Violence Flares Up In Portsmouth Steel Strike
Portsmouth Ohio June 23 One company guard was killed and at least two other persons wounded in a riot between pickets and company guards at Wheeling Steel Corporation facilities. The clash began about 5 a m as guards attempted to transport food across the plant grounds. A rain of bullets wounded several, with shots exchanged along West Street and across the New River road. Adams Johns led guards in the defense as a bystander was reported to be wounded. The battle continued into the morning, with bullets striking a flat car and a locomotive, leaving extensive damage and halted operations. Continued on page eight.
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Ortsmouth
Portsmouth
Wheeling Steel Corilion
Mpany
George Myers
Clarence Highfield
Boston
Newon
Adams Johnswo
Highfield
WOOING AL AND PALS IN AL SMITH CAMPAIGN
In New York on June 23 Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton invited Governor Alfred E. Smith to express his views on the campaign with Governor Alf Landon. He declined to imply Smith would stump for Landon, saying it isn’t an inference and that Smith is a fine American whose views people want to hear. The Washington story notes the GOP beckoning Smith and other Democrats who continued on Page Seven.
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York
Irman
John D. M. Hamilton
Comte
Alfred E. Smith
Alf M. Landon
Smith
Landon
Hamilton
Hamilton Reai
Jing
Alfred E
al Smith
John Hamilton
North Carolina
Robert Wage
Democratic Convention Opens as Roosevelt Dominates
Philadelphia convention begins with Roosevelt Garner renomination in sight, Farley delivers keynote as ticket fights and party rules loom. Delegates debate platform while some question Al Smith joining Landon camp. North Carolina shifts to back anti two thirds rule. Page Five continuation signals platform specifics.
Bonus Recipients Kept On WPA Jobs Hopkins Says
WPA chief Harry L Hopkins announced continued monthly security payments of 19.04 dollars for current relief workers using a 1.425 billion relief fund. He ordered changes aligning with the new relief bill, including excluding aliens from eligibility and excluding veteran payments from relief decisions.
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Hopkins
Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
WPA
Roosevelt
Congreo
United States
Young Woman Wounded Blames Night Prowler
Wheeling reports a 20 year old woman, Mrs. Bertie V. Wiseman McClean, in critical condition after a gunshot wound believed fired by a prowler in her Glendale home. Sheriff Garrett found the pistol in an adjoining room. she walked to a nearby porch, then collapsed after calling an aunt.
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Wheeling
Bertie V. McClean Wiseman
Glendale
I. M. Garrett
Clarksburg City Manager Reinstated on Salary
Clarkburg city council ordered City Manager Frank J. McAndrews reinstated at 2100 dollars a year retroactive to June 1 after cutting his 3600 dollar salary in March for refusing to reemploy a discharged worker. The manager returned to work today.
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Clarksburg
Frank J. McAndrews
McAndrews
Eleanor Roosevelt Tours West Virginia Endorsing Women Power
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt begins a motor tour through West Virginia on the way to Reedsville for graduation at Arthurdale. The party travels Seneca Trail via Elkins aiming to reach Arthurdale near noon. She lauds women’s achievements and urges voting as a path to power while presenting Chi Omega’s national achievement award to Alice Hamilton of Harvard.
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White Sulphur Springs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mountain
Reedsville
Federal
Arthurdale Homestead
Seneca ‘Trail
Elkins
Arthurcne
Capitol
Hoosewell
Washington
Chi Omega
Alice Hamilton
Harvard University
Roosevelt
Bloodhounds Used To Track Two Escaped Convicts
A reinforced posse with bloodhounds led a search near Groesbeck Texas for two escapees Luke Trammell and Forrest Gibson who killed a guard at Retrieve prison farm and stole from a bullet torn car. The abandoned auto was the one that abducted J. W. Cassagne in Burleson County yesterday.
