Lawson case feud cited as auditor hounds ex-state official
In Beckley a county court heard T C Townsend accuse auditor Edgar B Sims of hounding Edgar C Lawson in a conspiracy to defraud case. Lawson, on trial for selling a $2000 stock to C E McGee in 1932, argued the Guaranty Investment Company was solvent until 1933 and that Sims caused its closing.
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Guaranty Inestment Company
Taw- Sou
Sims
Edgar Lawson
EB. C. Yy
Huntington
Lawson
C. E. McGee
Rhodell
Euditor Sims
Securi
Pige
Insull Trial Opens as Jurors Sought for Embezzlement Case
Martin J Insull faces charges of embezzling 344720 from Middle West Utilities. Judge Cornelius J Harrington presides as prosecutors outline the alleged theft while jury selection begins. The younger brother Samuel Insull is slated for January trial on similar accusations.
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Chicago
Martin J. Insull
Middle West Utilities Company
Cornelius J. Harrington
John ¢.O'Hara
Martin Jinsull
Middle West Utilities Corporation
Kitchen Politics Mrs Gray Aims Chicago Mayoral Run
Mrs. John Wesley Gray announces candidacy for Chicago mayor on the Republican ticket. She says if elected she will run the city like a well organized kitchen, combining domestic skills with governance apparatus.
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John Wesley Gray
Chicago
Windy City
Mingo County Slayer Seeks Hanging Stay
The Mingo county circuit court records on the murder trial of Greeley Blankenship will be reviewed by Pardon Attorney A W Garnett before any reprieve action. Blankenship, jailed at Moundsville, was sentenced to death in October for killing John Christofone near Matewan after Christofone pleaded with his wife not to help Blankenship home to Kentucky. Garnett said a recommendation will go to Governor H G Kump the next day.
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Charleston
Mingo County
Greeley Blankenship
A. W. Garnett
Blankenship
Moundsville
John Christofone
Matewan
Annual Driver's Permit Favored by Shingleton
Parkersburg reports that P. D. Shingleton, superintendent of the state police, backs an annual automobile driver's license to ensure every driver is qualified. He addressed the Parkersburg Automobile Club last night, arguing it would promote greater safety for motorists and pedestrians.
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Parkersburg
P. D. Shingleton
State Police
Parkersburg Automobile Club
Miner Killed In Hartford Slate Fall
William Roach age 60 of Hartford was crushed to death after being caught under a slate fall at the Jackson mine near Hartford yesterday in Point Pleasant.
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Point Pleasant
Jackson
Hartford
William Roach
Industry backs recovery plan with balanced budget plea
American industry today offered a platform of cooperation with New Deal policies. C L Bardo of the National Association of Manufacturers presented a program urging a balanced budget, tax reforms, and limited federal aid. It opposes soldier bonuses before due and calls for state expenditure cuts to 1926 levels while favoring tax shifts and restrained labor policy. The plan may be amended and will be considered by the American Congress of Industry before presenting to the administration.
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New York
C. L. Bardo
National Association of Manufacturers
National Industrial Council
Whic
Congress
Paul Clapp
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
NRA
State Relief Office Relocates From Capitol Building
It is moving day for the state relief administration as furniture and equipment shift from capitol offices to a downtown price building. Capitol quarters will be vacated to make way for the legislature convening next month.
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Charleston
State Relief Administration
Capitol
Price Building
Capitol Building
Wife to Stick by Husband Who Slain Son in Indiana Pa
One tiny victim of a double shooting in an Indiana home is to be buried today while his father awaits disposition of his plea of guilty to a slaying charge. Heber Westover, 28, admitted the shootings with a rifle and faces murder charges after killing his two and a half year old crippled son and wounding his four month old baby son. The baby lies in critical condition with two bullets in the stomach. Westover was denied permission to attend the funeral as the case moves toward court action.
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Indiana
Heber Westover
Westover
American Girl Arrested Over Cabaret Shooting in Paris
Miss Marguer y Chadwick of St. Louis was held on two minor charges after police found her revolver unloaded and that the shot target was a bystander named Maurice Gregars. The wounded man was shot by a policeman during a dispute after leaving The Bull on the Roof cabaret on the Champs Elysees.
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Robert B. Parker
Associated Press
Paris
Marguery Chadwick
St. Louis
Miss Chadwick
Maurice Gregars
Andre Ekciyar
Nye Reveals New Charges In Arms Inquiry
Washington reports Senator Nye chairing the muni tions inquiry alleges evidence shows European munitions makers plotted to control world trade in war implements. He says hearings will reveal that U S arms men aided manufacturers and influenced delegates at a 1925 Geneva conference. State Department moves to speed international action on arms control. Hull to confer with Wilson on Switzerland mission.
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Washington
Senate
Geneva
Nye
R-N. DD
U. S
State Department
America
Wilson
Hull
Hugh R. Wilson
Switzerland
Markets Hold Steady as Prices Rise in Mixed Session
Last Minute News reports in New York on December 4 show a generally steady to firm market tone with higher stock prices. Rail and aviation shares exhibit moderate run-side activity, while the war department awards a Tap pan dam contract in Ohio to Sammons Robertson at 887 450 dollars. Relief rolls rise by 37 600 families in October to 4 082 000, with totals ahead of last year.
