Colored lights decorate plane for Bluefield Christmas parade
Santa Claus will fly over Bluefield at 6 45 p m on Christmas Eve in a Pocahontas Air Transport plane decorated with tiny colored lights outlining wings and fuselage. Old Santa will inspect homes, then land at the municipal building to distribute presents from the Community Tree association. Entry closes noon December 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elec
Santa Claus
Bluefield
Pocahontas Air Transport Corporation
Santa Calus
Santa
Banta
Community Tree Association
Smokeless coal output climbs in Pocahontas and Tug River fields
Smokeless field production in Pocahontas Tug River New River and Winding Gulf rose through November 1929, edging total output to 52,817,009 tons, up 5,778,484 tons from 1928. Miner departures for holidays expected to cut December production. year end total projected near 21 million tons for Pocahontas and Tug River combined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Po- Saneatee
Tug River
Crostoelens
West Virginia
Pocahontas Operators Association
Norfolk and Wesern
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pocahontas
New River
Decker Hams and Local Holiday Offers Spotlight
Decker Hams are praised for double decker sandwiches made with famous Decker ham. Local ads promote Christmas gifts, special prices on Hoover and Eureka cleaners, and a charity ball by the Bluefield Lions Club at the West Virginian hotel on Christmas evening. A shooting match at St. Clair Crossing and a laymen’s club service are announced. Return packages from Mangus-Phillips shoe store are urged or face prosecution. Paul Tanner memorial note thanks supporters and funeral assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions’ Club
Bluefield Lions’ Club
West Virginian Hotel
Bill Barbera
Congress recess as Hoover program moves forward in Senate
Members of Congress begin a two week holiday recess as the Hoover administration pushes a $250 million public buildings bill and a Haiti study commission through the Senate after House approval. Tariff talks loom, with Smoot forecasting a February conference and wide Senate-House divergence on farm export debentures and relief riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Congress
Dill
Washington
Radio Commission
Senate
William 8. Ware
Pennsylvania
House
Haiti
Smoot
Finance Committee
Two Floyd youths released from jail
Floyd County authorities freed Graydon Bond and Guy Evans, both 21, from jail after they had been held since Thursday as material witnesses in the death of Freeda Bolt, a Willis high school girl. Bond and Evans are said to be close friends of suspect Burlen Harmasi, who remains jailed in Roanoke on a slaying charge.
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Floyd
van Dee
Graydon Bond
Guy Evans
Freeda Bolt
Willis
Buren Harmasi
Roanoke
Floyd County
Bolt
State highway funds unchanged for Bland Giles Tazewell Wythe
Virginia highway commission released final allocations with no changes to tentative distributions for Bland, Giles, Tazewell and Wythe counties. The panel approved specific sums including Bland 100000 and various Route improvements totaling 11826260 in available funds with district shares and overdraft notes.
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Virginia State Highway Commission
Bland
Giles
Tazewe
Wythe
Wytheville
Bland County
Bluefield
Pocahontas
North Tazewell
West Virginia Line
Nargons
Highway Commission
Virginia
Treasury
Gleste
Ee Salem
Lynchburg
Richmond
Eee
Séccevesss de
Fredericksburg
Wythe County Line
Bristol
Rose Hill
Big Stone Gap
Appa
Independence
Veioute
Damascus
Abingdon
Jonesville
Blackwater
Appanchla—Lawn Commissary
North
Tazewell
Fries
Freemont—Moss
Raven—Grundy
Bluefield-Pocahontas
Bluefield Pocahontas
Ntti
Dublin—Weat
Streets of Bedford
Anne
Lovers Leap
Weest
Oan
Mayo River Bridge
Stuart
Cruze
Judith’s Creek
Fincastle—North
Narrows—Weet
Floyd-Christiansburg
Christiansburg—Weat
Slusser’s
Gilles
Picture shop offers wide selection for every taste
For years the shop has carried a large assortment of pictures. War lick’s stock includes small prints and elaborate canvases such as a Grand Canyon piece priced at $20.00. Buy with confidence to match place and budget.
