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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1933
Page
1
The NRA approves fair competition codes for steel oil and lumber, promising over 400000 new jobs and higher purchasing power. Johnson says the recovery drive advances while coal and automobiles await decisions and Ford faces a public hearing as talks continue.
Missouri voted for repeal of the eighteenth amendment by a large margin as returns from 1,810 of 4,126 precincts showed 265,550 for repeal and 79,723 against. Majorities swung wet in St Louis and Kansas City with minimal dry support, while many rural counties joined the trend.
Washington reports the recovery administration shifted to direct talks with individual operators to finalize a coal industry code. A single simple code based on 29 industry agreements aims for early week enactment, with open shop clause likely dropped and autonomy provisions debated. Leaders of the non union group met with administration counsel, signaling possible withdrawal of opposition to a code.
President Roosevelt travels by special train to Hyde Park after a busy week at the White House. He plans week two more at the estate and will return on Labor Day for full enforcement of the NRA codes. He reviews national recovery programs and considers rail labor talks and Tennessee Valley plans.
Washington reports West Virginia bituminous coal production for the week ended August 5 at 2,279,000 tons, up from 1,423,000 the prior year same week. Pennsylvania output fell sharply to 1,278,000 tons due to a strike, down from 2,060,000 the previous week.
Twenty captains will mobilize eighty workers for an intensive check of Bluefield firms under the blue eagle plan. Major divisions will appoint captains to organize four-man teams, with Ruth Rader and others due to appoint leaders next week. The operation starts August 28 with audits of firms suspected of NRA violations and an unemployment survey classifying jobless by trade.
Warrant sworn for Dr A G Rutherford former Welch Emergency hospital superintendent charged with grand larceny of state board of control equipment. Bond set at 5000 dollars. hearing scheduled September 15. Prosecutors say thousands of dollars of equipment missing found in Huntington locations.
Mark Etheridge, editor from Macon Georgia, returns from Berlin noting the Hitler regime's allure fading. He warns a dictatorship cannot endure under public laughter and stresses the need for Americans to focus on domestic priorities before world affairs. He supports collective security but backs London policy to address current issues.
Fred W McWane the Republican candidate for governor opened his campaign in Mauertown Virginia with a sharp attack on the Democratic organization. He said Virginia has made little progress in reducing illiteracy over the past decade and pledged to send to Richmond a reform group to "clean house" against what he called the Byrd machine.
A bus carrying thirty Elkhart county visitors to the Chicago fair and a heavily loaded van collided six miles west of South Bend, killing six and injuring a dozen. A Fort Wayne railroad crossing crash killed four Toledo travelers and injured two. Names of the dead include Wakarusa residents and Toledo and Princeton, Kentucky victims. coroner pins fault on the van driver.
Leo Frazier was sentenced to death for first degree murder in the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Roy Shamblin during a highway pistol battle on July 25. He is the last of three men tried. Ralph Harper was killed, and Harper’s brother Charles received life. Henry Cano faces a separate trial.
Virginia coal output for the week of August 5 reached 225 000 tons, up from 248 000 the prior week, while national production declined to 6 770 000 tons from 7 550 000. Hampton Roads loadings totaled 379 060 tons for the week ending August 12, against 356 358 the prior week and 277 643 the year-ago period.
Charleston W Va August 19 The public service commission fixed August 31 for arguments on a Virginian Railway petition to discontinue passenger trains between Princeton Mullens Wind ing Gulf Pemberton Beckley and Fireco A Beckley hearing was held July 25 One protestant is Bluefield Daily Telegraph Company
St Louis officials begin inoculating monkeys with the encephalitis virus to develop an immunizing serum as the city records its eleventh death from the outbreak. Dr J P Leake receives authorization to obtain animals and pledges Washington aid if cases rise.
Tulsa is shaken by reports that babies born out of wedlock were sold for adoption. State official Mabel Bassett says three physicians signed statements backing the claim and four babies were sold for 70 to 100 dollars each as hospitalization costs. She plans to push a new anti exploitation bill next session.
Miners at the Helen and Stotesbury operations of the C C B Smokeless Coal company voted to return to work Monday after a three day stoppage. Ben Williams of the United Mine Workers said the vote to resume was unanimous and that grievances would be taken up with a government investigator.
Richmond August 20 The Virginia extraordinary session will hear beer localization and prohibition repeal bills in joint committee hearings open to the public. The administration beer bill includes a $500 bond for beer licenses to deter bootleggers a provision Gov Pollard may press to keep.
A red cabin monoplane near Leipeic crashed into a marsh and buried under eight feet of water and mud after a midair lightning strike. Pilot Harold McMahon of Oyster Bay, aboard a Skylark plane, had earlier flown from Atlantic City headed toward Washington, but the wreck was not found at any airport along the route.
Harry P. Henshaw of Berkeley County resigns today as executive secretary of Governor Kump s public works committee to return to private business. Gov. Kump praises his knowledge, character and service amid the state s public works program. In Oklahoma, three youths are sought for disturbing Bethel schoolhouse worship by throwing a skunk into the building.
Governor Kump directs Francis Turner to survey local welfare boards and purge inefficiency while road crews are to hire from federal reemployment lists whenever possible. Bailey enforces policy across highway operations as a possible special legislative session looms in WV.
The city civil service commission scheduled a hearing for August 20 on J M McCue's election as head of the civil service commission and August 23 for R O Carter's petition for reinstatement as fire chief. The meeting at city hall also announced J K Sites resignation and the idea to fill the vacancy with Jeff Cartwright.
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