Silk Workers May Be Urged To Quit Work
Reports indicate potential silk workers joining the planned strike alongside cotton textile workers. Francis J. Gorman, head of the United Textile Workers strike committee, says conferences with silk and woolen industry employees are being sought. An inquiry panel may be formed to neutrally examine the broad textile dispute as efforts for a swift settlement continue.
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Washington
Francis J. Gorman
T the
United Textile Workers Strike Committee
Gorman
Peter van Horn
E Silk Code Authority
George A. Sloan
Cotton Textile Institute
Thomas F. McMahon
United Textile Workers
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Worcester
Mass
Associated Press
Long illness proves fatal to local man Silas Newbrough
Silas Newbrough, 55, longtime Rafton resident, died at Fremont sanitarium at 7 a.m. after an eight month battle with tuberculosis. Born September 26, 1878, in this city, he was a former Baltimore and Ohio railroad water station repairman. Survived by his mother Anna Catherine Utterback Newbrough and other relatives, he was a Christian gentleman and member of the First Baptist Church. (Continued on page SIX)
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Silas Newbrough
Rafton
Fopemont
John Newbrough
Anna Catherine Utterback Newbrough
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Cneles
136 Feared Drowned in Japanese Ship Tragedy
A sixty ton steamer Taian Maru sank near Antung Manchuria today with 136 feared drowned. Rengo agency dispatch reported twenty six saved. The accident involves passengers and crew.
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Tokyo
Antung
Manchuria
Rengo
Transients to Have New Local Abode
The West Virginia transient service leased the Pugh-Waters wholesale building on Latrobe Street for one year at 1800 dollars. The move aims to provide better sleeping quarters, replacing the inadequate East Main and Luzadder street HQ, with plans for possible remodeling and renewal if needed.
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Pugh-Waters
Lower Latrobe Street
West Virginia Transient Service
Pugh- Waters Wholesale
Joseph A. Pugh, Jr
Charles Rau
Transient Bureau
Whalesale
East Main
Luzadder Streets
Baltimore & Ohio
Rau
Romney
Ex Taxi Driver Put to Death in Lethal Chamber
Louis Sprague Douglass, 49, a former New York taxi driver, was executed in Arizona’s lethal gas chamber in Florence after being convicted of murdering Ralph Hart, Yuma County prosecutor. He spent his final hours playing an accordion and was baptized Catholic the night before.
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State Prison
Florence
Ariz
Louis Sprague Douglass
Arizona
Ralph Hart
Yuma County
New York
Air racer held from speed derby in Goodland
Goodland Kansas August 31 Douglas Davis Atlanta flying a black and red low wing monoplane refueled and landed at 9 05 a m took off at 9 11 a m from Union Air Terminal Burbank California August 31 a broken gas line minutes before the start forced Col Roscoe Turner holder of the west to east speed record to withdraw from the trans continental air race Turner made a desperate repair attempt but withdrew from the race
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Goodland
Kansas
Douglas Davis
Atlanta
Union Air Terminal
Burbank
Cal
Roscoe Turner
Col. Turner
Republicans Gather in Clarksburg Draft Fall Plans
In Sistersville on August 31 Senator L J Dickinson of Iowa will keynote a Charleston rally on September 15. Walter Hallanan announced the program after meeting with C N Kimball to discuss plans. Senator Henry D Hatfield, Republican candidate for Congress, and a prominent woman speaker will also participate as the state committee sets the election platform.
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Sistersville
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Chicago
Charleston
Walter 8. Hallanan
Clarksburg
Young Republican League
Hatfield
Hallanan
C. N. Kimball
Republican State Executive Committee
Henry D. Hatfield
Congress
State Executive Committee
Huntington
Hatfield to Speak at Morning Rally With GOP Leaders Present
West Virginia Young Republicans held a state wide gathering at a local hotel with speakers including Walter S. Hallanan Clara L. Ebert C N Kimball and Charles J Schuck as they map plans for the November election. Dr Henry D Hatfield Republican Senate nominee was delayed but expected to speak tomorrow morning. A medical doctor sought to remove a bullet from a young man’s brain during the day’s activities.
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
Walter S. Hallanan
Charleston
National Republican
Clara L. Ebert
Parkersburg
C. N.kimball
Sistersville
State Republican Committee
Charles J. Schuck
Wheeling
Hatfield
Henry D. Hatfield
United States
Strange Case Unraveled by Woman's Story
Los Angeles reports Nellie Madison, wife of Eric D Madison, claims her husband killed Pasadena dentist Dr Leonard Siever after a fight over another woman. She says Madison confessed and implicated a Los Angeles woman in the case. Roosevelt plans talks with Upton Sinclair in Hyde Park on Tuesday.
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Los Angeles
California
Blayney Matthews
District Attorney
Nellie Madison
Leonard Siever
Pasadena
Montana
Matthews
Siever
Eric D. Madison
Madison
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
Paraguay Agrees to End War Pending Conference
Paraguay accepts a three-nation neutral plan to discuss a settlement of the Chaco War with Bolivia and halts hostilities during talks. Bolivia studies the formula proposed by Argentina Brazil and the United States. Key details and hurdles must be resolved before a conference proceeds.
