Chemist Back to Face Jury for Slaying
Arthur Wilson, 29, a Cleveland chemist, was brought back to the United States aboard the Panama liner to answer murder charges in the desert slaying of Irene de Bolt near Van Horn Texas nine months ago. He admitted his identity, used the name Robert Jones, and was identified aboard the Trinidad port to Port-of-Spain capture. He will be taken to El Paso for trial alongside charges that include the murder of a thirty year old jeverand matron. He expressed a desire to contact his mother in Akron Ohio and smiled while answering questions.
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New York
Arthur Wilson
Cleveland Steel
United States
Pan America
Irene de Bolt
Desert
van Horn
Texas
Young Wilson
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad
Lady Newson
Robert Jones
Wilson
el Paso
Tex
Jeverand
Guerit Anderson
Vathnt
Roy D. Jackson
Fl Paso
Truck driver tales in sleeplike illness from Ohio
Donald Campbell a 32 year old truck driver from Columbus suffers eleven days of talking sickness with incoherent speech and alternating mood. He lies at his father Blain Campbell’s Edison Ohio home watched by his wife and daughter as doctors warn a crisis may come later in the week or two.
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Mt. Gilead
Donald Campbell
Columbus, O
Blain Campbell
Edison
Here
Campbell
C. S. Jackson
Bus Drivers Strike Keeps Chicago Transit Moving
Chicago on August 16 saw police guard 300 workers as union drivers at Chicago Motor Coach Company walked out. Buses departed from the garage with escort from two motorcycle officers. pickets watched but disorder was not evident. In New York, the United Textile Workers threaten a general strike across the cotton textile industry if collective bargaining is not assured.
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Chicago
New York
United Textile Workers of America
National Industrial Recovery Act
South
First National Bank Abets Home Renovation Loans
New York August 16 The American Bankers Association announces one liaison officer per state to coordinate with the federal housing administration for the housing repair and modernization program. Banks including Bluefield Bluefield Bank and Loan Association Flattop National Bank of Bluefield Empire National Bank First National Bank of Grafton Parkersburg National Bank will handle loans under government regulation. Jay Fleming of First National Bank confirms local approval to finance repairs and improvements under the national housing act
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New York
Federal Housing Administration
American Bankers’ Association
Robert V. Fleming
West Virginia
Bluefield
Bluefield Bank and Loan Association
Flattop National Bank of Bluefield
Clarksburg
Empire National Bank
Grafton
First National Bank of
Parkersburg
Parkersburg National Bank
Jay Fleming
First’ National Bank
Ferry Boat Disaster Drowns 170 in India
Patna Aug 16 170 people drown when a ferry overturned in Darihara midstream amid panicked passengers and frightened bullocks. About 200 aboard, 30 rescued including an old lady clinging to a bundle of baggage. animals’ panic blamed for the catastrophe.
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Patna
India
Darihara
Miss Britton Breaks Ankle After Fall Near Wall
Miss Madeline Britton fell over a stone wall last evening and suffered a bad fracture of the right leg just above the ankle. She was rushed to City Hospital where an x ray was taken. Dr. Paul Warden was in charge and she was later returned home on Washington Street.
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Madeline Britton
City Hospital
Paul Warden
Washington Street
Finch Chosen Director Of Bureau Of Mines
President Roosevelt appoints John Wellington Finch of Idaho as director of the Bureau of Mines in Washington. Finch will oversee mining policy, safety standards, and resource development at the federal agency. Continuous service is expected to influence national mineral programs and labor safety practices.
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Finch
Washington
Roosvelt
John Wellington Finch
Idaho
Bureau of Mines
Virginia Moonshiner Shot Down By Posse of Officers
Two Nelson county mountaineers Lowell Massie age 23 and Roland Earl Allen age 21 were wounded and arrested after officers shot at them while fleeing a Piney river cabin in Lynchburg Virginia. Authorities say the pair are wanted in Salisbury North Carolina in connection with the slaying of Will Reeves the prosperous farmer last Thursday. Five officers from state and city forces surrounded the cabin after information placed the suspects at a card game. The men were wounded and captured amid an ambush as dawn broke.
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Lynchburg
Nelson County
Piney River
Lowell Massie
Roland Earl Allen
Salisbury
N. C
Will Reeves
Schools Start September 3 in Taylor County
The Taylor County board of education fixed September 3 as the opening day for all county schools. Assistant Superintendent E. G. Kuhn announced the nine month term ends May 31 and noted a three room addition at Grafton High School should be ready for the start. Janitors for each school were named at a board meeting and bus drivers were hired for the term.
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Board of Education
Taylor County
E. G. Kuhn
Grafton High School
Kuhn
Astor
James Justice
Blueville
Emory Henderson
Entral
City
B. M. Patterson
Central Flemington
Grace Deering
College Hill
Flemington
Mollie Marks
East Grafton
Eva Page
First Ward
A. E. Moran
Lucretia
Ollie Moore
Rosemont
Louisa Carder
Thornton
W. B. Butcher
Simpson
0. R. Reed
Webster
L.B. Shaffer
Flemington High School
Drunken row leads to miner shot and arrest in Philippi
In Philippi last night a drunken altercation at Century No 2 left W Staunson Munday shot in the abdomen by Ben Payne a 40 year old miner now in Barbour county jail. Munday in satisfactory condition and Payne accused of firing after insults. The incident spilled from Philippi to nearby towns with several men intoxicated at the time.
