Rites Today For George Woods
Funeral services for George Woods 72 will be held at First Baptist church this afternoon at 2 30. Interment in Monte Vista Park cemetery with the Masonic lodge in charge. Woods a retired night chief dispatcher for the Norfolk and Western railroad died at St Lukes hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Bluefield 45 years and retired May 1 1944 after fifty years in railroading. He was a native of Ashland Kentucky and began as a telegraph operator for C&O in 1888. He is survived by his wife Pearl Lucas and several children and brothers. Active pallbearers include C J Lester and others. The body was moved to Memorial Funeral Home then to his lee Street home.
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First Baptist Church
George Woods
St. Luk’s Hospital
C. V. Cook
Monroe Dodson
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Masonic Lodge
Mr. Woods
Pocahontas
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway
Ashland
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
C. and O
Norfolk and Western
Chillicothe
Ohio
Kenova
W. Va
Woods
Seaboard
Savannah
Bluefield Lodge No
Elks’ Lodge
Shriners
Pearl Lucas
Leesville
George Genet Woods
Frank Woods
Miss the Woods
Mark Woods
Harry Ireson
Roanoke
Harold Holt
Gainsville
Claude English
Charles Woods
Ironton
Ylie Woods
C. J. Lester
E. M. Gillespie
W. S. Penn
A.issey
E. L. Byrd
Dewey Miller
Lee Street
Deaths Wygal 74 Former Contractor
Last rites for Harvey Black Wygal 74 retired contractor who died at St Luke's hospital after four days as patient. Services Tuesday at Mercer Funeral home with Dr C G Eastwood in charge. Interment Walnut Grove cemetery. Survived by two sisters and four half brothers in Virginia.
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Harvey B. Wygal
Mercer Funeral Home
Harvey Black Wygal
St. Luke’s Hospital
C. G. Eastwood
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Mr. Wygal
Henry C. Wygal
Arabella Lucas Wygal
Christiansburg
Wygal
Ledge Street
Bluefield
W. L. Rutledge
J. K. Morgan
James H
Willie Wygal
Salem
Frank
Wytheville
Irvin Wygal
Virginia
Giles Scouts Camporee Planned at Shannon's Place
The Giles district Boy Scouts hold their annual Camporee at Shannon's Place on Walkers Creek between Pearisburg and Dublin Friday through Sunday June 28 to 30. The new district camping and activities committee directs the event. Inter patrol contests occur Saturday afternoon followed by a campfire Saturday night. Parents and interested citizens are invited to attend.
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Boy Scouts
Giles
Shannon's Place
Walkers’ Creek
Highway 101
Pearisburg
Dublin
Paul Myres
Paul Gunn
Bot Pettit
Charlie Morrison
Charlie Bell
C. J. Burgess
Masons Install Lodge Officers in Bluefield
J. Frank Kirby was installed as worshipful master of Bluefield lodge No. 85 A F and A M at the St Johns meeting in the Masonic temple on Federal street. Other officers were installed and L. M. Carper led the ceremonies with W. F. Bond and E. L. Holmes assisting. The retiring master received a watch presented by Ben H. Williams.
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J. Frank Kirby
Bluefield Lodge
Anual St. Johns
Masonic Temple
Federal Street
Kirby
M. M. King
H. M. Underwood
R. T. Waters
M. B. Lockhart
L. M. Carper
E. L. Holmes
Ben H. Williams
Vinson Sworn In As Judge Before Dense Crowd
Rayburn presided at the confirmation ceremony for Vinson on the porch flanking both sides as Chief Justice D Lawrence Groner administered two oaths. Vinson pledged to administer justice equitably and defend the constitution before the gathered audience.
