Spain Faces Looming War as Fascism Rises
An Associated Press dispatch from New York dated July 27 outlines rising war tensions across Europe Asia and Africa. Fascist Spain spreads banners amid civil strife while leaders like Lindbergh Mussolini and Stalin warn of looming conflict. The piece notes widespread talk of war and the deepening clash between fascism and liberalism with continued pages on the foreign situation.
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John Evans
Associated Press
New York
Spain
Asia
Africa
Charles A. Lindbergh
Berlin
Mussolini
Stalin
Thei
Killer's Voice Is Chief Club In Asheville News
The slayer of Helen Clevenger, an 18 year old college student, described as speaking with a soft spoken cultured voice, provides officers a new clue as Sheriff Laurence E. Brown guards his next move in solving the shooting at a fashionable Asheville hotel. Lawyer Guy Weaver, representing Prof. Wil Clevenger, is said to be detained for investigation.
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Asheville
N. C
Helen Clevenger
Laurence E. Brown
Guy Weaver
Wil. Clevenger
Voice of A
Drive SAFELY Walk In a Front Seat Deaths Report
In an adjoining state a collision left a small child first on the death list among four front seat occupants. The Taylor County Safety Council notes the fatal result and urges caution to readers and drivers.
Nudists Observe Movements Of Bitter Foe In New Jersey
Long Valley New Jersey July 27 Will Searles a farmer and promoter of clambakes asked what has changed among nudists. He planned a telescope recon to view the Nudist camp he aims to drive from Schooley's Mountain. He noted the Nudies suddenly wore abbreviated clothes and massaged a sore hand from autographs of clam shells.
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Long Valley
N. J
Will Searles
Schooley
Sarles
Angle Roller Mill Burned Fire Hits Berkeley Springs
Fire destroyed the Angle roller mill at Berkeley Springs after a lightning strike. Owner G. K. Angle of Hancock, Maryland, valued the loss at $15,000 as Hancock and Berkeley Springs volunteers fought the blaze to prevent spread.
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Berkeley Springs
Angle
G. K. Angle
Hancock, Md
College Honor Student Held for Brutal Murder
Oklahoma City and Hamilton reports reveal Donald Knepper a 24 year old college honor student held on charges of slaying his 75 year old grandmother Mrs C N Weiser and strangling her with a pocketknife authorities say Knepper admitted the crime and was being held after the family tragedy left nine dead in a train car crash that killed five children and their parents in Ohio authorities investigation continues into both incidents with the public urged to follow updates from coroner Edward E Cook and Deputy Sheriff Dan Kean
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Hamilton
Edward E. Cook
Ohio
Walter Seward
Hamilton City
Norman Schwertz
Oklahoma City
Donald Knepper
Seward
Oklahoma A
M. Charlotte Anne
And
Edward College
C. N. Weiser
Dan Kean
Hopkins Promises Help For Replaced Mine Men
Senator M M Neely says WPA Administrator Hopkins will aid thousands of West Virginia coal miners made idle by mechanization and mine closings. J Frank Miley of District 31 UMWA cites over 25 000 idle or threatened miners in the state with 1500 idle in Monongalia County. National Bituminous Coal Commission member C E Smith notes the moves will be significant.
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Fairmont
M. M. Neely
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
West Virginia
Neely
J. Frank Miley
United Mine Workers of America
Monongalia County
C.E. Smith
National Bituminous ‘Coal Commission
Sygate
Rockefeller Says Liquor Taxes Too Heavy
John D. Rockefeller Jr. a former prohibition advocate said liquor taxes are too high and bootlegging cannot be controlled while taxes stay high. He noted liquor conditions have improved in the United States since repeal.
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John D. Rockefeller
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United States
Conley Refuses to Quit Race Despite Illness
FAIRMONT July 27 Rollo Conley refuses to abandon his bid for the West Virginia senate despite physicians ordering 30 days rest for heart tests. He announces a telephone at his bedside and will have his secretary call daily to report progress.
