Campaign drive blends faith and politics in wartime era
A Grafton woman joins a national Jobless Party campaign aiming to elect a Catholic priest president. Traveling with a female lieutenant cadre, she plans public addresses and literature outreach, while using a radio car for campaign headquarters and coordinating with police chief figures she calls Johnny Moran.
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Mussolini
Hitler
Italy
Germany
Dublin
Joit
Wallace N
Bud” Henderson
Johnny Moran
St. Louis
Grafton
John Lovett Train Victim in Freight Mishap at Colfax
John Lovett a 41 year old Black man of Grafton was killed while riding a Fairmont bound freight near Poplar Island below Colfax. His body identified after surface recovery and funeral plans set for Wednesday at Aunt Miss Lee Freeman’s Grand Street home in South Grafton. Lovett served in overseas combat and earned a service medal. burial at National Cemetery possible with future military funeral. He was an air inspector for the B and O Railroad, previously a porter, and a respected city employee. He resided with Miss Freeman, whose only surviving relative is identified.
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John Lovett
Grafton
Lee Preeman
Grand Street
South Grafton
F. J. Frye
Warren M. ©. Church
National Cemetery
Lovett
Poplar Island
Colfax
Fairmont
East End
B. & O. Railroad Company
Colored Legion Post
Warren M. E. Church
Lee Freeman
Haizlip Sets Transcontinental Flight Records
James G Haizlip intensified the 1932 air race drama by crossing the nation in 19 hours 1 minute setting a coast to coast record. Major James H Doolittle previously held the mark with 11 hours 14 minutes. Haizlip landed at Newark New Jersey after a Los Angeles start and earned 6750 in the feature long distance derby plus a 2500 bonus for breaking the national record. Turner and Weddell also posted strong showings with top speeds of 226 and 232 mph respectively.
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New York
Major Doolittle
Cleveland
Haizlip
Bennett Field
Los Angeles
Doolittle
Newark
N. J
Hairlip
Dash
James R. Weddell
Patterson
Turner
Roscoe Turner
Lee
Gehrbach
Mt Clemens
Mich
X. K. Vance
West Coast
Floyd Bennett Field
James G. Haizlip
Ferguson
James H. Doolittle
Grand Canyon
Plains
Roscoe Tumner
Tumer
Wal
Haizley
Picket lines flare as farmers press holiday price drive
Des Moines and Sioux City report intensified farm holiday picketing to force higher prices. Authorities arrest two men for property damage while sheriff s deputies avert clashes on a bridge. Polk County calls to enforce law as Milo Reno says the movement spreads from Maine to California and Canada to the Gulf.
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Folk County
Cig
Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce
Sioux City
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
Floyd B. Olson
Charles F. Keeling
Co-Operative Association
Polk County
Carl Missildine
Smith W. Brookhart
Washington
Milo Reno
National, Farmers Holiday Association
Brookhart
Maine
California
Canada
Gulf
Driver Exonerated in Somerset Auto Fatality Case
Dolly D T is injured when struck on a highway in front of her home as the driver Harry Largent of Wheeling West Virginia is exonerated by a coroners jury located in Somerset Pennsylvania on August 30.
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Somerset
Dolly DT
Harry Largent
Wheeling
W. Va
Rescuers Search Mud for Entombed Miners in Livermore
Crews of miners labored through mud rock and broken timbers in Livermore California to recover entombed workers. The operation followed a collapse that buried miners and prompted rescue efforts by team members and local authorities. The situation remained urgent as crews persisted in their excavation amid hazardous conditions.
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Livermore
Cal
Hitler Barred Speech Sparks Reichstag Oath Moment
An article notes a Polish insurgent influencing proceedings as a delegation in the Reichstag took an oath of fidelity. The speaker urged discipline and pledged not to surrender while vowing to fight toward their goal.
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Silesi
Reichstag
Compilation Shows-Page 1 Legislation Activity
A six weeks session enacted 29 bills with Governor Conley approving 17 vetoing 9 and allowing 2 to become law without signature. One land redemption bill awaits action. Seven vetoed bills were overridden and in two cases vetoes were sustained.
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Conley
Funeral rites held for Rev Jacob Strader in Philippi
Philippi Aug 30 Funeral services for Rev Jacob Columbus Strader 71 who died at Mile home in Philippi Sunday were held at the Philippi Methodist Episcopal church with Rev H S Chapman in charge Interment was in Criss Cemetery He was born August 4 1861 in Upshur county taught nine years before forty years in the ministry retiring in 1927 He married Mattie Sipe who died 1906 Surviving children include Mrs L L Statler Pittsburgh James Lowell Strader Pittsburgh Charles W Strader Bellaire Paul D Strader Salem J Gall Strader Chicago Lord O Strader Detroit Foster A Strader New York David J Strader Cumberland Md also three sisters and many grandchildren He later married Lydia Prey of Greenbrier county several years ago
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Philippi
Jacob Columbus Strader
Philippi “Methodist Episcopal Church
iChapman
Criss Church
Isaac
Julda Criss, Strader
Upshur
Barbour
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mattie, Sipe
David T
Julia Sipe
Valley District
This County
L.L. Statler
Pittsburgh
Janes Lowell Strader
Charles W. Strader
Bellaire
Ohio
Paul D. Strader
Balem
J. Gall Strader
Chicago
Lord O.strader
Detroit
Foster A. Strader
New York City
David J.strader
Cumberland
Smith
Jefferson Marteney
Boulder
Benjamin Waggoner
Buckhannon
Lydia
Prey
Greenbrier County
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R. L. Jackson
T. M. DeMoss Filling Station
Clarksburg
Musgrove’s Mill
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
Pugh-Waters CO
Azel-Atlas Glass ‘Company
L, Baker & CO
Grafton Rug Cleaners
Grafton W. Va
The
Grafton Printing Co
Fiinel
Latrobe Bt
Cox
Voit
Bonus Army
San Francisco
Pat Crowley
Chester Simondson
Roy McLendon
Legion Majority
Hoover
Portland
Credentials Committee
Kentucky
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Tennnessee
Walker
Supreme Court
Justice Staley
John J. Curtin
Curtin
Roose
Velt
Henry J. Epstein
Staley
Roosevelt
Page Ore
Java
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lucky
Rev. Strader
Nellie Tucker
Beatrice Shields
Agnes
Mary
Daugh+erty
James Cockerell
Atlantic City
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