Youth to Be Asked to Judge Age Trial of W C Shepherd
Chicago jury selection in the W C Shepherd case advanced with four youths sworn as veniremen. Defense counsel Stewart pressed only perfunctory questions to prevent jury fixing talk while juror Sedgwick faces possible release due to his wife’s nervous breakdown. A prior bribery case tied to a former jury member emerged during grand jury checks, prompting immediate action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Garees
William
Nelson McClintock
Fletcher C. James
Desplaines
Ill
Harold R. Pillar
Ross Hoyt
A . Sedgwick
William Scott Stewart
Shepherd
Veniremen
Joseph P. Savage
Thomas J. Lynch
Sedgwick
Joey
Pupeee
Ite
Robert KE. Crowe
Lynch
Stewart
Henry J. Smith
Smith
C. C. Farman
National University of Sciences of Chicago
James Callan
Philip J. Barry
Venireman
Barry
Weary Feet Southland Heroes Turn Homeward
The thirty-fifth annual reunion of United Confederates Veterans ended in Dallas as veterans return home. Muskets era hands met present generation, crowds cheered from limousines, flags waved and flowers brightened the streets. A few walked, while some Forest's cavalry rode, marking what may be the last journey west of the Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
United Confederates
Southland
Mississippi River
Forest
John O Mills, Barboursville Citizen, Dies at 81
John O Mills, eighty-one, a well known Barboursville resident and longtime Huntington area figure, died this afternoon at his home from paralysis. Funeral service scheduled for Sunday.
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John
Mills
Huntington
W. Va
John O. Mills
Barboursville
Weeks Back on Jobes September 1 Update
A dispatch notes Weeks Back on Jobes planning to resume duties soon after a thrombosis event and recent acute illness. The report mentions his travel from Washington to Boston in a private car with family, physicians, and a trained escort.
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Jobes
Weeks
Washingtontow
Boston
Lehigh Valley Wins Seventh Damage Suit in Black Tom Case
New York May 22 The Lehigh Valley Railroad won its seventh suit over the Black Tom explosion of July 30 1926 in federal court Julian Mack presiding. The jury found the first fire occurred on land and the first explosion on a barge loaded with munitions in the Hudson. A second suit for 2 million is pending and Mack began impaneling a jury after the verdict. Other suits totaling about 71 million have been filed. six have been resolved in favor of the railroad.
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New York
Lehigh Valley Railroad Today
Black Tom
N. J
Julian Mack
Hudson
Russia
Mack
Fiest
Kerensky
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Middle West Sizzles in Sudden Heat Wave
Chicago and other cities faced an unexpected May heat wave with record temperatures. Lincoln reports heat prostration death. Chicago hits 94, Milwaukee 91, St. Paul 99, Cairo 95, and Nebraska tops 90 as a plains-origin heat rushes west. Thunderstorms threaten relief tonight and tomorrow.
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Chicago
Middle West
Mercury
Plains
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Milwaukee
Cairo
Ills
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Additional Ventures in Air Transportation
Chicago May 22 An announced 10 million dollar corporation plans an express and freight air service between New York and Chicago. The Chicago and New Orleans Transport Company will begin around July 4 with eight hour Chicago to New Orleans passenger flights via St. Louis and Memphis and possibly Peoria. A weekend service to northern resort areas is planned with Pembine Wisconsin as northern terminal near the Four Seasons Club, about 350 miles from Chicago. Herbert B Welton of London heads the venture, with Chicago and British capitalists backing the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Announcements Ventures
New Orleans
St. Louis
Memphis
Peoria
Ill
Pembine
Wis
Four Seasons Club
Anda
Herbert 8. Welton
London
Crown of
Report on Federal Council urges wider evangelism and peace effort
The Federal Council of Churches committee reports growing cross denominal unity and stronger cooperation in evangelism while urging continued Christian application to social and international issues. It highlights the council’s international justice work, rising peace effort, and calls for a $250 annual Presbyterian contribution as World Conference on Faith and Order dates are set for mid 1927 The subject of Reformation Day Geneva is William Tyndale and the English Bible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Committee On the Federal Council of Churches
