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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
1
Washington proposes a bedrock minimum wage of 25 cents an hour with possible exemptions for industry, plus 40 hour weeks and varying standards. Conference committee seeks to merge House and Senate proposals while preserving strong federal oversight and potential exemptions for certain firms.
In Cincinnati on June 2 six year old Shirley Ann Woodrum described as an attack slaying victim was escorted through crowds to a juvenile detention hearing. The report notes prosecutors seek confinement with distinct charges and the court appearance details appear on Page Part 1 columns.
A brief fragment notes a student in class Abat,anew seeking relief amid unclear context. No identifiable event or outcome is provided. The text reads as a partial sentence about someone named Abat and relief. Further detail is unavailable in the readable portion.
President Franklin D Roosevelt handed diplomas to graduating midshipmen at the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis on June 2. He urged the new officers to broaden knowledge and study global issues as they enter active service and future government posts.
New Rochelle New York June 2. A theory alleging two year old Peter Levine was killed by a gunshot and the head removed to deceive ballistic tests prompted renewed search for the killer. Medical Examiner Amos O Soule of Westchester County said he believed the boy was shot in the head and the bullet removed to hide its traces.
In Princeton Florida on June 2 AP reports an army of 2000 men scoured 80 square miles of snake infested back country for six nights seeking missing James Batley Cash Jr. FBI Director Edgar Hoover flew to Miami to take command and pressure suspects as a $20,000 reward was posted for the first 100 ransom bills.
In Bethesda Maryland a car with Florida plates drawn police and federal agents after a crying child alert led to a dramatic scene. Investigators found a 25 year old woman and her father in the vehicle. the crying was later explained as the girl’s delight at a nearby stunt airplane overhead.
Federal agents had given up hope as a poignant line notes a five year old blond blue eyed youngster at 3 feet 7 inches tall. The height was measured by the father using a wall mark in recent weeks. Page 6 Part 1 Col 3.
In Eden valley near Roswell New Mexico Dr Robert H Goddard of Clark University unveils a new control method for rocket ships increasing range by about 30 percent. The technique adds post fuel steering as the vessel journeys under catapult momentum, improving guidance after burnout.
Norwalk Conn June 2 AP Lily Pons the opera star married radio conductor Andre Kostelanetz at her Silvermine estate after a license was obtained at city hall. The couple had a small ceremony with intimate friends. Pons aged 33 and Kostelanetz about three years older. This marked her second marriage following a 1933 Paris divorce from August Mesnitz.
Death toll in the Volpe Coal mine disaster near Pittston rose to 40 as rescuers found three more bodies in the gas filled shaft. Eight victims were dead on discovery. five others were wounded, three critically. Names of the dead include Mark, Poslick, Adanzio, Phillips, Lokuta, Kogalski, Wozniak, Klinka, Clark, and others seriously hurt. Officials race to determine cause while rescuers battle lethal gas and shored shafts.
Morgantown June 2 Harry Adam Stansbury 46 resigns tonight as athletic director of West Virginia University a post he has held for almost 22 years Stansbury said he has accepted another position Turn to Page 5 Part 2 Col 3
Antibes France June 2 AP The wandering Windsors near their first wedding anniversary busy and poised to settle long term at Chateau De La Croe. The abdicated king Edward VII and Wallis Warfield supervise home redecoration as delays in remodeling loom, while past separations and a thwarted labor trip color the royal drama.
The Charleston Gazette announces its candid cameraman will patrol downtown streets daily to capture in action shots and hand out cards explaining the process. Next week the paper will publish two pictures daily in the classified section with an enlarged tinted reproduction offered free if one appears.
In a rapid diplomatic shift Japan accepted most U S conditions on restitution of American property in China and return of missionaries and businessmen to Shanghai posts. Steps included restoring two high schools of the Southern Baptist mission in the Chapei district and sending an interdepartmental panel to central China to study the situation.
Six of the group face indictment in Dewey’s probe into a major financial deal. Four are under arrest as witnesses describe using a Canadian firm to substitute worthless securities for marketable ones to repay loans and seize control of assets totaling 16 million dollars. Harold Grow of Detroit testified about not suspecting the scheme as it unfolded last summer. Stephen Paine of Brookline is cited as Boston partner in the New York firm Paine.
In Washington June 2 the New Deal surged into Democratic senatorial primaries in Colorado and Nevada while a House committee gained power to investigate administration activity including the WPA. Judge Ben C Hilliard a Reno lawyer and son Albert oppose Sen Alvin Adams in Colorado and Pat McCarran in Nevada. McCarran and Adams also fought Roosevelt’s Supreme Court bill.
Berlin reports intensified tensions after a Czech police plane crossed the frontier and a Czech soldier raid on a German home in Senftenberg. Nazi papers claim a Czech squad seized a swastika flag and a portrait of Hitler, with Germany preparing an official protest. British socialite Miss Freeman-Mitford, tied to Hitler, is freed by Czech police in Carlsbad and returns to Germany with an autographed Hitler photo.
In Cedarville a United Fuel Gas line burst while two workers, H G Shinn of Glenville and Earl Riffe of Ashland, Ky, were repairing the 20 inch line from West Virginia wells to Pennsylvania. Shinn was killed and Riffe seriously hurt as the blast toppled a telephone line and forced gas onto a parallel line. No service disruption was reported.
In Pittsburgh crime report, Mrs Clara Trainer says an agile thief hid her savings of 18 dollars by the chandelier. The burglar reportedly lifted the money last night, leaving fingerprints on the lighting fixture as evidence for police.
Senate leaders failed to vote relief bill but predicted approval of a 3.422 billion measure. Barkley and Hatch clashed over an amendment restricting WPA political activity. The Senate defeated the Hatch proposal 39 to 37 and overrode committee wishes on PWA utility funding. The Maloney amendment urged compulsory arbitration for city utility buyouts.
More than one third of booths at the Charleston Home Show sponsored by The Gazette have been contracted at WCHS Auditorium. Of 41 booths, 16 are assigned to merchants and firms collaborating on the event which begins Saturday June 18 and runs five days. Final allotment will wait until all space is sold to enable orderly arrangement showing step by step home building and furnishing, including financing, landscaping and architectural services.
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