Kansas convict miners rebel officers hostage plan revealed
Federal authorities disclosed that William Mahan, believed to be the mastermind of the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping, had plotted an abduction a year earlier and built an underground pit near Spirit Lake Idaho. A pit near Tacoma tied to the May abduction of George Kaeuser was also located along with tools and chains. Investigators noted marked similarities between the two pits and indicated the Waleys’ arrest helps solve the long mystery.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hover
G-men
William Mahan
Weyerhaeuser
Spirit Lake
Idaho
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Harmon M. Waley
Wyerhaeuser
Tacoma
George Kaeuser
Mahan
Britain and Germany reach accord on all terms of pact
London reports a full pact agreement between Germany and Great Britain on all major treaty points. Germany is to keep its navy at 35 percent of Britain’s strength, with limited submarine buildup allowances and a transfer cap on naval categories. Technical talks to continue, with a conference likely to conclude Friday.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
Fermany
Ttalian Adersea
Ign
Anherp
Samuel Hoare
Special Meeting of American Legion Auxiliary
A special meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary is scheduled for Wednesday June 19 at the Moose Home 72 Ip. Attendance and agenda details remain to be announced.
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of American Legion Auxiliary
Moose Home
Senate panel attacks ship subsidy policy and calls for reform
The senate ocean mail committee denounces past merchant marine subsidies as a Saturnalia by taxpayers’ robbers and blasts officials for betraying trust and abusing bidding rules. It urges drastic future limits, but favors government ownership with private operation and subsidies where needed. Only Black and McCarran sign without reservations. King dissents on subsidies.
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Washington
Senate Ocean Mail Committee
Black
D-Ala
McCarran
D-Nev
King
Utah
Senate probe of Mitchells ouster ordered by Senate panel
Washington June 1 A Senate investigation into charges by Ewing Y Mitchell assistant secretary of commerce against his superior Secretary Roper was ordered by the commerce committee to begin tomorrow. Mitchell contends Roper signed a contract letting United States Line retire the Leviathan without penalties for not maintaining the ship in service. He alleges graft and favoritism in the department and renewed his charges in a letter to President Roosevelt. Continued on page three.
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Washington
Senate
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Roper
Commerce Committee
Copeland
Mitchell
United States Line Company
Leviathan
Roosevelt
Assint
Commerce Department
HOLC Representative To Visit Grafton WV For Two Days
A Home Owners' Loan Corporation representative will be at the county courthouse in Grafton West Virginia to assist and supervise loan applications on Friday and Saturday June 21 and 22 1935 from 3 30 to 5 00 a m for filing with the corporation. No applications will be accepted after June 27 1935 as fixed by act of Congress.
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Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Grafton
West Virginia
Congress
Coal Freight Increase Takes Effect Saturday
Charleston reports a 25 cent per ton rise on coal shipments from Logan to Huntington for river transshipment, to be implemented by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway this Saturday unless the Interstate Commerce Commission acts to suspend the rate. The Public Service Commission notes the ICC is considering postponing the date to allow protests to be heard.
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Charleston
Logan
Huntington
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public Service Commission
Morgantown Druggist Named Society Chief
Robert R. Pierce of Morgantown will direct the West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association for the coming year. He is president elect as the two day convention concludes tonight with a banquet in Walkersburg.
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Walkersburg
Robert R. Pierce
Morgantown
West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association
New Projects Under Attack Amid Work Relief Limits
Washington protests by contractors and road builders oppose restricting expenditures in the administration work relief drive to 1100 or 1200 per worker. They warn useful and permanent projects would be outlawed. Roosevelt urged regional directors to favor small inexpensive projects and aim to employ 3.5 million, saying the recovery may begin this year.
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Washington
Works Progress
Roosevelt
White House
Willard Chevalier
Advisory Council
Construction League
William P. McDonald
The
American
Two Boys Held for Kidnapping Sheriff in Indiana
Jasper Indiana June 18 two West Virginia youths face kidnapping charges in Dubois county after sheriff Ed Leager was seized from the county jail area and driven away in his car. The teens 14 year old Bascom Ray Jr and 17 Maurice Sheridan both Huntington residents confessed membership in the old Dillinger gang and were arrested following a gun battle with Southern Indiana officers forming a posse. A quantity of liquor was found in the captured automobile.
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Jasper
Ind
West Virginia
Dillinger
Ed Leager
Dubois County
Bascum Ray, Jr
Maurice Sheridan
Huntington
Indiana
Leuger
Lyddane case retrial planned for November session
Rockville Md June 18 The fever pitch county excitement over Mrs Anne Lyddane accused of plotting murder of her husband and another woman faded as it was announced the retrial will be in November The earlier trial ended with a hung jury John Martin Boland co conspirator was found guilty and sentenced to three years nine months in the Maryland house of correction at Jessup The defendant described as slim blonde and popular had been linked to four Washington underworld figures in the case
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Rockville
Anne Lyddane
Bank
Lyddane
John Martin Boland
Boland
Maryland House of Correction
Jessup
James Pugh
Sister Funeral Held Today in Morgantown
California authorities plan extradition to Los Angeles for Carl von Moltke 44 on forgery charges. James D Sisler 38 former state geologist died in a carnival accident. Count Helmuth von Moltke once a World War I field marshal. burial set in Morgantown.
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Los Angeles
Carl von Moltke
Huntington
W. Va
F.C. Slaughter
Sacra_Moneanionn
Sme
Pajames
D. Sisler
von Moltke
Broomfield
Pittsburgh
Helmuth von Molson
Geena Dale Grove Cateiery
Boston Society Girl Victim of Accident
Jeannette Gow daughter of Col. Charles E Gow former Boston postmaster and noted engineer was electrocuted when stepping into her automobile near a broken electric light wire that had fallen into water. Dr Ernest D Durden and Brookline firefighters attempted revival with an inhalator for over ninety minutes before pronouncing her dead.
