Elks Hold Hag Day Ceremony Honoring Flag and Hero
The Elks lodge held a Flag Day ceremony at the Elks club featuring a Medal of Honor presentation to Edwin Tabor of Bluefield Virginia. Virgil Ross gave the keynote on The Flag, noting its significance on distant battlefields. Rev J M Helm offered a prayer. Howard Jarrett read a grand ritual message. A A Angrist spoke on flag etiquette and the group sang America.
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Elks’ Lodge
Elks’ Club
Edwin Tabor
Bluefield
Henry Fortune
Virgil Ross
A. A. Angrist
America
Circuit Clerk Sues Paper Over Open Records Ruling
W Va Raleigh county circuit court action filed by circuit clerk Van Hunter seeks damages from the Newspaper corporation over a mandamus ruling. Attorney Clay B Crouse says the suit targets the newspaper for failure to obtain a writ to force disclosure of records by Hunter including memoranda not deemed public records.
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W. Va
van Hunter
Raleigh County
Ey Newspaper Corporation
Clay 8. Crouse
Hunter
State Supreme Court
Uisher
Ra- Register
Morning Post-Herald
Supreme Court
WV Tech and Board Make Key Faculty Changes
The West Virginia State College board approves Dr. Maclin to a Marshall staff post as engineering program expands at Marshall. Dean Kraybill remains in acting capacity. Shepherd State tasked to broaden curriculum to horticulture and liberal arts. Genevieve Starcher to shift to certification supervisor role.
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Field State
Concord State
West Inia Tech
Romney Pols For
Maclin
West Virginia Tech
New River State College
West Virginia University College of Engineering
Marshall
Tech
D. B. Kraybill
Sallie S. Beard
Z. R. Knotts
Wallace Smith
Shepherd State
H. K. Baer
Genevieve Starcher
Iss Starcher
Ectacher
Air arm maps and 500 Superforts dominate Japan war map
The article notes air power with 500 Superforts carrying bomb tonnages over 3,000. Col Alfred F Klaberer, a 20 mission veteran, estimates Tokyo deaths near 1,500,000 and Yokohama around 250,000. General Kenney warns Japan risks naval navigation if fighting continues.
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Alfred F. Klaberer
Japan
Tokyo
Yokohama
Kenney
Arnold
Funeral rites held for Fred M. Felty in Burke's Garden
Burial services were conducted Tuesday for Fred M. Felty who died Sunday at 3 15 at his home in Burke's Garden Virginia Survived by wife one son Sven in the armed forces with 30 months overseas five sisters and two brothers Also a brother in law of I B Thompson Bluefield Virginia
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Fred M. Felty
Burkes Garden
Mr. Felty
Sven
I. 8.Thompson
Bluefield
Montcalm Farmer Oakley Neal Dies at Home
Oakley Stonewall Neal 40 a Montcalm farmer died yesterday afternoon at 4 15 at his parents home Mr and Mrs 8 J Neal in Montcalm Funeral arrangements are pending the arrival of relatives
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakley Stonewall Neal
Montcalm
J. Neal
Mrs. Simon Baker Dies in Washington at 74
Mrs. Simon Baker of Washington and former Bluefield pioneer resident died Wednesday night at 11 o clock in Doctors Hospital Washington. She was 74 and survived by daughters Ruth and Dora Baker sons Bennie of Beckley and Robert of Bluefield a grandson Stanley Baker in the navy a brother and four sisters. Funeral services will be held in Washington this afternoon with burial in the family plot in Baltimore Maryland.
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Simon Baker
Washington
Bluefield
Doctors’ Hospital
Funeral services for John M. Georgeff held in Boissevain Va
Funeral services for John M. Georgeff were conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in his in laws home Boissevain Virginia with Rev Ernest M. Richey presiding. Interment followed at Lawn Wood cemetery at 4 p.m. Georgeff 56 formerly with the Pocahontas Fuel Co at Boissevain for twelve years died June 5 from brain hemorrhage after a paralytic stroke May 27. He is survived by wife Minnie and three sons Willie Johnnie Jr and Dwight Joseph. Pallbearers and flowerbearers were chosen from family friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Georgeff
Koonie Swecoff
Boissevain
Ernest M. Richey
Woodlawn
Georgeff
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Liberated Virginians Return From Europe to Camp Patrick Henry
A detachment of 5,210 soldiers arrived at Camp Patrick Henry Virginia from Europe. Among them were 85 ambulatory wounded, 61 liberated prisoners of war, and others on leave or awaiting new assignments. Notable arrivals include Cpl. Bernard A. Thomas Narrows Pvt. Myron H. Gray Roanoke Pvt. Howard R. Hudson Roanoke Tech. Paul W. Bales North Tazewell Pfc. Albert K. Holbrook Bluefield Sgt. Kemper S. Powell Wytheville.
