Youth Drowns At Horton Dam Near Bluefield
Tommy Williams a 19 year old Cumberland Heights youth drowned after going into Horton Dam near Bluefield while seeking an inner tube. Rescue teams failed to reach him by midnight as divers and police labored with limited equipment and a later boat and lights. The body remained missing in water 20 to 30 feet deep near a weed clump as 35 to 40 onlookers watched through the night.
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Cumberland Heights
Horton Dam
West Virginia Water Service Company
Ada
Princeton
Bluefield
Young Williams
Bluefield Fire Department
Bluefield Police Department
Ed Williams
Tommy
Milford Bailey
Williams
Hinton
Pearlsburg
Norman Lilly
Government Streamlining OKd and Reforms Ordered
President Truman gained power to reorganize the federal government and ordered seven far reaching reforms effective in 60 days unless Congress votes them down. Proposals include creating a cabinet level welfare department, moving roads to commerce, shifting job security to labor, and expanding the executive office. Congress reaction was cautiously favorable with calls for speed and cost savings aligned with Hoover recommendations.
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Truman
Congress
Secretary of Welfare
Hoover
House
Senate
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Department of Welfare
Public Roads Administration
Federal Works Agency
Commerce Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Labor Department
Post Office Department
Civil Service Commission
Maritime Commission
Hoover Commission
Ives
Rep
Brown
Ohio
Republican Policy Conference
Ex Bluefielder Among Hood Flood Victims At Petersburg
Eight dead after West Virginia flood strain in Petersburg area includes Cecil Lefever 54 and wife Laura Lefever, both from Bluefield and Old Fields vicinity. Police seek relatives while cleanup continues. report notes possible three Lefever children missing. Red Cross tallies show 50 Petersburg homes destroyed and 335 farm buildings damaged.
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Lefever
Old Fields
Bluefield
Associated Press
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Potomac River
Midland
Cumberland
Maryland
Potomac
West Virginia
Virginia
Bridgewater
Shenandoah
South Branch
Romney
Moorefield
Keyser
Johnstown
State Health Department
Charleston
Smoke Hole
Carl Weimer
Maysville
Red Cross
Cpl
Arthur M. Hurst
Ronald
Cecil Lefever
William Jenkins
Jeota. Redmond
Milwaukee Jury Convicts Milton Babich of First Degree Murder
A Milwaukee jury finds Milton Babich 19 guilty of first degree murder for the February killing of Patricia Birmingham, 16. He faces life in prison at hard labor in Waupun. The verdict follows Babich’s elopement with Birmingham’s pregnant sister Kathleen Weeks earlier.
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Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Wisconsin
Waupun
Herman Kubiak
Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Michigan
Kathleen
Herbert Sieffes
Steffes
Victor
Lawrence Papke
Albert T. Birmingham
William J. McCauley
Buchanan County Girl Is Drowned
Miss Birchie Ruth Fletcher 18 daughter of Deputy Sheriff J Oliver Fletcher of Big Rock drowned in the Levisa river near Grundy Va while wading with children She could not swim body recovered in nine feet of water Efforts to revive failed Funeral set for Tuesday at 11 in Fletcher cemetery Big Rock Survivors include two brothers Edward C and Luther B Fletcher Also preceded in death by her mother Grundy Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
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Grundy
Birchie Ruth Flecher
J. Oliver Fletcher
Big Rock
Levisa
Here
Miss Fletcher
Fletcher Cemetery
Bill Jessie
Stuart Childress
Edward C
Luther B. Fletcher
Grundy Funeral Home
Stock market rally lifts prices and adds billions
A late day rally pushed stocks higher with final prices up a few cents to about $3 a share. About $1 billion in market value was added, trading volume reached 780,000 shares, half of it in the final hour, as airlines and railroads led gains. Notable surges included United Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Nickel Plate, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, U S Steel, General Motors, Sears Roebuck, Kennecott Copper, and American Woolen.
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New York
United Air Lines Up
Eastern Air Lines
Nickel Plate
Husky Ex Marine Saves Life Of 2 Year Old
Blake Frey a 24 year old marine saved a two year old clinging to a hotel ledge atop a five story drop in Detroit. He ordered a blanket to break the fall but the child slipped through his arms landing on the sidewalk. The child injured seriously but responding to hospital treatment. Frey apologized to the parents.
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Detroit
Michael Patrician, Jr
Blake Frey
Frey
C & O Rail Strike Deferred by Union
Washington June 20 H E Gilbert vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen says a strike on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has been deferred pending mediation. The case involving grievances is before the national mediation board with no strike during mediation. Union President David B Robertson reports mediation progressing with no immediate strike.
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Washington
H. E. Gilbert
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
National Mediation Board
Gilbert
New York
David B. Robertson
New Insect Threatens Virginia Crops Pollen Beetle Invades Nansemond
Suffolk reports a new pollen beetle devastating melons cucumbers watermelons cantaloupes and squash in Nansemond county. Assistant entomologist B M Roush warns the pest also damages flowering shrubs gladioli lilies and roses while corn remains untouched. No remedy yet though DDT is risky for cucurbits and experts say control will take time.
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B. M. Roush
Holland Experiment Station
John Freeman
GI Insurance Dividend Set For Next Year
Washington reports that about 14 million World War II veterans with GI life insurance will begin receiving an average $175 payout next January. Veterans and heirs may get checks as part of a $2 billion total dividend linked to policy surplus and mortality factors, with some refunds debated by lawmakers.
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Ghent
Carl R. Gray, Jr
Gray
Somme
Capitol
Keatene
Keating
Supreme Court
Davis
R-Wee
Sas
Nnn Electios
Sandard & the “Ameren
Avallerie & Aucust
Etereme Service Organization
VA Cemters Gray
Revolution Reported In Dominican Republic
Reports say revolutionaries seized Puerto Plata on the northern coast while Ciudad Trujillo remained under President Rafael L. Trujillo. Officials described conditions as tranquil as clashes were claimed elsewhere. Trujillo called the action a revolutionary movement, not an invasion.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Republic
Puerto Plata
Rafael L. Trujillo
Havana
Dominican Republic
Sadiaze Boing Sey Fo aggea bear
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Sadiaze Boing Sey
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