City and Coalfield Short Items
Various local notices include auctions by U. S. Realty Auction Co. in Bluefield West Virginia, floral and plant sales by South Bluefield Florist, rental offers in Pocahontas Building, tailoring services, a Shrine dance announced for June thirteenth, moving services by Argabright Frantz, a Masonic notice, a music recital by Mrs. Lila R. Roberts, and auto sales expansion by Bluefield-Oakland and Chandler Co. Also reporting the death of Mack L. Shepherd from Elkhorn and a forthcoming Bluefield city directors meeting on Bland Street paving.
Bluefield Visitor Farthest From Home
The Bluefield visitor listed in hotel registers is FE. Wilson of Canterbury, Conn., identified as the farthest from home today according to the records.
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Bluefield
FE. Wilson
Canterbury
City Hears Proposals On Curb Market Move
Federal building plans and a location change for the city curb market prompt owners to attend a 2 p m directors meeting today to voice wishes. Also note First Christian Church Section 4 meets at C H Smith’s Waltom avenue home Tuesday at 2:30 p m. The Bluefield Market Co reports fresh Virginia strawberries for preserving and plentiful vegetables with lower prices and prompt delivery.
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Federal Building
First Christian Church
C. H. Smith
Waltom Avenue
Virginia
Bluefield Market CO
Supreme Court rules strike not restraint on interstate commerce
Washington June 9 The Supreme Court held that a strike by workers against manufacturers using illegal picketing or intimidation to halt production does not constitute restraint of interstate commerce In an appeal by United Leather Workers International Union Local 66 and others the court followed its Coronado coal decision indicating strikes aimed at blocking shipments beyond local bounds do not violate the Sherman Act Chief Justice Taft delivered the opinion reversing a St Louis federal district court decision in favor of Herbert and Meisel Trunk Company and other leather manufacturers
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Washington
Supreme Court
Taft
United Leather Workers International Union
Federal District Court
St. Louis
Herbert and Meisel Trunk Company
Daugherty Probers Plan Summer Sessions
The Senate Daugherty committee voted it can continue its investigation through the summer recess. Chairman Brookhart invited Secretary Mellon to testify next Monday and notified Attorney General Stone. Special assistants and assistant AGs may be heard on actions in federal litigation questioned by witnesses.
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Washington
Senate
Daugherty Committee
Congress
Brookhart
Mellon
Stone
Ku Klux Klan Headquarters Opened in Cleveland
Sixty representatives led by Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans and Indiana grand dragon Walter Bossert opened Klan headquarters in Cleveland promising to stay until the platform committee acts on an anti Klan plank. Bossert said the plank would not be adopted. A senators statement backing James E Watson for vice president was repudiated by Dr Evans as unauthorized and part of a malicious scheme.
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Cleveland
Ku Klux Klan
H. W. Evans
Walter Bossert
Grand Dragon
Indiana
Platform Committee
R. B. Creager
Texas
Bossert
James E. Watson
Evans
He'll Pay Bonus Man in Charge of Bonds Distribution
Major O. W. Clark of the Veterans' Bureau directs the machinery to implement the bill's provisions for bond distribution and bonus payment.
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Major O. W. Clark
Veterans’ Bureau
Faulkner Youth Fatally Injured In Bluefield Accident
Oaka T. Faulkner sixteen, struck by a car on Bluefield avenue near John Brown tabernacle during a storm. He died two hours later at St Luke's Hospital from chest injuries. Survived by parents, three sisters and a brother. funeral at parental home in Delph.
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Oaka T. Faulkner
Bluefield Avenue
John Brown Tabernacle
BE. R. Rogan
Graham Young Faulkner
St. Luke's Hospital
Young Faulkner
J. K. Faulkner
Delph
Matz
Bluefield
W. B. Poe
Jeanette
Beaulah Faulkner
Melvin Faulkner
Tragedy Without Parallel at Crane Creek Disaster
Amelio Premiveno, Italian merchant, sacrificed his life in a rescue attempt as a deadly slide struck a hillside home. The incident left seven victims dead or missing, with debris and ash filling lower rooms and rescue efforts halted by ongoing danger. Superintendent Smith noted extensive debris removal needed over days while injured victims were unable to reach hospitals due to road and rail washouts.
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Denese
Amelio Premiveno
Amelia
Superintendent Smith
Crane Creek
American Coal Company
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Smith
Flooded West Virginia county endures mass destruction
Describes severe flood damage across Princeton and surrounding towns with washed bridges, demolished structures, and submerged roads. Key sites include Landgraff, Maitland, Superior, and Welch, with losses to rail lines, coal operations, wholesalers, and homes. Rescue efforts and evacuations noted as waters rise.
