Lad Struck By Auto In Bluefield Neighborhood
George Blankenship, 8, son of Mrs Helen Wankenship, 724 Bluefield Avenue, was struck and injured by a car driven by M Y Peery near Frank Wallace’s residence on Ulua Meld Avenue Saturday. Doctors reported the boy’s condition serious but improving. Mrs Peery suffered nervous shock. Deputy Sheriff J H McMullin said the accident was unavoidable as the child dashed from the south curb. Peery attempted to brake and steer away but struck the boy with the right fender.
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George Blankenship
Helen Wankenship
Bluefield Avenue
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield Aventue
M.Y. Peery
Norfolk and Western
Bluestane Junction
Peery
Bluefield
Mrs Ella Pendleton of Norton Dies After Operation
Mrs. Ella Pendleton 57 wife of C B Pendleton Norton Va died at 2 30 yesterday morning at St Luke s hospital after an operation last Monday She had previously been a patient five years ago and underwent an operation then The body will be taken to Nerion for funeral and burial Monday She is survived by her husband an employee of the Norton Grocery two daughters and one son
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Mra
Dia Pendleton
C. B. Pendleton
Norton
St. Luke's Hospital
Mra. Pendleton
Nerion
Arvius
Norton Urocery
Cherry Street Route 16 Opens in South Bluefield
The Cherry Street route 16 project nears completion with a 1.6 mile detour connecting Maryland Avenue and Augusta Street. Road engineers under C. H. Boggs supervise, removing 72 thousand cubic yards from a ridge cut and building a rock base for a durable footway.
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Nether Diwiadem
Highland
C. H. Boggs
J. N. Smith
Cherry Street
Maryland Avenue
Bouth Bluefield
Norfolk & Western
Poplar Street
Road Commission
Bluefield Avenue
Augusta Street
Princeton Avenue
Bland Street
North Street
Chamber of Commerce
Bluefald Rezidente
A. T. Hall
New Year Gala, Local Businesses Advertise Services
A collage of local ads lists services from the Mary Lee Beauty Shop on Raleigh Street to wine and business college enrollments. It also covers a New Year’s Eve Gala at a West Virginian hotel, a mid year term for Fort Fun and a turkey dinner at the Naleigh Hotel. commentary on Bluefield public works mentions street cuts, stadium completion, Route 62 improvements, and a bridge project, praising work relief programs while noting public criticism.
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West Firetnia Business College
Fortufartma
Winefeld Business Sollee
Bailey Bulling
W. Tf
Cunninghamt
Muanager
Tle
Waya
Kyte Brice
Hina
Chamber of Commerce
E.G. Lilley
Wood Lawn
Baceyg Bowl
Norfolk and Western
Blueheld Avenue
South Bln Feist
Frank &. Rawley
Chamber of Commeres
Euch
Bluefield
Isore
Ballay Wa
Federal men nab pal of baby face fugitive
Montong to Washington and Seattle, Guinane said. He was en route to San Francisco when he visited Shasta to renew a six year old friendship. He was broke and within three hours after recognition, Chase was in the Staats jail, Guinane said.
Two Americans Held in Germany Amid Desertion Scan
Reported today that two American men are detained in Germany as a wave of desertion from the Nazi ranks is noted. Father Bungarten, described as one of the last privates in the territory and a near last Catholic, is counted among those involved in the broader German field.
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Father Bungarten
Leningrad Firing Squad Ends 14 Terrorists Lives
Report from page one notes the Leningrad firing squad executed fourteen alleged terrorists tied to anti-Soviet groups. The piece blames migrant white guard landlords and capitalists, accusing external enemies of using such factions to undermine the Soviet state.
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Leningrad
Rupestay General Military League
Thrauskasin
Moscow
Disastrous drought warned by weather bureau expert
Pittsburgh reports a weather bureau climatologist J B Kinzer warned the Great Plains face recurring dry cycles. He blamed farming expansion into arid land and noted past warnings were ignored. He linked previous wet cycles to 1930s drought patterns and urged caution for future settlement and cultivation.
