Deadly monoxide warning after storms and celebrity deaths
An editorial warns of carbon monoxide danger from idling car heaters after Friday night storms and references Thelma Todd’s recent Hollywood death. It cautions never to idle in garages or enclosed spaces, stresses open air and ventilation, and notes higher CO risk in milder central regions versus the far north. It urges keeping cars open to air or in motion to avoid silent death.
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Weirton
Thelma Todd
Hollywood
Miss Todd
Beckley
Phone Rate Revisions By Bell System May Cut Tariffs
The American Telephone & Telegraph Company and 24 affiliates filed with the FCC new lower long distance rate tariffs to take effect January 15. Sunday interstate calls and post 7 p.m. rates will be reduced, some up to 40 percent. The changes, the sixth Bell system reduction in ten years, aim to smooth demand on facilities and impact business and private users.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Associated Companies
Federal Communications Commission
Bell System
Chesapeake & Potomac
Beckley area toll charges should be eliminated
The Register urges the Telephone Company of West Virginia to revise the Beckley territory rate structure by eliminating tolls to Mount Hope Sophia Lester and Resaco as part of a larger community. It suggests a modest rise in Beckley business rates if needed to enable freer communication and boost trade benefiting Beckley retailers wholesalers and the company.
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Telephone Company of
West Virginia
Beckley
Register
Mount Hope
Sophia
Lester
Resaco
Fruit Cake Ma’s Christmas Tradition
Descriptive vignette about Ma baking fruit cake for Christmas, savoring citron peel spice and brown sugar. The aroma fills the house as relatives humorously discuss servings, while Ma remains firm about portions, framing fruit cake as the centerpiece of Yuletide meals and a bridge to New Year’s feast.
Roosevelt Support and Bluestone Reservoir Debate
A press comment praises Roosevelt re election, urges voter gratitude and support for flood control on the New River near Hinton. It highlights the Bluestone reservoir’s authorization by presidential action, notes Sawyers of Hinton endorsing the project, and argues the dam will boost local business and coal trade, countering industry opposition. It cites Hoover's prophecy of doom over the reciprocal trade pact.
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Roosevelt
New River
Hinton
Congress
Bluestone
Charleston
Wm. H. Sawyers
Ickes Sees Fed Agencies Moving to Baltimore
The Washington Daybook notes growing federal offices and crowded quarters in Washington. It highlights four new buildings under construction, potential moves for the social security board to Baltimore, and expansion of the interstate commerce commission division, with partial decentralization already underway.
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Washington
Ickes
Baltimore
Federal
Interior
General Accounting Office
Treasury
Government Printing Office
The
Social Security Board
Motor Carrier Division
Interstate Commerce Commission
Man About Manhattan Escapades on Broadway and Texan Dreams
New York gossip notes chronicle a stylish Broadway scene at Montmartre with coeds and showgirls, plus literary talk on Sassoon and Odets. Aware of wartime verse, the piece links banter to a collector’s Texas estate plan and hints at Sally Rand’s daring performance, with designers and critics observing a blue flame motif.
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Siegfried Sassoon
New York
Caesar
Stark Young
Young
Manhattan
Texas
Crime Incorporated
Clifford Odets
Montmartre
Beatrice Lillie
Arch Selwyn
Norman Bel Geddes
Miss Lillie
Damase
Sally Rand
Broadway
Irving Eastman
General Motors Gifts 5 Million Bonus to 200000 Workers
General Motors announces a 5 million dollar Christmas present for about 200000 domestic division and subsidiary employees. Each worker employed on July 1 1935 will get 25 dollars from an appreciation fund, with those in the bonus plan excluded. Chalks go to workers Tuesday. Sloan cites improved business conditions overseas and domestically as the reason for a better year.
