O'Neil Urges Legion Plan to Aid Veterans Kin
National commander Ralph T. O'Neil asks Congress to back legislation aiding dependent children of hospitalized veterans and widows and orphans. He praises recent hospital funding, notes 6000 veterans needed beds last winter, and says loans under adjusted service certificates mostly helped those already borrowing. The Beckley visit featured a banquet and remarks from local officials and editors.
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American Legion
Ralph T. O'Neil
Legion
Congress
Commander O'Neil
Beckley
Charleston
Black Knight Country Club
O’neil
Hal M. Scott
Ed Blake
Ronceverte
Calvert Estill
Conley
Phil Conley
The
West Virginia Review
O'Neil
Argue Motion Before Ward in Browning v Tolley
Attorneys for Lina Browning contest the February circuit court verdict against Cover Tolley, seeking to set aside a $15,416 judgment. Ashton File argues insufficient protest to Tolley’s speed after a September crash that allegedly impaired Browning’s health. Ben Ashworth counters for the plaintiff. The court adjourned for recess.
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Lina
Tolley
Ben Ashworth
Argum Orthen
East Gulf Lad Loses Finger on Merry-Go-Round
John B. Brooks age ten son of J R Brooks East Gulf had his left ring finger crushed off and the nail torn from the little finger on the same hand while playing near home yesterday evening. He was treated at Beckley hospital and sent home. A stick he held tangentially got caught between his hand and the machine as the merry-go-round rotated, striking a stationary object.
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John B. Brooks
J. R. Brooks
East Gulf
Beckley
Kidds Bill Before Local Court in Sheriff's Shortage Dispute
Former Sheriff Isaiah Kidd faces a county court petition to credit sums between 819,000 and 12,000 against an alleged 59,181.72 shortage. Attorneys for Kidd presented 115 bills with affidavits, many sworn by Kidd, to have those amounts credited as miscellaneous sheriff expenses. The county court rejected the bills and deferred action, noting uncertainty on proper steps, with continuation announced on page two.
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Isaiah Kidd
Kidd
D. J. Harless
L. B. Legg
Sherif
A. O. Smith
Sunday baseball law abandoned in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg May 20 The drive to legalize Sunday baseball in Pennsylvania is dead. The Denning bill granting local option was killed by the senate committee on law and order which voted to postpone it indefinitely. Governor Pinchot opposes changes to the Blue Laws of 1794.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Denning
House
Senate Committee On Law and Order
Senate
Pinchot
Ward Delays Ruling on Kidd Demurrer in $50,000 Shortage Case
Judge C M Ward in circuit court deferred ruling on a demurrer to the declaration by Isaiah Kidd former sheriff and United States Fidelity in Raleigh county against the county court seeking about 50 000 for alleged shortages in Kidd s accounts The judge said he would issue an opinion tomorrow Also Judge Ward signed a divorce decree in the case William E Peary versus Sheila Petry granting a divorce at the term opening.
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C. M. Ward
Raleigh
Isaiah Kidd
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Hearing Not Delayed In Cannon Inquiry Says Senate Leader
Senate investigation into Bishop James Cannon Jr. funding in 1928 will not be postponed beyond September 18 due to statute of limitations. Chairman Nye rejected Cannon's request to delay hearings to September 20, citing the need to meet the Senate’s investigative obligations despite personal engagements and missing testimony from Ada Burroughs.
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Associated Press
Washington
James Cannon Jr
Senate
Nye
Senate Investigating Committee
Methodist Episcopal — Church South
Senate Committee
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Bishop Cannon
Virginia
E. C. Jameson
New York
Senator Nye
Jameson
Ada L. Burroughs
Pilot Ruth Nichols Plans Trans Atlantic solo flight
Jersey City May 20 Ruth Nichols will attempt a solo crossing of the Atlantic within a week Col Clarence D Chamberlain announces The takeoff point is Creyvers Point Jersey City before leaving the American coast at Harbor Grace Newfoundland The target is Croydon Field England or beyond
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Associated Press
Jersey City
N. J
Ruth Nichols
Atlantic
Clarence D. Chamberlain
Miss Nichols
Creyver’s Point Airfield
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Croydon Field
England
Withrow Sermons Draw Crowds At First Baptist Church
Rev. Pat B. Withrow spoke to an interested audience at the First Baptist Church on Mothers. The series continues with Young People's Night this evening and Miners Night on Thursday with delegations from mining towns near Beckley. A 1:30 p m service is planned in MacAlpin tomorrow, and Friday is Children's Night.
