Fleeing Gang Crashes in Shootout Across the State
After a two hour wait the trio arrived and faced officers who ordered surrender. The suspects leapt from a car and were met with machine gun fire as a posse pursued. One man escaped amid chaos. a farm house yielded ammunition and weapons. Authorities intensified the drive against crime and kidnapping with major arrests and trials underway in Chicago and other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Wright
Isa
LO Justele Thdée
Chicago
Neng Tus
Texas
Miners plan strike and relief moves unfold
Bombs held in readiness as miners plan to picket collieries and march on Alliance mine in Schuylkill Valley. A strike call and pressure on officials follow. Separate items note U S relief grants to West Virginia and unemployment relief, plus a Senate claim about a Dawes loan and bank dividends in West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Gibison
Regoluion
Interon
United Workers of America
Alliance Collery
Schuykill Valley
Two Shot Fracas in Cuba Ties to Machado Rule
After his arrest on crimes under the Machado regime, a man fired at a crowd fatally wounding Herrero and injuring two others. Jose Del Valle, brother-in-law to Ainearrt, was captured after a rooftop chase. Aquilino Lombard, a black congressman, was nabbed near Perico, Mantanzas, allegedly linked to political killings. Manuel Marquez Sterling, ex-ambassador to Mexico, accepts U S envoy post from Washington. Sumner Welles met with Cuba treasury secretary Aga Martinez Saenz on trade. Cuban firms resisting taxes under Machado pledge policy shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Machado
Herrero
Jose del Valle
Porrista
Ainearrt
Aquilino Lombard
Perico
Mantanzas
Manuel Marquez Sterling
Washington
United States
Mexico
Sumner Welles
Cuba
Treasury
Aga i Martinez Saenz
Philippi Council Reduces City Levy
Philippi officials meet to confirm a revised city levy after two weeks of discussion. The session reduces the proposed levy from 24 to 25 cents, finalizing at 21 to 42 cents depending on the option considered, with multiple figures debated and approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippi Council
Philippi
Cotton Field Chorus Reflects Drought and Hope
Excerpted lines describe Mississippi bayous under drought. Singers pray for sunshine while laborers cope with mites and grumbling plowmen. References to old songs like Swing Low and Jordan echo faith as they face an uncertain harvest and eventual homeward journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
Jordan
Canaan
Fair and Happy Land
Three Banks to Pay Dividends Across Three Towns
The state banking department announced dividends totaling 80 500 will be paid Aug 26 and Sep 1 to depositors of three closed state banks at Jane Lew Clarksburg and Parkersburg. A 10 percent payment amounting to 25 000 will be paid Aug 26 to depositors of the banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Bank of
Jane Lew
Farmers Bank of
Clarksburg
Central Bank and Trust Company of
Parkersburg
Charleston
State Banking Department
Hit and run driver arrested after fatal Red Rock wagon crash
Donald LaRue was captured by state troopers from Kingwood assisted by local police and charged with causing a fatal crash Monday near Red Rock in Preston County. Mrs Ada Howdersheldt, 40, was thrown from the spring wagon and died. LaRue denies driving the car. He was taken to Kingwood for custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald LaRue
Kingwood
Red Rock
Preston County
Ada Howdershelt
Howdersheldt
LaRue
Gandhi Starts Fatal Fast To Gain Objective In India
Poona Indiana Aug 18 The Mahatma Gandhi refused his evening meal and began a new fast Haig a legislative council member said secrecy surrounds the mile leader in Yeroda with uncertainty whether he abandoned the death fast as announced last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poona
Indiana
Mahatma Gandhi
H. G. Haig
Legislative Council
Yeroda
Machado Family Plans Philadelphia Home Move
Daniel Crawford Jr, manager of the hotel housing fugitive Cuban ex president Machado's family, said Machado in a Nassau Bahamas call advised he intends to move to Philadelphia to make a permanent home nearby. Crawford noted Machado asked his family to stay in Philadelphia, saying they are safe there, and that he will try to join them soon.
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Philadelphia
Daniel Crawford
Machado
Cuba
Nassau
Bahamas
Crawford
Three Girls Drown When Raft Upsets
Ossining Aug 18 Three men died in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison last night in atonement for as many murders. The triple execution began at 10 04 p m EST and was completed a 4 minutes. piee first 3 P filled by 3 th were con on a aah tt slaying two men in an Astoria Long Islands restaurant holdup. Witherell 2 was found guilty of killing his father because the latter refused to lend him money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ossining
Sing Sing
Medalie Says Gangs Linked With Politics
New York reports a possible NY county grand jury investigation into sensational charges by United States Attorney George Z. Medalie alleging political leaders are influenced by racketeers. Foremen presented the claims to juries who were accused of wielding great power by General Sessions Judge William Allen. Medalie offered to name the leaders if the juries request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York County
United States
George Z. Medalie
Senate
General Sessions
William Allen
Medalie
Acquitted Widow Faces Censorship Hurdle in Boston
Jessie B. Costello, acquitted of murdering her husband by a Salem jury, cannot perform before a Boston audience until the city censorship board reviews the case. Mayor James M. Curley suggested she must wait if she accepts vaudeville contracts.
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Boston
Jessie B. Costello
Salem
Board of Censorship
James M. Curley
Roosevelt Censorship Clash and Oil Code Debate
The article traces a censorship ban on Mrs Costello by Boston authorities and notes Deputy Administrator Simp son delaying a meeting. It then covers oil industry reactions to the Roosevelt administration oil code, with Johnson reporting likely submission to the President amid objections from petroleum leaders seeking price controls and a single trade code without an open shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
White House
West Virginia Ship Wins Navy Pennant
Washington reports the battleship West Virginia has won the battle efficiency pennant for the year. Secretary Swanson announced the ship is commanded by Captain Walter S. Anderson of Carlinville Illinois and is stationed on the Pacific coast. Lieutenant Commander T DeWitt Carr of Huntington West Virginia leads its engineering department which won the engineering trophy.