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Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
J.B Kinzer
American Association For the Advancement of
Great Plains
United States
Great Plaina
Kinzer
Akl
Fie
Weather Bureau Acientista
Great
Searchers Fail To Find Trace Of Missing Airliner
Part of a continued report recounts searchers scanning the northern area amid deep snow as observation posts monitor for signals from the missing airliner. American Airlines, owner of the lost ship, dispatches radio tests every 15 minutes to relay progress to crews.
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American Airlines
Surprise Witness Allegedly Links Hauptmann to Lindbergh Kidnapping
Flemington New Jersey on December 29 reports a trial witness from the Bronx and Spanish American War veteran claims Hauptmann went to New Jersey the night of the Lindbergh kidnapping and would not return, accusing the German carpenter of work at Hauptmanns home. The witness declined to name or disclose details. The defense meanwhile notes Curtis, convicted of knowing the kidnappers, offers to testify, creating a prosecutorial dilemma as the state weighs the offer.
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Flemington
N. J
New Jersey
Wis
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Hauptnearn
Hauptmann
Thaat Hauptmann
New Jeraey
Penely
Hauptman
Lloyd Fisher
Lione Itichard Hauptman
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Aldo Dulder
Curtis
Fisher
David T. Wileniz
Mary Pickford to press divorce to end marriage
Los Angeles December 23 Mary Pickford moves to quickly end her divorce suit once filed in superior court last year. Dougina Warburbanks sails from New York for Europe amid reports of a film expedition to the South Seas. Lawyer Loyd Wright says the action will proceed after January 1 to end rumors of reconciliation.
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Los Angeles
Fitndon
Mary Pickford
Superior Court
Apouga
Dougina Wairbanks
New York
Wairbanka
Einoma Judas
Bairbanks
South Seas
Aghley
Lord Ashley
Vairbanks
Gald
America
Loyd Wright
Misa Pickford
Christmad
Manufacturers oppose unemployment plan with payroll tax
The National Association of Manufacturers denounces any unemployment insurance plan requiring compulsory industry contributions. It cites British experiments and argues no benefit from a contributory system. The group backs general unemployment insurance but rejects payroll tax funding, aligning with major business groups in opposing such proposals.
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Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
Pny
Chambers of Commerce of the
United States
Accused Kansas City Slayers to Face Trial
Federal Judge Merrill H Odataday ordered eight defendants to trial Monday on conspiracy charges in the Union Station massacre of four officers and Convict Frank Nash. Demurrers were argued for Richard T. Galatas and others including Elizabeth Galatas, Frank Mulloy, Louie Bracol, and Herbert Farmer and wives, over alleged involvement in the June 12 1899 gun killings linked to Verne Miller and the Pretty Boy Lloyd gang.
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Kansas City
Merrill H.'Odataday
Union Station
Frank Nash
Afl
Verne Miller
Ingres
Pretty Hoy
New Deal Aims At Ducks With Refuges And Funds
Roosevelt proposes an eight and a half million emergency relief package to back wildlife protection. The plan includes state cooperation, new waterfowl refuges, and drought relief payments to farmers as a major effort to flood lands for duck production and restore hunting grounds across the Northwest and East.
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Roosevelt
Lane Matheur
Oregon
Mattanmuskett
North Carolina
FERA
Jay N. Darling
Bureau of Biological Survey
Camp Pires Club of America
New York
New Deal
Moso Game Bird Foundation
Mississippi
Connecticut
Phosphorus Menace to Ducks Removed Near Aberdeen
Abrroed area near Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland has been dredged and covered with earth to remove a phosphorus contaminated zone that killed canvasback ducks. The project, funded by the Public Works Administration, aims to restore safe feeding grounds for migratory waterfowl and aids conservation efforts long urged by biological survey officials.
