Prohibition Push Gains Steam In West Virginia
State Superintendent B E Ewing of the Anti Saloon League declares prohibition is returning in West Virginia and outlines a plan to elect legislature candidates who are prohibitionists. He notes repeal effects include higher crime and jail crowding, citing Logan and other counties as examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
B. E. Ewing
Anti-Saloon League
West Virginia
Ewing
Logan
Iis
West
Curley Seeks Senator Post in Roosevelt Era
Boston December 4 Curley announces plan to run for U S Senate next year signaling a rough Democratic primary. He sides with Roosevelt forces, breaks with some state leaders, and asserts social security as a goal while Senator Coolidge weighs reelection. Mansfield could be drafted to run.
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Boston
Goveror
James M. Curley
U. S
Marcus Coolidge
Gurley
New England
Roosevelt
Rockland
Mansfield
United States
Coolidge
Dixon
Curley
Mrs Livermore Plans Accident Plea In Santa Barbara Jail
Mrs Dorothea F Livermore awaiting trial after her son Jesse Livermore Jr. was shot while testing a rifle she believed unloaded. Undersheriff Jack and Sheri James Ross were pictured as she was booked on assault to commit murder. Authorities said an attempted murder complaint would be filed if the boy survived and a murder charge if he died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Livermore, Jr
Dorothea F. Livermore
Jack
Sheri James Ross
Santa Barbara
Cal
Freedom
Jesse
Livermore
City to Have Festive Air on Saturday
The City of Grafton will be festive Saturday night as the Christmas lighting system becomes fully installed along Main Street. Taylor County Board of Trade officers announced readiness for the town to glow by week’s end with lights crossing the street and colorful bulbs. Reflectors from a New York firm are on order and due before week’s end to add blue red green and yellow hues to the display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Main Street
Taylor County Board of Trade
Westdean Electric Company
New York
New Deal Critics Rich, Sen Holt Claims in Debate
In New York on December 4, Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia argued that critics of the New Deal are the rich fearing for their interests. He said envious politicians join the fight over the constitutional issue during a debate with Raoul Desveraine of the American Liberty League before the Economic Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Holt
New York
U. S
Rush D. Holt
W. Va
Raoul B. Desveraine
National Lawyers Committee
American Liberty League
Economic Club
Townsend Club Meeting Planned Thursday Night
Taylor county Townsend Pension Plan club will meet at 7 30 Thursday evening at the courthouse. Attorney Eugene Sommervitte, head of the county organization, will discuss the plan and a nationally known movement leader will address the session. Invitations are extended and a large crowd is anticipated.
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Taylor County Townsend Pension Plan Club
Eugene Sommervitte
Organison
Te Aa
More Charges May Be Filed in Dorothy Bradley Case
Lewisburg, W Va December 4 Dorothy Evelyn Bradley Roman’s parents conferred with officials on additional charges to file against William Mavin Roman who awaits a second trial on kidnapping Dorothy now fourteen with a fifteen month old baby The father Richard Bradley said he will press every charge allowed by law He plans to seek federal action under the Mann Act Prosecutor Samuel Price met with Judge Summers H Sharp but would not comment on plans to bring Roman to trial in January for abducting Dorothy eight years ago A jury disagreed in the first trial The girl testified her parents married in Oklahoma City two years ago Continued on page 4
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Dorothy Evelyn Bradley Roman
William Mavin Roman
Richard Bradley
Oklahoma City
Bradley
Samuel Price
Summers H. Sharp
Roman
Dorothy
Youthful killer given life in West Virginia murder case
In Lewisburg a jury convicted 23 year old Bill Kerns of killing gardener B. Legg to steal 15 dollars. Judge Summers H. Sharp imposed life imprisonment despite a jury mercy recommendation. Prosecutor Samuel Price sought the death penalty, but the defendant denied the homicide.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Bill Kerns
Summers H. Sharp
Kerns
B.E .Legg
Lege
Samuel Price
Two Army Fliers Die in Crash Near Bolling Field
Two U S Army pilots from Mitchell Field died when their high wing Douglass C 43 plunged into a hill near Bolling Field Washington Officials said the crash occurred during a low altitude approach and left the bodies mangled with the motor still running An inquiry was started into the cause of the fatal accident.
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Washington
Mitchell Field
Long Island
Bolling Field
War Department
Harry H. Geoffrey
St. Paul
Minn
George E. Rice
Thermopolis
Wyom
College Head Seeks Court Limit on Supreme Power
Charleston report quotes Dr. James B. Allen of Marshall College predicting a constitutional amendment within ten years to curb Supreme Court reviews of laws. Allen argues framers viewed the document as adaptable and cites Jefferson urging revision about every 20 years. He says changes should meet present needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
James B. Allen
Marshall College
United States
Supreme Court
Allen
Thomas Jefferson
North African Front Braces for Decisive Ethiopian War Clash
Italian and Ethiopian forces tighten defenses as skirmishes grow hotter on the northern East Africa front. Makale remains a focal point as Marshal Badoglio plans a decisive southward thrust to end the period of inactivity. Rome signals rising tension with home defenses tightened and naval leaves curtailed.
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Associated Press
Asmara
Eritrea
Haile Selassie
Makale
East Africa
Pietro Badoglio
Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Highways warn of ice on southern roads in state
Charleston December 4 The road commission warned motorists of ice on highways in the southern section. Chief Engineer Mortimer W Smith said crews cleared snowdrifts on U S Route 21 over Flat Top mountain between Gauley Bridge and Bluefield and the route should be passable. Ice remains on highways in Randolph Pocahontas and Tucker counties.
