Scout Camp Opens July 4 in Bland County Va
The first period of Camp Roland for Boy Scouts will open Sunday July 4 in Bland County Virginia with many scouts registered from Bluefield. Local leaders include Coach Lambert Arrington as resident director and new tentage will be available. Scouts William Powell Bill Acuff and Jim Acuff return from Toledo Ohio national training school to lead waterfront activities as life saving and swimming training featured.
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Roland
Bland County
Bluefield
James C. Borden, Jr
Hard Salsberg
Herbert Richard Byrd
Edwin A. Bender
Tommy Tully
Mather Archer
Jimmy Tt
Warner D. Hypes
Glen
James G. Granger
Lym Hudson
Jimmy Porterfield
John Allea
Richard Rice
George William Hager
John C. Wren
Lambert Arrington
William Powell
Matoaka
Bill Acuff
Jim Acuff
Toledo
Ohio
Uatic
Arrington
LIDDLE Destroyer Escort Launched In August Schedule
Mrs. W. P. Liddle of 404 Stowers Street receives word from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox that the ship named LIDDLE for her son William Porter Liddle Jr. has been reassigned to the United Kingdom and a new destroyer escort will be launched at Charleston Navy Yard in August. The original ship intended for Quincey, Massachusetts is unaffected in part and Mrs. Liddle remains sponsor as changes are communicated. The son was killed in August 1942 at Guadalcanal while aiding a wounded marine.
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Mra
W. P. Liddle
Stowers Street
Frank Knox
Secretary of the Navy
William Porter Liddle, Jr
Guadalcanal
United Kingdom
Liddle
Navy Yard
Charleston
D. C
Quincey
Mass
Department
Ae Liddle
Ves
Prank Loving
Visi
Richmond
Frank Deskins
Baileysville
Woodrow Harper
Khorazian
Georgianna
Bluefield
Landon Cox
Era
A. Wareren
Beckley
J. E. Stone
Pineville
Mattie Moran
Maude Stone
Mullen
Myr
P. A. McDaniel
Phil
Jeff Goode
Mullens
Max
Alderson
Katherine Crews
San Antonio
Texas
Thai
Oklahoma
Mary Katherine Coen
Welch
Loraine Cook
Harry W. Cooke
Anne Barlow
Mildred Cook
Eliza
Klara Mae Wilson
Logan
T. P. Anderson
William
Mann
E. M. Curry
E. Pierce Rose
W. W. Rose
Mildred
Lucille Rose
Harold Lee Rose
Bluefield Thurgeay
Charles Graham
Athens
Scout Training Praised by Brig. General Roosevelt
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, serving on the North African front, sends a message to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America praising Scout training. He notes many officers and men are former scouts and urges the movement to carry its ideals into the war effort and to defend the nation’s government and freedoms.
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Theodore Roosevelt
National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
Roosevelt
Boys’ Life
United States
The
Scouts of America
Club Collects Additional Cans on Washington Street
The Victory club on Washington Street comprising young children collected two more boxes of tin cans several pounds of scrap and several old hose They plan a scrapbook for service men Gordon Ritter is president Billy Looney vice president Gertrude Logan and Phyllis Ruble will meet at the Looney home to plan further club work
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Victory Club
Washington Street
Gordon Ritter
Billy Looney
Gertrude Logan
Phyllis Ruble
Looney
Frau Goebbels Is Living Abroad
A Moscow broadcast quoted by the U S foreign broadcast intelligence service said Frau Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, is living abroad with her children to avoid air raids and may stay in Spain for the summer or winter, with a castle near Seville reportedly purchased for Goebbels.
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New York
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Moscow Radio
United States Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Frau Goebbels
Moscow
Bern
Spain
Goebbels
Seville
Daily Doings Of Area Men In U S Service
James A Lilly 24 son of Clifford Lilly 1325 Sususta Street won navy wings of gold and was commissioned second lieutenant in US Marine Corps Reserve. He trained at Pensacola Florida and held a BS from Virginia Tech. He served at an air operations training center before a combat zone assignment.
