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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1935
Page
4
The Raleigh Register carries a Friday afternoon edition dated June 21 with standard publishing details. It notes solicitation of news from Associated Press and local reports, and outlines subscription rates for Beckley West Virginia area and mail subscribers outside Beckley.
West Virginia labor chiefs led by Van A Bittner say they will back Roosevelt for president and Neely for senate, denying any gubernatorial run by Bittner or Townsend. The stance leaves Republicans scrambling as no clear WV candidate emerges for the state ticket ahead of next May primaries.
The German press reports show Hitler's censorship backfires by fueling word of mouth rumors. The article notes censorship fuels gossip and spreads unverified information, while claiming the regime gains nothing from denying truthful news. Intelligent public opinion seeks accuracy despite censorship.
Reports indicate a resurgence of wild game across the Northwest as populations rebuild after years of decline. Hunters and conservation groups note elk deer and small game sightings increasing, signaling improved habitat and food sources in regional forests.
Plains reports thousands of elk, moose and deer across western Montana and northern Idaho. Foresters credit range adaptation, cougar extermination, coyote control, preserves, and artificial salt grounds. Despite funding limits, the forest service collaborates with state game departments on disease, parasites, and predator control to restore game.
Johns Hopkins University faces a mood downturn as endowment securities underperform. President Joseph S. Ames says the university would sacrifice Maryland state aid of $67,000 annually rather than allow faculty to be constrained by the teachers' oath bill. He stresses the institution’s reputation must not be prejudiced.
Editor Jim Clendenin of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch weighs the Springfield grass roots Republican gathering. He praises broad, semiliberal trends but laments the lack of a clear stand on minimum wages and maximum hours. The Fairmont Times cites the critique and contrasts with currents in Young Republican sentiment.
The U S Supreme Court denied federal jurisdiction over New River and upheld West Virginia’s authority in the Hawk’s Nest power plant case. Attorney General Homer A Holt is praised for landmark wins in chain store tax and gross income tax cases and other state interests.
A Washington Daybook report describes the House private calendar day where hundreds of minor bills and claims are debated. It notes 40 private bills passed in hours amid a mix of positive and combative exchanges, with wrecking crews challenging over claimed sums. The scene highlights personal motives and political theater in Congress.
New York portrait of Basil Zaharoff the elusive European power broker known as the Mystery Man of Europe. Rumors swirl around his origins wealth and affairs as a staff of secretaries and Hindu attendants guard his Chateau Balincourt life. A curious anecdote recalls an editor chasing a contact who vanished boarding a hotel check out to Italy. The piece also notes dancer Angna Eaters adopting a reversible name Anita.
A column of short opinions and quips covers ball players turning umpires ex-robbers seeking plays in youth, a Chicago professor quote about marriage, quintuplets readings, circuses in Chicago, a Paris bar by Georges Carpentier, Il Duce and Italy job plans, a beggar joke with a housewife, and a gas station gag with a tongue seal line.
A 12 year old boy, Denny Fisher, was electrocuted when a broken power line fell onto a telephone wire near Frame, ten miles from Charleston. Coroner W F Work said the boy touched the energized line and died yesterday.
Hollywood executives foresee a bloodless color revolution after Becky Sharp previews. The Technicolor release, with Miriam Hopkins and Frances Dee leading a strong supporting cast, showcases color’s dramatic potential in Brussels ballroom scenes and costuming, while sound advances and new equipment reshape studios and theaters.
China’s ministry of industry aims to cooperate with private interests to build a tire factory in Nanking to reduce the annual tire import bill which has surpassed 2 million dollars as the country expands its motor highway network.
Laurie Moore becomes a widow after her husband is lost attempting a Pacific flight. Mark Albery, owner of an airplane factory, shows interest in Laurie who admires him. She travels back to London from Liverpool where her dancer sister Gladys has a show opening. A gruff railway worker saves Laurie from a fall on the train, and she seeks to thank him.
In a crowded train compartment Laurie meets a brusque blind traveler who mocks women yet opens to her with rare clarity. Their uneasy exchanges grow warmer as he recalls loss of sight, hinting at a hidden past before passing toward St Pancras and future meeting with Mark Albery.
Niagara Falls N Y June 20 a human chain pulled Clarence Bell 19 of 1540 Page St St Louis from swift rapids above the American falls He clung to a rock about 40 feet from shore almost unconscious Rescue work by Reservation Police Officer Michael J Senf and three taxi drivers saved him after he said he planned death by own action following a quarrel with Luke Walsh 16 Both were detained as authorities consider disposition
In a June 21 speech, Patrick Duncan minister of mines forecast South Africa will see 14 new gold mines capitalized at 115 million dollars within six years. The projects are expected to produce gold and employ about 1,000 white men each.
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