Local Youth Hurt In Wreck In Bluefield Motorcycle Crash
An 18 year old Bluefield youth Robert Harry suffered a broken leg in a motorcycle truck collision at Bland and North streets around 8:30 last night. The crash injured another rider, George Cox, and followed a recent pair of city wrecks involving motorcycles and trucks. Harry was taken to St Luke’s hospital with a two place fracture. Police investigated with officer L A Lilly and BR H Lambert. the truck driver’s identity was not learned. Witnesses say the pickup stopped after striking Harry then drove away.
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Bluefield
Robert Harry
Bland
North Streets
Troy Robert Sutphin
Meri] Emory Kepler
Kimball
Harry
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. C. N
John Harry
Rockbridge Si Street
Salaried GM Employees Get Pay Boost
Detroit reports General Motors approved a pay raise for about 100000 salaried employees matching recent gains for 265000 production workers. The move includes a flat 4 percent raise plus a 25 dollar quarterly allowance adjusted by living costs, with recession provisions.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
United Electrical Workers
UAW
Virginia Lions Plan National Project to Restore Bedloe’s Island
Roanoke Lions Club launches campaign to raise one million dollars from clubs nationwide to clean up and landscape Bedloe’s Island in New York harbor home to the Statue of Liberty. Leroy H. Smith of Roanoke outlines the effort after touring the island’s neglected state and magazine reports.
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Roanoke
Roanoke Lions Club
United States
Bedloe’s Island
New York Harbor
Leroy H. Smith
New York
Wet Roads Spark Auto Accidents in Heavy Rains
Two traffic crashes on successive hours were blamed on slick highways from overnight downpours. A 1947 Ford driven by Benjamin Coakley collided with a Chevrolet truck near East River Mountain, another car overturned, and a second crash near Brushfork involved a 1934 Chevrolet and a 1935 Plymouth coupe driven by Opha Collins and James Farley Jr. Deputy Lewis Cook reported no injuries or charges.
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East River Moun
Benjamin F. Coakley
Kenmore ‘Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Bluefield
Fyank: Blackwell
Rocky Gap, A
Walter Johnson
Preston Street
Coakley
Brushfork
Opha H. Collins
James H. Farley, Jr
Lewis Cook
Missouri Profired From Teaching Post
The University of Missouri trustees voted unanimously to dismiss E. K. Johnston, a veteran advertising professor. Johnston surrendered last week to the prosecutor on a charge of sodomy and is free on $3,500 bond pending a June 11 preliminary hearing. The board cited reasons deemed completely sufficient.
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Columbia, Mo
University of Missouri of Curators
E. K. Johnston
Johnston
Howard B. Lang, Jr
Utility Executive Calls For Campaign Against Government Power
J Bomas of Texas Electric Service Co urged the electric utility industry to attack government involvement in power. He spoke at the Edison Electric Institute's 16th annual meeting urging an offensive stance to argue against collectivism in electricity.
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Atlantic City
N. J
J. Bomas
Texas Electric Service Co
Edison Electric Institute
Deaths and Funerals: James B Underwood and Pvt Sam Lowe
Death notices honor James B Underwood 63, lifelong Mercer County resident and former miner, with a large family including children in North Wilkesboro, Detroit, Gardner, Kegley, Dry Creek, Springton, Princeton, Roanoke, and a U S Army son in Germany. Pvt Sam H Lowe 33, Normandy casualty, honored with full military rites at Cedar Bluff, burial in Cedar Bluff cemetery. mother Minnie Lowe, siblings Joe in Washington and two sisters.
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Underwood
James B. Underwood
Mercer County
Gardner
Camp Creek
Zada Stamper
North Wilkesboro
N. C
Laura Gosphrich
Detroit
Mich
Eva Tor
Howard Shucks
Kegley
Earl
Cedar Bluff
Mr. White
Lebanon
American Legion
Arive
Richlands
Hurst-Scott
Columbia
Lowe
Russell County
Minnie Lowe
B. G. Lowe
Young Lowe
Armed Services
States
358Th Infantry
Joe B
Washington, D. C
Charles Hale
Honaker
Ralph Vencille
Cedarulf
Young Republicans hold West Virginia convention in Welch
The West Virginia Young Republicans met at Welch June 4 5 with events at the West Virginian hotel and Towne club including a cocktail hour Dutch dinner and a midnight supper. Delegates heard remarks from U S Senator Chapman Revercomb and U S Senator William Knowland.
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Pocahontas
Virginia
W. H. Ballard
Welch
W. Va
Towne Club
Jim Shott
A. Harry West
Herbert S. Boreman
West Virginia
Young Republicans
U. S
Chapman Revercomb
William Knowland
California
Prison Team Sentences Ott Hall in Charleston
Intermediate Judge Cyrus W. Hall sentenced Ott Hall of Charleston to 60 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to selling liquor under illegal circumstances in Charleston West Virginia.
