Johns Hopkins Student Held As Witness In Torch Slaying
Johns Hopkins University student Gene Bussey was jailed in White Plains as a material witness in the torch slaying of Mrs Dorothy Peacox. He admitted a love affair with the victim and said Peacox found letters, while the husband confessed to strangling his wife and setting fire to the body. District Attorney Frank H Coyne said Peacox abandoned a self defense plea.
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Johns Hopkins
White Plains
Gene Bussey
Johns Hopkins University
Dorothy Peacox
Bussey
New York
Harl F. Peacox
Lussey
Frank H. Coyne
Peacox
Citywide Clean-Up Week Proclaimed in Grafton
The City of Grafton designates the week of May 6 as Clean-up Week. Residents are asked to collect waste for transport to a crematory via city trucks, and to observe ordinances prohibiting dumping filth into streets or property. Civic Club wards oversee efforts. violators will be reported to the mayor for mandatory cleanup.
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Grafton
Civic Club
Local Citizens Buy State Fishing Licenses in Grafton
County Clerk Frank Bennett reports about 100 residents across ages and professions bought fishing licenses this week in Grafton. Six women had purchased licenses by noon, with expected growth in female sales as the week continues.
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Grafton
Frank Bennett
West Virginia
Masquerader Admits Fraud On Death Bed
Oakland saga ends as a grave reveals "Peter Stratford" a woman who lived as a man for years. Born in New Zealand, she used aliases Dereseley Morton and Stratford while marrying Elizabeth Rowland in 1925. Letters show a life inside Sufism, with a baritone voice and steadfast masculine role. Rowland, traced to Hollywood, says Stratford left months ago.
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Oakland
Cal
Potter's Field
Peter Stratford
Manuel
Peter Startford
Niles
New Zealand
Royal Guards
New York
Dereseley Morton
Elizabeth Rowland
Stratford
Kansas City
Rowland
Hollywood
Publicity urged on arms as peace move in disarmament talks
Geneva May 4 The preliminary disarmament conference approved publicity on land armaments as the best available route to restraint after France withdrew its budgetary limit proposal. Soviet Russia and China opposed the plan while Germany abstained. Maxim Litvinoff called it a backward step likening it to a renunciation of direct material limits. Count Von Berksorff stirred debate by saying Germany washes its hands of the work.
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Geneva
France
Russia
China
Germany
Maxim Litvinoff
Preparatory Commission
Count von Berkstorif
Rotary Club Sees Movies in Grafton Night
Local Rotarians spent last evening watching a film shown in Grafton by the Wild Life League and at the weekly meeting praised local wildlife enthusiasts for enabling awareness of game propagation work nationwide. Rotarians noted strong local interest in hunting and fishing and heard C. A. Keefer explain that the club, via the Wild Life League, gained enlightenment on wild life propagation efforts.
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Rotary Club
Grafton
Wild Life League
Reular
C. A. Keefer
Gratton
Wild Life
Creamery Firms Eye Grafton for Local Plant
Unusual community interest grows around organizing a local board of trade as Blue Valley Creameries and Fairmont Creameries seek Grafton as a distributing point after surveys of northern West Virginia. If convinced dairy supply from up to 500 cows can be secured, a local plant may be installed here. Petition circulates. continued on page seven.
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Board of Trade
Grafton
West Virginia
Blue Valley Creameries Company
Fairmont Creamer
Ies
Pittsburgh
Ruth Luzadder Wins Honors In Spelling Contest
Ruth Luzadder, 12, of Central School Grafton, won first prize of 5 dollars with 97 percent in Taylor County Spelling Contest sponsored by Jas H Kreps. Billy Beall and George McDaniel placed second and third with 92 and 89 percent. Twenty three pupils from Taylor county schools competed as Superintendent Shriver led the event.
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Ruth Luzadder
Misa Florence White
Central School
Taylor County
Jas. H. Kreps
Grafton Sentinel
Billy Beall
Gertrude Rasmussen
Pruntytown
Ron
Grafton
Shriver
E. M. Tomlinson
Grafton High School
Newton
Sloan
Alkire
Gibson
Queen
George Mc
Mayflower Sold From Navy Yard for Decommissioning
Washington May 4 The Mayflower the presidential yacht for 27 years is set to be placed out of commission at the Philadelphia navy yard by order of President Hoover. The navy department has decided the sale but a bid request was not expected for some time.
