Youth charged in Aum store theft
Sammy Carter, 18, and nine Bluefield youths faced charges for robbing Raleigh Street liquor store in Bluefield. After two arrests confessed, 31 pints of whiskey were stolen and mostly sold or given to taxi drivers. Magistrate Elmore ordered several juveniles detained or released to parents. Carter held in Princeton jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy Carter
Bluefield
Mercer County Grand Jury
County Department of Public Assistance
C. C. Elmore
Princeton
Raleigh Street
Elmore
D. C. Rice
Department of Public Assistance
Carter
Pocahontas Lad Wounded By Shot In West Virginia Woods
A 13 year old Pocahontas youth, Edward Lee Millner, was accidentally shot in the neck and jaw by a cousin, Bruce Rutherford, when he tripped over a dog and discharged a .22 rifle. The injury left partial paralysis as he lay at Bluefield sanitarium. The accident happened near the Millner home yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Lee Millner
Pocahontas
Bluefield Sanitarium
David Millner
Pocahontas American Legion
Bruce Rutherford
Millner
Woods
Thirty four Area Men Stationed In Fort Thomas Centers
Thirty four local men, including four from Bluefield, are sent from Fort Thomas Kentucky reception center to various stations. Bluefield names listed include Marvin C Doutaht Jr Benjamin F g Joseph Whittaker Jr and Leland E Negredy. Other area veterans cited are Clyde D McCann Anawalt Shadrach McKinney Odd Everett D Mullins Avondale Samuel W Nunnery Jr Welch Joseph Sloger Six Roy Stallard Ammonate John E Stasheen Newhall Colonel P Teague Gilliam Glen Thomason Crumpler John D Wallace Bartley Lawrence M Wallace Berwind Grady Willard English Buster Wimner Roderfield Harry T Wood Kingston James V Woodie War John B Adkins Vivian Clyde E Aliff Eccles Roscoe A Asbury Squire Zebb V Cox Caretta William S Dickinson Jaeger Warren R Doss Elkhorn Millard Duncan War Sylvester Gasperich Willie George Jr Stanaford Tony Georgeff Jr Maybeury John W Green Keystone Edward I Jewell War Henry H Kemp Northfork Willard H King Cucumber Nick V Loma Tams and John Lutrick Jr Filbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Fort Thomas
Marvin C. Doutaht, Jr
Benjamin F. G
Joseph Whittaker, Jr
Leland E. Negredy
Clyde D. McCann
Anawalt
Shadrach McKinney
Odd
Everett D. Mullins
Avondale
Samuel W. Nunnery, Jr
Welch
Joseph Sloger
Six
Roy Stallard
Amonate
John E. Stasheen
Newhall
Colonel P. Teague
Gilliam
Glen Thomason
Crumpler
John D. Wallace
Bartley
Lawrence M. Wallace
Berwind
Grady Willard
English
Buster Wimner
Roderfield
Harry T. Wood
Kingston
James V. Woodie
War
John B
Northfork
Willard H. King
Nick V. Loma
Tams
John Lutrick, Jr
Filbert
Deadline Approaching for Mercer County Taxes in 1941
Mercer countians have three days left to pay capitation, real estate, and personal property taxes. A 9 percent penalty applies if the first half of 1941 is not paid by December 1. Second half taxes: due by June 1, 1942 without penalty, or 2 1/2 percent discount if paid by May 1, 1942. Delinquent parcels advertised to the state still have about ten days to pay. The deputy’s office moves to the Law and Commerce building December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
Judson Lambert
Bluefield
Lambert
Law and Commerce
Community Safety Meeting Planned in January
William C. Easley of Charleston arranged a community wide safety meeting in Bluefield for early January under the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Appalachian Electric Power safety division Red Cross Pocahontas Operators association and local schools will participate with out of town speakers unnamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Easley
Charleston
West Virginia Safety and Health Council
Bluefield
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Appalachian Electric Power Company
The
Red Cross
Pocahontas Operators Association
Firemen Respond to Two Brush and wiring Fires
Bluefield firemen answered two calls yesterday. One brush fire occurred at Albemarle and Dearborn streets. The second blaze on Ellis street was caused by defective wiring at a residence with little damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Albemarle
