Landon urges freedom of education press and radio in campaign
Gov Alf Landon warned against federal machinery used to prop up the administration and urged freedom of education, press, and radio. He said teachers should not take oaths and championed academic freedom as he spoke at Chautauqua and prepared for a Buffalo visit to court New York's electoral votes.
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Ripley
Alf M. Landon
New York
Chautauqua
Buffalo
Landon
Kansas
Wni
Glass Calls On Roosevelt Ahead Of Westward Tour
President Roosevelt held rapid conferences before leaving Washington for a two week drought relief tour. Among talks, he met Senator Carter Glass Virginia Democrat critical of some New Deal policies. No speeches planned as aides including Secretary Wallace and Harry Hopkins accompanied him.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Carer Glass
Virginia
Glass
Wallace
Harry L. Hopkins
Drive SAFELY Walk safety notice
A Taylor County Safety Council message warns that a person who has a hangover is just as dangerous at the wheel as if drunk. The note describes dull minded vision dimmed and irritable driving, labeling such individuals a highway menace.
Kiwanis Merchants Picnic Draws Big Park Crowd
Kiwanis set for Thursday at Grafton Park with a promise of a mammoth turnout. Dr. Alden Beagle, general chairman, says full cooperation from local businesses to close Thursday afternoon will ensure a large crowd for the picnic. Stores closing for the event.
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Kiwanis Merchants
Grafton Park
Alden Beagle
Kingwood Water Supply Law Wells Put In Use
Kingwood residents face drought as the city taps wells under the new water supply law. Water company manager Frank Hileman said stored reserve water will be used only for fire emergencies, while health officers urge boiling water from wells and springs.
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Kingwood Water Supply
Kingwood
Frank Hileman
Heat Mountain
Ashpole Creek
Leman
Knights of Pythias Meet in Wheeling for 67th Convention
West Virginia Knights of Pythias held their 67th annual convention in Wheeling with past grand chancellor Charles P. Schuck to preside at the opening banquet. Business sessions begin tomorrow as more than 15 state lodges are represented.
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Wheeling
West Virginia Knights of Pythias
Charles P. Schuck
War Secretary Dern In Hospital, Seriously
Washington officials at Walter Reed hospital report Secretary George H. Dern critically ill after more than a month with a heart complication linked to a previous influenza attack.
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Dern
Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
George H. Dern
Relief victim murders child in Seattle case unfolds
Mrs Ester Hilda Olson, 93, confessed to police that she killed her 16 year old daughter Rose on her birthday using an axe and butcher knife. Deputy Sheriff O K Bodia quoted her saying she killed Rose out of kindness because she had no clothes or home. Olson had lived on relief of ten dollars a month and said Rose had little chance to become somebody. Continued on page six.
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Seattle
Ester Hilda Olson
O.K. Bodia
Rose
Bodia
Award of $50 For Jarvis Property
Commissioners view land of Miss Anna Jarvis in Booths Creek district as Monongahela West Penn Public Service Commission seeks right of way for an electricity distribution line by condemnation. They set $50 as fair stipend for 2,113 feet to be taken after viewing the land yesterday.
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Miss Anna Jarvis
Booths Creek
Monongahela
West Penn Public Service Commission
D. L. Bosely
A. N. Allender
B. F. Sayre
D. C. Hinkle
J. B. Bradford
Jet
Husband Ends Life After He Murders Rival
In Fredericksburg Virginia an estranged husband killed Gilmer L. Snyder and Clifford Thomas, then shot himself as a car ride with Snyder in the seat continued toward Woodlawn. Mrs. Lillie B. Thomas, a witness, drove with the body as authorities described the sequence of the double slaying and suicide.
