Bluefield Voters Nominate Ten For City Board In Light July Rain
Amid showers about 1,300 Bluefield residents cast ballots to nominate ten men for the city board of directors to oppose the general election July 1. Incumbents led in most wards with Snyder and Tabor leading, Dunn and Houchins contesting in district five and other races showing tight counts. votes varied by precinct as weather kept turnout low.
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Bluefield
Dunn
Houchins
W. J. . Stevenson
Ellis
D. V. Chappell
Courtney Tanner
Democratic City Executive Committee
Seizure Measure Faces Senate Bottleneck in War Strife
Washington June 10 A war department bid for speedy congressional authority to seize defense plants hit a senate bottleneck amid debate. Senator Byrd urged condemning all defense strikes while Senator Murdock warned of backing industrialists over labor. Bailey warned that without stopping strikes the nation cannot win the war. Patterson testified the department is willing to sidetrack the seizure measure see page 2.
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Washington
War Department
Congressional
Senate
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Murdock
Utah
Aidein
Senator Bailey
D-Nc
America
Bailey
Connally
D-Tex
Robert P. Patterson
House
Patterson
CIO Workers Return to Army Plant as Aluminum Strike Settled
Workers at the Army run North American Aviation factory voted to return to work. An agreement settled a strike at five Aluminum Company of America plants. The defense mediation board announced a 1 cent general wage increase plus a night work bonus for Cleveland plant workers and raised minimum wage from 72 to 73 cents an hour. The CIO diecasters union, which started the strike, had sought 75 cents.
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North American Aviation
Defense Mediation Board
Washington
Cleveland
Aluminum Company of America
CIO Diecasters Union
John R. Steelman
Roosevelt
Detroit
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Business Men Name Directors at Bluefield Banquet
Col J Ernest Isherwood urged national unity and democratic resolve in a speech to the Bluefield Business Men's Association at its 22nd annual banquet. Fred R Christie cautioned on long term installment selling and urged involvement in municipal elections. New directors were elected for two years.
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Germany
United States
J. Ernest Isherwood
Waynesburg
Bluefield Business Men's Association
West Virginian
Britain
America
Isherwood
Wirane
Harry Kammer
A. J. Je
Association
Marion Smith
William McDougle
Fred R. Christie
Christie
F. C. Comins
Kson
G. H. Lawhead
Bluefield
Col
U. S
France
Salem Ca
Hitler
Versail
Simon Convicted On Seven Counts
Huntington W Va June 10 Dr M E Simon was convicted today on seven counts of an indictment charging him with concealing assets in bankruptcy. The maximum sentence on each count is five years and fines totaling 35 years and fines of 600. Simon was granted a continuance of his $5 000 bond on which his wife is surety.
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Huntington
W. Va
M. E. Simon
Simon
Tax exemptions unchanged by House Ways and Means
Washington reports the House committee kept personal exemptions for singles under 800 dollars and married couples under 2000 dollars unchanged while drafting a 3.5 billion dollar tax bill to fund defense. The panel left new rates for later decision and considered limiting extra exemptions that would affect a head of family status.
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Washington
House, Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Restaurant Man Is Victim of Snakes
Colfax California reports 47 year old John L Ottman found dead in his restaurant after attacking a rattlesnake farm. A deputy sheriff recounts Ottman’s berserk acts removing clothes and entering a pit with 85 venomous snakes before dying behind a counter.
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Colfax
Calif
John L. Ottman
John Shannon
S. E. Evans
Ottman
Fall of Damascus Looms in Allied Syrian Offensive
London reports show Damascus within 10 miles of falling as British and Free French troops push through Syria and Lebanon. Arab reaction to the invasion is mixed, while Cyprus faces potential Axis air attacks from a Japanese War Office voice. French Vichy defenders are described as reluctant but loyal. German plans in the region appear to be unfolding as Berlin orders retreat of specialists.