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Rayburn
D. Lawrence Groner
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Vinson
Pineville Man Loses Eye After Theatre Altercation
John C. Bowman a Wyoming county teacher and Navy veteran remained at Bluefield sanitarium after an incident at Pine Theatre in Pineville Saturday night. A gun discharged during a struggle between Charley Ash and Frank E. Casey causing Bowmans injury and minor injuries to a boy. Deputy Lee Short reported Ash and another man fought from the balcony down to the floor where Casey tried to eject Ash. In the ensuing struggle Ash allegedly wrested the gun from Casey and it discharged. Casey was jailed and Ash was apprehended while attempting to flee.
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John C. Bowman
Pineville
Bluefield Sanitarium
Pine Theatre
Bowman
Wyoming
Charley Ash
Marianna Miner
Frank E. Casey
Pine
Lee Short
Ash
Casey
Short
Welch
Tazewell Livestock Sale Report
Tazewell June 23. Total 1,200 head. Lambs 700 with prices for choice through common and med. Sheep at 8.45 for good to slaughter and 5.10 to 8.50 for common and medium. Wealers 190 head with varied lots from 11.00 to 18.45 and seconds 16.35.
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Tazewell
Child Killed In Fall From Mine Motor Deerfield Tragedy Claims O'Donnell Boy
Three and a half year old Weldon O'Donnell of Springton died Sunday after falling from a mine motor at the Deerfield operation of American Coal while visiting relatives. He was crushed and died at Wylie hospital Mullens. Survived by parents and siblings Jerry and Shirley. Funeral at Springton Community church with burial in Resthaven Princeton. Pallbearers named Duane Powers Robert Waddell Darrell Lovell Charles Thodes.
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Weldon O'Donnell
Guy O’donnell
Springton
New Deerfield
American Coal Company
Ents
Robey Rhodes
Deerfield
O'Donnell
Wylie Hospital
Mullens
Jerry
Shirley
Turkey Gap
Dott
Z. F. Mayberry
Matoaka
Resthaven
Princeton
Duane Powers
Robert Waddell
Darrell Lovell
Charles Thodes
Bailey Funeral Home
Kiwanians Hear Talk On Flowers In Bluefield
Mrs. F M Cloyd of the East River Garden club urged Bluefield Kiwanians to form an all male garden club and to expand gardening interest. She praised gardening for esthetic value, peace of mind, and recreation, aiming to improve Bluefield as a garden city. Fred P Edwards and Eddie Steele reported on the Atlantic City Kiwanis convention and a possible separate Kiwanis club for Bluefield Virginia, with several visitors present.
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Bluefield
F. M
Dink) Cloyd
East River Garden Club
Atlantic City
Fred P. Edwards
Eddie Steele
Elsie Graham
Kitty DeBrick
Elizabeth Nabors
R. T. Burson
Newark, O
Jim C. A and
Paul Craft
Blue
Car-Hungry Veterans Besiege Jeep Sale
On June 24 in Benicia California a government sale offered 1 588 jeeps on a first come first served basis. Peter Bosko 24 of Oakland bought the first jeep priced at 250.40 after his jeep stalled two mechanics fixed the issue and he drove away contents describe the scene.
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Benicia
Calif
Benicia Arsenal
Peter Bosko
Oakland
Bosko
City and Coalfield Items
We now have Children’s Red Goose White Shoes sizes 3 to 11 with X Ray fitting. Betty Lee Shoes and Chamber Of Commerce members urged to respond to a letter from James J. Hott about inserting Cooperation Courtesy pages to promote Bluefield as a trading center. Duplicate notice includes Masonic Stated communication Bluefield Lodge No. 85 tonight at 7 30.
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Betty Lee Shoes
Chamber of Commerce
James J. Hott
Bluefield
Bluefield Lodge
A. F
A. M
Police officials to discuss situt on rights and promotions
Representatives of the Police Civil Service commission Fraternal Order of Police and city administration will meet this evening to clarify the police rights after a recent FOP meeting with Attorney Jerome Katz. Police seek clear standing on promotion duties as several officers act above rank without appropriate pay or rating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Civil Service Commission
Fraternal Order of Police
Jerome Katz
Police Commission
Police Department
Foodstuffs Tied Up By Strike in Pittsburgh
More than two million dollars worth of staple foods were tied up in four major storage houses as 65 AFL warehousemen strike over a 25 cent hourly wage rise from 90 cents to 1.15. Federal conciliators sought a negotiations meeting, orders to distributors and grocers were frozen, and shortages spread to soap shortenings condensed milk canned fruits juices and coffee.
