Prison Guards Accused in Black Legion Crimes Warrants Issued This Morning
Detroit May 26 25 warrants charged kidnapping and felonious assault tied to the Black Legion. Three prison guards Ray Ernest and his brothers Glenn Clarence Allen Bascom accused as leaders. Warranted suspects held in Jackson for beating Harley Smith and linked to the death of prison guard Paul Every. Fire at George Noon estate under probe amid Black Legion arson suspicions. Unsolved slaying in Oakland County reopened as authorities pursue leads.
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Detroit
John Doi
Dudley
George Noon
Jackson
Black Legion
Oakland County
Pontiac
Probe Fatal Plane Crash Near Amos Quebec
Six men died when a Canadian passenger plane crashed near Chi Ponamau Lake, about 100 miles northeast of Amos, Quebec, two days after disappearance. General Airways pilot Gath Edwards found the overturned wreckage half a mile from the lake as investigators worked to unravel the mystery of the missing ship.
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Amos
Quebec
General Airways
Gath Edwards
Chipongamau Lake
Rouyn
Drive Safely After Bridgeport Hill Collision
Report states two cars collided on Bridgeport hill Sunday evening. One driver fled the scene while two passengers were arrested for drunkenness. Taylor County Safety Council urges the highway be kept clear of drunk drivers to prevent sudden death.
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Bridgeport Hill
Identity of Torch Slaying Victim Established
Keene New Hampshire May 26 identified today as Mrs Elizabeth Cannon Freel 50 of Clinton Massachusetts wife of Robert E Freel superintendent of the Wauchetts Electric Light company Clinton police and Dr Harry C Duprey dentist and Chief Michael E Kelley of Massachusetts town identified the body She disappeared May 15 and was mother of three children motive robbery clues point to White River Junction and Brattleboro Vermont a revolver and gasoline can found beside the body were traced to a woman calling herself Mrs Grace Hurley purchase records showed about 500 in cash death by own action ruled impossible authorities seek an elderly man seen boarding a train with her suspected double death pact not carried out
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Keene
N. H
Wantas
Licquet Mountain
Elizabeth Cannon Freel
Clinton
Mass
Robert E. Freel
Wauchetts Electric Light Company
Harry C. Duprey
Michael E. Kelley
Massachusetts
Arthur Olson
Freel
Frel
Maury
Alice
Cinion High School
Robert, Jr
University of Pennsylvania
White River Junction
Brattleboro
Vermont
Wom
Olson
Martin K. Judd
Grace Hurley
Arthur F. Weston
Ships collide sinkings claim twenty seamen in North Sea
In a North Sea collision, the British tanker San Salvador reports that the steam trawler Picador sank in three minutes with twenty crew lost. Survivors suffer cramps and shock as damage to the tanker’s bow is noted and it proceeds to the Tyne. The Picador, 424 gross tons, built in 1933, registered from Hull. Continued on page three.
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London
San Salvador
Lloyds
North Sea
Guller Boat
Tyne
Hull
Hull Northern Fishing Co
Dad's Licking Convinces Youth Crime Doesn't Pay
BECKLEY May 26 State troopers seek owners of stolen items found near headquarters after a boy claims his father beat the seat of his pants and told him to deliver the looped loot to the police a note attached.
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Dad
Beckley
Republicans warn of rampant spending under Roosevelt
The Republican National Committee pamphlet charges the Roosevelt administration with excessive spending, claiming Americans are punch-drunk by figures and that each hour drains another million from the nation’s money. It complains of hundreds of millions and a billion.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
District Three Board To Operate at Minimum
FAIRMONT May 26 Chairman W. Clark Dobbie says the bituminous coal district three board will continue to operate on a minimum scale. The action follows Comptroller General John F. McCann's ruling that the national coal commission would continue in all matters save those invalidated by the supreme court against the Guffey act.
