Leadership is Sought as Speakership Race Narrows
The Associated Press reports December 14 that Joseph W. Burns leads in the speakership bid for the Democratic Party as rivals drop out or falter. William Bankhead withdrew from the race for speaker and seeks floor leadership. Ten candidates remain including Crosser Green Mead O'Connor McCormack Rankin Sabath Arnold Lea Greenwood Woodrum with O'Connor claiming a clear lead backed by New York pledges.
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Associated Press
Washington
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
Burns
Crosser
Ohio
Green
Florida
Mead
New York
Capitol Hill
New York City
Bankhead
O'Connor
McCormack
Massachusetts
Rankin
Mississippi
Sabath and Arnold
Illinois
Lea
California
Greenwood
Indiana
Woodrum
Virginia
State of
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Mrs. Louisa Clay Dies at 62 Funeral Sunday
Mrs. Louisa Clay 62 wife of A W Clay died suddenly at her Heber street home yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. Dr K M Jarr ell found life extinct on arrival. Funeral services will be held at the residence Sunday at 2 p m conducted by Dr J E Bird pastor of the Heber street Methodist Church. Burial will follow in the family cemetery at Cameron. She was born Rock Creek April 12 1872 daughter of John and Susan Laverty and leaves a husband two daughters and three sons along with one brother and five sisters.
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Louisa Clay
A. W. Clay
Heber Street
K. M. Jarrell
J. E. Bird
Cameron
Caffee
John
Susan Laverty
Rock Creek
Methodist Phurch
F. E. Fitch
Opelika
Alabama
Radie
Roy Clay
Beckley
Wilby Laverty
Camella
Agnes
Maynor
Louis Gates
A. L. Cook
A. L. Clay
T. J. Honaker
Charleston
Early Market Price Changes Narrow Today
Wall Street reports narrow price changes with metals and rails fairly firm. U S Steel General Motors and American Can held steady amid mixed early trading in New York on December 14.
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Associated Press
Wall Street
N. Y
U. S. Steel
General Motors
American Can
Killer Reveals Slaying Wife Over Nagging
St Louis December 14 John H Happel 53 held as police await Los Angeles word on his extradition for the trunk murder of his wife Rosabella Marie Happel. He allegedly said he beat her for nagging then dismembered the body with a meat saw and stored remains in an old trunk found in a shed behind the home December 3.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
John H. Happel
Los Angeles
Rosabella Marie Happel
John J. McCarthy
Happel
Beckley Chamber Dinner Draws Regional Leaders
Members and guests from southern West Virginia cities attend the Beckley Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at the Presbyterian church. Over a hundred expected. Governor H. G. Kump and State Road Commissioner E. L. Bailey anticipated. G. A. Mohler to give the annual address. Nominating committee proposes twenty candidates for ten two year terms on the chamber board.
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Beckley Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Presbyterian Church
H. G. Kump
E. L. Bailey
G. A. Mohler
Chamber
Infant Located Alive In China
A three month old girl, Helen Priscilla Stam, child of murdered American missionaries Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stam, was found alive in Tsingteh and was being transported to Wahu mission headquarters. Government troops pursued bandits who raided the city, killed the parents, and likely abducted the child. The parents’ bodies were found 15 miles from their home.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Tsingteh
Helen Priscilla Stam
J. C. Stam
Wahu
Elmer Walker Held On Interstate Robbery Charge
Elmer Walker of Stanaford was arrested early today by Deputy Tom Harmon and jailed on a federal charge of robbing interstate shipments. Walker allegedly backed a truck to a coal car near Stanaford and shoveled coal into the truck when Harmon arrived. A hearing before U S Commissioner W H Bardin is expected today.
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Elmer Walker
Stanaford
Tom Harmon
Walker
Harmon
U. S
W. H. Bardin
Liberty League Attacked In Holt Speech At Charleston
United States Senator-Elect Rush D. Holt criticized the Liberty League before West Virginia county assessors, calling its leaders munition profiteers and Wall Street pirates. He urged West Virginia to act to aid the unemployed, noting state and federal cooperation delays harm the needy.
