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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
3
Thousands greet Mrs. FDR as she arrives with Bernard Baruch and Mrs Ickes to Pavis Elkins College. The first lady praises graduates and urges individuals to live beyond themselves, urging service and achievement.
Crowds greet Mrs Roosevelt across crossroads and villages during a long day. Aged couples wave flags, a mother presents a lamp from a historic bridge, and a town committee offers a lamp as a keepsake. She stops in Philippi and Alderson before the convoy returns to Washington.
Report shows heavy drought with North Dakota 12 inches, South Dakota 72 inches, Minnesota 0.62 inches, Montana 46 inches. Forecaster Kincer predicts more showers tonight and tomorrow in Michigan, northern Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, and western Michigan as drought deepens. W. P. Day says rainfall factors are forming, though end not yet assured.
The White Sulphur convention opens with W C Given as president and D R Richards as vice president, with H B Lewis as secretary treasurer. Speakers include John J Cornwell William Cutherlson and Walter Rose. Officers will be installed after reports, and a golf tournament with new trophies will run two days.
President Wallace outlines a long range relief program as critics debate federal payments seen as drought crop insurance. The report cites reduced wheat and forage crops, rising livestock losses, and 50 percent water cuts in irrigated districts, while rainfall offers tentative relief and better germination prospects for new forage crops.
From the Gulf of Mexico moist winds push into the middle west while a northeast moist wind from Hudson Bay collides, creating copious showers as north winds meet warm gulf air. The clash of moist cold and warm air signals unsettled conditions across multiple areas.
Hoover and other Republicans in Topeka Kansas hailed H P Fletcher as a potential chair whom foes opposed. The party eyes Chicago offices as the likely base while the new platform, drafted by a nine member policy committee and approved by the committee, earned formal endorsement.
Former President Herbert Hoover, titular head of the party, did not take an active hand in the gathering. He urged the committee to give due representation to the youth of the party as the session proceeded.
The article notes a vote to name eight subcommittees to encourage formation of more Young Republican organizations. Outside the committee room, Fletcher declined to discuss the fall campaign until conferring with the committee's steersmen.
A report notes that attendees left for Philadelphia to attend a meeting of the Republican state committee on Saturday, highlighting party activity and regional political engagement.
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