Denial of Grand School Expansion Story Led by Newsrooms
Superintendent Lloyd Shriver denounced a recent out of town newspaper report as false and said the county unit board contemplates no new high school, home for superintendent, or extensive grounds project this year or next. He stated no board or official disclosed such plans and the item appeared as fabrication.
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Board of Education
Lloyd Shriver
County Unit Board of Education
Newigh
Shrier
Two Newsmen Win Victory in Kentucky
Danville Kentucky August 3 two young newspaper men Jack Forman and Wesley Carty prevailed in a fight over whether journalists can be forced to break confidences. After 11 trials they stood firm delaying jail until the judge fined four other men for breach of the peace and ended the inquiry into the hanging of Representative J Sterling Towles.
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Danville
Jack Fournam
Wesley Carty
W. A. Harlan
Harlan
J. Sterling Towlese
All Sumer
Towles
Court House Yard
Plan to Extradite Ivan Poderjay to New York
New York on Aug 3 District Attorney William C Dodge asked Governor Lehman to request the state department to arrange detention with a view to extradition of Ivan Poderjay husband of the missing Agnes Turver son being held in Vienna A New York county grand jury returned an indictment charging perjury against Poderjay regarding a marriage license filed December 4 prior to his marriage to Miss Tufverson
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New York
William C. Dodge
Lehman
State Department
Ivan Poderjay
Agnes Turverson
Vienna
New York County
Poderjag
Miss Tufverson
Judges Fight Over Who Will Conduct Case
Los Angeles August third. A clash between two Superior Court judges over alleged misconduct triggered a legal tangle that clouded the murder case of Louis R. Payne, 21, who killed his mother and brother. Judge Sewell ordered mistrial after being removed from the Payne proceeding, then Bowron and Schmidt intervened, directing removal of Payne, the jury, and records to another court as testimony resumed. Unresolved questions of law lingered as the episode unfolded.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Louis R. Payne
Frank C. Collier
Harry F. Sewell
Payne
Ruben S. Schmidt
Fletcher Bowron
Sewell
Collier
Bowron
Governor Demands Immediate Truckers Settlement
Minneapolis August 3 Governor Floyd B Olson calls for an immediate end to the truck drivers strike. He warns the National Guard may tighten vehicle movement and use drastic action against forcible picketing if a settlement is not reached today.
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Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
National Guard
Employers Advisory Committee
Germany Faces Uncertain Future Under Hitler Rule
Germany mourns President Von Hindenburg as Adolf Hitler consolidates power. A July plebiscite appears to rubber stamp Hitler’s elevation, while Nazi support grows. Europe fears belligerence and shifts in policy amid reports of Czech troops on alert and alarm in Rome and London. Pope Pius XI joins concerns as Mussolini watches.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Europe
London
Adolph Hitler
Pius XI
Mussolini
Ramsay to Give Speech Here Saturday Afternoon
Political supporters of Rep. Robert L. Ramsay prepare for his Saturday court house speech reviewing his congressional record and New Deal measures. Ramsay aims for renomination at the forthcoming primary and will end his campaign Monday night in Wellsburg.
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Robert L. Ramsay
National Congress
Court House
Chester Proudfoot
Congressional Committee
Ramsay
Wellsburg
Relative Of Local People To Hold First Mass In U S
Rev. Robert Goshorn, kin of many Grafton residents, will celebrate his first solemn high mass in the United States at 10 30 Sunday morning at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Wheeling. Miss Agnes Flanagan leaves for Wheeling to attend and partake in the 1245 p m breakfast with relatives. Goshorn, ordained in Rome, has studied for the priesthood there and is linked to a prominent Grafton family descended from the late Mr and Mrs Michael scenes who settled in early times.
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Robert Goshorn
Grafton
United States
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Wheeling
Agnes Flanagan
Home
Rome
Father Goshorn
Italy
Michael Scenes
Vocational Classes May Be Held Here
A survey in Grafton by State Supervisor Nelson and Howard K. Hogan explored night vocational schooling under federal guidance. They will use a local school building and push classes in shop mathematics and blueprint study to benefit workers.
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Grafton
Nelson
Howard K. Hogan
State Department of Educa ‘Tion
Urge Petition For Bridge To Span Tygarts Valley
District Road Engineer McEnteer visited the city to study building a bridge across the Tygarts Valley near Grafton park. The plan would connect Parkview road with the west river road, replacing the swinging foot bridge at the Carr China plant.
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McEnteer
Clarksburg
Tygarts Valley
Grafton Park
Parkview Road
Carr China Company
Johnson Says NRA Protects Small Feller
Chicago August 3 Gen Hugh S Johnson pledged NRA power to preserve small business while warning mass distribution may supplant independents. He denied price fixing but said codes must not exploit labor or public, and urged protecting decency in profits amid potential industry consolidation. He criticized a ten percent “merits” fringe as harmful to honest competition.
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Chicago
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Recovery Administration
Johnson
Morgan County Park Planned by Government in West Virginia
Elkins August 4. Plans for a new park about 14 miles long and 4300 acres in Morgan County are announced by Rep Jennings Randolph. Roughly 260 CCC workers will start around October 1 to develop the park in the skyline woods between Berkeley Springs and Fort Ridge. Expenditures will be funded by the emergency conservation workers fund. Options on park land are being taken. The park will be known as Cacaton.
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Elkins
Morgan County
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
Civilian Conservation Corps
Berkeley Springs
Fort Ridge
Emergency Conservation Workers Fund
Terra Alta Banker Named to State Board of Control
Merrilly D. Carrico Republican of Terra Alta was named by Governor Kump to the state board of control. The appointment is effective immediately and Carrico will assume duties today. The vacancy stemmed from the senate's March refusal to confirm A Spates Brady of Elkins, who had served as board president.
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Charleston
Merrilly D. Carrico
Terra Alta
House of Delegates
State Board of Control
H. G. Kump
Carrico
State Senate
A. Spates Brady
Elkins
Adjutant Refuses to De mobilize Soldiers on Court Order
New Orleans August 3 Surrounded by the mobilized national guard at Jackson Barracks Adjutant General Raymond H Fleming refused a civil district court order for dismissal of troops directing officers to fortify their positions Sentries denied the civil sheriff access to the commander of the state militia and Fleming said I shall carry out the governors orders I have given my officers orders to fortify their positions Reinforcements were rushed to the garrison as a court command sought to disband guardsmen in the factional dispute between Huey Long and Mayor Walmsley Continued on page Sy
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New Orleans
National Guard
Jackson Barracks
Raymond H. Fleming
Fleming
Tong
Huey Long
T. Semmes, Walmaley
Long
Sen. ‘Long
National Guards
Bullets Fly as Vote War Is Finished in Tennessee
Nashville reports a violent election day with three deaths amid Democratic renomination of Governor Hill McAlister and Senator K D McKellar. McAlister defeated Lewis Pope while McKellar bested Dr John R Neal. Casualties include John Tallent Beecher Phillips deputy sheriff and Guy Sutherland in Madisonville Anderson County Pikeville. Memphis landslide aided McAlister. continued on page five. Correction note for Philippi horse sale date fixed by editor Harry Huff.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Hill McAllister
K. D. McKellar
McAlister
Lewis S. Pope
McKellar
John R. Neal
Senate
John Tallent
Madisonville
Beecher Phillips
Anderson County
Guy Sutherlan
Pikesville
Memphis
Pope
United States
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C. K. Allen
Beck Flays
New Deal
Calvin Coolidge
Education Department
Pennsylvania
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Pres. Coolidge
Democratic Rally
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