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Pat B. Withrow
First Baptist Church
Beckley
MacAlpin
Saw blades found in jail cells trigger lockdown
Fred Dunkley and Lewis Aliff, county jail inmates, are in solitary after a search uncovered three hacksaw blades. Earlier they were charged as ring leaders in a jail break plot once blades in a window frame prompted guards to discover sawed steel bars near a ventilator shaft. Jailer A. M. Godbey said troopers investigated the second floor cells and recovered a 10 inch blade in Dunkley’s drain and two blades in Aliff’s cell. Dunkley awaits grand jury action on a robbery charge. Aliff is held for federal authorities.
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Fred “Red” Dunkley
Lewis Aliff
A. M. Godbey
Aliff
Dunkley
Beckley
Federaal
Former track star Morrison dies in Columbus hospital
Morgantown May 20 Okey J Morrison Jr 26 son of Morrison department stores owner and former West Virginia University track star died today in a Columbus Ohio hospital He captained the 1927 WVU track team and held state records in high and low hurdles He had managed a Columbus store opened by his father after a Fairmont posting and became ill in February Parents Mr and Mrs Okey J Morrison reside in Charleston
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Associated Press
Morgantown
Okey J. Morrison, Jr
Morrison
Department Stores
West Virginia University
Columbus
Ohio
Fairmont
Okey J. Morrison
Charleston
Local Guard Units Camp During July
Adjutant General Carlton C. Pierce announced the annual encampment of the 150th Regiment, West Virginia National Guard, will be at Camp Conley near Point Pleasant from July 19 to August 2, and the 201st Regiment at Camp Dawson near Kingwood from August 2 to 16. He noted potential unit shifts among the 150th, including moving the Second Battalion Headquarters from Beckley to Charleston, the Service Company from Welch to Beckley, and the Rifle Company from Princeton to Welch. Headquarters already in Charleston may be consolidated there, with War Department approval sought if decided.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Carlton C. Pierce
150Th Regiment
West Virginia National Guard
Camp Conley
Point Pleasant
Camp Dawson
Kingwood
Pierce
William F. Eubank
Beckley
Welch
Princeton
War Department
Market Up in Early Trading
New York May 20 stock prices rose in early trading as bears retreated. American Telephone and Consolidated Gas gained two points along with Pennsylvania Railroad and Santa Fe. U S Steel Bethlehem Canadian Pacific and Dupont added one. Auburn jumped six while Allied Chemical slipped one.
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Associated Press
New York
Bears
American Telephone
Consolidated Gas
Pennsylvania Railroad
Santa Fe
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Canadian Pacific
Dupont
Auburn
Allied Chemical
Belief in Bottomless Hole In Earth To Be Given Test
Dallas May 20 A SMU geology professor Dr Richard Meents posits a great bottomless hole at the Earth’s top. He argues a zig zag path through the crust leads to the center with upwelling water fed by deep ocean fissures north and south of the equator. Meents bases this on ocean currents and hydrostatic pressure, proposing further testing by Wilkins submarine at the North Pole.
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The
Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Wilkins
North Pole
Richard Ommo Meents
Southern Methodist University
Great Ocean
Equator
South Pole
Weddell and
Ross Seas
Dr. Meents
Earth
Meents
Beckley Junior High winners announced for public presentation
Beckley Junior High School released names of students to receive trophies and cash for high scholarship. Promotion exercises at Woodrow Wilson High School start at 8 pm with cups for top boy and girl in each grade and ties resolved in seventh and ninth grades. Cash prizes from the Beckley Woman's Club include first prize of 5 dollars to Paul Lilly for Why I Want to be a Journalist and other awards. A Sportsmanship award will also be presented, with the recipient not disclosed today.
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Beckley
W. R. Fugitt
Woodrow Wilson High School
Fugitt
Lee Tait
Kenny Smith
Margaritte Laurie
John Laren
Cora Ann Miller
Hulett Smith
Hazel Miller
Margaret Smith
Beckley Woman's Club
Paul Lilly
Mary Anthony
Tom Hedrick
Myrtle Howell
Woman Testifies in Defense at Nixon-Nirdlinger Slaying
Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger testified in Nice on May 20 that she shot her husband Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger, a Philadelphia theater magnate, in self defense during a villa quarrel last March. A police surgeon said marks on her body indicated a struggle after her arrest. The record also notes UW track athletes Clarence Bledse and Merle Hufford as fast dash men.
