Investment firm offers to finance Beckley Water purchase
A Logan firm tentatively offered to finance Beckley Water buyout with funds backed by bonds paid from revenues. The letter to The Register notes municipal ownership would let the city operate the waterworks without profit, servicing debt instead. The response from Magnus and Co praises municipal ownership and cites Logan precedent, with details continued on page 5.
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Logan
Pure Water Company
Beckley
Beckley Water Company
The
Register
Youth Admits Larceny Guilty in Court
Damon Honaker, 19, pleaded guilty to petit larceny after a felony charge was pressed by Prosecuting Attorney W. A. Thornhill Jr. He had been charged with breaking and entering a store months ago, stealing two revolvers and $1.50. Judge Harley Kilgore sentenced him to one year in jail, suspended, with five years probation.
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Damon Honaker
Dorothy
W. A. Thornhill, Jr
Honaker
Harley Kilgore
Sam Miller
Maple Meadow
Kilgore
Thorn
Negress Held for Maiming in Beckley Jail
Lilly May Merritt, a Beckley resident, was jailed by city police and is to appear in police court tonight on a felony maiming charge. Police Chief J Q Stover said he has not confirmed full details, but a witness described the party as intoxicated.
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Lilly May Merrit
Beckley Negress
J. Q. Stover
Friend Held As Murder Witness In Campbell Case
Mrs Marie Bibler Phillips a 1936 Olympic gymnast aged 25 backed by her husband reasserted belief in the innocence of Mary K O Connor 19 held as a material witness in the slaying of five year old Nancy Glenn Labor Day. She said the death was accidental and would fight new charges Mayor S Davis Wilson plans against both girls based on a waiter affidavit from a children's camp where they worked last June.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Marie Bibler Phillips
Mary K. O’connor
Nancy Glenn
Phillips
S. Davis Wilson
Wilson
State Official's Daughter Hurt In Car Crash
Miss Eleanor Mc Laughlin of Charleston daughter of J B McLaughlin state commissioner of agriculture was injured in an automobile accident on route 73 north of Fairmont. She suffered cuts bruises and other injuries while riding in a car owned by her father driven by D M McMorror. The vehicle skidded rolled over twice and collided with a second car driven by Albert C Moyer of Fairmont. No one in Moyer's car was hurt and his car was not badly damaged.
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Associated Press
Fairmont
Eleanor McLaughlin
Charleston
J. B. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
D. M. McMorror
Albert C. Moyer
Moyer
One Slug Kills Pair of Rabbits
Austin Flint of Beckley recounted how a single .22 shell killed two rabbits in Monroe county near Balangee. He and three relatives were present when Cecil Lemoun asked him to shoot a rabbit. Davis could not see it, so Flint fired, hitting two rabbits three feet apart. one through the head and the other in the hip with a broken backbone.
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Austin Flint
Beckley
Monroe County
Balangee
Cecil Lemoun
David
Davis
Unusual John A Boone faces 1935 death suit hearing
Two witnesses described John A Boone as unusual before his 1935 death while a court case seeking to void his transactions from 1921 to 1935 proceeds. The suit, valued around 300000, names multiple banks and Boone’s heirs, with testimony detailing his failing business capacity and odd behavior.
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John A. Boone
Boone
Felix You
Beckley
Bank of Raleigh
Raleigh County Bank
Beckley National Bank
Beckley National Exchange Bank
National Exchange Bank
Equitable Holding Company
John A. Boone's Brothers
J. Q. Hutchinson
Raleigh
L. S. Eccles
Federal District
John Williams
Si Meadows
Williams
Bank of
P. H. Brown
Pearlsburg
Brown
Snyder
Prosecutor Bardin Held for Grand Jury Action in Bribe Charge
Justice of the Peace Joseph W. Lawson ordered Mason county prosecutor William H. Bardin held on a warrant accusing him of accepting $200 as a bribe after an indictment against Oscar Sayre for assault was dismissed. Bardin denied involvement in the dismissal and said the payment was for legal services in a civil damages case.
