Faked Wires Sent Congressmen and Originals Burned
Miss Kladys Loding Western Union clerk at Warren Pennsylvania testified before the senate lobby committee that bond salesman R J Herron of Associated Gas and Electric dictated hundreds of anti utility bill telegrams and signed names from the telephone directory. Jack Fisher Warren telegraph office manager corroborated the delivery of telegraphs later found ruined in the basement. Fisher said Herron’s story delayed as he claimed funds and inability to appear tonight. Her testimony supported earlier evidence and highlighted over the counter telegrams and missing originals.
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Washington
Kladys
Loding
Western Union
Warren
Senaate Lobby Committee
R.J . Herron
Jack Fisher
Jerron
Fisher
Driscoll D
Congress
Missy
Herron
Guffey bill survival in doubt amidHouse committee split
Washington July 17 Democrats on the house ways and means committee signaled the Guffey bill to regulate bituminous coal remains under review. Some members say the measure is ready for full committee action while others insist it must await sub committee study. A shift seen toward striking the 30 million dollar provision to buy and retire mines. Continued on page two.
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Washington
House
Doughtan
Amitteemen
Woman imprisoned five years in garret rescued in Philadelphia
Grey haired Anna Van Cleve, 80, weighed 38 pounds when detectives found her locked in a third story garret. She said her husband William Van Cleve and his sister Catherine imprisoned her because of cooking. Police held William as her jailer and investigated prior confinement in other homes since 1921.
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Garret
Husband
Philadelphia
Anna van Cleve
Morals Court
William
Catherine
van Cleve
Charles Ontach
Deniel Wise
Osborn
van Cleves
Harrisburg
Movie Idols Also Suffer As Result of Hard Times
Hollywood figures reveal high valued assets for stars John Barrymore and Joan Crawford in county tax records. Barrymore’s yacht Infanta heavily boosts his assessed total while Mae West and Chaplin rank among wealthiest names. Harold Lloyd owns substantial land. Tax figures also note penalties for a Grafton beer distributor and local beer garden operator for license violations as Internal Revenue agents inspect retailers.
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Hollywood
Calif
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Mae West
Charles Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Joe E. Brown
Joan
Department of Internal Revenue
Grafton
Sentinel
Giant Aerial Cruiser Set for Tests in Seattle
A 15-ton giant aerial battle cruiser described as the largest land plane yet assembled in the United States awaits tests before submission to the army corps. It features a 105 foot midwing span, 70 foot length, four 725 horsepower motors, and automatic variable pitch constant speed propellers, with a claimed speed of 200 to 250 miles per hour.
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Seattle
United States
Army Corps
Lindbergh Intermediary Jailed as Public Enemy
Salvadore Spitale and Salvatore Arcidiaco were convicted in New York magistrate court of violating the Brownell public enemy act. Magistrate Nathan D. Perlman sentenced each man to three months in jail.
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New York
Salvadore Spitale
Salvatore Arcidiaco
Nathan D. Perlman
Furniture Moved Today From Old Barnes Hotel
The former Barnes cafe and hotel on Latrobe street saw moving day under a Taylor county circuit court order. W J Barnes directed removal of his personal property while Clint Dalton was absent serving a Federal sentence. The order requires removal within three days, rent through July 15, and court costs, plus a perpetual injunction on operating a similar nuisance.
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Barnes
Latrobe Street
Taylor County
W. J. Barnes
Clint Dalton
W. E. Baker
the Daltons
Clint
Freda
Aerial Plans for Italy Publicized in East Africa Campaign
Mussolini defends Italy's course in East Africa in an interview with American reporters. The aviation service disclosed plans to supply 300 planes to colonial forces, aiming to overcome Ethiopia's desert and mountain defenses. An advance guard of 80 pilots and 24 planes sailed for East Africa as Black Shirt troops mobilized and training centers filled, with Mussolini insisting justice guides Italy's actions.
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Rome
National Aviation Service
Italy
Ethiopia
Air Service
East Africa
Duce
Justice Regiment
Benito Mussolini
TJ Duce
Mussolini
H. V. Kaltenborn
New York News
Scottie McKenzie Frazier
Dothan
Ala
Many American Negroes Join Ethiopian Forces
In New York and six other cities African-born Samuel Daniels announces that at least 16,500 volunteers have joined Haile Selassie's defense effort. The Pan-African Reconstruction Association reports Negroes in New York Detroit Chicago Kansas City Boston Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have offered to fight for Selassie.
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New York
Harlem
Haile Selassie
Samuel Daniels
Pan-African Reconstruction Association
Detroit
Chicago
Kansas City
Boston
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Selassie
Metal Company Plant Explosion Kills One
A Reynolds Metals Company plant in Louisville Kentucky suffered a fatal explosion that left one man dead, another dying, and a third missing. The blast hurled debris hundreds of yards, shattered a building section, and rattled houses a half mile away. De Fehribach, 64, was blown from the plant and remained near death at a hospital.
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Louisville Ky
Reynolds Metals Company
de Fehribach
League to Meet About African Fuss July 25th
The League of Nations said it would convene the council on July 25 to address the Italo Ethiopan crisis, noting limited chances for arbitration revival. A preliminary warning went to council members that their attendance in Geneva may be required soon.
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Geneva
League of Nations
League Council
Kin caid Heart Victim Found Dead At Camp Conley
Lieutenant-Colonel James B. Kincaid disbursing officer for the West Virginia national guard was found dead in his tent at Camp Conley in Point Pleasant. A veteran of Democratic politics and state militia, he was 40 and retired at midnight. He had recently been directing training for over 1,000 militiamen during the encampment and had run for state auditor in 1932. Continued on page two.
