Open Surveys for New Dams in West Virginia
Ashington reports the War department will survey Elk and Greenbrier rivers for flood control. The $50,000 appropriation funds planning with Clendenin on the Elk River estimated at 1.566 million dollars and Big Bend on the Greenbrier at 1.3196 million. Total Big Bend cost pegged at 3.515 million by Tri-State Flood Authority.
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Ashington
Elk
Greenbrier
West Virginia
Armyineers
War Department
Clendenin
Big Bend
Tri-State
Cheat
Potomac Rivers
Ventriloquist Blamed For Bothering Gorilla
Cincinnati zoo notes disturbances caused by an anonymous ventriloquist who mimics dog barks baby cries and a cat’s meow. Susie the 700 pound gorilla turns ten on Sunday and zoo officials promise to protect her party by detaining the offender if he attends.
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Cincinnati
Susie
Hoover Seeks Buyable Mine on Western Expedition
Herbert Hoover the engineer is in the market for a good mine. Mark Requa says the former president would reenter engineering if he finds a promising copper mine. Hoover and his son Alan inspected a Mountain City Nevada copper mine this week before traveling to Idaho for fishing.
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Eau Lake City
Herbert Hoover
Mark Requa
California Publican National Committee 1S
Owa
Requa
Hoover
Mountain City
Nevada
Alan
Idaho
French Deputies Pass Woman Suffrage Bill
Paris July 30 The Chamber of Deputies suddenly adopted a rightist bill to make women eligible to vote and hold elective office. The measure was passed to force action by the senate which has steadfastly defeated women s suffrage legislation.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Quarrel Ends With Two Dead
Old Sam Lewis and Billy Duncan, long-time bachelor-farmers on Grassy Meadow near Lewisburg, quarrelled today. Duncan shot Lewis and then killed himself in the yard. State Trooper Locke ruled the deaths murder and death by own action, with no clear cause for the quarrel.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Sam Lewis
Billy Duncan
H. 8
Locke
Duncan
Lewis
Justice of the Peace
C. E. Patterson
New Deal Voices Divide Republicans in Conference
Visitors such as William J Donovan William M Chadbourne and Hubert Taft discussed the political landscape with three predicting New York and Ohio in the Republican court. Secretary Wal lace said Landon approves farm relief and Lukewarm Arthur Ballantine praised Lan tandon labor for humanity and courage amid ongoing political developments.
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New York
Ohio
William J Donovan
William M. Chadbourne
Empire State
Hubert Taft
Wallace
Landon
Arthur A. Ballantine
Treasury
Hoover
Don
Mary W. Dawson
The
Democratic group attacks Sterling Edmunds over anti New Deal meeting
The Democratic National Committee assailed Sterling Edmunds of St Louis who with former Senator James Reed urged an anti New Deal Democrat gathering. She labeled Edmunds a leading opponent of child labor legislation. Senator James Couzens of Michigan commented that Roosevelt would not bankrupt the nation and doubted anyone could balance the federal budget in the current mood.
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Democratic National Committee
Sterling Edmunds
St. Louis
James Reed
Edmunds
James Couzens
Mich
Michigan
Griece
Roosevelt
Maid's Story Dragged Into Dr Thorpe Divorce Case
The court heard intimate photos and details about Dr. Thorpe and a nurse Mrs Astor's dispute over Maryin. Nellie Richardson testified on the surgeon’s life and past relationships. The nurse described rooms and overnight visitors as attorneys questioned her about the doctor’s household.
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Dr. Thorpe
George
Maryin
Dr. T Thorpe
Miss Astor
Nellie Richardson
Roland Rich Woolley
Norma Taylor
Miss Taylorr
Woolley
Mystery Surrounds Breakfast Visit to Dr Thorpe Wife Case
Testimony describes breakfast served to actress Mary Astor, Dr Thorpe, and four women including Betty Gaff Lillian Miles and Madge Scofield. Questions and answers about Miss Graff and Miss Taylor mirrored across witnesses, noting identical responses and repeated stays.
