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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
3
Local ads list farm plants and seed stock, real estate, milk price drop, barber services, sale of office fixtures, baked goods, and rental notices. Items include Bluefield Market offerings, tax delinquencies, piano room announcements, and a confiscated whiskey case with police activity.
The National Retail Coal Merchants urge government tax reduction and restraint on new government employees. They seek cooperation with coal associations to standardize anthracite preparation and reduce sizes, with committees to discuss and report outcomes. Delegates thank Pocahontas Operators Association and key speakers for guiding the convention.
A Bluefield visitor tallies as farthest from home today per hotel registers, James Corelin of Mulford Connecticut. Police release boxes from the station to a home on Ellis street after determining he knows nothing of their contents. The whiskey in transit is confiscated. Personal: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goodykoontz welcome a baby boy born Wednesday at St Luke’s Hospital. mother and child are reported fine.
A proposal urges rescinding the ten percent overload rule for open top coal cars and replacing it with a maximum load height twelve inches above car sides. It argues safer, cheaper transport, asking the mayor to send copies to the American Railway Exchange the National Coal Association Traffic World and coal publications.
The Senate oil committee approved a report charging serious irregularities in the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases. It found the leases wasteful and negotiated secretly under a presidential order, with allegations of a $100,000 payment to Albert B. Fall by E. L. Doheny but no proof of a broader oil conspiracy. The panel struck out proposed new statutes and left legal questions to the courts while noting Republican members were absent.
The Senate voted late tonight to attach a bill with the Works commission findings to the pending deficiency bill and approved both. The House was expected to pass a similar reclamation measure tomorrow.
James Davis, a black man from Pittsburg, was sentenced to serve from two to four years in the western penitentiary after pleading guilty to holding up John Bock in Bock's tailor shop. The holdup yielded one dollar and fifteen cents.
Nathan Leopold and Richard Leeb confessed to killing 13 year old Robert Franks in Chicago. The Franks slaying has drawn unprecedented attention and the two youths are sons of prominent Chicago millionaires.
The Senate passed a naval bill authorizing eight 10 000 ton scout cruisers and oil burner conversions for six battleships. It also authorizes six gunboats for Chinese waters and repairs to battleships to resist aircraft and submarines. The measure, costing at least 111 million dollars, moves to the president after House passage with no recorded opposition.
The senate adopted the conference report on the postal salaries increase bill authorizing an average annual raise of 200 dollars for about 800000 postal employees. A campaign spending publicity amendment was included requiring quarterly reports and filings around national campaigns. Senator La Follette urged a special senate committee to monitor political expenditure with action postponed until tomorrow.
In Indianapolis June 6 the Ku Klux Klan bloc dominated the party meeting with about one fourth of the votes. Dr. Charles B. McCulloch led a field of five with 42,000 in the primary but failed to reach a majority, sending the nomination to a convention where a Craven backed motion for unanimous nomination carried by acclamation. The Hoosier delegation to the national convention remained uninstructed.
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