Roosevelt Addresses Power Conference Bets on Prosperity
President Roosevelt returned to Washington to address the third world power conference with representatives from about 60 nations. He planned to push a button to start Boulder Dam turbines and spoke of a definite upturn in business, stronger farm and factory conditions, and many already back in the black. He noted limited gains in individual liberties and states rights while praising NRA as a contributor to prosperity.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Charlotte N. C
White House
Union Station
Boulder Dam
Charlotte
Supreme Court
NRA
Asheville
N. C
Great Smoky Mountains
Grove Park Inn
Sunset Mountain
Girl Gets New Trial For Murder of Father
New York James A Farley appoints P D Koontz of Charleston W Va as chairman of West Virginia s council of Roosevelt electors Koontz named finance director of the party s drive for funds in the state Robert F Sikes a divisional finance director will confer with Koontz in Charleston Monday on organization policies.
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Associated Press
New York
James A. Farley
P. D. Koontz
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Council of
Roosevelt
Koontz
Robert F. Sikes
Virginia Supreme Court Grants New Trial In Maxwell Case
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Edith Maxwell, 21, sentenced to 25 years for her father Trigg Maxwell's 1935 murder in Wise County Pound. Bail denied. Maxwell has been jailed since July 21, 1935. The defense cites insufficient evidence. the father was allegedly drunk during a family quarrel when she struck him with a high heeled slipper. The Commonwealth asserts deliberate slaying from long standing enmity.
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Associated Press
Staunton
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Edith Maxwell
Wise County
Miss Maxwell
Trigg Maxwell
Pound
The
Commonwealth
Germany Starts Russian Drive
Germany mounts a major anti Soviet campaign as 400 war planes roar over the front. Nazi agricultural head Hermann Reischle denounces Soviet exploitation of peasants and Jewish parasites while praising Hitler's policy for German farmers. He warns of Soviet famines and social ills said to come from Bolshevism.
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Associated Press
Nurnberg
Ger
Nazi Germany
Hermann Reischle
Hitler
Six Held For Murder Probe in Peoria Case
Six men were in custody as police hunted a motive in the slaying of 63 year old McEwan Tennessee farmer John Richardson. His body was found under a bridge with head battered and pockets empty. A letter from E. V. Champion surfaced during the inquiry.
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Peoria
Ill
John Richardson
McEwan
Tenn
James Harrison
Nussbaum
Landon Heads to Maine on Campaign Train
Governor Alf M. Landon leaves for Maine aboard campaign train bound for the presidential battleground. He told newsmen he is confident Maine will lead to a Republican victory and a restoration of good government in Washington as he pursues electoral votes between Illinois and Maine.
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Associated Press
Landon
Maine
Alf M. Landon
Illinois
Washington
Machinist Hurt in Mine Mishap
Clayton Cole, 21, a Glen Rogers machinist, was hospitalized in Beckley with a severely injured leg after a mine car wreck. An attache said Cole was cut and bruised in the incident.
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Clayton Cole
Glen Rogers
Beckley Hospital
Cole
Health Worners Study Dairies Pasteurizing Plant Visit
Gilbert Kelso director of engineering training at the public health training center inspected the pasteurizing plant at Lewisburg with Dr. Rex Burdette and two sanitary engineering students. They collected samples from individual dairies for instructional use.
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Gilbert Kelso
Public Health Training Center
Lewisburg
Rex A. Burdette
Morgantown
Edward Carroll
H. D. Martin
Parkersburg Boy Stricken With Infantile Paralysis
Doctors in Parkersburg report nine year old Eugene Mitchell paralyzed by infantile paralysis, the third Wood County case this summer, highlighting a local health concern and ongoing outbreak.
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Associated Press
Parkersburg
Eugene Mitchell
Wood County
Miner Held for Family Support Notice
Lester Gil, 24, an Eccles miner, was jailed today awaiting a hearing on a non support charge. He said he was seeking work when Constable Earl Smith arrested him. The warrant was sworn before Magistrate Howard Stone at Eccles.
