Gold Bond Case Won By Federal Government
The government won in the supreme court to avoid paying interest on gold bonds called redemptions before maturity. Justice Cardozo wrote the decision read by Chief Justice Hughes. Taft and others argued the government would owe about $10,000 interest on $70,000,000 in bonds.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Cardoza
Stone
Black
Cardoza
Hughes
Taft
Wengury
James J. Ransom
Destines
Arthur Machen
Baltimore
Stanley Reed
Six Convicts Await Trial After Penitentiary Siege
In Columbia DC six convicts who killed the guards captain during a two hour siege were placed in solitary confinement to await January trial. William Woods confessed to stabbing the 61 year old captain Ol in Sanders during the uprising as guards used tear gas to retake Sanders office.
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Columbia
D. C
State Penitentiary
Olin D. Johnston
Fi Alex Heise
William B. Woods
Olin Sanders
Sanders
Cleaning Day Special on Plain Dresses and Coats
Special on day cleaning offers 50 cent service for plain dresses men's topcoats and suits. Heinze Cleaning Service advertises affordable turnaround and a phone contact for drop off or pickup.
Tragedylaunched baby saved in Knoxville apartment fire
Five month old R C Connatser slept undisturbed as neighbors learned of a fatal Knoxville Tenn apartment fire that claimed his mother a brother and a sister. The infant was saved by his father who leaped from a second floor window during the blaze.
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Lves
Aalter
Knoxville
Tenn
R. C. Connatser
Connatser
Refugees Plucked From Hoover Wreck by President McKinley
The President McKinley rescued 453 passengers from the stranded luxury liner President Hoover off two rocky islets east of Formosa, including 134 cabin and 319 third class travelers. The ship steamed toward Manila as a possible third Dollar ship, the President Pierce, was reported to be en route for additional rescues.
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Manila
McKinley
President Hoover
Hoishoto
Hayake Islands
Formosa
Hoover
Pierce
Emery Street Extension To Cemetery Is Started
Work began today on extending Emery Street from US Route 50 to Blue Mt Cemetery. About 1,000 feet of paving will provide a new cemetery entrance. WPA workers and city crews, under Street Commissioner James F. Reed, are on the project as part of a larger city street repair program.
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Emery Street
U. 8
Bluemont Cemetery
WPA
Ae Oe
James F. Reed
Solve Three Robberies With Arrests Of Boys
City Detective Otis Harrison said two thirteen year old boys were arrested for three robberies totaling about 1000 dollars. Loot included an adding machine a typewriter a duplicating machine and other office supplies taken from Fifth Avenue Baptist church Central Junior High School and Pecate Aes company.
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Huntington
Otis Harrison
Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church
Central
Pecate Aes
Harrison
Car plunges into Pax Branch creek killing driver Otto Lively
A car slid off a curve during a storm and sank into Pax Branch creek six feet deep in Pax W Va. Otto Lively of Pax was drowned and his body was recovered shortly after the vehicle disappeared.
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Pax
W. Va
Pax Branch Creek
Otto Lively
Lively
Party chiefs hunt leaders for Republican program committee
The Republican executive committee sorted 700 to 800 names for a 100 member program committee to draft principles aimed at reviving the party. Notables ranged from former Governor Frank C. Lowden of Illinois to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, as discussions began in St. Louis with chairman John D. M. Hamilton traveling from Washington to join the deliberations expected to span several days.
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ST. Louis
Republican Executive Committee
Frank C. Lowden
Tinois
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pfirley
John D. M. Hamilton
Washington
Paralyzed Youth Awaits Iron Lung Arrival
Seventeen year old Harold Artis of Portsmouth Ohio waited at a Huntington hospital for arrival of an iron lung to aid his paralysis from a wreck nine days earlier. W E Chilton Jr of the 40 and 8 in West Virginia announced funds from national headquarters to purchase the respirator after appeals.
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Huntington
Harold Artis
Portsmouth
Artis
W. £. Chilton, Jr
West Virginia
Murphy Takes Post Here Vacated By Fay Squires
Raymond Murphy of Philipsburg has become junior interviewer at the Grafton office of the West Virginia Employment Service, succeeding Fay C. Squires who moved to Weston. John E. Fisher, former Grafton NRL manager, now heads the Weston office.
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Murphy
Fay Squires
Raymond Murphy
Philippi
Grafton
Clarksburg
West Virginia Employment Service
Fay C. Squires
Squires
Weston
John E. Fisher
NRL
House to Vote on Wage-Hour Measure Soon
Washington December 13 administration leaders urge House to vote on wage hour bill by mid week and send it to the White House before the special session ends. A joint committee of representatives negotiates terms approved by the Senate last summer. The measure aims to set minimum wages and maximum hours in interstate commerce but faces a severe test in the House before December 22 adjournment.
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Washington
House
White House
Senate
Friends of
Rules Committee
Funeral Services Held Today For Clerk Byrne
Governor Holt and state officials attended the funeral for W. H. R. Byrne a 75 year old clerk of the state supreme court who died of pneumonia. Byrne a former lawyer served as clerk of the state senate clerk of the house of delegates speaker of the house and Braxton prosecutor in a half century of political service. Services were held at the home and burial was at Springs Hill cemetery near Charleston. The supreme court adjourned for the day.
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Charleston
Holt
W. H. R. Byrne
State Supreme Court
Byrne
State Senate
House of Delegates
House
Braxton
Springs Hill Cemetery
Supreme Court
Army Officer Killed In Salem Accident
Lieut. Eugene V. Reeves 26 of Fort Des Moines Iowa was killed and his wife injured when their car collided with another on the road to Salem. Five others in the other car escaped injury according to the sheriff's office.
