Karpis Plans to Fight Rap in Hamm Kidnapping Case
Alvin Karpis today pleaded innocent to federal charges of kidnapping William Hamm Jr. for 100000 dollars. Trial set for July 14 despite defense objections, with Jack Pfeifer and Charles Fitzgerald also pleading innocent. Jury selection and witness health cited as reasons for pretrial pace.
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BT. Paul
Alvin Karpis
William Hamm, Jr
Karpis
Edward G. Bremer
Hamm
Jack Pfeifer
St. Paul
Charles Fitzgerald
Maying
U.S
George Sullivan
J. Edgar Hoover
New Orleans
Two-Thirds Rule Threatens Unit Rule at Democratic Nominating Convention
Philadelphia June 23 The two thirds rule for presidential nominations faces possible repeal by Democratic conventions. If scrapped opponents warn the unit rule may also be discarded prompting fears of a candidate chosen by a minority of delegates. Administration leaders grow confident the two thirds rule will end and Senator Byrd says the convention should disapprove the unit rule.
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Philadelphia
Dixie
Harry F. Byrd
Mine Reopens At Downs With 100 Jobs
FAIRMONT June 23 The Rachel mine of Jones Collerios incorporated reopens after 18 months closing caused mining town downturns. A fire shut the mine January 11, 1935. Superintendent E F Miller says 100 men hired immediately with more to come by July 13, raising payrolls across the Downs operation.
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Fairmont
Jones Collerios, Incorporated
Downs
Here
E. F. Miller
Youth Sentenced to Prison for Parole Violation
Huntington June 23 A judge in common pleas court H Clay Worth sentenced Jarret Walker 19 to the penitentiary for violation of probation. He was arrested by city police and charged with darken ess. He was placed on three year probation June 9 after he pleaded guilty to charges of automate theft.
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Huntington
H. Clay Worth
Common Pleas
Jarret Walker
Transient Ordered Out After Loitering Incident in Gratton
Frank Smits, a transient, was ordered out of Gratton by Mayor E Otto Waugh after his arrest for loitering on Gratton streets. Two school boys faced police court for firing firecrackers within city limits. they were dismissed with no jail time. The mayor called the crackdown a drive to stop noise and danger from such acts.
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Frank Smits
E. Otto Waugh
Smith
One Applies for Pension in State Social Security
Charleston June 23 The department of public welfare received the first application for aid under the state social security measure. Elderly applicant asked for a $30 monthly pension, but the bill provides aid up to $30 a month for those over 65. Governor Kump plans to sign the bill this week as the new department absorbs the bureau and reef administration merges. Checks totaling $105,000 to continue payments for 23,000 on the rolls had been sent to counties. $39,000,000 yearly relief funds were exhausted on April 14, prompting a request for additional state funds.
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Charleston
Department of Public Welfare
Francis Turner
France seeks friendly understanding with Britain and US
Paris reports Socialist government foreign policy aims to foster friendly ties with Great Britain and the United States. Defense ministry orders 30,000 troops to northern and eastern borders, boosting frontier strength to about 147,000 with planned October reinforcements. An extra colonial battalion may be added to the canal route.
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Paris
Prat
Great Britain
United States
Ministry of National Defense
Can'tal
Confederate Veteran Dies In Charleston
Lemuel DeWitt Keyser a 93 year old Confederate veteran died after a week long illness in Charleston He was born in Bath County Virginia in 1842 and enlisted in the Eleventh Virginia Cavalry He was captured by Union forces at Gettysburg and held a year He later worked as a railroad watchman for years
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Charleston
Lemuel DeWitt Keyser
Keely Low On PWA Projects In Berkeley Morgan
Charleston June 23 The Keely Construction Co of Clarksburg came in unofficially low for three PWA financed road projects in Berkeley and Morgan counties with an estimated total of 7 817 87 dollars. Bids include Cherry Run grading drainage and stone base Morgan Largent road stone base and Logan county approaches and Stirrat Pigeon Creek road surface bids. Har ry Hatfield and Co of Barboursville low for slag surface on 5 497 miles at 44 981 90 dollars and Gilbert Construction Co of Berkeley Springs bids 48 037 08 for crushed stone. Chief Engineer Mortimer W Smith said no surface choice decided.