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Lester Gil
Eccles
Gill
Earl Smith
Howard Stone
Miners Ok a Check Off to Equip Sanitarium
Whitesville health officer Dr. R L Hunter announced miners from five coal companies will contribute a yearly $2 check off their pay to fund Boone county sanitarium equipment. Detroit mines on Pond Fork will pay $3 annually. Groundwork already begun by well diggers as mine superintendents and local union presidents join the sanitarium board. The association aims to raise 7000 to 10000 dollars. Dr Hunter said he would address a teachers meeting tomorrow to drum up support.
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Register
Whitesville
R. L. Hunter
Boone County
Detroit
Pond Fork
Sanitarium Association
Hunter
Circuit Court Session Closes With $300 Suit
A Raleigh county circuit court August term session ended with a $300 verdict for Nancy Lou Marrs against C R Blevins after a day of non jury defense. Blevins did not appear or offer evidence. Marrs sued for injuries from a February automobile accident at Helen. Judge Ward to reconvene at 1 30 p m. Jurors to be dismissed as checks prepared. Remaining chancery and motion matters to be settled before adjournment.
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Nancy Lou Marrs
C. R. Blevins
Miss Marrs
Helen
C. M. Ward
John Ward
Lawyers Reject Lilly Reinstatement Petition in Raleigh County
The Raleigh County Bar Association reports unfavorably on Charley Lilly’s petition for reinstatement to the bar. A majority of 33 attorneys at a meeting voted against lifting his disbarment linked to a 1931 felony conviction over a disputed land title at Stanaford. The court sent the petition back for local recommendations before a final ruling. Lilly served part of a two year term in Pocahontas County Court for misrepresenting a land title.
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High Mn
Raleigh County Bar Association
Supreme Court
C. L
Charley) Lilly
Bar Association
Charley Lilly
Lilly
McGinnis, Ashworth, and
Mann
Maxwell
Pocahontas County
Summers H. Sharp
Raleigh County
Stanaford
Train Hits Bus Injuring Three at Blair
A Webster Springs railroad locomotive crashed into a rear of a bus at Blair injuring three passengers. A 3-year-old girl Maxine Barker of Millers Mill Run was critically hurt and likely to die. A nine-year-old boy and the bus driver Earl Lowry were also injured. The bus operates on tracks of Richwood Pulp and Paper and Cherry River Boom and Lumber companies.
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Associated Press
Webster Springs
Blair
Maxine Barker
Millers Mill Run
Earl Lowry
Richwood Pulp and Paper Company
Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company
Meningitis Case Investigated by County Health Nurses
County health nurses were at Beaver today investigating a case of meningitis. Miss Beulah Ann Graybeal planned a home isolation demonstration for the family and they visited homes in Terry and on the Harper road where scarlet fever was reported. A follow up typhoid clinic was held at Big Stick from 1 to 3 p.m. Miss Graybear was assisted by Miss Corrine Bogert.
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Beaver
Beulah Ann Graybeal
Terry
Harper Road
Big Stick
Queen Victoria of Spain sails to New York amid son’s illness
The former Queen Victoria of Spain sailed toward New York to visit her ill son the Count of Covadonga in a hospital. She traveled with Princess Torlonia and other relatives. the voyage reportedly prompted by Covadonga’s illness after a path through family sources.
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Associated Press
Nice
France
Victoria
Spain
New York
Count of Covadonga
Torlonia
Alfonso
Covadonga
Doctors Meet Here Tuesday Postgraduate Conference
Physicians from six counties Fayette Boone Wyoming Summers Greenbrier and Raleigh attend a five day Postgraduate clinical conference for doctors in Beckley starting Tuesday At 7:30 a.m in the Memorial building lectures will be given on pediatrics by Dr Raymond Sloan of Huntington Charles G Morgan president of the State Medical Association says a similar obstetrics course will be held next year if this session succeeds.