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Associated Press
Nice
France
Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger
Fred
Philadelphia
Nixon-Nirdlinger
General Dunlap's Body Recovered Beckley Ford Caravan Arrives
A traveling Ford car show will visit Beckley this evening led by R. T. Bair. The caravan will display all Ford commercial bodies and run from about five to eight oclock, giving the public a firsthand look at the vehicles.
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Ford
Beckley
R. T. Bair
Ford Agency
Extra Duty Police Out In Capital
Six shootings and a hold up over three days spurred Washington police to deploy extra patrols. An informer, John Cunningham, was wounded entering his apartment rear door. Charles Garbett, nightclub manager, survived a shot to the lung. Robert Montgomery, who shot Garbett and Taylor, died by his own hand. Talley Day, a bootlegger, was killed in a speakeasy quarrel. An unmasked gunman robbed the Tivoli manager of 300 as police vow to press legal steps to curb the surge in crime.
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Associated Press
Washington
John Cunningham
Edward J. Kelly
Charles Garbett
Chantecler
Robert SS. Montgomery
New York
Boston
Jesse Taylor
Montgomery
Taylor
Garbett
Talley Day
Town Ticket Selected in Local Voters Meeting
At a well attended meeting in the Sophia school house last night voters chose the Town ticket candidates for the June municipal election. The slate includes Dr. L. D. Stoner the present mayor seeking another term, L Stone for recorder, and council nominees D. K. Daniel J. F. Hall Jess McElrath P. K. Polk and Elmer Roberts.
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Sophia
L. D. Stoner
L. ©. Stone
D. K. Daniel
J. F. Hall
Jess McElrath
P. K. Polk
Elmer Roberts
Kirkland Defense Opened in Miss Braves Killing Case
Valparaiso Indiana May 20 defense yesterday opened its fight to prove Virgil Kirkland innocent of causing the death of Miss Arlene Braves last November. On a defense motion Jude Grant Crumpacker dismissed a murder by attempted rape count and ruled Kirkland must be tried on only one of the two alleged attacks in the third count.
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Associated Press
Valparaiso
Ind
Virgil Kirkland
Arlene Braves
Jude Grant Crumpacker
Sty
Kirkland
French General Dunlap Dead in Loire Cave Disaster
Paris reports that Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap U.S.M.C. and Dennis Briant were buried by a landslide in a Loire cave near Tours. Briant’s wife survived after an emergency leg amputation. Mrs Dunlap witnessed the tragedy as rescuers brought bodies to Tours for return home.
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Associated Press
Paris
Robert H. Dunlap
Tours
Dennis Briant
Farmer
Briant
Robert L. Walsh
Edge
Washington
Pittsburgh
Marseilles
Manilla
Dunlap
Mme. Briant
Loire River
Hold Four in Money Racket
Secret Service agents captured four men in a raid on an East 95th street tenement for passing counterfeit money. Valciano Barbaro Giovanni Bertini Anthony Gouveia and Manuel Perieri were arrested after more than 55000 in fake notes were seized and over 20000 in New York area counterfeit cash was linked to them. Barbaro allegedly bought the bills in Buffalo paying ten dollars per hundred.
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Associated ‘Press
New York
Secret Service
95Th Street
Valciano Barbaro
Giovanni Bertini
Anthony Gouveia
Manuel Perieri
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Middle West
Barbaro
Buffalo
Jake the Barber Surrenders in $35 Million England Swindle
Chicago May 20 John Factor known as Jake the Barber surrendered to government authorities and was held for arraignment before a U S Commissioner. Once a cut-rate barber he is accused of swindling English investors and stock manipulation. British consul Godfrey Haggard signed complaints to seek extradition to London for trial.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Factor
Jake the Barber
England
United States
Federal
Godfrey Haggard
London
Weather forecast shows showers and cooler temps
Cloudy with showers this afternoon and likely in the east and extreme north tonight. Cooler tonight. Thursday expects partial cloudiness and cooler conditions.
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O. J. Morrison, Jr
Columbus, Ohio
150Th Infantry
Clarence Bledse
Merle Hufford
University of Washington
Ford Caravan
Capital
Jake
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