Pittsburgh Police Probe Slaying of Mrs Westwood
County detectives labored to locate an hourly arrest in the murder of Mrs. Bertha Westwood wife of a McKee's Rocks magistrate. She was shot by an unidentified intruder through a window as she slept. Detectives reviewed wax hand impressions and awaited chemists reports amid a night prowler theory. District Attorney Park said little could be done. Justice of the Peace James Westwood, away for a fishing trip, learned of the crime after arriving home early morning.
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Pittsburgh
Bertha Westwood
McKee's Rocks
Justice of the Peace
James J. Westwood
Walter Monaghan
Prowler Theory
Westwood
Monaghan
Tom Drexler
McKee
Turtle hunting proves plentiful in Braxton county
In Braxton county a group of men reported good turtle hunting on a July afternoon. They bagged 70 turtles along streams near Excharge, wading beneath rocks and willows. The four hunters in the party braved the waters to find the best spots.
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Sutton
Braxton
Newspaper Circulators Plan West Virginia Meeting
West Virginia Newspaper Circulators association to hold its quarterly conference at the Four H fair grounds near Dunbar on July 14. C W Hahne of the Wheeling News serves as president.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Fair Grounds
Dunbar
C. W. Hahne
Wheeling News
Circulators Association
Grafton Girl Accuses Man Of Assault In Ohio Valley Case
Washington July 11 a young woman from Grafton West Virginia accuses a man named Hayes a chemist of assault and battery after he allegedly coerced her to drive home from a road house. She fled to a farmhouse for help as troopers confirm the incident and a Monday hearing is set. Miss Humphries resides with a sister in Little Washington and works as a waitress during her stay.
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Washington
Mil
Humphries
Grafton
W. Va
J Ene
Hayes
Miss Humphries
Little Washington
East Ford
George Dull
Mayor Lilly Pushes Vote-Cost Cuts Faces Legal Bar
Beckley July 1. Mayor A. Lilly seeks to reduce next city election costs by dropping voter registration. City Attorney Ned Ragland says the move cannot be done, keeping registration required and costs likely unchanged.
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Beckley
Lilly
Ned Ragland
Doug Fairbanks Sees Acting Career Ending
Pittsburgh July 10 Douglas Fairbanks Sr said his acting days probably are over after twenty years in film He planned to form production units in Italy and Japan and expected to return in four months to direct new missions of his old hits such as Mark of Zorro He avoided confirming he would act saying he is about fifty and has had enough for the public to tolerate.
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Washington
Cary T. Grayson
Red Cross
Woodrow Wilson
Texas
Nebraska
New York
Grayson
Robert E. Bondy
Pittsburgh
Douglas Fairbanks
Dartingan
Three Musketeers
Robin Hood
Italy
Japan
Fairbanks
Fingerprints to Permit Identification of Quads
In Lansing Michigan on July 11 a police plan allows identification of 5 year old quadruplets. Mr and Mrs Molo request this aid to distinguish their daughters who resemble each other closely. State police files include fingerprints with duplicates sent to the department of justice.
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Lansing
Mich
Carl Molo
Department of Justice
Holt Invited to Party Meet in Midwest Activists
A one day regional meeting of young Democrats from Minnesota North and South Dakota Wisconsin and Iowa will outline groundwork for a campaign to keep a Democrat in the White House. James Roosevelt and Senator Rush D Holt will address the gathering which runs toward the Milwaukee national convention August 23 24. The session also covers policies for Midwest delegates. Separately President Roosevelt signed the UMA bill permitting emigration of Filipinos to the islands.
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St. Paul
Washington
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Young Democratic
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mid-West
Young Democratic Clubs
Milwaukee
National Committee
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia
Rebuilding of Moscow Urged
Moscow announces a ten year plan for reconstruction with Stalin's support. The proposals rejected include demolishing the current city or preserving it as a memorial. The plan aims to expand Moscow to 150000 acres, add boulevards, and build six hotels with 4000 rooms, 50 cinemas, 500 schools, 17 hospitals, and nine department stores.
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Moscow
Russia
Council of Commissars
Central Committee
Joseph Stalin
Bolshevists
Contracts for Five Locomotives Awarded in Capital
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad awarded a contract today worth 630000 dollars for five powerful locomotives to the Lima Automotive Works in Lima Ohio.
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Washington
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Today
Lima Automotive Works
Lima
Ohio
Glenns Pain-Well Tonic Offered At Brug Stores
An advertisement promoting Glenns Pain-Well Tonic a mix of Tron Citrate and Flixir of Native Herbs. It claims relief for aches pains energy loss and nerve jitters and urges fair treatment by trying the remedy now on sale at leading drug stores.
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Glenn
Brug
Improvement of Peasant Class in Mexico Urged
Mexico City July 11 The government of President Lazaro Cardenas inaugurated a program to improve social and economic conditions of the Mexican peasant. The National Revolutionary party is to form a federation of 900000 farmers who have received land from the government. The president pledged passage of laws to protect farmers against crop losses and said peasants would receive accident and life insurance.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
National Revolutionary Party
Young Astor to Buy Yacht for Week-Job Commute
Young John Jacob Astor plans to buy a yacht to commute to his twenty five dollar-a-week job in New York. He says the voyage is simply to get back and forth. When asked about a raise, he replies he still earns twenty five dollars weekly.
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Nw York
John Jacob Astor
Astor family clerk and heir expected by August
Astor serves in the International Mercantile Marine freight department. His brother Vincent is an officer of the corporation. The Astors expect an heir about August 1, and the yacht will be used for outings after the baby arrives.
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Astor
International Mercantile Marine
Vincent
Astors
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