Buckhannon Bank Cashier Convicted of Embezzlement
Andrew W. Rush, former cashier of Peoples Bank of West Virginia at Buckhannon, was found guilty of embezzling about $139,000. The bank closed after the shortage was discovered. Judge H G Kump planned to rule on a motion to set aside the verdict as Rush remained in Randolph County jail awaiting the decision.
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Andrew W. Rush
The
Peoples Bank of West Virginia
Buckhannon
H. G. Kump
Buckhannon Institution
Bush
Randolph County
Upshur County
Kump
Rush
Airplane seized by state police in New Boston incident
Detroit July 20 A rum running airplane landed in a field near New Boston and fourteen cases of liquor were seized. Pilot Howard Golyard 32 of Detroit pleaded guilty to possession and transportation while denying cargo origin from Canada. Six men in two cars were arrested then released. Police say two planes were landing liquor at the field but investigators acted at the right moment.
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Detroit
New Boston
Howard Golyard
Justice Court
Canada
Plebiscite Shows Majority Favor Retention Of Prohibition Law
In Charlottetown P E I on July 20 the plebiscite results favor retention of the prohibition act. Prohibition 10848 versus Government control 7588 with 12 polls未 available. Charlottetown tally 1417 for government control 1198 against. Missing precincts cannot change the result.
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Charlottetown
Government would end debt debate
Paris reports the government moves to end the lengthy debt ratification debate with Great Britain and the United States. A resolution separate from the ratification texts may be adopted to allow swift approval, with the chamber to consider reservations and possibly vote on the agreements tonight.
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Paris
Great
Britain
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Niance Committee
Designe
Fajvor
Deligne
Politbcle
Further Tax Reduction Is Not Probable
Washington observers say a White House inquiry into likely government spending over the next four years largely rules out early tax cuts. Agencies report about 300 million dollars in higher appropriations plus army navy public works postal deficit and farm relief driving the rise. In New York creditors of Milton C Quimby in the Clarke Brothers bank collapse claim Quimby holds about 1 million dollars in assets in New Jersey safe deposit boxes.
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Washington
White House
New York
Milton C. Quimby
Clarke Brothers
Quimby
Ln Safe Deposit Boxes
New Jersey
Akron Woman Escapee Stansbury Attacks Wife In Beaumont
Curr Stansbury of Akron laid in wait overnight and attacked his wife Mrs Lucy Wickham Stansbury at her Beaumont Addition home around six this morning wounding her seriously. Sheriff Mays and Patrolman Silman pursued the suspect who vanished, while Stansbury had previously faced threats and abuse from the woman who sought divorce.
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Curr Stansbury
Akron
Ohio
Lucy Wickham Stansbury
Beaumont Addition
W. J. Mays
Clarence Silman
Hoover Secluded on Rapidan Fishing Preserve
President Hoover spent the day at his Rapidan river fishing preserve in Madison Virginia to reflect on filling several key diplomatic posts. Announcement of appointments is expected soon as his party includes Secretary Stimlon and Undersecretary Cotton of the State Department. Brigadier General Benjamin D Foulois named commandant of the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field Dayton Ohio with Brigadier General William E Gilmore moving to Washington as assistant to the chief of the air corps in charge of training.
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Madison
Hoover
Rapidan River
Stimlon
Cotton
State Department
Washington
Benjamin D. Foulois
Aircorps
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
William E. Gilmore
Trating
Loulois
Pope Receives Bishop in Private Audience
The Pope received in private audience today Bishop Francis W. Howard of Covington Kentucky who presented a small group of pilgrims.
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Vatican City
Francis W. Howard
Covington, Ky
Night clubs warned as Broadway crime cases widen
Police Commissioner Whalen urged visitors and decent people to avoid night clubs amid gang influence after indicting John Diamond and Charles Entrata for last Saturday’s double shooting at the Hotsy Totsy Club. The Broadway Squad raided over a dozen midtown speakeasies as the case spurred a broader crackdown in New York. Meanwhile in St Louis, the Robin endurance flight marked one week aloft as Red Jackson and Forest O Brine refueled and pushed toward a world record with the Missouri and Robin planes also in the air ready for a three week stay aloft plan.
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New York
Whalen
John Diamond
Charles Entrata
Diamond
Broadway District
Entratta
William Cassidy
Simon Walker
Broadway Squad
St. Louis
Dale
Joseph Hammer
W. Gentry Shelton
Flyer Forced Down in Alaska Flight Due to Fuel Shortage
New York July 20 Capt Ross G Hoyt said he would resume his New York Alaska round trip from Vanderhelm BC after a forced landing caused by fuel shortage from headwinds. He departed Mitchelfield NY at 5 2 28 p m EDT Thursday aiming for Nome Alaska and back in 78 hours 40 minutes elapsed time.
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New York
Ross G. Hoyt
Army
New York-Alaska
Vanderhelm
B. C
Mitchelfield
Nome
Alaska
Hoyt
Vanderhoff
Berger's Condition Remains Critical After Streetcar Accident
Victor L. Berger, 69, former Socialist congressman, remained in critical condition after a skull fracture from a streetcar strike. He was moved to a private hospital on Monday with high fever and elevated blood pressure, but physicians voiced cautious optimism for recovery.
