John Marshall Society Wins Interclub Debate at College
The John Marshall Society won the seventh annual intersociety contest at the college by one point over the Virginians. Declamation and reading events were won by the Virginians. Judges, program for graduation day, and awards followed the contest with Wagner named best debater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Marshall Literary Society
Jd College
Virginians
M. Louthan
Ree Os
Jane Mars Society
Clay Sweet
Elyria
Ohio
Wagner
Bluefield
Forrest J Lennig
Marshall
Mies Loulee
W. Va
Jaw Society
Charles Vernon Hill
Mise Kersey
Leslie 58
Charles
Elizabeth Ersey
Marin
Miss Louise
Clayton D. Sweet
Iss Virginia Wagner
Leslie Graig
D. Moody Bailey
Craix
D. Moody Ley
John Marshall Society
Mies Virginia Wagner
Joyce Jewelry Company
M. 8. Cushman
Concord College
Er. W. Miler
Tazewell High School
Virginia
Edwin Pox
James Jimer Brown
Resignation Aide Moves to Aviation Counsel Role
RS Mabel Walker Willebrandt resigns as assistant attorney general effective June 15 to become counsel for Aviation corporation. She flies with Pilot S P Gilley from Durant Oklahoma to Waco Texas in a Texas Air Transport plane owned by Aviation corp. She delivers the Baylor commencement address in Waco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States
Aviation Corporation
S. P. Gilley
Durant
Okla
Waco
Tex
Texas Air Transport
Baylor University
Copeland Electric Refrigerators Campaign By Dealers
Bluefield Hardware distributors promote Copeland Dependable Electric Refrigerators with dealer visits to homes. Listed firms across West Virginia and Virginia offer representatives, with Manpower from Harry & Co Bluefield and others in Davy Dante Harris Woods Gary Jewell Ridge Lebanon Northfork etc. Summer School begins June 10 at West Virginia Business College in Bluefield. Dances at Lake Shawnee hosted by Dewey Cole from W4ZL Johnson City Tennessee. Forest City Paint offers walls coating with guaranteed price matches across Bluefield Mullens Matoaka War Balley Lumber Co offers a souvenir salad bowl for full bill payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Hardware Company
Uh Harry & Co
Bluefield
W. Va
Burgeass Hardware and Furniture Company
Davy
Carter Motor Sales Company
Beckley
Napace Coal Corporation
Dante Harris Woods & Co
Gary
Forest City
planta-Bluefield
Mullens
Matoaka
War
Balley Laumber Co
UO Will Retain Cruiser Program
Washington June 3 Hoover will not modify or abandon the American cruiser program. Congress mandated fifteen 10,000 ton ships, to be funded in the next budget, with no near term disarmament agreement expected. The plan stays within Geneva limits and aims to present a new basis for evaluating naval strength to major powers.
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Washington
Hoover
Stimeon
Congress
Senate
Geneva
Cieneva
Seckwith Fayetteville road to stay open during work
Charleston June 3 announcement by the state road commission states the Charleston Beckley route will remain open while reconstruction proceeds One half of the highway will stay open as the other side is built. The original plan was to close the road.
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Charleston
W. Va
Beckwith
Fayetteville
Charleston- Beckley
State ‘and Commission
Reparations pact may be postponed amid Belgian German talks
Paris June 3 The German Belgian reparations talks heated as experts discuss delaying the new plan to settle Belgian compensation claims for paper marks left after World War I. Francqui insists on 25 million marks annually for 37 years and threatens to withhold approval if a concurrent pact is not signed.
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Paris
Hjalmar Schacht
Owen D. Young
Dr. Schacht
Francqui
Belgium
Francaui
World Court Adherence to Be Discussed at Madrid Assembly
Paria reports a June 10 League of Nations meeting in Madrid will discuss the protocol for American adherence to the World Court of Justice. The conference is seen as likely to approve the Geneva draft negotiated by Elihu Root. The council may authorize governments to empower delegates to sign the protocol at the September assembly.
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Paria
UPA
World Court of Justice
Council of the
League of Nations
Madrid
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Elihu Root
World Court
League
Bluefield Boy among Mooseheart Graduates
Marvin Conway Davis of Bluefield is highlighted as an outstanding Mooseheart graduate. The 18 year old, orphaned early, earned honors in a class of 74, excelled in sign painting, football, baseball, drama, and chorus, with plans for college or trade work. Mooseheart, founded by Janes J. Davies, marks a child city west of Chicago serving 2000 youths with full facilities.
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Bluefield
Mooseheart
Ill
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Marvin Conway Davis
Moose Lodge No
Marvin
Paul
Davis
Alaska
Canal Zone
Canada
Cluss
Roosevelt Auditorium
United States
Janes J. Davie
Davie
Moore
America
Wales
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Infanta
W. G. Peck
Bluefield Graduate Arvin Conway Davis Returns
Arvin Conway Davis, a Bluefield boy, has completed high honors at Mooseheart and is expected to return to the city within a few days.
