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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1931
Page
8
A Washington Nat Geo report describes Siena Italy’s Palio festival July 2 highlights a bareback horse race with heavy nervo whips and armored riders. Ten matched horses compete amid pageantry with a dramatic crash as Montone and Ocaroll race to the final stretch.
Local listings announce 26 inch fast color prints at Fretwell's with 12 cent prices and a beauty shop offering permanent waves by Eugene Frederic and Marcelle. Lake Shawnee dance Friday 9 to 2 with Vagabonds. Knights Templar meet at Masonic Temple 7 30 tonight. junior guild lawn party at Oakhurst avenue with cakes and ice cream. Mise Tatty Perdue joins Ideal Beauty Shoppe. Discussion notes reforms may affect compulsory military service as a potential constitutional frame for a new republic.
The race ends with Morello surging from behind to overtake Montone in a stunning final push. The crowd watches as Morello crosses the line a winner and the favored Montone fades in the dying moments.
Davenport Iowa June 4 Mike Layden brother of Elmer Layden Notre Dame Four Horsemen proves his own merit by helping Davenport high school win state track title. He wins both hurdle races and anchors winning half mile relay with 15.4 seconds in high hurdles and 24.1 in lows, breaking Frank Cuhel record. Elmer Layden starred at Notre Dame.
Madrid reports Gen. Manuel Azana, Spain’s new war minister, cuts armed forces from 160000 enlisted and 27000 officers to under 10000 total. The plan saves about $20000000 yearly and aims to improve equipment, fund public projects, and force officers to focus on military matters amid political shifts.
Robert Gibson Rayburn, teen son of Newton Kansas evangelists Reverend James Rayburn and wife, won the national high school orator contest. Hailing from a prairie town of 11 034, he bested peers from New York, Chicago, Washington, Birmingham and Spokane with a mainly extemporaneous speech. A gifted pianist at 16, he plans music as a career though his parents favor preaching.
Robert Waldon son of Jake Waldon of Reese Street was admitted to Brown's hospital with a knife wound near the heart. Police seek James Weatherford of North Side for questioning in connection with the stabbing at Elke Hall on Bland Street. Walden's condition is not believed serious.
Six cities in the United States and Canada bid for the 1932 convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in Columbus. Contest results reveal winners in livestock magic, sleight of hand, billiard balls, expert card tricks, flowers, and escapes with participants from Columbus, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Elmira, Summersville, and other cities.
Nebraska's pig census collects data from 18,000 farmers and stock growers to stabilize pork production. The report notes some individuals suffer skin rash when silk contacts the fabric.
Wheat traders worried about large stockpiles held by the grain stabiliz ation corporation and price declines as government support ends, were reassured by Farm Board Chair man Stone that the plan will not force the entire carryover onto domestic or world markets. Earlier, about 35,000,000 bushels had been disposed of.
Curious crowds gathered around autos as debutantes waited their turns at Court in London. Some passersby offered candy and encouragement while two English schoolgirls mounted a running board for a closer view of costumes worn by two debutantes.
The inquiry centers on 000 bushels of stabilization wheat abroad and ongoing private trading of stock to domestic millers. Stone explains the farmer owned NGM A conducts both purchases and sales in fair competition and promises future supply equal to new crop needs. Cooperatives oppose private turnover fearing disruption to orderly marketing. Stone reiterates transfer to private trade is not considered.
Curtis Floyd Johnston county agent reports more than 100 types of grasses and 60 varieties of oats suited to southern Oklahoma farms after a year of investigations.
The record shows Mills describing plans to hire two girls for a party and mentioning San Diego and Hollywood connections. He acknowledges not meeting Jobbelmane until months later and contends he did not see him at the gathering.
State prohibition agents arrested two men and a woman at Carewell, McDowell County, for violating prohibition laws. Rebecca Gross was convicted in Welch in magistrate S. M. Burgess court for sale and possession, fined 100 dollars plus costs and ninety days in jail. Roby Goodson was fined 100 dollars and costs and thirty days in jail for possession. Milton Richards, colored, was convicted of possession, fined 100 dollars and costs and thirty days in jail. Arrests were by Ell Watkins and G. B. Hildebrand.
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