Peace Pact Ends Balkans War Threat At Geneva
Geneva reports a YugoslavHungarian clash threat resolved by a League of Nations accord. The United Nations body lauds the settlement as a triumph after the Saar plebiscite and a FrancoHungarian financial accord. Yugoslavia and Hungary supported a resolution deploring the Marseille assassination of King Alexander with no dissent. Hungary urged punitive action against authorities aiding terrorists and to inform the council of measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Sharkey
Geneva
League of Nations
League
Saar
Fronrman
Bac
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Alexander
Marseille
Budapest
Lamson Faces Trial After Mother Is Fatally Injured
In a San Jose courtroom David Lamson, former Stanford Press manager, learns his mother has died in an automobile crash en route to visit him. Judge Robert Syer orders Lamson to stand trial for his wife’s murder and denies bail. His sister Dr. Margaret Lamson appears in court with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lamson
Stanford Press
San Jose
Cal
General Johnson Declares NRA Dead and Extinct
New York dispatch reports Gen. Hugh Johnson says the NRA is dead and extinct and will not return to or aid the organization. He brushed off the topic while signing copies of his cavalry memoirs in a department store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Cassidy
New York
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Myeral Johnson
Cavalry
Retmark Jy
Luncheon at Andrews M. E. Church December 12
A luncheon event at Andrews M. E. Church on Wednesday December 12 offers a full meal with baked country ham fried oysters and dessert for 25 cents. The gathering supports Group A and the Ladies Aid.
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Andrews M. E. Church
West Virginia Plunges To Zero As Snow Deepens
Near zero temperatures and heavy snowfall slow traffic in West Virginia with Elkins reporting a flat zero as six inches cover the district. Beckley on a mountain ridge tops six above as an inch more snow is forecast. Frozen radiators and pipes worsen travel as chains urged for motorists.
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Associated Press
West Virgina
Elkins
Beckley
West Virginia
Elks Fight Show Draws Anticipated Crowd
The B P O Elks plan a seven fight boxing card at the club to benefit the Woman's Club Christmas Kiddies fund. The main event pairs Johnny Gallo of Morgantown against Jack Binfore of Clarksburg. Boxing ends with music and dancing in the grillroom.
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B. P. O Elks
Woman's Club Christmas Kiddies Fund
Johnny Gallo
Morgantown
Jack Binfore
Clarksburg
England not to pay debt token December fifteenth
Washington dispatch reports Great Britain will default on 379.46 million war debt payments due Saturday while Finland plans to halt its 228,538 cash payment. Britain’s note, released by the State Department, calls further payments "useless" and "unwise" pending a general decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great Britain
United States
Finland
State Department
Six Injured as Passenger Train Derailed Near New Baden
A Missouri Pacific northbound passenger train derailed near New Baden in Franklin county, Palestine, Texas. At least six passengers were hurt and were transported by a special relief train. Two Pullman cars, two chair cars and a baggage coach left the tracks, some overturning. New Baden lies about 90 miles west of Palestine.
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Palestine
Tex
Missouri Pacific
New Baden
Franklin County
Emasculation of criminals urged by Ohio prison head
Warden Preston E. Thomas of Ohio penitentiary called for a law allowing emasculation to cut crime in half. He spoke in support of the idea and offered to share his 20 years of prison experience with a legislative committee, noting convicts were not opposed to the concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Clyde A. Farnsworth
Associated Press
Columbus, O
Preston E. Thomas
Olbio Penitentiary
Hauptmann in Court for Bill of Particulars
Bruno Richard Hauptmann appeared in Hunterdon County Court in handcuffs for a brief preliminary hearing on the defense demand for a bill of particulars in the Lindbergh baby murder case. Justice Trenchard postponed ruling until Thursday, with trial set for January 2 and jurors recalled for the December term.
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Ty James Y. Lawrence Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Hunterden County
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Supreme Court
Thomas W. Trenchard
Edward Reilly
Hauptmann
Sea Pack
Paige
New Attacks Are Made on Power Firms
The federal trade commission reported that propaganda boosted pre low mood prices of public utilities and losses to investors in utility securities attributed to selling campaigns and price increases. It cited holding companies issuing securities with little regard for underlying soundness as part of a strategy to create a halo around regulated local monopolies.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Ward
Senate
Insull Ablities Investments Inc
And
Corporation Securities
Hoover Calls Gang Leaders Just a Vermin
J Edgar Hoover, head of the justice department bureau of investigation, said political pressure must be eliminated to permanently exterminate gangs. He spoke at the attorney general's crime conference and outlined federal warfare methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Richard Rendell
Washington
J. Edger Hoover
Department of Justice
Bureau of Investigation
Attorney Generals Crime Conference
Last Minute Stock Rally Notes and A Powder Deal Testimony
In New York the stock market showed narrow movement with rails metals and specialties firming. Radio and several major issues rose, with U S Steel General Motors American Telephone and Consolidated Gas up slightly. In Washington testimony disclosed duPont Powder aided by war department in 1922 to secure reserve materials for cartridges bound for Japan, with duPont officials detailing arrangements and alternate sources.
