State Chain Store Taxes Upheld
News from New York reports a brutal murder case where an 8-year-old girl was slain and her 5-year-old brother injured. Police investigated a mother, Helen Tiernan, 28, who claimed a strange man attacked her children in Brookhaven and later tried to burn bodies. An incoherent four-year-old boy provided the only leads as detectives sought the pair’s identities.
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New York
Helen Tiernan
Brookhaven
N. Y
Térnan
West 47Th Street
Frank Naughton
West, Side
Naughton
Rockhaven
Suffolk County Police
Raymond Cataldo
Riverhhean
Call Election for Thursday in Steel Plant Vote
In Pittsburgh on May 17 the Steel Workers Organizing Committee moves to employee elections at Jones and Laughlin Steel plants to decide if the union will be the bargaining agent for about 32,000 workers. The firm will bargain if a union majority is shown in the ballot. A 36 hour strike amid talks between H E Lewis and Philip Murray preceded the vote, with both sides agreeing not to electioneer on company property.
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Pittsburgh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Jones and Lauglin Steel Corporation
H. E. Lewis
Philip Murray
Ernest C. Dunn
There There May Be Difference In Braking Distance
A Graf ton street last week saw a tire skid about ninety feet, illustrating the gap between what drivers think is needed to stop and the actual stopping distance. The Taylor County Safety Council urges focus on brakes and speed.
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Grafton
King George May Aid Duchess Warfield Engagement
London readers were buzzing May 17 over a possible royal recognition of Mrs Wallis Warfield by a formal engagement to the Duke of Windsor. The Sunday Referee said the king might announce the betrothal, while the Express warned such a move was impossible amid ecclesiastical objections to a twice divorced person.
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London
Wallis Warfield
Duke of Windsor
George VI
Edward
The
Express
Church
Fairbanks Flood Over Future Control Studied
Fairbanks officials studied rehabilitation and flood control as citizens returned to mud filled homes. Private estimates put flood damage near 650000 with no casualties reported and little illness.,Stringent cleanup and recovery efforts followed receding waters from the Chena and Tanana rivers.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Faibanks
Chena
Tanana
Cars Driven By Brothers Collide Hospitalized
Butler Missouri May 17 two brothers County Recorder A B Cummings and H G Cummings township Democratic committee men collided head on near here. County Recorder Cummings suffered a fractured knee cuts and bruises. Township committeeman Cummings bruised and shocked. From hospital beds they said they habitually met on the country road each Sunday morning.
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Butler, Mo
A. B. Cummings
H. G. Cummings
Here
Cummings
Police Track Mule Stolen Fifty Miles
Fayetteville news item reports rural policeman Derb Carter tracking a stolen mule for fifty miles across three counties without bloodhounds. The mule cast a chase before fleeing, but Carter recovered both the animal and the suspected thief using plain police method and perseverance.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Derb Carter
Relief payments dip in Taylor County in April
Taylor County Welfare reports April general relief cash payments averaged 10 dollars per case, down from 13.17 in March and 12.90 in February. Of 462 relief cases, 10.5 percent of families received aid, with 305 on old age assistance, 146 on general relief, four blind cases, and seven dependent children. Cost remains about the same.
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Taylor
F. A. Lipscomb
Taylor County
Two Millions Are Asked For Bluestone Dam Work
Representative Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton Ohio seeks 2 million dollars for land purchases to accompany an 11 million dollar Bluestone dam construction appropriation on the New River near Hinton West Virginia. He argues the dam would cut Ohio River flood crests by four feet and insists local governments share costs as required by last year’s authorizing act.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ironton
Hinton
W. Va
Ohio
Ohio River
Jenkins
House Appropriations Committee
New River
West Virginia auto crashes kill five more over weekend
AP report details multiple fatal accidents across West Virginia. Harold Wright, 18, of Russelville, died after his gasoline-soaked clothes ignited while lighting a cigarette when a vehicle struck near Lookout. White Sulphur Springs resident Waitman Vaughn died beside a parked car from injuries. Cecil Lucas of Livingston perished in a plunge over an embankment near Decota in Kanawha County. Ballengee of Ronceverte was charged and released on bond. The article notes the ongoing toll from weekend crashes.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Harold Wright
Russelville
Fayette County
Lookout
Rainelle
Waitman Vaughn
White Sulphur Springs
C. Duncan
A. E. Ballengee
Ronceverte
Ballengee
Decota
Kanawha County
Cecil Lucas
Livingston
J. W. Keener
Lucas
Bathtub Drowning in Wheeling An Accident
Wheeling on May 17 reports 33 year old Pennington drowned while bathing. Brother in law B F Starks found the body. Coroner S B Bobes rules the death accidental.
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Wheeling
Thurman Pennington
B. F. Starks
Pennington
Bobes
Elllis Parker Sr Linked in Lindbergh Kidnap Plot
Murray Bleefeld testified in federal court that Ellis Parker Sr went to New York while Paul H Wendel was held there and read Parker's version of the Lindbergh kidnapping confession. Bleefeld, one of three confessed conspirators, described Wendel's ten day imprisonment and the coercive writing of a confession.
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Newark
N. J
Murray Bleefeld
Ellis Parker, Sr
New York
Paul H. Wendel
Burlington County
Ellis, Jr
Wendel
Brooklyn
Bleefeld
Parker
Ellis Parker, Jr
First Boone Co. Man Sentenced to Gallows
Madison W Va May 17 Woodrow Benson Bradley 22 year old Van resident pleaded guilty to ambush slaying of Clifford Sutphin and faces execution as the first Boone county man sentenced to hang Judge C C Ward set August 13 for the gallows. Sheriff Del White said Bradley waited on a mountain trail shot Sutphin and robbed him of five dollars The slaying occurred March 27 near Pond Fork.