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James A. Lilly
Clifford A. Lilly
Sususta Street
United States Marin Corps
Naval Air Training Center
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Service
Lilly
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Navy
Area Women Aid SMC Breakfast for 87 Servicemen
Workers at the Service Men's Club donated 12 iced tea glasses and sweet peas for the tables. Miss Otie Sumner gave a cash donation for the day. Eighty seven service men from 17 states attended with four accompanied by wives. A soldier letter praised the Bluefield SMC as the nicest seen. Meetings set for West Virginia hotel Tuesday at 2.
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Service Men's Club
R. L. Edmonson
Otie Sumner
Pacific
SMC
Bluefield
Sociologist Finds Little Factor in Detroit Riots
Detroit June 26 A sociologist leading a probe interviewed nearly 500 rioters and found that southern and other out-of-town workers were almost no factor in Monday’s fighting between Negroes and whites. The inquiry, at Governor Kelly’s request, noted most participants had long Detroit residence and found two common conditions: employed in good jobs and eager to return, and they reported no racial discrimination.
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Detroit
South
C. N. Ramsay
Michigan Department of Social Welfare
Ramsey
Harry F. Kelly
Michigan
Ramsay
Area Men Serve With Armed Forces in School and Work
A report notes that many men from the area served with the armed forces during school or employment, with a majority of those questioned identified as Negro. The document highlights the intersection of military service and civilian life.
Women pilots ferry B 25 bomber for frontline delivery
In Cincinnati on June 23 a B 25 bomber landed after a west to east flight marking the first time a woman pilot and copilot flew a bomber on the from factory to front line route. Nancy Harkness Love and Barbara Towne led the mission, with Col. Tunner praising the maneuver and noting WAFS pilots freeing male crews for combat duty.
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Cincinnati
Army Air Corps
Nancy Harkness Love
Boston
Women's Auxiliary
Barbara Towne
Ross
Calif
WAFS
William H. Tunner
Air Transport Command
Army
Col. Tunner
Masonic Lodge Installs Officers in Pineville
W Clyde Senter conducted the installation for Pineville lodge with George H Bragg as worshipful master for the coming year. New officers include James E Stone senior warden Theodore Bailey junior warden E Pierce Rose treasurer Fred H Shannon Sr secretary and others. Reverend Harry G Stevens named pastor of Oceana Missionary Baptist Church replacing Dewey A Wilson. Lona Bane reelected clerk. Rockcastle attendance planned.
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Pineville
W. Va
W. Clyde Senter
Charleston
George H. Bragg
Bragg
James E. Stone
Theodore Bailey
E. Pierce Rose
Fred H. Shannon
Harry G. Stevens
Beckley
Missionary Baptist Church of
Oceana
Dewey A. Wilson
Camp Creek
Wilson
Stevens
Lona Bane
Rockcastle
Baptist association plans Matoaka assembly and pulpit schedule
The Rev Stevens will lead services twice monthly and attend Thursday prayer meetings as a Baptist association prepares to convene at Matoaka. A fawn with a broken leg near Pineville was treated by Dr Khorazian and later amputated by Dr Steele. both gave free care while the Andersons nurseled the animal amid many visitors.
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Gme Protec
Pineville
Anderson
Funeral Rites Held for C A Franklin Wolf Pen Resident
Body found in the Ohio River at Cincinnati. C A Franklin worked in a defense plant there. Ohio authorities investigate possible foul play. Burial held here with last rites by Edgar Beverly and Ike Malens. Surviving family includes widow and five children named John Calvin Alien emee in Cincinnati Mrs Wheeler Wolf Pen and Me Nathaniel Green Welch Mary Alice Burns Pineville.
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Wolf Pen
C. A. Franklin
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio City
Edgar Beverly
Ike Malens
John
Calvin
U. S. Army
Allien
Emee
Wheeler
Nathaniel Green
Welch
Coal Report shows 10.4 percent rise in soft coal output
Washington reports the National Coal Association said soft coal products for the week ending June 1 rose to 11,006,000 tons, up 10.4 percent from the same week in 1942, as work stoppages neared the third generation.
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Washington
The
National Coal Association
Woman Se hospitalized receives treatment at Welch hospital
A female patient was removed to Welch hospital for treatment after an incident, remaining in serious condition upon return home.
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Welch
Bailey Ill At Home Near Baileysville
Leroy C. Bailey a resident of Pelice Ville is reported seriously ill at his home a few miles below Baileysville in the latest health bulletin.
