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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
3
London reports the Dervish leader known as the Mad Mullah has reached Abyssinia with few kin escaping. British forces killed 60 followers including seven sons and four advisers. multiple family members were captured. Air raids, evasive retreats, and surprising sightings marked the long chase across the protectorate.
In Washington on December 1 the Arnstein trial heard from six to a dozen Wall Street couriers aged sixteen to nineteen. They described their daily duties delivering stocks and bonds worth millions through crowded New York streets, detailing the security transfers for D. W. Sullivan & Company and others involved in the case.
Restive unemployed in London’s Edmonton area seized the town hall today with several hundred men taking part. The occupation was nonviolent. organizers say the building will serve as a headquarters until housing and other demands are addressed.
The government faced a defeat in the Lords when Barons Cranmore and Brown carried an amendment to the Irish Home Rule bill proposing a southern Ireland senate. The vote was 120 to 36, aimed at safeguarding minority southern unionists.
Akron Ohio December 1 Seventh biennial prize competition for American composers will be decided at the National Federation of Musical Clubs convention at Moline Davenport Rock Island June 8 to 16, 1924. Hundreds of compositions were submitted with manuscripts due to Mrs Ella Smith of Columbus Ohio. State and district level contests lead to the national honors. Carrie Jacobs Bond Prize five thousand dollars to an oratorio. Other prizes include Violin Solo 150, Organ Solo 100, Cello Solo 100, Song 100, Chorus for Unchanged Children's Voices 100. Composers must be women and federation members. Endowment fund grows under Mrs Frank Gates Allen of Moline. Federation emphasizes service cooperation and hope for a music club in every city and state.
Experts report New York metropolitan area houses 6.75 million people with 54 percent using subways and elevated lines, 35 percent surface cars, and growth projections toward 9 million by 1946. Chicago and London patterns contrast while planners map 48 rapid tracks across Manhattan.
A long list of visitors and locals is noted with multiple Virginia and West Virginia towns represented. Miss Viola Fletcher, Miss Emily Wilkens, Mr and Mrs H W Bane, A D Beavers, Mr and Mrs Scott Litton, Mr and Mrs R W Liddle, R Buford Williams, Mrs E T Tyree, Miss Billie K Butner, Mrs C W Meade and sons Ernest and Charles Jr, Captain D H Barger, Worth Kilpatrick, Mrs John Greear and daughter, Mrs T J Murray, Mrs F A Farley and Patsy, Frank Moore, and F D Loudermann are mentioned in routine calls, visits, and business in Bluefield and nearby towns.
Toledo dispatch reports a clash between the Hoboes Union of America led by Jeff Davis and James Eads Howe's Brotherhood Welfare Association. Gus Gramer delivered an ultimatum warning Howe against expanding into real hoboes and promising trouble if local organizing proceeds. Delegates sent greetings to Charles Garland of Buzzards Bay who declined a 11 million legacy. The convention continues through the week.
The excerpt lists team members including C. S. Maxwell, J. M. Depue, Morgantown, Warren Gifford, Wallace, W. N. McClung, Hhipert, S. C. Hutchinson, Ravenswood, B. Butler, Huntington, L. F. Miles, Buckhannon.
At Camp Dix New Jersey a two story motor transport detachment barracks and headquarters burned destroying records and personal property. Twelve men on the second floor escaped by jumping from windows. no injuries reported. The blaze, likely from an exploding stove, lit the sky for miles.
New York December 1. The last obstacle to the joint legislative committee investigating the Building Trust was cleared when Supreme Court Justice Hotchkiss ruled the committee may retain possession of books and records seized at yesterday's hearing. He also denied Martin Conboy a stay to prevent recalling Joseph Penny, chairman of the organization, as a witness.
Indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburg on December 1 accuse Herbert Du Puy and George A. Turville of conspiring to defraud the government by filing false income and excess profits tax returns. Officials of the Crucible Steel Company of America are named. Government representatives say the tax loss runs to several millions of dollars.
Winnipeg reports an organized bootlegging gang uses airplanes to smuggle liquor across the United States border. Local police said the operations are being conducted with aerial routes and coordinated drops.
One of East Liverpool's largest bakery shops announced a two cent wholesale price drop for bread effective tomorrow. The 24 ounce loaf falls from fourteen and a half to twelve and a half cents, while retail prices shift from sixteen to eighteen cents to fourteen and fifteen cents.
London reports Baron Desborough died suddenly in Birmingham while delivering a speech at a dinner according to the Times.
Operations started at the Domestic Coke Corporation by product plant in Fairmont West Virginia. Ovens fired and production underway for coke gas and other coal products. Plant to manufacture over 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas and 600 tons of coke and refine other coal properties.
Morgantown WV December 1 Dean John Lee Coulter of West Virginia University’s College of Agriculture announced the state’s livestock judging team won first honors in Hereford cattle and sheep at the international livestock show in Chicago defeating competing teams.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets offer a mild fast acting laxative option to calomel for liver and bowel relief. The ad claims the pills support liver health without harming teeth or gums and prevent calomel related side effects while boosting energy. Prices listed 15¢ and 30¢.
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