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Fairmont
Rollo Conley
West Virginia Senate
Two suits set for trial before justice of the peace
Two civil suits before Magistrate W E Rightmire over the next eight days involve a Latrobe street fight aftermath and money seized in a numbers raid. Dabney seeks return of 9 80 allegedly taken during the Weaver studio raid while state troopers say the pocketbook was among seized cash on a table. The cases hinge on differing accounts of the raid led by Sergeant E E Stout and Corporal L W Emrick.
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Justice of the Peace Court
W. E. Rightmire
Latrobe
William B. Dabney
L. W. Emrick
Grafton
State Police
Dabney
E. E. Stout
Fairmont
Emrick
Lead Slug Studied As Clue to Bus Shooting
Clarksb urg police investigate a bus shooting as Chief Roy O Ross studies a lead slug. The bullet from a high powered rifle pierced the bus top within inches of the driver Minter Bennett’s head and fell into a passenger’s lap as the vehicle reached the city limits, with 12 people aboard.
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Clarksburg
Roy O. Ross
Minter Bennett
Seek to Learn Identity of Victim of Lake Lynn
Morgantown reports indicate police scan missing persons files to identify a man found by fishermen in Lake Lynn. The body had been in the water about a week, with an estimated age of 35 to 40. Coroner R C Farrier notified the department of justice to send an agent for fingerprints.
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Morgantown
Lake Lynn
Here
R. C. Farrier
Department of Justice
Refugees Flee Madrid On Train To Allicante Coast
Foreign refugees aided by the Leftist government depart Madrid amid rebel threats to starve the city. They travel on a government-provided train toward Allicante on Spain's southeast coast, aiming to board a British destroyer that night. Ambassador Bowers and aides evacuated the embassy at San Sebastian as battles rage across loyalist fronts.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Spain
Alicante
Bowers
State Department
Claude G. Bowers
San Sebastian
Gibraltar
San Roque
Gib
National Steel Follows Lead In Overtime Wages
National Steel announced it would pay time and a half for overtime, aligning with U S Steel. The firm runs Weirton Steel with plants at Weirton and Clarksburg West Virginia and Steubenville Ohio, plus Great Lakes Steel and Hanna Furnace. The decision followed President Ernest Weir's return from New York after discussions with employee representatives.
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Pittsburgh
National Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel Corporation
Weirton Steel
Weirton and
Clarksburg
W. Va
Steubenville
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Hanna Furnace Corporation
Ernest Weir
New York
Soap Box Derby near tragedy injures spectators in Wheeling
In Wheeling on July 27 a soap box derby crash near the finish line left two spectators with broken legs and two more hurt. Wilbur Crambler, 15, son of a Bethany physician, won the race at 35 mph as about 15 000 spectators watched.
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Wheeling
Charles Fuhrman
Edward L. Steinbicker
Elizabeth McManus
Ella Wasmuth
Patricia McCray
Wilbur Crambler
Bethany
Long Respected Citizen Held After 22 Years On Run
In Cleveland on July 27 a 41 year old man named Carl B Crilton was captured after fleeing jail in 1913 over a bank burglary. He fights extradition to Oklahoma for completion of a two year reformator sentence. He claimed his wife and two children do not know of the escape and warned of trouble if they hear. Detective inspector Nevel previously recommended freedom for the suspect.
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Cleveland
Charles ©. Nevel
Ten of Forty Men Report for Grafton Street Repaving
At 7 this morning work began on repaving 2002 miles of Grafton streets along route 119 as WPA funds fund a relief project. Only about ten men answered the call due to relief status requirements, with dozens waiting at the NRS office for placement and Stickley directing supervision. The project includes removing brick and rail removal on Main street after Walnut and Beech are finished. officials note traffic is routed via the South Grafton bridge.
