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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1933
Page
13
A reflective piece tracing Christmas origins from winter solstice rituals to Christian celebration. It notes Yuletide links, the shift from birth to death observances, Santa Claus integration, and music as a core festive motive while highlighting universal observance and the sun’s return as a symbol of renewal.
The Associated Press notes a brightened U S Christmas as trees sag under gifts and funds from coast to coast fill food baskets. In Bethlehem and Vatican City, observances mark the season while Mrs Roosevelt and the President promote charity and a Dickens tale.</s>
In Manndeville West Virginia Governor Kump granted 97 pardons and paroles at year end, releasing 67 inmates. The last batch includes six pardons and two commutations such as Minnie Belle Redman from Mingo county and Bert Treadway from Fayette county.
Charleston reports the road commission urges motorists to apply for 1934 windshield stickers, valid for six months until July 1 when full licenses begin. A. G. Matthews Jr. notes half-year fees, 52 000 issued so far, 1 000 behind last year, due to motorists not listing 1933 tag numbers.
Dr L H Clark superintendent of Welch Emergency hospital and noted estate Democrat figure dies at 3 PM in Kyle following a paralytic stroke. Funeral Monday at 10:30 at Kyle home with a Masonic service, then burial in Peterstown. Clark chaired McDowell county Democratic committee and served on state and national party bodies. Born 1868 in Peterstown, he guided coal industry development and held high Masonic offices.
In Vatican City Pope Pius delivers his Christmas address to cardinals and bishops, condemning the German sterilization proposal and urging renewed prayer for peace. He cites the 1931 papal decree and Castii Connu bii, lamenting worldly conflicts and urging continued prayer.
Mr and Mrs Robert Gordon Switz deny police frameup in a Paris spy case. The 29 year old East Orange native and 22 year old New York woman protest innocence as four hour examination ends. They and eight others were arrested and a quantity of papers and apparatus seized. Their defense hires Deputy Henry Torres as counsel.
National weather forecast warns of zero temperatures and cold fronts as Danta plans a broad circuit ride. Floods and storms leave thousands homeless on the Northern Pacific coast. Generally colder conditions extend across the middle and eastern states.
The weather report outlines a blizzard from the North Pole through the western states to the central sunbelt, with subfreezing conditions in the north and a mild 70s along the Gulf. Forecasters warn of floods in the Pacific coast region, and a white Christmas is expected in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Snow fell Saturday with more expected as a sudden Montana gale pushed temperatures down sharply.
Santa Claus will ride a Western Air Express plane to Alta Bonner and her nine children near a government emergency landing field 450 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Pilots George Sherwood and Clarence Robey will parachute down with $100 worth of food clothing and toys. Mrs. Bonner, widowed years ago, keeps the field running on a $20 monthly stipend as planes bring news and occasional provisions from the outside.
Seattle reports 13 deaths and thousands homeless as floods inundate 15 cities in Washington Oregon and British Columbia. Rail and road traffic remain largely paralyzed with air travel the only remaining access in western Washington. Weather forecaster warns of continued danger while Olympia resident William Greenwood predicts a coming deluge and dismisses the current flood as a sign.
Controversy over whether Virginia liquor administration should be by a single full time chair or a three member board dominates discussions. Governor Pollard argues central leadership with one boss, while Sen John Wiggleson backs three full time members as recommended by the state liquor control commission.
Ernest Seymore a 19 year old Altoona basketball player confined by paralysis for fifteen weeks gains movement in his arms after doctors say he could. A nurse brings a Christmas letter from Franklin D Roosevelt.
Paris police round up ten people in an international spying probe. Among those detained are an American couple, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange New Jersey, and the former Marjorie Tilley of New York.
Hilton C. Crouch, 29, a Dillinger gang member, confessed to taking part in the Indianapolis Massachusetts Avenue bank robbery with Dillinger and Harry Copeland, about $25,000 stolen. A woman named Violet Barretta was held for questioning, and a tavern keeper linked Crouch to a pistol and a counterfeit bill. Copeland faced prior Chicago legal trouble after a November incident.
Marinus Van der Lubbe, 24, was sentenced to death for the Reichstag fire and high treason in a verdict that acquitted three Bulgarians and Ernst Torgler. Nazis protested the ruling as unjust while the acquitted defendants remained in Leipzig prison amid fears of threats and international diplomatic confusion over entry visas and travel.
Merchants across the Bluefield trade area reported the greatest pre Christmas trade in history with near empty counters and many selling out. Clerks and managers wore out by closing time as crowds swarmed streets and late night shopping continued, with Narrows and Princeton noting record activity.
Miss Marjorie Drexel, 17, daughter of Philadelphia residents, was found exhausted and shocked in a Nassau woods a day after she wandered from her mother on a rural road. She was brought home by police, treated at Bahamas General Hospital, and deemed not seriously ill.
Philadelphia dispatch reports Miss Marjorie Gould Drexel, 17, daughter of Anthony J. Drexel Jr., was found suffering from shock in a Bahamas wooded area after disappearing yesterday. The Drexel family, with estates in Nassau and homes in New York and southern France, were staying at Nassau at the time. Her sister Edith King Cram, wife of Henry S. Cram, and brother Anthony J. III, married to Helen Avis Howard, are also mentioned as part of the prominent family.
A fogbound collision near Lagny east of Paris between the Paris Strasbourg express and a local night train kills 165 travelers and injures over 100. Four rear cars telescoped, bodies laid out, rescuers aid survivors as toll rises.
The Southern Railway dispatch reports the Palm passenger train from Cincinnati to Jacksonville derailed near Powder Springs, about twenty miles north of Atlanta. Two crew members, the engineer and baggage master, were injured. no passengers were reported hurt. The train and cars were off the tracks and details were not immediately available.
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