Germany says reparations cannot be paid at Lausanne
Berlin May 9 Chancellor Bruening declares Germany cannot pay reparations and Lausanne conference will reveal whether world recovery is possible or Germany will sink into misery. He criticizes world leaders for lacking courage, warns timely deeds are needed, and states Germany’s aims align with enlightened self interest while condemning Versailles treaty tragedy.
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Berlin
Heinrich Bruening
Germany
Lausanne
Butler Names Fritz Mackey New Head Football Coach
Frederick Fritz Mackey, 21, ex Ohio State athlete, named head football coach and intramural athletics director at Butler University in Indianapolis. He most recently coached at Ohio Wesleyan and is set to lead Butler’s grid program and internal sports activities.
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Associated Press
Frederick “Fritz Mackey
Ohio State
Butler” University
Indianapolis
Ohio Wesleyan
Hoover vetoes bill for soldiers home benefits again
President Hoover vetoed a second time a bill granting hospitalization and home privileges to quartermasters corps veterans from the Spanish American war the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising. A 75,000,000 irrigation project in Sind India is reported completed as the world's greatest irrigation undertaking.
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Washington
Hoover
Quartermasters Corps
Sind
India
Vet loans profits slam as Legion chief voices protest
Parkersburg May 9 Henry L Stevens Jr national commander of the American Legion says the government profits from veterans adjusted compensation loans. He cites interest rates 4.5 compared with 2 to 2 1 8 percent and calls for pension law for widows and orphans and lower or eliminated rates. He praises a bill to grant $20 monthly to widows and $6 per orphan.
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Parkersburg
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
American Legion
West Virginia
Rankin
Mississippi
Lindbergh Activities Shift to Air Amid Open Negotiations
Norfolk May 9 The Lindbergh baby kidnapping negotiations shift from sea to air as the Marson yacht stays at the naval base while John Hughes Curtis and Lieut George L Richard sail by plane. Colonel Charles A Lindbergh, said to be at the base for the infant, is thought to have left with the others. The Marcon remains idle after daily sea trips to contact kidnap suspects, with weather improving but past bruising difficulties noted.
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Marson
Naval Base
John Hughes Curtis
George L. Richard
Charles A. Lindbergh
Marcon
Lindbergh
Senate Debates Glass Banking Reform Bill
The Senate debates the Glass banking reform bill as the finance committee reviews the tax bill before reporting it. A manufacturers subcommittee hears social workers on unemployment relief. The House considers District of Columbia legislation.
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Senate
Finance Committee
Manufacturers
The Star of The Sales Force in Grafton VA
The article promotes using the telephone as a sales tool and notes typical rates from Grafton West Virginia. It cites The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia and a local banking building address with a telephone number.
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Grafton
W. VA
The
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of
West Virginia
Bell System
Banking & Trust
Opposition to coal measure raised before senate panel
Washington May 9 Dr C B Duncan economist for the Association of Railway Executives told the senate mining sub committee that federal regulation of bituminous coal would seriously handicap carriers. He noted railroads use 27 to 28 percent of U S bituminous coal and warned the Davis Kelly bill could impair transport standards and disrupt coal markets and rate structure.
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Washington
Association of Railway Executives
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission and railroad rights case
A fragment notes opposition to actions by the Interstate Commerce Commission that would unjustly deprive a railroad of traffic and of its rights and property regarding railroad owned mines.
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Terstate
Commerce Commission
Woman at Uniontown dies after family shooting
Uniontown Pa May 9 A woman hero of a shooting dies from wounds she sustained when Steven Vedesky opened fire on his family in a hotel Friday. Mrs Lena Johnson Ache, who struck Vedesky with a milk bottle, died Saturday night. Vedesky killed his wife and wounded Mrs Ache before his own death.
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Uniontown
Lena Johnson Ache
Steven Vedesky
Yedesky
Ache
New Yorker claims human target in abduction attempt
Arthur Esposito of New York says he has been shot at nearly a dozen times in ninety days and four men fired eight rounds yesterday trying to kidnap him. He was wounded in the thigh and back. doctors expect recovery. Also note Fer nando Rein’s flight from Madrid to Manila with a stopover in Chittagong.
