Death toll from snowstorm rises in Kanawha and county roads
In Kanawha County and surrounding areas a deadly storm caused multiple vehicle crashes and serious injuries. Trooper C. W. Dye reports Perry F. Elmore lost control on the ice near Arghler's Ridge, injuring Irene Farrell and Yada Swiney. Webb, Brown, Montgomery and Sundin crashes near Reed and Belle caused further injuries and property damage. Minor accidents multiply across Charleston as wintry conditions persist. Road crews note five to seven inches on U.S. Rt. 250 and eight inches on State Rt. 15 with broader county reports of snow.
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Mandy Ketterer
Los Angeles
Calif
Don Lendis
Merlinton
Irene Farrell
Walton
Roane County
C. W. Dye
Perry F. Elmore
Arghler
Dye
Elmore
Kanawhz
William R. Webb
Corl Fork
U.S. Rt
Reed
Jack A. Brown
Knox
Lloyd W. Montgomery, Jr
Belle
Cyl C. C. Stewart
Montgomery
Ora Sundin
Bells
Cpl Stewart
Justice of the ‘Peace
A. Huff
Charleston
Dorothy Goff
Ben“tchen Dr
Leigen Heights
Kanawha Turnpike
Gorf
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Thomas Memorial
Tallalsen
Winfield Rd
Charles Cook
Sissonville
St. Francis Hospital
Cook
Clifford Rose
Chandlers Dr
St. Franciscal
John Slack
Wood Rd
Charisston
Memorial Hospital
Road Commission
U. 5S
Huttonsville
Durbin
Point Mountain
Webster County
Arciag
SRC
Pocahontas County
Greenbrier County
Summers
Monroe
Nicholas
Fayette County
French Win Ballot Test In Saarland
The Saarland election reports 170 861 votes for the Christian People's party about 55 percent with 25 percent invalid ballots. Social Democrats take 32 percent, Communists five percent, and Democratic People's party four percent. Romania votes 423 deputies with Communist dominance under a tightened regime.
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Oontlimen
Pars
Christian People’s Party
Gennan
Hoffmann
Saar
Social Democratic Party
Germany
Democratic People’s Party
URD Leads Early in Venezuela Constituent Assembly Vote
Early unofficial returns show URD ahead of FEI across states heard, with URD 17,052 to FEI 12,623 in Caracas and FEI leading Tachira. FEI backs military junta ally Col Marcos Erez Jiminez as provisional president and campaigns for assembly seats nationwide.
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Venezuela
Caracas
Union For A Democratic Republic
URD
Independent Electoral Front
FEI
Fel
Col Marcos Erez Jiminez
Perez
Tachira
FEY
Social Christian Party
Los Teques
Miranda
COPET
Sanitation group reports progress on river pollution plants
The report notes progress along 300 miles of the Ohio River corridor from Huntington to Pittsburgh with investigations underway and 130 miles of the Wabash River with investigations completed. It states 22 new sewage plants began operation and construction started on 20 more, indicating Ohio River Valley facilities are catching up with population growth.
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Aytvansity Virginia
West Virgnia
Huntington
Pittsburgh
Wabash River
Ohio River Valley
Ganese
Haywood Reuther Rivalry Stirs CIO Leadership Controversy
The CIO convention reports a rift as Haywood forces offer Emil Rieve a chance to replace James B. Carey as secretary treasurer if Rieve backs Haywood. Carey, backed by Murray’s faction, aims to keep the post. Amid mourning for Murray, officers pledge to democratic unionism and world peace as votes loom in a snowbound resort. Leaders of textile and electrical workers unions plus the National Maritime Union and clothing workers appear aligned with Reuther.
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Haywood
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers
Nake
CIO
Rieve
Shtck
Reuther
James B. Carey
The
Electrical Workers
Carey
Murray
Thg
America
Los Angeles
Tomorrety
National Maritime Union
Clothing Workers
Oil and Rubber Workers [Union
Ito Reuther
East Berlin Faces Shortages Amid Trade Restrictions
The East Berlin regime struggles to meet commitments to the Soviet Union and allied states as mines factories mills and shops fail to supply woods and goods. To avert shortages visible to the public authorities restrict sales to their own people and curb exports.