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Hla
War Department
Public Works Administration
Army Corps of Engineers
Proving Ground
Biological Survey
Boiler blast buries workers near Powellton
A boiler explosion near Powellton left Delmar Oxley and Samuel Runyon buried in the wreckage as 25 others were hospitalized, many critically. Services were held for miners Thomas Craft and Jerome Walters, while bodies were sent to Crab Orchard and Leech. Investigators J. M. Hall, W. A. Melkown, and L. D. Allison from Washington and Columbus led the probe.
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Powellton
Delmar Oxley
Samuel Runyon
Thoans Craft
Duns
Montgomery
Jerome Walters
Charleston
Prisoner Escapes Custody of Bluefield Officer
James Cawthorn, a youth linked to a dress theft from a salesman’s car in Bluefield, fled after being taken to his home by Constable J. A. Tabor while police sought stolen dresses. The car break in near West Virginian Hotel yielded recovered garments. Cawthorn remains a fugitive from justice.
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Bluefield
James Cawthorn
Big Cjty
Cawthorn
G. N. Wilson
Constaba J. A. Tabor
Royatone
Constable Tabor
Tabor
Visiting Divine to Preach Tonight at Fist Christian Church
Tonight at 7 30 in Fist Christian church the Rev Allen Borden Stanger of the Yale School of Religion will preach. A former Lynchburg college graduate now at Yale seminary this preacher is known locally. The program centers on prayer and prayer-study with Miss Virginia and Miss Charlotte Bivens performing The Beautiful Garden of Prayer. This morning at 11 there will be a special service of prayer and prayer study with Mrs Do GC Mitchell singing Ere You Whel Your Room This Morning.
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Fist Christian Church
Allen Borden Stanger
Yale School of Religion
Lynchburg College
Theological Seminary
Yale
Stinger
Garden of Prayer
Virginia
Charlotte Bivens
Do. GC
Mitchell
Japan Leaves Notice of Treaty Break in Naval Pact
The Japanese government denounced the Washington treaty with a statement from the foreign office embassy here. It argued for a common upper limit on armaments and the abolition or drastic reduction of offensive weapons to enable mutual defense, warning of insecurity and costly naval competition if other powers do not agree.
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Hhe
Hall
Japan
Saito
Foreign Office
London
State Department
Davis
United States
Ita
Great Britain
France
Italy
Roosevelt pushes winter relief funding reforms
Roosevelt moves forward winter relief planning by simplifying municipal financing. The steps include speeding referenda on bonds, allowing private sale of bonds to the federal government, empowering municipalities to undertake public works, creating municipal improvement authorities with bond powers, authorizing rural development work, and enabling non profit corporations to support rural electrification. Bonds already issued for public works may be validated.
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Puntelparities
Pioneering coalman W L Marshall of Davy dies at 62
W L Marshall 62 a McDowell county coal industry pioneer died at 6 80 Saturday afternoon at his daughter's home in Davy where he had lived eight months He began in the Pocahontas field after moving from North Carolina and worked over twenty years with Pocahontas Fuel company Survived by his widow Katherine and children Mrs Lane Mrs J W Grean Mrs D G Fresman W Vad and Mrs Haggen Riggs plus several siblings Funeral at Davy Methodist church with burial at Jaeger-Roderfield cemetery Active pallbearers listed.
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W.L. Marshall
McDowell County
W.C. Lane
Davy
Mr. Marshall
West Virginia
Ths
Nelda
North Carolina
Pocahontas
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Hie
Jenkin Jones
Lena Hall
Bishop
Sallie Marshall
Princess Ann
John H. Marshall
Westover
Luther Marshall
Maryland
John Harman
Bluefield
W. Va
Davy Methodist Church
G. T. Jordan
Keystone
Mr. Bourne
C. C. Bailey
G. M. Moreland
Gary
Burlel
Jaeger-Roderfield
Duriel
Fanning Funeral Home
Jaeger
Liddia
Joe Mee
C. H. Morgan
J.W. Morgan
Lea Clive
Martin
Arthur Rose
Joe Hill
W. H. Allen
Gilly
Jarrett
Mrs Lucy Kirby Dies at 28 in Virginia
Mrs Lucy Hayton Kirby 28 wife of Sam Kirby of Bastian Va died at 11 last night at her parents home in Richlands Va following a brief illness from pneumonia. She had been in Richlands for holidays visiting her parents since Saturday. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Survived by husband, parents J Hayton and wife, and siblings including Walter Hayton Bluefield W Va Jennings Mildred Hayton New York H I Lewis Charleston Grffiths Missea Margaret and Mabel Hayton Joe and Charles Hayton Richlands.