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Point Pleasant
Joseph W. Lawson
William H. Bardin
Mason County
Oscar Sayre
Bardin
Sayre
Fisher Sayre
Rardin
Lewis H. Miller
Circuit Court
Love Theft Case Sentences Milwaukee Woman
Helen Nowakowski, 24, was sentenced to five to eight years after being accused of embezzling 11500 dollars from a Milwaukee department store. Prosecutors said she acted to help her married lover by giving the money to his wife to ease her distress.
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Milwaukee
Helen Nowakowski
Central Press
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight Chronicle Published
New York reviews detail Last Flight a memoir-like account by George Palmer Putnam of Amelia Earhart’s globe circling attempt. It traces her life from a Des Moines fairground sighting to the Lae to Howland leg, ending with the uncompleted jump.
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Associated Press
NEW York
Amelia Earhart
Harcourt, Brace, and Company
Amelia
George Palmer Putnam
Miss Earhart
Des Moines
Aviatrix
Fred Noonan
Brazil
Dakar
South Africa
Africa
Singapore
Arabia
Lae
New Guinea
Stock Leaders Rise Amid Quiet Market Tends
Tenders rose in quiet trading led by U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors New York Central Pennsylvania Railroad U S Rubber Woolworth Sears Roebuck DuPont and General Electric. American Telephone showed a small retreat in the session.
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Associated Press
New York
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
New York Central Pennsylvania Railroad
U. S. Rubber
Woolworth
Sears Roebuck
Dupont
General Electric
American Telephone
Weather outlook with rain and warming trend
Occasional rain tonight and Saturday with a slight warmup tonight. Mild Saturday then much cooler Sunday. Yesterday's high reached 54 and the low last night was 38, according to L. A. Mauck.
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L. A. Mauck
Japanese Take Over Shanghai Communications
Japanese forces tightened control of Shanghai by seizing all Chinese government communications in the International Settlement and native areas. Shanghai troops advanced on Chinese defenses, crossing Lake Tai toward Nanking as Chiang Kai-shek vowed to resist and predicted the regime would fall, while Japanese leaders warned of possible inland invasion to end resistance.
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Ted
Shanghai
Japan
Chaing Kai-Shek
Lake Tai
Nanking
Yangtze
Chiang
Orient
China
Green Urges Tax Cuts to Boost Home Ownership
AF of L leader William Green argued real estate tax reductions would more effectively spur time ownership than cutting labor costs. He favored an interstate plan to ease tax loads and opposed guaranteeing steady annual wages in place of variable hours discussed at a White House conference with President Roosevelt.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Congress
Green
Afoil
White House
Croup Fatal to Infant in Eccles
James Ray Midiffer a three year old Eccles boy died at 12:15 yesterday from croup after a one week illness. He is survived by parents and siblings Nele Carson 14 Margie Ruth 12 Inez Jeanette 9 Rosalie 4 Lena Mae 6 all of Eccles. The body will lie in state at home until 2:30 tomorrow when funeral services will be held there. Rev. T M Powers to preside. Burial will be in Mount Tabor cemetery.
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James Ray Midiffer
Eccles
Croup
Nele Carson Midiffer
Margie Ruth Midiffer
Inez Jeanette Midiffer
Rosalie Midiffer
Lena Mae Midiffer
T. M. Powers
Mount Tabor Cemetery
Roosevelt Plans Tax Revision and Economic Stimulus
President Roosevelt announced a tax revision push once Congress is ready and outlined steps to spur private housing finance, curb federal road-aid appropriations, and advise department heads on accelerating purchases for the current fiscal year. He encouraged reading his message to the special session and stressed careful consideration of all legislation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Penn considers rail rate hike in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission weighs a proposed intra state rate increase as the Bituminous Coal Association asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to reconsider a three to 11 cents per ton rise on inter state shipments of soft coal. Denis J. Driscoll said the ICC withdrawal request is under review and a final decision is due by Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Tarrisburg
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
National Bituminous Coal Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Denis J. Driscoll
Public Utility Commission
National Association
ICC
Commission
Driscoll
Tench Returns to Prosperity from Montana
Alva Tench, long absent from Raleigh county, has returned with his 12 year old son Donald to Prosperity after 18 years in Eureka Montana. He describes Montana high altitude and cold winters but productive summers and notes dry beans cannot be cooked there. He is a farmer and trapper, son of late W S Tench, a Raleigh county teacher. This marks his first visit back since leaving for Montana.
