Labor Struggles Roil Terre Haute and Beyond
Labor unrest spreads in Terre Haute with military presence and a general strike marking a sympathy action for 600 enameling plant workers. Boulder Dam workers stir in Nevada and Southern Steamship engineers consider a strike over pay. National guardsmen employ tear gas to disperse a crowd at a stamping mill amid ongoing labor turmoil.
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Associated Press
Terre Haute
Boulder Dam
Southern Steamship Company
Indiana
Las Vegas
Nevada
Southern Steamship Company Lines
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Camden
N. J
Durham
N. C
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Durham Hosiery Mills
Ind
National
Bookkeeper Held On Check Count
W. R. Harper, bookkeeper for Beckley Distributing Company, is held on $1,000 bond after waiving examination on forgery charges. He allegedly forged the name of Phil A. McDaniel to a $16 check drawn on Beckley National Exchange Bank. Three other forged-signature checks attributed to McDaniel were found. Harper was arrested Sunday by Constable Clyde McDowell.
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W. R. Harper
Beckley Distributing Company
Zach A. Petty
Harper
Phil A. McDaniel
Beckley National Exchange Bank
McDaniel
Clyde McDowell
Brakeman Dies In Slate Fall At Leesong Mine
Manuel Jones, a 26 year old brakeman, died instantly in the Tommy Creek mine of Leesong Smokeless Coal company when slate fell after a derailed car and displaced prop. No funeral arrangements had been made today.
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Manuel Jones
Tommy Creek
Leesong Smokeless Coal Company
Committee To Report On Guffey Bill In Day Or So
Secretary Perkins said a Ways and Means subcommittee would report the Guffey coal stabilization bill within a day or so. She noted labor officials are watching the soft coal situation and that the bill aims to create a "little N R A" for the bituminous industry to shape wage and hour bargains for eight months.
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Guffey
Labor
Ways and Means
Associated Press
Washington
Perkins
Labor Department
Congress
Relief Roll Of States Reduced
Partial discontinuance of work relief was effective in seven western states as governments sought to bring farm jobs and workers together. South Dakota recently joined the move by striking 19,000 family heads from relief rolls while farmers complained they could not hire men. Relief clients cited low harvest wages versus 40 cents an hour on federal works projects as a discouragement to work in the fields.
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Associated Press
Chicago
South Dakota
Lias Paid For Protection Claim in Tax Evasion Trial
Public accountant C. E. House testified in Bill Lias tax evasion case that Lias and partner Mike Russell explained payments of 5279.80 in 1931 as money for "protection" in the numbers selling syndicate. House said the explanation came from Lias and Russell as he classified expenses.
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Associated Press Elkins
C. E. House
Bill Lias
Lias
Mike Russell
House
Cardwell Draws Local Pictures in Beckley
J Elliott Cardwell, a long travelled sketch artist, visited Beckley to draw local residents and visiting celebrities at E. M. Payne and Company. He has drawn Will Rogers Marion Davies and William Powell from life and claimed about 60 000 sketches. He lives in Baltimore and has appeared on the Redpath Chautauqua circuit.
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J. Elliott Cardwell
United States
Alaska
Beckley
E. M. Payne and Company
Main Street
Cardwell
Will Rogers
Marion Davies
William Powell
Baltimore
New York Evening Telegram
Redpath
Stores Sponsor Canning Demos in Seven Towns
Koppers Stores plan a multi town educational program with Kerr Glass official Mrs Paris leading canning demonstrations starting July 29. Miss Florence Houghton aids. home ec questions answered. Demonstrations run by area with separate white and colored sessions across Long Branch Stamaford Union Hall Stotesbury Helen Glen White Pemberton Princewick venues.
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Koppers
S. Clarke Paris
Kerr Glass Company of
Huntington
Paris
Kerr
Florence Houghton
Koppers Coal Company
Long Branch
Stamaford
Stotesbury
Helen
Glen White
Pemberton
Princewick
Italy Drops Gold Coverage Under Wartime Finance Measure
Rome reports that Italy abolished its gold coverage for notes and deposits of the Bank of Italy due to urgent needs for payments abroad. A royal decree suspended the 1927 stabilization clause allowing coverage below 40 percent. Observers say Mussolini aims to fund East Africa military equipment.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Bank of Italy
Mussolini
East
Africa
Rookie state police ordered to report for exams
State police headquarters announced 26 rookie recruits must report Monday for physical examinations with enlistment in Company A in Fairmont to follow. Later this week 53 more recruits who finished a two month training will be directed to examinations and enlistment in Company B and the new Company C at Elkins.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Fairmont
Elkins
Convict Road Work In Wyoming County Ends
Sheriff Os well Cook disbanded the Wyoming county road gang today and ordered all convicts kept in jail after two escaped. He said he will not allow the men to work again until better arrangements are made to guard them.
