Open Hearings on Gas Rate Increase in Morgantown
The Public Service Commission began hearings on Monongahela West Penn Service Company’s request to raise gas rates in Morgantown and nearby areas. Protestants seek a 90 day postponement to prepare objections while company witnesses discuss earnings, improvements, and gas consumption in the district.
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West Penn
Morgantown
Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
Monongahela
Harr
G. W. Harr
Fairmont
Glasscock
Compromise Hopes Seen At Meeting
The Hague reports indicate France Belgium and Italy plan proposals to aid Britain under Young plan terms. Proposals aim to secure compensation for sacrifices tied to reparations while seeking to avert conference collapse and possibly adjourn to Beil September. Rena Goodwin departed last night for Philadelphia and New York for a month.
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the Hague
France
Belgium
Italy
Philip Snowden
Henri Jaspar
Louis Locheur
Great Britain
Snowdon
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Aristide Briand
Ramsay MacDonald
Belgia
Rhineland
Rena Goodwin
National Limited
Philadelphia
New York
Burl Lambert Believed Victim Of Foul Play
Burl Lambert shot and left at City Hospital with a fractured skull, broken arm, and serious wounds after an altercation near Crow's Nest on Welly Hill. He was unconscious and deteriorating. investigation traced to a Mason car and a man who offered to return to the scene. Authorities move Lambert to his sister’s home then back to the hospital for potential operation as effort to locate the assailants continues.
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Burl Lambert
A.M. Campbell
Campbell
Suddarth
Lamberts
Homer Selvey
C. E. Siman
Bartlett
Taylor County
J. Mays
A. R.warden
Warden
Lambert
Mays
Slater
West Main Street
Sauldarth
War- Jaen
Shatter
Negro charged with slaying in Greenville incident
Blair Rock, a Black man, is jailed on a charge of shooting Sheriff Sams D. Willis in June 1927. He reportedly killed Willis after promised $500 by two white men, who kept notes. Sheriff Bramlett hinted more arrests and named a prominent public figure among the suspects. Willis’s wife and Chief Deputy Townsend were later tried and acquitted.
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Greenville
Ucp
Blair Rock
Negro
Sams D. Wills
Sherif Clif Bramlett
Willis
Henry Townsend
Wil-lis
Two Harrison county arrests tied to Kelly Hill roadhouse fight
A serious dawn fight at the Kelly Hill roadhouse near Clarksburg left a man named Lambert badly wounded. Harrison county authorities arrested Mike Muncie and Levi Lorenzo, with Prose cuting Attorney Holt coordinating the inquiry. Sheriff W J Mays noted Lambert's midnight sighting at Curry's place and two men were present earlier.
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Curry's
Lambert
C Mason
Curry’s Place
W. J. Mays
Grafton
Billy
Taylor County
Holt
Harrison County
Mike Muncie
Levi Lorenzo
Clarksburg
Crow's Nest
Carl Mason
Coffman
Wynona
Valley Falls
Kelly Hill
James C Holt
H. K. Debendorfer
H. J. Reid
W. S
Tressler Arraigned On Charge Of Assault
Browntown coal operator B Tressler faced arraignment before Magistrate John L Wittman on a preliminary hearing for an alleged assault on his 17 year old office girl on August 4 along the Flemington Bridgeport highway In Grafton the girl and her father say he staged the attack after taking her to Weston then returning to Clarksburg the mother was told and a warrant issued Prosecuting Attorney James C Holt will prosecute the state with Talbott and Talbott and the girl will be represented by Gene W Ford as assistant state counsel
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B. Tressler
Browntown
Flemington Bridgeport
John L. Wittman
Tressler
Weston
Clarksburg
Grafton
Hotel Grafton
James C. Holt
Talbott
Gene W. Ford
Lindberghs Visit Cleveland Home of Grandmother
Mrs. Lindbergh and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh visited Cleveland today at the home of Mrs. Charis Cutter, grandmother of Mrs. Lindbergh. The couple arrived unexpectedly yesterday, catching Major John Berry, airport commander, by surprise.
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Cleveland
Colounel
Aries A. Lindbergh
Trial Nears End In Dr Snook Theora Hix Murder Case
Columbus Aug. 13 Judge Scarlett overruled a defense motion for acquittal in the first degree murder trial of Dr James H Snook charged with killing Theora Hix The defense contends the state failed to prove means of death and relies on the coroner's testimony Dr Snook admits describing the throat cutting in a confession but says he cannot recall severing the jugular vein The state closes rebuttal with jurors likely to decide tomorrow Based on police testimony Chief Harry French denies Dr Snook admitted as alleged in his confession
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Columbus
Henry L. Scarlett
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
E. 0
Ricketts
Joseph’. Murphy
Harry French
Columbus Police Department
Snook
J. M. Dunn
Ohio State
Miss Hix
Dunn
John J. Chester, Jr
French
John F. Seidel
Chester
Freneh
Edgar M. Freese
Ohio State University
Henry le Scarlett
Snooks
R. O. Brown
Snook Trial Nears Verdict In Slaying Case
The James H. Snook murder trial nears its end as rebuttal testimony wraps up. Prosecutors reiterate the confession's admission of slitting Theora Hix's throat after beating her, while the defense contends the statement was obtained under duress and that Chester dictated parts of the confession.
