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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1937
Page
4
A twelve year old Toledo boy shot his principal after she refused to call a girl classmate for ice cream then shot himself. Both victims likely recover. Carlton Matson suggests motive lies in adolescence and unspoken grievances, warning about gangster imagery in media fueling violent fantasy.
An English professor at a Minnesota college proposes new terms broster for one brother and one or more siblings including a sister, and sproster for two or more brothers with one or more sisters. The plan fuels confusion and laughter as readers resist adopting the terms.
A New York peace note reports manufacturers hold 135 million dollars in unfilled orders for warplanes. The article notes the unknown number of planes and cites civilian deaths from Japanese bombs, urging world cooperation for peace amid looming aviation production.
A press comment notes Japan plans a national contest awarding prizes and a medal for a marching song to welcome troops home from China. The prime minister will award, with winners chosen by November for a prompt finish. Sponsors seek a melody as popular as Tippec and Over There.
A ten year old girl, housed by a charitable woman, has received clothing from the Red Cross but still lacks a coat. The appeal asks readers to donate a nice coat to room 308 in the Bair Brothers building or call Mrs. George Bright at 889 to arrange pickup. The note mixes personal reminiscences and local observations with local color about northern lights, horse drivers, and community life.
Central Press columnist Charles P. Stewart argues Roosevelt’s Bonneville remarks favor decentralization by checking centralization and slowing hypertrophy of big cities. He notes sub- centers welcome the idea, while large urban press shows mixed enthusiasm and Washington residents recall older, healthier towns.
The Central Press writer jests on foreign upheaval rumors amid a World Series clash of New York teams and quick quips about fall fashion. He pokes fun at perceptions of Indians, Africans, and colonial history while noting changing headlines and the pen’s power over conflict imagery.
A Washington Daybook dispatch contrasts American policy and life with a string of paradoxes. It notes vast dam construction and irrigation plans, debates over farm production, wage and hour bills, court appointments, racial labor dynamics, and warship subsidies. The piece highlights tension between restraint and expansion, neutrality and aid, price fixing and antitrust efforts, and civic health while traffic deaths rise.
Screen Life in Hollywood notes Arzner, tired of being Hollywood’s only woman director, urges women to enter directing. She recalls a seven-year apprenticeship before her first film, and cites stars she has directed. She argues directing offers a serious career, akin to law or medicine, and highlights four women producers who rose to executive ranks recently.
George Tucker recalls Os good Perkins, a notable but unglamorous actor, dead in New York. He frequented Frankie and Johnnies on West 45th, often with Alfred Lunt and other stars, discussing the craft. Perkins prized brains over luck and believed self-made breaks define a career.
A critical look at So Great A Man, a Napoleon period novel by David Pilgrim, notes the publisher and bookseller praise on the jacket, a tricky preface on authenticity, and mentions three recent serious Napoleon works. The reviewer finds the book leisured yet the prose lively, with some reservations about its novelty and timing.
A humorous reflection contrasts urban ignorance with rural life as a city visitor mistakes farm tools and produce. The writer muses on vegetables, hams, and a future where hogs overturn human abundance, concluding that pigs are finicky eaters but justice may come from hogs consuming humans.
Federal agent Neill discovers Janet, a gun, and Prescott Fannings dead body in a yacht cabin at Absalom Harbor. He hides Janet in a disused liner and teams with local investigator Bonniger to uncover who killed Fanning. Suspects include Eyster and Buckless, with alibis and distrust toward Kettering. Neill himself becomes a suspect as the case tightens.
Neill confronts Buckless aboard the Absalom yacht and lays out a plan to uncover the murderer of Fanning. Buckless, wary yet curious, weighs a 50 50 share offer in exchange for help, while Neill seeks the killer's identity and the hidden loot as the pair plot a joint escape.
A one time banker in Grafton remains jailed after a directed verdict of acquittal in the murder trial of G H A Kunst. Judge Herbert W. Dent ruled the state failed to prove that blows caused Miss Hattie Kunst’s death. Kunst had been jailed eight months awaiting trial. Sheriff Herbert Evans welcomed him back to the jail saying he may stay as long as he desires. Witnesses testified of bruises on Miss Kunst and that the brother had slapped her to make her mind. The state argued illness from heart disease and that a shock could have caused death.
A. Hansbarger, assistant state tax commissioner, announced revocation of seven beer dealer licenses after hearings for dispensing statute infractions in Charleston. Notices went out to 20 others to appear for hearings between October 18 and 22. included are Roy Baldwin and Squire of McDowell County.
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