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Camp Patrick Henry
Europe
Virginia
Bernard A. Thomas
Narrows
Myron H. Gray
Roanoke
Howard R. Hudson
West
Campbell Avenue
Tech
Paul W. Bales
North Tazewell
Albert K. Holbrook
Bluefield
Sgt
Kemper S. Powell
N. Fourth Street
Wytheville
16 Polish Leaders To Go On Trial
London reports Russia will try 16 Polish leaders within days for terroristic acts behind Red Army lines. The move precedes a Big Three conference in Moscow to form a broader Polish provisional government. Earlier reports claimed arrests on May 6 and possible release discussions involving Harry Hopkins.
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London
Russia
Stanislaws Mikolajczky
Peasant Party
Investigation Of City Schools Is Ordered
Richmond officials order an inquiry into public schools administration following the resignation of three officials. The ordinances committee will meet tomorrow to begin the inquiry, with a $750 appropriation approved by the board of aldermen and awaiting common council approval.
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Richmond
William C. Herbert
Public Schools Administration
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
Training of Youth Urged
Washington June 14. A year of compulsory military service for America's young men would be good business says the United States chamber of commerce. The plan includes a continuous 12 months' training with costs far less than maintaining a standing army and navy of several million men. Dunlap C. Clark of Kalamazoo testified that universal training could be financed for many years at the cost of one year of war. Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, argued universal training is a path to war, not peace, while Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman defended compulsory training as economical and democratic national defense, noting past cycles of disarmament and costly militarization.
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Washington
America
United States Chamber of Commerce
Businessmen’s Organization
Dunlap C. Clark
Kalamazoo
Mich
House
Chamber
Woodrum D
Eugene C. Pulliam
Indianapolis Star
Indiana
Universal Training
Pulliams
Douglas Southall Freeman
Richmond, Va
Sloan dies. longtime railroad head and financier
Matthew S. Sloan, 63, president and chairman of the board of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad, dies in New York hospital from a heart attack after entering May 31. A Mobile Alabama native, he rose from electric light and power executive to head multiple firms and serve on numerous boards including Continental Can, Chrysler, and American Surety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Matthew S. Sloan
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
New York Hospital
Mobile
Ala
Sloan
Edison
New York City
Brooklyn Edison Company
New York Edison Company
United Electric Light and Power Company
New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company
Yonkers Electric Light and Power Company
Japs Hemmed in Peninsular Battle Ends in Japanese Confusion
Associated Press reports from Oroku describe the nine day struggle on a Ryukyu peninsula 600 yards by 400 yards ending in Japanese disarray. More than 3 500 Japanese were killed. Air activity lessened with no Japanese planes seen over the area for a second day. American raids targeted Sakishima air fields and installations, likely destroying one plane on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Oroku
Ryukyus
Sakishima Islands
House Eyes Roosevelt Loan Probe Next Week
House Ways and Means Chairman Doughton said he will likely convene the group to decide whether to investigate dealings between John Hartford and Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt. A Treasury report notes a $228,500 bad debt tax deduction Hartford claimed in 1942 is under investigation. Hartford's loan to the late president's son remains unsettled.
