Rainey Rites Bring Crowd To Farm Home
Henry T. Rainey is mourned by 30,000 as President Roosevelt and local citizens attend a simple Episcopal service at the Rainey farm home near Carrollton Illinois. The body lies in state at the courthouse, with Bishop White to deliver the eulogy and burial planned in Carrollton cemetery.
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Henry T. Rainey
United States
St . Louis
Henry T
Rainey
Walnut Hill
Requieum
Mere
John Chandler White
Springfield
Roosevelt
Washington
Henry Horner
William H. Dietrich
Norman L. Jones
Illinois Supreme Court
Jones
Fate
President Roosevelt Passes Through Grafton En Route to Rainey Funeral
President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by special train through Grafton shortly before midnight on the way to Carrollton Til for the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey. The train halted for water and crew changes at the B and O station as Western Union offices buzzed with dispatches from AP UPI and INS.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Carrollton
Til
Henry T. Rainey
Grafton
B. and O
Western Union
Associated Press
United Press
International News Service
St. Louis
Ilinois
National House of Representa
Dance to Music by Davis Evans Orchestra at Red House
Davis Evans and His Orchestra perform a Thursday night dance at Chimney Corners in Red House Maryland from 9 to 7. Local venue hosts live music with dancing.
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Davis Evans
Chimney Corners
Red House
Mine Strike Ended At Goodwill Union Wins
Eleven members of the United Mine Workers were charged with murder in the Deputy Sheriff Earl C. Peterfish killing at the mine entrance. Earl Overstreet is in critical condition at a Princeton hospital after being shot in the neck by a companion. Goodwill, Aug. 22. A strike at the Goodwill mine of the Winding Gulf Colliery continued.
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Goodwill
United Mine Workers of America
Earl C. Peterfish
Earl Overstreet
Princeton
Gooodwill
Winding Gulf
Bank robbers flee across three states in gun filled car
Four men in a machine gun laden sedan wrecked near Fort Fort Fort oh Old Fort North Carolina commandeered a passing car at gunpoint. They fled through the night, later found to have a wrecked car still loaded with guns, shotguns and ammunition. Blanton and his son notified authorities. Police across the southeast hunted two gangs as the chase continued toward Atlanta.
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Old Fort
N. C
B. Scott Blanton
Charlotte
Q S. Adkin
Green Pledges Effort to Avert Big Strike
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said he would spare no effort to avert a general textile strike. He promised full support to the United Textile Workers if a strike occurred but stressed a settlement without resorting to a strike.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
United Textile Workers
Convicted Pair Smiles As Life Sentences Are Given
In Sutton on August 22 a jury found Raymond Mace 25 Chemical City and Elliott Keener 19 Dane near Richwood guilty of first degree murder in the Braxton county jailer Earl Bland death last June 26. They received life terms from Circuit Judge Jake Fisher, with Camden Roode of Frametown getting a similar sentence. Roode did not testify while Mace and Keener claimed they had no direct involvement though they acknowledged planning the killing.
Kiddies of Grafton urged to join scouts for circus tickets
Children curious about Friday performances of Charles Sparks Downie Brothers circus are directed to page 2 for how to obtain discount tickets. No tickets will be issued from the Sentinel main office. reporters must go to the alley window by the newspaper dock to collect tickets after viewing the display ad.
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Jack Hoxie
Charles Sparks
Downie Brothers Circus
The
Sentinel
Welfare Board Meets Ferr Workers
The Taylor County Welfare Board meeting with a committee from the Unemployed Council and FERA workers was postponed to 3 PM in the courthouse. The group urged restoring four day work weeks for three day workers, three days for two day workers, two days for one day workers, reinstatement for one day workers cut off, and reduction of the FERA office staff.
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Taylor County Unemployed Council
Taylor County Welfare Board
Charles McCoy
Ernest Lee
FERA
Unemployed Council
FPERA
Taylor County Relief Rolls
Fed
Kiwanis Guest From International to Speak Here
Graf ton Kiwanis club will host Franklin M. Kean, an officer of Kiwanis International, at the Webster meeting next week. The event may be the largest of the year as Clarks burg club travels to hear him. Last night’s Valley Falls gathering noted rural summer program end and new convention delegates were elected.
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Grafton Kiwanis Club
Valley Falls
Clarksburg
Franklin M. Kean
Kiwanis International
Webster
Taylor County
CWA
FERA
New Grifton High School Appoints Industrial Arts Teacher
The Board of Education last night named William A. Williams to teach industrial arts at Graf ton High School following Ted Nixon’s resignation. Williams, WVU engineering graduate, GE veteran, four years teaching, and active in Boy Scouts, is praised for broad qualifications. Civics and American history positions were reassigned, and three elementary teachers were hired, one to replace a leave of absence.
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Board of Education
William A. Williams
Grafton High School
Ted Nixon
Williams
West Virginia University
General Electric Company
Schnectady
W.W. Samples
Knights of Columbus urge fight against vile films
Detroit reports the fifty second supreme annual convention opening as Supreme Knight Martin H Carmody of Grand Rapids calls for vigorous continued support of the campaign against immoral and vice teaching films advertised and shown to the public. The convention chair urges strong condemnation of the films and those responsible.
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Detroit
Knights of Columbus
Martin H.carmody
Grand Rapids
Aged Man Kills Another Over Alleged Domestic Affair
Herbert B. Griffin of Parkersburg died from gunshot wounds after being shot in Coolville Ohio. Quin Cole aged 71 was jailed in Athens Ohio after admitting the shooting saying Griffin had been intimate with his wife. Sheriff Charles Stratton stated Cole waited behind a barn before the incident.
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Parkersburg
Herbert B. Griffin
Griffin
Coolville
Ohio
Quin Cole
Athens
Sherif Charles Stratton
Cole
Five Prisoners One A Slayer Make Escape
Five inmates including William H. Mason escaped from the Hamilton county jail in Noblesville Indiana this morning. They used hacksaws to cut bars on a second floor window and lowered themselves to the ground with a chain. one 70-year-old remained unaware inside.
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Noblesville
Ind
William H. Mason
Lester Jones
Indianapolis
Hamilton County
Dedicatory Program Ready For Kingwood's Gala Day
The dedication of Preston County's new court house in Kingwood is set for Saturday with Judge A G Hughes as committee chair. Highlights include the presentation and acceptance of Bejeaux house and a dedicatory address by Judge John Barton now based in Washington D C but formerly from Kingwood. Two bands are featured the Morgantown 201st Infantry National Guard band and the Masontown high school band with a possible additional Cr e lin Md band.
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Kingwood
Preston County
Washington, D. C
201St Infantry National Guard
Morgantown
Masontown High School
Crellin, Md
Armored Truck Robbery Stuns Brooklyn Police
Police admit they have no clues as to the mastermind of a sensational $427,000 armored truck heist timed to coincide with a public birthday. Witnesses were questioned, money bags found near Finnerty's bar in Sheepshead Bay, with no arrests yet.
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Brooklyn
Capone
Dillinger
O’ryan
Finnerty's
Emmons Avenue
Sheepshead Bay
Phil Clare
Finnerty’s
Policeman Shot Dead in Lock Haven Robbery
Lock Haven Pa August 22 1934 policeman Robert Probst was mortally wounded by a robber he surprised inside a business then died in an alley near the station. Officer Martin Peters returned fire and is believed to have wounded the fleeing thief. Probst 36 leaves a wife and child.
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Robert Probst
Martin Peters
Probst
Peters
Tre
Protst
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