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Washington
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Hoover
Navy Department
Strangler Lewis Applies for Marriage License in Riverside
Ed Strangler Lewis former heavyweight wrestling champion and Miss Haine Sita filed a marriage license application in Riverside California yesterday. Lewis signed as Robert H Freder ick giving residence as Glendale and age 38.
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Riverside
Cal
Lawson Takes Action In Fire Insurance Controversy
State Auditor Edgar C. Lawson filed an answer in federal court asserting the state’s right to block execution of contracts between fire insurance companies and their agents in West Virginia. The companies seek a federal injunction to stop Lawson and officials from interfering, with May 11 noted as a relevant date.
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Charleston
W. Va
Edgar C. Lawson
Lawson
Close vote seen on export debenture plan
Washington May 4 President Hover was told by Senator Watson Indiana Republican leader that a very close vote was expected on the export debenture plan tied to his farm relief program which the president opposes.
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Washington
oHover
Watson
Indiana
Chicago Police Indicted on Bribe and Graft Scandals
Chicago authorities announce indictments across multiple graft cases. The county grand jury indicted 15 tied to the sanitary district scandal, including six trustees and the former president, while a federal panel charged 81 alleged members of the Chicago Heights booze ring. Police captains linked to slot machine graft faced earlier indictments as the nationwide probe expands.
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Chicago
Chicago Sanitary District
Federal
Chicago Heights
Sveral
Statler Rites Set Sunday In Fairmont Temple
Funeral services for Clarence Statler a native of Grafton and longtime Fairmont resident will be held Sunday at two pm in the Fairmont Methodist Protestant Temple with Rev T Le Roy Hooper officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery Fairmont. Statler died Friday morning in the Bye and Ear hospital Pittsburgh after months with a sinus infection. He had been city salesman for several years in Fairmont and was well known among local friends.
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Clarence Statler
Grafton
Bye and Ear Hospital
Pittsburgh
Fairmont Methodist Protestant Temple
T. LeRoy Hooper
Woodlawn
Fairmont
Statler
Taylor county jail boarders drop early 1929 figures
April and early May prisoner counts at Taylor county jail fell for the first time since the 85 000 cataboose opened January 1 1929. Jailer Linn Mays cites economy, with all current inmates slated for trial at the May Taylor county circuit court term. Prosecuting Attorney James C Holt notes the change aims to reduce taxpayer costs.
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Taylor County
Linn Mays
James C. Holt
Taylor County Circuit Court
Conlingen
Mellon Right to Office Debated by Senate Judiciary
Eight members of the Senate judiciary committee ruled Mellon as a stockholder was not disqualified from serving as secretary of the treasury. A Norris report declaring disqualification was rejected 10 to 3 amid related, unresolved votes. The panel split on whether stockholding plus business participation violated the statute and whether further inquiry was warranted.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Andrew W. Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate
Steiner
Oregon
Mellon
Norris
Borah
Idaho
King
Utah
Walsh
Canada
Aluminum Company of America
Overman
North Carolina
Secretary of Treasury
House
Grafton Proclaims Cleanup Week Under Mayor King
Mayor Charles C. King proclaims a six day Cleanup Week in Grafton from Monday May 6 to Saturday May 11. The notice, read in Sentinel columns, cites cooperation of local civic groups, police, and fire officials. It outlines reports on litter and trash by ward areas to guide a coordinated cleanup plan.
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Grafton
Sentinel
Charles C. King
Pda
Women's Civic Club
Homer Selvey
Louis Greenwalt
Mayor King
Mutual accord awaits French Japanese aid in reparations
Paris May 4. German and American reparations delegations reach a full settlement in principle. Owen D Young leads Americans seeking approval from France Belgium and other creditors. British and Japanese delegates tentatively approve. France seeks irreducible minimum claims. Belgium sides with France. Italy wants more. Settlement plan splits differences but many details remain.
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Paris
Owen D. Young
France
Belgium
Jana
Mynney
America
Frenen
Italy
Erman
Ecg Ae
Chicken and baked ham supper benefits church aid
The Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist Church will serve a chicken and baked ham supper to the Knights Templar their friends and the general public on Wednesday May 15 from 4 30 to 7 00. Price 50 cents.
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Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist
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Slayer
Torch Slayer
Wife
City OF Grafton
Chas
Sergen
Hugh S. Gibson
AID Trade Board
Sores
Frank Thompson
Coronet Bundesen
E'Wi
Scarface Aj” Capone
Sanitary District
Okehs Mellon
Owen D. Young Fathers
White Oaks
The
Grafton Printing Co
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