Grads Hear M Nutt Miner Is Accused Appeal For Vision
Paul V. McNutt addressed Marshall college graduates urging vision beyond labels as democracy seeks conviction and imagination in world problems. Louis Brownie Stewart, 33, Lochgelly miner, jailed on arson charges for the $65,000 New River company store fire at Glen Jean, with self-inflicted injuries en route. Robbery motive noted by state police. entry through basement and kerosene fire in a newly renovated building housing mine office and post office. Stewart had 35 years with the company.
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Huntington
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
War Manpower Commission
Marshall College
America
Asia
Dong Dang
Malaya
India
Russia
Louis
Brownie) Stewart
Fayette County
New River Company
Glen Jean
C. A. Roper
Howard MM. Welcher
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Stewart
William Shanklin
Nazi U Boat Fire Believed Italian Captain Sinks Merchant Ship
KEY WEST June 4 German submarine, commanded by an Italian officer, torpedoed a British coalburner near Cuba May 27 killing four. Survivors said the captain spoke English with an Italian accent and the crew appeared German. The sub surfaced and its commander spoke with four lifeboats. The vessel carried 85 crew with 32 Chinese aboard.
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Key West
Fla
Caribbean
Cuba
Alexander Pope
Axis U boat commander shows mercy after attacking sinking freighter
Key West reports details of a British and two American freighters sunk by a German submarine. Survivors from one ship were rescued after five hours adrift. Aboard the attacked vessel several officers were killed and sailors wounded as gunfire and torpedo strikes left the craft badly damaged. The submarine surfaced to check tonnage and offered cigarettes before directing lifeboats to safety.
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Key West
Fla
INS
Caribbean
Buen Ayre
Curacao
Charles Parrish
Washington, D. C
Parrish
Albert J. Chickes
Milford
Conn
West Virginians Advance in U S Army Promotions
William S Sirk, son of Mr and Mrs Norman Sirk of 205 Glenwood avenue, has been promoted in the U S Army. The Gazette reports two West Virginians gaining advancement in the armed forces through recent promotions.
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U. S
William S Sirk
Norman Sirk
Glenwood Avenue
Vere Ie
Army Names Edwal Edwards Assistant Chief of Staff
Washington June 4 The War Department named Brig. Gen. Edwal H Edwards assistant chief of staff in charge of organization and training for the entire army. Secretary Stimson announced that Maj. Gen. Joseph T McNarney also an airman will be deputy chief of staff. The air force now makes up about half of the general staff as reorganization continues.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Edwal H. Edwards
Stimson
Joseph T. McNarney
Air Force
George W. Strong
Military Intelligence
War Plans Division
R. W. Ireland
United Air Lines
Army Transportation Service
Private promoted at Camp Lee in 7th quartermaster unit
7 and Mrs Stanton Mullins of South Charleston announce their son has been promoted from private to corporal in Company K, 7th Quartermaster Training Regiment at Camp Lee Virginia. He spent four years at Greenbrier Military School. Data about Chile production is unclear from the fragment.
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Stanton Mullins
Central Avenue
South Charleston
I’d Rather Be Right Continued From Page Six
In the face of terror, the drama depicts a Nazi hangman being resisted as 109 are executed. Quisling plans disrupt the Czech nation while Moravec’s empty rhetoric collapses. Laval’s insolvency echoes the crisis and the resolve of many to endure and move toward a hopeful tomorrow.
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Heydrich
Quisling
Moravec
Laval
France
Ten Soldiers Die In Mystery Blaze
STOCKTON California June 4 A fire with an explosion swept an army building killing eleven including ten soldiers and a civilian fireman with nine others severely burned. The blaze began about 1130 pm and lasted thirty minutes. Lt Col Floyd H Tull ordered a board of inquiry to probe the blast and fire. The blast did not appear to originate in munition stores. Police and hospitals supplied plasma and serum as doctors and nurses treated the injured.
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Stockton
Calif
Floyd H. Tull
San Francisco
Army Post
City Playspots Funds Allow 10-Week Summer Program
Recreation director Mrs. C Paul Heavener said the city playground program will run ten weeks this summer unless additional funds appear. The program will be more diversified and may serve more adults and children, with an extra playground and two new recreation centers. She noted the play leaders’ school concluded with an average attendance of 65 across sessions over four days.
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C. Paul Heavener
New Morris Harvey Coach Will Address Civitan Club
Cebe Ross new Morris Harvey college coach will speak at the Charleston Civitan club luncheon today at the Daniel Boone hotel. He formerly coached at West Virginia Wesleyan college Buckhannon.
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Morris Harvey
Civitan Club
Cebe Ross
Charleston Civitan Club
Daniel Boone Hotel
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
Indictment Names 6 Explosives Firms Over Prices
Six firms in the explosives industry and 10 company officials were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to keep prices at high levels. Named are E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Hercules, Atlas Powder, Austin Powder of Cleveland, Whineis Powder Manufacturing of St Louis, and King Powder of Cincinnati. The firms allegedly control about 75 percent of US blasting supplies. Hercules officials said they deny violations and note a prior Richmond grand jury indictment was dismissed.
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Philadelphia
E. I. duFont de Nemours and Company
Hercules Powder Company
Atlas Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
Austin Powder Company
Cleveland
Wlineis Powder Manufacturing Company
St. Louis
King Powder Company
Cincinnati
United States
Hercules Company
Btand
Richmond
Body of Former Fairmont Grocer Found in Ohio River
The body recovered from the Ohio River in Pittsburgh is identified by a son as Grover C. Powell, 57, once a prosperous Fairmont, West Virginia grocer. Powell and his family moved to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania over a year ago, though he had not lived with them for years. The coroner investigates the death.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Grover C. Powell
Fairmont
W. Va
Powell
Waynesburg
Michael W. Powell
Attorney Here Acquitted On Contempt Charge
George E. Kesterson of Charleston was acquitted by a federal court jury on contempt of court. He was accused of advising Chitford Charles Shamblin of Plus to make a false statement in a bankruptcy petition filed in 1940.
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George E. Kesterson
Charleston
Kesterson
Chitford Charles Shamblin
Plus
They Settled This One Out of Court
Helena Montana supreme court case concerns mumps illness of Justices Leif Erickson Mrs Erickson and Albert Angstman. The doctors say all are ill with plain mumps. Court engages in proceedings amid illness affecting the bench.
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Helena, Ment
Montana Supreme Court
Leif Erickson
Erickson
Albert Angstman
City incinerator fee payments rise in Charleston
Mayor Dawson cited City Collector E F Dalton reporting nearly forty thousand dollars collected this fiscal year. Delinquent accounts due June 30 face liens via the city solicitor. An appeal urged households to pay four dollars by July to aid the budget and avoid higher costs from court liens. May 1 nonpayment already added one dollar to the basic fee. Overall collections exceed prior years though some residents remain slow to pay.
Fair Enough War War effort and US resolve
The passage reflects on weaker forces becoming battle-tested veterans and notes that the nation mobilizes for war. It mentions the surprise of Hitler over American capacity and observes widespread national effort beyond the military, including industrial backing, as the country prepares for total involvement.
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Hitler
United States
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FBI
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Armstrong
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