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Charleston
Keely Construction Company
Clarksburg
PWA
Stirrat- Pigeon Creek
Gilbert Construction Companys
Berkeley Springs
Mortimer+w. Smith
Weirton Man Nabbed for Presenting Check
Federal agents arrested Sam Numas of Weirton at Holliday Cove Peoples Bank after he presented a $470 check. He faced grand jury bond of 35000, and investigators noted he recently served a year in prison for illegally cashing a $25 money order.
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Wheeling
Sam Numins
Weirton
Holliday Cove
Greenbank Man Killed By Runaway Horses
ELKINS June 23. Ira R. Beard of Greenbank Pocahontas County died in a runaway horse incident. He was the fourth child in a large family to die accidentally, with 13 siblings listed in the household.
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Greenbank
Elkins
Ira R. Beard
Pocahontas County
Negro Miner Faces Trial For Slaying of Woman
In Wheeling on June 23 defense testimony opened in the trial of Rufus Bellamy a 43 year old Black miner charged with fatally striking Mrs. Laura Wadley with a mine augur. The state had rested its case yesterday after presenting evidence of the alleged killing.
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Wheeling
Rufus Bellamy
Laura Wadley
Bellamy
Resignation of West Virginia HOLC state manager Ross
Walter Virell Ross resigned today as state manager of the Home Owners Loan Corporation and announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the state supreme court. The resignation takes effect June 25, with Matt Edmiston to succeed the next day. two vacancies on the court are to be filled after the August 8 Democratic judicial convention in Clarksbure.
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Charleston
Walter Virell Ross
Home Owners Loan Corporation
State Supreme Court
Matt Edmiston
West Virginia
Ross
Bluefield
HOLC
Edmiston
Andrew Edmiston
Third
West Virginia Dstrict
Home Owners Loar Corporation
Humanitarian Home Owners Loan Corporation
Supreme Court
Clarkshure
Cherry Queen Ardis Manney Rules National Cherry Festival
Ardis Manney, a University of Chicago co ed, is crowned Cherry Queen at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City Michigan from July 15 to 17. The event highlights local tradition and college participation in the festival pageant.
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Ardis Noryne Manney
University of Chicago
Travis City
Mich
Mrs Edwards Granted Divorce and Maiden Name Restoration
Mrs Nan S Edwards was granted an absolute divorce from James L Edwards on the second day of a special court term, citing desertion and cruelty. The petition, filed October 1935, sought restoration of her maiden name Nan S Armstrong. The couple married May 25 1924 in Kentucky.
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Nan S. Edwards
James L. Edwards
H. W. Dent
Edwards
Herife
Nan S. Armstrong
Kentucky
Ida Ellen Ott
James Richard Ott
James Ott
Guards Shot on Transcontinental Route Fire Rages Near Highway
Sheriff and deputies responded to a dramatic gunfire incident along the Atlantic and Pacific highway near a transcontinental route. Two patrolmen, William Hock and Charles Burton, were struck as a volley lasted about nineteen minutes. Authorities said they went to permit a locomotive crossing but arrived too late. The scene prompted rapid police action and a return to New Boston to inform Sheriff Arthur Oakes.
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Highflet
William Hock
Charles Burton
Highfield
New Boston
Arthur Oakes
Violent clash at steel plant amid strike by Amalgamated union
Reports of conflicting accounts say guards fired as a derailed locomotive blocked West Avenue. Sheriff Oakes arrived to restore order after the shootout near the wood and wire mill. The plant, shut since the strike, employs about 5,500 and faces union demands for recognition and wage increases.
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West Avenue
Johns
Endan
Rfles
Sheriff Oakes
Amalgamated Association of Tron and Steel Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
C. C. Caudill
R. M. Pilkinston
U.S
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