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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
13
A 1935 article reports a rising trade in anti-stench bombing by theater specialists. Experts describe nonexplosive vials released to fill venues with persistent fumes, causing panic and long odor lifespans that harm theaters and costs in the millions.
Fragmentary remarks describe a poisoning or bombing context with references to perfumed venues and a bombing squad. The text also cites Mooney and a critique of U S policy toward Indian people and mentions starving men in Chicago and crop burning in Minnesota.
In London on June 18 the bishop of Exeter launched a fiery attack on democracy and the American system during debate on the India home rule bill. He contrasted democracy with Mussolini and Hitler dictatorship as his points sharpened in the House of Lords.
Miss Phyllis Greenlee hosted a Tuesday evening music recital at her Anaconda Avenue residence. The program featured Emma Rose West, Catherine Mae Greenlee, Gene Greenlee, Eileen Edgell, Dorothy West, and Connia Dixon.
The state insurance department reports fiscal year collections from insurance companies exceed last year's total by about $100,000 after eight months. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Harlan Justice says to date since April 1 collections surpass $222,914, with last year at $724,000 and year-end estimates near $880,000. He also pushes collection of back taxes owed by insurers as part of the budget plan.
Republican party leaders from state and national levels gather in Martinsburg to organize for the 1936 campaigns in the eastern panhandle. Attending are Henry P. F. Fletcher chairman of the national committee Senator Lester J Dickinson of Wisconsin Walter S Hallanan national committeeman West Virginia. Delegations from Berkeley Morgan and Jefferson counties and former West Virginia governors attend with Maryland’s Washington county guests. An ox roast band concerts Boy Scout drills and exhibits accompany the morning program.
The conservation commission announces T. C. Harbeson of Pennsylvania is appointed field supervisor for about 20 state CCC camps. Harbeson, with twenty years in Pennsylvania forestry, takes the post yesterday. The British Royal Air Force denies that its takeover of Southampton municipal airport is a response to Germany's rearmament.
The U S district engineer office plans clearing undergrowth abandoned piling and timber from Kanawha and Ohio rivers banks in the Gallipolis dam pool starting about July 1. Land owners are asked to salvage material before work begins and cooperate with government forces to remove unwarble material within defined bank limits.
Parker sburg report says the West Virginia Pharmaceutical association endorsed a state fair trade law and pledged to continue the NRA druggists code. A resolution opposing state owned liquor stores was rejected. The 1936 convention will be in White Sulphur Springs with officers nominated for mail vote.
State offices stay pressed with year end business. The auditor treasurer and tax departments work to process requisitions and license tags. In a somber note, the 2:30 p.m. recess marks the funeral of John Echols, head of the claims department.
Sidney Keen of East Bank was bound over to the federal grand jury after arraignment before Justice of the Peace Edwin Watson. Keen allegedly stole two cases of gin from a New York Central freight car at Monarch, with an associate minor arrested and sent to juvenile court. Bond set at $1,000.
The Civilian Conservation Corps will enroll 253 men at 11 West Virginia camps next Tuesday to form new companies. Cadres of 23 men and two officers will be assigned to sites as construction continues under Charleston and state headquarters supervision. By late summer the CCC expects 51 complete companies of 206 men at 51 ready camps.
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