Bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post Return Home
The bodies of humorist Will Rogers and Wiley Post lay in Glendale mortuary awaiting public tribute before Thursday services. Crowds clashed with police at the airport delaying transfer as Post’s remains head to Oklahoma City for services. Rogers’ body remains for funeral in Los Angeles before interment.
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Los Angeles
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
Glendale
Post
Oklahoma City
Rogers
Oklahoma
Alaska Wilds
Point Barrow
Subways Trapped Workers After Berlin Cave-In
Thirteen laborers feared buried when a section of the Hermann Goering street subway caverned in Berlin. A bursting water main flooded the tunnel as fire crews and ambulances rushed to the scene near Brandenburg Gate. A crane and tools tumbled into the gaping shaft during the noon rest period.
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Berlin
Herman Goering
Friedrich Ebert
Postsdammerplatz
Belin
Brandenburg Gate
Coos Temblee
Anhalter
Friedrichstrasse
Prison Camp Fugitive Is Caught Here
Albert Brown alias Henry Carter, a 30 year old man, was captured in the county jail awaiting extradition to Alabama for fleeing a prison camp and embezzlement. He was previously arrested by railroad police in Baltimore and Ohio and served a short jail term for train riding. Authorities wired Sheriff Lee Bennett for instructions and to hold him for Montgomery, Alabama.
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Alabamas
Fheer
Albert Brown
Henry Carter
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Washington
Brown
Carter
Grafton
Alabama
Lee Bennett
Montgomery
Ala
Hamp Draper
Penal System
E. Otto Waugh
Huey Long Plans to Attend Family Reunion
Lena Huey P Long of Louisiana plans to travel back to Pennsylvania August 31 to meet descendants of the Long family. Luther T Long Huntington publisher and family association president says the annual reunion will be in Long Grove near Meyerstown and the senator has accepted an invitation to speak. The Longs trace lineage to Christian Long who emigrated from the German Palatinate in 1683 or 1684.
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Huntington
Lena Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
Luther T. Long
The
Family Association
Long Grove
Meyerstown
Long
Christian Long
Four Believed Victims Of Disaster To Vessel
Four surviving members of the crew of the wrecked New York fishing schooner Juneal reached Boston aboard a Norwegian freighter. They feared that three Brooklyn men and one Boston man were among the four feared dead as the Juneal sank off Nantucket yesterday.
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Boston
New York
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nantucket
British Cabinet Meets Amid Ethiopian Crisis In 1935
The British Cabinet is summoned to an emergency session Thursday to decide policy on the Italy Ethiopia dispute as fears of League collapse grow. Sir Samuel Hoare and Anthony Eden prepare outlines for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, with France likely to act in unison.
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Associated Press
Paris
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
London
Addis Ababa
Rome
Il Duce
Great Britain
Samuel Hoare
Anthony Eden
Stanley Baldwin
France
Pol
Seedahlia as Source of Sugar Supply
In San Francisco the American Chemical Society heard that seedahlia dahlias could become a major future sugar source. Dr Wray M. Rieger and Prof Leroy W. Weatherby of USC report a method to produce sugar twice as sweet as current varieties with commercial production feasible like beet sugar. Dahlia sugar could be manufactured in cane or beet plants during idle seasons and offers fewer calories for dieters. (Continued on page 4).
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San Francisco
America
American Chemical Society
Wray M. Rieger
Leroy W. Weatherby
University of Southern California
Weatherby
Minister held on manslaughter charge after wreck
Rev. Ardel Christie a young Presbyterian minister and husband of Virginia Satterfield of Grafton is free on bonds totaling 6000 dollars after accusations of manslaughter and intoxicated driving. He was held in Marion county jail since Friday. one fatality and six injuries occurred in the crash. Mrs Christie remained at home with her aunt in this city. Myrtle Smith is in critical condition. Estelle Duffy at state hospital resting well. Continued on page 5.
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Ardel Christie
Presbyterian
Virginia
Alice Satterfield
Grafton
Christie
Commodore Henderson
Myrtle Smith
Cook Hospital
State Hospital
Estelle Duffy
National Guard Chief Indicted In Harlan Co
Adjutant General Henry H. Denhardt head of the Kentucky National Guard faced criminal contempt charges after a Harlan county grand jury returned an indictment. Circuit Judge James M. Gilbert issued warrants to Franklin Jefferson and Harlan counties with no bond, meaning immediate jail upon arrest amid controversy over troop use in the August 3 primary in Harlan.
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Harlan, Ky
Henry H. Denhardt
Kentucky National Guard
James M. Gilbert
Harlan County Grand Jury
Franklin
Jefferson
Harlan County
Commonwealth
Daniel Boone Smith
Denhardt
Kentucky
Shingleton Seeks Funds For Police Headquarters
Charleston August 20 Col P D Shingleton of the state police said he will ask the next legislature to pass a bill allowing his department to apply for federal funds to build 12 district troopers headquarters. The project calls for 750000 dollars including barracks and five residences at each site. It would be self liquidating over 20 years by rentals from troopers.
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Charleston
P. D. Shingleton
State Police
Shingleton
Woman Severely Burned In Gas Station Blaze
In Hinton West Virginia on August 20 Mrs Violet Turner suffered severe burns after a motorist threw a match into spilled gasoline on the concrete driveway. Her husband was slightly burned while trying to extinguish the fire.
