West Virginia Public Safety Officials Address Negro Boys State
Col. John W. Bosworth of the West Virginia public safety department spoke to Negro Boys State attendees on countering subversive activity and safe driving. He noted recent pedestrian fatalities and urged boys to study traffic laws. The address covered constitutional government and individual rights, stressing cooperation with law enforcement and federal/state coordination.
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John W. Bosworth
West Virginia
Joe
Bosworth
Neely
A. Conan Doyle
Lic
Worth Declare
Department
Criminal Identification Bureau
Federal Bureau Investigation
National Defense
Nefflin
G. Stanley Hamric Charleston
A. L. Polk
Edwards Memorial Church
Bernice Hill
Cortes Reece
Det
Aes Teachers College
Local Retail Offers and Services in City and Coalfield
New sebfinted shanting and crown un rayon items priced at 3.98 with stock and printed notices. Commercial Printing Co offers mimeograph paper in all sizes and the phone number 2400. Vogue's Storage advertises a frigid vault and on premises repairs. Harry Haffen posts monthly Roanoke visits. Ruby's Beauty Shoppe lists 50c hair and shampoo. Bradley's promotes summer hats and dresses with discounts on summer stock.
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Vogue
State budget hearing to feature Cleveland Bailey remarks
The report notes Cleveland Bailey of the state budget department will speak. A subsequent announcement, singing and a social period are planned as part of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Bailey
State Budget Department
Mediation Board Talks On Local Strike Dynamic
The mediation board met over the Harvey W. Brown and Harry Hook dispute as 1200 APL and CIO machinists, still on strike, push for a raise from $1 to $1.15 and reject AFL metal trades overtime terms. Officials did not disclose whether a vote on return to work occurred. The strike has disrupted a six vessel Great Lakes fleet owned by Nicholson Transit Company.
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Harvey W. Brown
International J
Harry Hook
Ess
Brown
Hook
APL
CIO
AFL Metal Trades
CIO National Maritime
Great Lakes
Nicholson Transit Company
Firemen Hurt in Bronx Blaze
Firemen were injured while battling a blaze in the Bronx on June 19. A section of a yard was damaged as crews fought the fire which authorities believe started in a shed and spread.
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Bronx
New York
Italy orders withdrawal of 16 American consuls in Italy
Italy demands the withdrawal of 16 American consuls and secretaries in Rome Milan Turin Florence Genoa Venice and Trieste with two officials in doubt Wilson Blake and Dana Hodgdon. The note calls for the closing of consular offices by July 15 and reserves the right to close American Express offices in Italy.
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Rome
Milan
Turin
Florence
Genoa
Venice
Trieste
Wilson Blake
Dana Hodgdon
United States
Italy
American Express Company
Axis moves threaten severance of US Germany Italy ties
Washington reports virtually certain Axis orders to expel American consuls as Germany and Italy demand departure of consular staff by July 10 and July 15. Observers foresee possible full severance of diplomatic relations with the United States and forced recall of about 86 consular officers, while some American diplomats in Berlin remain in ambiguous status.
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Washington
Germany
Reich
Italy
United States
Berlin-Rome
Berlin
State Department
Rubber Consumption Curtailed in Major Curtailment Plan
Officials outline a program to curb rubber consumption to build a stockpile for wartime needs. A formula would allot processors a fixed percentage of past usage, with details to be settled at a later meeting of large rubber processors.
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Aniaman
Finland Goes to the Baltic for a Month
The Sanomat, led by ex Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, stated that Finland should deploy to the country for at least a month. The article notes the Baltic military situation as it stood at that time.
