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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1934
Page
1
President Roosevelt signs over 120 bills and vetoes 31 as he moves to staff new agencies to oversee stock exchanges and communications. Ferdinand Pecora is floated as a possible chairman while the Hawaii cruise plans face possible delayed start.
London notes tonight rejected the American proposal to settle war debts in kind as impractical and harmful to trade. The British reply cites Dawes and says deliveries in kind are not different in effect from cash payments and calls for a permanent settlement when conditions improve.
Prestonburg Kentucky June 27 three men were killed after a dispute over a bus ride with Menifee Bradley 22 Malcolm Allen 37 and Len Nolen 30 were the victims Bradley allegedly threatened Allen who refused and Bradley fired injuring Allen Nolen drew his pistol prompting Bradley to fire multiple shots Bradley died within twenty minutes Allen died about an hour later Nolen was killed as he finished firing
Olympia Washington June 27 ten persons were killed and five injured as two explosions torn through the Dean Powder plant eight miles northeast of Olympia. The blast leveled buildings, started brush fires, and sent smoke and debris high into the sky. The plant employed sixteen workers on a shift and was nearby the Du Pont powder works.
Veteran actress Marie Dressler, confined at a friend's home in Santa Barbara, is said to be worse this afternoon from heart and kidney ailments. Doctors express little hope for recovery, with a constant bedside vigil being kept as her health deteriorates after more than two years of ill health.
Bismack North Dakota June 27 Gov William Langer seeking renomination led in early unofficial returns from 82 precincts He had 4397 votes with state Senator James P Cain 4095 and T H Thoresen 4006 in the race for governor on the Republican ticket independent Republican and anti Langer nonpartisan league respectively
A severe rain and windstorm knocked down power lines in Charleston causing an hour long blackout- the capital's business district and eastern residential area lost electricity.
Louis A. Johnson former national commander of the American Legion and a partner at Steptoe and Johnson in Clarksburg announces his bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He endorses the New Deal and Roosevelt policies and plans a county by county tour starting with a July Fourth speech in McDowell County.
A Tazewell county Republican mass meeting at the courthouse elected delegates to the Bristol district convention set for June 30 1934. The slate includes numerous local names and a sentiment that the Bristol convention may nominate one of three or four Republicans led by Ryland Craft Fred Parks or John G Anderson. A resolution declares all attending delegates from Tazewell county will vote pro rata for the county at the Bristol convention.
Washington reports clash between Republicans led by Bolton of Ohio and Snell of New York and Democrats led by Buchanan of Texas over New Deal costs. Republicans call it an orgy of borrowing. Democrats defend emergency spending as necessary to lift the economy and defeat depression.
Birmingham news reports E. L. Richardson of the labor department announcing the settlement of a strike by ore miners employed by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Talks with Woodward Iron and Republic Steel and Sloss-Sheffield are expected to yield settlements with the other three district iron makers before week’s end.
In Sutton West Virginia on June 27 three escapees bound a jailer and fled into Birch district woods. Earl Bland the 54 year old jailer died after being struck with a sawed bar. The fugitives Camden Roads Harvey E Hall Amond Mace Elliott Keener were surrounded as state police joined local officers in the search.
Relatives of Agnes Tufverson, including Mrs. Alfred Urban and her 3 year old daughter Greta Agnes, await word in Grand Rapids as the search for the vanished bride continues. The sister clings to hope of finding Agnes alive.
New York June 27 Joseph W Harriman once powerful in finance was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for falsifying Harriman National Bank books. Judge John C Knox ordered concurrent terms on sixteen counts with a stay for appeal.
Ossining N Y June 27 Mrs Anna Antonio faced execution tomorrow night after a day with her three year old son in the Sing Sing death house She claimed she could not sew due to tension and spoke of her father and daughters while awaiting Governor Lehman's clemency decision in the case tied to her alleged plot to kill her husband.
Johnson rejects the Darrow review board's second critique of the recovery administration as political fabrication. He says the board fails to probe core NRA problems and cites the lumber code as saving thousands of firms while criticizing the board's terse handling of major economic questions. The dispute centers on alleged ageery changes and coded misconduct.
In the Shanghai international settlement an angry crowd of about 300 Japanese attacked British police before dawn. They hurled bricks bottles and clubs as authorities tried to arrest two Japanese sailors. Reinforcements from Japanese naval shore patrols and British police quelled the clash.
In Harlan Kentucky an 18 year old Evarts resident Aubry McClendin died after being shot by 11 year old Lena Mae Harris at the Harris home. Lena Mae said she acted on instruction from her sister and no charges were filed. The girl was questioned by Sheriff T R Middleton.
Bluefield West Virginia gasoline prices were cut four cents per gallon effective 6 am to match competition from Virginia Side stations. Mayor W A Light had urged a five cent reduction, and distributors expedited a price drop to 11.9 cents plus tax for straight gasoline and 13.9 cents plus tax for Ethyl. Old Bluefield prices stood at 20.6 and 22.6 cents respectively.
Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz of New York prepare to fly from Floyd Bennett field with 400 gallons of gasoline toward Harbor Grace Newfoundland to attempt a non stop flight to Warsaw. They expect to depart tomorrow morning.
Wallace W. McNeal filed formal declaration to seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fifth West Virginia district. The Bluefield magistrate, a longtime party leader, will oppose incumbent John Kee of Bluefield and runs for a third time after winning nominations in 1918 and 1920 and polled the largest Democratic vote in the district to that date. He pledges support for Rooseveltian policies and continues as pastor in the district.
Norma Millen, 19, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact in the Needham Trust robbery and the slayings of two policemen. The verdict came after a five month case linking her to her husband Morton Millen and two co-conspirators. She faces a mandatory death sentence for murder.
Washington dispatch notes Ferdinand Pecora as a leading candidate to head the proposed stock exchange commission for a one year term. Jam Landis of the Interstate Commerce Commission is also favored for a subsequent leadership role if Pecora's term ends. Roosevelt weighs the mission amid labor disputes and other debates.
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