Mayor West to tour Caribbean with Navy goodwill group
Mayor A Harry West accepted a navy invitation to join an eight person civilian leaders delegation on a goodwill trip to Cuba and the Caribbean. The group, departing from Norfolk or Washington this Saturday, will visit Guanatanamo Bay and other stops, returning around December 13 or 14 aboard a cruiser or new aircraft carrier. The delegation will meet at Admiral Ainsworth’s Norfolk HQ at 9 AM December 8. The report also notes Lake Titicaca as the world’s highest navigable lake on the Peru Bolivia border, two and a half miles high, 139 miles long, 100 to 1000 feet deep.
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A. Harry West
W. L. Ainsworth
USN
Fifth, Naval District
Norfolk
U. S.avy
Cuba
Caribbean
Navy
Washington
Guantanamo Bay
Admiral Ainsworth
Teen Se
Lake
Titicaca
Peru
Bolivia
Dr Newman To Speak Here At University Club Meeting
Vice-President Walter Newman of Virginia Polytechnic will speak December 8 at 4 p m before VPI alumni and University Club members at the University Club. Newman recently became VP of the college and was formerly assistant superintendent of public instruction for the Virginia State Board of Education in Richmond. Expected guests include Dean Miles and Mrs H B Redd. A VPI 1946 football game will be shown after the address.
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Walter 8
Newman
Virginia Polytechnic Ineunnte
University Club
VPI
Virginia State Board of Education
Richmond
C. RP. Miles
H. B. Redd
General Alumni Association
JOUAM To Hold Meet This Evening
The Junior Order of United American Mechanics meets at 7:45 this evening at Red Men's hall Bluefield avenue to plan a box supper. The event on Saturday December 7 at 7 o clock raises funds for the Ninth district meet February 8 in the West Virginian hotel ballroom. Attendees include JOUAM and Daughters of America from Princeton Welch Davy Mullens Layland and Rathelle and state officers are expected. The Twin City Council No 14 Degree team conferred the degree in Princeton this week. Managua the capital of Nicaragua has been rebuilt with modern earthquake resistant buildings after the 1931 disaster.
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Order of
United American Mechanics
Red Men's Hall
Bluefield Avenue
JOUAM
Daughters of America
Ninth
West Virginian
Jouam and Daughters of America
Princeton
Welch
Davy
Mullens
Layland
Rathelle
Twin City
Unemployed To Hit High Mark In Strike Embargo Effects
Pittsburgh dispatch notes industrial surveys on the coal strike and embargo predicting a sharp rise in unemployment within weeks. About 2,000,000 workers, including 400,000 UMW, face idleness. Chicago and Detroit areas anticipate sizable layoffs across auto, metal, and manufacturing sectors as plants suspend operations.
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Pittsburgh
Nfe
United Mine
Michigan
Detroit Chamber of Commerce
Detroit
Jayoffa
Chicago Association of Commerce
Illinoiis Manufacturers Association
Tllinois
Chicago
Tri-State Industrial Association
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Nofi
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
New Jersey
Wisconsin
California
Workforce Cuts Hit 17,000 Workers With 10 Day Decline
An unspecified source reports 17,000 employees to be laid off today and expected to drop to zero within a week or ten days. An additional 1,600 glass workers in West Virginia are slated for unemployment.
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West Virginia
Parsons And Page Resign As GOP Committee Members
Roy Scott Post No 39 American Legion will meet Friday evening at 8 at Legion home on North Mercer Street. Joe Gibson Commander. Parsons and Page resign from the GOP committee as noted in this community notice.
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Parsons
Page
GOP
Roy Scott Post
American Legion
Legion Home
North
Mercer Street
Joe Gibson
Church meetings and meetings of missionary groups announced
This afternoon eight o'clock church services at Mount Zion and Blake Chapel A M E Zion. The Junior Missionary Sodery meets at six, the Reading circle at two, and church services begin at 7:80. The note also lists resignations and reorganizations within the Republican party and several auxiliary meetings and choir gatherings across local churches.
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Jupior Missionary Sodery
The
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Enior Missionary and Reading Circle
Mount Zion, Baptist Church
Norfolk, Ve
O. L. Burke
Republi
Bethel A. M. E
Blake Chapel
Ilness
Lester 8. Parsons
Norfolk
Zion
St. Mary’s
Ulysses Woodson
Alguid
Clara Bundy
Drs. Frettl
W. M
Young ‘Women's
Missionary Society of ‘Blake
M. EB
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Northfork
W. Va
DIAL
Bluefield West
Bill & Bobs Grill
Bluefield Ave
Crowgey Savsage Company
DR. Walter
Managua
Nica- Tagua
News OF the Colored People
Lawrence C. Page
Thomas &. Woodtward
Suffolk
Sidney H. Kelsey
I. Dovell
Roanoke
Oats Parsons
Harry F. Byrd
Kelsey
Congress
Porter Hardy
Woman's District Convention
Hartwelly W. Va
Bernetta Moss
Bessie Adams
Eureka Temple
Jones Street
Missionary Society
North Side
Board of
Coles
Mien
Sri
Seo
ATLAS
Esso
U. S
Canada
Esag
Eure
Broad
Gice-life
Warrenty
NOVES
Standard Oil Company OF
Monroe County
Charleston
Robert Effinger
Bos Josiph
Crowder & Freeman
Bland
ST. Bluefield
Bluefield, W. VA
Cotton At Gay
Crisp Ag Holly
Uffie, Bias’ and
Tickrack Trim, Co
Betty Betz
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