Hemphill Boy Wounded In Ambush Along Welch Rail Line
Police report a 12 year old Hemphill lad, Eugene Carlisle, wounded in a reported ambush on a Welch to Hemphill route. He was treated at Grace hospital for a bullet to the left hip. His 14 year old brother William was with him. motive not established.
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Welch
W. Va
Hemphill
Grace Hospitll
Eugene Carlisle
William Carlisle
Buster Dotson
Grace Hospital
Michigan and Irish Each Place 4 Men on Navy Team
Navy selects an all opponent football team with four players from Michigan and four from Notre Dame. Duke Missouri and California supply the other three places. Army receives none. Ends Dick Rifenburg and Leon Hart receive recognition along with tackles Al Wistert and Al Derogatis.
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Annapolis
Michigan
Notre Dame
Navy
Duke
Missouri
California
Army
The
Academy Monthly
Dick Rifenburg
Leon Hart
al Wistert
British Miners Set Production Record
British coal miners reached an eight year production high last week and are close to the 1948 target of 211 million tons. Output to date totals 201,987,800 tons with 9,012,200 tons left to reach the year end goal. Deep miners have produced 190,545,900 tons toward a 200,000,000 ton target while strip miners exceed their 11,000,000 ton target by 440,000 tons. The note also mentions the Boston Bruins’ 25 year NHL history as the first American team in the circuit.
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London
Ministry of Fuel and Power
Britain
Government Seeks Supreme Court ruling on Texas tidelands
Attorney General Clark asks the Supreme Court to affirm federal jurisdiction over tidelands off Texas and Louisiana, a case tied to potential oil wealth as federal and state claims clash over Gulf coast waters from Sabine Pass to Grand Cheniere. The move follows Navy and Interior findings of salt dome structures offshore and refines a long running federal effort.
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Washington
Clark
Supreme Court
Texas
Louisiana
Navy
Interior Departments
Gulf of Mexico
Sabine Pass
Tex
Grand Cheniere
Congress
California
College Grid Bosses To Study TV Policy
The NCAA will discuss a national television policy at its January 7-8 San Francisco meeting. The gathering follows the adoption of the sanity code and will feature Clarence P. Houston reporting on compliance. Also meeting with the NCAA are football, baseball, track coaches associations and the sports division of the American College Public Relations Association.
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Chicago
Notre Dame
Midwest
National Collegiate Athletic Association
San Francisco
NCAA
Clarence P. Houston
Associated Press
American Football Coaches’ Association
American Association of College Baseball Coaches
National Track Coaches Association
American College Public Relations Associaon
Sid Gillman named to coach Cincinnati gridders
Sid Gillman, famed for Miami Ohio and two platoon football, becomes head coach at the University of Cincinnati. The former Ohio State end and West Point line coach succeeds Ray Nolting after UC board ousted Nolting. Gillman led the Redskins to a 31–6–1 record from 1944 to 1947 and briefly guided Miami before moving to West Point.
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Cincinnati
Sid Gillman
Miami
University of Cincinnati
Ohio State
West Point
U. S. Military Academy
Red Blaik
Gillman
Ray Nolting
Texas Tech
Xavier
Bus Passenger Lacks Yale Spirit
Newport News dispatcher reports a bus passenger claimed a house fire to trigger a fire drill. Fire crews rushed to a residence only to find a lighted Christmas display in a front window. Georgia Tech once beat Cumberland 222 to 0 in 1916, the largest college football score on record.
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Newport
News
Georgia Tech
Cumberland
Fiduciary Notice to Creditors for Two West Virginia Estates
The Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield WV as Executor for Virginia B. Spangler and Ruth White as Administratrix for Opie B. White estate call all creditors to file verified claims by July 1, 1949. Beneficiaries must appear to protect interests. Dated December 14, 1948 by William T. Hancock Commissioner of Accounts.
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Virginia B. Spangler
Flat Top National Bank
Sluefield
Opie B. White
Ruth White
Bluefield
West Virginia
William T. Hancock
Miner Charged In Wife's Death After Beating With Razor Strap
Welch West Virginia December 21 A coal miner Mike Melinchak was charged with murder and jailed in McDowell county for beating his wife Beulah Marine Melinchak to death with a razor strap after a week of heavy drinking. State trooper A C Nestor said the death came from internal hemorrhages and a head wound. Melinchak, an employee of New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal, confessed to the incident saying the wife demanded whiskey and was refused.
