Raleigh Register Evening and Sunday Morning masthead
The Raleigh Register published by Beckley Newspapers Corporation notes its editions Evening and Sunday Morning and carries policy on use of Associated Press dispatches. It lists A.8. Johnston as managing editor and identifies national advertising representation by Howland and Howland with offices in New York Chicago and Pittsburgh.
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Relief Eruption Divides WPA And Relief Officials
Dispute over Kanawha county payrolls pits Relief Administrator C L Allen against WPA head F W McCullough with charges of inefficiency and thwarted ambition. Public frustration grows as Roosevelt seeks nonpolitical relief administration and avoids political wrangling in shifting relief duties.
Reunion of Methodists Alters Church Governance
The United Methodist reunion unites northern and southern Methodists under one conference and constitution after a century separate, likely preserving local church life. In Beckley the change may trigger the sale of one church and merge the other congregations, with Heber Street church a potential sale candidate.
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Beclley Churches Plan Amalgamation For Community Unity
Talks among Catholic and Methodist factions hint at moving worship sites up South Oakwood and South Kanawha streets. A unified plan would unite two weak congregations into a stronger combined body within a year, boosting Methodism as a central community religious force in Beckley.
Campaign Against Slot Machines May Focus In Beckley
The state police led by Commander P. D. Shingleton push a drive against slot machines punch boards and other gambling. Local arrests hint at close trooper police cooperation for raids confiscations and penalties. The Register supports a state wide comprehensive cleanup and notes money lost to gambling should aid relief efforts in West Virginia.
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Chamber poll on New Deal stirs mixed reactions
Press comments from Columbia Record New York Wall Street Journal and Berkeley cite doubts about the Chamber of Commerce referendum. They argue the questions are poorly worded will not yield meaningful results and warn against reading too much into the national poll of 1500 members.
U.S. Chamber Referendum Probed as Guilty Ballots Warning
Oklahoma City News argues the U S Chamber of Commerce four questions on its New Deal referendum resemble a judge supplying a jury with ballots already marked guilty. The opinion portrays the measure as a biased probe shaping public verdict.
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Never Mind the Lady in Aoe TRT Seisi by David Garth
In a tropical chapter Terry Willett pursues Fabyt a while Allaire kills time at the Arundel gambling joint. Allaire plans a fast escape home while a wary Murphy cautions her about speeding. She returns from South America and reveals a dangerous edge as night drives into dawn.
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Allaire West Carves Dawn Road To Birthday Realities
Allaire West drives her blue roadster at breakneck speed from Washington to her Virginia home, pursued by a police motorcycle. She stops for a playful exchange with Officer Murphy, hints at a birthday mood, and reflects on the historic beauty of Westlands before the morning light reveals the modern era encroaching on old Virginia.
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Registerings A Column of Comment and Criticism
By ALPHONSO ll Duce, who imagines he has troubles, might get Colonel Knox to explain the bonus. Late press photos of Governor Landon, that prairie Coolidge, show him wearing a smile. Even the cleverest impersonators have their day off. No one earning over a certain salary can get a house in a federal housing project in South Boston. Getting put out for paying the rent would be interesting. With George II flashing much of his old time form asking in Ath ens, I look for Grover Cleveland Alexander to turn up next spring as another promising recruit. It seems that $1,500,000 in Chinese money is now worth only $550,000 in American money. One thus needs only to know what $550,000 is in American money, on a Professor-I say, your tubular air container has lost its rotundity. Motorist-What? Professor-The cylinder appar atus which supports your vehicle is no longer inflated. Motorist-But- Professor-The elastic fabric surrounding the circular frame whose successive revolutions bear you onward in space, has not re tained its pristine rotundness. Small Boy-Hey, mister, you shave a flat tire.
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