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Charleston
Road Commission
Mortimer W. Smith
Gauley Bridge
Bluefield
Randolph
Pocahontas
Tucker
Mother who took blame to save son released
In Wayne West Virginia a mother freed after spending days in jail admitted she did not shoot her husband. Prosecutor Milton Ferguson said Mrs Henry Noe confessed she lied to shield her son Russell Prichard who is charged with murder after initially claiming he acted to defend his mother.
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Wayne
W. Va
Milton J. Ferguson
Henry Noe
Noe
Russell Prichard
Violence erupts at Detroit strike district headquarters
In Detroit on December 4 a day shift began with police and strike pickets clashing at the Automo Industrial Workers association plant. Bricks flew and police clubs swung as violence flared across from the main gate, injuring a man unnamed in reports.
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Detroit
Liceman
Automol
Vic Tive Industrial Workers Association Lence
Motor Products Gor
Theman
Unemployment Estimates Put Septembers Jobless At 10.9 Million
Washington December 4 semi official unemployment estimates reveal 10,915,000 people jobless in September. The figures prepared for President Roosevelt's economic security committee by Robert R Nathan were kept secret until today but have been widely used by federal agencies. They show 5,000,000 formerly jobless found work since March 1933 while the employable population rose nearly 1,000,000. Nathan pegs the peak at 15,071,000 in March 1933 and notes October signals a substantial drop from September.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Committee On Economic Security i
Robert R. Nathan
Nathan
Committee ‘On
Open Fires Claim Two Children in Raleigh Co
BECKLEY December 4 open fires caused the deaths of two children Esther Baxter four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan Baxter and Corabell Howell infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Gait Howell died in front of grates at the homes of their parents in Raleigh County authorities said no further details were released at this time
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Beckley
Esther Baxter
Dan Baxter
Corabell Howell
Mr. End
Gait ‘Howell
Fugitives Escaped. Posse Stalks Winding Stair Division
McAlester Oklahoma December 4 Armed possemen hunt five fugitives from the Irish O Malley mob near the Winding Stair mountains in Latimer and Pushmataha counties. Prisoners include four bank robbers and kidnapers and a Mann Act case man. An airplane is sought to aid pursuit while a sixth prisoner lies fatally shot in a Muskogee jail break.
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H. H. Sherifl
McAlester
O’malley
Winding Stair Mountains
Wilburton
Latimer County
Clayton
Pushmataha County
Leonard Short
Dewey Gilmore
Dan T. Heady
Russell Cooper
Okemah
Okla
Dan Garrett
Muskogee City
John Blackburn
Ben Bolton
Failure of WPA School Grant Pleas Condemned
Huntington dispatch reports A H Frankel Cabell County Board of Education member calls for investigation of WPA failure to approve local school projects He urges legislature to change the setup and for action at national WPA headquarters He notes Marshall College receiving a new model school under WPA grant and accuses the project of serving a wealthier class
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Huntington
A. H. Frankel
Cabell County
Marshall
U S Officer Ex Policeman Shot and Killed at Tulsa Club
In Tulsa Oklahoma on December 4 federal internal revenue agent Louis Pappan 42 and ex police detective captain George Stewart were shot to death at the Sheridan club east of the city. Two club employees Tyree Park and G R Hickory McCullough were detained as the investigation unfolds with claims of a holdup. Witnesses quote McCullough saying he fired only after Stewart aimed at Park and that Park seized Stewart’s pistol. Police note one unfired cartridge remained in Park’s pistol and a shell missing from McCullough’s gun.
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Tulsa
Okla
Louis Pappan
Internal Revenue
George Stewart
Sheridan Club
Tyree Park
Doorman
G. R
Hickory) McCullough
Garland Marrs
Park
McCullough
Roy Staley
Stewart
Pappan
Jimmy Burkhead
PWA Projects in West Virginia Move Ahead by January
PWA plans 53 proposals totaling 4.84 million dollars under construction in West Virginia by January 1. Director M L O Neale said bids for 53 proposals will be received before December 15 and noted the program has been moving along rapidly in the state.
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Charleston
PWA
West Virginia
M. L. O'Neale
Truck Driver Arrested In Killing of An Aged Man
Huntington dispatch reports state police have charged N. A. Nash of Barboursville with driving the truck that fatally struck and killed W. Spurlock, 60, of Branchland. Nash waived to the grand jury on a manslaughter indictment at a hearing before Justice of the Peace.
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Huntington
N. A. Nash
Barboursville
Spurlock
Branchland
Nash
Bank Robbery Ends in Fatal Firefight in Wadestown
In Wadestown West Virginia two bandits attempted a bank robbery at the Bank of Wadestown. Police, alerted days earlier, fired on the robbers after they demanded money and fired at Assistant Cashier Olen C. Henderson. One robber, Howard Hayes, 23, of Mannington, was killed. The other, Roy Taylor, 35, wounded, fled toward a waiting car and was wounded by troopers. Henderson and cashier Alex White were present. the incident halted as troopers exchanged shots and the attackers attempted to cash a check. Continued on page 4.
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Wadestown
W. Va
Olen C. Henderson
Morgantown Hospital
Howard Hayes
Mannington
Roy Taylor
Jared
Rehvers
Hayes
Taylor
Morgantown
Wes
Henderson
Alex White
Bossy Gillis Retakes Mayoral Seat in Newburyport
Newburyport Mass December 4 Bossy Gillis wins a third term as mayor attributing campaign strategy to his wife and supporters He pledges favors for friends and says John M Kelleher a dance hall owner will head the city industrial planning board He notes personal change since prior jail stint and era of notoriety.
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Newburyport
Mass
Andrew J
Bossy)Gillis
John M. Kelleher
City Industrial Planning Board
Bossy
Ee Jali
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