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Clarksburg
Eugene V. Reeves
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Salem
Bribe Trial Underway In Harrison Co
In Clarksburg three of six accused face conspiracy charges over a $1500 bribe tied to a municipal garbage contract. Former councilmen Joseph Oliverio and Rev E Titchel along with Frank O Day stand trial, while others Criss An Cornwell seek separate trials. Special pleas and state demurrer rulings accompany the day’s proceedings.
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Clarksburg
Joseph Oliverio
Rev. E. Titchel
Frank O'Day
M. B. Criss
Frank F. Anand Thomas
Cornwell
Special Pleas
Joe A. Oliverio
Inquest Planned After Salvisa Rail Wreck In Ky
Witnesses were summoned for an inquest to fix responsibility for a head on collision between two Southern railway freight trains near Salvisa Kentucky that killed four trainmen and injured five others two seriously. The chief dispatcher J H Devney cited apparently conflicting orders as the probable cause. Victims include Engineer Valentine Summers 64 New Albany Indiana Brakeman Claude F Denny 38 Harrodsburg Kentucky Hugh O Ludwick 51 Louisville Kentucky and J C McGill 48 Louisville Kentucky.
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Salvisa
Southern Railway
J. H. Devney
Louisville
Valentine Summers
New Albany
Ind
Claude F. Denny
Harrodsburg
Hugh O. Ludwick
J. C. McGill
Louisville, Ky
Stalinist Parliament Elected In Soviet Russia
MOSCOW December 13. Soviet Russia held a secret direct election for its parliament, with a turnout of about 8 percent of the 90 million population. The two chamber assembly had 1,143 seats, few opponents, and no early results. Voting featured bands, banners, and festive precincts with chess counters and orchestras.
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Moscow
Soviet Russia
Joseph Statin
British Leaders Confer On Menacing Far East Trouble
London leaders met to discuss the serious Far East situation as observers expect a protest note to Japan. The crisis follows fighting in the Orient with Britain in close touch with Washington. Reports noted a British gunboat Ladybaird involved and casualties from Japanese shelling in China, including a dead seaman and wounded officer and seaman.
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Far East
London
Japan
Sin the Orient
Ladybaird
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Italy
League of Nation
China
No Inquest Planned in Flemington Crossing Tragedy
Coroner Dr Paul Ward after a conference with Prosecuting Attorney Francis Warder and Sheriff Herbert Evans ruled no inquest was needed in the Flemington crossing crash that killed two Despard sisters Minnie Rollins 22 and Edith McIntyre 15. The coroner blamed the car driver for running a red signal and deriding the crossing as witnesses agreed all signals worked. Charles Lawson the car occupant in critical condition at St Marys hospital offered fragmentary memory of the event. The victims’ half-brother Charles Jenkins was released to arrange funeral details.
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Flemington
Paul P. Warden
Francis L. Warder
Herbert Evans
Charles L. Lawson
St. Mary's Hospital
Freon
Lawson
Clarksburg
Minnie Rollins
Despard
Edith McIntyre
Bart
Jenkins
Grafton
Galloway
Evans
Taylor County
Crossing crash kills man and injures wife at Fort Springs
Ronceverte December 13 Wilbur Spotts 25 was killed and his wife Berta Spotts 27 seriously injured when their car was struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train at the Fort Springs crossing. Spotts died en route to a hospital.
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Ronceverte
Wilbur Spotts
Berta Spotts
Ohio
Fort Springs Crossing
Spotts
Mystery of missing Janine Keller deepens in Paris
Police grow certain the murder-for-profit ring may have more victims as they widen a search at the St. Cloud villa tied to the Weidmann case. Investigators report four clothing pieces and a trunk found amid the ramshackle grounds, while the probe seeks more bodies and answers about missing dancer Jean De Kovan.
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Paris
Janine Keller
St. Cloud Villa
Eugene Weidmann
Jean de Kovan
Brooklyn
News of Strangulation Death Kept From Father
Guilford New Jersey December 13 Coroner says Dr A H Evans Guilford physician was not told of the strangulation deaths of his wife and son The wife Mrs Evans 55 chloroformed and strangled her son Robert 21 with a belt before killing herself by tightening a stocking about her neck and applying chlorform to a cloth over her face The bodies were found yesterday by Mrs Evans daughter Phyllis 26 who said I believe I was spared because I am a light sleeper.
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Guilford
A. H. Evans
Mat G. Boname
Evans
Robert
Judge Denies Delays in Kidnap Trial for Two Men
Huntington dispatch reports Orville Adkins and John Travis failed twice to delay their trial for kidnapping 79 year old Dr. James J. Seder. Judge H. Clay Worth denied a change of venue and refused further continuances. Attorneys sought more time to prepare a defense as a jury is impanelled.
Record of Ownership of Hanging Lot Lost
In Salem Missouri on December 13 a historic tract once set aside for capital punishment the Dent County hangman s lot appears to have no surviving ownership record attorney George F Addison sought to satisfy a judgment but could not locate any record of ownership for the parcel.
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Salem, Mo
Salem
Dent
Panay sinking blamed on Japanese planes
Shanghai reports Japanese navy accepts full blame for the Panay attack, expressing profundo regret for the disaster. One American seaman died, 15 of 64 survivors injured as Japanese aircraft strafed the Yangtze river near the shipwrecked area amid confusion over the ships’ flags.
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Shanghai
United States
Panay
Yangtze
Yangtze River
Nntirad
Tate Hobdayal
China
Q x
U S Officials Prepare Note On Japanese Bombing Incident
Washington authorities work on a strong note to Tokyo after the bombing incident involving an American gunboat. Secretary Hull and trusted advisers prepare official representations as details remain under review. The state department withholds comment while awaiting complete information.
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Washington
Dec
Hull
Tokyo
Navy State Department
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Nefacce
Hotel of
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