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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1929
Page
4
Secretary Hyde prepares preliminary work for assembling the federal farm board under the farm relief act. Hyde interviews candidates and gathers information to present to President Hoover. The process involves farm organization officials and invited figures to help select eight men to implement farm relief.
The report details ongoing threats against a key witness in a habeas corpus case. It notes testimony by Mrs Baker that Mrs Stone confessed a poisoning plan to obtain George Stone’s 1200 inheritance and life insurance money. Authorities seek Abertas, arrested yesterday, then located in Philadelphia and refusing to return for questioning.
Washington June 18 The 85 year old senator Frances Warren of Wyoming received an ovation from colleagues before resuming business. He said success comes to those who work hard and stick to it and urged doing everything well. York County death reported York Pa June 18 Edward McNeilly 48 Seward Pa died of a heart attack after heat exhaustion while working on a highway project in southern York County.
Kermit Roosevelt, back from an eight month Indo China and Tibet expedition, displayed a photograph of the panda shot by him and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt after four months of pursuit. They will present the bones and hide to the Field Museum in Chicago. The picture was taken as Kermit arrived in San Francisco aboard the President McKinley.
Ideal Beauty Shoppe Weet offers six dollar permanents at the Virginian Hotel location. For appointments call 1787. Warlick Piano rooms advertise vinyl records and rooms. Special price ten dollars on Eugene Fred ile and Bonat waves. Brand new Essex coupe for sale at P O Box 99 Bluefield West Virginia. Regular Elks dance scheduled Thursday June 20. Beans sale features North Carolina Valentine beans and 30 cents per gallon Califor Fruit Market Federal Street.
Atlanta, Ga. Fulton superior court set aside the 1925 divorce of Priscilla Dean and Leslie Philip Arnold on Mrs Mildred Arnold’s plea that it was obtained by fraud. Arnold was not present. Legal action may null the actress marriage solemnized last September.
New York June 18 The two thousandth birth anniversary of Virgil will be celebrated in 1990 with a two year program by the American Classical League. Notable supporters include Dr Edwin A Alderman Mrs Calvin Coolidge Prof William Lyon Phelps and Kenneth M Bille. The Rimilenium Virgillanum aims for educational focus with magazines and newspapers carrying excerpts.
New York June 184 The three week honeymoon of Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh ended as their cruiser Menette anchored at Sands Point New York. The flyer and the bride visited Daniel Guggenheim estate before traveling by closed car to New York City. Lindbergh planned a three week Transcontinental Air Transport tour toward the Pacific coast. Veterans Convent- tion Plans Completed In Clarksburg West Virginia Sixty five state delegates expected to attend the two day event starting Friday noted James Heaz local commander.
More than a half million scouts are involved in selecting 1500 American delegates for the 3rd World Jamboree in England. The event in August will honor Sir Robert Baden-Powell with guests and a two week camp at Birkenhead near Liverpool. Lorne W. Barclay will lead the U S contingent with groups leaving New York in July and returning in September for school.
The domination of Emil S Helburn to be collector of internal revenue at Loulaville Kentucky was approved today by a senate finance sub committee and probably will be referred to the senate tomorrow for action.
The city board discussed a tentative budget with a $1.10 per $100 tax rate and considered extensions including an 800 foot six inch water line on Pen Mar avenue costing about 1700 and a 250 foot extension for a fire plug at Spokanean View avenues. Final action was delayed pending city manager investigation.
In Belle Vue near Pittsburgh a 32 foot circumference elm tree over 300 years old thrives in Andrew Bayne Teece memorial park. Her will funds yearly care costs to keep the tree, with surgeons paid to tend it and a brick pit providing breathing space.
The Louvre permanently places Corot’s bathroom decorations among his finest works. They form part of a new Barbizon room for Corot Rousseau Daubigny and Millet works, signaling official recognition of the Barbizon painters as a school.
A scene from Anne Nichols play turned Paramount picture Abie's Irish Rose features Charles Buddy Rogers Nancy Carroll and Jean Hersholt. The film currently screens at the Colonial theatre.