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Groesbeck
Tex
Luke Trammell
Forrest Gibson
Retrieve
Lee Miller
State Highway Patrol
J. W. Cassagne
Burleson County
New Tax Bill Signed By Roosevelt Cleans Desk
Washington June 23 President Roosevelt signed the new tax bill and the 10 million Interior appropriation, clearing major legislation from the desk. The act, a compromise between the house and senate, aims to raise about 80 million through revised corporate taxes and levies, shifting corporate income to stockholders for individual taxation. Critics say it may harm corporate surplus needed for operations. The yield is projected by the senate.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Congress
House
Senate
Elks Elect New Leader At Graton Lodge Meet
Graf ton lodge No 308 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will elect a new Exalted Ruler tonight to succeed John H Bradford who resigns effective July 1. Two candidates are nominated and a big turnout is expected. Plans for the June 29 41st anniversary celebration will be discussed. Bradford resigns after serving a third term due to his train dispatcher hours.
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John H. Bradford
Grafton Lodge No
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Bradford
Elks
Lodge
Rattlesnake Murder Case Jury Is Being Selected
In Los Angeles on June 23, attorneys for Robert James tested prospective jurors over details of a rattlesnake torture and drowning story told by Charles Hope, his former co defendant who confessed. The slow process followed lengthy questioning as four lawyers questioned the red haired defendant amid claims Hope spoke of snakes and a plan to collect Mrs Mary Busch James life insurance with her death in a bathtub.
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Los Angeles
Robert 8. James
Charles Hope
Hope
Mary Busch James
Bonus Payments Exempt From State Income Tax
Charleston report notes veterans requests prompted a tax department clarification. H. Issaiah Smith stated state law excludes adjusted service compensation payments from state income tax, asserting no levy applies to federal gifts.
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Charleston
Tax Department
H. Issaiah Smith
Department
Boring begins in tunnel on railroad relocation project
United States engineers said work started this week in the Knight tunnel on the Berkeley Run relocation linked to the Tygarts dam project. The 500 foot long bore will be 20 12 feet wide and 27 feet 10 inches high with concrete lining and a rising track. Early progress delayed by spring rains and portal excavation, completion time unsure, project details continued on page five.
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Knight
Berkeley Run
U. S
Tygarts Dam
Peery Replaces Vet Senator on Big Committee
Gov. George C. Peery is chosen to represent Virginia on the 1936 Democratic National Platform Committee succeeding Senator Carter Glass whose 40 years of service ends. Byrd nominates Peery. the election is unanimous as Glass withdraws from active duties.
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Gov. Peery
Philadelphia
George C. Peery
Carter Glass
Virginia
Glass
Peery
Harry F. Byrd
Police Civil Service Advocated By Speaker
FAIRMONT June 23. State police and sheriff groups at their annual convention heard speakers urge changes to the tax system civil service for police departments and a stronger parole system. Dr C F McClintic warden of the state penitentiary urged police civil service to boost morale at the banquet.
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Fairmont
Police
C. F. McClintic
State Penitentiary
Civil Service
Jumped In Front of Train To Kill Herself Verdict
Huntington dispatch reports a 17 year old girl Sybil Hinkle leapt onto the railroad main line at the C and O tracks. She faced the approaching freight engine with hands to her ears and perished when struck. Coroner Dr. F X Schuller ruled death by self inflicted act. Radio Patrolmen Lunsford and apt Patrolman Malcolm witnessed the scene and described the event.
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Huntington
Sybil Hinkle
Chesapeake and Ohio
F. X. Schuller
Cabell Cou
S. E. Roadcup
Malcolm
Lunsford
Last Minute Changes in Platform Delay Stirs Talk
Philadelphia June 23 news reports an unexplained delay in a White House draft of the Democratic platform. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, slated to chair the resolutions committee, arrived late fueling speculation the draft was dramatically revised by President Roosevelt. Continues on page three.
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Philadelphia
White House
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt
Two Youths Charged After Attack on Girl in City
Parkerburg prosecutor charged Orvill West, 23, with attacking 18 year old Maxine Walters Null. George Stout, 21, was charged as an accessory. Null reported she jumped from West's car, struck her head, and woke in West's home.