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Washington
West Virginia
Swanson
Walter S. Anderson
Carlinville
Nen
Pacific Coast
T. DeWitt Carr
Huntington
Proposals for Air Mail Use by Government Agencies
A Roosevelt directed bulletin urged agency heads to route all but urgent messages via air mail, aiming to speed government communications. The note cites Wyoming Governor Miller's complaint about lengthy N. R. A. telegrams on milk codes and siting in Knoxgills Tennessee, highlighting dispatch burden.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Executive Council
L. A. Miller
Wyoming
New Orleans
Knoxgills
Tenn
Bivalin Ley I Confirmed At Meet
Belington and Philippi school districts approve education levies with specific rates on property valuation for teachers funds maintenance and building costs. In Uniontown, a drowning occurred at Gorley's Lake as 21 year old William Rice, an automobile mechanic, fell from a boat and drowned. life guards recovered his body twenty minutes later.
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County Rd of Education
Belington
Philippi
Uniontown
Gorley's Lake
William Rice
Nationwide code hearings set on open shop line
A committee of five under the emergency national committee of 54 urged the White House to approve a single industry code for automakers without open shop exemptions. President Roosevelt pressed coal operators to drop open shop while briefing Johnson on a unified code for the entire industry. Kenneth M. Simpson prepares a substitute code aimed at aligning with union positions, with regional wage differentials and autonomy for southern and western districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth M. Simpson
Steel” Née
Johnson
Goverment
Donald Richberg
Recovery Administration
Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Hugh
Simpson
United Mine Workers of America
Alabama
Te Charles, O'Neill
New York
Peale, Peacock and Kerr
Doh
Dp. Morrow
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
James D. Francis
Huntington
W. Va
Appalachian Coals, Inc
R. E. Taggart
Philadelphia
General Coal Company
Coal Producers’ Association of Western Pennsylvania
Hugh 8. Johnson
Plan To Test Missouri Vote On Prohibition
Aug 18 report from St Louis states dry leaders plan a legal challenge to Missouri's repeal vote. Mrs Nellie G Burger W C T U president says the Weeks bill creates ballot machinery in violation of state election laws. Supreme Court action was indicated as possible to test validity of the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Missouri
United States Supreme Court
General Ciry
Washington
Nellie G. Burger
Burger
Springfield
Dr Littlejohn Nominated As County Health Officer
Kingwood August 18 Preston county court has nominated and asks the public health council to approve Dr David Littlejohn for county health officer. Dr L R Davies who led the department resigned due to lack of papers but remains with the health department in a non official capacity. Health nurses Miss Bess Haney and Miss Lucy Shaffer will manage affairs until a physician is appointed. Davies will establish an office in Kingwood and move his family to the Stone property on Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingwood
Preston County Court
Public Health Council
David Littlejohn
L. R. Davies
County Health Department
Canada
Davies
Health Department
Bess Haney
Lucy Shaffer
Stone
Main Street
Farmer Ends Life In Shed In Maryland
In Westminster Maryland Aug 18 a neighbor found farmer Leslie Barnes dead in a shed at his Mechanicsville home after a shotgun was fired in his mouth Coroner M L Hardin investigated and ruled the death a suicide Barnes widow stated he had been moving about earlier in the evening before the final act.
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Farmer
Maryland
Westminister
Leslie Barnes
Mechanicsville
Barnes
M. L. Hardin
Ted
Treasurers true estate inheritance share revealed in report
Secretary William H. Woodin received an estate of $385,300 from his mother Mrs Mary Woodin who died recently. The appraisal showed real estate valued at 1 000 and the rest in a small estate. The report notes no will and Woodin as sole heir. The article also mentions political battles over unemployment relief taxes and a salmon in Lake Tahoma, with grape crop outlook for California in 1933.
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Bloomsburg
Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Woodin
Mary Woodin
Woodin
Aly
Frankfort
Ruby Laffoon
Lake Tahoma
Marion
N.C
Crop-Reporting Service
California
Trans Atlantic Flier Held As Counterfeiter
Hoboken N J August 18.2 Charles Levine the transatlantic flier with Clarence Chamberlin in 1927 was held to bail of 2500 dollars by U S Commissioner Edward R Stanton on a charge of attempting to pass a counterfeit 100 bill on August 11 at a Jersey City railroad ticket office
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Hoboken
N. J
Charles Levine
Clarence Chamberlin
Grand’ ‘Jury
United States
Edward R. Stanton
Jersey City
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Wilde
Leas
Sen. Couzens
Detroit
Couzens
Rep
Mich
Dtroit
Hoover
Charles G. Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Michigan
Dawes
Page
Cotton Field
Union Brokerage
Gandhi
Raft
Stanton R. White
Costello
Rage
Grafton Fry
Navy
V. Miller
Reliable Footwear
Grafton
NRA
West Virginia Business College
T. B. Cain
Clarksburg, W. VA
Hugh 8
Henry Ford
Ford
Littlejohn
Health Post
Benin
Relig
Harry L. Hopkins
General Assembly
Trans-Atlantic
Eld
Opera House
Wheeler and Woolsey
Africa
Cees
Ceuta
Dearborn Plaza
Ana Laa
Gold Coast
Ki F Ta PLC
Lincoln Park
Leo
Fair Gronende
Dearborn Street
Chicaoc Iit Prance -Sils
Penney
Priscilla
J.C. Penney CO
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