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Welch
W. Va
Mike Melinchak
McDowell County
A. C. Nestor
McDowell Detachment
Melinchak
Beulah Marine
Nestor
Havaca
Irving Saunders
New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
Tojo Finishes World Testament Before Executions
Tokyo report says Hideki Tojo completed a last testament to the world as six associates await gallows. General MacArthur's staff may have set the execution hour. U S Supreme Court denial of intervention confirmed. Buddhist chaplain Hanayama says condemned men seek comfort in religion in their final days.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
MacArthur
U. S. Supreme Court
Shinsuo Hanayama
Sugamo
Tojo
Japan
China
Seishiro Itagaki
Kenji Doihara
Hanayama
Ireland Proclaims Republic as Last Ties to Britain End
Dublin reports President Sean T. O Kelly signed the external relations act repeal ending Erie s link to the British commonwealth and paving the way for a full fledged Irish republic. Proclamation of independence may follow after January 21 as Britain and Ireland resolve citizenship and trade questions.
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Erie
Britain
Republic of Ireland
Sean T. O’kelly
British Commonwealth
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Deaths and Funerals In Kopperston and Nearby Areas
Herbert Saunders died Monday at his Kopperston home at 4 pm. Rites are at Community Church Kopperston at 11 am with burial at Resthaven Princeton about 2 pm. He is survived by wife Mabel Vaughn of Clay county and two children, plus brothers and sisters. The body of Pvt Berlin Owens killed in action July 11 1945 will arrive Grundy Thursday noon. Funeral services for Fridge at Greenbrier Baptist church 11 am with Rev Heyward Coller and Rev Emory Neal officiating. burial in family cemetery with daughter Mrs Hugh Shott Jr. Rites for Mr McLane in Palm Beach this afternoon.
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Kopperston
Resthaven
Princeton
Mabel Vaughn
Clay County
Floyd Saunders
Ida Hager Saunders
Pvt
Berlin Owens
Saipan
Grundy
Greenbrier Baptist Church
Heyward Coller
Emory Neal
Hugh Shott, Jr
Mr. McLane
Palm Beach
Final rites for James A Swatts at Hawkins Funeral Chapel
James A Swatts 68 died Sunday at home 4012 Bluefield Ave. Funeral conducted 2 PM at Hawkins Funeral Chapel by Rev. Winton R. Houck. Interment Maple Hill Cemetery West Graham.
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James A. Swatts
Bluefield Avenue
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
Winton R. Houck
Maple Hill
West Graham
Death of Joe Thompson Farmer 73 in Spanishburg
Joe Thompson 73 a native of Raleigh county died at his home Sunday night. Born November 20 1878 to the late John Floyd and Beckley Cole Thompson he was a farmer of Spanishburg. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM today at Spanishburg Baptist church with interment in Reed cemetery Spanishburg.
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Spanishburg
Raleigh County
John Floyd
Beckley Cole Thompson
Spanishburg Baptist Church
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Welch plumber Muncie Mitchell dies after cerebral hemorrhage
Welch West Virginia December 21 funeral services for Muncie Mitchell 59 a well known local plumber who died Monday night in a Welch hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from O J Douglas mortuary chapel. Rev. John Roy Wolfe will officiate and interment will be in Woodlawn cemetery. Graveside rites by Masonic lodge with members as pallbearers. Mitchell a Gary native lived here all his life and served in World War I. He belonged to Painter Poroni Post 1021 VFW McDowell county lodge 112 AF and AM American Legion Welch group and is survived by his widow two sons one daughter two half brothers one sister and a granddaughter Susie Mitchell.
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W. Va
Muncie Mitchell
O. J. Douglas
John Roy Wolfe
Woodlawn
Masonic Lodge
Gary
Mitchell
Painter- Porroni Post
McDowell County
A. F
A. M
American Legion Post
Walter Mitchell
Columbus
George A. Gentry
Lou Vernon Mitchell
George Franklin
E. S. Franklin
Bossevain
L. B. Kirk
Pageton
R. M. Carter
Wilmington
Del
Susie Mitchell
Seven day old Carol Sexton dies in Bluefield
Carol Noreen Sexton seven day old daughter of Mr and Mrs W C Sexton of Freeman died at Bluefield sanitarium at 8 20 last night Funeral held at 11 this morning at the Bramwell home of grandparents Rev Rexrode Bramwell Methodist Interment Woodlawn cemetery Survived by two brothers paternal and maternal grandparents Frank S Cameron Mont Vermont and Mason Sexton Bramwell
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W. C. Sexton
Freeman
Bluefield Sanitarium
Mason Sexton
Bramwell
Rexrode
Bramwell Methodist Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
Ex-Fireman Arrested in Norfolk False Alarm Probe
Norfolk police arrest Carlton J. Snow an ex fireman at Arcade hotel amid a spate of false alarms downtown. The 4:05 p m start pace spanned an hour and a half with automatic callouts to two alarm fires. Snow denied pulling any boxes and said he left the fire service years ago.
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Norfolk
Carlton J. Snow
Arcade Hotel
Robert L. Woodard
R. E. Kowalski
Kowalski
Snow
Funeral services for Mrs Sarah Crawford in Tazewell
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for 84-year-old Mrs. Sarah Crawford of Tazewell Virginia who died Sunday afternoon after a long illness. She was a sister of Mrs Julia Bragg Sparks of Bluefield. Burial followed at the New Cemetery in Tazewell.