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Warlick’s
Grand Canyon
Calles Plotters Thrown in Prison Arrests Reported
The arrest sweep targeted followers of Jose Vasconcelos amid reports of a plot linked to the presidential race. General Calles’s security regime canceled a reception but continued with a public procession. Twenty of the detainees were brought to the capital from Tampico and Mexico City.
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Arturo Benignos
Tampico
Vasconcelos
Mexico City
Jose Vasconcelos
United States
Calles
General Ortiz
Mexican government reports thwarted plots and arrests
Mexico City announces the discovery of multiple plots against the government with 70 people under arrest. Twenty held for interior ministry actions after the alleged revolutionary plot. Thirty more arrested in the capital on charges tied to plans against former President Plutarco Elias Calles. A 20-member group of alleged international anarchists faces deportation after purported terrorist plans surfaced in Tampico documents.
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Mexico City
Element of the Interior
Pieo
Raide
Plutarco Elias Calles
France
Tampico
Will worker cures Wellsburg man hiccoughing after doctors fail
Wellsburg West Virginia December 21 A will worker William Miller 25 of Falls township relieved Suspects Counselman a Wellsboro photographer from three day hiccoughing after manipulating the throat with doctors sanction Counselman ill with pneumonia was said to be in serious condition at the time of relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsburg
W. Va
Cousus Counselman
Wellsboro
William Miller
Follawsbee
Counselman
Harry Skews
Miller
Hiccoughs
Abductor Faces Death by Hanging
Dorothy was lured to Arnold's home with a promise of 75 cents for gifts. She was assaulted and locked in an underground chamber where she was further mistreated before her abduction. Arnold explained he dug the cavern years ago to pursue personal magnetism and silence from family noise. He has since been divorced.
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Arnold
Dorothy
Stalin Celebrated on His Fiftieth Birthday in Soviet Russia
Moscow reports Stalin marked his fiftieth birthday as secretary general of the Communist Party. He pledged to devote all his strength and blood to the laboring class and world communism. Newspapers nationwide praised his leadership, and communist groups worldwide joined the observance.
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Moscow
U. 8
Stalin
Rebounding Sound Aims to Warn Pilots of Hazards
Los Angeles December 21. University of California physicist Leo P Delasco develops an aerial fog horn to sound warnings of nearby mountains and solid objects. The device would emit a sound that echoes from obstacles and measures distance for aircraft instruments. Guggenheim Fund provides 2000 dollars to aid development and Delasco has long worked on naval and motion picture sound devices.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Leo P. Delasco
Physics Department
University of California
Sos Angeles
U. S
Point Hondo
Dee
U. S. Navy
Delasto
Delasso
University of California, At
Wabash Official Approves Merger
Wabash officials back a merger that would create a one line route to the Atlantic seaboard and key eastern markets. The plan promises improved transport from the Midwest to New York Philadelphia and beyond, with through service proposals to Milwaukee and Kansas City.
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Atlantic Seaboard
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
New York
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
New England
Toledo
Norfolk and Western
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
Norfolk and Western Territory
Great Lakes
Baltimore
Kansas City
Warmer Weather Brings Relief to South States
A rising temperature eased cold conditions across the South with forecasters warning of snow and rain. Alabama Arkansas north Louisiana Tennessee north Mississippi and north Georgia were expected to see wintry weather by tomorrow night.
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South States
Atlanta
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mississippi
Georgia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ver Tooth
Southeo
J.S. Compton
Decker
Piuefield Building
Coal and Coke
Bluefield Business College
Upfield Avenue
W. H. Cunningham
Hoover and
Eureka Cleaners
Burgees Electric Company
St. Clair Crossing
Hamilton Hall
Bland Street Methodist Church
Mangus-Phillips
Paul Tanner
F. W. Dean
Elk Garden
J. W. Tanner
Jimmy
Bee
Schlossberg’s
Bluefield Furniture Co
Virginia Commission
County Line
James River Bridge
Buchanan
Roanoke—North
Rocky Mount
North Carolina Line
Roanoke-Floyd
Pulaski—West
Warlick
Raleigh Street
Eaeels
Russia
Leo P. Delasso
Wabash
Angus - Central Shoe Store
Princeton Avenue
City Auditorium
Mable Eye Stock Company
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