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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1931
Page
6
Members of the Bluefield Gun club will hold their regular weekly practice shoot this afternoon at the traps in Cumberland Heights. Local shooters who attended the state tournament at Keysey last week will discuss various phases of the state tournament. Attendance is expected to be larger than usual and visitors are welcomed.
Donohue was found and a fund established by Mrs. Charles P Taft, widow of a late newspaper publisher, named for her daughter. It aids working women exclusively. The daughters of Mrs Donohue were notified late yesterday afternoon of their mother's death. Funeral arrangements had not been made by late last night.
Union pickets faced sheriff's deputies at Provident and Clarkson Coal mines as 2,200 strikers marched on fourteen Belmont county mines seeking an eight hour day pay reform and reinstatement of miners claimed discharged for union ties. The Big Wye mine resumed operations under United Mine Workers supervision after refusing to recognize the National Miners Union amid a wider strike in eastern Ohio and neighboring states.
Topeka Kansas June 19 P Urbain Ledoux's army of 500 unemployed white collar workers may be lucky to get 2.8 a day in the Kansas wheat harvest says labor commissioner C J Beckman If Ledncy pleads for a $4 daily minimum officials would guarantee jobs with board and room in grain districts Some harvest areas offer 1.60 for ten hours others two dollars a day
Joan W Haloren resigns from the Bluefield police chief post after two years. He cites great regret and pledges future cooperation with officers while noting possible plans and a return option to his Norfolk and Western locomotive engineer role. He previously served four years as deputy sheriff in Beaver Bond district.
Detroit baseball note reports Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers second baseman, underwent an operation this afternoon for adhesions in his arm. He has been out for nearly a month. The arm was casted. after removal, heat and massage treatments will be used to overcome the disability.
Local banks will be closed today in observation of West Virginia day. Aside from suspended activities, banking institutions will conduct business as usual and no formal observance is planned. The holiday commemorates the birth of the state, a designation set aside only in recent years.
Bob Grove chalked up his twelfth win as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Senators for the first time this season. Young Mel Harder relieved veteran Walter Miller in the game which ended abruptly under a heavy downpour.
A damaged image shows U S Wyoming towing the disabled undersea Nautilus to Queenstown Ireland after heavy seas disabled engines on its mid Atlantic leg toward the North Pole. Distress signals prompted several ships including a battleship to respond as the Nautilus search continues for a safe port. The fragmentary text continues with baseball box score details from a Washington vs Cleveland game and ends with a summary of a Yankees blowout over the home team in a late-season result.
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