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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1931
Page
1
Becket shoppers flock to Beckley where dollar day prices echo 1911 levels as retailers offer a wide array of one dollar bargains through Saturday and Monday. Merchants anticipate brisk sales with early hours, late store closures, and theatres aiding attendees by handling packages while police facilitate parking access for visitors.
Buffalo, Feb 27 The Cayuga Indian woman Lila Jimerson stands accused of murder in the 1930 slaying of Mrs. Clotilde Marehand. After nine days of evidence the prosecution and defense rested and summations were set to begin, with Nancy Bowen testifying that Jimerson planned and aided the murder. Jimerson denies knowledge of the crime and says she never loved Henri Marchand.
Nine men were transferred from Raleigh county jail to a bus en route to Moundsville prison with a planned stop in Charleston. Included are Clarence Lewis and Ben Maiden for store robbery, Will Givens for unlawful wounding, Alfred Peters and Jobin Couklely for breaking and entering, William Gillespie for attempted rape, and Dominick Belloni for second degree murder. Grace Washington, serving five years for involuntary manslaughter, was left behind due to no bus room and may wait about two months for admission.
General Augustin Morales Olaya, minister of war, plans aerial exploration of Colombia using American-made planes. He announced the purchase of three new planes like the Ricaurte, connecting with Benjamin Mendez’s historic flights. The war ministry aims to photographically map the Andes regions inaccessible to standard surveying, directed by Captain Ernesto Buenaventura, a US Army observation school graduate.
In Charleston on February 27 a Kanawha county circuit court jury awarded J. B. Stafford of Huntington $1,000 damages in a suit against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Stafford sought $100,000, claiming injuries from a fall from a Jackson River bridge near Clifton Forge Virginia in October 1928 while employed as a painter, leaving him paralyzed below the waist. He testified on a stretcher.
Samuel Hill, renowned railroad builder and lawyer, died in Portland at 74 after influenza and complications. Ill since February last while en route to Salem for a state legislature address, he had undergone a major operation recently and was improving before declining. His son James Nathan Hill of New York was present. Hill aided wartime road projects for allied nations and hosted notable figures, including Marshal Joffre, visited Queen Marie of Romania in Maryhill, and entertained European leaders. He hailed from Deep River, North Carolina, but spent most of life in the West and served as an overseer of Harvard University.
B Holland of Beckley employed at the Stamford operation of Elkhorn Piney Coal company received a compound fracture of the left leg at 11 45 last night when struck by a coal cutting machine. He was taken to Beckley hospital by Rose Funeral Home ambulance. Attaches called the break extremely bad. Holland also testified in the $40 000 damage suit for Miss Browning begun in circuit court, noting he was using crutches after a prior ankle injury and that his car previously collided with a machine driven by Cover H Tolley last September in the incident linked to Boots Browning.
Charleston West Virginia February 27 A bill to provide for redistricting of the state for congressional representation was submitted to the house of delegates yesterday by its committee on redistricting One change was made transferring Wayne county from the fifth district to the fourth district The measure substitutes a version previously introduced by Delegate Meadows Democrat Raleigh
Jury deliberations stretched through the morning in the Lina Boots Browning vs Cover H Tolley case. Browning seeks 40000 for permanent injuries from a September auto crash at Johnstown road and South Kanawha street. Tolley testified he drove at high speed. Browning and Holland supported excessive speed claims.
The Associated Press reports New York trading opened irregularly higher on February 27. United Gas Improvement Sears Roebuck Columbia Gas Johns-Manville National Cash Register Case Vanadium rose a point. Auburn up 1.75. Consolidated Gas and American Tobacco BB up 0.75. U S Steel X dividend up 0.5. New York Central down 1. Westinghouse Electric down 0.75. General Electric and Radio about 0.25 lower.
St. Louis reports Ban Johnson, former baseball leader, remains seriously ill in a local hospital with little change in his condition, as of February 27.
The Charleston legislature debates the Hodges-Watkins water power bill on the house floor. Delegates Mott Kenna and Tucker present opposing views, with a long debate anticipated before a vote on redefining project terms and increasing revenue under the 1929 act.
Charleston Feb 27 By a margin of one vote the senate passed the boxing bill 12 to 11 to legalize boxing in West Virginia. It now goes back to the house for concurrence in minor amendments. A road survey resolution was rejected after a spirited fight, with postponement adopted. A small-loan bill allowing up to 300 at 3.5 percent monthly was passed. A constitutional amendment for limited property classification and tax provisions was introduced in the senate.
In Hastings Nebraska two bank robbers abducted two police officers after a gunbattle with a wounded robber named Robert Hendricks, 36. The bandits fled toward Kansas, last seen near Sylvan Grove, with Kansas patrols asked to aid. Hendricks was captured at Belvidere with prognosis poor. The abducted officers were later found. one tied to a fence near Grafton, the other free from a chair in a schoolhouse and walking to Sylvan Grove.
The Physical Education Class under Mrs Scherer at Concord College Athens will meet at the Armory on Saturday morning at nine o'clock.
Cyclonic storms across southern Italy left at least 27 people dead and millions of dollars in damage. Cities like Trapani Messina Foggia and Naples reported collapsed houses flooded streets and wrecked bridges as rivers overflowed. Damage assessments awaited days as reports continued to trickle in.
Dr K M Jarrell at Raleigh General hospital shows fair progress two days after emergency operation on February 8. Though recovery was not rapid initially, officials say his condition has improved and he is expected to be able to leave the hospital soon.
Mrs Hl R Shields, formerly of Beckley and now living in Marlinton, is recovering from an illness that required her admission to Beckley hospital last week. Her husband is a state trooper, formerly stationed in Beckley.
New York Feb 27 Surrogate Foley ruled Joseph Pulitzer estate may dispose of the World newspapers, clearing the three sons to sell the morning evening and Sunday papers. The sale to Scripps-Howard merged the World papers with the New York Telegram into the World Telegram for about 85 million in cash and notes.
Six black men were electrocuted at the South Carolina state penitentiary for the killings of two white men. The executions took almost two hours with 16 spectators and officials present. Tillman Poozer confessed to murdering night watchman Mills during a robbery. The other five—Robert Eldredge, Lindsey Cantrell, James Hickman, George Bird, and Ernest Thomason—were found guilty in the murder of merchant Hendrias during an attempted holdup, with four of them captured in Bluefield West Virginia.
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight. Saturday brings increased cloudiness and warmer temperatures followed by rain in the afternoon or evening.
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