Graham High Program Tonight
An all student participation program for Graham High School commencement is set for 8 o'clock in the auditorium. The order includes processional grand march from Aida invocation welcome by Paul Nash greetings on peace through understanding and related speeches, glee club music, diploma awards, Alma Mater, benediction, and recessional Auld Lang Syne. Senior class officers are Paul Nash president John Charles Dalton vice president Mildred Lucille Muncy secretary Phyllis Anne Simpkins treasurer with Mrs. Louise Wetzel and Mrs. Kathleen Damron as class sponsors.
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Graham High School
Aida
E. R. Worrell
Graham Christian Church
Paul Sexton Nash
Mary Sueaks
Ralph Browning
Frances Neal
David Price Hoge
Mildred Lucille Mansy
Glee Club
J. Hudson Huffard
T. Marcus Gillespie
N. Huffard
E. R. Wor
Auld Lang Syne
Paul Nash
John Charles Dalton
Mildred Lucille Muncy
Phyllis Anne Simpkins
Louise Wetzel
Kathleen Damron
Chinese Communists Press Toward Mukden
Six communist divisions possibly 100000 strong push toward Mukden in a combined frontal assault and flank maneuver. Government forces mass troops at Tiehling northeast of Mukden and reinforcements move from China proper.
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Nanking
Mukden
Tiehling
China
Kaiyuan
Changtu
Changchun
San Francisco
Associated Press
Deaths and Funerals Charles B. Davis
Charles B. Davis 73 died at his Tazewell home Wednesday morning. Last rites were held at 10 this morning at Main Street Methodist Church Tazewell with Rev. Clyde F. Watkins in charge. The body will be buried in Daileyton Tennessee.
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Charles B. Davis
Main Street Methodist Church
Tazewell
Clyde F. Watkins
Daileyton
Tenn
Death of Henry B. Gordon in Pearisburg Va
Henry Brady Gordon died at 54 at his Pearisburg home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pearisburg Methodist Church with Rev. A F Wing presiding. He leaves wife Della Fisher of Roanoke, son H B Gordon Jr and mother Mrs C F Gordon of Pearisburg, four brothers Frank Ripplemead Estil Fuller Clyde of Pearisburg and four sisters R A Perfater Roanoke Giles Tabor Dublin E T Bunts Pulaski and Lee Atwell Pearisburg.
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Henry Brady Gordon
Pearisburg
A. FP. Wing
Della Fisher
Roanoke
H. B. Gordon, Jr
C. F. Gordon
Frank
Ripplemead
Estil
Fuller
Clyde
R. A. Perfater
Giles Tabor
Dublin
E. T. Bunts
Pulaski
Lee Atwell
Funeral Services for Ed Gilbert Held at Mercer Funeral Home
Funeral services take place this afternoon at 2 for Ed Gilbert 58 a former Bluefield resident who died in Beckley after a long illness Rabbi Dreyus presides and burial is set in Mt Sinai Monte Vista cemetery Palbearers include Dave Platt nick Jerome Katz Al Land Yank Wilson Frank Nelson Nathan Effron Nathan Matz Arthur Goldstein
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Mercer Funeral Home
Ed Gilbert
Bluefield
Beckley
Rabbi Dreyus
Mt. Sinai
Monte Vista Cemetery
Gilbert
Fred
Hennon Gilbert
Vets Education Program Costs Highlighted by Bradley
Gen Omar Bradley, veterans administrator, told the Harvard Alumni Association in Cambridge that 1.2 million of the 2.3 million college students are veterans funded by federal aid. He noted nearly 2.5 billion spent in 20 months since the war and warned the total cost could reach 12 billion, calling the G I Bill a daring new charter in human rights.
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Cambridge
Mass
Omar N. Bradley
Harvard Alumni Association Today
Bradley
Banking System For Sugar Discontinued In Kiington
The agriculture department announced the discontinuance of the banking system for sugar rationing to public eating places stores and other distributors. The move aims to cut expenditures and curb overdrafts as rationing ends by October 31. Commercial banks had handled ration accounts and will now be relieved of payments for this service.
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Agriculture Department
Department
Burial set for W C Easley at First Baptist Church
W C Easley longtime Bluefield church leader and civic figure dies after service as deacon clerk and treasurer. Surviving wife three children seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral at First Baptist church Saturday at 1 30 p m with ministers Ce cil V Cook J Taylor Henson and Harm an D Ramsey officiating. Buried Maple Park cemetery.
