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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1923
Page
2
brisk classified note urges readers to seek brick lots offered by Stone Securities Company on the paved street. terms include one fourth cash and balance over one two and three years with six percent interest refund if dissatisfied after one year. sales touted as moving fast with limited remaining inventory.
In Mayence on June 29 a French court martial condemned seven Germans to death for sabotage. One additional man was sentenced to life penal servitude and another to five years in prison for the same charge.
In Minneapolis on June 29 the Disabled American Veterans of the World War voted to present a complaint to the Senate investigating committee against the Veterans Bureau. Salt Lake City won the 1924 DAR convention.
Deputy Prohibition Officer Eli Watkins seized a trunk at Norfolk and Western baggage room in the city containing a ten gallon keg of brandy. The trunk from Rocky Mount, NC to Bluefield leaked. Calloway the Matt Hotel porter claimed the trunk was for a guest but said the sender was not a guest. Calloway is jailed awaiting a federal hearing before Commissioner A J Hearn.
Testimony describes payments and hotel arrangements for a state witness's appearance while Basham and Reed recount claims of intimidation by union officials Blizzard Mooney Keeney and others. Marches, private guards, and threats tied to lessons from 1912 underline tensions as miners faced pressure to relocate and support families dependent on coal work.
Reed testified of a forced march led by Don Chafin with rope bound captives to corn fields. He named four men, while at Marmet a pistol threat compelled checks on a burial fund. The day included cross examination of Rev. Wilburn and testimony about Deputy Gore’s death and the involved figures.
Raymond Turner, worker for the O. W. Hefner Tinning and Plumbing Co, fell about thirty feet from a roof on Union Street Fir. He sustained a shattered right arm fracture, a broken right hip, and several broken ribs. He was taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium in very serious condition. relatives fear the arm may be permanently useless if he survives.
Chicago June 29 A. John T. Adams chairman of the Republican national committee says no wet planks will appear in 1924 party platforms. He expects President Harding to be renominated and bases the platform on Harding’s economic record and the party’s pledge redemption.
Grimsby Ontario June 29. Auto mobile tourists who meet night fall on the road between Grimsby and Beamsville this summer may roost in the trees in honeymoon huts. Archie Burland, a retired farmer, has already erected one roadside bower in the branches and plans to put up several more.
A federal grand jury indicted twenty two men on charges of violating the Volstead act for alleged illegal withdrawal of 4900 cases of Scotch whiskey and 295 cases of champagne from the Republican Storage Company on May 26.
President Harding urged Montana voters in Helena to support American membership in the permanent world court as a safeguard against war. He spoke on social order women labor and national unity then appealed for Senate approval to initiate negotiations toward adhesion. He framed it as teamwork for peace.
The crowd loudly applauded a Shriners gathering that filled its 3,000 seat venue. A speaker urged America to mobilize its strength to prevent war and ensure lasting peace.
On motion of U S district attorney Homer Elliott the indictment of 125 mine operators and miners returned February 24, 1920 on charges of violating the Lever wartime food and fuel act was nolle pressed in federal court in Indianapolis. Judge A B Anderson presided.
James A. McFarland of Dalton Georgia was chosen national commander at the Disabled American Veterans annual convention in Minneapolis. William J. O'Connor of San Francisco was named senior vice commander.
Rioting among striking steel workers at the British Empire Steel Corporation plant in Sydney N S grew so large police could not control it by night. Troops from Halifax were expected to arrive within hours to restore order.
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