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Pittsburgh
AFL
White Terminal Co
Kirby Transfer & Storage
South Side Transfer & Storage
Pittsburgh Transfer & Storage
APL General Warehousemen & Helpers
Buyer's strike proposal heats postwar price fight
The article describes a proposed buyer's strike as a weapon against rising prices, with Senator Taylor urging housewives and labor groups to press lawmakers at the capitol to save the OPA. He says consumers can force prices down by withholding purchases, a plan highlighted at a rally where Orson Welles introduced him.
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Wherry
Taylor
Idaho
OPA
Washington Monument
Capitol
Orson Welles
Registrars To Sit In City This Week
Registrars enter the second and final week of updating the county voter rolls. They will be at City Hall from 3 PM to 10 PM today, at Fairview School 9 AM to 5 PM Wednesday and Friday, and 3 PM to 10 PM Thursday and Saturday. Retired service personnel registered under temporary ballots must complete permanent registration.
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Fairview School
Price Controls in Flux and Senate Showdown Looms
Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas criticizes Taft and the National Association of Manufacturers as price controls near expiration. Taft predicts a late showdown after a Republican conference as the act nears its Sunday expiry. Glen Taylor is cited in a militant consumer context during the rally.
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Senate
Glen Taylor
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Calif
Taft
Ohio
National Association of Manufacturers
OPA
GOP
New Proposals On Indian Issue Advanced
The British cabinet mission reportedly advanced new proposals to avert a breakdown of talks with India’s Congress. Reuters said the Congress working committee rejected an interim government plan and would decide tomorrow whether to accept long-term phases toward independence. Gandhi was to meet Lord Pethick-Lawrence again tonight.
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New Delhi
all-India Congress Party
Reuters
Congress Working Coftee
Congress
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Lord Pethick-Lawrence
India
Lamar Man Is Free Of Charge
A directed verdict of not guilty was returned in the U S district court West Virginia case of Ollie F P O Dell of Lamar charged with illegal distilling. The defense argued the defendant and his daughter were possum hunting and not involved with the still. Court noted the government’s evidence was circumstantial and insufficient for conviction. The verdict was delivered after opening statements and jury selection for multiple civil cases.
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Ollie FP
O’ Dell
Lamar
U. S. District Court
District
West Virginia
Ben Moore
Harvey L. DeWeese
Alcohol Tax Unit
O'Dell
Jerome Katz
Moore
Bolen
Welch
Alva Cooper
Pineville
Joe Hundley
Maybeury
J. E. Hatcher
Bluefield
Paul Cole
W. A. Otey
Worth
R. G. Jones
Bradshaw
Paul Spencer
Kelly Perdue
Wade Cullen Burks
Plans For Recessing Grand Juries In Huntington
Cabell prosecutor Edward H. Greene announced a plan to call for a regular term of grand juries and recall them if a capital crime occurs between circuit court sessions. Judge Worth ordered a special grand jury for July 5 to consider a presentment charging Paul Ward with fatally shooting his wife Anna Ward.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabell County
Edward H. Greene
Greene
Common Pleas
H. Clay Worth
Paul Ward
Anna Ward
Miners Enroll in Third Week Mining Course at Welch High
Twenty eight miners enrolled yesterday for the third week of the coal mining short course at Welch high school. Sponsored by the West Virginia University School of Mines, the program covers mathematics haulage mining methods drainage and pumping and foremanship. Instructors include Brown Talbott Bramwell L E Bradley and W H MacKenzie.
