Bluefield Water Works Ordered to Seek Additional Ada Supply
The Public Service Commission ordered Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Co to stop adding equipment at Ada and instead secure a second adequate source within forty days. The firm must file weekly progress reports with the commission and Bluefield authorities. The action stems from Bluefield’s case against the company and follows a prior order for Ada facilities. Evidence over rate increases was completed with a decision reserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
Tocey
Ada
Freight rate proposal approved by Mon Valley trade bodies
Representatives of chambers from Elkina Pelington Shinnston Morgentown Weston and Grifton voted to accept the Baltimore and Ohio proposal giving the region a roughly five percent tariff cut. A letter of acceptance was drafted and sent to the railroad company, marking two years of effort to obtain relief near the Pittsburg rate. Delegates then attended Clarksburg’s noon forum as guests of the chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arksburg
W. Va
Chambers of Commerce
Elkina
Pelington
Shinnston
Rairment
Morgentown
Weston and Grifton
Monongavela Valley Association
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Association
Pittsburg
Chamber of Commerce
Clarksburg
Homer Dean Stoutly Declares Innocence
Homer Dean Stoutly former vice president of the First National Bank of Sutton was released on bail of 25000 after arraignment in Charleston W V on a 17 count federal indictment charging misappropriation of 25000 dollars. He had been working in an Ohio aluminum plant under the name Homer P Holt and said he would return to Columbus to rejoin his wife and child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Homer
First National Bank of
Sutton
Dean
Columbus
Ohio
Homer PD. Holt
Yotal
Cincinnati
Agreement Reached On Wages Tied To Tonnage
In Atlantic City on June 5, the Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturers' Association and about 40,000 Amalgamated Association workers settled a wage scale for the coming year. The plan mirrors last year and ties wages to tonnage and material prices. increases or cuts will follow price changes. Manufacturers will open talks with bar iron sector workers affecting ~25,000 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Sheet and Tin Workers of America
Bar
Portuguese Airmen Complete Transatlantic Flight
Pernambuco Brazil June 5 The Portugese naval aviators Captain Sacadura and Countinho arrived here shortly after noon today after flying in their hydro airplane from Fernando Noronha thus completing their trans Atlantic flight from Lisbon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pernambuco
Brazil
Portugese
Sacadura
Countinho
Fernando Noronha
Lisbon
Stolen Rembrandt Painting From German Museum
A Rembrandt work titled St Paul in Prison dated 1627, valued at five million marks, was stolen from Stuttgart government art museum. A reward of 60 000 marks was offered for information leading to recovery.
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Associated Press
Stuttgart
Germany
Labor unions plan session on railroad wage cuts in Cincinnati
Eleven railroad labor unions will meet in Cincinnati led by B M Jewell to discuss concerted action against wage reductions ordered by the railroad labor board. Votes on acceptance or rejection are expected from each union, with Gompers due to join discussions. The conference may last two to three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cincinnati
United States Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Abor
Machinists
Boiler
Carmen
Iio
Railroad Labor Board
Big Four
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Building Trades Department
The
Oil price rise boosts Pennsylvania crude market
Pittsburg June 5 announces a twenty five cent barrel rise in Pennsylvania crude as markets open. All other grades except Corning gain twenty five cents with prices listed as Pennsylvania crude 3.50 Corning 1.90 Cabell 2.56 Somerset 2.15 Somerset light 2.40 Ragland 1.25.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Corning
Cabell
Somerset
Somerset Light
Ragland
Deputy Dan Allman Accused of Shooting in Wellsburg Case
In Parkersburg West Virginia on June 5 the defendant Ramon Spinosa testified in U S district court that the Wellsburg shooting near the LaBelle mine was committed by deputy Dan Allman and that Spinosa had no weapon. Interpreters Mellace and Robo helped translate Spinosa account to the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ramon Spinosa
United States District Court
Wellsburg
LaBelle Mine
Dan Allman
Spinosa
Allaman
August Probst Attempted Suicide in Prison Ward
New York reports August Probst, jailed on deportation to Switzerland for alleged unrequited romance, slashed his wrists in his psychopathic ward cell at Fill Island. Attendants found him, he received stitches and survived. Officials offered unclear explanations for the act and missing instrument.
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New York
Probst
Switzerland
Fills Island
Island Hospital
Dancer
Pitsburg
Biggest class in history promoted in Bluefield district
Seventy two pupils from Bluefield graded schools were promoted to high school at Beaver Hi auditorium with a full house and standing room. The event marked a district high for promotions, with Ramsey school sending thirty eight representatives and multiple schools sharing in the program. The ceremony featured music, an invocation by Rev Charles F Steck Jr, and speeches from graduates including Mary Gordon Perkins and Velma Carter.
