Dictatorship Planned as First Step in Spanish Plan
Rebels disclosed a plan for a military dictatorship in Spain followed by a plebiscite on restoring the Bourbon monarchy. Alfons returns event, Juan of Asturias to visit Burgos. air raid on Madrid claimed wrecking planes and hangars. government denies full damage.
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Associated Press
Spain
Ent
Burgos
Bourbon
Alfons
Alfonso
Europe
Rey Juan
Asturias
Madrid
Lozoya
Italy
Pope Pius XI Fights Frailty Amid World Affairs
In Sastel Gandolfo Italy on August 28 Pope Pius XI, frail and exhausted, rose to review the Spanish situation then sought comfort in astronomy. He received Father Giovanni Stein who showed photographs of the heavens and a newly discovered comet. He gave up his auto ride, saying earthly troubles persist while the heavens continue well. He slept in the villa as Vatican sources note.
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Sastel Gandolfo
Italy
Pope Pius XI
Father Giovanni Stein
Vatican Observatory
Father Stein
Drive Safely With Proper Use of Lights at Night
A Taylor County Safety Council notice urges drivers to keep their cars under control and avoid over driving headlights. It warns that nighttime lighting limits reduce safe high speed driving and equates overdriving lights to partial blindness for motorists.
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Taylor County Safety Council
Miners Stay Below Until Pay Settle
Polish Upper Silesia Aug 26 The skull and crossbones flew atop a shaft as 300 miners entering a fifth foodless day in a strike for back wages. Hunger and exhaustion have forced some to collapse. Authorities voted funds to pay part of overdue wages. cash was sent down the shaft while the strikers kept their vow not to drink water until demands were met.
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Seuthen
Upper Silesia
Darst Funeral Services Will Be Held on Sunday
John S. Darst, 77, longtime state official and former auditor, died of a heart ailment. Funeral services are to be held Sunday afternoon in Charleston. Darst also served on the state board of control under Governor Morgan and once managed Major General Leonard Wood’s 1920 Republican presidential campaign in West Virginia.
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Charleston
John S. Darst
Darst
Board of Control
Morgan
Durst
Leonard Wood
West Virginia
Glenn Davis Named Steward of Elks Club
Glenn Davis assumed the Elks lodge steward post, succeeding Ben Patterson who resigned to return to railroad work. Davis, with prior Recreation kitchen experience, was chosen by B P O E officials for the role and is expected to improve grill service at the club.
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Glenn Davis
Elks Club
Ben Patterson
Davis
Young Demos Open Parley at Wheeling
Clarence W. Meadows Democratic candidate for attorney general told West Virginia Young Democrats that state administration costs remained low while maintaining services. Delegates from across the state gathered for a two day fall campaign meeting expected to exceed 2,000 attendees with speakers including Nellie Tayloe Ross Kump Neely and John Cudahy. Meadows defended the administration against charges of politics and discrimination saying it is the outs vs ins cry.
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Wheeling
Clarence W. Meadows
West Virginia
John B. Phillips
Wheeling Club
Meadows
Nellie Tayloe Ross
U. S. Mint
Kump
U. S
M. M. Neely
John Cudahy
Poland
Beckley
Extraterritorial Rights In Egypt Will Be Voided
The United States and 12 other nations with extraterritorial rights in Egypt will be asked to abandon them to complete Egypts tentative independence. The Anglo Egyptian treaty made public in London is described as a historic declaration of independence for a nation in modern times.
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New York
United States
Egypt
London
Seek to Work Out Plan To End Tire Co. Strike
Cumberland Maryland August 28 representatives of Kelly Springfield Tire plant management and striking workers resumed a conference to settle differences over wages and working conditions Gov Harry W Nice who helped arrange talks left for Annapolis after the conference began late yesterday
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Cumberland
Kelly Springfield Tire Company
Harry W. Nice
Annapolis
Confession Declared True In Gillespie Murder Trial
In Washington pa on August 28 James McGinnis a 44 year old miner testified that a confession read by Prosecutor James C Bane was true He admitted under cross examination that the Commonwealths confession stated he went to Grace Ellen Gillespies home March 9 seeking to kill her if she rejected him The defendant said Yes its true when asked if the statement was accurate He often said he did not remember during the reading of the confession
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Washington
James McGinnis
Grace Ellen Gillespie
Commonwealth
McGinnis
James C. Bane
Wiss
Bane
Constable Is Fined By Grafton Mayor For Drunkenness
Constable Charles W. Smith of Knottsville appeared at this morning's police court session before Mayor E. Otto Waugh. He was fined five dollars after being charged with drunkenness. Smith has previous appearances but this was his first offense in over two years. Brady Compton, WPA education instructor, also fined five dollars and given an hour to raise the funds.