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Soviet Union
Mrs. Alice Holton Dies in Raleigh County
Mrs. Alice Holton aged 93 died yesterday at the home of her nephew Herley C Walker in Naoma Raleigh County where she resided The Abody 36 at Bartlett mortuary in St Adbans
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Alice Holton
Raleigh County
Herley C. Walker
Naoma
Bartlett Mortuary
St Adbans
Ten Convicts Escape Pennsylvania Prison
Ten inmates fled from a Pennsylvania penitentiary after dropping 60 feet to the street using improvised bedsheets. Leaders included Virgil Toney, with accomplices Andrew Lee White and Leo Stiles among others. Authorities blocked roads while searching Pittsburgh area as two escapees were recaptured.
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Page i
H J. Brannan
Jones & Laughlin
Virgil Toney
Pittsburgh
Toney Ging
John Peterman
Toney
Matticks
Depuy
Gaffney
Andrew Lee White
Leo Stiles
Master Monico
Robert Loveland
Jacob Milk
Carmack McNell
Navy tanker blast kills two in Sasebo Harbor
In Sasebo Harbor Japan Navy officials report the tanker USS Ashtabula exploded and caught fire wounding nine and leaving one missing. The blast damaged the welldeck while the auxiliary Ajax sustained only superficial damage as investigators probe the incident.
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Tokyo
INS
Navy
Ashtabula
Sasebo Harbor
Ajax
Japanese Maritime Board
U.S. Navy
Japan
Kyushi
William Robinson Dies at 74 in Old Sweet Springs
William Robinson 74 of 404 57th St died yesterday at Old Sweet Springs. A retired glass worker for Tdbby Owens Ford, he served 33 years at the plant. Born in County Downs Ireland he leaves wife Elizabeth Bayard Robinson a daughter Mrs A B E Titcher of Charleston two sons William and Carl five grandchildren and brother George M M Robinson of Dunbar. Services 3 p.m. tomorrow at Barlow Zonsall mortuary with Rev Donald Gashorn officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Park.
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William Robinson
57Th St. &. E
Old Sweet Springs
Tdbby Owens Ford
County Downs
Ireland
Elizabeth Bayard Robinson
A. BE. Titcher
Charleston
Williams
Florida
Carl
Mt. Vernon
George MM. Robinson
Dunbar
Barlow-Zonsall Mortuary
Donald Gashorn
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Sunset Memorial Park
Weirton Steel Man Drafted to National Production Authority
Weirton, Nov. 30. Brown, department manager of Weirton Steel Co., will go to Washington for temporary duty with the National Production Authority. He will serve during December February as vice chairman of the Production Directives Committee of DPA's Iron and Steel Division. He then becomes chairman for the next three months. Brown is manager of sales to the sheet and strip division.
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Weirton
Fred Vu. Brown
Weirton Steel Co
Washington
National Production Authority
Weirton [Steel
Thomas E. Millsop
Brown
DPA
Iron and Steel Division
Millsop
Steel Company
Thomas J. Linton 74 Huntington Boilermaker Dies
Thomas J. Linton 74 of Huntington died Sunday in a Huntington hospital. He was a boilermaker with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and formerly lived in Mt. Hope until 1919. Surviving are his wife Stella Mae, daughter Mary L. Glover of Los Angeles, son George, brother Ernest, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Services Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Kincaid Mortuary with Rev. Cecil Jones officiating. burial in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
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Huntington
Thomas J. Linton
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Mt. Hope
Stella Mae Linton
Mary L. Glover
Los Angeles
Calif
George
Ernest
Nelsonville
Kincaid Mortuary
Cecil Jones
Ridgelawn
Ellen Se
New Zealand Volcano Starts New Eruptions
The largest crater of Mt Ngauruhoe began erupting yesterday and has been active since. Clouds of black smoke rose to 6600 feet, ash covered the snow clad slopes of the 7515 foot volcano, and rumblings were heard as a nearby lake rose eight feet. There are no settlements near end'sh to be endangered.
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New Zealand
Auckland
N. Z
Mt. Ngauruhoe
Sister Kenny dies and funeral set in Toowoomba
Tributes pour in as Elizabeth Kenny, 66, dies in Toowoomba after a coma from cerebral thrombosis and pneumonia. Her life’s work in the Kenny treatment for polio is celebrated with funeral plans in Toowoomba and Brisbane as broadcasts announce the ceremony.
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Sister Kenny
United States
Sydney
Australis
Ster
Elizabeth Kenny
Bush
Arthur Fadden
Australian Broadcasting :Commission
Patrol clashes and Indian peace plan in Korea news
Reports detail Allied patrols near Jackson Heights and Chorwon with several Reds killed or wounded as forces withdraw. The U N front saw frequent patrols and shelling in multiple sectors. An India backed peace plan for Korea faces rejection from Red China and Russia with no withdrawal planned.
