Beckley Editorial On Child Hunger And Charity Shortfall
An editorial reprinted from the Spencer Times-Record cites a Columbia Teachers College director and a tale of a hungry child to urge relief aid. It notes the Associated Charities drive has about 3,500 of 5,000 pledged, risking winter relief for Raleigh County children without funds.
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Spencer Times-Record
Beckley Post-Herald
Clyde R. Miller
Teachers’ College of
Columbia University
County faces choice in charity appeal
In Raleigh County citizens are urged to fund private relief efforts allied with the welfare board. The appeal notes that broad, impersonal requests draw slower responses than targeting John Jones and his hungry children, and asks whether a public spotlight on poverty is the greater hardship or the faster aid.
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John Jones
Jones
Charity drive to aid Raleigh county hunger and cold
The article urges a flood of small donations from local residents to fill a war chest for Associated Charities. It notes 45,000 will be without help this winter, with 1,500 able to give one dollar each to fund food and warmth for Raleigh county youths. Send contributions to R. M. French at the Bank of Raleigh in Beckley, West Virginia.
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Raleigh
Associated Charities
Raleigh County
R. M. French
Bank of Raleigh
Beckley
W. Va
German Credits Next Laval Consideration
Premier Laval returns to home waters after Washington and signals he will press the British government to address German credits as a follow up to talks with President Hoover. He notes disbelief at newspapers since New York trip, while his entourage monitors Berlin developments. A conference with German Ambassador Von Hoesch is planned after a French Cabinet meeting tomorrow.
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Associated Press
S. S. Ne de France
Laval
Washington
Hoover
New York
Berlin
Leopold von Hoesch
Seasonal Upturn In Fifth District Business
Richmond November report notes a seasonal upturn in general business for September and early October, with fall trade beginning in September though totals lag recent years. Banking shows withdrawals, rising currency in circulation, lower loans, and higher rediscounts. debits reflect usual seasonal rise. Commercial failures fall 10.5 percent from 1930, but liabilities rise about 50 percent. Agriculture remains strong with abundant crops and food, while coal production rises seasonally. West Virginia leads regional output. building permits rise in Clarksburg and Huntington with notable increases in valuation.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Federal Reserve
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
United States
Clarksburg
Huntington
Bluefield
Charleston
Aged painter Mary Curtis Richardson dies at 84
San Francisco reports the death of Mary Curtis Richardson, renowned portrait painter, at her home after a month of illness. The 84 year old artist had exhibited works in London, New York, Washington and other world art centers.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Mary Curtis Richardson
Man Slain In Pistol Fight With Policemen
Newark reports Aleresco Sanchez 35 slain after drawing a pistol on Officer Ike Burris in a pistol fight following a taxi cab wreck. Earlier in Columbus he shot and wounded Thomas Trower 48 during an attempted holdup at the Farmers hotel, and Sanchez matched the description of a suspect in three Saturday night holdups.
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Associated Press
Newark
Aleresco Sanchez
Columbus
Thomas Trower
Farmers Hotel
Trower
Sanchez
Ike Burris
Philanthropist Seymour Mandelbaum Dies in Baltimore
Seymour Mandelbaum, 84, philanthropist and last surviving founder of Fidelity and Deposit and Pioneer Surety companies, dies in Baltimore on November 2 in a brief obituary notice.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Seymour Mandelbaum
The
Fidelity and Deposit Company
Pioneer Surety Company
South's Second of Its Kind Dies in Hotel Home
The second of its kind in the country died yesterday in his hotel home, with his wife at the bedside. The brief notice notes the death occurred locally and identifies the deceased as a prominent national figure.
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South
Oil price up in Kentucky pipelines and wells
Louisville Kentucky November 2 An increase of ten cents per barrel effective yesterday in the price of crude oil in Kentucky pipelines announced by the Stoll Oil Refining Company The new price is sixty cents per barrel at the well.
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Associated Press
Louisville, Ky
Kentucky
Stoll Oil Refining Company
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P. P. Pharr
Beckley Hospital
Beckley, W. Va
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Kelloggs Hydrothearpy College
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