Failing Of Reconciliation Man Kills Wife and Mother-In-Law
Charleston Dec 4 Arthur Quesenberry 26 sought harmony after estrangement failed and killed his wife and mother-in-law then shot himself. Neighbors found the mother-in-law Abel Smith dead in Snowpill home. wife died after hospital treatment. A coroner labeled the deaths murder and self-inflicted death. A teen relative said Quesenberry forced entry and three gunshots were heard amid a bedroom quarrel that preceded the fatal acts. The couple’s two children were involved as the wife refused reconciliation and returned to her mother’s home.
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Charleston
Arthug Quesenberry
Isabel Smith
Snowpill
Quesenberry
F. W. Work
William Smith
Smith
Pastor's Stand on Lynchings Sparks Picket at Church
New York readers saw theology students protest the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest after Pastor Henry Darlington endorsed Governor James Rolph's San Jose lynching commendation. Three arrests were made as the demonstration continued.
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New York
Theologic
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly
Hearing of second Negro Norris case ends in Decatur
In Decatur Alabama the state plans to end its case against Clarence Norris and the seven Scottsboro defendants suspected in the assault of two white women aboard a freight train near Jackson county on March 25 1931. The trials moved to Decatur on a venue change with two witnesses remaining Orvel Gilley and Luther Morris.
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Decatur
Alabama
Clarence Norris
Norris
Victoria Price
Huntsville
Ruby Bates
Jackson County
Ofer
Orvel Gilley
Albertville
Ala
Luther Morris
Gilley
Feywood Patterson
Patterson
Token debt payment debated after State Department talks
Acting Secretary William Phillips and Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso discussed a token payment of 1,000,000 dollars for debts due December 15. Diplomatic circles generally expect acceptance, though Phillips would not confirm any promise. The total debt due December 15 amounts to 2,133,905 dollars.
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Washington
William Phillips
Augusto Rosso
State Department
United States
Phillips
Gravely Wounded Man Shot by Son-in-Law in Coffman
Clarksburg resident Arthur Johnson, 38, is hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the left hip after a late Saturday altercation at Charles Nixon’s Coffman home. Nixon, 59, was arrested at his residence on the Grafton-Fairmont road. no charges filed yet. Police report Nixon and Johnson had traveled from Clarksburg to Coffman to visit Sidney Johnson, with Johnson allegedly warning of retaliation before the incident.
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Charles Nixon
Arthur Johnson
Clarksburg
Coffman
Grafton-Fairmont Road
W. G. Wamsley
Claude Hefner
Sherif Harry Batson
E. K. Satterfield
Nixon
Johnson
Sidney Johnson
Japan demands higher naval quota in Washington treaty talks
Japan voices strong dissatisfaction with the 5-5-3 ratio and pledges to seek an upward revision when naval powers reconvene. A spokesman for the Japanese Naval Office called the Washington treaty "totally inadequate" in a changing world as Secretary Swanson endorses the current ratios in his annual report.
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Tokyo
Secretary of the Navy
Swanson
Washington
Naval Office
Japan
London
Codes Not To Bother Santa Claus Work
Columbus report quotes General Hugh Johnson reassuring Columbians that Santa Claus faces no restrictions this Christmas due to codes. A telegraphic reply to a chamber of commerce inquiry urges Santa to assure all children the Saint’s activities are unlimited. The relief administrator speaks of a nationwide code of peace and good will.
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Columbus
Hugh
Johnson
Santa Claus
Christmas Novelty Bazaar Bake Sale and Candy Sale
A Christmas Bazaar features a bake sale and candy sale as the highlight events. Proceeds support local charitable programs with organizers promoting community participation and seasonal festivities.
Daughter of WV Governor Died in Romney
Mrs. Mattie Jacob Baird, daughter of the late John Jeremiah Jacob fourth governor of West Virginia, died at her Romney home Sunday of a heart attack. She was born and lived here all her life and was widow of the late William Baird. Four stepsons are the nearest relatives. Burial will be Wednesday.