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Fredericksburg
Gilmer
L. Snyder
Clifford Thomas
Washington
B. Wyatt Walker
Commonwealth
Joseph A. Ellingsley
King George County
Lillie B. Thomas
Snyder
May Delay Opening of Schools in Wood County
Wood County education board president E L Hamric said schools may not open on September 8 if more infantile paralysis cases appear in the next two weeks. Two cases are under quarantine, Elizabeth Pursley age 14 and Clarence Anderson age 11. Pursley fell ill at a Sunday school picnic while playing with other children.
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Parkersburg
E. L. Hamric
Wood County Education Board
Elizabeth Pursley
Clarence Anderson
Purseley
Old-Age Pension Set-Up Ready For U. S. Scrutiny
Charleston officials report the indignant old age pension department's administrative plan is prepared for federal review. Director A W Garnett says the state board will submit recommendations soon. Board chairman Stephen P Burke notes federal aid hinges on approval of the administration and disbursing arrangements.
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Charleston
Department of Public Assistance
A. W. Garnett
Stephen P. Burke
Police Conclude Probe Of Emasculation Case
In St Petersburg Florida Deputy Sheriff Sid Saunders announced the police investigation into the partial emasculation of Carl Slone was closed. The 19 year old laborer admitted performing the act on himself after anger at a girl he barely knew. Slone now recovers in a hospital from wounds found Saturday. It marks the second crude surgery case in the area within a month and police say both incidents were personal safety related.
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St, Petersburg
Fla
Sid Saunders
Carl Slone
Saunders
Slone
Red Enemies Executed for Plot in Moscow
In Moscow on August 25, sixteen confessed conspirators tied to the plot involving exiled Leon Trotzky were executed by firing squad after a quick trial. The central executive committee of the Soviet Union refused appeals, and the executions, conducted at a detention prison near the foreign office, were announced in a terse communique.
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Moscow
Central Executive Committee of
Soviet Union
Foreign Office
Leon Trotzky
Impeachment Trial Of Raleigh Man Put Off
BECKLEY August 25 Circuit Judge C M Ward will set a new date for the hearing of impeachment proceedings against J L Huffman of the Raleigh county school board on August 31. Huffman obtained postponement after presenting a doctor's certificate stating he is unable to stand trial due to recent appendicitis surgery. Those who brought the action say Huffman violated a state law prohibiting school board members from having financial interests in firms selling supplies to the board.
Five Year Old Boy Dies In Roane County Crash
Spencer report states five year old Henry Lewis Combs died in hospital as the second casualty of a Saturday automobile wreck at White Oak Creek Roane county. Grandmother Frances Payne 72 of Cicerone also died. State troopers charged Ollie Hackney 22 Advent with manslaughter.
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Spencer
Henry Lewis Combs
White Oak Creek
Roane County
Frances Payne
Cicerone
Ollie Hackney
Advent
Nazis Extend Standing Army Size To 700000 800000
Berlin reports the propaganda ministry announced Germany will field an army between 700000 and 800000 once October recruits are called. The 1914 class is kept in training and older draftees are reassigned as needed. Germany’s current strength exceeds 600000, while French estimates place Reich at 1200000 by 1937.
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Berlin
Germany
Propaganda Ministry
Lieved
France
Prance
Widow Faces Eviction After WPA Help Denied
A widowed mother of six, Mrs. Lulu Poling, was ordered evicted from 101 Lincoln Street after WPA assistance was refused. Magistrate Ona C. Jefferys gave extra time, delaying execution until Friday, while pay raises totaling 10 640 dollars were approved for Fairmont WPA administrative staff including Harold Kramer and W J Billy Gates.
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WPA
Fairmont
Works Progress Administration
Harold Kramer
W. J
Billy" Gates
Ray Dillon
Lulu Poling
Jefferys
Primaries in Three States Shape National Attention
In Mississippi veteran Senator Pat Harrison seeks the Democratic nomination with former Governor Sennett Connor and Senator Bilbo backing different sides. South Carolina sees a Byrnes versus Stoney and Harllee contest for the Democratic nomination, with seven House seats at stake. California tests Townsend backed pension plans in 20 districts as E J Margett predicts victory.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
New Deal
Sennett Connor
Connor
Bilbo
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Thomas P. Stoney
Charleston
William C. Harllee
California
Townsend
E. J. Margett
Pension Plan
Prison escape from state farm gar prompts manhunt
Moundsville August 25 two Kanawha county prisoners fled their posts at the state prison farm gar. The inmates are Woodrow Lanham 20 serving seven years for robbery and Urban Johnson 27 sentenced to three years for forgery.
