Ransom Motive Cited In Abduction Of Mary Brown
Mary Brown, 18, returned home after a 30 hour abduction in rural Maryland. Her captors sought ransom but released her when payment could not be made. She described being kept in a hut and later found by her family in tatters. Police investigated with Major Munshower saying further questioning followed at her home.
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Oxon Hill
William B. Brown
Mary Brown
Brown
Mary
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Washington
Elmer F. Munshower
Maryland State Police
Munshower
Accused Man Faces Victim at Hospital in Club Shooting
Wheeling dispatch says Charles Hahne, 49, a night watchman, was confronted by Otto Foose, 43, in a downtown social club where Foose, a tile company foreman, was found critically wounded. Police say Foose named Hahne as his assailant after initially refusing to identify him. Hahne, held on an open charge, was taken to the hospital as officers back the claim.
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Wheeling
Alonzo Hixenbaugh
Charles Hahne
Otto Foose
Foose
Charles Mann
Hixenbaugh
Hahne
Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Byers to tonight’s showings
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Margaret Byers of 211 Maple Avenue to attend tonight’s screenings at the Strand theatre featuring Mr. Moto’s Gamble with Peter Lorre or the Dixie theatre presenting Panamint’s Bad Man with Smith Ballew. Identification may be required for admission.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Margaret Byers
Ma’ Ple Avenue
Mr. Moto
Peter Lorre
Strand Theatre
Smith Ballew
Panamint
Dixie Theatre
Committee probes wealth concentration in two year study
Washington dispatch reports the federal monopoly committee opening its two year inquiry by calling Willard Thorp of the commerce department to discuss American industry structure. Lubin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics testified that a more equitable income distribution is key to higher living standards and reduced unemployment. The panel, chaired by Senator O Ma honey, aims to solve the nation’s economic ills amid 1930s conditions as it presses for increased production.
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Washington
Federal
Willard Thorp
Department of Commerce
Lubin
Thorp
Isador Lubin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
O’mahoney
Wyo
Air Transport Wrecks injures six on Berlin Baghdad flight
Berlin dispatch reports a Luft hansa Berlin to Baghdad air transport crash landed in Vienna Wienerwald today. Four crew and two German passengers were seriously injured, two English passengers named Wilkins of the British air ministry and Muschamp of Manchester were bruised. The burning craft forced occupants to escape by breaking windows.
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Berlin
Lufthansa Line
Berlin-Baghdad
Vienna Forest
Wienerwald
Ochors
F. S. Wilkins
British
Air Ministry
Baghdad
H. L. Muschamp
Manchester
Alexandria
Floods Kill Seventy Two in Urfa Region of Turkey
Istanbul dispatch reports Southeast Urfa region floods killing 72 people and destroying homes and livestock. Relief societies mobilize squads to aid survivors and assess damage as thousands of cattle perish.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Urfa
Gas Furnace Explosion Hits Salem College Building
A gas furnace in the main building at Salem College exploded during classes at 11 am injuring janitor Okey W. Davis, 57. About 50 students were in the three story brick building. the blast caused panic as books flew from shelves and chairs toppled. All others escaped unharmed.
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Salem
Salem College
Okey ‘W. Davis
Dismissal of charges asked in Philadelphia prison deaths
A former deputy warden Frank A Craven and nine others indicted in the baking to death of four hunger striking convicts seek dismissal arguing the separate indictments were improp erly drawn since the deaths resulted from one act. They face trial next Tuesday with Craven Mills and three guards charged with murder and five other guards charged with manslaughter.
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Philadelphia
Frank A. Craven
Craven
William B. Mills
Christmas Gifts For State Heads Opposed
Governor Holt called Christmas gifts to state department heads inappropriate in a memorandum to all department heads. He urged employees to forgo substantial presents at Christmas and cited family or charitable objectives as the motive for restraint.
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Charleston
Holt
Hopkins Sees Mr Roosevelt at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins met at the Little White House in Warm Springs Georgia to discuss relief needs and the impact of rising private employment on relief rolls. They planned further talks to estimate funding needs for the remaining months of the fiscal year and the next period.
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White House
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Germany
Hugh Wilson
Phillips
Italy
William Phillips
Wilson
Congress
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Accident On WPA Job Fatal To One Worker
Beckley December 2 Works Progress Administration opened an investigation into an accident on a WPA project. Enoch Webb about 50 a surveyor was killed when a dump truck bed tilted after moving about 10 feet. William Brown 50 of Lester was hospitalized with chest injuries as 14 workers fell onto Webb.
France Warned by Fascist Newspaper Over Tunisia Clash
Rome dispatch reports Fascist editor Virginio Gayda in Giornale d Italia warned France that Italy is ready to march against France if necessary. The remark underscores rising Italian France tensions after Italian deputies demonstrated for Tunisia interests in Paris’s presence.
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Rome
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
France
Italy
New Strikes In Prospect Over France
Paris reports the Daladier government facing threats of further strikes amid bitterness at home and alleged Italian colonial aims. Workers discharged in a one day walkout provoke protests, with 1.5 million claimed by CGT and Socialist leaders. Lockouts loom as 11 000 metal and textile workers called to St Nazaire and 12 000 at Le Havre.