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Arvin Conway Davis
Bluefield
Mooseheart
Funeral set for Mrs. Andrew Leckie today in Welch
Mrs. Andrew Leckie died suddenly Saturday night at a Richmond hospital. Funeral services will be at 10 o clock this morning at Welch Presbyterian church conducted by Rev. W. C. Williams with Rev. Frank E. Clark assisting. The body arrives from Richmond and will be buried in Monte Vista Park cemetery on the Bluefield Princeton line. Most Welch business houses are expected to close. Active pallbearers include T. A. Johnson J. A. Thorn Otia St Clair Randolph Tucker Joseph M. Crockett Edward O Toole Jr E. J Lytton McGinnis Hatfield Eddie Gibson Julius Goodman.
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Andrew Leckie
Richmond
Welch Presbyterian Church
W. C. Williams
Frank E. Clark
Grundy
Bluefield
Monte Vista Park
Bluefield-Princeton
Welch
Mrs. Leckie
T. A. Johnson
J. A. Thorn
Otia St. Clair
Randolph Tucker
Joseph M. Crockett
Edward O' Toole Jr
E. J Lytton
McGinnis Hatfield
Eddie Gibson
Julius Goodman
Railway Employee Fractures Arm In Yard Accident
Norfolk and Western laborer John Lowe aged 22 fractured his right arm in a local yards accident yesterday morning while cranking a rail loading machine. The crank flew off and struck his arm above the wrist after he reported for duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lowe
Norfolk and Western Railway
Lowe
Oil conservation plans face court test over permit denials
In Washington the McClennan suit seeks to force Wilbur to reinstate a prospecting permit denial for oil and gas. The case challenges the interior secretary's authority under the leasing act and could affect some 5,000 cancelled applications. Justice Stafford set June 17 for Wilbur to show cause why an injunction should not issue.
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Washington
Hoover
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Ethel M. McClennan
Sacramento
Cal
Wilbur
Interior
Interior Department
Partment
McLennan
Department
Wendell Phillips Stafford
Soviets Ratify American Tech Ties for Major Projects
The article notes a Soviet American contract plan with a four year operation for a new factory and heavy imports including 30 million dollars of Ford products. It lists consulting engineers Hugh L Cooper company Stuart James & Cooke H J Freyn Engineering RCA I G E Nitrogen Engineering and DuPont for power mines steel plants fertilizers and patent exchanges.
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Ford
Hugh L. Cooper Company
New York
Ukraine
Stuart, James & Cooke
H. J. Freyn Engineering Company
Radio Corporation of America
International General Electric Company
Nitrogen Engineering Company
DuPont de Nemours Company
Miss Anna Preston on sponsor board of Confederate reunion
Great-Granddaughter of General Stonewall Jackson, Miss Anna Jackson Preston of Charlotte sits on the sponsorial board for the thirty-ninth annual Confederate reunion in Charlotte North Carolina. December chills arrive in June prompting Bluefield residents to revert to winter customs.
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Stonewall” Jackson
Anna Jackson Preston
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Charlotte
N. C
Preston
B. R. Preston
Divorce for Captain O'Brien and actress Mabel Taliaferro
Captain Joseph P. O'Brien former Army officer was granted a divorce from actress Mabel Taliaferro O'Brien in Reno Nevada. They wed January 11 1920 at Darien Connecticut. He testified she left him in Hollywood in July 1927 and later declined to return without giving a reason.
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Reno
Joseph P. O'Brien
Mabel Taliaferro O’brien
Darien
Conn
O'Brien
Hollywood
Farm Aid Bill 10 Nearing Passage Amid Debate
Washington reports final decision on farm relief ahead this year as the conference committee works to merge Senate and House versions. Administrations leaders expect approval of a report eliminating debentures and a swift sign by President Hoover within ten days. Senate action on Borah's licensing bill for commission merchants handling perishable goods proceeds without recorded vote.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Hoover
Farm Relief Conference Committee
House
Borah
Idaho
Licensing Commission
King George Celebrates Quiet Sixty-Fourth Birthday
Winder England June 3 King George rests after a comfortable sixty fourth birthday with restful sleep amid an ongoing drainage from an old lung incision. He is believed strong enough to receive Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin tomorrow to present the cabinet resignation.
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Winder
England
King George
Stanley Baldwin
Two Meet Death in Railroad Accident Near Middletown
Two men died when an Erie railroad freight train of 119 cars piled up at Graham's cut near Middletown New York. Victims were Charles F. Smith 21 of Springfield Massachusetts and an unidentified companion. Albert James of Philadelphia also aboard was killed. Alfred Moon of Port Jervis sustained minor injuries.
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Middletown
N. Y
Erie Railroad
Graham's Cut
Charles F. Smith
Springfield
Mass
Albert James
Philadelphia
Alfred Moon
Port Jervis
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Aah
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Honaker
Lake Shawnee
Dewey Cole
W4zl
Johnson City
Tenn
Warlick Furniture Co
By James L. West
Seckwith
Fayetteville Road
Hwosaker
Blitpitlo
Ares
Grauates
National Business College
Roanoke
Ray Matz School of Dancing
Paramount Sound
Gordon and Squires
Pathe Audio Revue
Walia Wre Mane
Mary Brian Arlen
Morton Downey
Palliat
Singing Fool
Bernard Jarrett
G. le Rash
RK. L. Thompson
Ruth Cook
Martinsburg
Jane Nagle Lear
Wheeling
Secretary of Interior
IDEAL
S Rice
Hamburger
Gould
Kade
West Virginia
J. S. Compton
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