Locomotive Explosion Kills 13 and Injures 43 Miners
A rail yard disaster kills 13 and injures 43 as a locomotive blast rocks a mining site. Frederick Snare Corporation begins building temporary structures at the dam site with 18 workers breaking ground for an office building. Lee G. Warren reports the shipment of machinery needed to complete the $12,000 plan for the Grafton park dam project.
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Frederick
Federal Flood Control Lab
Lee G. Warren
Grafton Park
New York
Train explosion kills miners near McDunn
An explosion aboard a coal train near McDunn, Powellton, West Virginia, at 6 21 am killed 13 miners and injured 43. Engineer William M Blanken ship and fireman Delymar L Oxley were among the injured. The blast tore through a coach and blasted debris into a nearby house as ambulances moved in. Continuous reports said several were dying at hospitals.
Advertise Your Vacant Rooms Dam Man Urges
Snare Corporation plans a camp to house workers at the dam and construction chief Warren urges advertising available rooms or houses at once. He notes many staff will move to the city for years and will choose homes themselves amid housing shortages. An office building, 12 plantings, five cottages, and a tool house are to be built rapidly.
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Dam Man
Snare Corporation
Eg. Warren
Mr. Warren
Vacant posts urged filled on county welfare board
Major W. Turner of the state public works department in Charleston urged Taylor County to appoint to the welfare board, which has only two legally qualified members of six remaining. The board cannot function with 12 or more members, and no appointments have been made. A roster of five eligible locals was submitted to the county court, with three recommendations forwarded.
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W. Turner
State Department of Publi Works
Charleston
Taylor County
Welfare Board
Couny
Graftan
Major Turner
Coim
Vaccine for Infantile Paralysis Announced By Two Labs
Howard W Blakeslee reports that AAAS findings forecast possible end to infantile paralysis. Philadelphia and New York vaccines showed rapid immunization in about three days to one week, suggesting potential to curb outbreaks. Kolmer of Temple University presented Philadelphia results from 25 children. subjects were poor vaccine test candidates.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Dec
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Philadelphia
New York
Kolmer
John A. Kolmer
M. D
Temple University
Price Fixing Arguments In Coal Industry
Washington Dee 27 The issue of price fixing reappeared as NRA urged it be applied to bituminous coal. Facing widespread price cutting the recovery agency proposed fixed prices until next June and called coal operators to a hearing January 4 to consider the plan. Large operators complain of gopher hole producers while small operators say the price scales drive them out of business. United Mine Workers leaders fear collapse of the pay scale and warned they would take steps to defend wages.
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Washington
Dee
NRA
Recovery Agency
United Mine Workers
Three Children Die In Mishawaka House Fire
In Mishawaka Indiana on December 27 a one room home heated by oil boiled over causing a fire that killed three children of Harry Hammon a 34 year old truck driver. Betty four Esther two and Mayme six weeks perished while Hammon suffered severe burns and his wife escaped with minor injuries. The blaze quickly spread as the oil soaked clothing and furnishings were ignited.
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Mishawaka
Ind
Harry
Hammon
Hammons
Betty
Esther
Mayme
Missing executive believed located in Washington telegram
Detroit December 27 Mrs Fred B Sides announces her son 34 year old Raymond Courtney Sides New York store executive is believed located after receiving a telegram bearing his signature with a Christmas greeting from Washington The message gave no address but said another letter would follow
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Detroit
Fred B. Sides
Raymond Courtney Sides
New York
Washington
Barbour County Officials Meet for Closer Cooperation
Barbour County officials gathered in Clarksburg at the Stonewall Jackson hotel for the county's first annual get together. Forrest B. Poling was named president and Roscoe D. Zinn was chosen clerk of the circuit as the group organized for closer contact among offices and county natives.
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John C. Carpenter
Philippi
Barbour
Helals
Clarksburg
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
Barbour County
Roscoe D. Zinn
New England Storm Wreaks Havoc Across Region
A 57 mile per hour gale swept New England causing heavy damage to transportation and communication facilities. The storm crippled electric lighting systems and blocked highways with snow ice and debris in what officials call among the most severe in local weather bureau history.
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Boston
New England
Deaths rise as Arctic blast roils coasts and ships
A severe cold wave tightens its grip across the nation with multiple fatalities. British freighter Quebec City grounded near Brooklyn, while the Belgian Emil Francqui battles the Nova Scotia gale. Heavy seas and 70 mph winds hit the Pacific Northwest and New England, with Portland hangar demolished and ongoing shipping danger.