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GET
Charleston
W. Va
Cyrus W. Hall
Ott Hall
Knights Templar Conclave Plans Officer Installations
Bluefield Commandery No 19 meets this evening at 7 30 for annual election and installation of officers. Em Commander Samuel Williamson and Recorder Millard Thompson preside. Ladies urged to visit Beacon Cumberland Road Cumberland Road east of Leatherland Road for lunch drive in service open 11 am to 1 am.
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City and Coalfield Knights Templar
Bluefield Commandery No
Samuel G. Williamson
Millard F. Thompson
Beacon
Cumberland Road
Leathberland Road
Leath
Youths Get Prison for Assault and Robbery in Halifax
Halifax circuit court judge G. E B. Mitchell Jr. sentenced three Burlington North Carolina youths to 75 years in prison after they pled guilty to robbing and assaulting a Virgilina Virginia couple on March 17. Berkeley Garrett and Clyde and Francis Sims were named. the Sims cousins faced joint charges for the $1,800 robbery and the attack on James Talley, 73, and his wife on a farm in Halifax County.
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Halifax
G. E B. Mitchell, Jr
Virgilina
Berkeley Garrett
Clyde Sims
Francis Sims
Burlington
N. C
Sims
James Talley
Halifax County
Huntington Man Found Dead in Ohio River
The body of Lewise A. Ashworth of Huntington was found in the Ohio River near Sistersville West Virginia. Tyler County prosecutor Henry P. Snyder said there is a possibility the death was murder. Ashworth, 58, was a fireman on a Huntington district corps of engineers derrick boat based at Marietta Ohio. The crew had been repairing the gate at lock 16 Beavertown four miles downstream. The body was found floating near the boat and Snyder stated apparently he didn't drown.
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Sisterville
W. Va
Lewise A
Pat) Ashworth
Huntington
Ohio River
Tyler County
Henry P. Snyder
Ashworth
Huntington District Corps of Engineers
Marietta
Beavertown
Snyder
Ex Cuba Ex-President May Get Senate Seat
Havana reports incomplete returns from the national elections show former president Fulgencio Batista elected senator. Batista, Cuba’s strongman for 11 years, exiled to Florida after his 1944 term ended. He ran on a Liberal Democratic coalition ticket as the presidential candidate Ricardo Junez Portuondo was defeated by Carlos Prio Socarras.
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Havana
Fulgencio ‘Batista
Batista
Cuba
Florida
Liberal
Democratic
Ricardo Junez Portuondo
iCarlos Prio Socarras
Four Seek Logan Postmaster Job in West Virginia
The civil service commission announced four applicants for Logan West Virginia postmaster. The contenders are Theodore R. Browning W Carson Browning Jr John J Haslam and Pete A Spurlock for the $4200 year position.
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Washington
Logan
W. Va
Civil Service Commission Today
Theodore R. Browning
W. Carson Browning, Jr
John J. Haslam
Pete A. Spurlock
Foreign Legion Eyed By Senate
Washington June 3 A long discussed plan for an American foreign legion to boost defense manpower was introduced as an amendment to the Senate draft bill. Senator Lodge proposed 50 000 aliens enlist for five years outside the United States with citizenship at term end. Senate committee head Gurney opposed the plan saying it had been rejected.
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American Foreign Legion
Senate
Senator Lodge
R. Mass
House
Lodge
United States
U.S
Capehart
R. Ind
Gurney
Congress
Navy
America
Naval
Marine Corps
Army
Air Force
GOP
Rain Forces Annapolis Ceremonies Indoors
Annapolis Md June 3 22 years after the tradition the brigade of midshipmen was moved indoors to honor the best company and its queen the June week color rain forced the classic parade to Worden field be held in Dahlgren hall Mrs Katherine Wainwright Austin 26 year old nurse mother and war widow was the color girl Her husband Lt Arthur Austin a Marine pilot died at Okinawa three years ago in North Andover Mass Jimmy her three year old son stayed with his grandmother at home.
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Midshipmen
Naval Academy
Academy
Worden Field
Dahlgren Hall
Katherine Wainwright Austin
North Andover
Mass
Jimmy
Stove Fire Calls Out Local Firemen
Bluefield firemen responded to an apartment above Powell Furniture on Bluefield Avenue last night where a piece of meat burned on the stove. No damage occurred, and the call came in about 11 10.
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Bluefield
Powell Furniture Company
Bluefield Avenue
Coal Operator E J Lytton Found Dead at Cherokee Lake
The body of E J Lytton 54 a St Paul Va coal operator and former Bluefield resident was found in Cherokee lake near Knoxville Tenn Sheriff J M Antrican said searchers found the body near the place Lytton s empty boat was found opposite Tate Springs hotel last Sunday He may have fallen from the boat while starting the motor Lytton s fishing tackle was neatly stowed in the rented boat Funeral services will be at Temple Hill Cemetery Castleswood Va at 2 pm tomorrow.
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St. Paul
Blucefield
Cherokee Lake
Knoxville
Tenn
Grainger County
J. M. Antrican
Lytton
Tate Springs
Antrican
Coat Commission
Bluefield
Clinchfield Coal Corporation
Dante
Temple Hill
Castleswood
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