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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
1
Washington reports say the British ambassador may surrender liquor imports if the United States requests. Secretary Stimson told the ambassador such immunity is a diplomatic privilege and not to be infringed, while Senate members weigh the issue amid calls to dry up foreign missions.
Mrs Leonora Steffens known as Falls Winter sues Carmel writer and lecturer Joseph Lincoln Steffens for divorce alleging extreme cruelty. The 63 year old defendant is named as the spouse, while the wife in her thirties claims he objected to dances and interfered with her social life and relations. The couple had recent articles on aging and marriage published together.
Valparaiso Ind June 6 Mrs Catherine Cassler of Chicago is charged in a coroner verdict with fatally shooting Cameola Souter whose body was found near Hebron Memorial Day. The coroner may charge Eddie Cassler her 19 year old foster son as an accessory. Truman Cassler and witnesses are in jail as the case proceeds.
Henry Ford borrowed two cents to buy the first Thomas A. Edison commemorative stamp at a special post office sale in Atlantic City New Jersey. Postmaster Alfred Perkins served him and J F Quinlan from New York aided Ford in obtaining the stamp and he promised to repay the money.
Naples reports villagers return to Terzi and nearby areas as Mount Vesuvius lava flow appears to slow. Earthquakes accompanied explosions but subsided, lava pools congealing. Fifty houses destroyed, 125 acres covered, including ninety acres of vineyards and forest. Late night small lava fountains erupted, shaking structures miles away.
In Hartford Connecticut Mrs Olive E Adams widow of Harry E Adams pleaded guilty to manslaughter for chloroforming her husband. She received a state prison term of one to ten years after State's Attorney Hugh M Alcorn urged leniency noting surrounding circumstances. Adams admitted placing chloroform on a handkerchief used by her husband to induce sleep following her claim of his infidelity.
Crews of the American plane Green Flash and the French Yellow Bird await favorable weather for a Europe hop from Old Orchard Maine. The New York Weather Bureau advised a start tomorrow, citing gale force winds about 1 200 miles offshore after a Leviathan radio report. The French plane crew, without sponsor Armeno Laiti, gave no definite Paris takeoff statement.
Ambassador Dwight Morrow and his party arrived in San Antonio on the Missouri Pacific line tonight en route to Mexico City. Archbishop Pascual Ruiz, reported to be with the party, was not found and a party member said the archbishop had not been with the train when it left Palestine.
More than a million dollars will be spent this summer by Consolidation Coal company on the Coalwood plant in McDowell county. The program includes relining the Coalwood shaft and building a new tipple. Plans are complete and work is set to begin soon at one of the field’s deepest shafts.
President Hoover urges Congress to form a House Senate joint committee to transfer major Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Justice Department. The plan covers Coast Guard and Customs and an alcohol permit division, with decisions pending and hearings demanded by Senator Hawes.
Springfield reports a special Illinois committee urged a full reinvestigation of the Mrs. Joseph De King killing in Aurora. The panel called for petition filing to disqualify Kane County State's Attorney, possible appointment of a special prosecutor, and use of a grand jury to pursue the case.
Official reports from Jalisco describe an eight hour engagement in Los Altos Mexico where federal troops stormed rebel trenches on La Villa hill. Airplane support and artillery bombardment aided the assault as rebels' last line of fortifications began to collapse. Casualty figures are not yet estimated.
Blen Benson of Carlsbad New Mexico rose from novice to state amateur typing champion. She will compete in the September international typewriting contest in Toronto hoping to win the world amateur crown once held by Irma Wright.
Morgantown June 6 Robert M Lambie head of the state mines department spoke at a testimonial banquet for Monongalia district coal operators. John Roscoe Turner WVU president urged applying the state power from coal and oil with intelligence. Lambie noted 20000 West Virginians trained in first aid and mine safety. Judge Charlie G Baker praised safety goals in mining.
Los Angeles reports the 1929 Shrine convention ended with pledges of support to President Hoover's law enforcement program. Leo V. Youngworth of Los Angeles was installed as imperial potentate, with the imperial council promising loyal cooperation to reestablish respect for law and order.
