FERA Plans W Main Street Improvement At Once
The local FERA submitted a $21 137 project to the state welfare board in Charleston for resurfacing West Main Street from Leonard to Route 50 in the Fetterman district. The plan resets 12 050 square feet of brick over 3 500 feet, removes 1 500 cubic yards of dirt, and installs new curb and amesite filler with a six inch rock base. Start date soon, with work involving brick resurfacing and possible curb resetting, continuation noted.
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State Welfare Board
Charleston
FHRA
West Main Street
Leonard Street
Fetterman District
Charles . King
W. D. Frey
Taylor County
FERA
Prey
Powder sent in spite of 1929 embargo
Senate investigators received evidence that du Pont Co shipped powder to Holland in 1929 for re export to China despite an embargo on sending munitions directly to China. The munitions committee noted State Department files lacked hints it urged a conference of arms makers before the 1925 Geneva arms conference.
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Charles P. Nutter
Washington
Dec
du Pont Company
Holland
China
Senate
Clark
United States
Diu Pont
State Department
Hermaon
Combe
Frank B Kellogg
State
Irenee du Pont
Oyster and Baked Ham Supper at St Pauls M E Church
The Ladies Aid Society of St Pauls M E Church announces an oyster and baked ham supper on Thursday December 6. Price 40 cents. Proceeds support church work and community aid. Tickets available at church office and from members.
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Ladies’ Aid Society of
Helen Gillis Arrested Widow of Baby Face Nelson
Mrs Helen Gillis widow of the outlaw Baby Face Nelson is photographed under arrest in Chicago. Identified as the driver of the car in which her dying husband and another man fled after a gun battle in which two federal agents were killed. She is described as the first woman designated by the federal government as a public enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Gillis
Nelson
Chicago
All Hungarians Living In Yugoslavia Deported
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6. The Yugoslav government announced it will expel all 27,000 Hungarians living in Yugoslavia. The expulsion will be gradual yet relentless, with about 2,000 already deported and the number rising daily. A 300-strong group remains stateless after relinquishing Hungarian citizenship to seek Yugoslav status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Wheeling Register Co Adjudicated Bankrupt
The Wheeling Register is adjudicated bankrupt in an order by Federal Judge William E. Baker on petitions of creditors. The order is returnable to Referee C. P. Mead of Wheeling for a hearing on December 18.
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Elkins
West Virginia Printing Co
Wheeling Register
Wiliam E. Baker
C. P. Mead
Wheeling
Death on tracks fuels defense plea in Britton case
In Preston county circuit court, testimony suggested Frank Britton 63 of Tunnelton died accidentally after being found beside a railroad in October 1933. Witness James Sampson said rust on the left shoe indicated rust from track rails, supporting an accidental death theory in the murder trial of Ida Brand 55 and George Weaver 30 of Howesville.
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Kingwood
Frank Britton
Tunnelton
Preston County
Britton
James Sampson
Homesville
Ida Brand
George Weaver
Howesville
Sampson
Japan warned not to scrap naval treaty plan backfires
London December 6 Japan was warned by Norman H. Davis that scrapping the Washington naval treaty would endanger security and spark a costly naval race. He said President Roosevelt proposed a broad reduction in armaments and urged continuation of the Washington and London treaties for equal security.
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Japan
London
Norman H. Davis
Washington
Roosevelt
American Correspondents Association
United States
Davis
Pacific
Far East
Murdered Wife Identified. Husband Sought in Los Angeles
Los Angeles on December 6 a manhunt began for John H Happel after his wife Rose Bella Happel was found murdered in a windowless shack. Autopsy said the 46 year old woman was beaten to death three days to a week earlier. Identification came from her son Fred Happel who identified the dismembered body found in a trunk.
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Los Angeles
John H. Happel
Rosebella Happel
Fred Happel
Playing Santa Claus is no Snap in Sedalia Mo
Sedalia Missouri December 6 witnesses a Christmas parade where children pelted Santa Claus with snowballs forcing police to intervene as local merchants staged a festive business district opening and the volunteer behind the red suit required help.