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Philippi
Buckhannon
Barbour County
Century No. 2
Ben Payne
Miner
W. Staun
Munday
James Rusmisell
Buckhannon City Hospital
Payne
Drought Ends as Rain Hits Central West Virginia Section
Central West Virginia was drenched by the year's heaviest rainfall with widespread damage. Crops suffered, roads washed out, and a bridge report remained unconfirmed as the Tygart Valley river rose rapidly. Local sewers overflowed and traffic halted for hours while utilities noted minor line damage.
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West Virginia
Knottsville
Brookside
Pruntytown
S. K. White
Booth’s Creek
J. W. Ault
West Penn
Cing Street
Flemington
Tygart Valley
Tygart's
Carr China Company
Kanawha County GOP Chief L. C. Massey Dies
L C Massey, 56, longtime Kanawha County Republican leader and former sheriff, died at his South Charleston home after months of illness. A Raleigh County native born at Dry Creek in 1878, he served in the House of Delegates from 1906 and was Kanawha county clerk before becoming sheriff. He headed his ticket in the Aug 7 primary while seeking another House seat.
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Charleston
L.C. Massey
Kanawha County
South Charleston
Massey
House of Delegates
Raleigh County
Dry Creek
Junio
Kanawha Oneh
One Big Union plans mass meeting on FERA relief
An 8 oclock tomorrow evening meeting at the courthouse called by One Big Union, a FERA workers group, seeks ways to boost relief work allotments. A rival group, the Taylor County Council of Unemployed, invites relief roll members to a Saturday gathering in the circuit court room to discuss relief and salaries amid ongoing protests over staff administration.
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One Big
Fera | S
Taylor County Council of Unemployed
Circuit Court Room
Union Committee
the Sentinel
Howard H. Holt
Sentinel
Grafton
W. Va
Grafton Sentinel
Drunken Driver Hits Children Near Youngstown Kills Four
Near Youngstown Ohio last night Floyd Crossley 38 drunk driver struck a group of five children walking along a highway. Four children died two pairs of sisters Nancy and Louise Lindsay ages three and eight Bernice and Dolores Uber ages five and six. Crossley held on intoxication charge after police surgeon reported intoxication. One child was carried almost a mile on the car bumper before stopping.
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Youngstown
Floyd Crossley
Nancy
Louise Lindsay
Bernice
Dolores Uber
Crossley
Chicago Gangsters Pull Five gunmen Kill Tanner
Five gunmen in Chicago disguised as police pulled Frank Tanner from a car in August and shot him dead, a friend and two girls present as witnesses. Police link the murder to the prior slaying of Jerry Pilot, former liquor dealer. Leonard Tyler leaves Flemington to join Kellerman Clothing in Fairmont.
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Chicago
Frank Tonner
Tonner
Tanner
Jerry Pilot
Leonard Tyler
Flemington
Fairmont
Kellerman Clothing Company
Payments for Pensions Ordered Paid
Washington reports the Railway Retirement Board ordered all class one railroads to immediately pay one tenth of one percent of July payrolls to the U S treasury to fund the railroad pension law. The $125000 assessment is due by August 25. The order followed a denial of a temporary injunction by Justice Proctor.
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Washington
Railway Retirement Board
United States Treasury
Rrailroads
Proctor
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Italy withdraws troops from Austrian frontier
Rome reports Italy ordered the withdrawal of about 48,000 troops concentrated on the Austrian border after the late month Austrian Nazi putsch. Several regiments began moving south from the frontier this morning toward their regular camps 25 to 50 miles away.
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Rome
Italy
Rush Holt Seeks West Virginia Victory After Roosevelt Talk
Rush D. Holt, Democratic Senate hopeful in West Virginia, had a brief conference with President Roosevelt in the White House. Holt said the President inspired him to return home and campaign harder, expressing total support and confidence in a Democratic win to succeed Hatfield. He praised Roosevelt’s personal qualities and noted plans to continue campaigning. Continued on page four.
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Washington
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia
White House
Roosevelt
Ni Ee
Senate
Hatfield
Holt
T Wadie
James A. Far
Detroit detectives hunt Labatt kidnapping in Ontario brewing family
Toronto reports that John S. Labatt, a London Ontario brewer, is kidnapped for a 150000 ransom. Hugh Labatt, his brother, arranged calls and ransom readiness as three Toronto detectives pursue the case in Detroit, where a local police official confirms a link to the kidnapping.
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Toronto
John S. Labatt
Brewer
Hugh
London
Rendevous
Hugh Labatt
Labbatt
Miller
Ontario Police
Gurnegg
Hunt
Detroit
John 8
Labatt
Ontario
Many Called to Stand in Murder Trial in Cooperstown
In Cooperstown on August 16, more than twenty witnesses testified for the state against Eva Coe in a murder trial over the killing of her odd-job man Harry Wright for insurance. Key witness Martha Clift, fired by Coe and herself indicted, may provide crucial testimony. prosecutors hint at possible immunity deals as anticipation grows over whether Clift will implicate Coe.
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Charles Emlang
Cooperstown
Eva Coo
Harry Wright
Martha Clift
Coe
Wright
Donald Grant
Mrs. Clift
Atate
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Rush Holt
James Farley
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