Pope Suspends Catholic Action Work in Forms of Congregations
Pope and Vatican move to reorganize Catholic youth groups into congregations with close church ties, amid protests from papal notes and Fascist factions. The Pope spent Sunday in conference with departmental heads as authorities weigh responses to disruptions and recent killings, while police traced a suspect to Philadelphia before extradition concerns. Thirty years of local court actions follow, with cases involving Taylor county residents, architects, and bus company damages, plus judgments on automobile accident claims and property disputes.
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Pontitf
Vatican
Number Cases Continue In County Court Over Long Land Dispute
The trespass suit of Benjamin F. MeVicker against Ellsworth Crosten was called and continued due to Isaac Crosten’s illness with measles. The case renews a long running feud between Capt. B. F. McVicker, a Union veteran, and the Crostons over a small triangular land parcel, ongoing for over twenty three years.
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State Supreme Court
Taylor County Bar
Crostons
Bruce Talbott
Philippi
Ernest Holmboe
G. M. Pogue
Clarksburg
Taylor County Court
MeVicker
Benjamin F. MeVicker
Ellsworth Crosten
Becaus
Isaac Crosten
B. F. McVicker
Croston
Litigaton
Williams electrocuted for reform school murder
Bellefonte Pa June 8 Alexander McClay Williams 19 of Delaware county was executed at Rockview penitentiary for the murder of Mrs Vita Beatrice Robare matron at Glen Mills reform school near there last October 3.
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Bellefonte
Alexander McClay Williams
Delaware County
Rockview Penitentiary
Vita Beatrice Robare
Glen Mills Reform School
Holt Collects Bail Bond Payment Installment
Prosecuting Attorney James C. Holt receives a check for 1219.75 from Barbour County Sheriff John Harvey Marsh as the first installment on a 2000 dollar bail bond payment.
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James C. Holt
John Harvey Marsh
Barbour County
West Virginia Bond Forfeiture Ties to Moonshine Case
Estate of F A Cleavenger seeks two forfeited bonds from 1926 involving Varnae Kavian and the Poliks tied to a moonshine operation in a Barbour county mine. Bonds posted for the Poliks failed, Cleavenger died, and Sheriff Marsh later levied on Cleavenger cattle. Injunction denied, sale proceeds go to the general state school fund.
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West Virginia
F. A. Cleavenger
Varnae Kavian
John
Frank Polik
Varnae
Moundsville
Polik
Cleavenger
Russia
W. Merle Watkins
Holt
Hollis
Marsh
Barbour County
W. Bruce Talbott
W. B. Kittle
Philippi
Senator Watkins
General School
Tragic Alpine Collapse Claims Four Climbers in France
In Grenoble on June 8 two girls and two men perished after snow softened and pulled them into crevasses of the Hella Donna range in the French Alps. Polish student Hanke Artz teetered on Freydane Glacier, companion Biandhcel saved her but plunged over a thousand feet. Jeanne Gaillard faltered on La Pra and both she and an unidentified youth who tried to help fell to the depths.
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Grenoble
France
Hella Donna
French Alps
Hanke ‘Artz
Freydane
Biandhcel
Jeanne Gaillard
la Pra
Directors Board of Trade to Meet at 7 30 P M
Directors of the Taylor County Board of Trade will hold a meeting this evening at 7 30. The session will be in the board of trade rooms at the First National Bank building. It is not announced what subjects will be discussed at this meeting.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Flrst National Bank
Posse Hunts Gunman in Mexico Missouri Shootings
A posse hunted for Jost Sue a 38 year old Black man after he shot and wounded Louis Mecin a 58 year old policeman who had come to arrest him for an earlier shooting of another man. The incident occurred shortly before midnight in Mexico Missouri on June 8 with the suspect at large.
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Mexico
Jost Sue
Jopattealls
Louis Mecintyre
Ten thousand dollar damage suit opens in circuit court
The $10,000 damage suit of Lula Poling administrator of her deceased husband against Charles Robinson opened in circuit court this morning. Testimony included Ed Carroll Callie Colebank and Ed Gans, who spoke about the day of the accident when Poling was killed after a car driven by Robinson allegedly collided and overturned. Robinson contends Poling jumped from the car as steering failed. two neighbors observed from a hill noting no eyewitnesses. The defendant pleaded not guilty and jurors were empaneled to hear the case.
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Lula Poling
Charles Robinson
Ed Carroll
Callie Colebank
Ed Gans
Robinson
Taylor County
W. J. Mays
Warren B. Kittle
Poling
William D. Clark
Floyd Dilion
W. 8
Hamrick
J. Burkle Hawkins
Elza H. Huffman
J. B. Kerns
G. C. Poe
Paul Rector
A. D. Thorn
Dale Zinn
Roy Futonij
H. D. Leach
Read Newspapers, Graduates Told By Times Exec
At Washington College commencement in Chestertown Maryland Louis Wiley general manager of the New York Times urged graduates to keep learning through newspapers. He questioned the value of political science economics honors without following world events such as the Russian experiment and the struggles of new nations after the war.
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Chestertown
Washington College
Louis Wiley
The
New York Times
Rise and fall of nation debated in press ethics talk
Wiley urged distinguishing between educational newspapers and sensational sheets that glorify crime. He cited leaders like Hoover and Young reading worthwhile news daily. Grafton Womans Christian Temperance Union announces a meeting June 9 at 7 30 pm at First Baptist with Flower Mission director L Kinter.
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Wiley
Hoover
Owen D. Young
Ritchie
Roosevelt
Lioness Interacts with Infant at Exhibition Grounds
A tame Honess bear at a display in Jagioslavia pulled a seven month old from a perambulator and frolicked with him. The mother fainted and the trainer recovered control. The infant remained unharmed.
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Laibach
Jagioslavia
Americans urged to evacuate Foochow area amid rebel advance
A dispatch from the U S consul at Foochow reports all Americans nearby must evacuate as a revolutionary army advances. Thirteen Americans linked to the Methodist Episcopal mission at Yenping-Fu are urged to withdraw by Chinese authorities.
Ray Hart Throws No Hit No Run For Rice Against SMU
Rice institute pitcher Ray Hart delivered a no hit no run performance against Southern Methodist University this spring, marking a standout effort for the team this season.
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Ray Hart
Rice Institute
Southern Methodist University
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