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Lucy Hayton Kirby
Sam Kirby
Bastain
J. Hayton
Richlands
Walter Hayton
Bluefield
W. Va
Jennings
Mildred Hayton
New York City
H. I. Lewis
Charleston
Joe Griffith
Margaret
Mabel
Hayton
Joe
Charles Hayton
Official North South game umpires named in Morgantown
In Charleston West Virginia on December 29 officials for the North South high school football game were announced. Referee Pat Beacom Huntington Notre Dame umpire Joe Silverstein Charleston West Virginia field judge Lee Spillers Wheeling West Virginia and J head linesman Paul Rubine Moundsville West Virginia Tony Ruble mayor of Moundsville is newly elected official.
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Charleston
W. Ya
Charles EK. Hodges
Ganalor
Morgantown
Pat Beacom
Huntington
Notra Dame
Npire
Joe Silverstein
Lee Spillers
Wheeling
Nnesman
Paul Rk. Rubine
Moundsville, W
Tony Ruble
Moundsville
Burkes Garden Rolls Past Virginia Side Quintet
Burkes Garden blanked Virginia Side 33 to 23 in a fast paced game at Burkes Garden. The home quintet led 7 8 after the first period and held on as Ramblers struggled from the line. Wilson scored 12 and Felty 11 for Burkes Garden while Farley topped the visitors with 10 points. Thompson and W Averill provided notable floor play.
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Burkes Garden
Bluefield
Ramblers
Wilson
Felty
Peiite
Farley
Thompson
W. Averill
the Ramblers
Al Kruger Leads California Open Golf Tourney
Beloit, Wisconsin golfer Al Kruger shot 70 to take the lead in the California open golf tournament in Long Beach. Seventeen players tied for second with 71s, including Hagen, Smith, Grout, and Hines, as the field narrows toward the final rounds. The event resumes with the second round tomorrow and concludes Monday. Also listed is a church notice for First Presbyterian, with services and activities announced.
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Long Beach
Calif
al Kruger
Beloit
Wia
California
Closs
Thease
Ted Longeworth
Portland
Ore
Walter Hagen
Detroit
Jack Grout
Dallas
Texas
Horton Smith
Oak Park
Eddie Loos
Chicago
Johnny
Revolta
Milwaukee
Sam Parkeote
Pittsburgh
Clarance Clark
Bloomfeld
N. J
Jimmy Hines
Timber Point
Herold
Spaden
Kansas City
Kaa
Vit Ghezzi
Deal
Willan Hunter
Quiver de
Lest Bolatad
Minneapolis
Emil Mashie
Fitchburg
Mass
Fnal
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Bluestone Junction
Ella Pendleton
Tenth District
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Diatyy Taylor
City and Coalfiflo
Mary Lee Beauty Shop
Raleigh Street
Bland
Federal Eireete
Leplon
West Virginian Hotel
Naleigh Hotel
Stella Jones
Bradmann Building
Germany
Bruno
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Kansas
Pittsburg
Daniel J. Jamey de Clarves
Ramey
Game Authority
Arthur ¥. Porat
More Game Birds Foundation
Che Tol
Colonel Foran
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Florida
Michigan
Foran
United States Department of Agriculture
Illey
Paul Berlenbach
Prise Aght
Im Astoria
L. I
Ptaic Agricultural Gullpgos
W. L. Marshall
Lucy Kirby
Bastian
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Joe B. Overmyer
Buoday School
Irwin
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