Endurance Run of Train Ends in Kansas City
Kansas City August 13 The St Louis and San Francisco locomotive No 4113 world endurance record holder ends a 25 day 7450 mile freight run from Kansas City to Birmingham Alabama The engine under federal inspection rules would have continued but is halted by a 30 day shop rule It weighed 560000 pounds and consumed 1500000 gallons of water 975 tons of coal and pulled 13780749 gross tons of freight
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Kansas City
St. Louis
San Francisco
Birmingham
Ala
United States Department of Commerce
Carrier Pigeon Run Over By Automobile
A wandering carrier pigeon labeled 1883 W. 8. C. 28 was killed Sunday near 1029 West Main Street. Identified only by a clipped left wing and a rubber band without a note, the bird was later recognized as belonging to another flock by Superintendent A. L. Lockhard of Roads after an automobile struck it.
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A. 5
Lockhard
West Main Street
Winds and Forest Fires Stalk Northwest Regions
High winds and low humidity spur renewed forest fires across the northwest. Old and extinguished blazes flare again while many new fires are reported in Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and parts of Canada. Conflicts and rapid spread threaten thousands of acres of forest land.
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Spokane
Wash
Northwest
Canada
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Former Grafton Woman Esther Klein Dies in Manila
Esther Louise Klein 36, a nurse at the U S naval hospital Cavite, was found dead August 5 in a Manila house. Authorities cite possible suicide. Navy ordered death investigation amid murder-suspect reports. Klein, born Grafton West Virginia October 21 1893, served in Army and Navy nurse corps and reported to Canacao Hospital in 1928. Several Klein relatives survive in New York Cleveland Baltimore and Belington.
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Esther
Louise Klein
United States Naval Hospital
Cavite
Miss Klein
Grafton
W. Va
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
Navy Nurse Corps
Army Nurse Corps
Naval Hospital
Canacao P. I
Washington
Charles B. Riges
Esther Louise Klein
Philippines
Ephram
Eph) Klein
Mr. Klein
Baltimore
Klein
A. Nusb
Youngstown
Ohio
Messrs
I. C. Klein
New York
Abe Klein
Lazarus
Belington
Navy Department
The
Sentinel
Miss Ray Klein
Shanghai
China
Hoover not visiting Mexico soon says White House
President Hoover has no plans to visit Mexico in December though he hopes to visit later. He is expected to attend events in Cincinnati in October for the Ohio River improvement celebration and then travel by river steamer to Louisville. Doubt remains on trips to Memphis New Orleans and Texas. Indictments returned against Arago Vinle in New York for using Senator Borah's name to promote the Franklin Plan National Bank.
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Washington
Hoover
Mexico
White House
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Louisville
Memphis
New Orleans
Texas
New York
William B. Borah
Idaho
Arago
Vinle
Franklin Plan National Bank
Erand Intceny
Ford Will Aid In Disposing of Cars
New York August 13 Henry Ford, chosen as the man most responsible, was asked by Borough President Harvey of Queens to help solve the problem of disposing of abandoned cars. Harvey fears the growing nuisance of derelict vehicles will strain national resources as it contaminates streets and vacant lots, many of them Ford automobiles.
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New York
Henry Ford
Harvey
Queens
Ford
Negro Woman Pleads Guilty After Home Raid
Grace Beane aka egress pleaded guilty before Magistrate John L. Wittman to a charge after officers found home brew at Isaac Walker house on High Street. A $50 fine plus costs was imposed. She was arrested by State Troopers Debendorfer and Reid and briefly escaped through a rear window while being taken to Taylor county jail.
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Grace Beane
Isaac Walker
High Street
John L. Wittman
H. K. Debendorfer
H. J. Reid
Taylor County
Robbers Loot Imperial Ice Cream Plant For 150 Dollars
State Troopers investigated a break in at the Imperial Ice Cream company plant on the West Side where a safe was pried and about 150 dollars in cash disappeared. Thieves entered through a roof window, escaped by a rear door, leaving loose papers and damaged safe. Fingerprints were photographed as investigators seek clues, with possible links to similar robberies in Shinnston.
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Imperial Ice Cream Company
West Side
H. K. Debendarter
Debendarfer
C. H. Robinson
Robinson
Uleayer
Debendorfer
H. J. Reed
Shinnstow
Beieve
Shinnton
Lost in Blizzard Trapper Frozen to Death Near Bathurst Inlet
Edmonton reports a trapper named Ivan McKay Christe from Bathwrat inlet died in a June blizzard. A husky dog was found alive by searchers.
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Edmonton
Alta
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