Dearborn
Ellis Street
Court of Claims docket to be issued for January term
Charleston officials say a special meeting of the three judge panel will issue the docket for the January term of the state court of claims on December 18. The current term ends December 4 with three hearings planned for next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
State Court of Claims
Robert Bland
Riand
Deaths and Funerals: Tom Mutter of Red Ash
Tom Mutter 40 a miner at Consumers Coal in Red Ash Va died in a state fall yesterday. Born in Belfast to Charles and Mary Barnett he is survived by his wife Blanche Brown one son Clyde and three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services with Rev Ross officiating will be held tomorrow at the family home with burial in Mutter cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Mutter
Red Ash
Consumers Coal Company
Mr. Mutter
Belfast
Charles
Mary Barnett
Blanche Brown
Clyde Mutter
Walker
Fred Mutter
Spencer Mutter
Washington, D. C
Carrie
Edith Mutter
Burley Hawkins
Elway
Ross
Mutter Cemetery
Mrs. Henrietta Faris Dies. Rites Planned in Ballard
Mrs. Henrietta Faris widow of Augustus Faris died yesterday at 8 10 AM at her daughter Mrs M S Stupalsky home on Cumberland Road. Interment will be Sunday at Ballard Monroe County with 2 PM service there. Pallbearers include grandsons M S Stupalsky Jr W B Faris O L Faris J R Jess Harry Faris and B G Stultz Jr. She is survived by sons O J Faris P T Faris and daughters Mrs Victoria Moyer Mrs Willie Jess and Mrs M S Stupalsky Sr plus twenty one grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. Her father Leroy Gibson and husband were War of 1861 veterans. She was a lifelong member of Red Sulphur First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta Faris
Augustus Faris
M. S. Stupalsky
Cumberland Road
B. G. Stultz
Richmond
P. T. Faris
Victoria Moyer
Willie Jess
M. 8. Stuplasky, Sr
Bluefield
Paris
States
First Baptist Church
Red Sulphur
Picket 19 Arrests In Coal Mine Disturbances
Pickets arrested November 19 after state police inspected six U. S. Coal and Coke mines following disturbances that left two men wounded. Testimony describes a lamphouse door shattering incident and gunfire as suspects face charges including pistol-toting and possession of smoke bombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Short
Edgar Nunnally
James Hall, Jr
McAndrews
Clifton Brown
Ora Caucill
Ragland
George W. Butler
Coalwood
Lech
James Rapier
Isaiah King
C. B. Dye
King
Guardian Angel Sermon at Boothby Mansell Tabernacle
Evangelist Robert L. Boothby preached at the Boothby Mansell Tabernacle on Bluefield avenue at Lynn street about guardian angels watching over believers and Daniel in the lions den. A Bible class at 5:30, Bible lecture at 2:45 and two evening sessions at 6 and 8 followed the Bible school at 1:30. Glare blindness from car headlights noted in women per scientists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel
Earth
Robert L. Boothby
Boothby - Mansell Tabernacle
Bluefield Avenue
Lynn Street
Tabernacle
Evangelist Boothby
Biole
Tabernacle Annex
Concord Library Dedication Highlights State Ties and Gifts
The $175 000 Concord State Teachers College library was dedicated before about 300 officials alumni and visitors. W W Trent praised the building its equipment and its value to students. The program featured music and speeches with many local figures attending and signing the guest book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Claude R. Hill
Oak Hill
Betty Holroyd
Ora Peters
Virginia Hannah
E. C. Wade
Bluefield College
D. L. Haught
State Board of Education
Marsh
West Virginia
Ella Nash
Mary V. Harris
Hinton
Ella Holroyd
William Caruth
Boyd Martin
Frank Small
Punch
Haught
Genevieve Yeager
Rachel Meyers
EB. W. Ogilebay
Wheeling
George Laidley
Charleston
Laidley
Wallace B. Fleming
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buchannan
Floyd N. Shaver
C. O. Uainter
Bluefield
C. J. Jackson
John Peters
H. H. Ball
Princeton
Ww. Broughton Johnston
Kyle McCormick
A. R. le Ofeton
Saanty Agatha Eneeny
Bobbitt
