Hoover Heads FBI Kidnap Probe In Florida
J Edgar Hoover arrived in Florida to take command of the James Sailey Cash Jr kidnapping case as divers and volunteers join a vast search by sea and land. Officers and agents extend the hunt north of Princeton while the Cash family remains secluded amid grim inquiries and telegrams.
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Princeton
Fla
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
James Sailey Cash
Miami
Washington
Hoover
FBI
da’ Dyvere Tai
Soc
New Program Aims to Use Relief Funds for Farm Surpluses
Washington June 2 President Roosevelt and his advisers plan to use hundreds of millions in relief funds to raise domestic consumption of surplus farm products. The twofold aim is to bolster prices by supporting the agriculture department under the new crop control law and to supply undernourished relief and low income families with more food and cotton products. The plan would expand the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation which buys surplus perishable farm commodities for needy families.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Saia
Senate
Hotel Sommodore Faces Union at Capitol and Bath
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Lewis forces plan meeting in Harrisburg
John L. Lewis CIO forces in Pennsylvania, whose candidates in the primary were defeated by the Democratic state committee, began steps to chart their future political course. They said policies would be decided after conferences with responsible political leaders or candidates as may seem necessary and expedient. Guffey is reportedly reconciled. neither Lewis nor Kennedy has spoken on supporting the general election ticket.
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Harrisburg
John L. Lewis
CIO
Pennsylvania
Democratic State Committee
State Industrial Council
Guffey
Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Clo
Gambling Equipment Stolen From Officers in Clarksburg
In Clarksburg on June 2 police report seven truckloads of gambling gear and confiscated furniture vanished from a raid over a week earlier. Judge Robert Ziegler opened an inquiry suggesting an inside job, noting only officers would know the location and involving potentially higher ranking department figures.
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Clarksburg
Robert Ziegler
Ziegler
Liberty Tubes to Undergo Summer Modernization
PITTSBURGH June 2 Pittsburgh's Liberty tubes tunnels under Mt Washington linking South Hills with downtown Golden Triangle will be modernized. County commissioners anticipate cost of repaving roadways lining walls with white tile and installing sodium vapor lights at $600,000.
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Pittsburgh
Mt. Washington
South Hills
Golden Triangle
License clerk in Memphis keeps busy yet never wed
Albert A. Johnson, 44, a clerk in Memphis license bureau, says he has issued about 20,000 marriage licenses but never married, 10,000 fishing and hunting licenses with no fishing or hunting trips, and 100,000 automobile licenses though he does not own a car.
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Memphis
Albert A. Johnson
Johnson
Plane Attack Gets Results In Shanghai Area
Warplanes of Nippon forces intensified destruction around the Sunghai railway as they claimed gains. Japanese announced occupation of a corner of Kiasien, twenty miles south of Lanfeng, after a short engagement. Chinese field gun fire reported.
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Elmer W. Peterson
Shanghai
Army of Nippon
Sunghai Railway
Kiasien
Lanfeng
Strike Curtails Bread Supply Of Pittsburgh
Bread supply tightens in Pittsburgh as 35 major bakeries halt ovens and 1,400 truck drivers strike. About 2,300 inside workers idle and AFL Bakery Truck Drivers union considers sympathy walkout. The stoppage began last midnight after AFL order, halting movements into and out of the city. Independent grocers and restaurants within 60 miles face impaired supply though bakers expect no immediate shortage.
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Pittsburgh
American Federation of Labor
AFL
General Teamsters
Big Strawberry Festival Opens Despite Rain Parade Friday
Buckhannon June 2 Undeterred by intermittent rain the Central West Virginia Strawberry festival begins with a streamlined queen coronation by airplane Elizabeth Jarvis the third in as many years arrives from Weston with Carl B Woodford landing at 9 30 am A state police escort and tours of Buckhannon follow as parents siblings and hosts greet the queen at Dr L W Deeds home Officials plan a school children parade and coronation at West Virginia Wesleyan College athletic field weather permitting
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G. C. Young
Queen Elizabeth
Albert Jarvis
Weston
Buckhannon
Beth
L. W. Deeds
West Virginia
Bolyard Jr Graduates with Honors at Marshall College
W T Bolyard Jr son of Mr and Mrs W T Bolyard Blueville graduates with honors at Marshall College earning an AB degree. He made an enviable football record as a star tackle for two years with the Big Green after a year at Davis Elkins college and earlier starred for G H S grid team. He plans to enter teaching.
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W. T. Bolyard, Jr
W. T. Bolyard
Blueville
Marshall College
Young Bolyard
Davis-Elkins College
G. H. S. Grid
British hope they can end Spanish war
London reports Neville Chamberlain, entering his second year as prime minister, ordered renewed diplomatic activity to end the Spanish civil war and ease tensions in Czechoslovakia Germany and France. The cabinet approved plans for a roundtable with Spanish authorities and for mediating the Sudeten German dispute amid widespread war weariness.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Spain
Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Fines Levied on 13 Oil Firms in Midwest Margin Fix Case
Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone in Madison Wisconsin fined 13 major oil companies 360000 dollars plus 25000 dollars costs after they pled nolo contendere to charges of illegally fixing wholesale gasoline margins for independents. Eight more firms and an equal number of officials rejected the plea and face trial September 23.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick T. Stone
Midwest
Stone
Nolo Contendre
Pittsburgh City Help Initiated On Short Day
About 1,000 city employees, one fifth of the total force, begin a 6 1 2 hour day next week under a new ordinance proposed by Councilman Robert Garland. The hours run 8 30 to 12 in the morning and 1 to 4 in the afternoons, with a half day on Saturdays continuing.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Garland
Grafton Drum and Bugle Corps to Buckhannon Festival
The Grafton Drum and Bugle corps sponsored by Memorial City Post No. 3081 VFW will travel to Buckhannon Friday for the Strawberry Festival drum and bugle corps contest seeking to repeat last year’s victory. They depart Grafton at 10 30 a m, led by director Major Charles Burke. On June 18 they proceed to Parkersburg for the state VFW encampment to pursue state honors again.