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Point Pleasant
James B. Kincaid
West Virginia National Guard
Camp Conley
H. H. Thompson
Guardsmen's
Kincaid
Ben
House of Delegates
A. M. Gilbert
Adju
France Slashes Government Costs Amid Budget Battle
Paris reports Premier Pierre Laval decrees a ten percent cut in government spending and heavy taxes on large incomes to balance the budget. War veterans and government workers threaten protests as revenues and savings targets vary, with a stated aim to reduce the 1935 deficit from 11 billion francs by at least 10 billion. Provisions include levies on war industry profits and unregistered securities and measures to cushion living costs.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Ten Persons Injured As Limited Rams Into Truck
Upper Sandusky Ohio July 17 Ten persons were injured three seriously when the Liberty Limited of the Pennsylvania railroad hit a truck derailed and tore up track for three blocks today The locomotive sheared off the platform of a freight station and wrecked several freight cars before it overturned The nine cars in the train remained upright
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Upper Sandusky, O
Liberty Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
Condemned Negro Crafts Rules for Fellow Prisoners
Moundsville July 17. Robert Branch 29 Negro sentenced to be hanged Friday night compiles guidance for inmates. He urges treating others as he wishes, maintaining prison form, seeing hearng not, and living with quiet, prison discipline. Branch killed Brady Hill of Leon West Virginia.
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Moundsville
Robert Branch
School Board Reappoints All High School Principals
Taylor county board of education renewed contracts for four high school principals Tarlock Rasmussen Grafton L W Talbott Flemington Kenneth Haun Simpson and C T Napper Garrison Also discussed elementary principal placements and potential successor for Virgil Rohrbaugh as First Ward principal A flood control easement proposal set for government approval covers Doe Run Bartlett schools and related lands (Continued on page 4).
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Taylor County Board of Education
Tarlock Rasmussen
Grafton High School
L. W. Talbott
Flemington High School
Kenneth Haun
Simpson High School
C. T. Napper
Garrison School
Rohrbaugh
Virgil Rohrbaugh
First Ward
Tygart’s Valley River
Doe Run
Bartlett
Banner Day Reported By City Finance Chief
City Finance Commissioner Charles E. Rau announced a record cash day for Graf ton with $742.50 collected mainly from water rent. He said the sum came from many small outstanding accounts, making the achievement all the more notable.
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Banner Day
City Finance
Grafton
Charles E. Rau
Lie Detector Tests In Murder Probe In Chicago
Reports say Mrs Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband Harry Jung were tested after murder accusations against them in the slaying of Ervin Lang. Blanche Dunkel passed a lie detector test while Assistant State's Attorney Daughtery described a promised $500 to remove Lang noting Dunkel's daughter's death Mallie Dunkel.
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Chicago
Evelyn Smith
Harry Jung
Ervin Lang
Blanche Dunkel
Daughterty
Federal Debt Tops Twenty Nine Billion in U S Report
Washington report notes the federal debt surpassed 29 billion dollars. The treasury daily statement shows 29,177,786,318 dollars after a 500 million dollar treasury note offering. It marks the first sizable rise since December as treasury cash resources and higher receipts fund operations.
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Washington
Treasury
Rail fares deemed unreasonable in examiner IC report
An examiner's report to the Interstate Commerce Commission concludes the current basic passenger fare of 3.6 cents per mile is unreasonable. It recommends a future maximum of two cents per mile in coaches and three cents in Pullmans, and calls the Pullman surcharge unreasonable and to be eliminated. Extra ordinary Pullman charges are not illegal. Low experimental fares in the south and west are noted.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nine Miners Trapped After Mine Explosion in Kentucky
Nine miners were trapped by an explosion in number five mine of the Consolidation Coal Company at Van Lear Kentucky. Information received here by John F. Daniel chief of the Department of Miners and Minerals confirms the incident.
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Lexington
Consolidation Coal Company
van Lear
John F. Daniel
Department of Miners and Minerals
Young couple spend honeymoon in jail for train ride
An 18 year old bride and 19 year old groom from Asbury Park New Jersey spent their honeymoon in jail in Wheeling. Edwin Renshaw and his wife hitchhiked from Andover New Jersey and were sentenced to 10 days each for stealing a ride on a train from Washington Pay.
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Wheeling
Edwin Renshaw
Andover
N. J
Washington
Not Holding Up Work Says State Chief
Gov. H. G. Kump declares he proposed and developed roads and school building projects in West Virginia and is not blocking WPA relief. He denounces senators Neely and Holt as spreading false charges about delaying public works and the appointment of F. Witcher McCullough. He condemns politicians pushing self-interest while claiming to aid relief and rehabilitation.
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Charleston
H. G. Kump
West Virginia
Neely and
Holt
F. Witcher McCullough
WPA
Seismic Toll Grows in Formosa and Japan
Quake centered in southern Shinchiku Province, Formosa, killed forty nine and injured 144, with police estimating extensive damage across 224 buildings. The Japan area, still reeling from April’s disaster, endures aftershocks as seismologists classify today’s event as part of the ongoing tremor sequence. Relief efforts intensify for the stricken four prefectures of southern Japan.
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Taihoku
Formosa
Shinchiku
Japan
Public health order prohibiting dogs and animals at large
All dogs and other animals exposed and subject to exposure in the limits of the above territory are prohibited from running at large and all dogs in said area shall be closely confined until the disease is under control and orders given to that effect by proper and competent authority.
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Lindbergh
Old Barnes Hotel
IL Duce
Metal Company
Col. Kincaid
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France
Branch
Brady Hill
Leon
W. Va
H.S
Torlock Rasmussen
Fetterman School
U.S
Oklahoma City
Okla
D. C
Solons
Capitol
Booths Creek
Fetterman
Grafon Independent
Lee E. Bennett
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