Germans Press Caucasus Oil Region In New Offensive
From Berlin reports the German army opened a new drive from the Black Sea corner of the eastern front against the Caucasus oil area. Sevastopol defense weakens as Crimea forces push toward the Red fortress while Moscow faces intensified assault. German counters claim heavy losses for Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AIR
Berlin
Black Sea
Caucasian
Crimea
Sevastopol
Moscow
Red Capital
Rostov-on-Don
Donets Bend
Strait of Kerch
Caucasus
Kuban
Cis- Caucasia
Grocer Wagner Adds Alarm After Repeated Burglary
Glen Burnie Maryland grocer Carl Wagner installed a photo electric burglar alarm after three robberies. The alarm bell sounded at his home and Ferndale police rushed two and a half miles in about two and a half minutes to nab a surprised burglar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Burnie
Carl Wagner
Wagner
Ferndale
Ave
Gala Valetide honors prize winners and color guard
Norma Mangus a duck won prizes of 1 each during a gala event. The parade featured a color guard led by Army Navy and Marine recruiting office representatives. Sergeant Wilson Dean led the Army recruits, Chief Latimer led the Navy, with Sergeants McCabe and Welch the Marine reps beside them in Welch’s post office building headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Mangus
Army
Navy
Marine
Wilson Dean
Chief Latimer
Navy Office
McCabe
Welch
Post Office
Rommel in retreat as British air and sea pressure mount
British reports say Rommel's remaining task units near Rezega are dwindling as Allied air raids hit axis concentrations north and northwest of El Adem. Reinforcements move toward Tobruk while the Mediterranean girdles Libya with naval and air attacks. In East Africa, Gondar capitulation ends Mussolini’s imperial reach, freeing Allied forces for Libyan operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rommel
Rezega
Gambut
Tobruk
Royal Air Force
el Adem
Mediterranean
Royal Navy
Fleet Air Arm
Rome
Libya
Italian North Africa
Mussolini
Salam
Fort Capuzzo
Rezegh
Guglielmo Nasi
Gondar
Ethiopia
East Africa
Shopping and holiday gifts featured at Bradley's and local shops
City items advertise Christmas shopping days and seasonal apparel at Bradley's including dresses coats and fur items. Other notices list piano tuning services by Harry Haffen from Roanoke and various printing and engraving services with box and phone contact details.
Final blow to Mussolini’s East African empire praised by allies
British dispatch says Haile Selassie and his forces delivered the final defeat to Mussolini’s East African holdings. The Ethiopian army, described as playing a major role in the campaign, is honored for its resistence and contribution as the fascist regime collapses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haile Selassie
Guglielmo Nasi
Mussolini
Dah War Office
Nasl
Snidow Joins New Air Corps Cadet Class at Kelly Field
Stanley R. Snidow of Princeton joins 1 866 cadets in the first class of the air corps replacement center at Kelly Field Texas. A Princeton high school graduate he earned a B S in business administration from Roanoke College Salem Virginia and held Blue Key German Monogram and all state football honors. He has worked in hotels in Richmond Virginia and Miami Florida since graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley R. Snidow
C. T. Snidow
Princeton
Air Corps
Kelly Field
Texas
Snidow
Princeton High School
Roanoke College
Salem
Blue Key
Monogram
Richmond
Miami, Fla
Plant Seizure Bill Aims To Freeze Open and Closed Shops
A house labor committee bill would forbid mass picketing and jurisdictional strikes and freeze shop status during emergencies. It proposes government possession of a plant only after failed dispute settlement and grants authority to the defense mediation board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Labor Committee
Defense Mediation Board
Price clause eyed for farm costs and cotton
Critics warned the clause could lift some farm prices by up to 30 percent. Cotton benefits were cited, yet cotton state members argued large surpluses would blunt any material rise.
