Rail Worker's Body Sought in Tennessee Wreck
Wrecking crews near Rives Tennessee labored amid wreckage of collided freight trains from Illinois Central to clear the main track and locate missing rail worker H L Newton of Fulton Kentucky. The crash killed two men and injured two others as two tank cars exploded and the Rives freight station was damaged.
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Rives
Tenn
Mlinois Central
H. L.newton
Fulton
Yesterdy
Tennessee
Quartet Charged With Burglaries
Four Beckley men linked to a string of break ins face charges after plaster casts matched tools and tires from a Mercer Motor Company burglary. The group planned a safe raid at Buckeye Coal and Coke and targeted a Shady Springs store and an Affinity mine supply house before being captured near Mullins with stolen burglary tools and a pistol. State police from Princeton Beckley and Mullins coordinated the investigation. a fifth man is still sought.
West Virginia veteran housing bill moves to senate
Washington June 16. A bill to authorize the Veterans Administration to study the West Virginia housing plan for veterans was passed by the house and sent to the senate. Rep Crow said the study could extend the plan nationwide and that GI loans would aid construction for World War II veterans employed by cooperating industries. The plan, started in West Virginia, uses production line methods and company financing with employer withholdings. Rev Hedrick said passage in this session is unlikely but might recur.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
West Virginia
House
Senate
Crow
R-Pa
United States
Hedrick
D-Wva
Four accused in Mercer county safe robbery case
Corporal Yoak said officers are probing if the quartet are linked to similar break ins in southern West Virginia including Fayet te Nicholas and Greenbrier counties and in three past-year charges. Beckley reports say Underwood faces breaking and entering at Shady Springs Store with 57.30 taken and at the Affinity mine supply house on June 10. Widensall is charged with those two plus theft of 300 from Texaco Mabscott plant on March 27 and Mabscott New River Co store burglary on April 17 with 10 000 in cash jewelry and equipment taken. Buchannon had been charged in New River Co store burglary and was re arrested while out on bond.
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M. C. ‘Yoak
Princeton
Mercer Motor Company
Courthouse Square
Raleigh
Mercer County
William V. Weidansall
Steve Underwood, Jr
Elmer Buchannon
Eugene Spencer
Ly&s
Beckley
Stephenson
Mullins
Lyal
E. Dale Bailey
Yoak
Mercer Motor
Buckeye Coal and Coke
West Virginia
Fayette
Nicholas
Greenbrier
Underwood
Shady Springs
Affinity
Widensall
Texaco Oil Company Buik
Mabscott
New River Company
Buchannon
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W. VA
de Edwards
London
GIEZ
Superior - Sterling CO
Federal ST
DIAL
Walker
Baby’s Daily Air
Jim Twohig
A. Scott Wickham
P. C
Franklin Life Insurance CO
Ballard
Ballard Foods
Ballard Davis’s
Rea
Eniy
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