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Brookline
Mass
Jeannette Gow
Charles E. Gow
Boston
Ernest D. Durden
Miss Gow
Dr. Burden
CCC Camp Expansion To 9 700 Men Started
Charleston reports the CCC camps in West Virginia will expand to 9 700 personnel with 22 new companies. Major General A J Bowley, in charge for the fifth corps area, orders enrollment and transfer to new camps by late August. Camp sites are being chosen rapidly.
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Charleston
CCC
West Virginia
A. J. Bowley
Fifth Corps
Bowley
18 Subsistence Homesteads Likely Will Be Abandoned
Washington reports the Resettlement administration may abandon 18 subsistence homestead projects inherited after the homestead corporation’s death. Chief assistant B Baldwin said the unit is rechecking all projects to decide which to continue and which may be dropped. About 64 projects exist, with 18 not yet functioning.
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Washington
Resettlement Administration
Homestead Corporation
B. Baldwin
Rexford G. Tugwell
United Mine Workers Back Roosevelt Neely in 1936
West Virginia UMW chief Van A. Bittner says the union will focus on carrying West Virginia for Roosevelt and reelecting Neeley in 1936. They will not field a gubernatorial candidate and Townsend will not run. He denies plans to seek governor or run on the Republican ticket.
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United Mine Workers
Neely
Roosevelt
Townsend
Washington
van A. Bittner
West Virginia
Neeliw
Chese
Bittner
State Mine Workers
Thomas C. Townsend
Mine Workers
Republic
Williamstown Votes On Wet Or Dry Question
Citizens of Williamstown voted today in a local option election on liquor sales under the state monopoly law. The election followed a petition from 25 percent of the voters.
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Williamstown
New Cabinet Takes Office in Mexico’s Transition
Mexico on June 18 reports a new administration under President Lazaro Cardenas as former leader Plutarco Elias Calles exits the political stage. The cabinet, largely new, includes Fernando Gonzalez Roa and Francisco J. Mujica as holdovers, with Saturnino Cedillo floated as agriculture secretary to shape policy amid ongoing tensions. The departure ends Calles’ eight‑year influence, while 5,000 Rotary delegates convene as Cardenas addresses Rotarians on constitutional governance and Mexico’s direction.
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Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Plutarco Elias Calles
Calles
Coun
Try
Sinatoa Ranch
Cardenas
Fernando Gonzalez Roa
Washington
Francisco J. Mujica
Saturnino Cedillo
San Luis Botosi
Rotary International
Five Charges Lodged Against Wounded Man
Montgomery June 18 state police said five charges will be lodged against Bob Pell 21 of Smithers now hospitalized in Charleston with bullet wounds in leg and arm He faces feloniously wounding Rudy Falbo obstructing an officer on line of duty carrying concealed weapons and brandishing a pistol Pell was shot by Trooper Raymond W Boyles after he drew a pistol during an attempted arrest A bystander Ethel Cooper 20 of Smithers was wounded in the incident.
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Montgomery
Bob Pell
Smithers
Charleston
Rudy Falbo
Pell
Raymond W. Boyles
Falbo
Ethel Cooper
Pollos
Omaha in Martial Law Over Streetcar Strike
Omaha's military governor R L Cochran ordered 1800 National Guardsmen to seize control as martial law enters its third day. The Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company proposed a counter arbitration plan, but Cochran dismissed it and kept streetcars in the barn while demanding full arbitration. The company balked at a closed shop and discussions remain blocked as tensions rise.
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Omaha
R. L. Cochran
Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company
National
Cochran
Reem
Couple Arrested For Huge Stock Swindle
Indianapolis detectives and postal inspectors arrest a man and a woman tied to a $55,000 stock swindle in Memphis. The man identified as John Spaulding, 38, and the woman as his wife Ann Spaulding. Authorities sought warrants from St. Louis New Orleans Jackson Memphis and other cities.
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Indianapolis
Memphis
Tenn
John Spaulding
Ann Spaulding
St. Louis
New Orleans
Jackson
Miss
San Antonio
Tex
Ex County Official Indicted Over Public Funds
Chicago June. The Cook County grand jury reportedly indicted former county treasurer Robert M. Sweitzer on charges of holding public funds. Bond set at $10,000. Four county board members testified to show a formal demand had been made.
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Chicago
Cook County Grand Jury
Robert M. Sweitzer
Mutinous convicts seize Kansas prison coal mine hosts 11 guards
In Lansing Kansas 380 inmates mutinied inside the state penitentiary coal mine taking 11 guards as hostages. Mine Superintendent Robert Murray walked into the depths to negotiate but remained unarmed in the 730 foot level as Deputy Warden Albert J. Graham directed a surface lockout. The prison remained on alert with orders for work to continue while officials assessed the mutiny and possible motives.
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Lansing
Kas
Kansas Penitentiary
Lacey Simpson
Mine Head
Robert Murray
Albert J. Gra‘nam
Graham
Dioly
O. A. Johnson
Johnson
NRA Gets First Orders From Roosevelt on Labor Standards
Washington June 18 The new NRA was directed by President Roosevelt to monitor changes in labor standards or fair practices after code abolition. He urged a carefully conducted review under an impartial committee with management and labor representatives. A section in the division of business cooperation will gather and report on code impacts.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
James L. O'Neill
Departments of Commerce and Labor
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Waley
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Olympia, Wash
Harmon VI
Mar
Garet
Solitaryerhaeuser
George Wey
HOLC
Maryland
California
Boston Society
Trai Company
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