J D Currey Celebrates 75th Birthday at Pruntytown
A birthday party for J D Currey marked his 75th at the home of Mr and Mrs J D Currey in Pruntytown with the host honored. Guests from Parrmont included D J Currey Enoch C Currey Hollis Powell and Rose Mary Arnett others joined R E Dunham and George W Drainer. The gathering featured a festal meal and a large birthday cake with candles.
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Pruntytown
Currey
D. J. Currey
Enoch C. Currey
Hollis Powell
H. T. Arnett
Rose Mary
Pairmont
R. E. Dunham
George W. Drainer
Sea
Waterway Dedication Linking Great Lakes to Gulf Opens
Chicago June 23 A 100 million dollar waterway connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico was dedicated with a harbor pageant. A flotilla of federal barges arrived after a 26 day voyage from New Orleans symbolizing midwest transport parity and market access for farms factories and mines. Dignitaries including George Dern Mayor Edward J Kelly and Mayor T Semmes Walmsley hailed the milestone as 260 years in the making. The ceremony included figures of Marquette and Joliet and a 21 gun salute as barges began unloading 60 railroad carloads of freight to fuel the new system.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Midwest
Chicago River
Lake Michigan
Gulf Port
New Orleans
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
George
H. Dern
Edward J. Kelly
T. Semmes Walmsley
Mississippi Valley
Marquette
Joliet
Mrs Roosevelt Plans West Virginia Mining Tour
President's wife Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt aims to visit White Top and August meeting sites, following her father's paths. She intends to travel through West Virginia mining camps, to observe furniture making by jobless miners funded by the Society of Friends, as part of her summer schedule.
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W. Va
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Est’ Virginia
Society of Friends
Juvenile murder case at Pruntytown reform school
In Taylor County circuit court a group of four youths from the Pruntytown Industrial School faced murder charges in the death of A.G. Arnett. Shirley Shamblin pleaded guilty to second degree murder as part of a complex trial involving multiple defendants, with judges and prosecutors outlining the escape plot and resulting violence. Sentencing was to be set, with debate over death penalty and prison terms.
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Reform School
Becheler
Dering Arnett
Holt
Shamblin
Dent
Thés
Harry Friedman
Taylor County
Grafton Banking & Trust Company
Shirley Shamblin
Jackson County
A.G. Arnett
Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Harry Randolph
W. C. Shroyer
Robert Keller
James L. Bailey
D_T. Bartlett
I. Bonnenberger
Kenneth Courtney
Lloyd C. Grayson
C.C. Losh
A. J. Spare
Bruce Willhide
Cleon Shroyer
James C. Holt
Harold Bell Alden Hoke
William Snow
Arnett
Fairmont
Harold Behheler
Hoke
Snow
Jed W. Robinson
Atorney
Walden Scarberg
Hunt
Snow pleads guilty to second degree murder in school case
In a circuit courtroom a defendant named Snow changed his plea from not guilty to guilty of second degree murder. Prosecutor Holt urged a ten year term, while defense attorney Jed W Robinson argued for leniency, citing Snow’s troubled upbringing. Beheler’s counsel detailed the boy’s harsh family history and environment.
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Snow
Beheler
Becheler
Holt
Shaw
Jed W. Robinson
Spencer
Arnett
Harold Becheler
O. B. Wyckoff
Plea Accepted in Murder Case. Shmablin Sentenced Later
The court accepted the plea of murder in the second degree and will pronounce sentence later in the term. Shmablin was committed to reform school from Jackson county on January 18, 1932, for five years, then a five year term in the state penitentiary for the slaying of his uncle. He will be returned to Jackson county for resentencing after the trial.
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Hokte
Shamblin
Reform Schol
Moundsville
Arnett
Shmablin
Reform School
Jackson County
AL SMITH Addresses Alumni On Future Of Nation
AL SMITH spoke at Harvard during a campus visit with Governor Joseph B. Billy. He outlined a three point program: preserve majority rule, protect the constitution, and admit all capable applicants regardless of race or creed. Harvard marked its 297th year as the event ended with a trumpet flare from the military escort.
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Harvard
College Yard
Joseph Billy
Ten Indicted For Falsifying Vote Records In Pittsburgh
Ten people were indicted today by a federal grand jury probing election irregularities in Pittsburgh. The defendants include Thomas Dolan linked to the Monaca Club raid and Alice Dascback, an election inspector and wife of a city detective. To date forty one have been indicted on vote record falsification charges.
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Thomas Dolan
Monaca Club
Alice Dascback
Kinney Shoots Himself After Subpoena Served
Peoria Illinois June 23 GARrett D F Kinney former director of finances shot himself after being served with a subpoena in a case tied to a state funds shortage. An investigation into state finances during his tenure has been conducted for weeks under State Auditor Edgar Barrett.
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Peoria
Garrett D. F. Kinney
Kinney
Edgar Barrett
Funeral Services for Laban B Exline
Funeral services will be held at the home of daughter Mrs. George Marks Sunday for Laban B Exline 74 a lumberman who died Wednesday night at the home of son-in-law George Marks Surviving relatives include one son Clarence Exline and daughters Mrs George Mal and Miss Luuith Bichite both of Flemington two sisters Mrs I L Stanley of Palmbe and Mrs Jane Ash of Akron Ohio and two brothers J B Exline of Chepla Ohio and the Rev P Z Exline of Hed House MA
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George Marks
Clarence Exline
George Mal
Luuith ‘Bichite
Ail
Flemington
I. L. Stanley
Palmibei
Jane.Ash
Akron
Ohio
J. B. Exline
Chepla, O
P. 2 Exline
Hed House
Robert Stewart Dies Today at 60 in Infirmary
Robert James Stewart aged 60 died this morning at the infirmary following a seven month illness. A coal miner for eight to ten years, he was born May 8 1872 in California, son of Archie and Isabelle Stewart. He leaves a son whose whereabouts are unknown and a brother Charles Stewart a Frostburg merchant. Funeral arrangements are incomplete awaiting word.
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Robert James Stewart
St Ty
Rosemont
California
Archie Angoisabelle Stewart
Ives
Charles Stewart
Frostburg, Md
Unions Move Fast To Organize WV Miners
Charleston June 23 under the recovery act organizers for the United Mine Workers push to enroll about 100000 WV miners by Sunday after meetings. International rep Van A Bittner says roughly 80000 have joined and six of WV’s coal fields have been organized so far.
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Charleston
United Mine Waters
West Virginia
van A. Bittner
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