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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1917
Page
6
Charleston June 2 L J Hanifan state supervisor of rural schools says WV teachers lack a living wage and face poverty without relief. He notes many quit for higher pay, with some leaving teaching for clerical work or industrial jobs while urging state action beyond local levies.
Selective Draft report from Muskogee June 2 states a large reservoir that supplies Dewar Oklahoma with water was dynamited late tonight. The incident is tied to alleged secret opposition to the draft with Wewar named as headquarters.
Waldemar Kaempffert predicts in McClure's Magazine that future cities will segregate fast motorcar traffic from slow trucks with underground truck subways and separate sunny highways. The open, distant suburbs will replace crowded cores, slums will fade with even land values, and trains will largely remain in subways except for spacious public squares within the city.
In the Russo Japanese War a Russian eight gun battery held a level field behind a ridge, unseen by Japanese forces. The battery commander fired from a rear ridge while Japanese infantry repeatedly attacked, failing to locate the guns. When Geir fire lagged, Japanese heavy shelling targeted the spot, then intensified as the battery returned fire, keeping the engagement concealed through a long summer day.
Two women Martha Goe nig aged twenty eight described as an author and Rose Marie Stanier twenty one a student and a young man Alexis Sartorious nineteen were arrested in New York on charges of circulating anti conscription literature tonight.
The Daily Mail reports two British airmen were landed by a destroyer on the coast after surviving five days and nights on their wrecked aircraft. They subsisted on a fragment of chocolate as their sole sustenance.
The French submarine Circe torpedoed and sunk a large enemy submarine as it emerged from Cattaro, escorted by a torpedo boat. Air attack failed to harm Circe, which returned undamaged to its base in Paris via Rome.
John Armstrong Chaloner, represented by his attorney, asks the New York supreme court to adjudge him sane and competent to manage his person and property. He is still regarded as an insane man in New York.
June 5 plan outlines parade formation across Summers Raleigh and Federal streets with units from Pythias Owls labor civil rights and military age groups. Marshal leadership includes McAnany McCue S W Allen and H R Lee to speak at 2 PM in Federal Square with Vinton band concert and two half hour addresses by DPD French.
In Columbia Mississippi on June 2 a mob of about 100 white men and Black residents overpowered the jailer and removed Van Haynes and Prat Hampton, accused of killing Reece Johnson. Payne was hanged near a steel bridge eight miles south, while Hampton escaped into the woods.
West Virginia forecast calls for fair skies Sunday and Monday with mild temperatures. In Virginia, expect local showers Sunday then Monday fair with little temperature change.
Local advertisement urges readers to call No 14 for fast printing services. It highlights quick turnaround and accessible pricing for community needs.
John Sparks, nineteen, of Richwood, stands six feet four and a quarter inches and weighs 148 pounds, the tallest man to enlist at the Charleston recruiting station. Sergeant J H Elliott reports the adjutant general orders enlistment for the quartermasters corps.
Washington and June 2 Herbert C. Hoover urged an increase in the vegetable diet to conserve staple foods. He appealed to housewives stressing the Allies need for staples and the country’s likely winter demand. Vegetables including potatoes comprise only a small share of Americans’ diet.
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