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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1932
Page
2
Corinth, with 10,000 residents, hopes to establish a local bank within six days as a mayoral forecast. Citizens complain of no nearby bank since an ember loss, and local funds are kept in pockets while the nearest bank is in Selmer, Tennessee, four miles away.
The Charleston district conference of Free Methodist Episcopal churches in South Charleston opens with lunch at First Methodist on Meyond Avenue. Activities include devotion, meditation, talks, and a sermon by Dr Roy McCusker. The event continues through Wednesday with leadership training, reports, business sessions, a banquet, officer elections, and a pageant address by W. S. Patterson.
The Weet Virginian reports two Chicago based insurers All-State Fire Insurance and All-State Insurance were put under advisement by the state auditor for allegedly writing policies only through malls and banning state agents. Henry B. Meier, counsel for the firms, said they would appoint agents.
Filing with public service commission seeks to discontinue agency stations at Koderfield in McDowell county Wherncliffe in Mingo county and another at Bations. Hearing set for Saturday 22. Report notes 839000 trees planted by 335 forest landowners between Pensacola and Miami.
Albany dispatch notes Franklin D. Roosevelt, age 50 and polio survivor, remains in strong health. Despite past paralysis, he achieves fitness via Warm Springs routines and daily pool swimming at the Albany executive mansion. Roosevelt’s stamina, extensive travel, and long workdays shape his bid, with aides citing his robust constitution and energy.
Morris Fox was sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined 824 in municipal court for driving an automobile while intoxicated. Ess Green faced larceny and tire theft charges tied to H. Morrison property and was referred to county probation officer. Several cases were postponed or dismissed including Spencer for assault on city councilman A. Davis and John Kirk for automobile larceny.
Mrs D H Throckmorton of Lee Street reported a theft of a white gold oblong wrist watch valued at 660. A Columbia bicycle was stolen from R O Grow of Valley Found yesterday. G H Coperton of Kanawha Street reported three vases stolen from her front porch valued at 813.
Port Worth reports a return to prewar price levels with shaves at 15 cents and haircuts around 36 cents in over a dozen shops. Most salons drop below the 50-cent mark, reflecting a broad return to older pricing amid postwar economic shifts. Harrisburg tallies show 70,000 pheasant eggs requested by sports groups and individuals for propagation within Pennsylvania.
Cleveland report says a nude colony with members paying 7.50 monthly meets weekly in a two story frame house and seeks funds to buy land for an outdoor facility to promote healthier bodies as summer approaches.
Lawrence Mass June 6 Arthur Beaulien charged with failure to support wife and four children told Judge George W Hayes he thought a couple of months in jail would do some good. Judge Hayes replied that his thoughts were similar but three months.
In Vassar Michigan Dorothy and Walter Boesnecker celebrate a joint high school graduation on June 8 marking 12 years in class with Dorothy never missing a day and Walter missing 12 days.
A prison librarian notes long-term inmates imitate society’s readers, advancing from trash to serious works. He recalls a convict who admitted not knowing article usage on entry but now studies Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, while helping younger inmates begin reading paths.
Washington University Medical School researchers led by Dr. E. V. Cowdry report an immunity serum for infantile paralysis with strength at least 30 times its own volume in the virus. Convalescent serum from recovered patients remains the only known remedy, to be used in early stages. University officials expect rapid production to meet potential gutbreak demands.
Henry Morris, 23, arrived in Cleveland hungry after riding freights seeking work. He met Circular Distributing Co. boss who first refused him. A second glance revealed Morris was his long lost brother Lester. The brothers were reunited and Henry found steady work.
Gov William Conley departs for Clarkstown this morning to address the state convention of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is scheduled to return to his office Wednesday. A police captain was confined to his home yesterday due to illness. In Casco Maine, business thrives as Milton Hancock expands a saw mill, builds cottages, plants 26 000 pine trees, and cares for properties. Free firestone applications pass through St Louis amid double the expected demand, with Red Cross Midwest distributing flour for 3 000 people and stock feed for 120 000 cattle raisers.