Dams urged to control high water in tri state area
Federal funds for reservoir surveys expected as the tri state authority reports progress. The plan includes 14 protected dam units to shield the region from floods, with $85 million sought and $16 million already allotted for the Tygart dam near Grafton. Authorities foresee federal support expanding to the Allegheny reservoir above Warren and related 6th district flood-control projects.
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Pittsburgh
Tri-State
Agy
Grafton
W. Va
Public Works Administration
Rodgers
W. B. Rodgers
Allegheny
Warren
Tygart
Congress Will Adjourn Saturday Burns Claims
Washington, Aug 20. Speaker Byrns told President Roosevelt that Congress will adjourn by Saturday after reviewing progress in the house. He cited likely final agreement on TVA amendments but said the utilities regulation bill remains uncertain. He expressed hope a compromise on that measure would be reached as well. He said the aim is to adjourn.
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Washington
Byrns
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Robbers Slug Storekeeper Then Flee Toward West Virginia
In Charleroi Pennsylvania three masked robbers slugged Cosman Lykos a storekeeper who resisted demands for money. A passerby Frank Ciciallo aided, Lykos was hospitalized, and the band fled in a car toward the West Virginia border. In Washington Rep Randolph cited Josh Billings on the coal industry as a poorly functioning wheel that squeaks loudest.
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Charleroi
West Virginia
Cosman Lykos
Lykos
Frank Ciciallo
Bids On G B Under Government Estimates At Grafton Route
Opening bids for relocating 12.2 miles of track on the Grafton Buckhannon line of the B and O shows Guthrie, March and Walker company of Chicago submitting the low bid of 2935 tartan, below the government estimate. Foley Brothers Inc of St Paul and New York placed a major bid of 1 258 643 for concrete, grading and excavation. Unit two saw Leeds and Durham of Philadelphia bid 1 705 125 for the relocation work.
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B. and O
Guthrie, March and Walkers Company of
Chicago
Foley Brothers, Inc
St. Paul, Minn
New York
Leeds and Durham Company
Philadelphia
Contanuea. Om
Barbour County Sing Planned Next Sunday
Philippi aug 20 Barbour counties annual sing which usually attracts upwards of five thousand persons will be held Sunday August 25 at Boyles grove on the Bonica road about six miles east of Philippi under the supervision of A Chame Wilson of Nestorville who asks all chairs from this or adjoining counties that wish to enter to write him to be placed on the program
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Philippi
Barbour County
Boyles Grove
Bonica Road
A. Chame Wilson
Nestorville
Cuffey Coal Bill Faces Senate Fight
The Gurfey coal bill, center of a vehement controversy about the constitution, faces its final congressional barrier in the Senate. Approved by 26 votes in the House, it would create a commission to oversee price fixing, guarantee miners' right to bargain, and set up a coal labor board, financed by a 15 percent tax with a 90 percent drawback for compliant producers. Administration forces push its calendar as Byrd blocks an Attorney General move.
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Washington
Gurfey
House
Senate
Black Byrd
Roosevelt
Congress
Byrd
Cump
Pension Requirements For Teachers Lowered
The State Board of Education in Charleston reduced the teachers pension eligibility age from 65 to 60. To retire with pay, teachers must be 60 and have taught at least 25 regular terms in West Virginia, or have taught 40 regular terms regardless of age. The board also set rules making college deans responsible for organizing and teaching extension classes, a task county superintendents directed last year.
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Charleston
State Board of Education
David Kirby
West Virginia
Ohio River Steamer Is Burned in $25000 Loss
Fire destroyed the steamer Otto Marmet last night on the Ohio River. Officials of the Raymond City Transportation Company, owners, estimate the loss at 25000. A boiler spark is believed to have caused the blaze. In service over 30 years, the towboat operated mainly between Cincinnati and Raymond City, West Virginia.
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Cincinnati
Otto Marmet
Ohio River
Raymond City Transportation Company
Raymond City
W. Va
Karpis Warns G Men Chief Hoover Threat Revealed
Washington reports that Alvin Karpis Public Enemy No 1 warned J Edgar Hoover head of the G men in a letter from Ohio received about a month ago. US officials disclosed the threat at the Justice Department as agents continue the manhunt for Karpis.
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Washington
Alvin Karpis
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Hoover
Ohio
Inheritance Tax Provisions Cut From $250 Million Bill
A Senate and House conference panel unveiled a $250 million tax bill that omits Roosevelt proposed inheritance levies. The plan raises rates on estate and income taxes, increases capital stock tax to $1.40 per $100, and tightens excess profits with a tiered rate structure.
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Washington
Senate
House Conference Committee
Roosevelt
Harrison
Miss
Conference Committee
Wife Abuser Sent To Jail In Police Court
In a police court session Thelma Lake described abuse by her husband Ira Lake of Barrett street. He was jailed for five days. The mayor advised obtaining a peace bond via a justice of the peace for protection. Neighbor John Clelland testified witnessing Lake grab the wife by the hair and threaten a child.
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E. Otto Waugh
Ira Lake
Barrett Street
Thelma Lake
Lakes
Lake
Mas
Kim
de Clelland
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Chrishe
Virginia Satterfield
National Guard
Harlan Co
Tri-State’ Authority
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Randolph
Josh ! Billings
Josh Billings
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G-Men
U. S
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Waugh
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