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Associated Press
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors
Sloan
Column of Comment and Criticism Observations and Quotations
By ALPH NSO this piece surveys public figures and topics in humorous jabs and quips. It mocks Shirley Temple merchandise, a Nebraska grocer facing perjury charges, and a Massachusetts town advocating AAA limits. The piece satirizes media, politics, law, and Harvard politics with witty exchanges and puns.
Shortwave Institute Established in Washington
A shortwave institute of America is established in Washington to promote interest in international broadcasting.
Sailor Beware to Swing Your Lady Bring at Columbia
A Columbia theater program highlights a transition from the bawdy fast plays to the arrival of Swing Your Lady following successful Sailor Beware. The note emphasizes a shift in stage offerings and specifies upcoming performances and timing.
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Columbia
Lavish Epic Film Plans Signal Hollywood’s 1936 Push
Hollywood eyes monumental productions as film lords parallel Verona and northern China settings with epic scale. Two Cities for Romeo and Juliet and Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth promise vast lots in California to stage authentic, sprawling recreations, surpassing earlier grand attempts like Ben Hur and Intolerance while box office gains drive bigger budgets and audacious studios.
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Robbin Coons
Hollywood
Verona
China
San Fernando Valley
Pearl Buck
Anthony Adverse
Mass meeting attendees and local notices in Beckley area
Lochgelly West Virginia attendees at a UMWA mass meeting at the Memorial building in Beckley include Andy Andreski C W Runions Russell Goggins and Edwin Zepp Also Tom Samuels and C W Runions attended a UMWA local meeting at Summerlee on Friday Mr H F Howell and family were called to Wilkesboro NC due to the death of William Sharpe Mrs J D Hagin and Miss Madeline Anderson visited Miss Andersons parents on Coal River Mrs Robert Canada is in serious condition at Oak Hill hospital O L Blake attended last rites of the late P D Alderson at Beckley on Wednesday Dan Vento and Luther Allen of the New River company inspection department were busy
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Memorial Building
Beckley
Andy Andreski
C. W. Runions
Russell Goggins
Edwin Zepp
Tom Samuels
Summerlee
H. F. Howell
Wilkesboro
N. C
Puff and Terry Entangle in New York Nightlife
In New York Terry Willett, after pausing the Palva River project, reconnects with Puff Harrington as she leads him through a glamorous, risky night. They drink, club, and drift past a football team’s crew, with Willett unsure of his feelings for Puff and the Washington girl, Al laire West, lingering in his thoughts.
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Terry Willett
Tropics
Washington
Bucky Corrigan
New York
Allaire West
Illett
Puff Harrington Willett
Louise
Louise Marranway
Terry
West House
Willett
Thither
Abraham Lincoln
Lancelot
Puff
Darling
Hey
Earl of Westminster
Dizzy
Christy
Gretchen Tillinghast
Ned
Joe
Babe
David Garth
Local notes from Mount Hope and area visits
Miss Eva Goodin of Cahuduy Georgia visits Estellene Hamontree. Percy Howell had a ton-sillotomy at Oak Hill hospital. Mrs. Carlos Smith visits her parents at Ansted. L Blake begins initiatory Moose Lodge work in Mount Hope. New River Co. engineers survey plan for a five-room one-story bungalow for J. F. Mitchell, to be built under J. L. Rodgers supervision. A cyclone fence protects mine transformers. Cyrus Oatridge visits Edgar Oatridge home. John Lucas attends Moose Lodge meeting. Melvin Baker visits friends at Pea Ridge.
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J. F. Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Mount Hope
J. L. Rodgers
Mr. Hope
Cyrus Oatridge
Minden
Edgar Oatridge
John Lucas
Mt. Hope
Melvin Baker
Pea Ridge
Judge Moran Says Divorce Grants Were Best Christmas Gifts
Reno Nevada judge Thomas F Moran said the dozen divorces he granted last year before Christmas were the most appreciated Christmas presents he gave. He noted Reno did not follow Denver and other cities in declaring a holiday divorce moratorium.
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Reno
Nev
Thomas F. Moran
Denver
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