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Jackson Heights
Chorwon
Panmunjom
U. N
Eighth Army
Heartbreak Ridge
East Central Front
Kumhwa
Lled
Editor Warns Wish Won't End Korean War
Frank Knight of The Gazette told the Young Peoples Forum at Christ Methodist Church that Eisenhower cannot end the Korean War with a magic wand. He urged students to plan for homes for American youngsters abroad and stressed continued military readiness and resolve in defense of Western values.
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Korea
Frank Knight
the Gazette
Young Peoples' Forum
Christ Methodist Church
Jen. Eisenhower
Knight
Europe
Gazette
NATO
North Atlantic
Alles
Ex TV Beauty Slain At New Orleans Home In Nightwear
Mrs. Ditdy Cooper 30, once a television actress, was found dead in her bed in New Orleans. Police report a head wound and possible strangling with finger marks on her throat. Husband James Cooper and a French Quarter artist are being questioned as investigations continue.
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New Orleans
James
Ditdy) Coozer
Daniels
Mrs Minnie Dalton Dies in Mason Hospital
Mrs Minnie Lee Dalton, 70, of Bandied, died yesterday in a Mason County hospital. Survived by husband Henry Dalton, two brothers Alex Wyn of Princeton and Harrison Wyn of Atlanta, a half brother John W Lewis of Charleston, and sister Mrs Mary Ann Williams of Atlanta. Body at Preston mortuary.
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Minnie Lee Dalton
Mason County
Henry Dalton
Alex Wyn
Princeton
Harrison [Wyn
Atlanta
John W. Lewis
Charleston
Mary Ann Williams
Preston Mortuary
Reds Protest POW Camp Bombing Near Wonsan Korea
North Korea charges four Camp No 11 branch four at Kangdong 70 miles west of Wonsan was badly damaged in a 5 40 a m attack on November 26 The protest letter also claims Allied prisoners were injured amid treatment of Koje Island injuries The UN Command had said POW casualties were minor in two separate incidents involving shop bags and U N personnel
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Tunsan
Korea
U. N. Command
Reds
U. N
Branch Four
Kangdong
Wonsan
Koje Islang
Grad joins college chemist group at Tri-State College
Goe rchal Neal M. White a Stonewall Jackson High School graduate Charleston W V becomes a new member of the American Chemical Society student section at Tri State College He is in the chemical engineering department and the son of Mr and Mrs L B White of 39 Hillcrest Dr Charleston
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Angola
Ind
Goerchal
Neil M. White
Stonewall Jackson High School
Charleston
W. Va
American Chemical Society
Tri-State
L. B
White
Hillcrest Dr
Young White
Department of
Chemical Engineering
Production Shifts in Europe Amid Postwar Rebound
A European bulletin notes East European production rose while Western Europe dipped, with coal output near self sufficiency and harvests in wheat deemed highly satisfactory. It cites political barriers hampering Western trade, slower German growth, and Britain’s 5 percent drop, alongside reduced rearmament due to balance of payments pressures. The report expects eased material pressure to boost future metal exports.
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Europe
U. S
Commission
Russia
Bulletin
France
West Germany
Germany
Britain
The
Service for Robert Greenlief Slated in Gassaway
A memorial service is planned for 23 year old Robert Tee Greenlief who died in a highway accident near New Kensington Pennsylvania. He formerly lived in Gassaway and worked as an assemblerman for an electric company. The Evangelical United Brethren Church will hold the 2 p.m. service Tuesday with Reverend Turdway officiating. Burial will follow at Sugar Creek Cemetery. The body lies at Bartlett mortuary and will be taken to his home at 2 p.m. Monday.
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Mt. Mariah Baptist Church
Homer Curry
Atlen-Casdorph J Mortuary
India
United Nations
Korea
Red
Pandit Neary
Alice Gertrude Smith
Lee Sh
Kanawha City
V. K. Kristina Menon
New
York
Charles O’neil
Otis
U. N
Aultz
Charleston
Mennon
Ermen Greenleaf
Cleveland
Menon
Tomer
Degnan-Kittinger
Andrei Vishinsky
George W. Thumm
Cunninglowes
Redham Memorial Park
Pieping
Assembly
Lester B. Pearson
Vishinsky
Panmunjem
Chou En-Lat
Gassaway
Robert Tee Greenlief
Priday
New Kensington
Greenlief
Pennsylvania
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Jon Ann
Tyo Greenliez
Perry Greenlief
Farrell
Gerald
Dale
Cowe
William Greerlies
Fairy Burns
Ashtabula
Ruth Wilkinson
Mary Chester
Lorain
EUB
Roy Iurdway
Bartlett Mortuary
Sugar Creek
Ohio Man Arrested After Crash Near Kanawha City
William Straughter 44 was charged with hazardous driving after a two car collision at the Hush Creek Bridge between Kanawha City and Marmet. Steven Wails 52 sustained slight injuries and was treated at Charleston General Hospital.
