Grafton Employes Attend Picnic Day Car Meet
Final plans for Baltimore and Ohio Road workers annual Picnic Day in Olympia Park Versailles Pa July 20 were nearly complete Friday night. Representatives from Grafton Pittsburgh Wheeling McMechen Fairmont Cumberland Connellsville Keyser Piedmont Lake New Martinsville and other towns will attend. An expected 15 000 to 18 000 could join the 11 000 turnout cited by General Chairman Charles H Durant. The day includes athletic events with Pabety’s team and Grafton’s B&O band. A Pittsburgh meeting elected Durant chairman G N Orbin secretary and M P Ryan treasurer. Special trains will bring picnickers from several cities and 250 300 local delegates may participate. A Monongah division athletic board meeting will discuss a separate outing to Marietta Ohio.
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Grafton
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Olympia Park
Versailles
T. K. Faherty
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
McMechen
Fairmont
Cumberland
Maryland
Connellsville
Keyser
Piedmont
Lake
New Martinsville
Charles H. Durant
Paherty
Baltimore and Ohio Band
G. N. Orbin
M. ‘P. Ryan
John Donanchie
Clarksburg
Donnachie
Monongah Division, Athletic Association
Marietta
Ohio
Water Plans Announced by State Commission in Charleston
Charleston June 26 The tentative plan for financing the first year of the state water commission was announced by E S Tisdale state sanitary engineer and secretary of the commission created to tackle stream pollution. Health public service game and forestry departments each contribute 2000 dollars totaling 6000 dollars to fund a full time field worker and use state laboratories in Charleston and Morgantown to test water samples.
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Charleston
State Water Commission
Tisdale
Commission
Health Department
Public Service, Commission
the Game, Ish and
Protest over views delays keynote at Northern Baptist meeting
Associated Press photo scheduled as keynote speaker Bishop Francia J. McConnell of Brooklyn was relegated to second on the program after 19 ministers denounced him as a modernist. The clash reflected a rift within the Northern Baptist convention as tensions over doctrinal lines surfaced during the event.
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Associated Press
Francia J. McConnell
Brooklyn
Northern Baptist Convention
Dry Cops Raise Price Of Memphis Moonshine
Memphis prosecu tions under federal agents sent more than 70 people to jail as part of a coordinated crackdown to elevate liquor prices to national levels. Colonel A W Mays led the operation with local authorities, promising prosecutions under the Jones law and broad padlocking actions, with 100 or 150 warrants remaining.
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Memphis
Tenn
A. W. Mays
Louisville
Mays
Japanese Give Okeh To Kellogg Treaty
Tokyo reports the privy council under the emperor approved the Kellogg anti war pact with no reservations but with an interpretative declaration over the phrase in the name of their respective peoples. Count UChida resigned after being overruled on the reservations.
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Tokyo
Privy Council
Uchilda
Paris
Counsell
New Chancery Suits Filed in Circuit Court
Two new chancery cases were filed in circuit court Tuesday. Sheriff W J Mays has instituted suit against Joseph N Hotsinpil lar and others, and another suit in chancery was filed by Nellie Blake against Gordon Blake.
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W. J. Mays
Joseph N. Hotsinpillar
Nellie, Blake
Gordon Blake
Missing Convicts Escape En Route to Prison
Moundsville West Virginia June 26 James Hatfield a state penitentiary guard escorting a dozen prisoners from Logan County reported two convicts are missing on the trip to the prison. Hatfield said he left Logan with 12 prisoners and arrived at New Martinsville with ten. The escapees named Matthew Browning and John Miller were short term inmates and Hatfield believes they fled between Logan and New Martinsville while aboard the train.
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Moundsville
W. Va
James Hatfeld
State Penitentiary
Logan County
Hatfield
Logan
Matthew Browning
John Miller
New Martinsville
Siutoa
New Endurance Flight On At Minneapolis
A world endurance record for nonstop flight is claimed by the Miss Minneapolis endurance plane team. Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland fly a 804 mile Minneapolis to Northfield and Hastings route, refueling en route, with Captain P. LoCrichton from the National Aeronautic Associations verifying progress as the crew nears 70 hours aloft. Ralph De Palma is noted in a separate automotive context.
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Minneapolis
Thorwald “Thunder” Johnson
Owen Haughland
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Osgood
Osgood’s
Bangkok
Bandeauxs 2
Galus
Canton
Oosgoood
Tinsdale
PROSO
Portes Gil
Mexico
Mexico City
Ralph de Palma
Automobile Rage
del Ver
Wallace Beery
Zane Grey
Jean Arthur
Chester Conklin
Hiller’s
Furniture Store
W. Main St
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