Memorial Day Observance Plans Forming in Bluefield
Patriotic and civic groups in Bluefield unite to sponsor Memorial day events with a May 16 forenoon program. A street parade and flag ceremony at Ramsey junior high precede a Ramsey auditorium program featuring Congressman John Kee, followed by grave decorations in local cemeteries. Committees for ceremonies, parade, flag raising and graves are named. a flower show by the Bluefield Garden Club will precede the program, with flowers used for cemetery decoration. Citizens are urged to bring floral contributions to the auditorium on Memorial Day.
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Bluefield
Monnday
National Guard
American Legion
Spanish- American Way Veterans
Serve Officers’ ‘Association
Ramsey Junior High School
Ramsey Auditorium
John Kee
Loca
Herbert D. May
J. Toy Nelson
Walter Perking
Howard Welling
Richard Ramage
Ernest L. Stewart
Stanley
T. Courtney Tanner
Norvin Ovrom
W. H. Hayne
Thomas Hughes
Frank E. Neal
W. F. Fortner
Harry Kammer
R. I. Devlin
Harry L. Moors
B. Francisco
Warren Jackson
Bluefield Garden Club
Howitzer~ Company
National Guards
150Th Infantry
Receivers Named for Real Estate Firm in WV Case
Ancillary receivers for Greyling Realty Corp a Delaware firm with offices in Charleston Huntington and Binfield were named by Kanawha County circuit court. Edward Gans of Charleston district manager for WV and parts of KY OH PA and J E Campbell of Charleston were named receivers for the company tied to a National Surety petition alleging about 19 million dollars owed to the surety and seeking liquidation for creditors.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Kanawha County
Grayling Realty Corporation
Delaware
Huntington
Binefield
Holdinga
Caveral
Edward Gans
Charleaton
West’ Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
J. E. Campbell
National Surety Company of
New York
Georgs van Schaich
Insurance Coatilbainant of
Greylng I Corporation
National Surety Company
New York Insurance Commissioner
Asaeta
Greyling Company
Greyling Corporation
Excase
Greyling
Dr Blaydes to speak at West Virginia child health day
Charleston West Virginia May 16 Dr J B Blaydes of Bluefield and Mrs Ada McDermott of the state health department were named speakers for the West Virginia White House conference on child health day in Charleston May 28 to 30. Blaydes will discuss blindness among West Virginia children and present relief program recommendations while McDermott will report on the impact of parental diseases on children.
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Charleston
W. Va
J. B. Blaydes
Bluefield
Ada McDermott
State Health Department
West Virginia White House
Blayden
West Virginia
McDermott
State bill abolishes Mercer probation officers
The house passed a bill abolishing probation officers in Mercer Wood Berkeley and Wyoming counties making the sheriff the probation officer. The bill was sent to the senate. Air mail service has begun between China and Russia a 000 mile trip four days.
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Charleston
W. Va
House
Mercer
Wood
Berkeley
Wyoming
Senate
China
Russia
Vanishing double chin claims in unclear message
Fragmentary text mentions a disappearing double chin and personal concerns, with irregular phrases about Krugchen, Krusthen salts, and self-criticism. No coherent event, date, or identifiable people or organizations emerge.
Curtain material sales and local notices posted
New fabric sale at A GIT AND GOALFELD TEMS and s&e items advertised. Minnie Shaker announces move to The Mary Lee Beauty Shop on 404 Ra Teigh Street. Colonial Theater tickets for May 16 to May 1 with $1.20 value offer. Dixie Clothing promotes Grunow refrigerator in Appalachian Electric window. Warlick Furniture and American Legion Bell news. Virginian Hotel event Friday May 19 from 8:8 p m to 2 a m.
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Minnie Shaker
Tang's Beauty
Olou
Mary Lee
Ra- Teigh Street
Dixie Clothing Company
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Commonica
Warlick Furniture Company
United States urges British plan for disarmament
President Roosevelt presses a four point disarmament program calling for reduction of weapons, no treaty-breaching build-up, immediate action, and no cross-border deployments while talks at Geneva and London proceed. European leaders, including Germany and Japan, react with cautious support and wary restraint as nations consider rearmament limits.
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Arma
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Geneva
Méana
Déjenne
Géneva
London
Progresa
Offenaa
Tsa
Russia
Sonia
Jon
State Department
Alva
Berlin
Europe
Petts
Germany
League of Nations
Roosevelt
Hitler
Rotary luncheon program discussed business relations committee chair
At the Bluefield Rotary Club meeting in the West Virginian hotel the business relations committee led by J. H. Hoge presented an engaging program. Participants included J. L. Alexander Ray Hivans C. Cheyney and Reverend Jennings W. Hobson among others.