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Beckley
Public Health Office
Fayette
Boone
Wyoming
Summers
Greenbrier
Raleigh
Memorial Building
Raymond Sloan
Huntington
Charles G. Morgan
State Medical Association
Driver Charged With Intoxication
Byron Woodruff, 26, a telephone office employee, was jailed on a charge of driving while drunk. State Troopers Otis Kincaid and Tom Harrison arrested him on Oakwood Avenue. Woodruff said he had been chasing three men in another car on the Crab Orchard road. Squire Harvey Hancock released him on bond.
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Byron Woodruff
Otis Kincaid
Tom Harrison
Oakwood Avenue
Woodruff
Crab Orchard Road
Squire Harvey Hancock
Speedy World Cost The Life of John J. Ekey
Pittsburgh neighbors found 28 year old chemist John J. Ekey dead from a bullet wound with a note claiming the speed of life was too fast. A pistol lay beside him in his car in a garage, signaling a likely self inflicted death.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
John J. Ekey
Ekey
Mother's Flight Delays Executions in 1934 Wreck Case
Wallawalla Washington. A mother flew to Olympia to plead for a delay in the execution of her son Leo Hall 34 who was to hang for murder connected to a robbery at Erlands Points on March 28 1934. The warden postponed the hanging to 11 pm to allow one last visit amid pleas that blood of an innocent man is on the governor's hands. The article notes five others were killed in the freight wreck and the accused killer faced death by gallows.
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Associated Press
Wallawalla
Wash
Leo Hall
J. M. McCauley
Elizabeth Hall
Seattle
Olympia
Clarence Martin
Martin
Hall
Eugene Chenecert
Erlands Points
William H Harrah Dies At Residence In Glen Morgan
William H Harrah aged 82 died at his home in Glen Morgan after a two months illness of carcinoma. A Greenbrier County native, he was a former miner and timberman and later carried Raleigh Registers locally. Survived by widow Martha Ayers Harrah and many children and relatives. Funeral 2 pm Sunday at Glen Morgan church with Raleigh cemetery burial.
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William H. Harrah
Glen Morgan
Harrah
Greenbrier County
Raleigh
Martha Ayers Harrah
John Harrah
Murat
Clifton Forge
Melvin Harrah
Glen Morgan Church
Woman jumps three floors to death in Clarksburg
Mrs. Mary Koter manski, 41, a janitor in the old post office building, fell three stories to her death. Coroner Dr. Leroy C. Goff said indications are that she jumped in a successful attempt to commit death by own action.
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
Mary Kotermanski
Leroy C. Goff
School Board May Pay Travel Costs for Pupils
The county board of education, meeting today, approved options for Fish Hawk and Snuffer Branch pupils facing closures. Families may choose a three to four month term or board payment of individual transport to Abraham school, two and a half miles away. Similar terms offered for Hogan pupils. Several teacher transfers were announced including Meredith White to Stoco and Paul Billups to Old Eccles. Elementary placements were approved. a fourth grade at Ury was tabled with transport to Helen school planned. Regular meeting set for September 25.
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County Board of Education
Enos Gwinn
Fish Hawk
Richmond
Abraham
Snuffer
Hogan
New River
Summers County
Gwinn
Raleigh
W. R. Fugitt
Meredith White
Stoco
Margaret Rose Williong
WWHS
Bransford Wykle
Egeria
Paul Billups
Old Eccles
Carrie McClure
Colcord
Peg Jarrett
Beckley Junior Hi
Lanier File
Bill Shanklin
Robert French
Ruth Wray
Montcoal
James Hornbeck
Faye Harper
James Birch
Clyde Mankin
Eccles
Thomas J. Harper
Robert Mustard
Orville Burdette
Dora Bryan
Marsh Fork High
Betty Cubbage
Stewart
Rebels Claim Spain Government Amid Mallorca Casualties
Rebels in a self styled parliament claim to be Spain's true government as 2000 government troops were fatally harmed in a futile Mallorca incident. Concurrently Fascist rebels and the Socialist government report a new engagement at Oviedo while debates over Madrid drive continue.
