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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1928
Page
4
Wade school auditorium hosts a revival this week led by Rev. R. H. Black of Calvary Baptist. Junior choir enhances services with spiritual songs and Bible readers tally over 200 chapters, a eight year old girl reading 52. Meetings run nightly with special choir music, urging Bluefield residents to attend.
The sixth Lions Club convention in Bluefield opened with Mayor A J Stewart hosting visitors. James Mendrix of Wheeling praised Bluefield and led greetings from Rotary and Kiwanis officials. Lions members enjoyed a day of entertainments, luncheon, bridge, golf, and a theater party followed by a banquet and dance.
Community items advertise fresh river catfish Spanish mackerel trout shad scallops frog legs and live soft shell crabs at Buby Bee family restaurant plus farm market updates. June 9 bake sale at Kell's garage and Memorial services for Modern Woodmen of America Bluefield camp. Music and dancing events at Lake Shawnee and nearby venues appear alongside a large Elliott's close-out sale with corrected prices.
Charleston club will preside over the presidents meeting and Clyde H. Kimball will officiate the secretaries session. At 10 30 delegates will tour Bluefield by auto while golfers take on Bluefield Country Club. H Powell Chapman Roanoke Times editor will speak at 12 30 luncheon. At 2 00 the final business session opens with committee reports and three minute talks on Lionism.
Au Dodd, 18, of Roanoke, waived preliminary trial before Magistrate W W McNeal and was held for the Mercer county grand jury to answer an indictment for attempting to steal an automobile. He was arrested after a pursuit by Patrolmen Williams and Bond near Tazewell street.
In St. Joseph Michigan on June 7 the Ming Mar guerite Bumbaugh trial for the murder of Walter H Cook of Niles Michigan faced disruption when she hysterically protested during cross examination and begged for mercy while her brothers Girard and George were also accused. Dr Fred Bonine testified she suffers from paranoid mental illness.
Qosattieen Kentucky June 7 Roberta of Huntington claimed the West Virginia welterweight championship with a newspaper decision over Tony Laroca of Cincinnati in a ten round bout. The battler staged a bare knuckle fight on Huntington Street yesterday.
A Chevrolet coach with Virginia plates owned by A E Cloyd and linked to the Savage Washing Machine Co of Bluefield was reported stolen from in front of the Bradmann building on Bland Street around 11 o'clock last night per a police complaint.
W. D. Idding, a Norfolk and Western brakeman from Ronceverte, slipped while climbing down a freight car at Cliff Yards yesterday about 11 30 am and fell under a moving train. His left foot and four fingers of his left hand were amputated and he remains hospitalized at Bluefield sanitarium.
The old steamer America sank near Isle Royale after hitting a reef at 3 a.m. today. About fifty aboard, including crew and passengers, were rescued at Isle Royale. the ship went down seventeen fathoms deep.
Washington June 7 Representative Theodore E Burton of Cleveland announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to the Senate to succeed the late Senator Willis of Ohio. Burton, a former senator from 1909 to 1915, supported Hoover for the nomination and backed Coolidge era Republican policies after conferring with the president and Hoover.
Detroit boxing officials ruled Sammy Baker and Jack McCarthy unable to continue in a ten round welterweight bout and declared a no contest. Commissioner Henry Komrofski ordered purses held pending a hearing after both fighters failed to show their best effort in the fifth round.
Special agent Hall of the Norfolk and Western railroad was shot in the middle finger during a late Wednesday night clash with two African American men on a freight train at Saeger. Howard Davis was captured two miles from Jaeger and faces liquor and trespass charges. he denies the shooting and blames the other man who escaped. Davis had two gallons of squor on him.
A. Phillip Randolph canceled the threatened Pullman porters strike set for tomorrow noon at the request of William Green AF of L president. Green said the public had not been fully informed and that poor economic conditions made a strike unwise now. The strike mechanism remains ready to resume later.
In Mackinaw near Peoria a four railroad passenger train struck an automobile killing six people, including three children. Random Hasty, 46, his children Teddy Kilby and Lawrence aged three to seven, Mrs. G. Hasty, 85, and Harold Watson, 47, a cripple, were returning from a cemetery when the fatal crash occurred. Hasty tried to brake but the car skidded 15 feet under the train.
Rome reports a Vatican review of Monsignor Ruiz Y Flores’s proposals on the Mexican church situation. Pope Pius, with Cardinal Gasparri and Monsignor Borgoniucduca, discussed the report and optimism grows that a settlement may be possible. Decisions await the pope’s approval, with a final path to a congregation or cardinal commission.
Beebie Roth, manager and first baseman of the Johnstown club in the Mid Atlantic league, announced in Fairmont that he resigns as manager. Johnstown sits last in the standings and Roth will continue to play first base until a successor is named.
Funeral services will be conducted at Hawking chapel Bland street at 2 30 this afternoon for Stella Evans 18 wife of H L Evans of New Midway who died at St Luke hospital at 11 40 Wednesday night. Rev CC W Kelley Grace Methodist church will officiate and Maple Hill cemetery West Graham will be the burial place. Evans a native of the city lived here all her life and died from complications after a hospital stay beginning Monday. Surviving are her parents Mr and Mrs E Johnson husband and several Johnson siblings and her grandfather Wm W Sharp of Palm Beach Fla was visiting.
In Tulsa on June 7, J. B. McNeal former county jailer killed Miss Sabra Green in a taxicab after telephoning an undertaker and a newspaper to confess. He then killed himself in his room, leaving a note that he died alone. authorities say the pair had lived together.
Pittsburgh reports indicate the federal district attorney staff plans to hand down indictments in the prohibition conspiracy inquiry, with up to 350 possible indictments. A joint effort by district attorney, prohibition administration, and stenographic teams is speeding drafting and typing around the clock. Ninety witnesses testified today as officials move to deliver subpoenaed police and magistrate records by Friday.
A coalition of Hoover opponents argues his nomination would hurt Republican prospects in the Midwest and plans to challenge delegates at the convention. They say Hoover is out of step with regional interests and intend to press for friendly credentials and possibly force a floor fight.
United States ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow left New York for North Haven Maine to spend a brief vacation at his summer home. He said he was gratified by Rome dispatches noting Archbishop Ruiz negotiations at the Vatican toward a settlement of Mexico's religious struggle.
Washington June 7 President Coolidge exercised a pocket veto by not signing the Muscle Shoals bill within ten days. Debate centers on whether the bill failed to become law or was effectively vetoed. The measure would create a $10,000,000 government corporation to run the Muscle Shoals project.
Fire and explosion wrecked the Russian Eagle cafe in Hollywood as Charles Chaplin and other stars escaped. Deputy sheriffs sought M. Javaho Tocaxe, a part owner who allegedly secured 10900 in insurance two weeks earlier. Eight injured, two seriously, including former Russian general Theodore Lodijensky.
Investigators found eight candles arranged in an oil soak string in the attic at dusk last night and a similar device was reported discovered around midnight.
Michael Javaho Tocaxe, a Hollywood cafe owner, was arrested in San Francisco and held on warrants charging complicity in the explosion and fire at the Russian Eagle cafe in Hollywood. Police say he denies being in Hollywood at the time and claims he left north by bus yesterday afternoon.
San Diego June 7 pilots Lee Schoenhair and Harry Tucker flew a Lockheed monoplane aiming for a nonstop 18 hour eastward trip to Curtine Field New York. They seek to break the 26 hour 0 minute record set in 1923 by J A Macready and O G Kelly.
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