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Grafton Streets
Route 119
City
Handley’s Crossing
Walnut Street
Works Progress Administration
Luke B Ross
NRS
WPA
Grafton Banking and Trust Company
W. P. Stickley
W. R. Fimple Company
Main Street
Walnut
Beech
South Grafton
Fairmont
Trusty Leaps to Death in Washington Jail
A 60-foot plunge from a fourth floor railing at the Washington county jail killed 51-year-old Charles Tika a trusty. A deputy warden said the prisoner leaped after eluding his grasp. Tika had served three months of a nine month sentence for assault and battery.
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Washington
Washington County
Charles Tika
Tika
Detroit Bishop Says Not Opposed to Roosevelt
Bishop Gallagher of Detroit clarifies he is not personally opposed to President Roosevelt or any candidate. He had supported Father Coughlin’s right to critique the administration and notes headlines implying personal opposition are misleading.
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Rome
Gallagher
Detroit
Roosevelt
Charles E. Coughlin
Father Coughlin
Visitor From Texas Drowned in Coal River
Coroner orders inquest into the death of Margaret Gilliam a 28 year old visitor from near El Paso Texas who drowned in Coal river near Charleston The swimming party reports she slipped and fell into the water as companions recovered the body Garden a party member summoned help and noted a broken neck and head injuries were present.
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Charleston
James E. Roberts
Margaret Gilliam
el Paso
Texas
Coal River
Roberts
Water System Extension Up Before Dads
Grafton city commission spent most of the morning considering a plan to supply Brownlow Park residents with city water. A resident committee headed by E. I. Headley and R. M. Parrish proposed that the Works Progress Administration would fund most of the new water lines and outlets in the new subdivision, with costs for taps outlined for residents.
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Brownlow Park
Grafton
New Court Move Aims to Free Thomas Mooney
San Francisco reports attorney George T. Davis predicting Mooney, imprisoned for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, will be freed after a habeas corpus hearing. Davis said Mooney would pursue exoneration through the United States Supreme Court if needed, while remaining in a life sentence.
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San Francisco
George T. Davis
Thomas J. Mooney
Davis
Mooney
United States Supreme Court
Only One Man Injured When Big Bus Wrecks
JOHNSTOWN Pa July 27 A heavy Greyhound bus skidded on a steep hill on the outskirts of Johnstown injuring several of the 22 passengers en route from Scranton to Pittsburgh. Initial reports said 12 were taken to hospitals but the company later said only one man was hurt with a bruised knee. Driver Clay Worthing nosed the accident.
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Johnstown
Greyhound
Scranton
Pittsburgh
Clay Worthing
Meeting August 7 on plans to oppose Roosevelt
Sterling E. Edmunds a St. Louis attorney summering in northern Michigan invites Democratic opponents of the Roosevelt administration to Detroit August 7 to discuss a campaign against the president. He hopes James A. Reed Bainbridge Colby and Joseph B Ely attend with letters sent to constitutional Democrats in 30 plus states. Reed Ely and others say the conference aims to consider possible actions, with details to follow.
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Detroit
Sterling E. Edmunds
St. Louis
Michigan
Roosevelt
Edmunds
Wequetonsing
Emmett County
James A. Reed
Missouri
Bainbridge Colby
New York
Wilson
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Reed
Fairview
Mich
Ely
Westfield
Mass
Queen Mary Breaks Atlantic Speed Record For Ocean
The Queen Mary arrived in New York harbor with a new Atlantic crossing record of four days eight hours and 37 minutes from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship. Sir Edgar Briten announced a three hour and five minute improvement over Normandie, with speed about 29.81 knots.
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New York
New York Harbor
Britain
Normandie
Cherbourg
Ambrose
Edgar T. Briten
Ambrose Light
Cunard
White Star Line
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Taylor County Safety Council
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Evans Hughes
Los Angeles
Charles Evans Hughes
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Sun
Hopkins
Conley
Baker
National Steel
Derby
Trusty
Bishop
Blueville
Thomas Mooney
F.D.R
Govely
Parley
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