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Costable
Charles W. Smith
Knottsville
E. Otto Waugh
Constable Smith
W.J. Wells
Parkview
Brady Compton
WPA
Waugh
Emergency Pumps Bring Water Into Kingwood
Emergency pumps pushed water into a large tank in Kingwood to end a drought affecting 1,800 residents. Water came from the Cheat river through a pipeline up an 800 foot hill. Tubs were filled and some men went without shaves to conserve water. Pumps delivered about 180 gallons per minute into the storage tank.
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Kingwood
Cheat
Harpers Ferry Bridge Will Not Be Replaced
Charleston reports that Harpers Ferry will remain without a bridge after March floods. Road Commissioner Burr H. Simpson says Maryland will build a span at Sandy Hook, one mile below the town, with West Virginia likely building a Shenandoah crossing nearby to connect US Route 340. The project, financed with federal funds, shifts crossing points and timing.
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Charleston
Harpers Ferry
Burr H. Simpson
Maryland Commission
Sandy Hook
Potomac River
Simpson
West Virginia
Harpiers Ferry
Virginia
Shenandoah
16 Year-Old Canoeist Drowns on Ohio River
A 16-year-old boy named Leonard Weaver drowned during a moonlight canoe ride on the Ohio River at Pittsburgh when the backwash from a towboat swamped the rented craft. Peter Born aged 17, John Morrison 19, Helen Toney 16, and Pauline Kacunik 16 were rescued as hundreds watched from the riverbanks.
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Pittsburgh
Leonard Weaver
Evans City
Peter Born
John Morrison
Helen Toney
Pauline Kacunik
Ohio River
Lawyers Fail to Take Sides on New Deal Controversy
Boston August 28 The American Bar Association filed the majority report condemning the Roosevelt administration for detouring the constitution and also filed the minority and a concurring memorandum. Frederick Harold Stinchfield of Minneapolis was elected president succeeding William L. Ransom. George M. Morris of Washington D C was chosen House of Delegates chair with Harry Knight of Pennsylvania secretary and John H Voorhees of Sioux Falls treasurer reelected. The committee split four to three, ending expectations of a heated controversy at the 59th annual convention.
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Boston
American Bar Association
Roosevelt
Stinchfield
George Ly Buist
Charleston
D. C
Coal River Closed By Pollution Near Charleston
The state conservation commission shut eight miles of Coal river to fishing as it studies remedies for the first serious summer stream pollution. Sulphuric acid from an abandoned Boone county coal mine killed hundreds of fish and three game protectors were stationed to monitor the area.
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Charleston
State Conservation Commission
E. H. Morford
Boone County
Leaders Testify On Need For Cheat Survey
In Morgantown on August 28, Lieut. Colonel W E R Cowell reported testimony from northern West Virginia leaders urging a flood control survey of the Cheat River and its tributaries. Rep Jennings Randolph Dr L Galpin State Senator Hodges and W M Ray supported the survey with Hodges asserting 90 percent of watershed rainfall could be utilized. The report will be sent to Washington.
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Morgantown
W. E. R. Cowell
U. S. Engineers
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Cheat River
Jennings Randolph
W. Va
Elkins
Covell
8. L. Galpin
State Planning Board
Charles E. Hodges
Chinese Pirates Loot Ferry Passengers Three Murdered
In Tientsin authorities pursue a sea robbery by Chinese pirates who boarded the ferry Liho from Tangku and held up 100 passengers on crossing the Bay of Chihil. They seized 32 as hostages and escaped in a junk. Three victims killed during the raid.
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Tientsin
China Seas
Liho
Tangku
Bay of
Chihil
Kiwanis-Merchants Picnic Draws Big Crowd at Grafton Park
More than 1,000 people attended the Kiwanis-Merchants picnic at Grafton Park with widespread praise for the program. Highlights included an ox roast by Headley with one ox named Smuppoumere, contests led by I Siven and Frank Shultz, coca cola girls race, and multiple baby and three legged races. Prizes included several $1 and $2 awards as winners were named Rose Marie Lally, Patty Ann Wolfe, Dorothy Ann Lobis, Vernon Whetsel, Vernon Moore and Marguerite Haddix with Madaline Kinney. A donors list was announced by Claude Bert.
