Theater Owners Face Film Suits
Two McDowell county theater operators were charged in federal court with falsifying box office reports to obtain reduced film rentals. Eight film distributors sue Lloyd E. Rogers of Welch and seven sue Mannie Shore of War for reported fewer admissions, alleging underpayment of rental fees since 1941. Judges set June 16 for production motion and June 7 for answer filings. Rogers is Welch mayor. plaintiffs include Columbia Pictures, Loews, Paramount, RKO, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. United Artists sued Shore.
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McDowell County
Lloyd E
Welch
Welch, Man, Davy
Keystone
Mannie Shore
Rogers and
Shore
Rogers
Qiesealy
Ben Moore
Moore
Onteen
Columbia Pictures
Loews, Inc
Paramount Pictures
RKO Pie
Buchanan Coal Land Sold To Pennsy Firm
Huntington W Va June 4 C A Hamill says Hamill Coal Corp of Buchanan Va has been sold to Correale interests of Hazelton Pa, who mine anthracite in the area. The sold unit mainly engaged in strip mining with extensive Virginia holdings. Hamill to remain active in coal through other interests.
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Huntington
W. Va
C. A. Hamill
Huntington Coal
Hamill Coal Corp
Bunchanan
Pennsylvania
Correale
Hazelton
Hamill
Virgina
Deaths and Funerals for Henry C. Smith and Others
Funeral services were held for Henry Clay Smith at his brother John W. Smiths home after his death near Martinsville Virginia. Survivors include a widow Doris Mason and six brothers plus three sisters. Burial will be in Rock Cemetery with services by Princeton. Also noted are notices for George W. Hughes death in Norton Virginia James B. Underwood service at Kegley church and Florence S Maye of Princeton with funeral details pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay Smith
W.D. Easley
Martinsville
John W. Smith
C. M. Wales
Meredith Norment, Jr
Smith
James Reid
Mary Sleton Smith
American Furniture Company
Doris Mason
Ben M
Asheville
N. C
Albert W
Winston-Salem
Thomas S
Preston
James P
John W
Ernest C
Sarah Ann
E. C. Runyon
War
Katherine Justice
Lawrenceville
Easley
Charles B. Smith
Princeton
Rock Cemetery
Fredeking-Seaver Funeral Home
Howard Shucks
Kegley
James B. Underwood
Mercer County
Gardner
Z. F. Mayberry
Mary Richardson
Calvin Houchins
Bluefield
Florence S. Maye
C. M. Ellison
Princeton Avenue
City
Ellison
John
Tootsie Ellison
Emory ‘Maye
Ohio
Calm Before The Storm Described By Bluefield Police
Bluefield police report a quiet period with no arrests accidents or complaints for 26 hours ending last night. The previous arrest occurred at 8:30 Tuesday night as anticipation builds for a big weekend and a potentially eventful stretch ahead.
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Bluefield
Young Miner Killed By Slate Fall At West Virginia Mine
Don Whittington a 19 year old from Kamawah Two-Mile was fatally injured at a cousin's mine in Tupper's Creek West Virginia after a slate fall. He was injured while setting off an explosive in the A E Whittington mine and died en route to a Charleston hospital.
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Tupper
Beacon curb service opens for city and coalfield ladies
Drive to the Beacon on Cumberland Road just east of Leatherwood Farms and have a snack served in your car by one of our curb service boys. Open daily from 11 AM until 1 AM.
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Beacon
Cumberland Road
Leatherwood Farms
Navy Midshipmen Commissioned at Annapolis in 98th Class
The U S Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland graduated its 98th class of midshipmen as 410 cadets received commissions. White caps drifted from Dahlgren Hall as 410 graduates celebrated. Navy Secretary Sullivan urged them to help preserve world peace while Admiral Denfeld commissioned 376 ensigns and 28 marine second lieutenants.
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Annapolis
U. S. Naval Academy
Dahlgren Hall
Navy
Sullivan
Louis E. Denfeld
Naval Operations
AHEPA Hears Address By National Official
Roanoke Chapter 137 hosts John G. Brieves national supreme vice president on an official visit. Delegations from Bluefield and Lynchburg chapters attend in the Greek Orthodox hall. Thevos outlines AHEPA ideals and asserts American democracy is unfettered only in the United States. He plans visits to Raleigh and other Tarheel chapters.