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New York
Wilson & Company A
Delaware & Hudson
U. 8
American Can
Northern Pacific
Steel
General Motors
American Telephone
U. 5
Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
duPont Powder Company
War Department
Army
Japan
Maj. K. K. V. Casey
duPont
Two Pruntytown store owners fined for tobacco sales
Justice of the Peace Ona C Jefferys fined two Pruntytown women, partners in a store enterprise and county WCTU leaders, $10 and costs each for alleged tobacco sales to inmates at the Boys Industrial School. Trials were held in secrecy with guilty findings and similar fines, tied to an investigation by state police and the state board of control following reports in the Grafton Sentinel. A further charge was lodged against Mrs Kate Barnette 14 keeper of another store.
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West Virginia
Justice of the Peace
Jefferys
Harry Flesher
Lethal Stoops
Squire
Ray
Sentinel
State Board of Control
Grafton Sentinel
Pruntytown
Troo‘per
Kate Barnette
Rummage Sale Friday and Saturday at West Penn area
A rummage sale hosted by the Christian Church proceeds Friday and Saturday December 14 and 15 starting at 9 a.m. at the location next to West Penn on Main Street. Items include clothing candy and baked goods with proceeds benefiting church activities.
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West Penn
Main St. Auspices
Christian Church
Girl's Injuries Puzzle to Physicians in Parkersburg
Miss Clara Hall, 18, critically injured in a automobile crash, lies near death in a Parkersburg hospital for 24 days. Doctors initially feared a fractured skull, but x rays showed none. They now suspect a brain concussion or spine injury not visible on x ray. She has eaten and asked for water but has not been conscious in 10 days.
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Parkersburg
Clara Hall
Negro Woman Faces Noose For Slaying In West Virginia
Frances Williams 29, a Black mother, was convicted of first degree murder for shooting William Mitchell as he stepped from a train in Greenbrier County. The Greenbrier circuit court sentenced her to death by hanging, a mandatory penalty for the verdict, with the case to be resolved before December 18 as court terms proceed.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Frances Williams
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Greenbrier
William Mitchell
Frazier, Green
Drive is Started for U.S. Old Age Pension
The newly organized National Old Age People’s Pension and Unemployed Association plans a national drive to obtain old age pensions and unemployment insurance, says C. de Bumpus of Charleston, secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
National
Old Age People’s Pension and Unemployed Association
C. de Bumpus
Natural birth control wins favor of Catholic doctors
Chicago reports Catholic Physicians Guild approves the rhythm method of birth control. Rev. John A. O'Brien of the Newman Foundation told 500 Catholic and non Catholic physicians at a guild sponsored clinical discussion that objections about reducing birth rate rely on faulty assumptions about married couples’ practices. Continued on page four.
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Chicago
Catholic Physicians Guild
John A. O'Brien
Newman Foundation
University of Illinois
Father O'Brien
The
Guild
Four Legislators Die in Kerns Hotel Fire Incident
Bulletin from Lansing reports the Kerns hotel blaze in Lanning, Michigan, with 20 to 50 bodies feared buried in ruins and about 109 of 190 guests accounted for. Chief Alfred Seymour noted heavy loss of life while four legislators, Parker Otisville, Sias Midland, Howlett Gregory, and Goodwine Mar ee, were identified among the dead.
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Lansing
Mich
Laurence Lyon
Michigan State Police
Kerns Hotel
Lanning
Kerns
Grand River
Alfred Seymour
Charles D. Parker
Otisville
Donald £. Sias
Midland
T. Henry Howlett
Gregory
Johmn W. Goodwine
Mar
Four Dead in Havana Plane Crash Including American
Four persons died when a Havana Santiago passenger plane crashed yesterday in Oriente Province. Victims include George H. Bunker 47 of Yonkers N Y vice president of Guan tanamo Sugar Company and the two pilots Torres Navarro and Emeteerio Varilla. Three people were injured and C Grant Mason Jr president of the Cuban National Aviation Company noted the fourth victim might be Jose Coll inspector of the Cuban treasury department. Continued on page six.
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Edmund A. Chester
Havana
Havana-Santiago
Oriente
George H. Bunker
Yonkers
N. C
Guantanamo Sugar Company
Torres Navarro
Emeteerio Varilla
C. Grant Mason, Jr
Cuban National Aviation Company
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U. K
Lamson
Margaret Lamson
Gen. Johnson
Hugh Johnson
Ris
Ladies’ Aid
Kanawha River
Elks
England
Huey
Helen Gilkison
Louisiana State Over
Huey Long
Reveille
Justice Jeffreys
Bates
Clara Feldman
Albert Bates
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma
Portland
Ore
U.S
Cuba
Sugar Company
W. Main St
M. B.enuiren
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