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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1920
Page
6
Mrs C D Cook of 1912 Whitty Street Houston says five bottles of Cardus relieved long lasting back and hip pain after marriage. She cites friends’ testimonials and recommends Cardul as a mild vegetable remedy for womanly troubles.
Paris reports a large group of deputies have introduced a bill in the chamber to impose stringent additional conditions on all companies in France its colonies and protectorates.
The state may audit transactions and correspondence and require accounts to be in French territory. Secret agreements are forbidden. Two thirds of company stock and two thirds of directors must be French. Managers have six months to comply or risk sequestration. In war, all plants may be requisitioned.
Boston, Dec 27. State fuel administrator Hultman said thousands in Massachusetts buy coal on a cooperative basis and many corporations are making purchases for their employees. He noted 500 Essex residents have paid 22 and 24 dollars per ton due to a market shortage. Dealers unable to fill orders push coal clubs to buy in carload lots at the mine. Some manufacturers resell coal at mine cost plus freight.
Springfield news reports the death of Clif ford Lean Sherman at a Springfield hospital from tuberculosis. The 45 year old former newspaper artist and author lived in several cities including San Francisco Denver Chicago Philadelphia New York and Boston and will be buried in Lincoln Illinois. He was a member of the Boston Ag Club and Boston Newspaper Club.
New York on December 27 opens with renewed pressure from professional traders as shorts move aggressively. Sharp declines in shipping, oil, steel, rail equipment, copper and other issues. about 700000 shares traded. Rails of better class showed strength lifting some values as earnings statements for November boosted those issues.
Butler Pennsylvania police chief E L Schultz said a nine year old boy confessed that he and two others knocked over a candle near the Christmas crib at St Michael Catholic church causing a straw fire. The church burned before firefighters could control it. loss estimated at twenty thousand dollars.
A Rome dispatch says a company of Alpini was ambushed and captured by Fiuman legionnaires after a ruse to lure surrender. Reports also claim the destroyer Espero joined D’Annunzio’s forces and was set on fire, while a Fiume citizen revolt was crushed by the regency government with bloodshed.
Mrs Muriel MacSwiney widow of Cork mayor was greeted by large crowds as she traveled through Springfield on her way to Worcester and New York. She appeared on the car platform and acknowledged the greeting. Her sister in law Miss Mary MacSwiney will address a mass meeting tonight.
Striking miners in the Rhondda coal fields voted to return to work pending talks between employers and the South Wales executive committee. The broader district strike persisted after one company refused to reinstate eleven men dismissed for alleged nonremunerative work.
General Pershing accepted an invitation to serve as grand marshal of the inauguration parade for President elect Harding. The selection follows the custom of having the army's ranking officer lead the parade. The telegram announcing the invitation came from Roslyn New York.
Louisville dispatch reports seventy Kentucky National Guardsmen boarded a train to Madisonville with Lee Ellison charged in Sheriff Scott Hunter’s murder. Adjutant General Jackson Morris said troops will protect Ellison during the trial set to begin tomorrow amid quiet conditions in Madisonville after the November 5 shooting during an attempted arrest for bootlegging.
Baltimore authorities issued a general alarm tonight for H W J Meyers a 20 year old crewman on the destroyer Satterlee after he allegedly absconded from the Norfolk navy yard with 72000 dollars. Government officials report the money arrived at the yard from the sub treasury via American Railway Express and Meyers is said to have obtained it in his duties as clerk.
The Harbor Boatmen Union rejected the six hundred independent owners 1921 working agreement and voted to strike January 1 affecting about 2200 men. The Masters Mates and Pilots Union with over 2500 members planned to join the walkout.
Supreme Court Justice Burr reserved ruling on Brindell's plea for a venue change in the multi indictment extortion case tied to the building trust. Attorney Littleton argued fair trial concerns due to publicity while Untermyer urged against removal citing press impact and alleged labor corruption links.
Rev Michael Balough aged 56 and dean of 35 Hungarian Roman Catholic churches in America died at his Cleveland home of pneumonia. He came from Hungary 25 years ago and served as pastor in Bridgeport Connecticut Pittsburg and Homestead Pennsylvania, regarded as a leading theologian of the eastern rite.
Hazleton Pa December 27 Thomas Kennedy president of the United Mine Workers Hazelton district and chairman of the general scale committee has been elected president of the Panther Creek News a new daily paper at Coaldale Miners have subscribed for the stock Michael Harmoady Nosquehon ing is vice president and John Guyer formerly of Philadelphia is editor
Senator France of Maryland condemned the deportation of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens the Russian soviet agent in the United States. He urged the government to follow Britain by opening world trade channels and argued Russian market access could aid American prosperity amid Russia's manufacturing deficit and the soviet government's buying power.
The United States district court in Pittsburg issued the order in the J. W. Thompson bankruptcy case and related actions by Piedmont Coal Company and others. The petition for preliminary restraining order was heard and argued by counsel.
The court notes unresolved determinations and other judgments with J. W. Thompson as defendant. It rules to issue writs of scire facias to revive those liens before the expiration of related judgments, provided they do not attach to bankruptcy trustees or name them as tenants.
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