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Cotunbus
Hush Creel Bridge
Kanawha City
Marmet
William Straughter
Steven Wails
Mortimet
Mike Murphy
Wails
Charleston General Hospital
Bartlett Mortuary
Straughter
Lester Mayor Ordered to Explain Docket Secrecy
Acting Judge J. W. Maxwell ordered Lester Mayor H. J. Oram to explain why the town's criminal docket book is kept at his home and not available to council. Dr. Christian petitioned the court, citing concerns over arrests and unpaid fees. Oram also serves as ex-officio justice of the peace.
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Lester
J. W. Maxwells
Oram
V. Allen Christian
Howardlings
Jarrell
Justice of the Peace
Security measures stepped up for Eisenhower visit
Secret Service agents checked security with South Korean police and the Eighth Army provost marshal’s office as the Chandduk Palace compound was set aside for the president’s entertainment during the visit.
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Secret Service
Eighth Army
Chandduk Palace
Eisenhower
Obituary notices and a political broadcast clash
Obituaries recount deaths in Rock Creek and surrounding towns with surviving spouses children and siblings. The page also notes a Voice of Peiping broadcast calling Eisenhower a warmonger and predicting use of Asian forces in Korea, while he frames his trip as a peace-seeking mission.
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Eisenhower
Francisco
Tnday
Dwight Hisenhower
Peiping
Associated Press
San Francisco
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Hedo
Prisoners Fight Triggers Major Sheridan Reformatory Brawl
A fight between two youths at Sheridan State Reformatory sparked a large inmate brawl in the dining room. Guards restored order before five state police districts arrived. About 200 youths are confined in the security institution near Chicago.
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Sheridan
Sheridan State Reformatory
Chicago
Fred K. Hoehler
Hoehler
Marmet Man, 70, Struck Crossing Side Street
A 70-year-old Marmet man, Cliftie Andrew Porter, was hit by a car while crossing a Marmet side street near the theater. He is listed at Boiarsky Memorial Hospital pending X-ray results, with state police attributing responsibility to driver B Kersey of Marmet who delivered Porter to the hospital.
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Marmet
Marmet Theater
Boiarsky Memorial Hospital
Cliftie Andrew Porter
Chelysa
B. Kersey
Porter
Richard Tyree Dies in Hospital at 79
Richard Mayree, 2 retired farmer and miner of RFD 2 St. Albans, died yesterday in South Charleston Thomas Memorial Hospital. He was 78. Survived by Barnie D Tyree son Arthur B Tyree of Akron and half brother Cecil Tyree of Akron. Body at Allen Caldorph mortuary in St. Albans.
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Richard Mayree
RFD
St. Albans
South Charleston
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Barnie D. Tyree
Arthur B, Tyree
Akron
Cecil Tyree
Allen-Caldorph Mortuary
Emperor Witnesses Student Killed in Riding Event
A Keio University student Junji Morimura aged 22 died after his horse failed a hurdle during a riding meet held to celebrate Crown Prince Akihito's elevation. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako attended. the prince finished third and expressed condolences to Morimura’s father.
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Hirohits
Nagako Sanday
Junji Morimura
Keio University
Akihito
Morimura
Russian General Gaponovich Dies at 56
Moscow reports the death of Lt. Gen. Dmitri Afanasievich Gaponovich aged 56. He held key posts during World War II including a military council role on one front and later worked on political work in the armed forces.
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Moscow
Dmitri Afanasievich Gaponovich
Licurgus Burdett Dies at His Spencer Home
Spencer resident Licurgus Cury Burdett aged 77 died Sunday at his home after a long illness. He served as first sergeant in the 125th Coast Artillery during the Spanish American War and belonged to United Spanish War Veterans, St. John’s Methodist Church, and Campbell Lodge 101. He was a retired farmer, survived by Mollie Burdett and three daughters and a son, with three brothers and three sisters listed. Funeral services were held at Hardman Conrad mortuary with burial in Eventide Cemetery and a graveside rite by Veterans groups.