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Milwaukee
Victor L. Berger
Rail Strike Looms In Iowa Shopmen Tie Up Lines
Marshalltown Iowa July 20 1100 shopmen of the Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad faced a looming strike after mass meetings in Marshalltown and Fort Dodge. Ballots were sent for return by August 1 with labor leaders blaming railroad refusals to meet over work arrangements from the 1922 general strike. No wage increase is sought.
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Marshalltown
Minneapol and St Louis Railroad
Fort Dodge
Inspector Kil led to death in ambush on river island
El Paso reports border patrol inspector Ivan E Scotten was shot and killed during an ambush by six patrolmen attacked by a larger group believed linked to Mexican rum runners on San Elizario Island in the Rio Grande. A separate notice from New York states Alfred Bernstein, hosiery maker, died last month in Germany and left $50,000 to his brother Henry of Steubenville Ohio.
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el Paso
Tex
Ivan E. Scotten
Border Patrol
San Elizario Island
Rio Grande
New York
Alfred Bernstein
Germany
Henry
Steubenville
Great Powers Seek Peace in Manchuria Amid Kellogg Pact Efforts
World powers push to avert war between China and Russia over Manchuria. Britain France and the United States press for relaxation through friendly advice while China and Russia pledge to honor the Kellogg pact. Reports of Russian troop movements abroad and denials from Moscow cloud the crisis as officials in New York London and Shanghai cite potential further actions and diplomatic talks.
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Associated Press
Manchuria
China
Russia
Great Britain
France
United States
Shanghai
Harbin
Moscow
Red Army
Nankin
London
Findland
Washington
New York
Bromley to Attempt Tacoma Tokyo Nonstop Flight
Lieutenant Harold Bromley wowed 20,000 Tacoma crowds after a nonstops test from Los Angeles to Tacoma in 8 hours 27 minutes with a special built mono plane. He aims for Tokyo within a week, planning a great circle route via Aleutian and Kurile Islands carrying 900 gallons of gasoline. Attorney James Holt and family also head for a Virginia Valley motor trip.
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Tacoma
Wash
Pacific
Tokyo
Harold Bromley
Los Angeles
Bromley
Aleutian
Kurile Islands
Snook Counsel Waive Sanity Hearing Test
Columbus July 20 Attorneys for Dr James H Snook confessed slayer of his co ed Theora K Hix 25 announced they have waived an insanity hearing for their client Common Pleas Judge Henry L Scarlett announced Snooks first degree murder trial would start next Wednesday The insanity hearing originally was set to open Monday Change In Plans before the judge a few hours earlier than expected after three court alienists examined Snook Thursday Continuous on page six.
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Columbus
James H. Snook
Theora K. Hix
Common Pleas
Henry L. Scarlett
Snook
Scarlett
Firestone Improvement Reported for Harv Firestone Sr
Akron July 20 Harvey B Firestone Sr president of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was reported much improved after a restful night. Family said physicians reported the danger of pneumonia passed and his condition improved.
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Akron
Harvey
Firestone, Sr
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Governors Visit Paid To Ancient Train At Mount Washington
A party of eight governors from New England and the west visited Bretton Woods New Hampshire to see Old Pep, the historic locomotive that first ran in 1869 up the cog railway to the summit of Mount Washington. Governor Tobey hosted with Lt Governor Storms and staff. attendees included Hammill Kaulffeld Dern Christensen Graves Weeks Conley.
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Bretton Woods
N. H
South
West
New England
Mt. Washington
New London
Conn
Charles W.tobey
New Hampshire
John Hammil
Low H
Kaulffeld
Missouri
George H. Dern
Utah
Theodore Christanson
Minnesota
Bibb Graves
Alabama
John E. Weeks
Vermont
W. G. Conley
Wes
Virginia
C. 2
Storms
Oklahoma
Burgess and Wife Admit Witchcraft Motive in Killing
Kalamazoo Michigan July 20 Eugene Burgess 53 and his wife confess they believed Mrs Fairchilds a witch and killed her at their home Supper Thursday Then Burgess described beating her with a lead pipe and hammer tying cement blocks to the body and dropping it in a well He said the woman bragged she killed 100 persons a year for 26 years and that he is glad she is dead The couple claimed spells caused intended victims and admitted to the killing citing witchcraft as motive
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Eugene Burgess
Driver
Etta
Aid ‘ Fairchilds
Tnma
Burgess
Reles
Mra
Balke
Childs
Fairchilds
Rail merger plans being considered in Washington
Washington July 20. A plan for consolidation of Atlantic railroads into several systems has been submitted by Commissioner Porter for Interstate Commerce Commission review. He said the commission hopes to complete the plan before fall, but will not publish it until the commission approves the merger plan. The ICC was ordered by the Transportation Act of 1920 to draft a merger plan and has asked Congress for relief, a task Porter has led for about a year and cited as a step before hearings on merger applications by the Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio railroads.
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Stansbury
Jana
Hazel Atlas Glass Company
Akron
Washington
Porte
Transportation Act
Congress
Porter
Chipeake
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Mystery of Empty Truck Solved in Clarksburg
In Clarksburg on July 20, 1927, police found a truck from Scott Haven, Pa, with a false bottom concealing copper tanks used to carry liquor. Owner George Krizam, 29, pleaded guilty to liquor transportation, receiving 90 days in jail and a $150 fine plus costs.
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Clarksburg
Scott Haven
George Krizam
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Minn
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Alaska Flyer
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Mitchell Field
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Alankay
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H. H. Rose
Fairmont
First Baptist Church
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Flyer
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Victor Berger
Firestone
Mt. Washington Summit
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