Woman Returns Home Finds Friends Mourning Her Death
Mrs Pauline Forstall Adams returned from shopping to find friends mourning her death though the body in question was Miss Mira Barraud who had fallen to her death three hours earlier. Dr Walter P Adams identified the body and later confirmed misidentification due to hallway darkness and facial injuries. The apartment held a newspaper story about the death when Mrs Adams arrived. Miss Barraud, a Richmond native, had relatives not located.
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Norfolk
Pauline Forstall Adams
Mira Barraud
Dr. Adams
William E. Callender
Commissioner Revokes Three Beer Licenses
Charleston West Virginia June 29 Three retail beer licenses were revoked by Beer Commissioner Burton Crow at the last hearing for the current license year. Edgar Meade of Johnny Boy's Place Ragland Mingo county had his license revoked amid a felonious shooting charge and his confinement in Mingo county jail at Williamson. Denver Roberts of the Oasis St Albans had his license revoked for drunkenness and after midnight sale. Jerry B Deluca of Mount Hope Grill Mount Hope had his license revoked for sale of beer to minors. A charge against Mrs Georgia Klein of Taylorville Mingo county for selling to minors was dismissed.
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Charleston
W. Va
Burton Crow
Edgar Meade
Johnny Boy’s Place
Ragland
Mingo County
Crow
Meade
Williamson
Denver Roberts
The
Oasis
St. Albans
Jerry B. Deluca
Mount Hope Grill
Mount Hope
Georgia Klein
Taylorville
Virginia Democrats prepare for convention leadership hints
Speaker G Alvin Massenburg of Hampton is expected to be nominated permanent chairman of the Virginia Democratic party at the Richmond convention. W Tayloe Murphy of Warsaw is eyed for the keynote speech. Virginia leaders foresee no regional walkout from Truman’s renomination and expect the state’s stance to shape the national convention’s civil rights plank.
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Norfolk
G. Alvin Massenburg
Hampton
Virginia Democratic Party
W. Tayloe Murphy
Warsaw
House of Delegates
Richmond
Virginia
Truman
Philadelphia
Resolutions Committee
Bolt
The
National Party
UMW Official Seeks DuPont Workers Vote
Charleston West Virginia June 29 An official of the United Mine Workers urged Du Pont Belle workers to vote no on union representation. About 3 000 employees face a ballot between CIO Chemical Workers and no union with District 50 barred for non communist affidavits as Titler of District 29 spoke at a mass meeting. The current contract with Du Pont runs to June 16 1949. He predicted employers would vote no to keep the present pact.
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Charleston
W. Va
United Mine Workers
E. I. DuPont de
George J. Titler
District 29
UMW
du- Pont
District 50-du- Pont
E. I. DuPont Company
VFW Scout Troop To Sponsor Watermelon Feed
The VFW sponsored Boy Scout Troop No. 26 will hold a watermelon feed at the VFW home on Bland Street this evening at 6 o'clock. All troop members are urged to attend and boys aged twelve and older interested in joining are invited.
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Bland Street
Headache Defined As Fluid Buildup Around Brain Says Doctor
An eminent doctor explains that a headache, in its simplest terms, reflects fluid accumulation in and around the brain. The observation frames headaches as a fluid balance issue rather than a brain tissue fault.
First Baptist Church Meeting Postponed
A Sunday School workers conference and supper at the First Baptist church tonight has been postponed to a later date.
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First Baptist Church
Commander Named at Armed Forces Staff College Relieved
Norfolk Virginia June 29 4 Lt Gen Delos C Emmons U S Air Force native of Huntington West Virginia was relieved today as commandant of the armed forces staff college General Emmons will retire from active duty tomorrow and is succeeded by Vice Admiral John L Hall Jr
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Norfolk, Va
Delos C. Emmons
U. S. Air Force
Huntington
W. Va
Armed Forces Staff College
General Emmons
John L. Hall, Jr
Berlin Issue Fades In UN Security Council
Trygve Lie abandoned any idea of bringing the Berlin crisis before the UN Security Council. The U N and France indicated no immediate action while the United States suggested restraint. Russian delegates were unavailable for comment but insiders say Moscow would not push Berlin at the council. Also noted, Tibetan women wear 108 pigtails honoring the Kanduur volumes.
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Lake Success
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Berlin
Security Council
United States
France
Lie
U. N
Tibet
Virginia Side Pastor to Retire From Ministry in 1930s Move
The Rev. Edgar C. Burns rector of St Marys Episcopal and Pearlsburg churches will retire at normal retirement age and move to Washington DC to run a private business. He began ministry in 1919 and has served in multiple states including Arizona South Carolina and Virginia. He leaves his Virginia Side post with wife Dorothy Woof Burns and two children, and a successor has not been named. A later note reports an insurance survey finding one in five white deaths due to heart disease.
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Edgar C. Burns
St. Mary’s Episcopal
Pearlsburg Episcopal
Washington, D. C
Burnz
Burns
New York City
Peddie Institute
New Jersey
Virginia Episcopal Seminary
Alexandria
Hudson River Valley
Big Stone Gap
Russell, Scott, Lee, Wise
Dickenson
Saltville
Smith County
Charlotte
N. C
St. Peter's Church
Orangeburg
Fort Motte
S. C
Arizona
West
Tucson
Ariz
Gonzales
Hallettsville
Yoakum
Texas
Virginsside
Orient
Japan
Korea
Manchukuo
North China
Mr. Burnz
Dorothy H. Woof
Liverpool
England
William Osborne
Virginia Side
Robert Burns
U. S. Weather Bureau
Great Falls
Montana
Washington
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Westinghouse Electric
Karl H. Frye
Roanoke St
Bluefield
Dial
Massenburg
Va. Demos
DuPont
Goodyear
Marathon
Milleums
Stockman Tire Service
Bluefield Avenue
Bluefield, W. Va
Marie Moyson
New York
VFW Scout
Mtor
Wen
Ford
Mercer Garage
Scott and
Raleigh Streets
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