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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1941
Page
17
Lois Leeds outlines skincare basics, stressing circulation for healthy skin and applying creams after astringents. Tips cover dry and oily skin, cold lotions, and avoiding powder foundations. Reader questions address eye lines, droopy mouth lines, and itching skin with practical home treatments and relaxation advice.
The piece notes FDR’s wartime appointments and the Nine Old Men lineup including Byrnes, Douglas, Murphy, Reed and Black. It argues some aides seek return to emergency duties while detailing Communist tensions within the Labor Press group and debates over garment workers’ union charters led by Dave Dubinsky.
Service was restored early last night to about 250 telephone subscribers in Reed Malden Plus evi and Campbell's Creek when Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone company repaired the line.
The article reports the Guild factions clashing over a separate charter, with main figures seeking to exercise a plain constitutional right while opposing the bolos who resist granting independence to the unit. The dispute centers on control and legal authority within the organization.
Los Angeles June 5. Retrial of three defendants in a California horse racing fixing case set for October 6. Bernard Mooney Einstoss, guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor jockey, will face charges of bookmaking and conspiracy. Benjamin Chapman and J W Kivel to be tried on bookmaking conspiracy and contributing. jury disagreed on prior trial. Willie Finstoss and Sci Greenberg were acquitted.
Three representatives of the state education department travel to Daytona Beach Florida for the second annual Southern States Work Conference on School Administrative Problems. Delegation includes Secretary David Kirby F Ray Fower and Jr C Hamilton. The conference ends June 13.
Mrs Betty Bassett national president of the auxiliary to the United Spanish War Veterans will join Charleston delegates for the 18th annual West Virginia department encampment at the Ruffner hotel starting Sunday. About 300 delegates expected. Miss Madelyn Jun of Wheeling will preside at the opening reception and tea. Local officers hosting include Mrs Kate Craige president and a full slate of auxiliary officers.
The Charleston Bundles for Britain chapter reported success after three days of a white elephant sale. Funds will buy an incubator and a sterilizer for a bombed English hospital. The sale will continue indefinitely at Quarrier street headquarters. May receipts included 221 for Hospital day and other items such as cots, clothes, and knitted garments forwarded to national headquarters.
The attorney general's office found no statute authorizing cities to hire a tax expert on a percentage basis to draft a municipal license ordinance. The opinion upheld cities’ authority to license insurance companies or agents. Assistant AG W Holt Wooddell noted alleged tax expert recruiters seek 40 percent of first year revenue, and warned such payments would divert public funds.
Springfield report states Gov. Dwight Green signed a measure raising liquor taxes. Hard liquor moves from 30 cents to 1.14 dollars per gallon while wine under 14 percent rises from 10 to 15 cents per gallon. Higher alcohol wine tax climbs to 40 cents and beer to 4 cents per gallon, with tavern owners passing the cost to customers.
Beirutt June 5 Gen Henri Dentz French high commissioner denied that Germany had troops or war planes in Syria. He condemned rumors and warned Britain that France will meet force with force in Syria.
City firemen endured a false alarm as they dragged Elk River near Washington Manor for two hours seeking a boy reported missing after curfew. The rescue effort ended when the boy walked into his home, soon after curfew, amid a quarrel with his brother who tipped off the alarm.
Diplomas will be awarded tonight at four Charleston junior highs. Woodrow Wilson leads with 1227 graduates, Thomas Jefferson reports 134, and Lincoln and Roosevelt also participate. Top students and honor speakers will join dramatizations and discussions at each campus.
The Charleston Negro Elks lodge approves $300 to fund Garnet high school band’s trip to the national lodge convention in Atlantic City New Jersey this August, announced Secretary Joseph T. Jackson yesterday.
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