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New York
Arthur Esposito
Securities Markets Open Week In Hesitant Mood
New York May 9 Stocks started the week in a hesitant mood as weekend surveys failed to spark fresh stimulus and traders kept focus on Washington. Prices edged higher then softened, rails and utilities weak, with several names dropping one to two points while a few small recoveries appeared by mid afternoon. Eastman and O S Steel lagged while General Motors held steady in light turnover.
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New York
Washington
New York Central
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Peoples Gas
North American
Public Service of New Jersey
American Telephone
Eastman
S. Steel
General Motors
Eastview Man Charged With Felonious Assault
Clarksburg May 9. Leo Oldaker of Eastview is charged with felonious assault on Mrs. Rose Davis, an elderly woman, at her home Saturday night. Oldaker, intoxicated, came to the residence and struck her face and head, injuring her eye. He is jailed in Harrison County awaiting arraignment before Magistrate Robert McClung. hearing likely Wednesday.
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Clarksburg
Rose Davis
Eastview
Leo Oldaker
D. Miller
Robert McClung
Oldaker
Harrison County
McClung
Dandelions Planted as Favor to Daddy by Daughter
Milwaukee on May 9 recounts 7 year old Mary planting dandelions in the lawn as a playful favor to her father Joseph Goll. He nearly sprained his wrists while digging before she replanted them with care to please him.
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Milwaukee
Joseph Goll
Mary
Man Proves Child Is Not Lindbergh Baby
New York in May police questioned Robert Vincent Qele a subway brakeman for an hour before releasing him after he convinced investigators his motherless child is not the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. A Boston taxi driver who took the man and child to a boat yesterday became suspicious when
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New York
Robert Vincent Qele
Boston
Ogle Quizzed After Birth Certificate Confirms Child
Ogle lowered the cab curtains and notified police. He and the baby were taken to a police station for questioning when the boat arrived today. Ogle produced a birth certificate showing the child is his.
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Ogle
Lodge Presents Musical Program in Rowelsburg
River City lodge number 23 Knights of Pythias entertained with a program of musical numbers and readings Saturday evening in Rowelsburg May 9.
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Rowelsburg
Cox Declares Candidacy For Jobless Liberal Party
Pittsburgh, May 9. The Rev James R Cox militant priest reiterates he will be the presidential candidate of the Jobless Liberal party if its members wish it. Speaking to about 2,000 blue shirt leaders he says he is serious and will settle doubts. The blue shirts plan to march to St Louis for the party convention with at least 1,000,000 expected to attend. The party dedicates to the mothers of America with "Mother Mahree" chosen as the campaign song.
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Pittsburgh
James R. Cox
Father Cox
Blue Shirts
St. Louis
Mothers of America
Mahree
Asth
Held for Grand Jury On Charge of Attempted Assault
Co. P White of Penny Street faced a May term grand jury action on a charge of attempting criminal assault on a minor girl. In Magistrate John Wittman’s court he posted a $1,000 bond. Testimony from two physicians said no assault occurred and no evidence of ill treatment was found.
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Co. P
20000 Spruce Trees to Be Planted at Canian Mountain
Elkins May 9. The United States Forestry service has purchased twenty thousand four-year-old Norway spruce trees for planting this week on the Canian mountain plantation. A large crew has worked there the past month. The trees are somewhat larger than those usually transplanted.
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Elkins
United States Forestry Service
Canian_ mountain
Saviour Tom Townsend Faces Scrutiny Over $4000 Fee
The Dominion News notes Tom Townsend, GOP governor candidate and state tax commissioner, received $4000 from the workers' compensation fund for legal services in a coal company suit. Critics say the matter, plus a $3000 paid to others, questions his suitability as savior for West Virginia. Townsend also practices law in Kanawha County courts.
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Tom Townsend
West Virginia
Lee Ott
Townsend
Workmen’s Compensation Fund For
New River and
Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
Howard B. Lee
University of Southern West Ee Buch
Lively
Stambaugh
Kanawha County
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