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J. H. Hoge
Bluefield
Rubinoff’s Famous Band Stops Over in Bluefield
Rubinoff’s famous orchestra halted in Bluefield yesterday morning while en route from Charlotte, New Jersey to Pittsburgh. The group traveled by chartered bus, with the band’s leadership in charge noted during the stop brief in the town.
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Rubinoff
Bluefield
Charlotte
Pittsburgh
George Martin Held Without Bail in Slaying Case
George H. Martin a 25 year old colored barber was held without bail after a preliminary hearing waived by Magistrate W Z McNeal. The charge stems from the fatal shooting of Claude Harriston in a Clifford Street rooming house Monday night. Police located Martin on Pack Street early yesterday morning and he surrendered peacefully. He was committed to Mercer County Jail in Princeton.
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W. W
McNeal
George H. Martin
Marcer County
Claude Harrinston
In & Clfford Street
Esvera
Martin
Pack Street
Apr
Mercer County
Princeton
Director Selects Logel Folk for Leads in Movie
Hollywood unit arrives in town to film a two reel comedy titled Bluefield's Hero staged Friday at Raleigh and Federal streets. Neon crowds will fill the Granada stage with indoor and outdoor shots. babies and children join in as extras at matinees for audience attendance and photo opportunities.
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Perry
Daily Telegraph
Hollywood
Raleigh
Federal Streets
Flat Top National Bank
Bluefield
Granada Theater
Granada
Bluefeld
Bluefield's Horn
Tonrae
Newland
Glenwood Man Hurt in Cycle Accident
Ray Surface, 25, of Glenwood Park, is at St. Jake's Hospital with a fractured skull from a motorcycle crash Sunday at Sand Lick Junction. His condition was described as very serious yesterday. Driver Irving Smith escaped injury. The bike went down a 15-foot embankment and was wrecked. Surface is married with a nine month old child.
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Ray Surface
Glenwood Park
St. Jake's Hospital
Sand Lick Junction
Irving Smith
Mr. Surface
Yro
Transplanted Tomato and Pepper Pants Ad Listed
Transplanted tomato and pepper pants from Yor. Cab gage Planta Inc. accept mail orders with prompt attention. Mentions Mot Manta and Bedding Mant. BROYLES GREENHOUSES at 10 North Street with phone 1987.
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Cabgage Planta, Inc
W. VaeVa. CO
Broyles
North Street
Legislature advances tax and revenue bills amid sessions
The legislature considers income tax reforms and a $14 000 000 revenue bill while a secret session request is denied. A constitutional amendment on submission is set for vote, legislators’ $2 003 annual salary is noted, and bills to tax utilities and to manufacture license plates in penitentiaries move forward. The senate retreats on a county accounting bill, a conference is prepared, a secondary highway system measure gains final approval, and local bills allowing counties to borrow RFC funds pass.
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Pasead
Mace
Senate
Almont
Seven Men Sent to Camp Knox from Mercer and Wyoming
Seven additional recruits were sent to Camp Knox Kentucky from Mercer and Wyoming counties after Monday examinations. Mercer county names include Bill Crutchfield Jasper Morrison and Roy Barnes, with Wyoming also contributing, though full allotment not completed. Earlier Mercer quotas faced rejections with four of 107 Mercer recruits rejected and to be replaced likely by alternates from Mercer lists.
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Camp Knox
Mercer
Wyoming
Bill Crutchfield
Hill Avents
Jasper Morrison
Barger Street
Roy Barnes
Wyoming County
Bluefield
Moses
Mercer County
Princeton
House approves income tax based on federal law
Anandalhy Thandi Riletter Obie county delegate reviewed the tax plan and endorsed using indirect tax revenue to retire the state deficit in four years while supporting a federal law based tax base.
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HOUSE
Strike in Bristol Plant Reported
Clifton, Forge, Va May 16 The Virginia Federation of Labor was informed by telegram that more than 400 men are on strike at a Bristol furniture plant and about 509 workers at Marion garment plant are prepared to strike. The telegram, signed by Charles Maasile, notes over 300 on the Bristol job and 500 at Marion and asks for immediate organizer sent.
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Clifton
Forge
Virginia Federation of Labor
Bristol
Marion
J. Shave
Charles Maasile
Strlen Ab Furnitura
Axe Slayer Found Guilty in Taswell Murder Trial
In Taswell Circuit Court Jackson Rose colored was found guilty of murdering his stepfather Harve Wagner with an axe at the Wagner home near Pocahentes on March 31. The jury recommended an eighteen year sentence in the state penitentiary, the harshest verdict in years. Key witnesses included offlearn and the defendant's mother Alice Wagner, who testified under medical care after arriving by ambulance. The trial opened yesterday morning, with testimony wrapping by 4 pm and the jury retiring at 6 pm. Sentence awaits postverdict motions by N Clarence Smith.