Change In Vichy Attitude Shown
New York reports a dramatic shift in the French stance toward Germany within the past week. Sources had earlier suggested a collaboration with Germany, but dispatches indicate officials in Vichy have postponed a meeting between Marshal Petain and German leaders indefinitely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Germany
Associated Press
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Potato king to be crowned at Randolph banquet
Elkins West Virginia November 28 The potato king of Randolph county will be crowned at a December 5 banquet of farm organizations F L Miles of Morgantown executive secretary of the West Virginia Farm Bureau will speak and awards will be given to farmers for outstanding work in the past season President Roosevelt in November 1941 asked for 349 900 000 as a supplemental appropriation for the Navy Air Force
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkins
W. Va
Randolph County
F. L. Miles
Morgantown
West Virginia Farm Bureau
Roosevelt
Navy Air Force
Railway wage dispute discussed as mediation offer
In Monday session Chairman Wayne L. Morse offered the board as mediator in the railway wage dispute as an alternative to an immediate report to the president. He said the strike call would stand but unions might delay it for negotiations. neither side indicated acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne L. Morse
Capital Takes Stand on Japanese Economic Sphere
The article reports that capital demand supports a Japan controlled economic sphere in Asia, potentially by force, while the United States opposes military conquest. It notes deadlock in talks with Tokyo envoy Saburo Kurusu, White House diplomacy, and US insistence on peace and removal of aggression in the Orient amid Japan's moves in China and Indo China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Orient
United States
Tokyo
Saburo Kurusu
White House
Pacific
China
Philippines
Hitler
Hull
Indo-China
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Rumania
Hungary
Greece
Yugoslavia
Far East
Patrol Boats Leave Shanghai On Yangtze Patrol
The gunboats Luzon and Oahu of the U S Yangtze river patrol quietly sailed from their anchorages off the bund early today with low gunwales boarded up against ocean waves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Luzon
Oahu
U. S. Yangtze River
Bund
Yangtze Patrol Boats Leave After Manila-Bound Force
The US Yangtze patrol boats depart, bound for Manila, with the Wake staying downstream as a communications ship. The Tutuila remains at Chungking as a radio ship due to mine dangers in the gorges. Rear Admiral William Glassford Jr. leads the operation as the last of the fourth marines departs within a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Hankow
Tutuila
Chungking
Yangtze
William Glassford, Jr
U. S
Fourth Marines
Weirton Steel Backs Board Decision in Mine Dispute
Weirton Steel president Thomas E. Millsop told Dr. John R. Steelman he will conform to the mediation board’s decision in the captive mine dispute despite opposing the closed shop. Steelman said the firm opposes the closed shop but will abide since other companies are doing so. Negotiations resume tomorrow as the board has received replies from captive mine operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Thomas E. Millsop
Weirton Steel Company
John R. Steelman
Weirton
Steelman
Millsop
New York
Roosevelt
Porters Seek Legal Aid for Leesburg Arrested Youth
Herbert Porter arrives in Leesburg with State Senator Aubrey Weaver to represent his son as counsel after the youth’s arrest early Thursday. Weaver notes the father’s railway employment and lack of prior trouble. An aviation test discusses surfacing needs to support heavy aircraft loads under various weather conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Porter
Porter
Leesburg
Aubrey Weaver
Front Royal
Weaver
Treasurer's Department
The
Southern Railway
Washington
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Sech
Adam Runyon
Mingo County
W. R. Lockhart
W. W. Trent
AEDS
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Imperial Wall
Nairobi
Kenya
Colony
Harry Haffen
Roanoke
P O
General Printing and Engraving
Telegraph Commercial Printing Company
Telegraph Commercial Printing Co
Bland St
Old Bramwell
Bradley’s
Bradley's
Santa
Uncle Sam
Dead End
Littl
Edgar Kennedy
Funny Side
Evening Star
Main Street
U.S.A
Merrie Melody
Nelson Eddy
Rise Stevens
Nigel Bruce
Florence Bates
Roy del Ruth
Weirton Steel
Entertainment
Paramount Presents
Clarence E. Mea Wide
Vaa Bey
William Boyd
Russell Hayden
Andy Clyde
King of
Texas Rangers
Alice Faye
John Payne
Carmen Miranda
Cesar Romero
Garbias
Sheiden Leonard
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