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Romney
Mattie Jacob Baird
John Jeremiah Jacob
West Virginia
William Baird
Roosevelt returns from vacation to Washington
President Roosevelt arrived in Washington at 11 a.m. from his two weeks at Warm Springs Georgia with Mrs Roosevelt. He paused on the rear platform with photographers before heading to the White House. The president spent a quiet morning aboard his special train reading.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
White House
Trent Plans Educational Relief Program in West Virginia
West Virginia education leaders meet in Clarksburg to map a relief program using a $38,000 Civil Works Administration grant. About 1,000 idle teachers will be hired across six projects including rural education and adult literacy, with 70 leaders to train at Jackson's Mill before weekend completion.
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Clarksburg
W.y. Tres
West Virginia
Civil Works Administration
Jackson's Mill
Trainig
Trent
Final touches put to liquor regulations
Washington December 4 with less than forty eight hours of national prohibition remaining the presidents inter department committee and the Federal Alcohol Administration worked through yesterday and into last night on the emergency control program to govern the flow of legal liquor after repeal. They finished the code of fair practice and marketing agreement for brewers and conferred with brewers on final points. Hearings were set for liquor wholesalers for today and for rectifiers on Tuesday with consideration also given to the code and mailing agreement.
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Washington
Iie
Chicago Looks to End Its Reign of Terror with Legal Rum
Chicagoans turn to the first legal liquor since 1919 as a hopeful end to a fourteen year bootlegger civil war. The era saw over a thousand gangland deaths across the city and notable figures like Capone Torrio Moran and the Genna brothers, with brutality chronicled in the era's slang and crime history.
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Chicago
LEGAL
Chicagoan
Big Jim Corosimo
Johnny Torrio
al Capone
Murray Humphreys
Genna Brothers
George
Bugs) Moran
House Body Studies Economy For Government
The House Finance Committee begins review of economy measures amid talk of abolishing the Department of Agriculture and the Board of Control. A subcommittee asked for a full list of state employees and salaries, signaling possible personnel cuts and similar requests to city and county governments as the legislature reconvenes.
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House
Charleston
Des
House Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Department of Agriculture
Board of Control
Lubliner
Mercer
Wynekoop Case Shifts to Defense as Judge Holds Court
Dr. Alice Wynekoop, ill in county jail, will not face arraignment today. The case moves to Judge Josph B. Davis for trial in January with her lawyer Frank Tyrrell planning to resist bail. A witness claims Rheta Gardner Wynekoop’s body was seen in a taxicab back seat prior to the alleged murder.
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Chicago
Alice Wynekoop
Rheta
Yal
Sullivan
David Moneypenn
Electeras
Plex
Alice
Alice Wynexsop
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
Sook County
Grand Jury
Frank Tyrrell
Wynekoop
NRA code enforcement continues despite federal ruling
Washington reports NRA officials, unshaken by Judge Akerman’s constitutional ruling on national code terms, proceed to obtain compliance in every line of business covered by applicable codes. The note comes as ongoing efforts to enforce industrial standards continue nationwide.
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Washington
Feder
Alexander Akerman
Donald R. Richberg
Body of Edna Morris Found Near Princess Anne
Edna Morris, 20, white farm girl missing since Friday, was found dead face down in a woods five miles from Princess Anne Maryland near Revel's Neck road. Autopsy pending. authorities not yet distinguishing murder. Two local Black residents who found the body were questioned. one released.
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Princess Anne
Edna Morris
Revel's Neck Road
Edward Morris
States vie to ratify repeal as Utah hosts convention
Salt Lake City Utah December 4 Pennsylvania and Ohio repeal conventions set for the same day Utah hopes to become the 36th state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment The ratifying session will be on the second floor of Utahs 2 million dollar statehouse soon after noon Mountain Time The push aims to honor the moment while Maine waits its own vote on the 6th and could win the race.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Pennsylvanie
Maine
Heinze Urges Elk Values At Grafton Lodge Memorial
Hon Arthur Heinze past Exalted Ruler of Fairmont spoke at Grafton Lodge 308 memorial services in Eli's Home auditorium. The service included piano solo by Ann Tucker and ritual by Exalted Warden John Bradford, with list of absent brothers for 1933 read by secretary Simon Friedman.
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Arthur Heinze
Fairmont
Grafton Lodge 308
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Eli's
Deceas
Ann Tucker
John H. Bradford
Awer
George Hushion
Simon J. Friedman
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