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Ahepan’s
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
John G. Brieves
National Supreme
New Jersey
Roanoke
Bluefield
Lynchburg
Greek Orthodox Church
Gus Theodorou
Gus Curtis
Paul N. Chryssikos
Harry Voulos
George Catsonis
Louis Karkanis
James Panopoulos
Pearlsburg
Thevos
Penelope
AHEPA
Chryssikos
America
Raleigh
N. C
Tarheel State
Reds Restore Czarist Throne Room in Moscow
The former Georgievsky hall of the Winter Palace in Leningrad has been rebuilt and renamed The Hall of the Soviet Union. From May 1 it will house a 27 square meter stone map of the USSR, rebuilt after its overseas showing, with 98 sections of 550 parts each and 430 gold‑cased rubies marking administrative centers, including a ruby star over Moscow.
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Moscow
Winter Palace
Leningrad
Georgievsky
Dawn of the East
Soviet Union
Ussr
Million Added To University Fund For New Business School
Charilotesville Va June 4 The university of Virginia announces another million dollars added to the endowment drive for a graduate school of commerce and business administration The president Colgate W Darden Jr says the development fund now seeks two million dollars to start classes in a new graduate business school The present goal one million is insufficient because we do not intend to have a second rate graduate school The four hour program at Farmington Country Club included sixty Virginia executives and spokesmen for national corporations and discussions before and after dinner
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Charilotesville
University of Virgine
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Virginia
Darden
Development Fund
South
Farmington Country Club
Grundy Man Held For Grand Jury
Grundy Virginia June 4 Trial Justice C Clyde Dennis ordered David Strunk 35 held for grand jury action on a murder charge in the shooting of John E White 30 of Jewell Valley Strunk was freed on a 5000 bond White was shot early last Monday outside a service station and store operated by Strunk near Oakwood Authorities said White and three other men stopped their car to fix a flat tire Strunk said he fired from his sleeping quarters upstairs thinking they were trying to steal a tire Strunk and the three men drove White to Grundy hospital where he died within minutes Strunk reported the shooting to the sheriff's office.
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Grundy
C. Clyde Dennis
David Strunk
John E. White
Jewell Valley
Strunk
White
Oakwood
Buchanan County
Grundy Hospital
Sheriff's Office
Git Along Dogie Takes To The Air
A round up from the sky brought 10 errant cattle home after Fred Greenman, a farmer near Cornell, spotted the cattle and alerted the sheriff at Pontiac. Greenman’s son rented an airplane in Streator and located the herd about three miles from the farm.
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Cornell
I.F
Fred Greenman
Pontiac
Greenman
Streator
Greenman Farm
Pleads Innocent In Night Life Slaying
George Brown known as the Greek Papademetrio 46 pleaded innocent to murder in the slaying of Sperko Petrakis 54 night club and hotel operator in Wheeling West Virginia. Patrolman James Frame testified he disarmed Brown after Petrakis was shot during a poolroom conversation two weeks ago.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George
the Greek) Brown
George Papademetrio
Sperko Petrakis
James Frame
Brown
Petrakis
Academy
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Dick Tracy
LE Theatre
Black Hills
Roscoe Ates
Vigilantes—Cartoon
State
Towne Club
Dele
Evans
Tom Sweeney
Myron
R. Renick
Fayetteville
Sweeney Fleming
Fairmont
GOP
Maxster Bluefielder
W. A
Buchanan Coal
Pennsy Firm
Pork Peg
Shape’s Market
Bluewell
Henry C. Smith
George W. Hughes
Florence
Maye
City and Coalfield
Rocky" Lane
Black Jack
Hugh Herbert Omedy
PLUTO
the Sea- Hound
New and
Old Bluefield
Printon Road
Susie
David Bruce
Cleatus Caldwell
Momesteaders OF
Paradise Valley
Ryder
Allan Lane
Little Beaver
Baby Blake
Don Wilson
Jean Parker
Vera Vague
Lulubell
Scotty
William Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Jack Armstrong
eVelelane
DIAL
Beal Lamuai
Camera
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