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Liberty League
HOLT
West Virginia
Group of
Wall St. Financial Pirates
Associated Press
Charleston
United States
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia Association of County Assessors
Liberty Leaguers
Wall Street
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wisconsin
National Congress
British Vessel Is In Distress At Sea
MacKay Radio reported a distress from the British steamer Upsworth in the North Atlantic. The ship asked for assistance, saying the situation looked precarious. Belgian liner Jean Jadot and Cunard liner Ascania could not reach her due to heavy seas, with Upsworth's position given in the mid Atlantic on the northern European ship lane.
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Associated Press
New York
MacKay Radio
Black Gull
Upsworth
North Atlantic
Jean Jadot
Cunard
Ascania
Mid- Atlantic
Kansas Police Chief Liberated After Abduction
Kansas City report says Art Calkins chief of police Herington Kas was kidnapped yesterday by two gunmen while seeking to question a suspect in ammunition purchases. He was held about 14 hours in a barn before being driven to a southbound release near Kildare Okla. He could not identify his captors.
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Associated Press
Arkansas City
Kas
Art Calkins
Herington
Calkins
Kildare
Okla
Beckley Department Store Robbery Totals $300 in Goods
Thieves entered via a coal chute at Beckley Department Store and carried out merchandise valued between $200 and $300. City Patrolman J. S. Ellison found a rear door forced and a furnace room door opened, with goods believed to have been moved to an alley where an automobile may have waited for transfer. Officials noted dresses, pajamas, fitted cases among stolen items.
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Beckley
D. George
Deaths Blamed On Alarm Delay In Hotel Fire
Investigators say the Hotel Kerns fire near Lansing claimed at least 30 lives due to a delay in sounding the alarm. Charles E. Gauss reports witnesses indicate the fire began in rooms of hotel manager David Monroe and his brother Douglas. He notes a 15 to 30 minute alarm delay and labels the conduct as negligent under stress. Four more bodies were recovered, totaling 28 found and 19 identified.
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Associated Press
Lansing
Mich
Kerns
Charles E. Gauss
David Monroe
Douglas Monroe
Gauss
Christmas Cantata By Mount Hope Students
The Mount Hope school's music department presents its annual Christmas cantata Chimes of the Holy Night by Fred B. Holton on Tuesday December 18 at 8 pm in the Y M C A auditorium. Soloists Geraldine Richards Thelma Orren Catherine Ward Dorothy Core. chorus of about 100. Margaret Warren on piano. directed by Gladys Bary. A silver offering will be collected at the door to cover expenses.
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Mount Hope School
Fred B. Holton
Geraldine Richards
Thelma Orren
Catherine Ward
Dorothy Core
Margaret Warren
Gladys Bary
Anti-Trust Laws Held Inadequate In Six Year Probe
The Federal Trade Commission says current anti monopoly laws may be inadequate to curb chains. A six year inquiry into chain stores found that Supreme Court interpretations narrow the Sherman act to actual monopolies and do not deem mere monopolistic power illegal without covert acts.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Supreme Court
Commission
Dog Vaccination Drive Proceeds In Shady Spring District
The dog vaccination campaign continues with Dr. Clyde E. Warden and assistant J I Judy offering immunizations from 1 to 6 p m at Blue Jay and Glen Hedrick. On Monday the Shady Spring area and Lanark locals will have dogs vaccinated, with a vet present 1 to 6 p m. Unvaccinated dogs face strict confinement during the lengthy quarantine to avoid being killed.
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Shady Spring
Clyde E. Warden
J. I. Judy
Blue Jay
Glen Hedrick
Lanark
Slayer Leads Police to Body of Grace Budd Victim
New York December article reports Albert H. Fish 65-year-old father of six confessed slayer of Grace Budd, a ten year old who disappeared six years earlier. Fish guided police to a Westchester deserteds house where the torso was found. He claimed he hacked the body at the site on June 3, 1928, and buried it nearby four days later.
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Associated Press
New York
Grace Budd
Albert H. Fish
Fish
Westchester County
William King
The
Missing Persons Bureau
King
Families flee Montrose flood as rain drives evacuation
In Los Angeles on December 14, county flood control authorities ordered more than 300 Montrose residents to evacuate as torrential rain cascaded from the Sierra Madre mountains. Deputy engineer J. R. Mimi warned a wall of water was racing down a canyon near Montrose's main streets, recalling the fatal New Year storm of 1934 that killed over 30 and caused extensive damage.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Sierra Madre Mountains
Montrose
Montrose-La Crescenta
J. R. Mimi
Mrs McQuade Rites Set For Monday Morning
Funeral services for Mrs Jane McQuade 72 of Blue Jay will be held at St Francis De Sales Church Monday at 9 am with Rev Fr John Halpin. burial in St Sebastian's Cemetery directed by Caffee undertakers. She is survived by husband Pat and children James and John McQuade both of Blue Jay and Mrs E A Tully of Detroit. brother James McGrady Bay City Michigan. twelve grandchildren.