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Madison
W. Va
Woodrow
Benson Bradley
Clifford Sutphin
Boone County
C. C. Ward
Bradley
del White
Sutphin
Pond Fork
Thief Appears Honest About His Occupation
In Newport News on May 17 a man brought to police headquarters claimed stealing as his occupation when asked by Desk Sergeant F W Hamilton. The 35 year old Fred Bond admitted stealing coal from Chesapeake and Ohio yards and faced a larceny charge with a hearing set by the officer.
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Newport News
F. W. Hamilton
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hamilton
Fred Bond
Court Bill Fees Confer On Strategy To Doom Accord
Senators opposing Roosevelt court bill held a conference on strategy to reject all modification proposals and seek an alternate program. The Senate Judiciary Committee met nearby for its final debate before voting, with most members against the bill. Retirements rumored. leaders focused on Supreme Court proceedings and potential constitutionality rulings on the social security act.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Gruen Watch Drawn For Grafton Graduates Display
Loar Jewelry Store shows a Gruen clock with each Grafton High School graduate named around its face. The clock has been started and is hoped to run down to graduation day, signaling the lucky graduate when the minute hand reaches that time.
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Grafton High School
Loar Jewelry Company
Gruen
Lee Hearing Set Here Tomorrow Night For Lee
Preliminary hearing for William E. Lee, arrested a week ago on a warrant charging obtaining money under false pretenses, is scheduled for 7 o clock tomorrow night before Justice of the Peace Hoye G White Sr Lee, described as a man of fine character, is defended by Attorney James C Holt who said Lee did nothing unlawful in Grafton and sought letters of introduction from local business people for a sheriff police directory project
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James C. Holt
Lee
Grafton
William E. Lee
Justice of the Peace
Hoye G. White
Herbert Evans
Sheriffs’ and Police Officers’ Association
Governor to arbitrate claims over youth killer extradition
Governor Herbert Lehman agreed to arbitrate rival extradition claims among Texas Arkansas Illinois and New York over Lester Brockelhurst a 23 year old suspect linked to three murders Brockelhurst and his companion Bernice Felton were arrested in Dutchess County after a reported tour of murder the governors conference preceded by sheriffs and prosecutors in Poughkeepsie with Texas seeking extradition to try him for murder
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Tool
Central Press
Joseph Hunt
Bernice Felton
Lester Brockelhurst
Brockelhurst
Galesburg
Arkansas
Albany
N. Y
Herbert H. Lehman
Texas
Illinois
New York
Charles Poletti
Poughkeepsie
John R. Schwartz
Dutchess County
Albin Theander
Rockford
Victor Gates
Jack Griffith
Schwartz
Miss Felton
Lehman
A. B. Carter
W. R. Parker
Fort Worth
Ter
Body of Principal Found in Kanawha River
A floating body recovered from the Kanawha River near London Dam is identified as Gerald Snagely, 26, principal of Kimberly school near Montgomery. Coroner J. E. Roberts confirmed the identification from items found in the principal's pockets. he had been missing for a week.
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Charleston
Gerald ‘Snagely
Kimberly School
Montgomery
Kanawha River
London ‘Dam
J. E. Roberts
Union Ready For Ford Row
United Automobile Workers prepares to launch a campaign to unionize Ford Motor Co. workers in Detroit area. Two membership offices will open in Dearborn as part of a planned fanfare, with leaders predicting little resistance and vowing to mobilize resources to create a splash. Continued on page five.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Dearborn
Homer Martin
Wyndham Mortimer
Supreme Court Takes No Part in A. P. Case
The Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of the Federal Social Security Act today and adjourned until next week. An earlier decision upheld a 1934 Louisiana law imposing a graduated license tax on chain stores, with A. and P. Taxed Heavily due to its vast network. Justice Roberts authored the 4 to 3 ruling with Justices Sutherland McReynolds and Butter dissenting. Justices Van Devanter and Stone did not participate.
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Bulletin
Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Federal District Court
New Orleans
Roberts
Sutherland,Mclernolds
Butter
van Devanter
Stone
Rigger Tests Gas Cell Theory On Hindenburg Blaze
Hans Freud, the lone survivor among the Hindenburg riggers, testified to the Department of Commerce board that a gas cell likely started the disaster. He described the sudden, all-encompassing fire near the stern as flames from above enveloped him, with no warning. The witness noted the rapid destruction and his inability to tell whether the ignition came from forward or aft.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Department of Commerce Investigating Board
Hans Freud
Calabasas
Cal‘f
Wauon
Canyon
SSS
Loar Jewelry Company
W. C. du Brock
Jiggs
St Louis Hotel Strike Settled and Normal Operations Resume
Normal operations returned to St Louis hotels after a one day strike ended under a contract recognizing unions and a closed shop. The agreement covers hours, working conditions, and wage increases for about 2,000 workers across eight downtown hotels, averting wider walkouts in the St Louis Hotel Association.
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ST. Louis
St Louis
Jin
St. Louis Hotel Association
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Jones & Laughlin
Taylor County Safety Council
King George
Duke
Welfare Council
Hoffman
Governor
Boone Co
Loar Jewelry
Fort Worth, Texas
UNION
Ford Row
A. P. Case
National Chain
A. and P. Corporation
Ae and Mane
Rand
Canada
A. and P. Company
H. G. Hill Stores, Inc
Rigger
Dirigible
Commodore
Washington, D. C
Union Station
Capitol Plaza
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