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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1941
Page
3
Officials said Albert Winans, 25, a railroad brake man, was found on the right of way between Bemis and Grady. He apparently slipped and fell between the cars and died.
Rabbi Elias Charry of Beth El Indianapolis opens a three day Ohio Valley Zionist region convention at B'nai Jacob in Indianapolis tonight. Zionist leaders from Kentucky Ohio Indiana and West Virginia will attend sessions with Chief organizers Rabbi Samuel Cooper and Cantor Irving Ashery in charge.
The report highlights several lighthearted Army life anecdotes. Pvt Ches ter Gallas defies a thunderstorm on guard duty after lightning hits his gun and returns to his post within minutes. Other notes describe Pvt Theodore Crabtree’s long journey from Bath Maine to Honolulu and back to Georgia.
Thomas M. Maloney of Clendenin has passed preliminary exams for an Army aviation cadet scholarship, announced by Fifth Corps area headquarters in Columbus. Maloney, son of M. M. Maloney, a Clendenin druggist, is a Massanutten Military Academy graduate and attended the University of Cincinnati.
The death toll from Texas storms and floods rose to twenty as the Trinity River inundated Dallas suburbs, forcing hundreds from homes and damaging crops. High water reached South Dallas and Houston streets, with Rev. Jack Harris, 33, killed guarding a flood-threatened trestle north of Dallas.
The Public Service Commission set a July 4 hearing for Mountain State Gas to raise retail gas rates in Dawes, Miami, and Sharon Kanawha County. The company now pays Pure Oil 25 cents per thousand cubic feet and seeks 18 to 38 cents for customers with a 50 cent monthly minimum charge.
Randolph county Farm Agent R. H. Hammer announced the appointment of Joseph Dakan of Marshall County as assistant to Farm Agent Dakan named in Randolph.
A second conscientious objector was ordered to a labor camp in Grattees, Virginia for one year. Arlie Calvin McGee of Burlington Mineral Enun ty was directed to report June 30. William Arthur Hamling of Huntington was told to report June 26 at Grottaes.
Sorority alumnae and Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon plan a meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at the Daniel Boone hotel.
Funeral services in Delaware Ohio today for Harry H. Humphries 43 a former deputy U S marshal for eight years in the southern West Virginia district He formerly lived in Charleston and owned Humphries Motor Sales in Charleston He died of a heart attack at his home in Delaware and is survived by wife two children a sister and his father
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