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Jane McQuade
Blue Jay
St. Francis de Sales
John Halpin
Caffee
St. Sebastian's Cemetery
Pat McQuade
James T. McQuade
John W. McQuade
Blue
Ten Thousand Dollar Bank Robbery In Toledo Area
Three robbers escaped with more than ten thousand dollars after holding up two Woodville State Savings Bank employees in Ohio. Two suspects entered via a basement window and waited behind a partition as assistant cashier W. F. Keil entered. a third robber waited outside in a car. They forced Keil to open the vault and locked him and A. W. M. Emch in the vault as they fled.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Ohio
Woodville
State Savings Bank
W. F. Keil
Keil
A. W. M. Emch
Skaggs Suit Heard In Circuit Court
A $10,000 damage suit against State Trooper Frank J. Skaggs began in circuit court over an August auto collision near Shady Spring. Plaintiff Mrs. Kernell alleges serious internal injuries. defense claims the trooper’s brake grabbed. Witnesses describe the crash as Skaggs’s car striking the Kernell party after surrounding vehicle. Additional actions include a separate Beckley case postponed to February term.
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Frank J. Skaggs
George B. Kernel
Durham
N. C
Shady Spring
D. D. Ashworth
Skaggs
Allen
Lillian Hall
Goldsboro
W. H. Cunningham
Kernell
Martha Lewis
Charles George
City of Beckley
George
East Prince Street
Circuit Court
Former convict drugged victim linked to Karpis escape
Alfred Ge onia, a former convict from Joliet, said he escaped from Alvin Karpis and two others after being drugged by Karpis. Karpis is sought in the $100,000 kidnapping of Edward G. Bremer of St. Paul. Ge onia said authorities directed him to Chicago to search for Karpis after release.
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Associated Press
Joliet
Lll
Alfred Geonia
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Alvin Karpis
Karpis
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
State Of Ohio Rushes Passage of Sales Tax
Columbus, Dec. 14. The state of Ohio began today to rush to completion machinery to handle the sales tax expected to provide $56,000,000 next year. State Tax Commissioner Carlton S. Dargusch said the sales tax machinery will be built on a permanent basis despite the one-year limit on the levy.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Carlton S. Dargusch
Five Arrested in Philadelphia Kidnapping and Arsenal Raid
Police say the arrests of four men and a woman may solve at least three crimes including the William Weiss kidnapping. A large arsenal was seized, with items traced to a Norris Town National Guard armory theft. Captured, Zeid faces links to a Camden detective killing and other suspects include Wiley Seidel and Beatrice Wilkinson. Weiss disappeared October 26. a failed $25,000 ransom was alleged.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
William Weiss
Weiss
Delaware
Charles Zeid
William Feitz
Camden
N. J
National Guard
Norristown
Frank R. Wiley
Eastern Penitentiary
Harry Seidel
George Barrett
Beatrice Wilkinson
Walker
Zeid
Albert Mayer
Duponts Foiled on War Powder Plant Contract
Washington December 14 evidence shown to the senate munitions committee that the Dupont company sought a 1917 contract to build a war time powder plant for a $43.5 million one year profit without any investment. A War Industries Board report to Newton D. Baker said Dupont compensation would be out of proportion. The contract was blocked, a substitute agreement left Dupont with about $2 million gross profits. Irenne Dupont protested that they were accused of robbing the United States after a major war effort.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
Dupont Company
War Industries Board
Newton D. Baker
Dupont
Irenne Dupont
Powder Company
United States
Ansted Resident Named Field Auditor for Tax Office
December 14 announced by Commissioner Fred L. Fox that Ansted resident C. F. Johnston is appointed as a field auditor for the tax commissioner's office.
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Associated Press
Charleston
C. F. Johnston
Ansted
Tax Commissioner's Office
Fred L. Fox
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