Fear Byrd Trail Lost In Antarctic Wastes
Fear for Rear Admiral Byrd grows as his 123 mile trail from Little America to the main base remains unfound after a 50 mile relief party could not locate it. Four months into the winter night, temperatures range from fifty below to seventy one below, with Dr. Thomas C. PoulterLeading a small party fighting bitter weather to reach fifty mile station. The group, including Barnard Skinner Amory Waite Carl Peterson and Bernard Flemming, zigzagged across ice barriers as a search by skies and a tractor searchlight tried to recover the route.
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Ros
Byrd
Thomas C. Poulter
Poulter
Barnard Skinner
Amory Waite
Carl Peterson
Bernard Flemming
Petersen
Flemming
Foreign War Vets Post Is Established
Memorial City Post No 3081 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is formally installed with a street parade led by the Meuse Argonne band from Clarksburg. Delegations from Morgantown Fairmont Clarksburg and Rowlesburg joined the caravan marshaled by Richard Foley. Rev Frank J Turvander offered invocation and Frank C Haymond spoke as congressional aspirant.
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Memorial City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Meuse Argonne—bana
Clarksburg
Richard Foley
Moose Home
Morgantown
Fairmont
Rowlesburg
Blanket Mill likely to reopen under FERA plan
Philippi readers learn the Blanket Mills may reopen soon employing 80 FERA workers and supervisors if the welfare board approves the plan formulated by J A Buchinal and G E Cromwell with local FERA officials. The plan envisions leasing the plant to the state relief department for one year with a possible renewal, to set the mill in operable condition quickly. Mr Dudley noted state headquarters are expected to favor the proposal.
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John C. Carpenter
Philippi
Philippi/ Blanket
FERA
State Welfare Board
J. A. Buchinal
Fera of
Charleston
G. E. Cromwell
Public Works Division
Paul Dudley
J. A. Harrel
Citizens National Bank of Philppi
First National Bank of Philip
Electrical
Morgantown
State Department
State Relief Department
Dudley
Welfare Leaders Attend Federal Welfare Training
Miss Trene Poole assistant administrator of the local welfare board returned from Huntington after a six weeks federal training school for welfare workers focusing on social diagnosis and administration of public welfare. Miss Frances Jaco case supervisor left today to attend a similar program in Huntington.
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Trene Poole
Huntington
Frances Jaco
Bus Tragedy Claims 16 Lives In Ossining Crash
A bus carrying Brooklyn Young Democratic League members to a Sing Sing game plunged 25 feet into a lumber yard near Ossining New York on a Sunday. Sixteen passengers died and 26 were injured as a gas tank exploded, flames engulfed the wreckage, and onlookers tried to rescue those inside.
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Ossining
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Rose Thompson
Woodbine Street
William Hayes
Cornelius Street
Young Democratic League
New York Central
Sam
Relief Racket Scandal Prompts New York Inquiry
Joseph Goldsmith, president of the Council of Real Estate Associations, urged Governor Lehman to launch an investigation into relief work in New York City. He alleged millions are wasted and stolen, relief tickets sold at a discount, and ineligible individuals receiving aid while deserving cases wait.
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New York
Joseph Goldsmith
Council of Real Estate Associations of
Herbert H. Lehman
Peepers blamed for slaying of Indiana newspaper woman
Indianapolis July 23 police blamed peepers who spied on a couple in a park for the shooting of Garnett Bradley a 25 year old Richmond Indiana newspaper employee fatally wounded by a bullet that entered her left shoulder and penetrated under her lung Investigators noted a coincidence in the arrival of Mrs Hendrixon with her daughter and brother during the probe and said the woman and her relatives may have witnessed the incident or been near the scene.
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Indianapolis
Garnett
Bradley
Richmond
Ind
George Hendrixon
Mond Palladium
Hendixon
Hendrixon
Disappearance Of Trusty Remains A River Mystery
Officers continue a river search near the State Industrial School for Boys for 16 year old Trusty Powell. Inmates Brunner and Nichols gave conflicting accounts of his fate after Powell was allegedly struck and dumped in the Tygarts Valley river last Tuesday. Despite repeated river and well searches and nearby woods sweeps, no body has been found, though Chief Henderson maintains Powell will be located in the river.
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James Powell
State Industrial School For Boys
Tygarts Valley
David Brunner
Albert Nichols
Powell
Brunner
Nichols
Grafton
Powel
Wallace Henderson
Henderson
Claude Hefner
Dry chief to address here tonight in courthouse
Oliver W. Stewart, Chicago militiant and Flying Squadron Foundation president, will headline the campaign opening to retain the prohibition amendment in the state constitution tonight at 8 in the courthouse court room. He plans to discuss why the drys quit and whether they can unite in one army, among other questions.
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Oliver W. Stewart
Flying Squadron Foundation
Stewart
Flying Squadron Chieftain
West Virginia
Panhandle
Typhoid Fears Rise as Floods Hit Poland
Warsaw reports outbreaks of typhoid amid flood devastation that has polluted drinking water and left 200000 people destitute. The Vistula third crest advances toward the Baltic as dikes are reinforced, a fourth crest expected. government and Red Cross mobilize relief, anti epidemic efforts, and bridge rail repair.
