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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1932
Page
6
A brief collection quotes two lines: first a Bible verse about tongues as a sign to unbelievers, second a remark by J G Holland contrasting solid mahogany with veneer. The snippet presents two distinct voices on belief and value.
The Hofstadter committee report to New York Governor Roosevelt on City Hall probes remains unwritten. Judge Seabury is urged to finish the inquiry, while public focus centers on Mayor Walker’s wealth, gifts, and ties to Wall Street figures amid questions over a $10 000 letter of credit and a $3 000 overdraft.
Franklin Korell argues in the National Republic that Sir Francis Drake, famed English buccaneer and naval hero, also explored unknown northern Pacific regions and may have first landed on Oregon’s coast. The article frames Drake as both explorer and participant in naval drama against the Armada.
Commencement exercises for the Bluefield Normal and Business Institute were held at the YMCA. CBE Reynolds and A G McCue returned from a Wolf creek fishing trip. The rector Rev H Brosius of Christ Episcopal Church returned home from Baltimore after illness.
The piece surveys Sir Francis Drake as an early English Pacific coastal visitor near Oregon and California, noting debate over landing sites and motives. It then shifts to a Hampton Institute anecdote about civilization and a critique of American attitudes toward immigrants and radicals, ending with a satirical call for deportation to Russia.
The article notes that Japan faces ongoing financial burden from its conquest of Manchuria. It argues that even if profits accrue later, the cost of keeping order will be a permanent strain on the country.
A poem evokes men’s longings at dusk from firelight to lamplight, gardens, and a windowed glow. It contrasts wanderlust with homeward pulls toward woman, child, and faith, ending with a warm domestic image.
West Virginia University board of governors instructs President Turner to reduce next year’s salary budget by about 25 percent. The Morgantown Post supports the move as part of widespread public calls to trim public funds, hoping other state education and control boards follow. The Charleston Mail notes Byrd-era reforms contributing to debt reduction and stronger budget control, urging a broader overhaul of state government to ease taxes.
West Virginia’s sister, Virginia, ends its year with a slight surplus about $100,000, but the main point is that expenditures stayed within income. The note draws a contrast to rare balanced budgets and highlights fiscal restraint as the larger story.
The Christie Brothers once star makers in Hollywood face financial ruin disclosed in court. Charles Christie spoke of selling assets including a Beverly Hills home and a chauffeur car after a $14,000 judgment and mounting losses from bad investments.
Helene Ponsa and Alfred Lunt figure in a tale of costume artistry where torn linings and painted wear create illusion. The trade relies on aging effects, with designers planning for character ahead of actors, while costumes are murdered nightly to suit stage glamour.
A young woman, dressed in a gown bought with her last check and overdue room rent, attended Eddie Cantor's charity tea hoping to meet and impress a director. She mingled among guests and made an impression with her audacious entrance.
A novice hostess learns late that three dowagers at her table were playing for a cent a point. With only 40 cents, she discovers she has won at the end of the session, turning an awkward reveal into an unlikely triumph.
Washington observers note Willis Chatman Hawley, long a tariff bill author and Republican leader, loses his Oregon seat after 13 terms. Hawley, 67, helped shape tariff policy with Smoot and headed the House Ways and Means Committee before a possible lame duck term. The shift unsettles Hawley and his era of party leadership in the House.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes that short daytime naps help tired workers refresh and restore energy. He cites business leaders and editors using quiet naps or siestas to rejuvenate, arguing daytime sleep does not inherently disrupt nighttime rest and has long held value in many professions and cultures.
At the Democratic national convention the two-thirds rule to nominate may be challenged by Roosevelt forces seeking a majority on the first ballot. Al Smith and opponents push to abolish it, but abolition would imply weakness. The fight intertwines with Tom Walsh’s bid for permanent chairman against Shouse, and past efforts by McAdoo and Smith to end the rule.
A mash of quotations on city employee residency laws Bridge players wives poets golfers and boxing prefight rituals. The piece weaves opinions by doctors reformers and musicians with a Texan boxer imagining his rival while reflecting on tobacco waste and domestic annoyances.
San Francisco and San Jose were rocked by a strong earthquake. A Detroit man shot by police is accused of attempting to extort $1000 from a businessman. Pan American Airways was advised of an earth tremor at San Lorenzo Honduras.
Robert Turner 26 of Flint died after a failed gas station robbery in Hillman Michigan. Turner and an accomplice attempted a hold up at James Keegan’s station. a shot fired, the weapon jammed, Turner was struck in the abdomen and died later. Police arrested Turner’s accomplice and two women.
Delegates at the General Federation of Women's Clubs biennial convention in Seattle hear a challenge to recapture the home. Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton is the unopposed vice presidential candidate. Dr. Wendell Fifield warns a pagan trend of ultra individualism harming the American home, citing motion pictures cheap amusements public nurseries and working mothers as causes.
A gale uprooted the modern counter part of the sacred olive tree in the temple of Erechtheus on the Acropolis. The tree is linked to Athena and Poseidon’s competition for Athens. It was planted by American archaeologist Dr. Bert Hodge Hill.
The Bluefield city board approves a 2480 dollar annual improvement program focusing on streets sidewalks and sewers. Projects include hot asphalt work concrete repairs guard railing and ditching with a goal of economy and efficiency this year. A gynecological clinic proposal by Dr. Steele gains approval for aiding poor women.
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