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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1925
Page
2
A compilation of local ads lists coal suppliers with phone numbers and prices, a late night barber shop, Georgia watermelons, grain and rental notices, grocery hours, and a Car wreck update. It also notes lawn party plans by Marianum Society and a WV coal yield project with New York money backing.
United States Marshal Workman and J. T. Akers took Roscoe Boone and Victor Munday to the national training school in Washington after their recent district court convictions. The two youths were escorted from the locality to begin their sentences.
The United States Coal Company emerges as a major consolidation targeting fifty million tons annual output from mines in West Virginia and Kentucky and additional capacity from the Smoke region. The new entity plans to aggregate to seventy five million tons per year.
Arrangements for the funeral service for J K Turner, a well known former resident of Peterstown Monroe county, who died in Roanoke Monday night when a car was crank started in gear, had not been announced late yesterday. Turner was widely known in Bluefield and vicinity. He resided in Roanoke at the time of death.
Tony Stafford former international board member of the United Mine Workers of America will finish his sentence at Moundsville state penitentiary today. An order of deportation awaits him and U S deputy marshals will take him to Bilis Island for removal to Mali.
Washington reported that funding talks for Italy's war debt to the United States paused after two conferences and are not expected to resume until after August 1. Italian commissioner asked for more data from Rome on Italy's capacity to pay as Marc Alberti leaves to supervise document preparation.
Miss Helen Douglas of Atlanta, a lawyer and war ambulance driver, was elected president at the fifth annual convention of the Women’s Overseas Service League. Vice-presidents span corps from Pittsburg, Havana, Cleveland, Denver, Bismarck, and Los Angeles. Keatelle Martin of Atlanta selected treasurer. Omaha, Nebraska chosen for the 1926 convention in June.
Morgantown June 30 West Virginia University athletics director A Stansbury said a Charleston statement from State Superintendent George M Ford about Dr C W Spears remaining as football coach is premature He noted no definite decision on Spears accepting Minnesota offers and emphasized that any contrary statements are misleading and unfair to Spears and the university Coach Spears has not issued any public statements.
Half the quota of 700 season tickets is sold with two days left in the drive. The Bluefield chautauqua committee plans opening events at the West Virginian Hotel tonight and Thursday at 5 pm. The program runs July 3 to 9 featuring So This Is London, Faust, Not So Fast, Ruth Bryan Owen, Jess Pugh, and the Jackson Jubilee Singers.
The American Glass Workers Union will celebrate adoption of a three shift day at the convention in Toledo. International President William P. Clarke appointed a special committee to push the plan as production rises and costs drop when plants run 24 hours.
Gordon Campbell, Montana old man, indicted by a federal grand jury in Spokane on devising schemes to defraud the public by claiming firms he led possessed land with no title. District Attorney Ben F. Kiser said the DOJ aims to try Campbell here after his Montana conviction appeal is resolved. He was charged with using the mails to defraud. The grand jury was dismissed.
About one hundred men stormed the Port Morien customs house in Nova Scotia destroying windows with rocks and seizing forty three kegs of liquor seized at Long Beach. Masked raiders forced guards to surrender amid anti seizure sentiment.
New York on June 30 reports WGBS directors announced a permanent link with WMAF South Dartmouth Mass. WMAF, now with a new power plant, reaches 2 500 watts peak. The first program will broadcast prize fights from the Polo Grounds Thursday night.
Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire, newly elected Wisconsin Bar Association president and former state senator, announced from Eau Claire that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Robert M. La Follette.
An appeal was filed in the state road commission case against Dr. David Littlejohn Bluefield public health director and A G Rutherford city building inspector charged with violating state road law on free licenses. C P Claytor’s charge was dismissed. A $10 fine was set for Littlejohn and Rutherford.
Frederick Roy Martin formerly AP general manager will become vice president and general manager of D. Appleton & Company. He gains a stock stake and joins executive committee with Howard C. Smith John C. Hillman and L. W. Sanders. Martin, Harvard 1893 graduate, was Providence Journal editor and AP executive before resigning last April.
Dr. George W. Rappleyea, in Dayton, Tenn, denies origin of the Scopes evolution test case for publicity. He says there was no ulterior motive and reports alleging he originated the case are unfounded. He notes he acted as prosecutor initially and only aimed to test evolution law.
Pittsburg June 30 Albert B Burris age fifty two a police lieutenant died after excitement during a chase when two negroes fired revolvers at him He fell and was believed shot Physicians found no wounds and said death due to heart disease aggravated by excitement Burris and two patrolmen had been called to a summer closed home of D H Hostetter thieves inside the house The two pursuing suspects were captured afterward
Secretary Herbert D May announces a large Virginia West Virginia turnout for saddle class events and Old Virginia Tournament. Prominent entries from Bland and Giles counties join ladies riders and a full program including baseball sham battle and fireworks at Bluefield fairgrounds. The city will close for a citywide holiday with Legion booths serving refreshments and events throughout the day.
A moving picture program featuring Poli Negri in Forbidden Fruit will be shown at 8 o clock in the Bluefield Colored Institute auditorium. The event is organized by the institute's entertainment committee for summer students and others. The Paramount production stars Negri with Rod La Rocque Adolphe Menjou and Pauline Stark. Aesop's Fables will precede the main reel, with special vocal and instrumental music by a hired orchestra.
Dr. R. T. Webb pastor of St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal church South in Clarkeburg announces Fathers Day service on the first Sunday in July with sheaves of wheat and clover blossoms as floral décor. He links Fathers Day to the wheat harvest and views the father as the bread winner of the family.
Maine June 30 governors conclude the seventeenth annual conference with an executive session planned for tomorrow morning The day’s topics included federal and state powers cooperative marketing agriculture prison administration and state-made goods A banquet for the visitors was hosted by Governor Ralph C Brewster and Mrs Brewster President Coolidge sent two messages acknowledging the presidents ill father and regrets he cannot attend the sessions
At Cedar Point Ohio on June 30 the Lions Clubs opened their ninth annual convention with Helen Keller delivering a speech. Three thousand delegates and guests cheered Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy. The group adopted a resolution pledging cooperation to raise the two million dollar fund for the American Foundation for the Blind.
Prof. B. H. Pershing head of Thiel College history department in Greenville named temporary president to succeed Dr. Carl A. Sundberg who resigned effective July 1. Announcement came from Rev. J. L. Miller, chair of the college board. Sundberg had criticized trustees for irregularities at a Pittsburg synod meeting in Erie last week. Synod approved 18000 for general expenses. The note of a steamship crossing from San Francisco in 1867 appears in the text.
New York June 30. Constance Schack Gracie, widow of Archibald Gracie, appeals to Washington police to find her 32 year old husband Humberto Aguirre de Urbina who disappeared after a hotel party two weeks earlier. Urbina claimed Chilean embassy ties but is not a diplomat, her lawyer says.
Mrs Urbina reports charges against her husband who allegedly locked her in Washington and fled. They wed in this city on 1 April 1924, Gracie supplying a year's wages and Urbina listing his occupation as foreign translator as investigators search New York eateries for him.
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