Preparatory Arms Conclave Finishes Work for World Conference
Members recognize drafts from the preparatory conclave will form the basis for the world conference. They admit their labors were far from perfect and promise further revisions.
10 Dec 1930
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1930
Page
1
Members recognize drafts from the preparatory conclave will form the basis for the world conference. They admit their labors were far from perfect and promise further revisions.
Fragmented text mentions Woods possibly meeting a committee. Authorities or dates are unclear. contents are garbled and show OCR errors. The readable items suggest a local meeting note or notice with unspecified context. Entities are not clearly identified.
In downtown Cleveland a broken ammonia pump flooded store interiors with gas. Dozens, mostly women, were overcome and treated. many suffered temporary symptoms while several may have lasting injuries. Firefighters shut the building as repairs are organized and ambulances rushed victims to hospitals.
A West Virginia town hears Norman Thomes of New York criticize Herbert Hoover policies and the federal reserve at a Socialist party meeting. He denounces unemployment, tariff policies, and government as umpire while recalling labor strikes and mine closures in the region.
Ithaca scientists at Cornell University reveal that antiseptics act by parboiling bacteria, damaging their cells and stopping activity. Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft and Dr. Holmes Richter report adsorption of antiseptics onto microbial surfaces, causing irreversible coagulation and death. The finding suggests new paths for stronger medical disinfectants and targeted microbial control.
Francis McQuade, longtime magistrate and part owner of the New York Giants, resigns under fire as investigators widen a sprawling probe into bribery gambling and misconduct in the city’s courts. Also resigning is Magistrate George F. Ewald amid charges over pay for office and other alleged improprieties.
The federal hospital board confirms Huntington as the general site for a new 6700 bed veterans hospital in West Virginia after protests from other regions. Page 1 reports that final approval rests with President Hoover and construction start may be months away as site specifics are still to be decided.
The 110 million emergency unemployment construction program and the 860 million drought relief measure were approved by the House and Senate respectively with no opposition. The public works bill now awaits final action while the drought measure moves to the House for passage. Committee actions set funds and reporting requirements across highway, road, flood control, and park projects to be spent by November 1931.
Unemployed residents in Charleston will register today at nine stations. Volunteer registrars under civic and federal state employment bureau direction report about 1.0 percent of those registered, mostly residents. Various local organizations supplied workers including the Civics Department, Charleston Woman's Club, PTA, West Side Women’s Club, Junior League, and several churches and women’s groups.
A photographed shopper, likely finishing her spree ahead of Christmas, is described as the lucky recipient of a prize from The Gapette. The blurb notes she avoided the crowded last days before the holiday and may call to claim a prize in the festive business scene.
The West Virginia Supreme Court rejected the appeal of opponents to a bond issue in Kanawha County, upholding a January 1930 election result of 4123 to 667-55 for an underpass project. One railroad company to cover half the underpass expense. In Harrison County, the court revived a $4500 damage award to Nathan G McWhorter for riverbank flooding tied to a land dispute dating to 1817 and a Virginia Mill Act ditch project.
The department of commerce will test student pilots Owen D Murphy and others from Wortfield. Local examinees include Guy W Bolt of Charleston and Cherie Shamablin of Clendenin before formal approval.
W B Donnally dies leaving a notable American immigrant story. He arrived in the mid eighteen hundreds amid steamboat traffic and built a freighting business later known as one Doane company. Survived by his widow and six sons plus two daughters, the Donnally family remains prominent in Charleston and Fairmont communities.
An American expedition led by Ayron E Cummings from the University of Arizona arrives in Bonora to study giant fossil remains near Tonichi. Mexican officials back the project with Governor Abelardo Sobisto and Manuel San Domingo overseeing, as J L Coker mentions giant skeletons in a prehistoric cemetery by the Yaqui river.
Fragmentary description portrays convicted men who confessed expecting execution, now told they face life in Russia. Remarks imply regret and deception in the justice system, with scattered references to individuals and outcomes.
A submerged note details Nitro Water Service proposals for supplying Charleston from Mink Shoals and an intake on the Kanawha River at Levi. It weighs pumping costs versus building a 13 1-2 mile line to Mitre, with contention that filtering at Charleston is cheaper than pumping. A reply deadline was missed, with further action to page four.
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