News Of Colored People Workshop At BSC
A workshop on marriage and family is held at Bluefield State College for the remainder of the week with leaders and ministers invited. All classes are open to the public. Funeral services for Mrs. Lilly Bailey who died Friday at Welch hospital will be held at 11 this morning in Anawalt West Virginia. Miss Alberta Virginia Tucker daughter of Mrs. Janie Blackwell will be buried in Oakgrove cemetery after services at Mount Zion Baptist church Thursday at 3 30. Tucker died Friday in New York City. Circle B of Mount Zion Missionary society postponed. new date to be announced. Silver Star choir of John Stewart Methodist church rehearses at 4 this afternoon. Evangelist M. Miller conducts revival sermons at Church of God Apostolic on Genoa Avenue nightly at 7 30. Usher Board of Scott Street Baptist church holds annual Usher Day at morning and evening services.
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Bluefield State College
Lilly Bailey
Welch Hospital
Anawalt
W. Va
Alberta Virginia Tucker
Janie Blackwell
Mount Zion Baptist Church
M. Miller
Church of God Apostolic
Genoa Avenue
The
Scott Street Baptist Church
Big Convention Opens Tomorrow for West Virginia VFW
The 27th encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of West Virginia opens tomorrow with 1500 members and visitors arriving for a three day meeting. Major events include a 9 am opening, speaker Gen. Robert B. McClure, and a Saturday election and installation of state officers.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Department of West Virginia
VFW
R. A. Gonano
Department Council Administration
Bluefield
A. Harry West
McClure
Gonano
Robert B. McClure
Second Army
Ft. George G
Pearl Harbor
Guadalcanal
New Georgia
Bougainville
New Caledonia
Will
Hudson Hyatt
Sue
Edgewood
Rhode Island
Ladies Auxiliary
Hyatt
Cleveland
Ohio
Huntington
Charleston
Clarksburg
Logan and
Williamson
State Department
James R. Davis
J. L. Green
C. E. Goodwin
Ripley
James A. Mack
Spencer
Frederic C. Riggs
Weston
Melvin Linton
Aubrey Quartermaster
Fay F. Baker
Heflin
Department
State Ladies’ Auxiliary Department
Ida Mae Blackwell
Mary Morrison
Pearl Walters
Parkersburg
Lida Young
Mae Smith
Sea King unloads manganese ore for Pennsylvania mills
The Panamanian ship Sea King unloaded about 9,500 tons of Russian manganese ore in Norfolk Virginia destined for Pennsylvania steel mills. The ore was loaded at Poti on the Black Sea.
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Norfolk
Sea King
Pennsylvania Steel Mills
Poti
Black Sea
Indians may gain liquor rights and voting under new act
Ottawa reports a parliamentary committee recommends a new Indian act to help Indians become good citizens. It would permit Indians to drink off reservation and grant general Indian suffrage. Some current prohibitions would be lifted for those who served in the army and qualify to vote.
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Ottawa
Canada
State To Seek Medal Of Honor For West Virginia Test Pilot
Charleston West Virginia June 22 The state aeronautics commission will ask the West Virginia congressional delegation to recommend Capt Charles E Yeager of Hamlin for the Congressional Medal of Honor The plan follows an Aviation Week editorial praising Yeager as the first American to fly faster than sound and live to tell about it The editorial called the achievement the greatest in aviation since the Wright brothers flight The commission cited aviation experts remarks and urged the medal as a recognition of a milestone whose significance will grow Tenants operate about 39 percent of the farms in the United States.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Aeronautics Commission
West Virginia
Charles E. Yeager
Hamlin
Yeager
Hubert H. Stark
Aviation Week
Wright
Britain
Charles Yeager
United States
Auto Workers Snub Ford Bid
The United Auto Workers rejected Ford Motor Company’s offer of an 11 to 14 cent per hour wage increase, promising a counterproposal later this week. Ford’s proposal would raise wages to 14 cents for earnings of $1.50 an hour or more and 11 cents for those under $1.50.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Company
Auto Union
Ford
Kansas Farmers Fear Rains Hit Wheat Harvest
Parsons June 22 Kansas farmers scanned skies for signs rains were done to avoid delay in harvesting. Four tornado clouds drifted over the state with one touching ground. The storm system, part of a broader flood event, threatened thousands of acres of ripening grain while causing estimated $100,000 in damage at Wichita.
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Parsons
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Wichita
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VFEW
Suely
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Mrs
Alberta
Virginia Tucker
Circle “B
Mount Zion Missionary Society
Silver Star
John Stewart Methodist Church
Omer
Sherry
Princeton Ave
U. S
Pecinnina Our
Auto Workers
St. Joseph
Penneys
Penney’s
Penney’s Street
U.S. Pat
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