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Washington, Juneens
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means
John Hartford
Elliott Roosevelt
Treasury
Hartford
Knutson
R-Minn
Colin F. Stam
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Governor Darden Speech Urges Global Pact for Peace in Covington
Gov. Darden spoke on The Child, The Future of Our Nation in Covington Virginia urging world peace through a pact among nations. He criticized postwar policies, called for basic education, public health, and periodic physical exams for schoolchildren, and noted Virginia’s duty to youth while lauded by Thomas B. Stanley and Col. Richard C. Stokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
Darden
America
Virginia
Thomas B. Stanley
House of Delegates
Covington Kiwanis Club
Richard C. Stokes
Allegheny County
Special Instructor To Supervise Schools
Miss Sue Matthews, formerly special lipreading instructor in Richmond public schools, is named supervisor of elementary education at Martinsville. Dr. R. O. Nelson announces the appointment. Matthews resigns from Richmond and will begin Sept. 1 on a 10 month contract in Martinsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Sue Matthews
Richmond Public
Martinsville
R. O. Nelson
Miss Matthews
Abingdon Livestock Prices and Hogs Report
Abingdon stock prices list totals for lambs vealers and cattle with grades and prices. Lambs range from good to common with prices from 10.60 to 15.70 and various counts. vealers show several lots with prices from 11.90 to 15.80. cattle not reported. hogs and packing sows noted with ceilings at 14.55 and 13.80 respectively.
Welch News Bernard Quits Marshal Post
Bernard resigns as deputy marshal for the southern district of West Virginia effective today. He will focus on his insurance business and a successor has not yet been named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bernard
Welch
States
West Virginia
U. S
Charleston
Bernard
Northfork Man Named Knights Templar Head
David B. Hambrick of North fork was elected eminent commander of Welch Lodge No. 27 Knights Templar and installed with officers on Wednesday night. He succeeds W. F. Freeman of Coalwood. Other elective officers include F. W. Hervey Welch generalissimo Harold Honaker Welch captain general Edward R. Shaw Kimball prelate T. A. Johnston Welch treasurer Starling E. Sinnett Superior James R. Moore Welch senior warden James E. Wheatley Kimball junior warden. Appointive officers are Everett Woodson Coalwood standard bearer A. C. Mullens Welch sword bearer Walter L. Anderson Gary warden Turney R. Reed Welch sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David B. Hambrick
Northfork
Welch Lodge
Knights Templar
W. F. Freeman
Coalwood
F. W. Hervey
Welch
Harold Honaker
Edward R. Shaw
Kimball
T. A.johnston
Starling E. Sinnett
James R. Moore
Relatives Advised Not to Meet Returning Soldiers
The Office of Defense Transportation advised wives and families not to travel to eastern ports to meet returning servicemen. Soldiers will depart within about 24 hours to scattered personnel centers, with no leave or family visits during their brief port stay and no telephone calls or mail accepted.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Selectees Report For Pre Induction Physical Exams
Twenty one registrants of selective service board No. 1 were sent to Huntington for pre induction physical examinations. Those accepted for service may return home for 21 to 90 days before induction.
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Selective Service Board No. 1
Huntington
Raymond S. Proffitt Reported Killed in Europe
The War Department lists Raymond S. Proffitt T/5 Raymond 8, son of Mrs. Mary Proffitt of Yukon, as killed in action in the European theatre. The casualty report was issued yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
Proffitt
Mary Proffitt
Yukon
War Department
Pfc Carl Bennington Returns From Overseas
Pfc Carl Bennington, Jr., son of Deputy Sheriff and Mrs Bennington of Jenkin Jones, has returned from overseas and is spending a 30 day furlough with his parents. He has served two years and spent six months with the Fifth Army in Italy.
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Carl Bennington, Jr
Bennington
Jenkin Jones
Pfc
Fifth Army
Italy
Theft from mails leads to 18 month sentence
Bruno A. Lubieniecki of Everson Fayette County Pennsylvania was sentenced in federal court to 18 months in a reformatory for stealing parcels from the mail. He took items including volumes of the encyclopedia Americana and reportedly sold some loot from the Pennsylvania railroad station.
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Pittsburgh
Bruno A. Lubieniecki
Everson
Fayette County
Thermometer Reads 89 in McDowell County Heat Wave Stretches
McDowell County residents faced high heat with June temperatures around 89 degrees reported by E. F. Ketter, Gary weather observer. The previous cool spell had lows near 40 degrees, while the latest night fell to 60 and 8 AM reading stood at 63.