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Associated
Four Arrested After Holdups in Ohio and West Virginia
Canton Ohio July 23 police questioned three men and a woman about a series of holdups across southeastern Ohio and West Virginia. One confessed to robbing a filling station and stealing a car. Suspects named Herbert McCoy 53 John McCoy 20 Simms 25 and Robert Wilson 27. The McCoys are jailed in Canton, the others in Carrollton. The girl allegedly, with Wilson and John McCoy, stole a car from a Wells ton garage, robbed a filling station for 36 dollars, wrecked the car, and tied a motorist to a tree before fleeing. They are also suspected of robbing a Point Pleasant grocery.
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Associated Press
Canton
Ohio
West Virginia
Herbert McCoy
John
Brewster
Georgia Simms
Robert Wilson
Wellston
McCoys
Carrollton
John B. McFadden
Carroll County
Wilson
Young McCoy
Wettston
McFadden
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Woman Arrested For Shooting At Husband In Charleston
Mrs Dell Myers is jailed on a charge after she fired at her husband at the breakfast table and accidentally hit her 16 year old niece Ione Milan. Hospital attendants say the girl will recover. A warrant alleges the wife is insane.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Dell Myers
Ione Milan
Myers
British Citizens To Depart From Ethiopia
London reports the British government advises the women and children of British missionaries in Ethiopia to leave the country today. The alert signals heightened concern for safety amid ongoing tensions as officials prepare to evacuate dependents ahead of possible further actions.
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Ethiopia
Associated Press
London
New Highs For Year Recorded In Market
Wall Street brief notes numerous new highs for the year in today’s stock market. Gains were led by Allied Chemical Union Pacific New York Central Pennsylvania and U S Steel as mining stocks and rails advanced amid notable realizing.
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Associated Press
Wall Street
N. Y
Allied Chemical
Union Pacific
New York Central
Pennsylvania
U. S. Steel
Ethiopia and Italy near rupture over birthday reception
Addis Ababa reports that a Tratian minister refused Emperor Haile Selassie birthday celebrations, potentially straining Italy Ethiopia relations. The emperor, aged 44, presided over a splendorous event as a pro American demonstration gathered outside. The U S envoy William Perry George arrived to cheers.
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Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Tratian
Haile Selassie
Italy
Ethiopia
William Perry George
United States
Two Officers Sued By Webb After Arrest
Trap Hill district constables S. H. Wheeler and W. A. Lester were named defendants in suits filed yesterday seeking $3,500 damages from each officer and their sureties. Albert Webb claims illegal arrest on a drunken charge and that he was beaten by the officers.
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S. H. Wheeler
W. A. Lester
Trap Hill
Albert Webb
Webb
Rubush Home First In Beckley Air-Conditioned
R. K. Rubush near Woodlawn and Park avenues builds a six room brick house with a full air conditioning system for winter heating and summer circulation. L. B. Phillips is constructing it with intakes and outlets in every room and a Combustioneer Furnastoker furnace in the basement. The system filters 95 percent of dust and costs slightly more than a hot water heat setup.
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Rubush
Beckley
R. K. Rubush
Woodlawn and
Park Avenues
Raleigh
L. B. Phillips
Lobby Probe Is Being Speeded
Washington July 23 testimony to the senate lobby committee showed a message sent from York Pennsylvania opposing the utilities holding company bill was signed by a man dead about two years. Luther A Coleman York Postal Telegraph manager testified that 766 telegrams opposing the bill were sent from York and all but five had been paid for by the Metropolitan Edison company a subsidiary of the Associated Gas and Electric company.
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Associated Press
Washington
York
Senate Lobby Committee
Luther A. Coleman
Black
United States
Coleman
Metropolitan- Edison Company
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Three Held On Charge Of Theft Of Chickens
Ray Shumate of Wickham Basil Kidwell of Mount Tabor and Harvey Gunther of Wickham were held for grand jury action on breaking and entering charges after 24 chickens were stolen from Frank Huffman’s hen house on Wickham road early Saturday. Shumate held on $1000 bond with the other two at $500 each. The trio was arrested Saturday by state police.