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Graded Schools of
Bluefield
Beaver Hi
Ramsey School
Edwin McNeer
Stuart Hamlin
Rennis Edwards
Wayne Cubbedgee
Frank Shumaker
Donald Parsons
Willie Ward
Charles Nichols
Charles Yearout
Clarence Clements
Andrew Farrow
David Lawrence
Norman Llewellyn
Sidney Bernard
Hkugene Cohen
Desmond Coen
Marvin Helton
Evelyn Shannon
Elizabeth Warrick
Frances Eskew
Carlton Knochs
Elnora Johnston
Thelma Deyerle
Eunice Hasselvander
Charles F. Steck
Lutheran Church
Beaver High School
Ramsey Street
Hinora Johnson
Walter Camp
Daily Dozen
Victor Records
Ramsey
Fairview School
Gorgon Dick
Mary
Frances Laird
Edwin C. Wade
Mary Gordon Perkins
Velma Carter
Wade
Keeney vows no wage cuts for miners amid market tensions
Fairmont W Va June 5 C Frank Keeney president of district 17 UMWA said no reduction in miners wages while policy holds until a general policy committee acts. He denied a Charleston statement and warned against press shadow boxing that could erode union morale.
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Fairmont
W. Va
C. Frank Keeney
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
William Petry
Charleston
Keeney
Northern West Virginia Coal Operators’ Association
United States
Knoxville
D. Stewart Miller
Permanent Board of Arbitration For Miners
Kentucky
Tennessee
Supreme Court
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Anthracite Miners Willing to Arbitrating Wage Dispute
Hazleton Pa June 5 Miners in the anthracite fields agree to arbitrate on the wage scale in force prior to April 1 and reject considering a reduction The scale committee will name a sub committee to craft the answer for the full committee to vote on the next day.
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Hazleton
Cabinet of Pipe Takahashi Resigns in Tokyo
Tokyo reports the cabinet led by Pipe Takahashi has resigned by a June date. Officials did not detail reasons, but the move shifts political leadership in Japan as the government faces ongoing policy questions.
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The
Associated Press
Tokio
Pipe Takahashi
Balto and Ohio Awards $6 Million Freight Car Order
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad awarded contracts totaling over $6,000,000 for freight equipment. Orders include 4,000 steel hopper and gondola cars and 1,000 box cars. Standard Steel Car Co to build 1,000 hopper coke cars Curtis Bay. Pressed Steel Car Co 1,000 hopper and 1,000 gondola cars Pittsburg district. Cambria Steel Co 1,000 seventy-ton forty-six foot drop-end gondolas at Johnstown. This marks the largest car order by a single system in two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Standard Steel Car Co
Curtis Bay
Pressed Steel Car Co
Graduation Sermon at Bluefield High School Service
The twelfth annual baccalaureate sermon was preached Sunday at the Presbyterian church by Rev. 8. W. Moore for the graduating class. He urged the students to choose whom they will serve, stressing creation and the dignity of being made in God’s image.
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Presbyterian Church
M. P. Sharkey
W. Jackson
Moore
Bluefield
Labor Leaders Face Sherman Law Ruling on Coal Prices
Washington reports that organized labor is deemed amenable to Sherman Law constraints while no formal body will be set up to control the coal industry. Secretary Hoover and the National Retail Coal Merchants Association discuss possible retail price rises linked to mine costs and strike pressures.
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Washington
Hoover
Roderick Stephens
New York
National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
Commerce Department
Stephens
Maine
Northwest
Chicago
D.home Union
Peeras & Iin Rs
Simly
Mr. Stephens
Tte
Mr. Hoover
Alleged Warrantless Arrests in Logan County Suit
James Kane sues Logan County Sheriff Don Chatin for 25000 dollars claiming an August 1921 arrest without a warrant, eight days confinement in Logan County jail, threats by deputies, and forced exile from the county. He says deputies Gore Browning Morunis transported him and coerced him to leave. He worked at a mine at Ethel and denies union affiliation.
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Don Chafin
James Kane
Logan County
Charleston
W. Va
Don Chatin
Sherif
Kane
John Gore
Huntington
Cladue Gore
John Browning
Logan
Keenan Morunis
H. W. Houston
Ethel
Declar
Supreme Court rules unions can be sued under Sherman act
The Supreme Court holds that unincorporated labor unions may be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act for acts in strikes that restrain interstate commerce. The decision addresses United Mine Workers District No 21 and the 1014 Arkansas coal strikes, clarifying liability for unions and officers while noting coal itself is not interstate commerce but Congress can regulate related conspiracies.
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Washington
Novacine
United Mine Workers of
United Mine Workers of America
Tait
Arkansas
International Union Or International Board
International Union
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Rembrandt
ST. Paul
Federal
Robert Mellace
Ohio River Division
B. & O. Railroad
Dominic Robo
Colliers
Brooke County
August Probst
Fairview
Beaver High
Operators Association
Takahashi
GLASS
Deamon
Rev
S. W. Moore
American Federation
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