State trooper superintendent BR L Osborne announced the discharge of Sergeant W C Debieon and Trooper 4 1 Racker of Elm Grove Detachment for being disarmed by a bandit on Sunday. Sergeant Johyran hid beet in charge as the detachment went to search, while RK Breckus and RH Martin were sent to Wheeling to take command. The act followed failure to protect weapons at a gunpoint after the bandit entered a filling station with a gun, then fled with the officers’ pistols.
Sixty community gardens near the Dana Ferry glass plant will be kept alive by hydrauilic action from the Libbey Owens gins company and United Fuel Gas. Employed and unemployed families dependent on the glass plant will cultivate them as water scarcity threatened their subsistence. The Bas company offered 2000 feet of pipe to supply water near the gardens and the glass plant will provide free water for sprinkling along with trucks and equipment to finish the system.
In Leicester on June 6, a girl attempting an eight day fast to raise funds for her mother's operation faltered eight hours from the goal after 43 days surviving on lemon, ale and cigarettes. Promoters chose to award the 81,000 prize despite the setback.
The men of the First Evangelical church in Aberdeen plan to rent a farm to raise about 4000 dollars for the 1992 budget. Church members see the venture as a profitable fundraiser to support church programs and missions.
Currency rules turn Walsertal into an abroad area under Austro German border controls. Officials label the valley a village without a country due to export restrictions.
Middle aged persons can learn easily according to RB K Bilsw of Iowa State College who asserts lifelong education is feasible and that youth is not the only optimal period for acquiring knowledge. Gasoline prices in Finland have risen to 27 cents per gallon.
An old ad promotes Capuchine as a liquid remedy for headaches backache and anxiety. It claims near instant action and nerve relief. It suggests taking two teaspoons in water and notes availability in drug stores with 10c 3c and 0c sizes.
Patient notes claim a booklet titled Your Stomach and You offers valuable information about a new atomach formula. Described as the result of years of study, the product is advertised to soothe ulcers indigestion gas and acidity with a simple course from TOMA Inc Dept 5 5 Ligonier Pa.
Wobbly tilting blocks form a vast pavement beneath the Boso peninsula, new tiltgraph readings show. Dr Kyoji Buyehio reported that each Earth block moves independently, foreshadowing quakes but reading premonitory tilting remains unresolved.
Fort Wayne Indiana June 6 One of the largest Lincoln picture collections assembled is now held by the Lincoln Historical Foundation The 1660 item set covers the President and scenes from his era The collection will be exhibited at the foundation library joining the already extensive Lincoln literature holdings and aims to make the site the richest Lincoln information store in the nation.
The fragment notes a reference to Morrison connected to a snake agent theme and a United States agriculture department context, hinting at a government or agency involvement within a historical article fragment.
A department agent, described as a great pal of Matheney, carries a three foot king snake in his coat pocket. The snake and Matheney are close friends, and the reptile reportedly kills mice and rodents like a house cat but does not harm birds.
Berlin observes a rash of bankrupt firms leaving safes on curbs and in city forets as police run two curbside collections. Most safes join the city lost and found, abandoned like old mattresses, until an unemployed man carts them to junk dealers for a dollar eighty and earns forty seven cents more per item.
Paris police prefecture adopts an electric teaching method for English. M Confida trains about a hundred pupils in a large open-sky room using a baseball-sized wireless board with eighty word pockets. Colored lights cue responses as students practice phrases like Where do you want to go. Attendance is high and progress rapid.
Eugene Stewart of Broad Street a New York Central railroad employee is not the Stewart arrested Sunday on assault and violation of the police law, a correction issued yesterday in the local bulletin.
Charles Malone was slightly injured yesterday when struck by a car driven by William Carman of Smithers at the intersection of Washington and Duffy streets, according to police. Separately, entities in Scotland are raising funds for charity by selling heather.
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