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Sanomat
Eljas Erkko
Baltic
Chamber Primary Vote Closes At Five This Afternoon
The greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce will close its primary director election ballots at 5 o clock this afternoon. Members were mailed ballots and are urged to return them by deadline. A counting committee will meet this afternoon in the chamber offices to tally votes. Members include J. J. Penn Merriman Smith Ian Campbell Barney Phillips Thomas McClain and G T Porterfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Lila Taylor
Eddie Steele
Chamber
J. J. Penn
Merriman
Smith
Ian Campbell
Barney Phillips
Thomas McClain
G. T. Porterfield
Tax overhauls would shift excess profits and surtaxes
A congressional panel endorsed changes to compute excess profits taxes and broaden surtaxes, reversing current deductions to raise new revenue. The plan adds a 10 percent excess profits levy and lowers individual surtax rates, aiming to net about 3.5 billion dollars with inheritance and related taxes.
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Treasury
Doughton
Germans hail arms in World War as tank losses mount
German corps trim Salum battlefield in North Africa and claim 200 British tanks destroyed. Berlin broadcast cites 426 British tanks destroyed. London says unknown German and Romanian demands on Russia. Moscow dispatch finds no sign of crisis or mobilization, with streets full of young women awaiting call-up.
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Berlin
London
Reuters
Moscow
Russia
Germany
Rumania
Radio censorship fears echo in proposed rules
Senator Brooks said radio neared censorship due to network and outlet failures to carry both sides of public issues. He backed Miller's view while criticizing networks for monopoly and describing a plan to force NBC to sell one network and regulate network local contracts.
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FCC
Brooks
Til
Miller
7 Le
Eee
Contro
Natonal Broadcasting Company
Major 1941 valuations of West Virginia utilities and transport
The survey shows 1941 valuations by class with large boosts for railroads United Fuel Gas Hope Natural Gas and others. Major railroad increases include Western Maryland and Chesapeake and Ohio while electric and gas firms such as Appalachian Electric Power and Hope Natural Gas receive multi million boosts and changes across numerous river and regional utilities.
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United Puel Gas
Hope Natural Gas
Godfrey L
Baltimore and Ohio
Benwood
Wheeling
Buffalo Creek
Gauley
Campbells Creek
Chesapeake and Ohio
Cooperative Transit
Cumberland Valley
Martinsburg
Monogahela
Monongahela
West Penn
Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier
Norfolk and Western
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
West Virginia
Toledo
Toledo and Ohio
Newark Central
Virginian
Western
Maryland
Atlantic Seaboard
Cumbersame
Allegheny
Eureka Pipeline
Goarence
Huntington Development and Gas
Inland Gas
Kentucky
Pendport-Shinnston
Manufacturers Light and Heat
Isburgh
South Penn
United Puel
Valvoline
Cheasapeake
Potomac
Bluefield Telephone
American
Western Union
Postal
Duchess in Gang Trial Faces Death, One-Week Reprieve
The duchess and two young men Gordon Hawkins 22 of San Francisco and Albert Ives were sentenced to execution tomorrow in a San Francisco case linking a woman gang to a ransom plot. Ives aided police fearing death for the duchess. he was committed to an insane asylum.
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Gordon Hawkins
Sanancisco
Albert Ives
Mohs
Hawkins
Ives
Sherrod
Illing
San Francisco
Michael Mitchell
Huffard Relected To Kiwanis Post
Hudson Huffard of Bluefield Virginia was re elected to a two year Kiwanis International trustee term at the Atlanta election. Huffard, past Bluefield Kiwanis club president and past governor, is noted for years of civic and business life in the two Bluefields. Charles B Donley of Pittsburgh was named Kiwanis International president.
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Hudson Huffard
Bluefield
Kiwanis International
Atlanta
Huffard
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Two
Bluefields
Charles
Donley
Pittsburgh
Men’s Day Speaker at John Stewart Methodist
Dr. D. T. Murry of Keystone will speak Sunday at John Stewart Methodist Church as part of Men’s Day. A special men’s choir led by William P. Green will perform, with the Rev. H. L. Dickason delivering the evening address as president of the B. S. T. U. and a noted orator. The event invites public attendance.