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Santa Claus
Sedalia
Mr. Claus
Six Die From Barn Fire During Motion Show in Bre and Panic
In Bre and panic near St Gaudric France six persons died of burns and injuries from a barn cinema fire. Five boys aged 2 to 11 and a woman were among the dead. Over twenty others were trampled or crushed while fleeing the exit as the blaze started at the projector during a suburban village exhibition.
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Perpigan
France
St. Gaudric
Three Die in Alpena House Fire During Sleep
A mother Mrs Horace Brammhill and her children Roy 11 and Mary 6 died when their Alpena Michigan home burned as they slept The husband father had left for work on a county highway project after building a fire in the store
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Alpena
Mich
Horace Brammhill
Roy
Mary
Shooting of Blonde Girl Shot and Left in Ditch
Emma Miller, 28, found shot on a rural road near Colebrook, Lebanon County. Police recovered the pistol, seek a car that fled after the shooting, and expect arrests of a man and a woman tied to last summer threats. Her condition was described as critical with little chance of recovery.
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Leo W. Sheridan
Lebanon
Emma Miller
National Guard
Colebrook
George Tuckler
Harry Daub
John Bomgardner
Miss Miller
Mass of Documents in Insull Case Assembled
Chicago reports the state gathered a voluminous set of documents to present as evidence in the Embezzlement case against Martin Insull for allegedly stealing 344 720 dollars from Middle West Utilities. The documents, tracking stock values of Insull utility firms, were held pending prosecutor outline before a jury formed in Judge Cornelius J Harrington's criminal court chamber.
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Chicago
Martinnsull
Middle West Utilities Company
Insull
Cornelius J. Harrington
Cannons Day Proposal Prompts Liquor Policy Debate
Dayton dispatched report notes Bishop James Cannon Jr. reopens repeal fight by pushing a resolution into the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America liquor policy. A 7,000 word committee report on liquor investigation will be debated, seen as liberal in tone, supporting further evaluation of existing control systems before any new amendment.
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Clyde A. Farnsworth Dayton, O
James Cannon Jr
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Council
America
Gannon
Slayer of School Girl Is Sentenced Within 24 Hours
Leroy Carson, 22, a former reform school inmate, pleaded guilty to a murder charge for the slaying of 12 year old Leona Georgia Love near Lansing Michigan. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Michigan Branch Prison at Marquette after confessing to the crime.
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Lansing
Mich
Leroy Carson
Leona Georgia Love
Michisean Branch
Marquette
Boston Girl Threatened Kidnapping At Summer Estate
A 17 year old Boston socialite Eugenie H Grew adopted daughter of Randolph Clark Grew received a kidnapping threat at midnight. Heavily armed federal agents rushed to Manchester to guard the Grew summer estate as Miss Grew and her grandmother left for Boston with a family chauffeur. Machine guns were displayed and authorities maintained on site through the day.
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Boston
Eugenie H. Grew
Randolph Clark Grew
Joseph C. Grew
U. S
Japan
Department of Justice
Grew
Manchester
North Shore
William 8. Jones
Washington
Summer Home
Miss Grew
Search continues for lost ocean plane crew
Weary naval searchers press on for flight Lieutenant Charles T P Ulm co pilot George Littlejohn and navigator J L Skilling missing since Tuesday after fuel shortage forced their Star of Australia monoplane into the Pacific Their plane had no life saving gear and search efforts cover 200000 square miles near Honolulu with no position known as winds and tides guide plans for northern Oahu surveys.
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William H. Ewing
Honolulu
Charles T.P. Ulm
Pacific
van Rees
Star of Australia
Ulm
George Littlejohn
J. L. Skilling
Oakland
Calif
Australia
John Rodgers
Oahu Island
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duPonts
Orient
Baby Face
Wheeling Register Co
Alex McNeill
Associated Press
Paintsville, Ky
Paintsville
James Price
William ,Dills
Oscar
Blackie) Pelphrey
Jeff Allen
NAVY
Hunt
Coast
Burns
The
Berlin
Reichssfuehrer
Hitler
Gottfried Feder
Ministry of Economy and Lands Settlement Commissiariat
Feder
New York
Coats
Bend
Heflin
Pennsylvania Road
Arthur C. Wilson
Irene de Bolt
Cleveland
el Paso
Tex
van Horn
Wilson
Trinidad
Bishop
Larson
Phillip L. Hutson
Carson
Circus
Callus
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