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
United States
America
Federal Council
Federal Councils Commission On International Justice
Thes
William Tyndale
Reformation Committee
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Tyndale
Committee On the World Conference On Faith and Order
The
Hague
United States of America
Claims of fraud not supported by evidence in Logan county
Logan County Republicans sought to oust Democrats after the November election. Judge Robert Bland ruled no evidence showed for whom votes were cast, blocking any ballot upset. Key GOP figures Tennis Hatfield, Ira Hager, and J. G. Hunter were plaintiffs. An appeal to the state Supreme Court was likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
W. Va
Logan County
Robert Bland
Tennis Hatfield
Ira P. Hager
J. G. Hunter
Bland
Supreme Court
Local Merchants Plan Regional Call-In Campaign
Readable fragments indicate a coordinated effort among Roanoke Bluefield and nearby cities to call prior to in-person contacts. The item notes involvement of local merchants and a planned regional outreach event. Further details on participants and dates are not provided in the reachable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Roanoke
Picketing of non union mines surges in West Virginia
Fairmont May 22 with new vigor in Harrison and Marion counties. United Mine Workers official says Ven A Bittner to return Monday after visits to Indianapolis and Pittsburg. Contempt charges against Bittner postponed. 138 pickets arrested at Grant Town case set for next Tuesday. Dynamite found at Monongah home. no arrests. No new developments in John Billy Tipple mine burning conspiracy case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Harrison and
Marion Couries
J. L. Studdard
United Mine Workers of America
A. Bittner
Continental Company
Bittner
Lazelle
Fairmontentre
Monongalia
Grant Town
Meredith
New England Fuel and Transportation Company
Showalter
Townsend
Wuld
Willie Kawasich
John C. Riggine
Grand Town
W. Merle Atkins
Rafton
Taylor County
John Billy Tipple
Clarksburg
Gordon Hite
William Ritz
Billy
John Billy
Gordie-Bailey- Fahey
Death of Earl of Ypres Ends Controversial Military Era
The Earl of Ypres, age 77, died in Deal after a relapse from an appendicitis operation. His command of the Old Contemptibles in France and his wartime book 1914 sparked controversy. his death follows a protracted illness and a recent public absence by critics. Viscount French will inherit the title.
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Deal
England
Earl of
Ypres
French
France
Kitchener
Lord Oxford
Herbert H. Asquith
Haig
Jellicoe
John Cowans
David Lloyd George
Great Britain
Viscount French
Royal Artillery
Four Detroit boys killed in Port Huron trip crash
Mount Clemens Mich May 22 four schoolboys were killed and three injured when a car carrying them to a Port Huron baseball game left the road sank into a ditch, hit a tele phone pole and overturned. The dead were all from Detroit: Josep Grantham John Sullivan Vincent Knupfer and George Tracy.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Port Huron
Here
Peter Freuchen
Detroit
Josep Grantham
John Sullivan
Vincent Knupfer
George Tracy
Judge O'Brien Ill Forces Roane County Court Adjournment
Judge W H O'Brien announced in Spencer West Virginia that he would adjourn the Roane county term at the end of the case on trial due to a recurrence of illness after surgery He will return to Richwood and plans a special term on June 22 to hear remaining docketed cases
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Spencer
W. Va
W. H. O'Brien
Roane County
Richwood
Civil War veteran George Adams dies in Fairmont
Fairmont West Virginia May 22 George Adams aged eighty four a Civil War veteran died here this evening He was the father of thirteen children seven of whom survive Mr Adams was the first site commissioner in Fairmont
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Fairmont
W. Va
George Adams
Adams
Cuban Fleas Swarm Over Dead Letter Office
Fleas from Cuba infest a local dead letter office prompting a renovation and fumigation. Inspected address issues led to calling ferocious fumigators to exterminate pests and restore order. The owner of a Cuban clothing shipment remains unfound.