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D. T. Murry
Keystone
John Stewart Methodist Church
William P. Green
Negro State Board of Education
American Legion
Murry
H. L. Dickason
Theirhood
Woman's Society and Railway Trainmen Meet This Evening
Alma Perdue hosts The Woman's Society of Christian Service at 6 o clock tonight at 303 Mercer Street. John Clara A Wheeler will host the Association of Colored Railway Trainmen social. Mrs L J Wright presides. An important meeting convenes at Newland Street Saturday morning with mothers of the Carolina Community Home and department chairmen invited.
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Woman's Society of Christian Service
John
Clara A. Wheeler
Association of Colored Railway
Mercer Street
L. J. Wright
Mothers
Carolina
Newland Street
Infant Shade Dies at Stevens Clinic Welch
The twin infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Odell Shade died Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock at the Stevens Clinic in Welch. Burial was held at New Oak Grove Cemetery in Bluefield.
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Harry Odell Shade
Stevens Clinic
Welch
New Oak Grove Cemetery
Bluefield
RAF Stages Ninth Night of Raids Over London
RAF bombers attacked London for a ninth night in a row, with a strong escort of fighter planes. The raids came as wartime operations continued against targets across the city and surroundings.
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RAF
London
Bombers Strike Le Havre Ports as Britons Repel German Defenses
Allied air forces bombed Le Havre docks and an enemy supply ship near the French coast last night during a ninth straight assault. One German fighter was downed and British forces reported no losses.
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le Havre
Grundy Man Belcher Shoots Self At Home
William Clyde Belcher 30 of Grundy shot and killed himself at his Grundy home about 1 30 yesterday afternoon authorities said. An insurance agent and popular resident, he left no known reason for the act. Surviving are his wife Mrs Gertrude Looney Belcher, his father Bart Belcher, and siblings Tolbert Earl Elmer Belcher plus Mrs Kirk Smith Miss Nora Belcher and Mrs Sluss. Services set for 2 PM tomorrow at the Belcher homeplace on Bull Creek near Harmon.
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William Clyde Belcher
Grundy
Belcher
Bart Belcher
Gertrude Looney Belcher
Tolbert
Earl
Elmer Belcher
Kirk Smith
Nora Belcher
Sluss
Bull Creek
Harmon
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Uate and
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Col
W. Elliott Nefflin
G. Stanley Hambrick
Department of Public Safety
Pretwell's
Commercial
Call Telephone
Telegraph Commercial Printing Co
Bland St
Harry Haffen
Roanoke
West Virinian Hotel
Ruby
Preston Street
Bradley’s
Bradley's
Mediation Board
Airport Grounds
Finland
Electric—Appalachian
Hardy County Light and Power
Harrison County Rural Electrification
Kanawha Valley Power
Lic Service
West Virginia Power and Transmission
West Virginia Light, and Power
Wheeling Electric
Moundsville
Mountain State
Weirton Improvement
West Virginia Water Service
Huntington
Ohio
Interstate of
Bellaire
Newell
State Bridge Commission of
Steubenville
West Virginia and
Ohio River Bridge Co
Wheeling and
Belmont
Wheeling Bridge
Bus Lines
Bus Lines Bus Lines
Atlantic Greyhound
Capital Greyhound
Charleston Transit
Consolidated
Cooperative
Logan-Williamson
Monongahela Transport
Ohio Valley
Weirton
Reynolds
Tri-City Traction
West Virginia Transportation
Wheeling Public Service
White Star
Kiwanis Post
News of the Colored People
W. Tiffany
Alma Perdue
Baldwin Ane
Bond
Schenley
SchEnley Distillers Corporation
New York City
Donial
Merle Oberon
Dennis Morgan
Rita Hayworth
Ae Pete & Lloyd Bacon
Vivien AG Sich
Mo Hamilton
Madame Marie
Bluefield- Princeton Road
Service Inn
W. Va
Johnny McK. Brown
Captain Marvel
Hopalong Cassidy
Border Vigilantes
Celental
Gat
Vonight
Virginia
Cary Grant
Martha Scott
Putman Th
FU Manchu
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