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Paul Scofield
Scofield
Woolley
Miss Graff
Accused Spy Farnsworth Denies Secrets Charge
John S. Farnsworth, ex navy lieutenant commander, angrily denied in federal court that he betrayed defense secrets to a foreign power. Awaiting trial in October after a two week jail stay, he faces two federal charges involving delivery attempts of a confidential naval publication to a Japanese agent in August 1934. His attorney cited likely inability to post a $10,000 bond. Farnsworth, once of Cincinnati and Annapolis graduate, was detained by naval intelligence and justice officers in Washington.
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Washington
John S. Farnsworth
District of Columbia
Oscar Luhring
Farnsworth
Naval
Service of Information and Security
Pamso 14
William B. Leahy
Palm Readers Provoked by Quacks in Fortune Telling Trade
New York July 30. A gathering of the National Association of Fortune Tellers voiced complaints about dwindling prospects. They blamed quacks and state laws that bar fees for horse racing tips, noting many former readers turned fortune tellers during hard times.
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New York
National Association of Fortune Tellers
Topsy la Velle
Association
Helena A. Perota
Bronx
Ipsychic
Biting Alleged in Fairmont Fight Charge Filed
Police charged Tony Yowchick, 44, a miner, with biting off the end of a finger belonging to Frank Misey during a scuffle in Fairmont on July 30. The incident led to the arrest and formal charges against Yowchick.
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Fairmont
Tony Yowchick
Miner
Frank Misey
Johnson to Confer with Governor on Fourth District Plans
Representative George W. Johnson of West Virginia says he will meet Governor Kump on Friday to discuss building plans for state institutions in the fourth congressional district.
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Washington
George W. Johnson
Kump Friday
Farmer's New Shed Burns After Lightning Strike
A log book note from Carmichaels Pennsylvania records a lightning strike on a farmer Frank Keener’s new grain shed. The blaze was extinguished by firefighters after the strike, with damage listed at 100 dollars.
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Carmichaels
Frank Keener
Mutual Development Plan For Quoddy Project Discussed
The speaker outlined a halt to the $7,000,000 WPA funded project after Congress refused final funds. He warned 5,000 workers would lose relief jobs without authorization and noted the doomed Model Village at Quoddy. He planned talks with Premier Mackenzie King and Lord Tweedsmuir on hydro power and the St Lawrence waterway, previously vetoed by the Senate.
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Congress
United States
Canada
Quoddy
St. Lawrence Waterway
Senate
Mackenzie King
Lord Tweedsmuir
Girl Jumps Two Stories On Dare In Huntington
Miss Elizabeth Boyd, 25, leaped two stories from an apartment to the street in what detectives call a dare incident. A man questioned said he told her she was not game, and she fell landing with a fractured skull and punctured lung. Doctors report her condition critical and she is unconscious.
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Huntington
Elizabeth Boyd
Spencer
Miss Boyd
School Nears Completion In Point Pleasant
Kary D. Cowen, WPA engineer, said the new high school building in Point Pleasant will be completed by October. The report is dated July 30 and references the ongoing construction funded by the Works Progress Administration.
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Point Pleasant
Kary D. Cowen
WPA Engineeringector
Two Slain in Political Row in Monterey Mexico
Two men were slain and seven wounded in a night gun fight between Red workers and Civic Nationalistic group. Police and federal troops rounded up more than 400 persons, including several prominent businessmen, as witnesses said Leftists paraded and fired pistols outside the offices during the clash.
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Monterey
Mexico
Red
Civic Nationalistic
Nationalistic Group Forms to Fight Alleged Communist Activities
A fragmented note describes a nationalist organization formed to counter suspected communist activity. The text mentions men answering gunfire in a vague incident, with unclear dates or locations.
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Ee Aed
Sheriff Fails to Find Solution of Slaying
ASHEVILLE N C July 30 The two weeks Sheriff Laurence E Brown allotted himself to crack the Clevenger case ended today with the murder mystery still far from a solution He said he remains confident he will solve the crime though it may take a long time The sheriff called the effort a matter of scouting the country and picking up scraps of information one at a time after the college bred lawman dated the crime to July 16 when the co ed Helen Clevenger was found dead at Battery Park hotel
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Asheville
N. C
Laurence E. Brown
Clevenger
Brown
Helen Clevenger
Battery Park
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