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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
2
A Narrows youth was electrocuted when he touched a taped electric wire near the Norfolk and Western station in Narrows. The body was found about 300 feet east of the Narrows station after the incident.
Vacation school at Union Mission opened with an all time high attendance of eighty children. The event yesterday highlighted community involvement and included John Bene as a participant.
Dr Luther P Schon Virginia Petersburg Va will address a nationwide audience on The Call for Intelligentsia He is described as an educator writer and rising lecturer The program includes a choir performance and a selection by singer K Wells from the state Negro board of education Rev A L Polk Also notes Jackson passes at Blue Tila and a Club Carolina meeting on Bland Street at 6 PM
Miss Helen-led Sewing Circle at Mount Zion Baptist Church plans a meeting tonight at 8 o clock at the home of Mrs J Hawkins 613. The agenda includes senior gowns and related sewing tasks. Members urged to attend and bring materials.
Edwards Memorial Church hosts a hot show tonight at 8 at the church on North Mercer street. Music to be played by a select party. Miss Martha Pollard moves from She Gy to Giotto after nine months.
An advertisement promotes Madam Vivian a reputed fortune teller who claims to reveal past present and future and name friends and foes. It promises insights on marriage timing and business and love advise and claims superior skill to other readers. Hours listed from 9 AM to 10 PM near an inn with welcoming service to all.
The Supreme Court, in a five to four decision, reversed a federal ruling and upheld a Boston order’s validity while a separate six to three ruling upheld it. A third major case found that time lapse and state rejections did not kill the child labor amendment, leaving final approval to Congress with 36 states needed.
House members threaten to force the wage hour bill as written, aiming to limit amendments. Rep Cox of Georgia cautions that such action does not end efforts to improve the statute. The labor committee rewrote farm amendments to exempt preparation but not processing of commodities, with proposals for 60 hour weeks in rural jobs and cotton ginning exemptions.
Mrs Eva Lucille Cahill 41 wife of Herman A Cahill house salesman for Bluefield Hardware died at Bluefield Sanitarium from high blood pressure. She was born Charlottesville Va January 5 1898 and lived in Bluefield 24 years. Survived by husband four children parents sister and four brothers. Funeral arrangements to be announced later. Also notes on F Chapman 83 of Bluefield and others.
Funeral services were conducted at Thomas Memor church for 23 year old Robert Lee Cochran who died Saturday afternoon from an accidental self inflicted gunshot while employed as a coal loader for Theantas Fuel at Sagamore Burial followed in Woodlawn cemetery with Rev C A Hillman and Rev A M Jessup officiating
The Duchess of Kent escaped harm in an incident at her London residence as a guard protected the house. A shotgun was seized and taken to the police station for examination while the duchess remained unharmed. The incident occurred amid international tensions and royal duties.
A banking authority urged using 139 million in profits to fund insured loans for small business. He proposed a revolving fund to provide 250 million in credit, with loans up to 25 000 and losses capped at 10 percent, to help banks meet credit needs.
The two injured after a Saturday afternoon crash at the Poplar street highway bridge area show improvement. Earl Ratcliff 18, driver, had no skull fracture per St Luke’s x rays. Willie Adams 41, a Negro passenger, has dislocated vertebrae and remains in Providence hospital in satisfactory condition.
Naples reports twenty thousand Italian soldiers returning from the civil war in Spain and bolshevik clashes. Mussolini spoke of a thirty month nightmare and the Littorial vision guiding the expedition. A Spanish mission convoy led by Vittorio Emanuele will review the troops tomorrow, with 3,000 Spanish infantry marching alongside the legionnaires.
A Princeton Road man, Luther Austin, an Electric Company employee, was injured when he slipped on a newly waxed hall floor. The incident occurred as he stepped from the stairs, causing a long jagged injury.
A House sub-committee with an amendment backs the Hatch bill to regulate government employee political activity. The measure, already passed by the Senate, would curtail certain political actions by federal staff and includes specified exemptions.
Foreign ministers of Latvia and Estonia head to Berlin to sign non aggression pacts with Germany. Reports say Latvia’s Vilnius Munters and Estonia’s Karl Selter will sign as part of wider Baltic state assurances following Germany’s April annexations. Britain and Soviet Union weigh tri power mutual aid options with Baltic involvement under discussion.
Embroidered organdy blouses with lace trim and crochet buttons priced at $1.98. Strawberries offered at 50c a gallon. Piano tuning service by Harry Haffen of Roanoke visits town monthly. Contact 2633-L or P. O. Box 487 Roanoke Va. or write P. O. Box 2455 Roanoke Va.
The Bluefield Automobile club led by instructor J. L. Kirby will run driver training sessions this summer. The program combines classroom instruction with ten hours of hands on practice in a dual control car to prepare students for the license exam. Information is available at the club office 514 Scott Street.
The new principal of East End school is William Hatcher, not William- as Sunday's Daily Telegraph reported.
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