Heiress Wedding Halted by Rector in New York
In New York on June 14 an Episcopal minister refused to wed Andrea Luckenbach, 18, shipping heiress, and William Dobbs, 22, butter and egg salesman. Rev. William Grimes of St. Pauls Episcopal Church Great Neck LI, who was to marry them, said he did not care to unite people of unequal social and financial status and halted the ceremony.
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New York
Andrea Luckenbach
William Dobbs
William Grimes
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Great Neck
L. 1
Grimes
Andrea
Wedding Crisis In Luckenbach Family Affair
Commodore Edgar F Luckenbach a shipping magnate declines to perform the ceremony citing principle. The groom to be's mother Mrs Henry Reston Forest Hills says the wedding will go ahead as scheduled. Luckenbach notes Andrea is too young and she stands to inherit 1 million in three years from Andrea Marie Fenwick Luckenbuch Luckenbach of Toronto.
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Edgar F. Luckenbach
Ecclesiasticz
Henry Reston
Forest Hills
S. 1
Commodore Luckenbach
Andrea
Miss Luckenbach
Andrea Marie Fenwick Luckenbuch
Toronote
Change Racket Conviction Upheld By State Supreme Court
The state supreme court upheld a two year prison sentence for Paulian for confusing a clerk by rapidly passing and returning money and taking extra change at a Taylor county filling station. The ruling also addressed related life insurance and double indemnity disputes arising from an 1938 Bluefield airplane crash. The Dunbar Garden club met with Mrs. Cecil Leffel. Mrs. Hensley reported on the Oak Hill convention.
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State Supreme Court
P. A. Paulian
D. W. Larson
Taylor County
Paulian
Supreme Court
Commercial Casualty Company
Frank A. Chappel
Bluefield
Theourt
Mercer County
Mattie Chappel
Lucy Warner Beveridge
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
Chappel
Beveridge
Dunbar Garden Club
Cecil Leffel
Hensley
Oak Hill
Mesdames
Homer Blizzard
Delbert
Maryland OKs 4,000-Foot Road To Link Westernport
Maryland state roads commission approved a 4,000 foot western Maryland road to connect Westernport and Piedmont along the Potomac. The project aims to reduce hazardous bridges and save about ten minutes of driving time once right of way is secured, with construction possible within days.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Maryland
Luke
West Virginia
Tauke
Allegany County
Westernport
Potomac River
Piedmont
W. Va
J. Glenn Breall
Potomac
Nathan L. Smith
Lake
Beall
Smith
Broadcasting Probe Killed by House Vote in Washington
The House defeated the resolution calling for a sweeping congressional investigation of radio broadcasting. Administration opposition prevailed as the FCC already conducts an inquiry into alleged monopolistic practices in the broadcasting industry.
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Washington
House Tonight
Chmnery
Federal Communications Commission
Officials Debate Fate of Brooke
In Columbus Georgia Maj John R Brooke, accused in his wife’s death at Fort Benning, faces decision to present the case to a federal grand jury now or delay until the fall term. Authorities investigated after Mrs Brooke was found at the foot of stairs with earlier belief of a fall disputed by newly found blood evidence. Brooke remains detained at the army post as details unfold.
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Columbus
John R. Brooke
Brooke
Fort Benning
U. S. Dist. Atty
T. Hoyt Davis
Brooke Quarters
Army Reservation
Brooke held in Muscogee County jail amid family crisis
Maj. Brooke remains in custody at Infantry School Hospital and is lodged in the bull pen with about a dozen other prisoners. His counsel has not sought bail. Jailer W. D. Layfield says Brooke is friendly with cellmates and eats jail meals like cornbread and peas. The Brookes’ three children aged 12, 7, and 9 are cared for by friends.
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Brooke
Muscogee County
W. D. Layfield
Layfield
Brookes
Mayor R. L. Early Reelected in Mullens
Voters in Mullens Wyoming county reelected Mayor R. L. Early to a third term by 20 votes over Democrat Judson Davis and 173 over Citizens candidate W. M. Holroyd. Early ran on the Peoples ticket. Harry Layton and Lewis Bolenya were named commissioners.
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Judson Davis
W. M. Holroyd
Citizens
Early
Peoples
Harry Layton
Lewis Bolenya
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