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Welch High School
School of Mines
West Virginia University
Brown Talbott
Bramwell
L. E. Bradley
Madison
W. H. MacKenzie
Richwood
Koppers Youngsters To Attend Camp Twice This Summer
Seventy five percent of the campers are white miners’ children from the Keystone Carswell and Maitland mines of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates with 170 taking buses to Camp Thomas E Lightfoot on the Greenbrier river near Hinton for two weeks. Negro miners’ children will attend Camp Wyndal near Gauley Bridge from August 7 21. Over seven two week sessions in July and August nearly 1000 children ages 8 14 will use the two camps cabins and recreation programs supervised by Red Cross instructors.
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Keystone
Carswell
Maitland
Eastern Gas and Puel Associates
Koppers Coal Division
Thomas E. Lightfoot
Koppers Coal
Leig
Greenbrier
Hinton
Wyndal
Gauley Bridge
District Rebekahs Meet In Welch Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Daphna Bolen district deputy president of the 17th district will preside at the semi annual convention of Rebekahs in Welch Tuesday at 10 o clock. Lodges participating include Martha Washington Welch Jaeger lodge Gary lodge No. 44 Loyalty Rebekah lodge No. 94 the Seale Beyt and Matoake lodge O J.
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Daphna Bolen
Rebekahs
Welch
Martha Washington
Welch Jaeger Lodge
Gary Lodge
Loyalty Rebekah
Seale Beyt and
Matoake Lodge
Sister Of Local Man Dies At Front Royal
Mrs. Welton Beaty sister of Attorney General Ira J. Partlow of Charleston and Welch died Sunday at her Front Royal home after a long illness. Funeral service will be held today. Her husband died February 28.
Justice Man Hurt In Auto Cycle Crash
Bernard England, 21, of Justice, was injured Sunday when an automobile struck his motorcycle after he had wrecked it. He suffered scalp and head injuries but hospital reports his condition as satisfactory at Stevens Clinic.
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Bernard England
Justice
Stevens Clinic
England
Laymen's League Set Meeting for Wednesday Evening
Members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church Laymen's League will hold their meeting Wednesday night instead of Thursday. Dinner will be served by ladies of the parish, and a program will follow.
Rotary Club Sets Noon Meeting Today
Dr. J. Howard Anderson will lead the program at Welch Rotary Club’s regular noon luncheon in the Appalachian community room.
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J. Howard Anderson
Welch Rotary Club
Appalachian Community Room
Kimball Rotary Club Set to Install Officers
The Kimball Rotary Club will install its officers during Sadie Night in Houston Methodist church. A 7 o'clock dinner precedes a program marking the ceremony.
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Kimball Rotary Club
Sadie
Houston Methodist Church
Soldier Prisoner Witnesses Strike at Lichfield Trials
In Bad Nauheim the strike of three soldier prisoner witnesses halted the court martial of Pfc. Thomas E. Warren as they refuse to testify. They denounce the moved trials as fixed, citing light sentences for guards convicted of cruelty at Lichfield barracks and delaying Warren's proceedings until tomorrow. Others striking witnesses are Otto Holt of Gilman and Simon Blocker of Chicago, both general prisoners with terms from seven to 20 years.
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Bad Nauheim
Lichfield
Germany
U. S. Army
Eng
Thomas E. Warren
Plainview
Tex
Forme
Warren Pond
Sulette Avenue
New York
N. Y
England
Bad Naheim
Warren
Otto Holt
Gilmen
Ill
Simon Blocker
Chicago
Pond
Roanoke Bans Fireworks After City Council Action
Roanoke Virginia, June 24. City council adopts emergency ordinance banning fireworks and other entertainment with penalties up to 500 dollars and six months in jail. Possession sale or shooting prohibited except under expert supervision. Ordinance sent to Roanoke County and nearby towns Salem and Vinton for adoption. Major Ingoldsby cites recent explosion at Junior Grocery and notes fireworks now treated as high explosives.
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Roanoke
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
Salem
Vinton
J. F. Ingoldsby
Franklin Road
Ingoldsby
Council
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