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Grafton
Memorial City Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Buckhannon
Charles Burke
Parkersburg
V.F.W
Noted Missionary Will Speak Here This Evening
Dr. Charles F. Yoder, noted missionary teacher and author, will address the First Brethren church at 7 30 o clock Thursday evening. Formerly a missionary to South Africa and a university teacher, he is stopping in Grafton en route to the Southeastern district conference in Lydia Maryland where he is scheduled as a principal speaker.
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Charles F. Yoder
First Brethren Church
South Africa
Yoder
Grafton
Lydia
New Business Laws During April May Banks Report
The Federal Reserve bank reports in its monthly business review that new laws touched April and May across iron and steel auto activities retail and wholesale trade. Industrial areas show declines in manufacturing employment from Cincinnati to Toledo with 20 to 41 percent drops. In May further curtailment occurred at large plants mainly in auto parts tires machine tools and steel.
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Cleveland
Federal Reserve Bank
Business Review Today
Cincinnati
Toledo
Fake Telegram Triggers Sweeps Prize Joke
Morris Nash a Philadelphia janitor received a telegram claiming he won 50000 in sweepstakes. After checking with the telegraph company, officials said the message was a joke, though Nash did not find it funny.
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Philadelphia
Morris Nash
Telegraph
Nash
Test Planned of Levy Case In Charleston
West Virginia was restrained by an injunction from imposing a property levy on assets of federal savings and loan associations in Kanawha county. The test case moves to the Supreme Court, with Circuit Judge Julian F. Bouchelle issuing the permanent injunction against Tax Commissioner Ernest K. James.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Federal Savings and Loan Associations
Kanawha County
Supreme Court
Julian F. Bouchelle
Ernest K. James
Dewey Plans More Arrests In Financial Ring
New York reports indicate further indictments are forthcoming in District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's probe into a pyramid scheme that controlled investment trusts with assets totaling about 16 million dollars. Six indictments were already announced, with Dewey condemning the alleged looting as the biggest financial theft in years. The ringleaders faced accusations of no expense involved in the scheme.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Doctors Think Kidnapper Decapitated Levine Boy
NEW ROCHELLE N Y June 2 Revising an original police theory Dr Amos O Squire Westchester county medical examiner said today he was convinced that kidnappers decapitated 12 year old Peter Levine before dumping his body into Long Island sound. He noted a check of 1200 drowning cases found no instance where a head detached from a body by natural causes after immersion of only three months. Police and federal agents still without a tangible clue to the killer continued dragging waters of the sound last Sunday.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Amos O. Squire
Westchester County
Peter Levine
Long Island Sound
Squire
Parley Urged on State Chairman in 1938 Plans
Huntington June 2 An open letter urges C E Boone head of the state Republican committee to call a meeting to draft policies for the 1938 election The Herald Dispatch says the task may wait until the 1940 state convention but a pledges and policies group could gain agreement It argues the political trend favors the Republicans and warns against complacency Suggestions include urging legislative candidates to back amending the laws to permit election of lig and the
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Huntington
C. E. Boone
State Republican Committee
The
Herald-Dispatch
State Committee
Republican Party
Grafton Sentinel invites Eva Love to theatre presen tations
Identification may be required. The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Eva Love of 212 East Main Street to attend tonight’s presentations at the Strand and Dixie theaters. The Strand offers Daredevil Drivers while the Dixie features Bulldog Drummond’s Peril and Boiling Point.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Eva Love
East Main Street
Strand
Drummond
the Dixie
Taylor County Moves To Halt Parking Meters
Proceedings underway as Taylor County Court fights Graf ton to stop installation of parking meters on West Main by the courthouse. County officials announce they will seek a temporary injunction, with Prosecuting Attorney Warder preparing legal steps. Farmers express anger at meters, labeling plans as a gouge on rural residents.
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Taylor County Court
Grafton
Main Street
Harvey A. Poe
Opha Bartlett
Harvey B. Scranage
Warder
Preston
Randolph
Taylor County
P. P
Joseph B. Bradford
Harley Hiller
Senate seeks FDR outline for war bill draft
Washington dispatch says Senate members want an exact outline of the war bill President Roosevelt would propose. They believe a public statement by Mr Roosevelt would clarify the administration's tax and spending aims. Senator Thomas of Utah and colleagues note mixed reactions to the president's views and anticipate a July commitment.
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Roosevelt
Itee
Senate
Membe
Yelt
Thomas
Utah
Sion
Conte
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