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Alva Tench
Raleigh County
Eureka
Montana
Prosperity
Donald
Tench
W. S. Tench
Raleigh
Shady Spring
Moose to induct class and remodel Beckley lodge hall
Moose to induct class Beckley Moose aimed at increasing 400 members will start 60 Sunday in a class named for J Alfred Taylor. Jack Sleigh and S B Thompson lead a drive at W D Nace and local lodge committee. They report lease of Beckley Dry Cleaners building with remodeling cost about 3500 dollars.. New quarters set for January 1 with a New Year party planned.
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Beckley
Moose
J. Alfred Taylor
Jack Sleigh
Supreme Lodge
W. D. Nace
Tams
The
S. B. Thompson
Barwood Street
Lodge
Beckley Dry Cleaners
Thompson
L. B. Phillips
W. A. Thornhill
Thanksgiving auto toll reports in West Virginia
West Virginia observed Thanksgiving with one fatal auto accident. Paul Eubank, 47, was killed at Gary. Eleanor McLaughlin, Charleston, daughter of J. B. McLaughlin, suffered lacerations and bruises near Morgantown. Five others injured in an auto truck collision. Harry Pence, 19, Huntington, died when his hunting gun discharged accidentally.
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Onharleston
West Virginia
Paul Eubank
Gary
Eleanor McLaughlin
Charleston
J. B. McLaughlin
Morgantown
Harry Pence
Huntington
Nurses Rescue 14 Mothers and 12 Babies in Fire
In daytime chaos at St. Ann's maternity hospital annex in Cleveland firefighters and nurses evacuated 14 mothers and 12 newborns, one baby barely 12 hours old, to safety as fire swept the building.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
St. Ann’s Maternity Hospital
Police Guard Greyhound Line in Federal Mediation
Greyhound buses moved under police protection in several cities as a federal labor conciliator resumed peace talks between striking drivers and eight Greyhound lines across 16 states. John J. Conner said he would meet separately with company representatives and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen officials after a breakdown in negotiations. He described the talks as deadlocked and doubted a joint meeting would occur.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Greyhound
Greyhound Lines
John J. Conner
Labor Department
Brotherhood of Railroad
Conner
Santa Arrives to Be Greeted by Thousands in Beckley Parade
The Beckley Santa Claus parade drew what may be the largest crowd in the city, with thousands along a sixteen block route. Jubilant spectators lined five to six deep on sidewalks and streets as police managed traffic after the march. Children filled the scene, with mothers peering from storefronts and youngsters perched on shoulders throughout the crowd.
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Beckley
Mark Twain High School Band Wins Contest
The Mark Twain high school band took first place in the contest today earning $25 and a silver trophy. Mullens high school finished second for $115 and Stoco high school third for $10. Judges were W. H. McGinnis Jr., Worth Harper, and E. L. Kinkead. The event occurred at a courthouse window as bands played past the building. Miss Lillian Ryder of South Oakwood avenue won a $5 prize for best decorated bicycle and displayed a poodle in a crib between her handlebars.
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Mark Twain High School
Mullens High School
Stoco High School
W. H .McGinnis Jr
Worth Harper
E. L. Kinkead
Lillian Ryder
South Oakwood Avenue
Becketty Beckley Christmas Parade Opens Season With Floats
The Beckley parade sparked chaos and cheer as boys and girls cried out for a view while horses cleared the way. Santa showered candy, clowns and storybook figures entertained, rain dampened some plans, and civic club floats dazzled the crowd as storefronts prepared for a window-trim contest judged that night.
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CCC
Rotary
Lions
Kiwanis
Consolidated
Raleigh Steam Laundry
Beckley
C. D. Crawford, Jr
Crewe Maples
Walter Burke
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Water Co
Cincinnati
Hunter
P. M. Snyder
Mount Hope
Leo Loeb
Conner Hall
Samuel Biern
Hutchinson
F. N. Bacon
Fayetteville
C. T. Rose
Sault
Catherine Edgar
Greyhound Line
Santa
Mark Twain
O. B. Harris
Hamlin
Bo-Bo
Mother Goose
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