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Associated Press
London
Damascus
Syria
Lebanon
Marshal Philippe Petain
Middle East
Indica
Cyprus
Jersey
Norway
Vichy
Jabel Ed Druz
trans-Jordan
Ankara
Carrom
Ankers
Turkey
Berlin
Mussolini says US at war in fact not law declares roosevelt a dictator
Premier Mussolini addresses Italy urging that American intervention will not halt Nazi-Fascist victory. He says de facto war exists and warns a formal declaration would not change the conflict or Britain’s fate, predicting an expanded war across oceans. He mocks Roosevelt as a dictator and vows Italy’s continued alignment with Germany. Survivors report the U S vessel Robin Moor torpedoed by a German submarine in the South Atlantic, with 46 aboard and 11 rescued by the Brazilian ship Ozorio arriving at Recife.
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Associated Press
Rome
Mussolini
United States
Tr Duce
Roosevelt
Delano Roosevelt
Asee Anniersary
Tales — ' Observance
Chamber of Faces and Guilds
William Phillips
Il Duce
Comeneeey
Britain
Rio de Janeiro
U. S
Robin Moor
South Atlantic
Waldemar Lucia Pereira
Ozorio
Ozoria
Recife
Brazil
Waldemar Lucio Pereira
E.S.T
New York
Capetown
South Africa
Portuga
Cape Verde Islands
Ovorlo
Bra
Washington
White House
Mga
Waldemar Laicio Pereira
State Department
Jefferson Caffrey
Amor
Maritime Commission
Dakar
French West Africa
Norfolk
South America
Lucio
John J. Banian
Karl Nilson
Virgil Sanderlin
Illiam
Carey
Peter Buss
Donald Schableise
H. O. Rice
R. Carlisle
Antonio Santos
Hugh Meneee
P. C. Eccles
U S Warns Portugal Over Atlantic Islands Use
The United States cautioned Portugal against allowing Nazi forces to use Cape Verde or the Azores in the Atlantic. Secretary Hull said the U S has no aggression toward Portugal but stressed anxiety over Axis actions and the right of self defense.
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Washington
United States
Portugal
Atlantic
Hull
Cape Verde Island
Azores
Joao Antonio de Bianchi
Roosevelt
Six Occupants Of Army Bomber Perish In Crash
An Army bomber missing since Sunday was found crashed on a Wyoming plain near Lyman. All six crewmen died, with bodies clustered at the forward section as the fuselage fractured and the wings remained intact. The aircraft belonged to the Army Air Corps base at Base and had departed Sunday morning.
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Lyman
Wyo
Wyoming
Fort Jas
Utah
Prarie
Army Air Corps
Base
Supreme Court strikes down Budget Appeal Act in West Virginia
The West Virginia Supreme Court rules the 1939 Budget Appeal Act unconstitutional as violating Article V and separation of powers. The decision bars further action by Circuit Clerk Van Hunter over a $6 180 budget dispute and remands related rate cases for review of reasonableness.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
W. T. Lovins
van Hunter
Raleigh
Hunter
Circuit Court
Public Service Commission
South
Anchor Coal Company
Boone County Coal Corporation
Colcord Company
Cabin Creek
Monongalia County
Old Bank of Masontown
Churchill Faces House Critics Will Risk Action
Prime Minister Churchill rejects Cabinet suggestions and will risk action as he defends his wartime strategy. He refuses to explain every British defeat, arguing that explanations would aid the Axis, and he turns sharply on Hore Belisha, his accuser.
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Churchill
Will
Axis
Hore-Belisha
Churchill declares war stance in crisis over Crete
London reports Winston Churchill insists he will strike, not pause, as Britain's war leader. He rejects forming an imperial war cabinet and says he will not explain every defeat. He rebukes critics including Leslie Bere-Basha while defending action over inaction amid Crete operations.
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Associated Press
London
Winston Churchill
Commons
Britain
Crete
Imperial War Cabinet
Leslie Bere-Baisha
Danger of coal shortage prompts winter buying drive
Washington reports officials warn of very grave danger of coal scarcity next winter and urge households to buy winter coal now. Secretary Ickes says easterners will have to get by with less gasoline and possibly less oil for heating as the defense program aims to curb consumption.
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Washington
Ickes
Defense Deireiowm
Sential
Conmumere
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