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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1929
Page
4
The downtown Bluefield business area lit up last night with Christmas lights. Banks mailed out $150 in Christmas savings checks while decorations around the municipal building begin, and merchants report heavy shoppers as snow disappears from streets attracting crowds.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that sellers and buyers of intoxicants are equally liable under the bone dry liquor law. Justice Virgil Bouldin reversed the Court of Appeals, holding that receiving or possessing liquor is a misdemeanor regardless of how obtained, including manufacture gift or purchase.
Mrs Irene Gray aged 43 of Wheeling is reported to have shouted for a policeman before swallowing poison in Wheeling on December 5. The incident details are limited in the fragment.
Public notices and local ads list church services at Fairview school building and furnace repairs at College Avenue Church. Includes Xmas Savings Club offer by Bluefield Building and Loan, sale by Joyce Company, beauty salon promotions, turkey dinner at Trinity church, and college enrollments. Also funeral notices and Masonic/Templar meetings announced.
A woman collapsed on a street corner tonight after telling a policeman she was taking con. She was hospitalized in critical condition. Officers found a vial of poison tablets on the sidewalk near where she fell.
Tobacco averaged $20.50 a hundred pounds at Huntington warehouses on the second day of sales. G. D. Thornton, president of Huntington Warehouse Co., said prices are expected to rise above average in the tri state region this year. The market runs until January 13.
Charles J. Shephard 77 retired Giles County farmer died at his Narrows Virginia home after a recent paralytic stroke. He is survived by his widow one son W H Shephard of Chickasha Oklahoma a daughter Mrs J P Asbury of Sebring Florida and a brother Edgar Shephard of Glen Lyn. Funeral services set for 2 30 Saturday at Narrows Methodist church with burial in Fairview cemetery.
President Hoover's mail contracts committee approves building twenty nine vessels at an estimated cost between 160 million and 175 million dollars. Four fast modern ships will join North Atlantic service with twenty seven to operate thirteen existing routes and two for a new Back Sea extension. Three potential new lines are explored from New York to French and Dutch ports and from San Francisco to Manila. bids to be invited around December 15.
Pittsburgh dispatch lists 27 Carnegie Tech players chosen to start Saturday for the bowl game against Southern California in Los Angeles on December 14. Starter positions span lines and backfield with players such as Highberger Sem dt Stauffer Carlson Dreshar English T Flanagan Fletcher Duncanis Tran Kennedy Rosenzweig Potts Verina Ewing Hower Pouncey Bketres Shekles Ziegler Armentrout McCurdy Eyth L Flanagan Karcis Morbito.
Warlick’s promotes a display of cedar chests suited for Mothers Daughters Sweethearts and youngsters. Lane cedar chests are dust and moth proof made of red cedar and priced from 17.50 to 60.00 with mahogany finished options and window seats.
Washington reports a broad reshuffle of Latin American postings by President Hoover. Nominations include Julius Lay to Honduras Matthew Hanna to Nicaragua Post Wheeler to Paraguay Roy Davis to Panama Charles Curtis to the Dominican Republic Evan Young to Bolivia H F Schoen to Costa Rica and John Glover South to Panama.
The cee minister to Guate ma President Hoover and Secretary Stimson have yet to select a successor to G A Bading, minister to Ecuador, and soon they will need a successor to Ambassador Morrow at Mexico City.
In Belmont county Ohio a woman matching Mrs Beecher Crouse of Utica New York was found at the infirmary near St. Clairsville but officials say she is not Mrs Crouse. The woman named Elizabeth McCullough said she had been in Bellaire and in Tacoma recently. Mrs Crouse disappeared five weeks ago amid a mystery.
Washington reports a flying squadron of ten special assistant U S attorneys has been created to aid local officials in enforcing prohibition. They have assisted in New York, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and stand ready nationwide. The 1929 enforcement metrics show 56 786 prosecutions and 66 455 cases terminated with 47 100 convictions. fines and penalties total 7 476 340 dollars while 4 200 052 dollars were collected. Sanford Bates notes a prison population surge challenges federal courts.
He cited about a thousand such institutions housing prisoners and highlighted overcrowding in federal penitentiaries. Atlanta prison capacity of 1,712 in cells was exceeded at 3,777, and Leavenworth with 1,560 capacity held 3,723.
University of Pittsburgh athletic authorities advised a committee of the junior about postponing or canceling a post season game for St Marys. The report notes Pittsburgh's stance and ongoing discussions with the team and officials in December.
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