Flashes of Life diverse brief items from AP
A panoply of short world snippets: Yoro Honduras lagoons boil and logs burn. Gene Tunney to live simply. Helen Kane entangled in song rights. a New York vaudeville flare over embezzled songs. Pittsburgh circus day with a boy fined. Irene Plasty sought by police. Pierre Kressman fined for undeclared diamond ring destined for Toledo fiancée.
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New York
Helen Kane
Actors Equity Association
Pierre Kressman
Toledo
Pierre
Compensation Official Hires Four New Aides
Charleston June 4 Four workers in the Borkmen's Compensation department were announced by Commissioner Lee Ott after replacing L Heatherlin. Ott said he had accepted the resignations and the fired chief accountant H L Miller claimed he was dismissed. Miller reported receiving a June 1 resignation and a later check for services to June 15.
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Charleston
Borkmen’s Compensation Department
Lee Ott
L. Heatherlin
Conley
Ott
F. S. Moster
Weekley
J. R. Handley
H. L. Miller
Clarksburg
E. M. Hinerman
Moundsville
Miller
Tettere
Heaberlin
Governor to name new commissioner before term ends
A constitutional clause authorized the governor to appoint a new commissioner four years before the expiration of Heaberlin's term, ensuring continuity in the commission while the current appointee nears the end of the mandate.
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Islature
Heaberlin
Des Moines University Closed Till September
Des Moines University shut its doors until September after a trustees committee discharged the entire faculty and abandoned the summer session. The board aims to recruit professors suited to an evangelical university and will investigate the May 11 student riots and possibly withhold credits from participating undergraduates.
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Des Moines
Des Moines University
Hoover Reads Continued From Page One
Citizens from across the country send newspapers to the White House with interest in various projects. For over a decade Joan McCabe, a White House clerk, has prepared The Yellow Journal for publication in these columns.
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Hoover
White House
Yellow Journal
Joan McCabe
Evacuation Ordered as Vesuvian Lava Destroys Vineyards
Soldiers and volunteers aided residents as molten lava poured from a 160 foot wide eruptive cone at ten feet per second. Barre evacuated in orderly fashion while carts loaded belongings and vineyards near the ancient wine country suffered from the advancing flow. The Vesuvian Observatory monitored the eruptions and prepared to mobilize aid to other towns if needed.
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Barre
Vesuvian Observatory
Real Black Diamonds Lost In Plane Crash
The Sun reports black diamonds valued at 25 000, lost in a mail plane crash near Mo line Illinois in March are back with their owner in New York. A 132 valued package from El Paso was sent for inspection to a prospective purchaser. The plane burned in a swamp and laborers deemed the scene dangerous. Soldiers guarded the evacuation of the stones valued at 5 000, receiving 25 percent of all evacuation proceeds.
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New York
the Sun
Moline
el Paso
Barre
Never Say a Word In Future Verses About Grievances
A reflective verse about caution in public speech. The speaker vows to avoid blunders and not to voice controversial lines, acknowledging grievances from others. They promise to be careful and to pay taxes promptly, while rejecting further discussion of offense.
Mrs Cassler Grilled In Soutar Murder Probe
Chicago and Indiana officials probe the slaying of Miss Soutar whose body was found in a swamp near Herbon Indiana. Witnesses in Valparaiso coroner's inquest testified Miss Soutar entered the Cassler apartment on Monday May 27 and left with Mrs Cassler and her foster son Edward 19 in a car. Mrs Cassler had been convicted of murder two years ago, later freed on a new trial when witnesses could not be produced.
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Chicago
Catherine Cassler
Cameola Soutar
Indiana
Miss Soutar
Herbon
Ind
Valparaiso
Miss So
Raskob Ignores Fight In Virginia Factions
New York Herald Tribune reports John J. Raskob chair of the Democratic national committee treats the Virginia faction fight between Bishop James Cannon Jr. followers and Smith Raskob adherents as local for now. He says he offered to resign months ago for harmony but party leaders urged him to stay on.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Virginia
James Cannon, Jr
Raskob
King George Thanks Hoover for Birthday Greetings
Washington June 4 King George cabled President Hoover to express appreciation for greetings on his birthday yesterday. The King said he was deeply touched by the President's friendly words and the sympathy shown by the people of the United States, and offered warm thanks.