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Spain
Mallorca
Oviedo
Deposed Agent to Quit Office in Fayette County
Mrs Rachel Thom as ousted county home demonstration agent says she will resign once cleared, plans to seek another Fayette county job. She alleges firing for no reason and says state and district extension officials have not replied. Thom denies accusations by county agent Miller that she tried to split programs. She notes Iowa State College officials were shocked by the ouster and that West Virginia University officials called the affair unfortunate.
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Register
Fayetteville
Rachel Thomas
Fayette County
Thomas
Agricultural Extension Service
W. Hayes Miller
Miller
Iowa State College of Agriculture Placement Bureau
West Virginia University
Canada Bars Bruno's Widow
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, widow of Bruno Hauptmann, barred from Canada for lack of U.S. citizenship proof, seeks a ruling from the Dominion government to permit return to Montreal. U S immigration inspector Emile Levin will question her and a companion on their return from a failed bid for Canadian admission. He suspects she is in the Quebec area incognito while awaiting appeal.
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Associated Press
Rouses Point
N. Y
Anna Hauptmann
Canada
United States
Montreal
Emile Levin
United States Immigration Service
Hauptmann
Quebec
Only One Victim Identified In Missouri Derailment
St. Charles Missouri reports at least five men killed when eighteen freight and oil cars of an M K C train derailed and caught fire twenty miles southwest of town. Rescuers fear several transients may have burned to death. A man found at the wreck identified himself as Walter Bragged, 36, of Columbus Ohio, with papers bearing the name. The other four bodies were recovered on the track hours after the accident as intense heat hindered the search.
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Associated Press
St. Charles
M.K. C
Here
Walter
Columbus
Boys Advance In Scout Rank Awards Given
Twenty three Boy Scouts in northwestern Raleigh county earned ranks and awards at the sectional court of honor held at Bunice Scout Cabin last night. Earl Spears moved from tenderfoot to second class, while Jimmie Reed Billy McKnight Robbie Williams James Harris and Cassie Campbell, all of Troop 89, became first class scouts. Star awards went to Jack Reed Gordon Harris Earl Williams Ward Webb of Troop 89 and Vance Price of Troop 92. Merit badges were earned by Gordon Harris Jack Reed Ward Webb Earl Williams J C Broom Frank Long Clarence Reed Norman Perry of Troop 89 and Vance Price Eugene Moore Basil Legg and Claude Fowler of Troop 92.
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Raleigh County
Sectional Court of Honor
Bunice
Earl Spears
Jimmie Reed
Billy McKnight
Robbie Williams
James Harris
Cassie Campbell
Trop 89
Jack Reed
Gordon Harris
Earl Williams
Ward Webb
Vance Price
J. C. Broom
Frank Long
Clarence Reed
Norman Perry
Eugene Moore
Basil Legg
Claude Fowler
Mrs Powell Cook Dies in Charleston Hospital
Mrs Powell Cook of Logan sister to Mrs Tom Lewis and Mrs George W Williams Beckley died in Charleston General Hospital early today with Mrs Williams and Mrs Lewis present Services set for 1 30 pm Sunday at Athens Methodist Episcopal Church South She also leaves two more sisters Mrs Gertrude Sampson of Logan and Mrs W L Peck of New Hampshire
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Powell Cook
Logan
Tom Lewis
George W. Williams
Beckley
Charleston General Hospital
Williams
Lewis
Athens Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Gertrude Sampson
W. L. Peck
New Hampshire
Play Leaders Plan Autumn Groundwork at meeting
WPA recreational leaders meet in the Junior high school annex at 1:30 to discuss playground work for the fall season. Local organizers aim to outline projects and coordinate resources for autumn recreation programs.
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WPA
Profit taking stops Mart rise in midday market
After a mild morning advance the stock market cooled at noon as profit taking emerged. Leaders like American Telephone and Bethlehem Steel posted new highs for the year or longer before retreating.
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Mart Rise
Associated Press
New York
American Telephone
Bethlehem Steel
Weekend Weather Outlook Slightly Warmer Tonight
The forecast shows a gradual warmth tonight with Saturday generally fair and continuing warm conditions. Sunday brings showers or cooler air, signaling a change in the pattern.
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