Refugees May Get Haven on Islands
Washington June 4 Many German Jewish refugees may be settled in Mindanao Philippines to offset Japanese influence. A survey by a president’s advisory committee will guide a tentative plan to relocate about 30,000 refugees. Mindanao hosts 20,000 Japanese and dominates local resources with limited U.S. imports.
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New York Socialite Charlotte Marshall Ends Her Life
Miss Charlotte C. S. Marshall, 48, a New York City socialite, hanged herself at Blythewood sanitarium in Greenwich, Connecticut. She arrived Friday suffering from anxiety but staff did not expect suicide. Survived by brothers Robert and Henry Marshall of New York.
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Charlotte C. S. Marshall
New York City
Blythewood Sanitarium
Laura Whitcomb
Miss Marshall
Robert
Henry Marshall
New York
Drowned crew of pilot boat off barge death toll rises
Three men drowned when their small craft capsized under a barge towed by a tug. Two others are missing and a sixth occupant, a pilot boat crewman, was saved. The deceased are Charles Copp and his helper Lloyd Copp and Osborne Long, 16, all from Harvey Bank, N. B.
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N. B
INS
Charles Copp
Lloyd Copp
Osborne Long
Harvey Bank
Holt Repeats Charges Against WPA Boss
Senator Holt of West Virginia reiterates claims of rotten WPA administration and demands full payroll records from WPA administrator Joseph N. Alderson. Holt accuses Alderson of misrepresentation and wasteful practices in a direct reply letter.
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Sen. Holt
WPA
Washington
Sen
Holt
D.-W.va
West Virginia
Joseph N. Alderson
Works Progress Administration
Alderson
Mrs. Elizabeth Shrout Dies at 73 in Parsons
Mrs. Elizabeth Shrout 73 widow of a former police chief died in Parsons. The obituary notes her long time residence and her late spouse’s role in local law enforcement.
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Elizabeth Shrout
Parsons
Charleston Asks Study Of Damage By Winfield Dam
Rep. Smith forwards a South Charleston request to the War Department for a war engineer study of damages attributed to the Winfield dam on the Kanawha river. Local officials claim irreparable losses from rising pool levels, while Army engineers say no property damage has occurred. A Huntington office offer of $10 settlements for flowage easements is noted.
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Winfield Dam
War Department
Smith
Washington
W. Va
South Charleston
Department
Kanawha River
Army
West Virginia
Louis A. Johnson
Winfield
Kanawha
J. W. Londeree
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Army Engineers
Project to Resume at Huntington Buildings After Labor Row
Work on the Huntington East High School building and the Cabell county courthouse extension is to restart today under a wage agreement announced by the contractors. The schedule was halted two weeks ago after a dispute over hodcarriers classification raised by Hodcarriers and Building Laborers union President John Dickson.
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Huntington
Huntington East High School
Cabell County
John Dickson
Hodcarriers and Building Laborers Union
Hodcarriers
Ex-Constable Granted Retrial In Tire Theft Case
Beckley circuit judge E B Pennybacker set aside a petit larceny verdict against former constable Leonard Floyd and ordered a retrial. Floyd had been convicted of stealing two used automobile tires and tubes.
Nitro News Briefs Include Birthday Party and Local Visits
Mrs. O. Fish hosted a birthday party on Thirty-fourth Street honoring son Frank with games and refreshments. Troop 76 Nitro Boy Scouts hosts a parent night at city hall Monday at 8 pm. Corporal Paul Vassar departs for Romney to work at the new radio station. Various local residents and visitors listed from Oak Hill to Indianapolis, with one hospital patient in Charleston after a Thursday night auto crash.
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Warren Magoun
Curtiss Sturgeon
Ronald Smith
James Dorman
John Waldorf
Howard Harman
Frank Sharp
Bernard Morton
Harry Harman
Letcher Creasy
Troop 76 Nitro Boy Scouts
Paul Vassar
State Police
Romney
T. F. Baumgartner
Betty Lee
Oak Hill
B. H. Reppert
Buckhannon
Mack Hanna
H. C. Galloway
Bobby Galloway
R. N. Neeley
Orlando
Fla
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Edward Padden
W. P. Wilson
Diana
Grafton
Hitler Sends Sympathy Over Loss in Thetis Sinking
Berlin June 4 Reichsfuhrer Hitler sent a cablegram to King George VI expressing regret over the loss of life in the sinking of the British submarine Thetis and extending German sympathy to relatives of the victims. The text of the Fuehrer’s message was not disclosed.
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Reichsfuehrer
Hitler
George VI
Thetis
Fuehrer
Visit of Mildred Montgomery and Friends in Fairmont
Miss Mildred Montgomery has been employed for months and is visiting relatives in Fairmont. George Hesson returned to Hamlin after a week here due to his brother John Hesson's pneumonia, which is improving. Charles Walker of Cincinnati spent Thursday and Friday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Walker.
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Fairmont
George Hesson
Hamlin
John Hesson
Charles Walker
Cincinnati
R. S. Walker
Youth Driver Hurt in Chandlers Branch Crash
Curtis Coffman an 18 year old of Newhouse branch is in Staats hospital with slight injuries after his car collided with a parked truck on Chandlers Branch road State police said Cunningham s ambulance transported him to the hospital
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Curtis Coffman
Newhouse Branch
Staats Hospital
Chandler’s Branch
Cunningham
Ex County Attorney Dies in New Martinsville
Charles W. Barrick 81, retired county attorney, died in a hospital after a brief illness. He suffered a heart attack while visiting a daughter in Pittsburgh two weeks earlier.
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New Martinsville
Charles W. Barrick
Pittsburgh
Vegetable Cookery booklet offered by Washington service bureau
The Charleston Gazette promotes a new booklet Vegetable Cookery from Washington Service Bureau. It explains selecting in season vegetables, effects of cooking on food value, offers recipes and 15 all-vegetable dinners. Readers may send a dime to cover postage and handling to receive a copy.
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Washington Service Bureau
F. M. Kerby
Dept
Charleston Gazette
Thirteenth Street
Washington, D. C
Ten fined for possession and sale of baseball tickets
Ten persons pleaded guilty to possession and sale of baseball tickets in violation of lottery laws. They were rounded up in a raid by 15 county officers and state police on four Bluefield establishments Saturday and brought to Princeton for trial. Fines totaling 2300 dollars were imposed by Magistrate Carl Jones.
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Bluefield
Carl Jones
Hoover Warns Dictatorship Threat From Coercion
Former President Herbert Hoover warned at Lincoln Memorial University commencement that compulsory cooperation by government endangers liberty and may pave the way to dictatorships. He spoke to about 51 graduates and hundreds of townspeople gathered in Duke Hall.
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Harrogate
Tenn
Herbert Hoover
Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap
Duke Hall
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Hoover
Cardinal's Brother Dies
Edward J. O'Connell, last surviving brother of Cardinal William O'Connell, died at his Newton home from a heart attack after over a year of ill health.
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Mass
INS
Edward J. O'Connell
William Cardinal O'Connell
Graduation Address Emphasizes Liberty From Creator
The speaker states that intellectual and spiritual liberties arise from endowments from the Creator, not power over matter. They stress freedom, spiritual truth, tolerance, justice, and faith as foundations, warning that America’s future hinges on its youth.
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