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Warsaw
Poland
Cracow
Vistula
Baltic Sea
Red Cross
Tear Gas Used to End Labor Fight at Tool Works
Parkersburg July 23 tear gas bombs cleared crowds at Ames Baldwin Wyoming Tool Works to admit about 60 workers into the mill. State police used riot sticks as pickets were quelled. Shovelmen's union led a 500 worker strike seeking a new election for bargaining representation. Richard Harte of the company and Earl Summers of the union disagreed on holding another election.
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Parkersburg
Ames- Baldwin-Wyoming Tool Works Company
Shovelmen’s
Richard Harte
Earl Summers
Summers
Reates Pony Grounds
Trio Held In Death House Flee Prison
Three killers escaped the Texas state prison by overpowering guards and scaling walls during a Sunday baseball game attendance. Raymond Hamilton Joe Palmer and Blackie Thompson led the break with revolvers. two companions were wounded and one killed in the attempt. Sightings followed near Hearne Texas as fugitives fled in two cars.
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Huntsville
Tex
Texas State Prison
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
Joe Palmer
Barrow
Blackie” Thompson
Oklahoma
All Life Terriers
Whitey
Walker
Thompson
Charlie Frazier
Louisiana
Roy Johnson
Hearne
Texas
Frazier
Lee Brazil
Pragier
Brazil
Hamilton
Palmer
Pete McKenzie
San Antonio
Tra Rector
Dillinger Saw to Play in Grafton Sunday
John Dillinger’s last public interest in a film was noted as Manhattan Melodrama. The Strand theater manager Lester Bush announced a three day run starting next Sunday, featuring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Dillinger, a known motion picture fan, reportedly viewed the film in Chicago’s Biograph theater prior to his death.
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Manhattan
John Dillinger
Chicago
Dillinger
Biograph Theater
Chiicago
Lester Bush
Strand Theater
Plan rallies of union men to aid Holt bid for Senate
Four United Mine Workers rallies are planned in Taylor county to back Rush D. Holt in the Democratic bid for the U S Senate. Barbour county will host three meetings in Philippi Galloway and Bear Mountain. The state rally in Fairmont drumbeat urged Holt supporters to help secure the nomination and noted 107 meetings planned statewide. Van Bittner praised Roosevelt and urged labor to take political responsibility.
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United Mine Workers Union
Taylor County
Rush D. Holt
Barbour County
Philippi
Galloway
Bear Mountain
United Mine Workers
Fairmont
van Bittner
Rush Holt
Holt
Bittner
Roosevelt
Dillinger Shot Down Near Fuller ton and Lincoln
Federal agents fatally wound outlaw John Dillinger as he exits a theater near Fuller ton and Lincoln. Purvis signals and agents fire, a final five-shot volley ending the gunman’s escape. The dramatic arresting scene closes with Dillinger’s death on an Indianapolis style pursuit.
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Outlaw
John Dillinger
Fullerton
Lincoln Avenue
Dillinger
Melvin H. Purvis
Chicago
Department of Justice
Purvis
Page Five
Jewelry Stolen From Party Near Chicago
At Knollwood Country Club near Chicago two robbers seized jewelry worth 14000 from six guests returning from a party. Victims named include Mr and Mrs Henry C Brummel Mr and Mrs J D Dolan of Chicago and Mrs Alex Campbell of Los Angeles and her young son Alex. A comely brunette signaled the theft while strolling near the Dolan residence.
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Chicago
Knollwood Country Club
Henry C. Brummel
J. D. Dolan
Alex Campbell
Los Angeles
Alex
Dolan
Three Die As Fire Destroys Small Ontario Home
Camp Borden Ontario July 23 Three people died when a light bungalow housing Royal Canadian Air Force Sergt John R Sherwood and family burned from an unspecified origin. Sherwood and his wife were hospitalized with burns and shock while the child was in critical condition. Names listed include Evelyn Massey 19 Toronto Denys Sherwood 8 and Gordon Sherwood 6. Officials withheld details pending Ottawa report.
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Camp Borden
Ont
John R. Sherwood
Royal Canadian Air Force
Sherwood
Evelyn Massey
Toronto
Denys Sherwood
Gor
Don Sherwood
Ottawa
Rush
Haymond Promises New Deal Support at Rally
Democratic aspirant Frank C. Haymond spoke at a courthouse rally promising allegiance to the New Deal and hydro electric development at the planned ten million dollar Tyg gart Valley river flood control dam near the city. He urged voters to elect a representative who will defend constituent interests and attacked a whispering campaign accusing him of utility ties and child labor support.
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Tyggart Valley River
Frank C. Haymond
First
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Antarctic
Ayn
Little America
Rie
Lowley
Peepers
Indiana
Trusty
River Search
Court House
Death House
U.M. W. Unions
Alpha
Frank Haymond
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