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Ray Shumate
Wickham
Basil Kidwell
Mount Tabor
Harvey Gunther
Frank Huffman
Wickham Road
Shumate
Distillery Fire in Peoria Kills Two, Damages Soar
A massive blast at the Hiram Walker distillery in Peoria Illinois left two believed dead and about a dozen injured. Firemen and police sustained most injuries as a rack house burned and six million gallons of whiskey faced severe loss. Damage from rack house and related structures pegged near 500000 dollars, with destroyed liquor valued around two million. The plant lies near Peoria’s southern edge.
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Associated Press
Peoria
Ill
Hiram Walker
Frank Dornberger
John Barton
William Hulsebus
H. F. Wilkie
Astors Plan Cruise to Shield Newborn Son
New York July 23 The Daily News reports John Jacob Astor and his bride will sail with their newborn to guard the child from harm. Astor says they will guard the boy very carefully and closely against all sorts of things.
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Associated Press
New York
The
Daily News
John Jacob Astor
Astor
Pemberton Men Jailed for Armed Robbery
Preliminary hearings for Bill Cox and Everett Richmond, both of Pemberton, jailed yesterday afternoon on armed robbery charges. They allegedly beat and robbed R. B. Sampson, Pemberton telegraph agent, as he left the station. Sampson suffered a broken nose and facial lacerations and had his watch and three dollars taken. Police soon found the suspects at Shep Wiles’s home on Ragland Hill after Sampson identified them.
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Bill Cox
Everett Richmond
Pemberton
F. E. Lemon
Fred Cole
Zach A. Petty
R. B. Sampson
Sampson
Oakwood Avenue
Lemon
Cole
Cox
Richmond
Shep Wiles
Ragland Hill
Pemberton Station
Five Entered In Queen Contest At Lilly Reunion
Five Raleigh County women compete for the 1935 Lilly reunion Queen title to be crowned Sunday afternoon at 1 30 at Flat Top. Hon Hugh Ike Shott will deliver the coronation speech as the top seller earns a silver loving cup. Maids of honor receive cups. entrants include Albanese Lilly Wood Wauhop Stroud.
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Lilly
W. T. Lilly
Lilly Reunion Association
Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield
Raleigh County
Anna Marie Albanese
Wilma
Emma Lilly
Beckley
Alma Wood Wauhop
Pauline Stroud
Crab Orchard
Lilly Land Company
Raleigh County Bank
Flood waters rise in Korea kill four and injure many
Flood waters reported in Korea today caused four deaths and several injuries as walls collapsed. The disaster unfolds across multiple areas including Tokyo listed in initial reports.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Korea
Jailed as insane on lunacy warrant shields mystery name
A man giving the name Jenny with unknown last name was jailed late today by Deputy Sheriff Howard George on a lunacy warrant. He was reported to be a former inmate of the county poor farm and had reportedly walked away from the farm several days earlier.
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Jenny
Howard George
Large Coal Land Sale Links Richmond Company to West Virginia
The Western Pocahontas Corporation of Richmond Virginia purchased 5285 acres of mineral rights in Trap Hill district from G W Jones H E Jones and a Charleston trust company. Deeds filed in the county clerk office detail three transfers including 818 acres and 4467 acres. No immediate development plans were announced though title work was completed after months of abstracting.
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Trap Hill
Richmond
Western Pocahontas Corporation
Virginia
G. W. Jones
H. E. Jones
Charleston Trust Company
Glen Daniel
Tolley Home Place
Marsh Fork
Virginia Corporation
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Marsh Fork Coal and Land Company
Joneses
May L. Jones
Central Trust Company
Charleston
Richemond Company
Catholic Vets Group Dissolved by Prussia
Berlin July 23 The government decree dissolved the Catholic War Veterans organization in Prussia. Steel Helmets officials warn their group could be next. Goering, premier of Prussia, cited unity of the German people as the reason for disbanding the Catholic veterans association.
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Berlin
Prussia
Steel Helmets
American Legion
United States
Goering
Swiger Executed In Columbus Ohio Pen
Swiger, 21, executed in the Ohio penitentiary electric chair after being convicted of shooting Harold Fleming, 19, to obtain $14 for a trip to see Grace Mitchell. He muttered I am now ready but I will come back and prayed for Miss Mitchell.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
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Vatican
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Stahlhelm
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