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Bluefield Coal and Coke Company
This City
John Kendrick Easley
Jack Hopkins Easley
Frank Slavin
Jean Martin Easley
Lloyd R. Hershey
Dorothy Johnston Easley
Walter McDonald Easley
Edwin M. Easley
Hallie Easley
C. H. Evans
First Baptist Church
Cecil V. Cook
J. Taylor Henson
Lebanon
Harman.d. Ramsey
First Presbyterian Church
Mapel Park Cemetery
Six West Virginians To Graduate At Naval Academy Today
Six West Virginia graduates are among the 494 midshipmen to receive diplomas at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. The six names include Joseph Richard Hawvermale of Berkeley Springs Kyle Cargill McCormick of Princeton Cabell Seal Davis Jr Greenbrier Street Charleston and David Walker Cammack of Charleston Joseph Hood Carl and Nathaniel Wells Bullard of Wheeling.
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Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
West Virginia
Joseph Richard Hawvermale
Berkeley Springs
Kyle Cargill McCormick
Princeton
Cabell Seal Davis, Jr
Greenbrier
David Walker Cammack
Myrtle Road
Charleston
Joseph Hood Carl
Ridgewood Road
Nathaniel Wells Bullard
Wheeling Avenue
Wheeling
Kawakita Arrest Reported Near Honshu Prison Camp
An American ex prisoner of war spotted Kawakita near a nickel mine and POW camp on Honshu last Oct 6. FBI men were informed that Kawakita faced charges of “unspeakable indignities” against prisoners. Hoover announced the arrest. Kawakita was born in Calexico in September.
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Oeyama
Honshu Island
Japan
FBI
Kawakita
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Calexico
Truman Attacks Taft Over Boom and Bust Critique
President Truman rebutted Senator Robert Taft at a press conference calling his boom and bust theory fallacious. Taft accused the administration of abandoning price restraint in favor of costly overseas spending. Truman defended foreign aid as vital to aid starving millions and curb totalitarianism while urging further price cuts, citing May 31 Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing declines in wholesale prices, especially for foods and farm goods.
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Washington
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Bureau of Labor Statics
Police Plead Innocent To Rape Charges
Two Oakland policemen Edward E. Bauer and Robert G. Bell pleaded innocent to charges of statutory rape of a 16 year old girl. They were held on $10,000 bail each for a preliminary hearing. The officers, married fathers, allegedly induced submission by threats after a party encounter with the girl and a boyfriend. They face possible prison terms of one to 50 years on each of two counts.
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Oakland
Calif
Edward E. Bauer
Robert G. Bell
Thornhill Ballot Controversy Unfolds In Beckley Raid
Police sergeant Tyree found a hotel room search items linked to Thornhill including rubber gloves candles sealing wax with Casto and Harris names a stapling machine and campaign whiskey labeled Thornhill The case cites pasteurized milk rules and a 1921 camp foreman abuse note while Wakawita faces potential death if convicted.
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Millard Tyree
Beckley
Thornhill
Cast
Advertising Schedule Note For Weekend Issues
The notice outlines publication and advertising cutoffs for the weekend editions. No ads accepted Saturday for Monday Sunset News, and no classified display ads after 12 noon Friday for Sunday Telegraph, with similar noon Saturday cutoff for Sunday Daily Telegraph.
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Daily Telegraph
Sunset News
Thars
Telegraph
Poster Beds and Blue Room Bargains Highlight Warlick’s Sale
Warlick’s advertises a walnut finish poster bed suite with 36 inch mirror and 34 inch chest priced $139 on terms. The Vogue Blue Room promotes drastic reductions including 200 summer blouses and fur storage vault claim. Knights Templar Bluefield Commandery No. 19 holds an election and officer installation this evening at 7 30 with uniforms required.
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Warlick’s
Knights Templar
Bluefield Commandery No
Clyde J. Stephens
Millard F. Thompson
Plan To Shoot Men From Openings In Planes
Reports to the Aero Medical association describe ejectors that fire men downward from the bottom of airplanes for future supersonic flight. Lt. R S Shaw of Wright Field explains inverted gravity briefly aids bailout but is deemed dangerous due to blood flow issues.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Aero Medical Association
R. S. Shaw
Aero Medical Laboratory
Wright Field
Dayton
Fire destroys Logan hotel and Ashland facility complex
A June fire at the Mc Comas hotel in Logan Deskins area destroyed a 20 room four story frame apartment structure and an Ashland Oil and Refining Co warehouse. Damage estimated at 50 000 to 60 999 with additional losses at Ashland Kentucky at 35 000 to 40 000. Marie Cook injured while escaping from the third floor. Firefighters reported no missing persons and saved tires solvents lubricants and other petroleum products from the scene.
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Marie Cook
Klein Henry
Gillespie
Sac
Jack Robinson
Satdlace
No dangerous pull found for pilots in test shot
A Wright Field laboratory test found that for a fraction of a second a man can endure a negative pull seven times gravity. The timing allows a special gun to fire the pilot from the seat and clear of the plane. No adverse effects were reported from the downward shot tests.
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Shaw
Wright Field
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Naval Academy
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