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Washington
King George
Hoover
United States
Morris Harvey Head Leaves Post Shortly
Huntington June 4 Dr Robert H Ruff president of Morris Harvey College in Barboursville will leave soon to become secretary of finance and promotion under the general conference board of education in Nashville Tennessee The resignation was held until a successor is chosen Ruff has led the college for two years and was previously with the general Sunday school board in Nashville
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General Sunday School Board
Nashville
Youth Burned Sliding Down Mount Hood Slope
Hood River Oregon June 4 William Meaney Portland high school junior was severely burned after sliding 2500 feet down Mount Hood glacier. He and 40 other boys climbed the mountain yesterday and Meaney remained in serious condition in a local hospital.
Burdats Named Head of Jesters in L A Shrine Meeting
Dr. C. W. Burdats of Wheeling West Virginia was elected royal tragedian of the Royal Order of Jesters at the annual meeting preceding the Shrine convention opening in Los Angeles California today.
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Los Angeles
Calif
C. W. Burdats
Wheeling
W. Va
Royal Order of Jesters
Panhandle Baptists Meet in Cameron for Annual Convention
Delegates from Tyler Wetzel Marsh all Oho Brooke and Hancock counties attended the Panhandle district Baptist churches convention in Cameron on June 4. Dr L Roberts of Philadelphia opened with a talk on teaching in Bible school and Rev W C Harold of Moundsville spoke on improving worship. Officers were to be elected later today.
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Cameron
Tyler
Wetzel
Marshall
Oho
Brooke
Hancock
Pan
8. L. Roberts
Philadelphia
W. C. Harold
Moundsville
Death row inmate to be hanged June 14 at West Virginia Penitentiary
Theodore Carr, 50, sentenced for the Slaying of Lock Sharp in Pocahontas county, was placed in the death cell at Moundsville noting he abandoned all hope of reprieve. Prison officials report he has cried out constantly and has not eaten a full meal for a week, subsisting on bread scraps.
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Moundsville
Theodore Carr
West Virginia Penitentiary
Lock Sharp
Pocahontas County
Merchant arrested after explosion at Weirton store
In Weirton on June 4 James Tomilli a local merchant was detained by police following an explosion and fire that damaged his store by about 10000 dollars. Police found a fuse on a five gallon can among ten in the back of the shop and Deputy State Fire Marshal Ritz planned to question him.
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Weirton
James Tomilli
Ritz
Tomilli
Howard Glenn Acquitted in One Count in Taylor County
A Taylor County jury found Howard F. Glenn not guilty on one count of obtaining 143.50 from the Industrial Finance Corporation of Virginia by false pretenses. The trial hinged on the car sale contract with Wilkie George and Glenn’s later assignment to the finance company. Prosecutors plan to continue the remaining twelve indictments at the October term.
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Taylor County
Howard F. Glenn
Glenn
Industrial Finance Corporation of Virginia
South Bend
Indiana
C. E. Wyckett
Grafton
Wilkie George
George
Industrial Finance Corporation
O George
Thhat George
James ©. Holt
Wheeling Woman Heads State Catholic Society
Mrs. Jane Nagle Lear of Wheeling was re elected regent of the West Virginia Catholic Daughters of America for a two year term at the state meeting held in Martinsburg on June 4.
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Martinsburg
Jane Nagle Lear
Wheeling
West Virginia Catholic Daughters of America
Federal Judge Accused: Of Favoring Friends
Memphis Tenn June 4 The Commercial Appeal reports Lindsay B Phillips district attorney accuses Judge Harry B Anderson of bias in liquor and other cases He says Anderson lent charges to the federal jury venire and favored certain attorneys A conversation described shows tension in chambers Phillips declined to discuss the matter Anderson denies mild defendant treatment and cites justice and humanity in decisions The piece also notes Sweden has about 08 000 motor vehicles an increase of 170 000 in ten years
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Memphis
Tenn
Lindsay B. Phillipg
Meli
Department of Justice
Washington
Harry B. Anderson
Anderson Tia ‘Riad
Phillips
Anderson
Phili
Jides
Alothis
Sweden
Skagelar
Eastman Funds Oxford Visiting Professorship in America
George Eastman of Rochester gives 200000 dollars to the Association of American Rhodes Scholars to establish the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. The gift funds a chair for distinguished American scholars, terms 1 to 5 years, with announcement in New York and at Oxford. President Aydelotte of Swarthmore and Rhodes officials outline aims to deepen American English scholarly ties and mutual understanding.
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New York
George Eastman
Rochester
Association of American Rhodes Scholars
Oxford
Franklin F. Russell
Mr. Eastman
Walter A. Bush
Bank of the Manhattan Company
Wall Street
American Trust Fund
Oxford University
Francis W. Pember
Frank Aydelotte
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore
England
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