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Spencer
Cury
Hazel Carder
Parkersburg
Helen Murray
Huntington
Hallie Garrett
Hasting T. Burdett
T. C
Ted
Fairview
Clyde
Charleston
Georgia Evans
Gaye
Flossie Knopp
Eupan Davis
Wheeling
Hardman-Conrad Mortuary
Orland Reynolds
Eventide Cemetery
Veterans, of Foreign Wars
American Legion J
National Guard
White House weighs coal wage fix and price effects
Officials say two other wage plan options are unlikely. A broad decontrol start may come in 66 to 90 days, while upholding a stand by the WSB cutback risks a national coal strike. advisers argue a $1.90 raise harms defense and economy less than a strike, with soft coal selling under ceiling prices.
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WSB
White House
John KR. Steelman
Council of Economic Advisers
Funeral set for Oak Hill woman after highway crash death
Mrs Windsor dies while riding to visit sister after a hill collision scene. Surviving are son Lewis of Cleveland. four sisters Mrs Fitzpatrick Pax Waddell Callaway Heights Myrtle Terry Gastania NC. brother Mika Windsor Prosperity. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday at Oak Hill Church of God with Lewis E. Thomas officiating. Burial Hilltop Cemetery. Body to be taken from Thomas mortuary to sister Fitzpatrick's home Monday 2 p.m.
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Warle
Rock Creek
Raleigh County
Farold
Joyce Bradfor
Helen Pettry
Cleveland, O
Patsy
Arlene
Hay
Dean
Jimmies
G. W. Bradford
Pettus
Marie Long
Eunice
Opal Harris
Wharton
Mary Nutter
Berssville
Berwind Bradford
Donald
Dallas
Packsville
Rebecca Chapel
Rok Creek
Hev
Tom Bradford
White and Coulter Mortuairy
Richwood
Oak Hill
Lewis
Cleveland
Chessis Fitzpatrick
Fonda Paskel
Pax
Goldie Waddell
Callaway Heights
Myrtle Terry
Gastania
N.C
Mika Windsor
Prosperity
Sod
Lewis E. Thomas
Hilltop Cemetery
Thomas Mortuary
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
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Romania
Vienna
Austria
Romanian Workers (Communist) Party
Ana Pauker
Bucharest Radio
Romanian Press Service
Bucharest
Cormiunist
Kremlin
Vasile Luca
Techari Georgescu
Krem
Industrielista
Brotherton’s Food Market
Haywood, Reuther
East Berlin
Weirton Steel
Thomas Linton Dies
Wisither
Lemparabilbe
Asheville
Ablanha
Bosten
West Virginia
Denver
Oudinuss
Polladstybte
Sea
Toowoomba
Abigail Mynes
RFD 1
Jr. Albans
Homer H
Jewish Memorial
Scott Beane
J. R. Pullens
New York
W. C. Harbour
H.C Tal
Brisbane
Childress
Scott Depot
Viola Totmac
Taavs
John Ogden
Neil St. Methodist Church
Noble Cemetery
Kenny
Australia
Minnie Dalton
Mason Hospital
Alice Smith
East
West
Ohio
City
Ihe
Barnette
Chartey
Dryden St
Nettle Barnette
Virginia Jones
Baltimore
Mamie Wiley
Fincastle
Wiliam
Harleston
Palmer Barnette
Cliften Forge
Banneter
Lee
Brsco Eater
Ba Benes
Biemerial Ark
Willis
Janu H. Campbell
Sarge Barner
Floyd McDaniels
Will ‘Um Woodrow
W. R. Glott
Earl Hisaom Paailading
Bartel
Bard Cemetery
Mentz
Crescent
Brooks S3
Spar
Hvedine Schesiegtin
Badeg “Heart Eatholle Ghursh
Joan Aon Shaw
Chasterias
Bete
Alge Bonnell
Francis P. Soan
Philadelphia
Stover
Abel
Amepgie
Raleigh Colinty
Hom
Lou Brove
Verrie
Oakle
Mell Vinde Scover
Bamvige
Heme
Durialte
Fuilen
Valley Aan Bineyst
Whitesville
Richard Tyree
Licurgus Burdett
Page
Cpl
W. R. Seal
Fayette
Sville
Ijitlenteg
Virginia
Bmanca Displag
Beckley PR
Sap E. Bainecle PY
Atc Spescer FR
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