The House passed the combined census reapportionment bill while amendments limiting alien and disenfranchised citizen counts were dropped. A farm relief decision was awaited in the Senate. Hoover urged a joint committee to transfer prohibition duties to the Justice Department as liquor smuggling along the Canadian border drew treasury scrutiny. The Senate debated national origins with a vote expected tomorrow.
The house approved the census based reapportionment bill by 272 to 195 after removing two amendments aimed at excluding aliens and disfranchised citizens. Debate featured party leaders using strong arm tactics and protests from Rep Hoch. The bill heads to the Senate for minor changes before final action.
Huntington West Virginia June 6 Plans for a colony to shelter families of prisoners were announced by Earl E Dudding president of the Prisoners Relief society He says the colony will be at Culloden along the Midland Trail with 1000 acres to be developed and about 50 homes to provide housing schooling and training in agriculture domestic science and manual arts for dependents of prisoners slated to open by early fall
Los Angeles police suspend Captain James Bean over the murder case of Mrs. Virginia Patty. In San Francisco a missing life preserver on the steamer Admiral Benson raises the possibility that William L. Tallman, linked to the Patty case, may have reached shore or died aboard. Fifty officers search the ship while theories of disguise and escape are investigated. Tallman boarded in San Pedro the day Mrs Patty's body was found in a Los Angeles apartment.
In Washington the treasury ordered a concentrated effort against liquor smugglers along the Detroit area. Seymour Lowman said all available agents would operate under BR Norwood with coast guard support from Lakes Huron Erie and St Clair. The decision followed reports of large Canadian liquor imports and an earlier probe that led to 22 agent indictments and 11 convictions.
Three inmates escaped from Junction City brick plant and, after being tracked by bloodhounds, were believed hidden in Pickaway County. They wandered on foot, half dressed and without food as a crowd of about one hundred searched a four mile area for Henry Schara, Ray Crooks, and Clarence Ragland.
In Abingdon Virginia Judge A C Buchanan declared a mistrial in the murder case of James E Crowe, deputy sheriff, after jurors twice reported inability to agree. The panel discharged after 2 hours 13 minutes, with the case set for the September term. The defense argued officers may have believed the car carried liquor and the state claimed no basis for gunfire.
In Central City Pennsylvania a bank robbery left one bandit fatally wounded and another injured. Loot totaled about $3,000 carried away by one suspect who fled in a car while others escaped on foot. A wounded bandit was captured. suspect names John Wasmik and Joho Misielk alias Frank Kraus. The getaway car was later abandoned nearby.
Two six year old children, Freda Materdorf and Bertold Smith, were killed when a truck struck their speeding toy wagon in an alley and sent it into the street. Both died shortly after at the hospital.
Billie Gahan 16 was gravely wounded by his brother Clarence 6 in Greenup Kentucky as the younger boy fired a shotgun pointblank while the elder lay in bed. Authorities report the mother is a Greenup clerk candidate.
A Kanawha County court set double death sentences today for Millard Morrison and Walter Willmot of Elizabeth New Jersey for first degree murder in the slaying of Frank Bowen at Lens Creek. Morrison was believed to have fired the fatal shot after Bowen’s car failed. Willmot was sentenced to hang September 13. Morrison also received the same date. Both plan to appeal as witnesses and counsel stated. Mrs Violet Willmot, a tourist party member and Willmot’s wife, was released and returned to New Jersey with Willmot’s brothers and James Wicks.
Prohibition agents raided Millard Williams home in Ironton and seized two liquor bottles. In Common Pleas Court the defendant faced three quarters of a teaspoon of liquor charged as whiskey. Judge Dan Jones imposed a $1000 fine plus costs.
Emil Beck, a 25 year old student miler from Chicago, died when his plane crashed today. The tragedy occurred in Chicago on June 6.
In Contoocook New Hampshire Ralph Conway, 40, shot and fatally wounded Ray Barton, 32, during a garden dispute. Police bombarded Conway’s home with tear gas. Conway died later in hospital amid the siege.
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