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Kiwani-Merchants
Grafton Park
My Headley
Armour and Company
Grafton
I. Siven
Frank Shultz
Rosemary Rowland
Norma Jean Squires
Betty Rose Clovis
Floyd
Scotty” Hamilton
Scotty
Rose Marie Lally
Joe Lally
Patty Ann Wolfe
Francis Wolfe
Dorothy Ann Lobis
Domenick Lobis
Vernon Whetsel
Vernon Moore
Marguerite Haddix
Madaline Kinney
Claude 5
Bert
Mance
Grafton News
J.C. Penney Co
Grafton Drug & Chemical Co
1 . Klein
I. Sivens
Recreation
O. «. Morrison
B. F. Poe
Grafton Paint
Tucker County Farmer Shoots Deer in Mackeyville
Parsons, Aug. 28. Otha Eye, 30 year old Tucker County farmer, testified the deer was harming his crops. The court jailed him 30 days and fined $100 for shooting the animal.
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Parsons
Mackeyville
Otha Eye
Funeral set for George Dern next Tuesday
Washington reports the funeral for George Henry Dern, secretary of war, will be held next Tuesday. Flags fly over forts as salutes echo. Dern died at 64 from influenza complications. Mrs Dern and the secretary's five children plan final rites at Walter Reed Hospital. A guard from the 16th brigade stands by as the nation mourns.
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Washington
George Henry Dern
Army
Navy
Capitol
District of Colum
Murder Hint in Deaths of Chester Pair
Chester West Virginia August 28 Officers study the deaths of Robert Stoppe 33 mill worker and Mrs Mildred Bennett 39 may be murder or self inflicted coroner says autopsy done but not disclosed bodies found in Stoppe truck in a grove near Chester shooting followed dispute over Stoppe's attentions to Mrs Bennett Mrs Bennett’s friends and Stoppe family reject murder suicide theory Mrs Bennett had been shot
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Chester
W. Va
Robert Stoppe
Mildred Bennett
Stoppe
T. E. Cato
Newspapermen Meet at Bluefield Tour of Coal Fields
West Virginia newspaper men and women gather in Bluefield for the annual West Virginia Newspaper council meeting. Hosts Hugh Ike Shott and W. R. Keyser greet guests at Welch Daily News. The tour includes Pinnacle Rock and Filbert mine with a banquet planned for Saturday.
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Bluefield
West Virginia
Welch
W. R. Keyser
Welch Daily News
Hugh Ike Shott
Pinnacle Rock
Filbert
U. S. Coal.and Coke Company
22 Passengers Escape From Burning Bus In Ligonier
In Ligonier Pennsylvania twenty two passengers escaped injury when a Great Eastern Lines bus caught fire from preheated brakes before dawn. The driver William Kieffer pulled the bus to the roadside and managed to disembark all passengers and baggage without panic. A. J. Kieffer, district manager, confirmed there was no panic and described the orderly evacuation.
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Ligonier
Great Eastern Lines
A. J. Kieffer
Pittsburgh
William Kieffer
Veteran Morgantown Attorney Dies at 80 in 1855
Leonidas V. Keck, 80, prominent Morgantown resident and oldest member of Monongalia county Bar, died after a two week illness. A University College of Law graduate, he had practiced law since graduation.
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Morgantown
Leonidas V. Keck
Monongalia County Bee
University College of Law
Man Suffers Head Injury Near Newbury and Independence
Hanlan, 55, an employe at a transient camp at Hardman, was seriously injured when struck by a moving freight train on the B and O tracks between Newbury and Independence around 11:30 p m He was brought to Grafton City hospital aboard passenger train No 1 unconscious Engineer Whalen Cumberland division led the rescue The man later gave the name Silas Arbogast and then Hanlan His mother lives in Thomas W Va Initial exams found no internal injuries but a possible skull fracture and mangled hand with a repair job and clips placed in his head He could not remember the accident and authorities noted possible intoxication An unofficial report said No 97 hit him first and No 1 hit him later but crew observed him before the collision Continued on page six
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Arrow Hanlan
Hardman
Newbury
Independence
Grafton City Hospital
J. W. Hamilton
Whalen
Cumberland Division
Silas
Arbogast
Hanlan
Thomas
W. Va
Ickes Charge Is Answered In Campaign Exchange
Secretary Ickes linked Gov. Landon and Hearst in a radio address describing Hearst as the new Republican boss and warning Landon against talking too much. Republican figures like Harding dismissed the claim, while Ickes cited a court memorandum attributed to Hearst to support his critique.
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Washington
Ickes
Alf M. Landon
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Landon
Harding
George F. Harding
Illinois
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