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Cuba
Chicago Banker Is New President
Washington May 22 The new board of directors of the chamber of commerce of the United States elected John W O Leary a Chicago banker as its head to succeed R F Grant The convention adopted resolutions on federal trade commission rules agriculture price volatility in grain US commercial treaty policy support for world court and study of federal taxation It urged protecting business from frivolous private inquiries and favored higher federal judges salaries
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. O'Leary
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Chicago
R. F. Grant
Ot Land
Federal Trade Comisegion
Department of Agriculture
Board of Directors
Mine Worker Officials Hurry to Washington
Wheeling West Virginia May 22 miners officials hurry to Washington after Charles Evans Hughes offered services to United Mine Workers in their fight against the peaceful persuasion injunction in northern Panhandle West Virginia. Included in the party are Henry W Warrum Thomas C Townsend and J D Gardener. Warrum refused to elaborate on Hughes offer while Townsend said no appeal would be made from Judge Baker's decision and the union will await final decision before further action.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Charles Evans Hughes
United Mine Workers
Panhandle
West Virginia
United States
William E. Baker
Washington, D. C
Henry W. Warrum
Indianapolis
United Mine . Workers
Thomas C. Townsend
Charleston
Union
J. D. Gardener
Steubenville
Ohio
Warrum
Hughes
Townsend
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Baker
West Virginia-Pittsburg Coal Company
Dorothy Ellingson Trial Set for June 15
San Francisco May 22 Trial of Dorothy Ellingson a seventeen year old confessed matricide on a charge of first degree murder was set for June 15 by Superior Judge Harold Louderback. The girl pleads not guilty and will stand unless she changes her plea before trial. Her attorneys father Joseph Flit and brother Earl appeared with her in court. She wore a vest for the first time since arrest and appeared thinner since Napa state hospital commitment six weeks ago. She remains in the county jail pending trial.
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San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Harold Louderback
Dorothy
Joseph Flt
Earl
Napa State Hospital
No Headway Made on Settlement of Issue Involving Confession
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America opened with routine business while no progress was made on the literal acceptance of the confession of faith. Overtures moved through channels. modernist fundamentalist disputes stayed with bills and overtures committee. Dr. W O Thompson chaired the committee. plans for cooperation with other denominations and budgets were approved. A movement to depoliticize the moderator election gained traction with proposals to have presbyteries or synods choose a moderator prior to assembly. Recommendations on church cooperation with Congregationalists were held up amid doctrinal lines. Dr. Davis S Kennedy opposed union on grounds of doctrinal and governance differences. Fiscal figures: membership rose 40,000 to 1,870,000. year-end giving totaled $9,722,529, a church record for the second-highest ever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
J. M. Brody
Birmingham
Ala
Hugh Thomas Kerr
Pittsburg
Presbyterian Board of Christian Education
Department of Church Co-Operation and Union
Congregational Church
Davis S. Kennedy
Philadelphia
Lewis Seymour Mudge
Southwestern Virginia Inc to convene in Bluefield meeting
Secretary Tom Wallner of Pulaski outlines the aims of Southwestern Virginia Incorporated as Greater Bluefield hosts the gathering. The program begins at 2 p.m. in the municipal auditorium with speeches by local leaders and a county and city roll call, highlighting regional development, tourism, and infrastructure goals.
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Tom Wallner
Pulaski
Southwestern
Virginia
Greater Bluefield
Southwestern Virginia
Bluefield
Old Dominion
West Virginian
Association
Southwest
Municipal Auditorium
Beaver High School
Sathering
Ee Cheyney
Upfield Chamber of Commerce
Hugh Ike Shott
John Preston McConnell
Rath Bodell
James Elmer Brown
K. C. Patty
Lee Long
Dante
Charles C. Lincoln, Jr
Marion
W. E. Martin
Salling College
Bristol
Bernard McClaugherty
Bland
Giles
Tazewell
Wallner
Southwest Virginia
Ofice
Southestern Virginia, Inc
East Radford
H. L. Bonham
Chilhowie
Clarence W. Ridley
K. E. Harmon
Carroll County
W. Reeves Gardner
Galax
Belva Goad
Hillsville
Giles County
Bernard Mason
Floyd
M. K. Farrier
Wythe County
George A. Lambert
Ay Merete
E. Simmerman
H. H. Bruce
White Gate
P. N Byrd
Grayson County
Palin Cs ‘Jones
Mythe
Flo Court House
Montgomery County
M. Hagan
Christiansburg
Tazewell County
Sem Thompson
Tazever
Jack Ies
Usse Coun
Henry Smith
Elk Garden
Finney
Lebanon
W. Layman
New Castle
Die County
Reb
Chase
Clint
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W. C. Shepherd
Southland Heroes
Lehigh Valley
Southern Assembly
van A. Bittner
Clark Coal and Coompany
Hepzibah
Harrison County
Wilson
Private McDaniels
State Police
Hawkins
Grimes
George Laffelbine
Monongah
Wever
O’brien
Chester
Committee On
W. O. Thompson
William Jennings Bryan
Aunoreds
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