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Fairmont
W. Clark Dobbie
District Three
John F. McCann
Emational Coal Commission
Supreme Court
Ferry Disaster Kills 24 Children and 1 Man
A ferry capsized in the Thaya river near AUSPITZ Czechoslovakia as 60 travelers attempted a picnic trip. Twenty three students and one adult drowned, seven children saved while a coach and horse disappeared in mid stream during the tragedy.
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Auspitz
Czechoslovakia
Thaya
Bohemian Hills
Baby Dashes Headlong Into Truck Is Killed
MARTINSBURG May 26 George Thomas Frock two year old child of Joseph Frock of near Berkeley Springs West Virginia died at a local hospital last night of injuries from running headlong into a moving lime laden truck driven by George Fields of Berkeley Springs near the Frock home Fields tried to avoid the accident but could not He was exonerated after state police inquiry The truck was owned by George Fearnow who earlier that day had lost property in a fire that destroyed his home.
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Martinsburg
George Thomas Frock
Joseph Frock
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
George Fields
Frock
Fields
George Fearnow
Tax measure talks push to final vote tonight
A Roosevelt guided tax conference with Democratic Senate Finance Committee members was arranged to push the revenue bill toward final passage. The plan includes a statement of corporate purpose to force disclosures on surplus use, with penalties if funds are misused, aiming to raise permanent and temporary revenues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Harrison
Miss
Finance Committee
House
Finance Group
Senate
Electric Rate Slash Begin June 1st
Charleston May 26 The Public Service Commission ordered Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co to cut charges for 250 to 60 kilowatts a month saving about 150000 dollars per year. The reduction applies to Grafton Elkins Fairmont Morgantown Parkersburg and the northern panhandle with meter readings starting July 1.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
Monongahela West
Penn Public Service Company
A. M. Mahood
Grafton
Elkins
Fairmont
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Panhandle
Admits Shooting Girl Because of Her Singing
Ralph Stearns, 17, told Judge William E. Hirt he did not like a girl's singing and fired a shot at her in Erie. The judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail and suggested questioning the girl to determine if he was merely acting on impulse. Policeman Ray Runser said Stearns shot at the girl after she refused his request to stop singing in a restaurant.
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Erie
Ralph Stearns
William E. Hirt
Hirt
Ray Runser
Stearns
New York Gubernatorial Race Endorsements Mention Jackson
In the Democratic gubernatorial race in New York Robert Jackson of Jamestown N Y, an attorney, is said to have the endorsement of New Deal leaders. Other sources report upstate chieftains backing Albany Mayor John Boyd Thacher. Jackson has fought for the government in tax cases and faced Andrew Mellon last year.
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Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
New York City
John J. Bennett, Jr
Wash
Ohio Industry Hit by Labor Row Broadly Spreads
National guard observers were posted in Akron and Portsmouth with police on duty in Norwood as a Norwood Remington Rand plant joined a five-plant strike. About 1,200 workers affected. In Portsmouth, Wheeling Steel faced 5,500 idle employees as mediation stalled in a four day strike. Two national guard observers were present.
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Cleveland, O
National Guard
Akron
Portsmouth
Norwood
Cincinnati
Ohio
Remington Rand, Inc
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Manheim Youngster Dies From Lockjaw After Splinter
Bobby Smith five year old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Smith of Manheim near Rowlesburg died from tetanus after a splinter in his foot last week. Funeral services were held at the residence yesterday with Rev Henry High officiating. Interment was in Elkins under direction of N C Dawson funeral director.
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Rowlesburg
Bobby
Frank Smith
Manheim
Henry High
Princeton
Elkins
N. C. Dawson
Pope Pius Declares Press Really Rules The World
Pope Pius told over 80 foreign newsmen that the press rules the world in a 20 minute Vatican City address. He said thought governs the world and the press is its transmitter and registrar, defining newspapermen as intelligent loudspeakers.
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Pope Pius
Vatican City
Pius
Ness
Vatican
Preston County School Boys Set Perfect Mark
ROWLESBURG May 26 Harold Shaffer 16 son of Henry and Stella Funk Shaffer of Red Rock graduates eighth grade at Red Rock school with an unblemished attendance record seven years never absent or tardy.
