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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
6
The notice details mail subscription rates by region and duration for West Virginia. It outlines prices for one year and several six sent mail tiers, with exemptions by distance and post office delivery. The document is dated Thursday June 1 1933.
Ambassador Sato signaled Tokyo would not accept a disarmament treaty preserving the 5-5-3 naval ratios US Britain Japan. Japan seeks greater relative strength amid American and British seas while endorsing a British US backed plan to curb aggressive warfare and convoy protections. The move may trade naval limits for concessions in China policy.
Arthur F E Ware of London, a former businessman and Bible student, declares Christians will ascend to heaven on June 12 and urges wealthy supporters to give to charities as the world ends. He warns of seven years of wars and plagues across Europe afterward. He claims to have spent about five thousand pounds weekly to spread the forecast.
English novelist Mrs A N Williamson arrives in New York praising American slang and predicting a 2,000,000 copy future while noting slang revival in films and radio. Governor Kump proposes a larger budget but campaign pledges hint at a leaner bill with cuts across departments. Mercer County faces scrutiny over a county hospital and a local poor farm with about fifty residents.
Frank Maynard named city attorney of Bluefield. Engagements announced for E B Fisher to Lettie May Schweitzer and Jay nette Traynham to Hoge Mason. Proclamation called June 26 gold anniversary of West Virginia. Louis Looney and Mary Kin singer wed at bride's mother home. Judge Johnston ill in Portland. Ten years ago today work began on Stovall building project. Former Northfork mayor Harry Rosen dies in Baltimore.
The fragment notes that no report had yet confirmed Mr Ware subjected to psychopathic treatment and suggests details may emerge after June 12. It preserves an uncertain, investigative tone without sensational language. The item hints at ongoing monitoring and potential future findings.
A poetic verse recalls rain softening in a southern landscape. The speaker imagines a familiar roof and barn hearing pigeons under eaves and the stirring of leaves. Spring’s banner clouds the plain beyond the sagging roof as rain falls softly today.
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs aims to save taxpayers up to 15 to 20 percent by reforming county and city purchasing. Miss Julia Jaffray says 1 billion is spent annually on consumer goods with 1.5 to 2 times that in waste. committees will survey systems with National Association of Purchasing Agents. The effort seeks broad public support and taxpaying relief. The Wheeling Intelligencer notes utility taxes and rate pressures, arguing utilities will bear much of any tax, not customers, and urging public commissions to resist rate hikes.
The piece argues public belief that taxes on utilities merely raise prices is flawed. It cites powerful lobbying in Charleston and cites The Associated Magazine on congress by reducing the three percent electricity tax to two percent for domestic use and one percent for industrial use, costing electric firms about 22 million dollars annually and industrials about 6 million.
Madge Bellamy and Pat O'Malley spearhead Hollywood first cooperative picture The Riot Squad financed and acted in without salary. O'Malley wrote the story and leads a detective team with James Flavin Ralph Lewis and Bellamy in key roles.
O'Malley argues the long theatre loop forces actors to wait for directors and casting offices. He urges independent production as the solution, noting its lower costs and easier sale to exhibitors during a period when films take six months to a year to circulate.
Prominent directors and writers push for profit sharing over fixed salaries. Frank Borzage will direct A Man's Castle without salary, counting on larger profits. Writers William Slavens McNutt and Grover Jones sign contracts for smaller salaries plus a share of profits. The Marx brothers also receive both royalty and salary.
In New York the city pursues retro trends with Uncle Tom's Cabin revived at the Players club and a return to games like whist and backgammon. Roller skates and old parlour entertainments mingle with modern devices as crowds flock to clubs and window displays.
The Parcheesi Association of America has a paying membership and a rules committee led by president Mrs. Melvin Fuller. About 20 members mail questions daily about a dozen recurring issues, with novel problems sometimes debated by the rules panel. This club adapts modern scoring, bonuses, penalties, and vulnerability akin to bridge, for adult play.
Mrs. Fuller notes many famous names as parcheesi enthusiasts including Edison Coolidge Lardner and the Wanamakers. The Union club hosts a controversy over a move as a blueprint of the situation is shared. Actors Clara Bow Raft Wynne Gibson Cooper Webb and dancer Clifton Webb join in, with a new rule allowing a chase that could cost you.
President Roosevelt asks Vice President Garner for immediate senate passage of a bill authorizing American participation in the international institute of agriculture at Rome. The move follows a House defeat on May 20 by 144 to 131 over an appropriation of 48 500 dollars for American expenses.
Washington bystander notes that Dallas congressman Washington Summers has completed a 20 year tenure in Congress starting with the 63rd. He is a longtime House member known for keeping a modest profile and for serving as chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Summers led impeachment prosecutions against Judge Loudberback and oversaw investigations into Judge Lowell, establishing himself as a constitutional expert.
General pain relief centers on acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin, with caution for sensitive individuals. Narcotics and anesthetics require physician prescription and are not for a standard home medicine chest. Antiseptics like iodine mercurochrome hexylresorcinol metaphen chlorinated soda and hydrogen peroxide are approved for first aid. gargles are not proven to destroy mouth bacteria. Boric acid solution remains a traditional home antiseptic.
A dense rundown of hourly radio programs across East Midwest Northwest and Canadian regions with station logos and times. Listings include music orchestras talk shows dramas and repeat cycles across coast to coast outlets.
A collage of stray notes quotes Farley on patronage city dwellers and a Smithsonian forecast of milder sun, plus jumbled witticisms about frozen assets jig-saw puzzles window screens and a lost thimble. The piece ends with a light etymology of deadhead from Latin.
Washington observers recount twenty years of banker influence led by J P Morgan over railroads banks and industry. Charles August Lindbergh pressed for the Money Trust investigation while Ferdinand Pecora drives disclosure of Morgan stock and loan beneficiaries amid a charged Senate probe.
Annapolis Md final exercises for the first class midshipmen end with a dress parade and prize presentations. Statton R Ours Jr of Moorefield West Virginia is to receive a bronze medal one of three Naval academy small arms awards. Tomorrow President Roosevelt will award diplomas to the graduates and about half will enter the navy or marine corps with bachelor of science degrees. A farewell ball is planned tonight.
Pittsburgh reports rising production demand as Gulf Refining initiates a 1 million dollar program to buy 152 large tank trucks. American Sheet and Tin Plate orders 12 hot mills for New Castle works to resume after 18 months idle. Shenango plant runs at capacity. Mc Cartney Selden adds five story tower at Bridgeville plant for new chemical product manufacture.
In Austin the Bexar county commissioners court ordered salary reductions for salaried county employees from 12 to 52 percent, while a group of workers lobbied against the proposed legislation.
Advertisement for B C relief stating it eases periodical pains in minutes. Claims formation by a registered pharmacist using multiple ingredients to target pains, colds, neuralgia, fever, and nervous distress without narcotics. Includes price 25 cents per package and availability at drugstores.
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