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Associated Press
Arctic
North Atlantic
Quebec City
Brooklyn
Emile Francqui
Antwerp
New York
Nova Scotia
Pacific Northwest
Hauser
Emil Francqui
Maine
New England
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Middle West
Appalachian
Middle
Nia
Shank Spared by Action of U S Tribunal
Little Rock Arkansas December 28 4P federal judge John Martineau granted a writ of habeas corpus and temporary restraining order delaying the execution of Mark H Shank for the fourth time this year. Shank convicted in four slayings faces new delays as his lawyers contend he has become insane on death row.
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Little Rock
Atk
Akron
Ohio
Tucker Prison Farm
Mark H. Shank
Notson
U.S
John
Martineau
Shank
Death Row
Four Sisters Drown in Hughes River Tragedy in W Va
Four sisters under ten years old drown when boat carrying mother and a nineteen year old boy capsizes in the North fork of the Hughes River near Gillespie Run in Ritchie county. Mother rescued in critical condition. Albert Cunningham, boat rower and son of a local minister, survives. County officers search for additional bodies.
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Harrisville
W. Va
Noth Fork
Hugh River
Laverna Mason
Betty Mason
Marie Mason
Dexter Mason
Petroleum
Albert Cunningham
Ne ‘County
Gillespie Run
Ritchie County
Young Cunningham
State withholds alibi law at Hauptmann trial
New Jersey will not invoke the 1934 alibi law against Bruno Richard Hauptmann. An official source said the move preserves defense flexibility and avoids potential appeals. The decision opens room for surprise witnesses as the trial nears next Wednesday.
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James ¥. Lawrence
Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Train Wreck Kills Engineer in Columbus
A Pennsylvan ia passenger train No 614 ran off the main line onto a siding and crashed into freight cars in Columbus Ohio. Engineer H B Beach was killed and Fireman John Skolar of Cleveland gravely injured. three others hospitalized after the collision and derailment of passenger coaches and locomotive. Witness Joseph Piper reported the switch appeared open and the train sped about 40 miles per hour.
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Columbus
H. 8. Beach
John Skolar
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Akron
Joseph Pipersky
Chief Corbin Appeals His Five Year Sentence
Chief of Police Frank Corbin of Nutter Fort appeals a five year state prison term for voluntary manslaughter in the death of FERA worker William Wilson shot November 7. The court granted a 60 day stay after sentencing yesterday. Corbin claimed self defense.
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Clarksburg
Frank Corbin
Nutter Fort
Criminal Court
Williar ‘Wilson
FERA
Corbin
Prisoner Found Dead in Barbour Co. Jail
Philippi December 27 Martin ue roy 66 a coal miner of Bear Mountain prisoner in Barbour county jail for five and a half months on a pistol toting charge was found dead Christmas morning about eight o clock by fellow prisoners bringing his breakfast to his cell. He had three and one half months to serve after a nine month sentence by Magistrate Lace B Corder Pleasant district. County physician suspects heart attack.
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John C. Carpenter Philippi
Martin Ueroy
Bear Mountain
Barbour County
Lace B. Corder
Pleasant District
Young Communists Rounded Up In New Plot Nipped
Moscow reports the Soviet government swiftly crushed a supposed plot by young communists to assassinate Joseph Stalin and other leaders with aid from exile Leon Trotzky. Fourteen suspects, including Lenid Nicoaieff, held since Sergei Kiroff's December 1 death in Leningrad, were handed to a military collegium for trial.
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Charles 8. Smith
Associated Press
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotzky
Swift Justice
Lenid Nicoaieff
Sergei Kiroff
Leningrad
Mili
Siprente
Survivor recalls deadly Elkhorn-Piney train blast near Powellton
A 25-year-old miner aboard the second coach describes a sudden explosion that killed at least 13 men on an Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company work train near Powellton West Virginia. The blast occurred after a last stop to pick up workers as cold air bit the car. Passengers rushed for doors and safety as the locomotive erupted. The Associated Press account notes the disaster unfolded just after the train began moving again from the final stop.
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Hamilton Faron
Associated Press
Powellton
W. Va
McDunn
William M. Blankenship
Delymar L. Oxley
Stahl
Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company
Little Coal Company
Clarence Foster
Montgomery
Cosch
St Bow
Paria
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CO. Board
Maggie Endirs
Michael
New York City
Ritchie CO
Hughes River
James A. Farley
Mississippi Valley
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Douglas B. Cornell
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Mont
Mississippi Valley Committee
Wilson
House
Dies
Texas
Rivers and Harbors
Barbour Co
Miller
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