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Rowlesburg
Harold Shaffer
Henry and
Stella Funk Shaffer
Red Rock
Harold
Dr A B Scott Dies Wealthy Fairmont Optometrist
Dr A B Scott aged 63 a wealthy Fairmont optometrist and national authority on dahlia raising died leaving a widow Edith Lewis former Mrs Lewis funeral will be held at 10 30 tomorrow at Jones Funeral Home Fairmont with Dr George E Beavens pastor officiating interment in Marietta Ohio after short services there Wednesday afternoon the well known Marion county citizen and Fairmont resident was widely mourned by Grafton friends and associates.
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A. B. Scott
Fairmont
Grafton
Marion County
Edith Lewis
J. L. Lewis
Jones Funeral Home
George. E. Beavens
First Presbyyerian Church
Marietta
Dr. Scott
Ohio
Death penalty asked for accused slayer in Owensboro
In Owensboro Kentucky on May 26 the commonwealth expected to seek the death penalty for Wilbur Sanders 18-year-old former convict charged with the hammer slaying of Mrs William Sapp 65 in her farm home Sanders allegedly admitted striking her with his fist then beating her with a hammer after she said she had no money Jury selection from 50 Daviess county merchants was underway and the victim died after naming her attacker found by neighbors behind the kitchen stove
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Owensboro
Commonwealth
Wilbur Sanders
William Sapp
Daviess County
Herman Birkhead
Sanders
Fatal forest blaze resurfaces near Chatsworth
New Gretna New Jersey May 26 A forest fire that already claimed five lives rekindled ten miles from the core fight area as hundreds of firefighters and CCC workers faced renewed flames. The blaze started Saturday at Chatsworth and swept southeastward trapping workers. 30 others are missing and a fifth man died en route to hospital. District fire warden Alfred Morey warned many of his men may be among the dead as authorities assessed the continuing danger.
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New Gretna
N. J
Mt. Holly
Chatsworth
Civilian Conservation Corps
Stafford Forge
Tuckertown
Barnegat
Alfred Morey
Roe Nelson
Bass River
Dredging Request Seen For Ten Mile At Salem
Representative Andrew Edmiston forwards a request to the Fairmont district of the Works Progress Administration for dredging Ten Mile creek through Salem West Virginia. Salem mayor Truman Payne says rights of way on needed property have been obtained.
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Washington
Ten Mile Creek
Salem
W. Va
Andrew Edmiston
Fairmont
Works Progress Administration
Edmiston
Truman Payne
Aged Couple Die on Same Day Buried Together
W. H. Maye aged 84 died after five days illness. His widow aged 82 lapsed into a coma and died the same day. Married 3 years. They were buried together. Williamson May 26.
Six Remington Rand Plants Shut Amid Nationwide Strike
Police guarded six Remington Rand plants across the east and midwest as a strike call neared, with estimates of 6,000 workers by labor leaders and 4,200 by the company. Syracuse plant to close permanently, others kept open with guard presence and minor clashes reported in California and New York.
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Associated Press
Remington Rand, Inc
East
Middle West
National Guard
California
Remington Randh
Syracuse
Ilion
Tonawanda
N.Y
Middletown
Conn
Norwood
Mariette
Ohio
James H. Rand, Jr
Company
Arkansas
Open conflict in Holy Land escalates in Jerusalem clash
In Jerusalem May 36, Arab anti Jewish disorders erupted into open armed conflict with British soldiers and police. After 40 days of violence that left at least 50 dead, troops fought two engagements dispersing Arabs in one clash and withdrawing in another. High commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope vowed no violence could deter mandate obligations.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Britain
Palestine
Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
Levant
League of ‘Nations
Jesus of Nazareth
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PROBE
Taylor County Safety
Counci
Picador
Republican Committee
Thaya River
Senate Committee
New York
Robert Jackson
John B. Thacher
Remington Rand
Preston County School
A.B. Scott
New Jersey
Great Britain
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Moose
Colonel
Mey
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