefs, including a Pennsylvania president quoted from New York, say attendance is hoped for and no pledge to a policy will result.
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Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Northern
Southern
The
Pennsylvania
New York
Atterbury
$39,000 Sought After River Boat Crash
The Union Barge Line Inc. sues Standard Oil of New Jersey in U S district court over a Kanawha river collision near Parkersburg claiming $39,000 in damages. Pleadings based on testimony before C M Hanna were offered. the tug was moored at the B and O Bridge when the crash occurred.
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Wheeling
W. Va
United States District Court
Union
Lne, Inc
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
C. M. Hanna
Parkersburg
W. E
I Kanawha
Baltimore and Ohio
Ohio Blacksmith To Face Mann Act Charge
George W. Swiger a 40 year old blacksmith from Shady Side Ohio will be brought to Wheeling West Virginia to face Mann Act charges. He was arrested in Benwood West Virginia for transporting a young woman from Parkersburg to Bellaire Ohio after she answered his housekeeper ad. Federal agents say Swiger abandoned the woman and a Justice Department official states he is feigning illness.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George W. Swiger
Shady Side
Fairmont
Russell Furbee
Swiger
Benwood
Parkersburg
Bellaire
H. B. Traub
Department of Justice
Elkins Restored Telephone and Telegraph Service
Elkins West Virginia reports telephone and telegraph lines from Elkins to distant points restored after 24 hours of outage caused by a weekend storm. The Western Maryland railroad Elkins Cumberland line was blocked by landslides. Fears for livestock in Randolph County as a storm brought seventeen inches of snow with many lambs dying.
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Elkins
W. Va
Eilkine
Distant Pointe
Elkins-Cumberland
Western Maryland
Randolph County
Californians to Choose Today in Primary Round
San Francisco leads with Calfornia voters heading to the primary. About 1.72 million eligible, 1.25 million Republicans. Herbert Hoover unopposed for Republican endorsement. Democratic field includes James A. Reed and Thomas J. Walsh as delegate candidates.
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San Francisco
Colerain
Herbert Hoover
James A. Reed
Missouri
United States
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Houston
Hoover
Democrats
William G. McAdoo
Walsh
Mercer County Candidate Totals Reach 220 in Primary Fields
A Mercer County tally shows 220 candidates for county and district offices, with 144 not counting state senate or congressional seats. Withdrawals left 11 candidates for sheriff and 4 for county court commissioner, while county surveyor remains unopposed.
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Ace Te Ae Ie Shaken Tae Ace Repua
C. D. Hambrick
Rock District
G. H. Crumpecker
Houston
Texas
Crumpecker
Fifth District
State Senate
Office of Justice of Peace
Plymouth
Alderson Sexton
Demare
C. M. Thorn
Reno
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Red Tribunal
Pdorge
Jap” Corvin
Bluefield
Lowden
Hallonan
Fordson Coal
Anti-Saloon League
Fifth Man
Silent Death
W. W. Atterbury
Mann Act
Hoovers
Smith, Reed and Walsh
Sheriff Crumpecker
D. M. Thorn
Republican
T. F. H. Gollehon
J. A. Hunt
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Wolfe
F. Steele
W. Holdren
F. Bovisco
Cc. B. Anderson
Sciencemus
V. Austin
J. G. An Shrewsferson
J. W. Wiis
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G. Clower
A. C. White
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C. W. J. Walker
Branca Repud
James A. Lilly
Demanelios
E. W. Moye
Fast River
Joel White
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