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Moundsville
Kanawha County
Gar
Woodrow Lanham
Urban Johnson
Spy Inquiry Up In Court
In Washington the Lafollette senate committee filed a petition to pause its probe into alleged labor spies. The move aimed to wait for the committee action to prosecute Railway Audit and Inspection officials for failure to appear before the panel. The petition came just before a hearing on a restraining order.
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Washington
United States District Court
Lafollete Senate
Railway Audit and Inspection Company
Lafollette Committee
Government starts river bank flood control on Monongahela
Pittsburgh August 25 Col W E R Cowell district U S engineer announced work will begin tomorrow on river bank flood control projects on the upper Monongahela river. $520600 of a $3182500 allotment released in Washington will be used to build river walls protecting municipal and state properties from erosion. First work at Elizabeth West Elizabeth and Rice's Landing. Nine dams planned for the Allegheny and tributaries and one on the West Fork above Fairmont West Virginia with $218700 tentatively allocated. Engineers estimate the barrier network will require five to six years to complete.
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Pittsburgh
W. E. R. Cowell
U. S
Monongahela River
Washington
Elizabeth
West Elizabeth
Rice's Landing
Allegheny
Junior Order Holds Annual State Meeting in West Virginia
Five hundred representatives of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics in West Virginia opened their state convention in Parkersburg after a pre convention carnival and parade. The Daughters of America, affiliated, will meet concurrently with the mechanics as officers are elected in tomorrow's concluding session.
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Parkersburg
Order of United American Mechanics
West Virginia
Daughters of America
Refuses to Aid Robber Youth Slashed
Sixteen-year-old Hansel White told police his refusal to help an unidentified motorist rob a filling station led the man to slash him with a penknife. White sought treatment at a physician’s office for a cut on his right side after being shoved from the car.
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Clarksburg
Aug
Hansel White
White
Aged Priest Arrested Amid Madrid Purge Of Fascist Sympathizers
Madrid reports the arrest of aging Father Jose Fernandez Montana, once confessor to Alfonso and Victoria, in a new people’s summary tribunal crackdown. Four rebel officers were executed after sentencing in the capital’s model prison as Loyalists move reinforcements and shell fire lights the Segovia plain near La Granja palace.
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Madrid
Jose Fernandez Montana
Alfonso
Victoria
Supreme Court
Mariano Gomez
Madrid Socialist Party
Socialist General Union of Workeps
Casa del Pueblo
Central Office of Trade Unions
Ald Socialist Youth Organizations
Communist Party
National Confederation of Labor
Federation of Iberian Anarchists
Libertarian Youth Organization
Manuel Azana
Republican Left Party
Republican Union Party
Doring
Royal
la Granja
Segovia
Guadarrama Sierra
Navacerrada
el Poular’ Pass
County Assessor Reports Tax Increase Amid Frederick Corp Assets
Assessor Ed Lock announced a county rise of about three million dollars over 1934, driven by Frederick Corporation property at Tygarts Dam. The cash and negotiables across six districts and two municipalities total 299,490, with Booths Creek showing 3,056,630 in a district bank. Valuations by class include farming equipment, livestock, and banking loans across districts with detailed figures.
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Ed Lock
Frederick Corporation
General Coat
Tygarts Dam
Vaid
Booths Creek
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Alfred M. Landon
Kiwanis
Knights of Pythias
Jarvis Property
Wood County
Munique
Presidium of the Central
Raleigh
Haend
Actville
Byrnes
LaFollette
Britain
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