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McDowell County
E. F. Ketter
Gary
Far Off Marines Bet on Waynesburg Rain
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania on June 14 a USMC warrant officer jokes about bets on July 29 rain from Okinawa. John Daily, the town rain prophet, says July 29 will bring rain and notes the tradition with his helpers who say it has rained in most of the prior 69 Jul 29 dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesburg
Okinawa
Joseph Riggs
USMC
John Daily
Riggs
Pittsburgh District Trade Volume Drops
The Pittsburgh district shows mixed weekly results with gains in coal production electric power rail shipments and department store sales but overall business activity slips slightly the index at 175.8 percent of the 1935-39 average versus 176.9 last week. The steel ingot rate eased a bit and coal tonnage was the second highest in six weeks while electric power topped four weeks and department store sales were the strongest since late March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Bureau of Business Research
University of Pittsburgh
Richmond Man To Head New Auditing Office
Washington announces Capt. T. Coleman Andrews of Richmond Virginia as director of the new office of corporation audits in the general accounting office. He will oversee about 1000 employees with a $10000 annual salary. Andrews recently left the Marine Corps after 30 months overseas and has 25 years as a certified public accountant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
T. Coleman Andrews
Richmond
Office of
General Accounting Office
Lindsay C. Warren
Andrews
Marine Corps
Revision of Charter Aired
Delegates debated revisions to a world charter at the United Nations conference. Little nations pressed for a fixed revision window five to ten years after the charter takes effect, challenging the big five powers led by Russia China France Britain and the United States.
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United Nations Organization
World Organization
Russia
China
France
Britain
United States
Mexico
Virginia Men Complete B-29 Combat Missions
Seven American B-29 flyers at Saipan finished their 30th mission against Japan and landed on Iwo Jima with their bomber the "Lucky Irish" bearing heavy damage. The crew earned home leave after a risky ground loop touchdown despite 70 flak hits and two right engines out.
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Saipan
Japan
Iwo Jima
Nheir
Tokyo
City and Coalfield Items Mention Air Crew Members
Oriental Bugs All sizes available G. 8S. 505 Federal street. Dial 5854. Came through without a scratch. They include Sgt. Charles McMurry of Memphis Tennessee gunner. Just before this last flight and the seven their four regular comrades in 29 missions had been grounded for home leave because they had made one additional for their 30 total. They include Lt. William Kelley of Tifton Georgia pilot plane commander. Roy E. Shankin Jr. of Radford Virginia bombardier. Among the replacements for these four who rode Lucky Trish in the ground looping landing was Sgt. Willie Newton of Clarksville Virginia gunner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles 5S. McMurry
E. Waldorf St
Memphis
Tenn
William Kelley
Tifton
Roy E. Shankin, Jr
Radford
Child Injured After Fall From Taxi in Elkhorn
Betty Pickett seven-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Pickett of Elkhorn suffered head injuries and knee burns when the taxi door opened causing her to fall out near Northfork last night. She was treated at Bluefield sanitarium and listed in good condition. The family had been returning from a theatre in Northfork. father works for Crozier Coal company.
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Betty Pickett
Walter Pickett
Elkhorn
Bluefield Sanitarium
Northro
Army And Navy List Battle Casualties
Washington reports a small weekly rise in casualties as total losses reach 1,016,097 with 232,138 killed 616,013 wounded 53,446 missing and 115,500 prisoners The figures reflect fronts through mid May and names received by June 7 Secretary Stimson notes prisoner numbers are inflated by released prisoners from German custody The Army adds 4,118 new casualties to 809,952 while the Navy climbs 930 to 117,145
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Washington
Europe
Army
Navy
Doos
Stimson
Nutrition Group Plans Special War Nutrition Meeting
The state emergency nutrition committee will hold a Saturday morning meeting to decide if laws should require enriched breads with vitamins. Vitamin enrichment is a war measure slated to end nationwide six months after hostilities end, with about 18 states already planning to continue after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
State Emergency Nutrition Committee
South
Gas Coupons Stolen From Auto In Bluefield
A report at the Bluefield police department states several A and B gasoline coupons were stolen from an automobile. The claim was filed by R. L. Bourne of 1121 Bluefield avenue who said the car had been broken into.
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Bluefield
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Board
Raymond S. Proffitt
Carl Bennigton
Federal Street
Matz
Raleigh Street
BUS Peery
Mgr
Pinnacle Restaurant
Federal ST
Yours, Pete Kadaras
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