Woman Shot After Car Pursuit On Virginia Road
Police investigate a double slaying after a car rolled down an embankment following a pursuit near Hurley Virginia. Two men were shot and killed and a woman believed drunk and insane was in the vehicle. About $400 was found sewn in a victim’s shirt. Authorities consider a possible fourth assailant and a potential old enemy in Buchanan county.
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Matilda Roberts
Mercer County
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Hurley
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Princeton
Virginia
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Poison plot behind Colleys’ family deaths in Arkansas
Police said Alvin Colley and four family members died after poison was poured into grape juice to stop a blackmail scheme led by a Akron woman. The surviving Clyde Colley in Malvern and attorney Shank denied involvement while prosecutors seek the death penalty.
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Herbert Akers
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Shank Confesses Menaced Colley Family Plot Details
Detectives said Shank admitted planning against Colley and his wife and two children aged 11 and seven, but he did not intend death for the entire family. He stated his focus was on Colley alone.
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Jobs and pay rise sharply in August reports
Washington reports show a significant rise in factory employment and payrolls in July, with employment up 7.2 percent and payrolls 7.9 percent. Relief funding decreased as 3.745 million families were aided in June, down from May and April, described as very encouraging by Hopkins and Roosevelt. The president noted July gains mark a fifth consecutive year-over-year increase and linked improving retail demand for automobiles to broader recovery signals.
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Roosevelt
Labor Department
Emergency Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Woman Held In Torch Death Agreement Reached
Ongoing industry and NRA talks on the open shop provision of the industrial act produced the first modification of the collective bargaining framework. Manufacturers spokesmen accepted a proposal from Robert W. Lea, deputy administrator, reflecting Hugh S. Johnson’s views. Debates persist on steel, coal, and automobiles as officials seek compromises, with talks focusing on a 35-hour week and 48-hour seasonal max in the auto hearings and cost discussions slated for Tuesday.
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Robert W. Lea
Hugh S. Johnson
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Kenneth M. Simpson
Robert Lamont
Iron and Steel Institute
Colorado Springs Kidnap Plot Tied to Waggoner Case
The Post reports Wag goner was picked by a former sheriff for a kidnapping at his summer home in Colorado Springs. Bates traveled to Colorado to study Waggoner’s habits and was arrested by Denver police as a bank robbery suspect. An official audit cites a $17,000 shortage by Williams. The proposed suit mentions no other amount.
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Bates
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Three More Diarrhea Cases Reported in Community
Rosemont Aug 17 three more diarrhea cases are reported in the locality. They are children of James Trimble Harris and Mrs Blanche Davidson. Two cases are convalescent the third is critical. The disease from impure water has already claimed seventeen children's lives in the last two months. Dr R D Brout of Grafton is placing chemicals in wells and springs to check the outbreak.
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R. D. Brout
Grafton
Suit Is Ordered Against Former Preston Sheriff
Kingwood. Aug. 17 The county court ordered Prosecuting Attorney Melvin C. Snyder to bring suit against W. W. Williams ex sheriff of Preston county and the American Surety Company of New York surety on Williams official bond at the November term of circuit court for the deficit or shortage in Williams accounts as discovered.
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Melvin C. Snyder
W. W. Williams
Preston County
American Surety Company of
New York
Williams
Fire destroys country club par ade clubhouse cause of death
Stonington Connecticut August 17 One person died when a fire leveled the Paladal clubhouse at the Stonington Country Club with losses estimated at 200000 Fireman reported Amos Nugent 49 a special patrolman died at Westerly hospital crushed by a falling chimney
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Stonington Country Club
Amos Nugent
Westerly, R. T
Kidnapping Frustrated By Arrests In Texas
Denver reports a federal trap failed to stop a planned kidnapping of Guy Waggoner a Fort Worth oil operator and sportsman The plan was thwarted by the arrests of Albert Bates in Denver and Harvey Bailey in Texas
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Denver Post
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West Virginia seeks funds to stave off special session
Governor Kump negotiates federal and state relief plans to cover an $4 million shortfall while the Roosevelt administration weighs extending aid. Officials in Charleston brace for a possible special legislature session as relief funds run low and county programs begin cutting back. James Figg, noted English prizefighter, mentioned.
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Hopking
Hopkins
Charleston
White House
Roosevelt
West Virginia
State House
Francis W. Turner
Welfare
Trial testimony ties man to slaying plan in deputy case
Aug 17 Ripley West Virginia description recounts Henry Cano 26 on murder trial offering to join a trip that aimed to free Ralph Harper and deputy Roy Shamblin after a pistol battle near Kenna. Sister Mary James testified Cano told Charles Harper he would join to free his brother.
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Henry Cana
Roy Shamblir
Farah Harper
Mary James
Charleston
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Ralph Harper
George Dudley
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Cano
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Washington license applicants fail rate cited
About 15 percent of drivers seeking a state operator license in Washington do not pass. Professor John F. Worley of the University of Michigan notes experiments with self-moving autos in English roadways as early as 1825.
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John &. Worley
University of Michigan
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