Ray Keech winner of the 1929 Indianapolis race died in a 200 mile Altoona Pennsylvania event crash. His car struck a tire and plunged from the board track railing into the infield catching fire as others piled up. A dramatic inset shows Keech speeding past the grandstand as the wreck tore a hole in the track.
Schenectady New York June 18. General Electric unveils a one pole small power sub station mounted on a steel pole to tap high power lines and convert voltages for consumers. It targets lines up to 66000 volts and aims to bring electricity closer to farmers and rural areas previously far from a substation.
Autstin Texas June 18 Fundamental costs of getting married in Texas have more than doubled under new license laws effective this month. Before he may wed the Texas bridegroom to be now must pay 2 dollars instead of 1.50 for his license 50 cents for his physical examination 50 cents each for three necessary affidavits and 3 dollars for the ceremony a total of 9.50. He used to do it for 4.50. Not only do the new laws require filing notice of intentions three days in advance but also compel prospective brides and grooms to present good health certificates.
A Tit Bits quip questions debt and gratitude as a politician proclaims all he is owed to his mother while a heckler comments on being out of debt, reflecting humorous public discourse in a humorous clipping style.
Rev. Mrs. Mary L. Glenn pastor of North Side United Holy Church will lecture this evening at 8 in aid of the pastor's club Her topic will be Service the Ladder of Success Come early for a seat.
In Jackson on June 18 Justice W. H. Anderson rules in Wanda Dodge Myers 16 of Moss Point that a married student may enroll. Myers was barred from Moss Point High School on grounds that marriage would disrupt school governance and influence unmarried students. The court rejects those arguments.
Chicago reports that doctors in the Capt. Marshall Field expedition to the Amazon use dancing as therapy. When patients are too weak to dance, the doctors perform the dances themselves to aid recovery, illustrating a novel medical approach in the jungle.
Ad for Bealmeann's Gas Tablets offered by Goody ntz Drug Co. Claims relief from gas and related symptoms, promises easier breathing and improved daytime function after use. Recommends purchasing genuine product in yellow package for $1 at local drugstores.
Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South condemns Raskobism as the core issue in the Democratic Party. He urges anti Smith Democrats to warn state and national leaders that Virginia will not stay in the Democratic column until Raskobism is purged.
In Wheeling West Virginia on June 18 the court recorded a purported confession claimed to have been made thirteen years earlier by Henry Abel aged 46 in the murder of his wife in 1916. Abel faces trial after jury selection in the intermediate court and his defense leans on an insanity plea. Alienists testified and Abel had been declared insane sixteen years prior, then released before the murder charge.
Great Falls Montana June 18 Sliding of a hill above the Judith river near Danvers in central Montana caused about 75 acres of beach land to sink more than twenty feet Large crevasses formed as the earth moved Geologists believe movement not complete and a new channel may form if hill shifts toward the river A party of geologists flew over the site and photographed the crater left by the slide
London servants from Buckingham Palace and 8 St James Palace attended a fancy dress ball hosted by Lady Malcolm. Butlers wore costumes including Rudolph Valentino and pirate king outfits, while a girl wore an illuminated fountain dress with lights flashing like falling water.
Regional schools of instruction for the Royal Arch Masons opened in Wheeling with eight Northern Panhandle chapters represented. Leaders W Turner Morris George W Ford Varis P Lester and Frank Webb will travel to Morgantown for the next session with stops in Clarksburg Parkersburg Charleston Huntington Bluefield and Martinsburg scheduled.
Charleston West Virginia June 18 W H S White president of Shepherd College State Normal school was elected president of the West Virginia Association of Colleges The association formed yesterday named C H Martin New River State and W W Trent Broaddue College as officers A committee to study moral and social problems of college life includes Joseph Roeier Fairmont State normal Cloyd Goodnight Bethany and Dr M P Shawkey Marshall college
Tokyo reports many people missing near Komagatake as volcanic activity continues. Official death tolls are unavailable while the eruption subsides. villages faced ash and stone cover, with tremors resembling an earthquake and ash reaching Hakodate thirty miles away.
New York reports the hottest day of the season with a 93 degree high on June 18 setting a new June 18 record. The heat has caused three deaths and many heat prostrations, with several drownings reported at beaches in the past two days.
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