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Paraguay
Jsuncion
Chaco
Bolivia
Argentina
Brajail
United States
Thirty States to Attend Relief Parley in Chicago
Washington August 31 Representatives of 30 states were invited to regional conferences to speed FERA work helping 80 000 destitute farm families to land ownership The first meeting in Chicago will run Tuesday and Wednesday with attention to the rural ration program in Ohio Kentucky and Virginia officials from FERA and agricultural departments to attend
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Washington
Federal Relief Administration
Bny
Agricultural Exservice
Chicago
Fee
Ohio
Kentucky
Virginia
Mrs Roosevelt faced extortion threat from arrested ex machinist
New York reports Benjamin Franklin Varn, a former Naval Aviation Corps machinist, was arrested at the William Sloane House Y M C A branch after revealing that a letter to Mrs Roosevelt demanded 168000 dollars and warned of harm to the President and grandchildren. The letter claimed to be from the Lindbergh gang and said the family would be harmed if money was not paid. The note targeted Hyde Park and mentioned the President's grandchildren, with further details promised on page two.
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New York
Benjamin Franklin Varn
Naval Aviation Corps
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Varn
Charleston
5. C
William Sloane
Hyde Park
Detective's Daughter Reports Abduction Attempt in Pittsburgh
Aileen Dailey, 25, daughter of City Detective Guy Dailey, said a tall, dark and handsome man sprang from flowers and grabbed her in her yard last night before fleeing. Police seek the unnamed suspect described in DAiley’s account.
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Pittsburgh
Ashaving
Aileen Dailey
Guy Dailey
Ex-Convict Held in Death Investigation
Police probing the slaying of Charles Campbell in Warren Ohio identify Elmer E. Martin as a person of interest. Martin, 38, already in custody for questioning, has two prior Pennsylvania robbery terms and a fugitive record. Investigators seek links to $16,000 in currency found at a roadhouse west of town.
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West Martin
Citizen Kidnapped by Manchurian Bandits
Tokyo dispatch reports United States citizen John Johansen kidnapped after bandits wreck a Chinese Eastern rail line train at Wuchia Manchukuo. Five Japanese passengers were killed and two seriously injured. The Harbin source notes Johansen was one of three MGM employees seized.
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Tokyo
United States
John Johansen
Rengo
Wuchia
Manchukuo
Harbin
Johansen
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Company
FERA approves $30000 allotment for September in Taylor County
Taylor County welfare board chairman James C Holt announced that a $30000 FERA relief allotment for September has been approved by the Charleston office. The sum exceeds earlier estimates and promises greater employment than welfare workers earned in August. Work orders for September will be issued so workers can report on Tuesday September 4, temporarily awaiting pay pending receipt of the September allotment. An extra limited cash for school clothing and shoes will be provided from PERA funds Continue on page six.
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Taylor County
Charleston
James C. Holt
Taylor County Welfare Board
FERA
PERA
New Patriotic League Formed by Democrats
Washington reports the launch of a new national nonpartisan group named American, Inc. aimed at supporting the Roosevelt recovery program. Directors include Senators McKellar and Bulow. J. M. Griffith leads the membership drive and denies plans to rival the Liberty League.
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Washington
American, Inc
Senators McKellar
D- Tenn
Bulow
American’ Liberty League
J. M. Griffith
Associated Press
Liberty League
Ohio Girl Acquitted After Jury Deliberates Two Hours
Leona Menser, a 20 year old Coshocton Ohio girl, was acquitted by a jury in Clarion county court of the murder of 61 year old John B. Kelly who enticed her to his farm through a matrimonial advertisement. The crowded courtroom cheered as the verdict of acquittal was read after hours of deliberation.
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Clarion
Leona Menser
Coshocton
Ohio
Clarion County
John B. Kelly
A.A. Geary
Kelly
Friendly Suit Tests West Virginia Hospital Act
A friendly suit filed in Taylor County tests the states hospital funding act. Judge Dent denied an injunction preventing Grafton from enforcing the act which allows five thousand dollars yearly from non taxed funds to back a federally funded hospital loan. An appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court will follow for a ruling on constitutionality. The action aims to clarify legality of the act and its funding mechanism.
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West Virginia
State Supreme Court
Herbert W. Dent
Circuit Court
A. R. Warden
O. E. Wyckoff
Grafton
Ederal Emergency Administration of ‘Public Works
Legal Department
Last Minute Reprieve Gives Killer Week to Live
Ossining New York Aug 31 an anonymous letter naming another man as the slayer of Patrolman John F Kennedy prompted a reprieve for Alphone Brengard less than three hours before execution. Brengard a former state trooper had been sentenced for Kennedy’s July 22 shooting near Woodmere Long Island. The officer survived.
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Ossining
Alphonse Brengard
John F. Kennedy
Moll
Bréen
Herbert H. Tah
Brengard
Kennedy
Woodmere
Long Island
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Walio Hotel
Sinclair
W. E. Leonard
John Dennison
Stevenson, Alabama
New Patriotic League
Taylor Court
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Dr. A. R. Warden
Gov. Lehman
Kleen Krust Bakery
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