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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1922
Page
1
Bluefield city officials announce a $176,102.49 operation cost for eleven months ending May 31, 1922 with a $25,108.48 surplus under estimate and an estimated $40,000 carryover into the new fiscal year.
Toledo June 6 Immediate strike vote will be asked by the biennial conventions of the shop craft system federation in Toledo L R Lee chairman of Moberly Mo said the resolution will be presented Wednesday and is expected to pass The strike vote will cover about four thousand shop employees and may occur within thirty days as unions move to speed the ballot.
June 6 in White Plains NY District Attorney Weeks reports satisfaction after Mrs Walter Ward leaves the stand under Justice Morschauser's ruling amid the Peters shooting inquiry. Grand jury questions centered on alleged card party and events the night of May 15. Witnesses include Ward family members, nurse Lulu Barrows cook Amy Mild, neighbors, coroner Dr John Fielding Black, and Sheriff George J. Werner. Cunningham remains in jail on bail set at 5000 as he seeks grand jury appearance. he previously claimed a different shooting account and received a death threat.
Captain R. O. Carter and Patrolman Lilly arrested C. B. White from Lynchburg after he disembarked from train No 3 with seven half gallon jars of brandy in his possession. White claimed rail worker status and was taken into custody after moving through Summers Raleigh and Stewart streets toward the Royal Cafe and Commercial hotel. He faces a police court trial tonight.
East Liverpool Ohio June 6 builders union offers to renew the old wage scale to end a bank operation tie up since May 1. The proposal calls for bricklayers and plumbers 1.12 1 2 dollars per hour. carpenters 1 dollar. Bricklayers seek 1.25 but the offer may be accepted.
Seattle, June 6. Judge Richard A Ballinger secretary of the interior under Taft died at his home tonight after two days of illness. The news remarks his long public career and service in the cabinet.
Cincinnati June 6 1925 B M Jewell head of six shop craft unions calls the wage board ruling a hastily dressed up unfair apology for a 60 million slash. He cites wage comparisons to 1915 and claims five crafts will lose over ten percent and three over fifteen percent in July. He notes payroll losses since 1920 and asks why railroads profits rise while workers fall.
Senator Watson of Georgia renewed attacks on Secretary Hoover's war relief administration in the Senate. He charged Hoover aided efforts to overthrow the Soviet and restore czarist Russia, citing a shipping board steamer carrying military supplies to General Yudenitah’s offensive. He alleged mismanagement of expenditures and decay of aid shipments intended for Europe.
Washington June 6 A resolution by Senator Heflin seeks the Federal Reserve Board to confirm if it runs a publicity bureau and to disclose details of an alleged fund for publicity campaigns. The measure says charges claim the fund pays for propaganda praising the board and attacking dissenters.
The Whitaker-Glessner Company, a Wheeling Steel Corp. subsidiary, will reopen its sheet mill in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on Monday morning. The idle plant, last used in early 1921, will hire former employees for available positions over the next three days, and employs about 80 men.
From Canton advices Sun Yat Sen, president of the republic of South China, will refuse to resign. He argues the Canton administration is the sole legal government and will clear Wu Pei Fu’s plan to reunify China under one government.
A. J. Lovell of Logansport Indiana was elected legislative representative at Washington at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen meeting held today in Houston Texas.
Senate sessions opened with a heated exchange as Senator Ashurst accused former Senator Lipitt of using his influence for profit from higher tariff duties. Senator Harrison criticized GOP delaying tactics while the Finance Committee reversed some proposed rates on rails spikes rivets and studs.
William Logan, sentenced to eighteen months at the Moundsville prison, escaped from a road camp on Roberts Ridge near Moundsville four miles south. He remained at large tonight with authorities still seeking him.
William L Mansfeld, longtime West Virginia editor and former state legislator, died in Huntington on June 6. He led the state newspaper association for many years and represented his district in the legislature.
Large crowd attends Beaver High School commencement for the class of 1922 as L A Busby delivers the address to graduates. The ceremony draws a sizable audience and honors the graduates with a formal program.
The Beaver High School class of 1922 marked a major milestone as 54 graduates prepare for manhood and womanhood. The ceremony in the old Beaver High auditorium drew a large crowd of relatives and friends. Bernard McClaverty, board president, presented the class amid praise for scholastic and athletic achievements.
Washington reports Princess Ivan Tschernitschew of Russia must establish American citizenship before final department action. Secretary Davis announced the order allowing her to stay after birth facts were presented, with verification of a 1881 Louisville birth and possible naturalization steps to follow.
Detroit June 6 Henry Ford is prepared to start developing Muscle Shoals water power and nitrate plants within hours if Congress accepts his offer to take over the project. Acceptance would prompt telegrams to many factories to launch his plan to build an industrial center around Muscle Shoals, a crowning achievement of his career.
The government faces Ramon Spinosa in federal court in Parkersburg on a charge of violating a court injunction during a miners strike at Wellaburg. The trial, notable for using the Clayton act and for potential penalties up to a $1000 fine or six months in jail, moves to a jury after closing evidence and extended arguments.
Manchester New Hampshire June 6 nine teen arrests were made today as the textile strike began February seven near the Colridge mill of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co which reopened yesterday. Police issued new orders to prevent loitering near the mills and more workers reported for duty at the reopened plants. The Newmarket mill also opened today with fewer workers.
Des Moines reports Smith W. Brookhart of Washington won the Republican nomination for United States senator from Iowa. With returns from most precincts, Brookhart led with 118,493 votes, 41 percent, as 285,084 ballots were counted. 35 percent was required for nomination.
Hazelton Pa June 6 Members of the anthracite miners general scale committee unanimously rejected the arbitration offer from the operators of the hard coal field The committee provided for continuance of wage negotiations and ordered a sub committee to draft a counter proposal to be submitted tomorrow
Glenn Cottrill a Doddridge county man sentenced to Moundsville penitentiary April 7 for grand larceny and who escaped from a road crew April 21 was arrested today in Clarksburg by city police. He will be taken back to Moundsville.
The West Virginia road commission opened 33 bids totaling 2,234,320 dollars for roads and bridge projects. Lowest bidders on each project were approved barring bond failures or other discrepancies, with names from Capitol Construction Co., Brookville Bridge Co., Monongahela Construction Co., and Keeley Construction Co. among others in counties including Hampshire Jackson Kanawha and Marion.
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