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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1945
Page
10
Readable fragments discuss a call for comprehensive health service and tax reductions linked to funding, with quotes about taxation limits and fiscal aims. The text shifts to a police case involving Stone, jailers, and alleged negligence, noting Stone's long stay without proper care and officers’ actions.
The trial centered on Stone who was left unconscious for too long after an injury. Maude Cheeseman reported Stone’s condition to Koontz triggering hospital care where X rays showed a cerebral hemorrhage from a skull fracture. Testimony by Rava Br and Dr Hutchinson said three jailers failed to obtain prompt medical aid, hastening Stone's death.
An advertisement touts a palliative formula Bel-Din for bronchial asthma easing gasping choking and suffocation. It cites European fame and offers mail order samples from Montrose California promising broad supply on request with a small fee.
American officials say captives held in France will be turned over to French control as zones are established. About 18 percent of prisoners, including miners and farmers and men over 51, will be discharged and sent home, possibly 300,000 in the next weeks.
State police reported Tommy Albright, a two year old boy from Boone County, wandered from a moving family on Chandlers Branch while unloading furniture. He was found yesterday and reunited with his parents.
Fragmentary reports describe a hurried shift at the OKW with guards seizing control after a failed coup attempt. Confusion spread as orders from plotters were confiscated and Thiele acted to suppress transmitted directives amid gunfire in the corridors.
A US Army Corps report from Columbus, Georgia, finds the Big Sandy flood control project overall favorable with a 9 foot navigation channel from its mouth to Sprigg, West Virginia. Flood control improvements are disfavored except for a Dewey reservoir on Johns Creek. opposition exists among coal interests and some high officials in the region.
Allied forces report clear Tarakan Island with Japanese resistance on inland areas. New air strikes on Japan by B 29s from Guam and Tokyo claim excellent results. Tokyo says 1 of 15 Japanese homeless after air raids totals 4,930,000. Policy remains to fight on despite surrender pressures.
In a wartime shift Manila resumes representative government after over three years under Japanese control. Officials and 1941 commonwealth members urge continued alliance with the United States while recognizing Philippine independence as soon as possible and ensuring protection for that independence.
Shrine Band directed by Harald Liighty will perform at 7 30 p m at the state capitol honoring band and order members in the armed services The program lists Star Spangled Banner Semper Fidelis Overture Poet and Peasant Suite Just a Prayer Away Marimba Duet World In Waiting for the Sunrise Espana and more with Sousa pieces and a quartet featuring Don Withrow iMacDermid Lite and Sam Olver
Health Commissioner J E Offner announced that forms for the recently enacted serologic testing law are being mailed to private physicians and health officers statewide. The measure, in effect since last Tuesday, makes the attending physician responsible for ensuring a serologic test is performed on pregnant women to curb mother to child transmission of syphilis. Violations carry fines, and amended birth certificates will note when and by which laboratory the test was performed.
Fragmented obituary notices list many names, relations, and burial details across multiple locales. It mentions a person dying in Summeraville with services at various churches, graves at local cemeteries, and numerous surviving family members across states. Other fragments reference military service, medical affiliations, and multiple burial sites in communities like Winifrede and Libertyville.
Giltinan assigns four committees at Memorial Hospital Association in Charleston for preliminary data. Dean Reed chairs finance, Homer Holt building, William Ziebold membership, Oliver Van Petten site. Board trustees may see early reports at the first meeting.
Montgomery Ward & Co served notice of intention to take its legal fight against government seizure of properties in seven cities to the Supreme Court. Counsel sought a stay of mandate from the U S circuit court of appeals which had ruled the seizure legal, to prevent the decision from taking effect until the high court rules.
Fragmentary remarks discuss war end timing and Pacific theater, with references to Patton and Doolittle. The text hints at cooperation between home front supply chains and field operations and mentions bombing impacts and an imminent end to the war. The passage is incomplete and garbled.
The Wenpre Sagt of Christ in Service at Centred Methodist Church holds a Tuesday June meeting for the department head, Mrs Virginia Myers of the state department of public assistance. St Matthews Episcopal Women auxiliary and guild officers meet at 7 30 pm at the parish house. The parishioner sistry meets at 8 pm Thursday in the parish house. Bishop Roe Strider will lead Holy Communion at 8 pm June 18. First Christian church Women s Council plans a covered dish dinner at 6 pm Tuesday at the church. New officers include Mrs Blair Maynor president Mrs Howard Ister vice president Mrs Alner Ighnam secretary and Mrs Dissie Agnew treasurer. The Women s Society of Christian Service of Flumphreys Memorial church meets at 8 00 pm Tuesday in the young people s department with a program They hope to present They s light Within Circle No 4 chair Mrs Stadter will host the program and Mrs J Pan Heavener will speak on Juvenile Protection Mrs Cox Ang Co Bell conduct devotional service.
One of three men arrested in Roanoke for alleged robbery of a Princeton woman faces federal court in Bristol on June 19 on breaking and entering charges tied to a West Virginia price and ration board office. Dominick Menza and Joseph Cassesa, plus Theodore Richardson, were named in Roanoke police court indictments following Bettie Ruth Davidson of Princeton saying the trio beat and robbed her of 75 dollars in a Roanoke hotel after meeting on a bus.
H A Mike Cunningham 62, manager of the state liquor store in Montgomery, died Friday in Beckley Hospital. Survived by wife Ida Cunningham, two daughters Margaret Smallridge of Charlton Heights and a grandson Devi Michael Smallridge. Services will be at 2 PM tomorrow at Immaculate Conception Church Montgomery with Fr. C E Doyle officiating. Burial in Montgomery Memorial Park. Body at Harold Gaye Mortuary Montgomery until funeral time.
Witnesses named Arthur Swatham Massa chusetts branch of the American Defense Society and Brig Gen Albert Lox in the active reserve corps. They urged 12 full month air compulsory training to be conducted at home under military officers' direction.
Reporters recount conflicting claims about Adolf Hitler's fate in Berlin. Witnesses discuss suicides, shelling, and found bodies, while Eva Braun's background and marriage rumors are debated by locals and officials.
The accord requires Tito to withdraw regular forces except 2000 troops west of the line under Field Marshal Alexander. Irregulars to be disarmed and disbanded. Civilians jailed or deported, except Yugoslav nationals in 1939, with property restored or paid. Allied government to appoint civil administrators, possibly including existing Yugoslav units.
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