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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1931
Page
1
New Yorkers rush to pay overdue income taxes after Al Capone case in Chicago links. Federal agents sweep bank and brokerage accounts of racketeers tied to underworld profits as frightened individuals disclose hidden income and repent past evasion.
A Kanawha County coroner's jury found 47 year old Wilbur Miller died from accidental gunshot wounds. His son Clarence Miller, 20, was released from jail after an inquest began. Family reports Miller bled from a thigh wound after firing a shotgun at the floor during a quarrel over dinner.
Madrid, June 18. President Azana Zamora announces Cardinal Primate Pedro Segura has been expelled from Spain to preserve public order. Zamora notes cabinet support after a five hour meeting and hopes the cardinal will stay outside Spain for some time.
In New York on June 18 the defense labeled the prosecution narrative a frameup as they challenge the murders tied to ex convict and tailor suspects. Key testimony from chauffeur Harry Schlitten purportedly places Stein Greenberg and Vivian Gordon in a Bronx night ride, prompting further cross examination and legal maneuvering.
Bluefield ministers meet at First Christian Church at 1 30 PM to discuss inviting evangelist Burl Kernham from Boston Massachusetts for a nondenominational revival sponsored by the city churches. If approved, further scheduling will follow.
Miss Margery Durant of New York halts a 7009 mile air tour with pilot Charles Lajolle in Baden Baden Germany. She praises European North African and Asia Minor flying facilities and notes the tour started from England after Croydon to Paris and multiple Mediterranean and Middle Eastern stops.
Washington June 18 Secre tary Hurley weighs a August 1 departure for Manila to inspect the Philippines with Bureau of insular affairs directing the war effort. He has met with Manuel Quezon and Major General Frank McCoy to discuss independence prospects as Congress eyes the issue next session.
Dining room offers noon plate lunches and cheap meals. Admission and event times listed with musical entertainment by Tack Ralston and his orchestra. Furniture ad promotes walnut veneer suite priced at $95 from Warlick Furniture.
The home of Mr and Mrs Charles Beavers near Finney Virginia was totally destroyed by fire last night of undetermined origin. No one was at the home, and nothing was saved. Beavers, a telegraph operator for the Norfolk and Western railway at Kinney, resided about a quarter mile east of Finney.
Mrs Elizabeth Schaefer, 34, widow, told Cincinnati detectives of a five night ordeal after four men abducted her while she was en route to a Pittsburgh grocery. She escaped when her guard slept and identified a handler from Pittsburgh, with details of a candy company manager. The report also notes beriberi outbreak tied to white bread on Newfoundland coast, urging dietary changes.
The article details multiple probation and jail sentences for prohibition law violators including Byrd Marshall and several others from McDowell Raleigh and surrounding counties. It also covers ongoing appeals in the Pinnacle Motor case and admission of F M Wagner to practice in federal court.
The Evening Post reports Richard B. Mellon and Richard K. Mellon, brothers of Andrew W. Mellon, are directors of the Koppers company which holds a $200 million contract to design and build coke ovens for a vast Magnetogorsk steel plant in Siberia. Arthur G. McKee and company aided the arrangement, with Soviet officials directing the work to Koppers. Cash for contracts reportedly deposited in Chase National Bank.
A dozen people were injured as police clashed with demonstrators protesting Mount Joy prison treatment of political prisoners in Dublin. Several arrests were reported as the unrest erupted in the Irish Free State on June 18.
The notice describes a remedy claiming relief from headache or neuralgia within 30 minutes and mentions a first day check on Gold and a Mataria check in three days. It references a 664 salve intended for Daby’s cold and outlines usage intervals.
Senator Davis argues for a mine link project to stabilize coal sectors in the Deep South and northern fields. He notes workers’ wages and brutal freight rates, describing pressures in Alabama fields and calls for UMWA involvement to set a fair scale and reverse decline.
A vintage advertisement touts ZEMO as a safe antiseptic liquid that relieves dandruff and itchy scalps. It claims cooling and cleansing effects and urges keeping ZEMO on hand for all itch and skin irritations with prices listed as 36c 0c 31,00.
Fragmentary report shows miners facing hardship as coal from other fields undersold by rivals, keeping output low and workers struggling to meet basic needs amid stalled business. Local pits struggle to sustain operations and livelihoods.
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