Mountain Code Triumphs Again Against Teacher
In a Virginia trial, Edith Maxwell receives a 25 year sentence amid courtroom drama. Prosecutors argue ambiguity in the slipper evidence while defense pleads based on human experience. Judge Skeen upholds the verdict, Edith vows to stay near family in jail and looks to the next case with resolve.
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Plena
Bruce
Hhe
Edith Maxwell
Courts of
Virginia
Skeen
Commonwealth
Supreme Court
Edith
Desperta
Second Polygamy Case Moves Toward Sentence
Testimony identifies Buck Lowery as leader and describes Johnson as head of polygamy group at Lee's Ferry Arizona in 1927 1928. The Hull girl joined as Johnson's plural wife after living in the colony. Johnson invokes priesthood defense and claims divine protection. Maximum penalty three years. Spencer conviction appeal planned. He faces sentence Saturday.
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Trater
Buck Lowery
Johnson
Lee's Farry
Ariz
Hull
Lowery
Isvariot
Spencer
City Chooses Census Center in Six District Plan
Four district appointees named Wheeling Morgan Town Clarksburg and Bluefield. Census expands scope to include retail and wholesale trade hotels manufacturing banking and transport. Data to be collected by field and mail canvass with sworn census workers only. Initial state reports due by July 1 1936 with county and city follow ups.
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Joseph P. Mendel
Wheeling
John R. Fortney
Morgantown
Harry RB. Downs
Clarksburg
Albert E. Bivens, Jr
Bluefield
Census Bureau
Coal Miner Denies Infant Murder Claim Amid Trial
Mahan, jailed for murder, protested his innocence claiming he never mistreated his child and expressing grief. He said he and his wife had no domestic trouble, had played with the baby near Jenkins on the Kentucky river, and learned of the charges only after returning from Virginia. He noted he had seen a Jenkins doctor for the ill infant diagnosed as yellow rash.
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Mahan
Jenkins
Kentucky River
Virginia
Ghostly robber prowls Kishinev in white shroud
In Kishinev a thief named Ghost, also called Alexander Usinecov, robs night passers by dressed in a white shroud and a skeleton skull with blue eye lamps. Citizens fear spirits and report ghost activity while authorities plan to use federal agencies to hire staff.
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Kishinev
Rumania
Alexander Usinecov
Kishinew
Ple
Camp Fairchance Tots Write to Santa Claus
Maj. Francis W. Turner notes the Camp Fairchance center rotates residents as re habilitated children leave and new ones arrive. Last year the 40 and 8 organized a Christmas event drawing over 100 Charleston residents, and this year invites more to share the real Christmas joys.
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Santa Claus
Maj
Francis W. Turner
Public Weljfare
Charleston
Chamber Seeks Tax Slashes and Spending Curbs
A national chamber urges tax cuts and spending limits in a referendum to reduce federal, elite, and local expenditures. Seventeen questions probe whether current spending burdens wage and job prospects and seek a coordinated fiscal plan to balance the budget without new taxes.
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Congress
Nations’ Group
Federal role in social reform questions proposed
A historical document outlines debates on emergency relief funding and state versus federal control. It asks whether unemployment relief should be state run with federal advances, if federal spending should end when it competes with private business, and whether federal taxing power should push broad social readjustments.
Gangs Suspected In Liggett Death
Officials suspect crime syndicates tied to the Liggett killing. A similar slaying of Howard Guilford, a weekly newspaper publisher, is linked by rumor to racketeers. Reports note 40 pound cocoanuts found in the Seychelles and Cuban railway receipts up 50 percent.
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Sion
Forestal
Washington
Howard Guilford
Eers
Guilford
Liggett
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