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Tee ‘State Penitentiary
Tazewell
Jackson Rose
Colored
Harve Wagner
Wagner
Pocahentes
Commonwealth
Rose
Alice Wagner
Ela
Clarence Smith
el Aeida
Officials Confer On Road Matter In Cumberland County
County court pledges gas oil and driver for donated trucks to build and widen the Cumberland road from its terminus to the Shumate place. Plans include rock base extension, straightening curves, ditching and improving drainage. City directors adjourn to weekly business after the conference with Mrs. Stringfellow and George Hunglingon Jr retained.
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Cumberland Road
Ita
Shumate
B. P. Stringfellow
George Dhunglingon Jr
Public library budget and city permits noted in board meeting
The library board requests a $4660 appropriation for 1939-40 to cover operations and books. Licenses were granted to S J Liblmer and Twin City Drug. Myron Marsh and G L Whitlow’s license was held up awaiting police chief approval. Petitions seek alleys and Luther Street grading. Building permits issued for a North Street dwelling and a Park Way drive log seat. Burley Houchins seeks more daylight police protection for the North Side.
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Brary Board
Brary
S. J. Libilner
Princeton Avenue
Twin City ,Drug Company
Bluefeld Avenue
Myron Marsh
G. L. Whitlow
Henry
Madison Streets
Greenbrier
Hanover Streets
Luther Street
Lyndale Avenue
O'Brien
North Street
B. C. Barton
Parkway Drive
Burley Houchins
Houchins
Sree
Rum Seizure Reported by Special Agent Find
Minna Hall a Norfolk and Western railway special agent located eleven gallons of whiskey at the Bluefield railroad yard last night and turned the liquor over to the police. The whiskey was dumped into a sewer near city hall.
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Minna Hall
Norfolk and Western Railway
Bluefield
Convocation Club to Meet at President's Home
News of the Colored Convocation Club reports a meeting tonight at the home of president Mrs Augusts Daniels, 604 Park Street. Also details on the Bluefield District session of the Women's Home Missionary Society in Dublin Virginia, with Mamie B. Pearis presiding and a program focusing on missionary topics and civic reading, including a discussion on the Soul of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Convocation Club
The
North Side United Holy Church
Augusts Daniels
Park Street
Bluefeld
Women's Home Missionary Society
East Tennessee
Methodist Church
Dublin
Everning
Mamie B. Pearis
Bluefield
Virginia
West Virginia
Anderson Davin
New River
H. G. Harrison
Ida Hendrix
Mamis Brown
Katarine B. Howard
Thomas G. Howard
Mag. Scott Dies at Local Hospital
Mrs. Scott, 78, formerly Miss Nannie Hale, died January 2 after a long illness at St Luke's hospital. Survived by Dr. C M Scott, chief surgeon at St Luke's, a brother Joseph Hale, a sister Mrs. Wirt Harry, and several relatives. Funeral service at 2 pm at Dr Scott’s Groveland Avenue home, with burial in Monte Vista Park cemetery.
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Dr. Scott
St. Luke's Hospital
Joseph Hale
Patis Mills
Wirt Harry
Bramwell Read
Charlea
Helen ‘Scott
Charles A. Hale
Princeton
The
Baptist Church
Legion to Hold Annual Ball at West Virginia Hotel
Bluefield Post No 9 American Legion schedules its annual spring ball Friday night at the West Virginia hotel with Dick Brooks and his orchestra providing music. The dance runs from 9:30 p m to 2 a m chaired by Louie Zeltzman, promising attendees a most enjoyable evening.
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Bluefield Post No. 9
American Legion
West Virginian Hotel
Dick Brooks
Louie Zeltzman
Legion Dance Committee
Assurce Sa
Renew Your Health By Purification Ad Claim
Physicians affirm that perfect purification of the system builds health. Purify your body with Calotabs on a schedule, purifying blood by stimulating liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Available in 10c and 35c packages through all dealers.
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Goalfeld
National Cotton Week
S&e
Fretwell’s
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Ratnay
San Francisco
White House
al Aister
Manchuria
Peiping
Isd
Borah
Jong
United States
Libaria
Salvador
Rotary
George Martin Hi
Claudel Hairston
Clifford Street
Logel Folk
Mouie
Glenwood
Associated Press House
Camp
Knox
Lydia B. Pinkham
Sal
Peres
Lydia E. Pinkham
AXE Slayer
Tazewell County
Ernest Jackson Rose
News OF the Colored
PP Corp
America
Mag. Scott
C. M. Scott
Legion TO
Budweiser
Jimmy
Shott
Early & Shott
West VA
Sklezik
Nanesee
Walt
Dlee
Mel
Anthe
MR. Wallet
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