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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
5
In a Fourth of a series about London's Soho underworld, Detective Inspector Jock McBogey tracks a veteran confidence trickster at a luxury hotel. The Colonel uses forged income tax papers to imply vast wealth, while staff notice his regular abuse of rooms and valuables.
A feature on hotel detectives led by Jock McBogey who guard London's luxury hotels. It explains their methods to deter thieves and maintain guests' privacy, including disguise, private luggage codes, and a private blacklist, with notes on handling drunks and precarious situations.
In Wheeling two sign painters, Albert Pultz 35 and Danny Gold 45, were seriously injured when a rope on their scaffold broke causing a 40 foot fall onto the sidewalk. Pultz suffered a compound left wrist fracture and a broken jaw. Gold a broken hip and possible internal injuries.
The Federal State Crop Reporting Service reports adequate temperatures and rainfall improved pastures to fair to good across West Virginia. Hay harvesting remains rapid. corn is growing well at knee height. wheat ripening. apples and peaches sizing well with prospects for an excellent crop. Above normal temperatures and rainfall last week, with Beckley receiving the most rain and Huntington the highest temperature.
The West Virginia Board of Optometry will hold three day examinations in Charleston beginning July 11. Nine applicants seeking registration to practice in West Virginia will take the exams, said board secretary Dr. Eugene W. Beatty of Parkersburg.
Logan court faces delay as 34 more jurors are summoned for Melvin Loveless murder retrial amid a pool of 139 available jurors. Judge C C Chambers ordered the panel the eve of the trial in the same room where he was convicted last June for the slaying tied to a robbery and gambling money at a Logan apartment. Co defendants testify for the second trial while defense attorney Harry Capehart plans seven witnesses. Loveless, once Charleston hotel owner, is linked to a Charleston numbers racket and the April 1953 killing of Mrs. Sarah Reed.
An outbreak of brucellosis at C. Henry Harman & Son near Tazewell, Maryland, decimated a herd of beef cows. Eighty eight cows and four bulls were shipped to a Baltimore commission firm, with meat deemed safe for consumption.
Mrs. May Bedwell, 28, waived a preliminary hearing in the pistol death of her husband Ed Bedwell after alleging he beat her with a mop handle over her giving two cans of beer to neighbors. She is jailed in Wyoming County with no bond set. Magistrate Preston Wilson presided.
Norfolk readers report a strange sale by the U S Customs Service where staff confiscations were auctioned off. Bidding ran high with one man paying 26 dollars for six bales of peat moss valued at 24 dollars locally.
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