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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1937
Page
4
John D Rockefeller outlines essential laws of fair dealing and strong study of controlling conditions. He warns against shortcuts, urges larger ambition, and notes panics from 1893 to 1907 testing resilience. He praises Mr Morgan's decisive help and advises business men to face truths and follow mercantile laws.
In Memphis the AL society cares for Shirley Ann born after her mother’s death, seen as possessed by Chinese friends. In Racine 17 month old Dukle Simmons, son of Al Simmons, follows his father’s games by radio from home for a homer. In Knoxville Billy Payne, deaf-mute parents believed he could not speak until he jumped at a horn, now he talks. Fort Pierce 12 year old William Dusse, tired of orphanage, stowed away on a Bal more bound freighter seeking a new life.
The Duke of Windsor and the Duchess thank friends for kind messages on their marriage and seek peace privacy and consideration. They commend journalists for courtesy amid speculation, pledge openness on important news while avoiding secrecy.
A feature motion picture production is under way in Czechoslovakia. Details on studios teams and cast are not provided in the available text.
Grover Whalen, president, announced there will be no fan dancers at the New York World's Fair in 1939. He outlined features in a Lasulny prospectus, noting limited parking for 23,008 cars and stating Sally Rands will have none.
ANNAPOLIS Md June 3 U S Navy graduates received diplomas as 320 midshipmen became ensigns. Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers superintendent urged the class that future service rests on the rigorous work done at the academy and compared it to a ship moving forward only after months of prep and training.
Wheeling, June 3. Police recovered the body of Ber Lysack, 24, a Weirton millworker and boxer, from the Ohio river north of Wheeling after he plunged in from the excursion steamer St Paul at Beechbottom on Decoration Day. Coroner Dr. S. Bobes has not set a date for an investigation.
Seventeen year old Gladys MacKnight and her 19 year old sweetheart Donald Wightman were sentenced by Judge Meaney in Jersey City to 29 to 30 years at hard labor for the murder of MacKnight’s mother. Both remained mute as the verdict was announced and were led away between guards.
In a tribunal chamber the scene unfolds with Edgar BircKaight and his wife, as two high school sweethearts are revealed in connection to the murder of 47 year old Mrs Helen Mac Knight last July. The origin of the crime remains disputed as the pair face the doors closing on them.
MOUNDSVILLE June 3. Dr C F McClintie warden at the state penitentiary said Donald Seabolt and Joe Smith escaped from state road camp No 46 at Walkerville Lewis county. Seabolt was sentenced from Kanawha county on a breaking and entering charge while Smith had only three months left of an 18 month term.
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