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Sarah Crawford
Tazewell
Julia Bragg Sparks
Bluefield
New Cemetery
Rites held for Edward Davis of Richlands Va
Edward Davis 61 died after a paralytic stroke in a Richlands hospital. Funeral services at Layman’s Chapel in Richlands with Rev. Tommy Patrick and Rev. Nelson Barker officiating. Burial in Hawkins Cemetery. Survived by wife Nannie and four sons Elbert Jay Andrew Ben. two daughters Lorraine Mary. five brothers Leonard Howard Dave Walt Bez. one sister Lou Page. Body moved from Farmer Funeral Home yesterday morning.
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Edward Davis
Richlands
Tommy Patrick
Nelson Barker
Hawkins Cemetery
Davis
Jeff
Lizzie McGlothlin Davis
Tazewell County
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Amonate
Nannie Davis
Elbert
Jay
Andrew
Ben Davis
Lorraine
Mary Davis
Leonard
Howard
Dave
Walt
Bez
Lou Page
Jenkin Jones
Farmer Funeral Home
Morgantown Businessman James A McLane Dies in Florida
James Allen McLane 72 prominent Morgantown businessman died yesterday in Palm Beach Florida after a lingering illness. He had lived in Florida for five years. He was son of the late Dr C H McLane and Mrs McLane. Survivors include his widow a grandson and two sisters Mrs C L McIntosh Ravenswood and Mrs McDermott who lives in this city.
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Morgantown
J. H. McDermott
Palm Beach
Fla
McLane
C. H. McLane
Marshall Plan Could Be Used Against Dutch in Indonesia
Government officials study using Marshall Plan funds as leverage if the Netherlands defies a possible cease fire in Indonesia. The option is explored at the State Department and ECA headquarters with no official threat, noting $298,564,675 to the Netherlands and $61,790,958 to the Netherlands Indies allocated so far this year.
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Washington
Indonesia
Netherlands
United Nations
United States
State Department
Economic Cooperation Administration
Netherlands Indies
Ex Cab Driver John Love Found Dead in Cumberland Garage
A 37 year old former Bluefield cab driver John Lester Love of Elkhorn was found dead in a Cumberland road garage shortly after 2 pm yesterday. Autopsy by Dr. Marshall Sinclair showed death from lobar pneumonia with no sign of foul play.
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Bluefield
Posse DeShazo
Cumberland Road
John Lester Love
Elkhorn
Yost
Howard Jarrett
Marshall Sinclair
DeShazo
McDowell County
Love
Arnold G. Porterfield
Porterfield
Jarrett
State Cpl
Tandy to Be Installed War Kiwanis President
War West Virginia December 21 T K Tandy principal War Junior High School will be installed as president of the local Kiwanis club in ceremonies January 13. Other officers include G L Bambrick vice president Homer H Gottlieb treasurer and board members Dr A B Carr G L Bambrick R P Liddle Grady Higgins and Ed Rhinehart Otto Sharitz retiring president will conduct the installation service Eddie Arcaro unique Kentucky Derby four-time winner.
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W. Va
T. K. Tandy
Kiwanis Club
G. L. Bambrick
Homer H. Gottlieb
A. B. Carr
R. P. Liddle
Grady Higgins
Ed Rhinehart
Otto Sharitz
Water bill credits shown for November interest deposits
Notice to water consumers from West Virginia Water Service Company states November bills reflect credits for interest on deposits due November 30 194%. Credits are issued where interest accrues to 30 cents or more.
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West Virginia Water Service Company
Public Auction of Lot 9 Laurel Creek Mercer County WV
Pursuant to a Mercer County West Virginia chancery decree the special commissioner will sell Lot 9 Section 1 on the Johnson Investment Company plot at public auction. Cash in hand day of sale at the Mercer County Court House front door in Princeton on December 30 1948 at 11:00 am. LeRoy Katz special commissioner duly certified by clerk L T Reynolds.
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Circuit Court
Mercer County
West Virginia
Max Turk
G. L. Turk
American Loan Company
Robert Bruce Hutchens
Sallie Hutchens
Laurel Creek
Johnson Investment Company
Mercer County Court House
Princeton
Leroy Katz
Ias
L. T. Reynolds
Notice of Sale of Automobile at Bluefield WV Auction
Notice states an auction will be held January 6, 1949, at Star Motor Sales Bluefield WV for cash to the highest bidder. The car is a 1941 Buick sedan serial number 14112282 and motor 54311033, surrendered by Ells Ray Perry to Union Finance Company for default on deferred installments. H Rosenthal, Partner, Union Finance Company.
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Star Motor Sales
Bluefield
West Virginia
Bramwell Road
Bluewell
Ells Ray Perry
Union Finance Company
H. Rosenthal
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