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Parkersburg
E. B. Pennybacker
Orvill West
Maxine Walters
George Stout
West
Disorderly Beer Shops To Lose Licenses In Charleston
Charleston reports that 165 beer vendors will have licenses not renewed on July 1 following complaints of disorder. Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox announced the action, with some permits revoked and charges filed against others.
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Charleston
Fred L. Fox
E. A. Hansbarger
Tax Commissioner’s Office
Hansbarger
Infirmary Dedication Planned For July Fourth
In Barbour county a new thirty five room infirmary at Sugar Creek near the Four-H camp will be dedicated on July 4 with an all day Farm Bureau program linked to the annual farmers picnic. The 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. event includes morning activities under Farm Bureau direction and afternoon dedication ceremonies for the brick veneer building. The infirmary was built after relocating the G and B branch of the Baltimore and Ohio due to Graf ton flood control dam right of way through the existing infirmary on Pleasant creek.
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Philippi
Barbour County
Sugar Creek
Farm Bureau
Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
Pleasant Creek
Confessed Slayer Albert Walter Jr in Jail Cell Photo
Albert Walter Jr. a former New Yorker who police say confessed to the murder of Blanche Cousins of Idaho Falls Idaho in a San Francisco apartment is shown in a new jail cell photo released by Central Press.
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Albert Walter, Jr
Blanche Cousins
Idaho Falls
Idaho
San Francisco
Central Press
Army Airman and Three Babies Drown on Transport
First Lieutenant Lindsay M. Bawsel, an army flier, and his three children aged five, three, and two drowned when they went overboard from the army transport Chateau Thierry near Cuba. The tragedy occurred between 3 and 4 am yesterday as the ship neared New York. Details were sparse in a wireless message from Major Gilmer Bell. Lieut Bawsel had been stationed at Albrook Field in the Canal Zone and was returning to New York. the ship is due Friday.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lindsay M. Bawsel
Chateau Thierry
Cuba
Gordon S. Arnes
Brooklyn Army
Arnes
Gilmer Bell
Lieut. Bawsel
Albrook Field
Canal Zone
New York
Two Men Sentenced to Die for Inn Keeper Slaying
In Warren Pennsylvania Judge D A Arird sentenced Joe Senaskas aged 19 and John G Polens 31 a former justice of the peace at Garland to die in the electric chair for the killing of Metro Seminuk 34 a local inn keeper. They pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Seminuk for 100 dollars paid by his wife Mrs Mary Seminuk who was also sentenced last week to 1½ to 5 years in Muny Industrial Home for Women.
Kenova Votes On Bonds For Building of Dikes
Kenova voters approved a $29,000 bond issue for flood control to build dikes sewer gates and other items. The program touted by Mayor John T Hereford Jr would bring the city to a flood stage of 60.7 feet among Ohio river cities.
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Kenova
W. Va
John T. ‘Hereford, Jr
Party Parley Opened by Tamany Jim at Democratic Convention
Philadelphia June 23. Chairman Farley declared the sole campaign issue is the continuance of the New Deal. He attacked Republican nominees and platform as conservative in the east and liberal in the west, linking them to the Du Pont Liberty League and race prejudice. He praised New Deal gains and forecast a platform the resolutions committee would back.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Garner
James A. Farley
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Republican Party
Liberty League
du Pont Liberty League
Resolutions Committee
West Virginia Democrats Debate Abolishing Two Thirds Rule
West Virginia delegates debated replacing the two thirds nomination rule with a simple majority. Herman Bennett of Charleston proposed extra delegates for states that backed Democrats in the last election, based on Democratic votes exceeding Republican totals. The group, led by Senator Neely, did not take action in caucus as they weighed a definite stance.
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Philadelphia
West Virginia
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
Herman Bennett
Charleston
Bennett
Senator Neely
George S. Neal
Huntington
West
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