Mrs Roosevelt Aims West Virginia Visit In Schedule
Washington reports that Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt plans a summer journey to Abingdon Virginia for the White Top Mountain Folksong Festival and may pass through West Virginia mining camps to view furniture making by jobless miners aided by the Society of Friends. Her interest stems from her father Elliott Roosevelt’s Abingdon letters and his work with miners in the coal fields.
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Douglas Robinson
Douglas Land Company
Virginia
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Brest
Girl and Two Boys Injured in Truck Upset
Mary Elizabeth McCutcheon 16 of Summersville is hospitalized at St Prancly after a truck she rode in overturned above Clendenin on the Queen Shoals hill. John Leonard Bierns 12 and Robert Bierns 9 were treated for cuts and bruises by a physician. The driver was Peter Bierns 16.
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Mary Elizabeth McCutcheon
Summersville
St. Prancly Hospital
Clendenin
Queen Shoals
John Leonard Bierns
Robert Bierns
Patrick Bierns
John Bierns
Barren Creek
Fatally Injured Hinton Tragedy Reported In June
Raymond Simmons aged 21 was fatally injured after stumbling while crossing a railway track in front of a freight train on June 22 at Hinton. Authorities described the incident as a fatal accident with no indication of foul play.
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Hinton
Raymond Simmons
Mission Reports On Charity Work At Kanawhe Street Mission
Volunteers of America served 10 207 meals to needy persons from March 1 to June 18 at the Kanawhe Street mission. Reports include 3240 tree beds supplied, aid to 406 families, medical care for 285 individuals, shelter for 18 women and 17 children, jobs found for 9 men and 6 women, clothing for 13, transportation for 12, and two hospitalizations. Religious activities included 77 meetings with 9 171 attendees. 38 converts and 728 prayer hands led to salvation. Sunday school had 1 607 attendees and open air meetings attracted about 3 100. Improvements were made to the mission building.
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Volunteers of America
Kanawhe Street
Joseph F. Kolar
Fred Jackson
Kolar
Public Telephone Hand Set Charge Cut Ordered
The public service commission yesterday ordered a reduction in the extra charge for hand telephone sets from 25 cents to 15 cents a month starting August 1. The ruling affects about 17,000 instrument users of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company.
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Public Service Commission
Chesapeake and Fotomac Telephone Company
Conservation Camp Set to Open in Boone County
United States officials with the West Virginia conservation commission lease a Stovers branch site on Big Coal river near Whitesville opposite Keith to establish a large tent camp housing 200 to 300 recruits plus state and federal officials. The camp lies along the Charleston Beckley highway with ample water and bathing beaches on the river.
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United States
West Virginia Conservation Commission
Congress
Whitesville
Keith
Boone County
Charleston- Beckley
Supreme Court Sets Bond Case Hearing Monday
The state supreme court will hear arguments from opposing counsel on a $5,000,000 state bond issue to retire the deficit. The appeal followed a Henowah circuit court ruling, filed by John L. Dickinson of Charleston in a friendly suit.
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State Supreme Court
Highstate Court
Henawha Circuit Court
John L. Dickinson
Charleston
Dr MacMillan Named President of Surgeons Association
Dr. W. A. MacMillan of McMillan Hospital Charleston was elected president of the New York Central Surgeons' Association at a Chicago meeting. He has served as a railway surgeon for several years. Estimates indicate nearly 5 million dollars in damage in Africa and Western Asia last year. Electricity consumption in Italy continues to rise.
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McMillan Hospital
Charleston
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Chicago
MacMillan
Railway
Africa
Asia
Italy
Clay County Escapee Placed in Kanawha Jail for Safe Keeping
Andrew Green, 21, one of four men who escaped from the Clay county jail on June 12, was brought to Charleston yesterday and placed in the Kanawha county jail for safekeeping. He is serving a two year term for breaking and entering. Fellow escapees Alphonso Kuhr, eight months, and Okey Hamric and Delbert Blankenship, awaiting trials, were also noted.
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Andrew Green
Clay County
Charleston
Kanawha County
Green
Alphonso Kuhr
Okey Hamric
Delbert Blankenship
State collects 320000 under chain store tax law
Three hundred twenty thousand dollars have been paid to the state taxes under the chain store law enacted by the legislature. Formal protests were entered with the payments pending a court test of the validity of the tax. The money is held in a special fund. Avenues Paw Doumer in Paris was opened in memory of the assassinated president.
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Paw Doumer
Paris
Noted Actress Edna Carey Jefferson Dies at Home
Joseph Jefferson, famed Shakespearian actress and respected figure in theater, died after a monthlong illness at her West Palm Beach residence. The United States mourns a prominent performer and cultural figure with ties to the import trade and Hong Kong connections noted in the report.
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West Palm Heach
Edna Carey Jefferson
United States
Hong Kong
China
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