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Ft 16
Landgraff
McDowell
Greenbrier Coal and Coke Company
Greenbrier
Rolfe
Algoma
Roanoke Company
Keystone
Northfork
Clarke
Maitland
Superior
Kimball
Norfolk and Western
Big Four
Ate Superior Coal Company
White House Baking Company
Welch
Parley-Lovett Hardware Company
McDowell Supply Company
City Grocery Company
Welch Theatre
Flat Iron Drug Company
Princeton
Glenwood Park
Two Charleston Men Killed by Lightning at Golf Club
Captain S. B. Avis and attorney William Altizer, prominent Charleston figures, were killed by lightning while playing golf at Edgewood Country Club in Charlestown on Sunday afternoon, with word reaching us yesterday.
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S. B. Avis
Charleston
William Altizer
Edgewood Country Club
Charlestown
Road dangers as overflowed highway floods threaten travelers
A fragment notes vehicles left in ditches after yesterday's incident on a waterlogged highway where travelers faced threats from the flooded road.
Leopold and Loeb to Enter Not Guilty Pleas
Chicago June 9. Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb, heirs to fortunes, will plead not guilty at arraignment Wednesday on indictments charging murder and kidnapping for ransom. State's Attorney Crowe has reviewed case angles with the grand jury to counter a possible insanity defense. The grand jury may indict the youths for conspiracy to kidnap for ransom and to murder.
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Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Ramsom
Robert E. Crowe
Virgil L Highland Named to National Committee
Cleveland report lists Virg il L Highland among the newly chosen national committee selections by state caucuses. Other states assign George W Pep Penn sylvania William Heyburn and Simeon D Fess in the resolutions committee with missing or partial spellings in the source text.
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Cleveland
West Virginia
Virgil L. Highland
Pennsylvania
George W. Pep
Ohio
Maurice MaschkeeKning
Richard P. Ernst
Inclu
Joseph H. Gaines
Kentucky
William Heyburn
William S. Ware
Simeon D. Fess
Suspects Released in Death Probe Near Huntington
Marie Clevenger and WilliamCummins of Columbus were released after police questioning in connection with the death of Orville Wallace found near Edgington by. Wallace suffered wrist slashes and stab wounds to the chest as authorities investigated the case.
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Huntington
W. Va
Marie Clevenger
Columbus
Ohio
William Cummins
Orville Wallace
Edgington By
Wallace
Also Mentioned on This Page
City Coal Co
U. S. Realty Auction Co
South
Union Bank
South Bluefield
Pocahontas Bldg
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Dixie Tailoring Co
Scott St
Shrine
Argabright & Frantz
GET
Summit City Business College
Bluefield Lodge No
L. M. Carper
Huffman’s Electric Shoe
Federal Street
Central Barber Shop
Lila R. Roberts
Bluefield-Oakland and Chandler Co
McNew
Mack L. Shepherd
Elkhorn
Crozier Coal and Coke Company
Mr. Shepherd
Warrenton
N. C
North Carolina
City Board of Directors
Bland Street
Princeton Avenue
Pratt’s Stock & Poultry Remedy
South Bluefield Pharmacy
Cor. Bland and
North Streets
Pu. M. M
Honaker Dept Store
Law and Commerce
Mercer Funeral Home
William H. Carr
Abrams
Belly & Moyer
Kes
Frederick W. Black
Summers Street
Harry F. Jones
Accountant and Auditor Systems—Tax Service— Audits
Bradmann Building
Vincent Paoliello
Viglin Instruction
Atkins
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Iee
On Avenue
Bluefield, W. Va
James Stott
National Association
Kent Z Kent Chiropractors
Abram
Jefferson Street
North
Jefferson St
Ginamay
Daugherty Probers
KLAN
Atcesses
Blue-jay
Bim
Metto
Service
Bland St
N. E. Rierson
Ya PS
Toledo Rex Spray Co
Toledo
J.B. Eades
Osteopathic
Mayer Building
Oggard
Harper's Garage
Mercer Street
Virginian Supply Company
Princeton Milling Company
Princeton Building Material Company
Princeton Wholesale Company
Sterling Grocery Company
Brown Coal Company
Athens Road
A. C. Johnson
John Belcher
Princeton Fire Department
Virginian Railroad
Roca
Bluestone
Clover Bottom
Kegley House
Settlig
Spanishburg
Coopers
Jumping Branch
T. «. Hubbard
Bluefield-Princeton
Sandlick Road
Rock
Matoaka
Athens
Bluestone Valley
County
Blmefield
S. B.avis
Leopold
Loeb
Virgil Highland
Jesinol
Baltimore
East End
Fairview Pharmacy
Cuthura
Everett Reed
Hillsboro
Penge Rens Mal
Are
DR. J. S. Compton
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Good Drug Stores
Bluefield Pharmacy
Bland and
South Streets
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