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Bailey
John Bailey
Baileysville
Leroy C. Bailey
Peliceville
Visit Returns Bring Goode Family Home
Mr and Mrs Paul Goode and "Butch" of Mullens with Tae and Mrs W C Bailey and family from Baileysville returned this week on a visit with Tae and Mrs W C Bailey Jr at Melbourne Florida
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Paul Goode
Butch
Mullens
W. C. Bailey
Baileysville
Tae
W. C. Bailey, Jr
Melbourne
Fia
Navy sailor on leave visits Clearfork home
Wirt Hatfield Jr son of the Rev and Mrs Wirt Hatfield of Clearfork is on leave from the U S Navy Visiting his parents He is stationed at the U S Naval Training Station in Great Lakes Illinois
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Mack Vinson Bradley
New York
H. V. Bradley
Navy
Mason Cook
Wyoming Mining Corporation
Oceana
Oceana Methodist Church
T. B. Painter
Union No. 7692
L. B
Jim Blake
Lundale
Jessie Marsh
Sabine
Dennie Kennedy
Ray Pettry
Wirt Hatfield, Jr
Wirt Hatfield
Clearfork
U. S. Navy
U.S. Naval Training Stat
Great Lakes
Ill
Meat price ceiling delayed in Charleston district office
Ruth Ack price ceiling clerk of the local price and rationing board announced this week that retail meat prices have been unavoidably delayed. Retail meat dealers will continue to sell at their customary levels until the new ceiling prices can be provided to the local board.
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Charleston
Ruth Ack
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U. S
William O. Hell
United States Army
Fort Knox, Ky
Conley D. Hall
Bluefied
Forrest Clark
Ordnance Department
Detroit, Mich
F. P. Clark
Jefferson Street
Walter K. Ward
Albany, Ga
Boise
Idaho
Charlie Bowling
Cpl
Emmett L. Ward
William R. Hager
Set
Everett Perdue
Arizona
Dolores
Perdue
Una Hickman
James A. Tabor, Jr
Endicott, NY
Link
Leonard L. Lowder
United States Army Air Forces
San Marcus
Tex
Lowder
W. B. Lowder
Balsam Street
Pfc. Louis
Kenneth Harvey
Camp Pickett
Kegley
West Virginian Hotel
C. T. Watkins
Arthur Wolfe
Clyde R. Stowers
Maxine Smith
W. A. McCue
G. R. Gish
FP. E. Comins
William Alley
Effie Groseclose
R. P. Gammage
L. W. Morgan
James Loyd
Pvt
James T. Bowling
United States Army Engineering Corps
Camp Carson
Colo
Louisiana
Mre
J. M. Bowling
Princeton Road
Frank A. Agee
Fannie Agee
Princeton
North Africa
Premo Massaroni
McComas
United States Armed Forces
Raymond Massaroni
Alaska
Infantry Corps
Armand Massaron
Army Air Forces
Wright Field
Dayton
John R. Stark
Marona Army Air Field
Ariz
Phoenix
H. A. McNeer
J. L. Winfrey
Bluefield-Princeton Road
United States Armed Servicer
Pfc
Mason Winfrey
Paul B. Winfrey Wright
Norwood M. Munsey
Boyd Munsey
Montcalm
Naval Hospital
Parris Island
United States Marine Corps
H. I. Yon
Clarence E. Mann
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
Bill Mullins
I. L. Mullins
Circle Drive
Chicago
Mullins
CS Iu
Pineville, W. Va
Walter C. Byrd
Masonic Lodge
Lain
Jack Calles
Lloyd Childis
Ge Block Inc
Roanoke
Mary Alice Burns
Dan W. Cook
A. G. Cline
Virgil Sizemore
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Spanishburg Baptist Church
G. C. Currie
Sarver
Spanishburg
Memorial Funeral Home
Zinnia B. Sizemore
Irene Brewer Sizemore
Sydney
Longacre
Fred
Imer
Camp Campbell
Tyre
U. 8S
Australia
Tracy
U. 8. Army
London
England
E. V
Essex
Vada Lilly
Spanishbure
C. W. Ballard
Paul Quesenberry
Okley Bowden
East Gulf
Manila
the Commercial Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Bluefield, W. VA
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