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Paris
Africa
Eduard Daladier
Daladier
General Confederation of Labor
Socialist Party
St. Nazaire
le Havre
Father Hurt Son Loses Life In Two Accidents
Beckley dispatch reports two separate auto incidents yesterday and today. Asa Martin of Lester escaped with a bruised arm after a dump truck bed tilted, while his 27 year old son Gar land Martin died when his truck plunged over a 100 foot embankment near Lester. Virginian railroad workers found him trapped beneath the vehicle.
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Beckley
Asa Martin
Lester
Gar~land
Young Martin
Martin
Judge Fox To Become High Court President
Charleston December 2 The Supreme Court announced that Judge Fred L. Fox will become the court president on January 1 He is a former state tax commissioner elected to the bench in 1936 and will succeed President Judge Haymord Maxwell The presidency rotates by seniority and Judge John H Hattner asked to be relieved of duties leading to Fox receiving the offer
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Charleston
Supreme Court Today
Fred L. Fox
Fox
Haymord Maxwell
John H. Hattner
Motorized Infantry Will Be Developed By U. S. Army
A streamlined infantry regiment wins War Department approval. Smaller, mobile, but hard hitting, the unit travels by motor truck and fires semi automatic rifles. It is designed as a major element of a high speed army on wheels to match postwar trends. Plans for new canal locks discussed as defenses advance.
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Washington
War Department
Woodring
Roosevelt
Land values set for dam area in Taylor and Barbour counties
Valuations for 835.41 acres in Taylor and Barbour counties to be included in the Tygart dam basin were reported in U S district court at Elkins. The report fixes a total fair price of 124291 for the land with an average of about 149 per acre. Daisy H Young received 27000 for 120.59 acres as the largest award among several payments including 5310 for 120.97 acres belonging to Monongahela Railroad.
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Taylor and
Barbour
Tygart Dam
W. F. Baker
U. S. District Court
Elkins
U. S
Daisy H. Young
Monongahela Railroad Corporation
Hannon Outlines Grafton Homecoming Plans
Charles Hannon spoke to the Grafton Rotary Club on plans for the Taylor County 95th anniversary celebration set to begin May 30, 1939, lasting a week. He outlined actions by Rotarians to help the event and discussed potential small new industries for the city with Mayor P F Gillis sponsoring the anniversary effort.
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Taylor County
Charles Hannon
Grafton
P. F. Gillispie
Unions Hold Up Work On Big Apartment Building
Charleston reports that the Kanawha Housing corporation may halt or abandon the $600,000 Kanawha village project if a closed shop is insisted on by the Charleston Building Trades council. About 150 workers began picketing the 174 family complex in Kanawha City, with the council vowing to continue until a union contract is signed. The company offered union or prevailing wage scales, but union leaders demanded language restricting employment to union members only.
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Charleston
Charleston Building Trades Council
Kanawha Village
Kanawha Housing Corporation
Kanwha City
F. L. Strawn
Kanawha Housing
Minister Russell Bready Found Slain in Bainbridge
Dr. Russell H. Bready a 60 year old Methodist minister and former Pontiac mayor was found shot to death in Bainbridge Ohio near the parsonage. Sheriff held his 29 year old son Rob as a suspect as investigation continues.
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Bainbridge
Russell H. Bready
Pontiac
Mich
Bready
Joseph Vincent
Rob
Settlement Reached in Newton Will Case
A settlement has been reached in the Newton will case, which occupied Taylor county court on Wednesday and Thursday. An order detailing terms of the agreement between the second wife and Vonda Booth, a daughter from the first marriage, will be entered at the commissioners regular session Monday. The terms were not disclosed pending the order.
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Meredith Newton
Taylor County Court
Vonda Booth
Fisher Body Plant No 1 in Flint shut by strike
Flint Mich Dec 2 The Fisher Body plant No 1 employing 6000 to 7000 men closed at 1230 p m today as CIO United Automobile Workers members walked out on strike after a 3434 to 433 vote approving action over wage rates in the press and metal departments.
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Flint, Mich
Fisher Body Company
CIO
United Automobile Workers
UAW
INO BLAME FOR FATAL WRECK 15 ASSIGNED ENGINEER TELLS STORY
Salt Lake City December 2 with the death of a youth today the nation’s worst school bus train disaster rose to 33 identified victims. Sixteen youths occupants of the crowded bus were injured three critically after a speeding freight train slammed into the bus ten miles south of Salt Lake City. One body remained unidentified though morgue attendants feared it might be one of the children. The Flying Ute, Denver and Rio Grande Western’s fast freight, was snowbound and behind schedule when it struck the loaded bus. Rescue crews used a dozen ambulances to speed the injured to Salt Lake General Hospital and gathered the scattered remains for the morgue.
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Salt Lake City
Here
Salt Lake General Hospital
Denver
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Balt Lake City
BE. L. Rehmer
Hunter slain by own rifle ends record deer hunt
Clarksburg December news reports a hunter named Lee Oak, 20, of near Lee Hampshire County, fatally shot after falling from a stump and discharging his rifle. First day deer kill totals approach records with nine counties contributing 248 shots, amid rising deer herds cited by the conservation commission.
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
Lee Oak
Lee
Hampshire County
The
Conservation Commission
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Taylor and Barbour County
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Heflin
West Main Street
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Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Senate Finance
Ohio
Newton Will
Fisher Body Plant
Flint
Ino
Hampshire Co
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