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W York
Washington
War Department
Tappan Dam
Muskingum River
Ohio
Sammons Robertson Company
Huntington
W. Va
Relief Administration
This Bus Just Can't Keep Out of Trouble
Twelve members of the University of Oklahoma band were injured, two seriously, and a bus driver hurt when their bus left a ditch five miles west of Brownsville Tennessee. Dale Smith 20 Norman fractured skull in serious condition. Hugh Comfort 20 Norman broken bone in arm. Band members were en route home from Washington DC after the Oklahoma George Washington game Thanksgiving.
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Brownsville
Tenn
University of Oklahoma
Here
Dale Smith
Norman
Okla
Hugh Comfort
Nor
Borah Urged to Take Over Party's Helm
Senator Borah faced a challenge from Senator Couzens to chair the Republican party and propose a new platform after Borah urged reorganization. Fletcher refused to resign as national committee chairman, warning resignation would confuse the party, while Representative Fish urged liberal policies and unity.
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Nathan Robertson
Washington
Borah
Couzens
R.-Mich
Reed
Pennsylvania
Fletcher
Michigan
Henry P. Fletcher
National Republican Committee
Fish
Representative Fish
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Bennett Renamed Head of Taylor County Farm
M. J. Bennett, superintendent of the county poor farm for four years, was chosen by the Taylor county court to serve another one year term. The action reduced Bennett's salary from 1000 to 900 dollars for 1935. Constable-elect T. E. Freeze, from Knottsville district, qualified. Joseph Lyman of Flemington failed to qualify as bondholder with a 3500 dollar bond.
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M. J. Bennett
Taylor County
Bennett
T. E. Freeze
Knottsville
Joseph Lyman
Flemington
Arkansas wife faces three murder charges in three-child death
Mrs Minnie Jenkins of Little Rock, 29, admitted buying strychnine that police say Charles Jenkins used to kill three of their four children on November 23. Charles Jenkins claims his wife had no intent to kill and says he took the poison by mistake for quinine.
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Little Rock
Ark
Minnie Jenkins
Charles
Jenkins
Long Sleeper Awakening To Heed
Chicago reports Patricia Maguire Oak of Park, once in a thirty three month sleep from a mysterious illness, showing signs of awakening as her mother notes in a diary. A first spoken response occurred yesterday when she understood words and obeyed a simple instruction to show her thumb. The diary entry describes her sigh and thumb gesture as proof of progress.
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Chicago
Patricia Maguire Oak
Park
Patricia
Sadie Mi Jey
Slayer of Poet Goes on Trial Second Time
Woodland California December 4 Judson C Deke accused slayer of Lamar Hollingshead a 23 year old student poet faced his second trial in superior court Here a jury disagreed at the first trial last month seven voting to acquit the 34 year old defendant on unwritten law and five for conviction Doke was accused of killing Hollingshead on a ranch near here last July as the climax of the poet s illicit love affair with Doke s pretty 26 year old wife
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Woodland
Calif
Judson C. Deke
Lamar Hollingshead
Doke
Hollingshead
Here
Early Return of Germany to League Hopes Rise
Geneva reports diplomatic optimism that Germany may rejoin the disarmament conference and the League of Nations. A Franco German accord in Rome suggests the Saar will vote to return to Germany with the January 13 plebiscite seen as less dangerous. Statesmen foresee a broader Franco German understanding ahead.
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Germany
Joseph E. Sharkey
Geneva
League of Nations
Rome
France
Saar
Harwood Named Temporary Taylor County Welfare Leader
Simon J. Friedman is relieved of duties and replaced temporarily by George W. Harwood as district FERA supervisor. The Taylor County Welfare Board held a special session December 4 1934 to authorize the change, with the full nine member board attending. The notice includes Friedman’s letter requesting relief from duties as Administrator of Relief Activities in Taylor.
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Simon J. Friedman
Rellief
George W. Harwood
FERA
Friedman
Harwood
County Welfare Board
Taylor County Relief Administration
Grafton
West Virginia
Taylor ‘County Welfare Board
Simon J. Pelomscal
Taylor County Welfare Board
Lila D. Love
Three California to Australia air trio nears Hawaii
Three California to Australia flyers sped across the Pacific in rough weather, nearing Honolulu as the President Coolidge reported the group was about 500 miles out at 6:25 a.m. PST. Ulm messages came in faintly but cheerfully OK. The Maliko marked the second sighting since Oakland departure.
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San Francisco
California
Australia
Hawaii
Honolulu
Coolidge
Globe
Ulm
Oakland
Two Trainmen Killed in Brooklyn Collision
Two trainmen died and eight track workers were injured in a head on crash of Long Island railroad freight trains in a Brooklyn cut under Brooklyn Avenue. An electric locomotive and a steam locomotive collided, tearing away concrete, with engines toppled and cars derailed, authorities reporting.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Long Island Railroad
Brooklyn Avenue
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T. C. Townsend
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State Relief Office
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Taylor County Farm
Mrs
Broad Pacific
West Coast
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