Bartlett Named Chief Bookkeeper at City Hospital
Grace Marie Bartlett of West Francs street is appointed chief bookkeeper of Grafton City Hospital by James McKelvey administrator. Miss Bartlett succeeds Miss Norman Moyer who resigned after about two years. Bartlett, a prominent local figure, is president of the Grafton Quota club and Tau Phi Lambda sorority, former Woolworths manager, and past Taylor County Board of Trade member. Appointment takes effect immediately.
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James McKelvey
Grafton City Hospital
Grace Marie Bartlett
West Francs Street
City Hospital
McKelvey
Max Jett
Norman Moyer
Miss Bartlett
Grafton
Grafton Quota Club
Tau Phi Lambda
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Wool Worth
Taylor County Board of Trade
Yugoslav Ship Sails After Labor-Driven Load Stand
The Yugoslav freighter Radnick finally sailed from an American dock after workers refused to load due to photos of Stalin and Tito aboard. The crew used handtrucks and dollies to move 100 pound sacks of flour and other cargo into position for netted loading.
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New York
Radnick
Ja.m
Stalin
Tito
Netetral
Services Today For Baby Son Of Mr Mrs Starford
Solemn funeral services were held at 10 am for Robbin Lynn Starford four month old twin son of Mr and Mrs William E Starford Jr. The infant died suddenly on Wednesday afternoon from suffocation after a plant sheet was pulled over its head. Burial followed at Woodsdale cemetery under Bartlett Funeral Home. The Stafford family includes two other children, Robert Wynn and William E Stafford NT.
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Little Robbin
Lynn Starford
William E. Starford
Grand Street
H. E. Brestel
Grafton Street
E. F. K. Roof
Woodsdale Cemetery
Bartlett Funeral Home
City Hospital
Stafford
Robert Wynn
William E. Stafford
Fire Chief’s Brother Dies in Mt Jackson Va
Mr and Mrs John Proctor of West Washington Street returned home after attending funeral services in Mt Jackson Va for Weflin Russell Proctor 59 brother of Fire Chief Proctor. The chief and his wife had traveled to Virginia due to his illness and were by his bedside when he died Monday morning. Survived by 15 children.
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Jackson
John Proctor
West Washington Street
Mt. Jackson
Mr. Proctor
Weflin Russell Proctor
Virginia
Proctor
Republicans and Black Leaders Clash Over Civil Rights Planks
Francis M. Lemay reports Philadelphia June 19 that National Negro leaders blast the GOP and demand a strong civil rights plank for the 1948 platform while Republicans draft a convention platform. Proposals include anti lynching anti poll tax fair employment laws urged wage hikes and social programs from leaders like Walter White and William Green with Stassen urging a pro European recovery and international cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Lemay
Philadelphia
Republican Party
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement For Colored People
GOP Resolutions Committee
Congress
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Labor Subcommittee
Treason Trial For Tomoya Opens In Federal Court Today
Tomoya Kawakita known as The Meatball faces treason charges for alleged atrocities against American captives while a guard in a Japanese POW camp. U S Attorney James Carter leads the case with testimony expected from score of Marines Sailors and Soldiers about abuses Kawakita allegedly ordered or witnessed. Kawakita, born in California, returned to Japan in 1939 and reentered the United States in 1946 after denying wartime involvement.
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Los Angeles
Tomoya
Kawakita
Federal District Court
U. S
James Carter
Honshu
Calexico
Calif
Japan
United States
Kawakita Arrest Tied to ex‑GIs Plan in 1946
Carter recalls returning to study at USC in a foreign trade program. Kawakita’s October 1946 arrest is linked to an American ex-artilleryman, William L. Bruce, then 26, who previously housed American prisoners at Oeyama camp where Kawakita interacted with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Foreign Trade School
University of Southern California
Kawakita
William L. Bruce
Oeyama
Bruce spots Kawekita in downtown department store
Bruce was shopping in a downtown department store when he observed Kawekita, the man he says.
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Ball
Bruce
Kawekita
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Baby Son OfMr
Starford
No Man's Land
London
First National Bank Consumer Credit Dept
Wayne M. Sinsel
Mgr
Bank Bldg
Billy
Wwegro
GOP
Wre Sor Size
Gy Mee Malone
Drug & Chemical, CO
Grafton Jewelry Co
Dixie
Amond
Keapsake
Nassau
Heather
Riveria
Main Street
Elyse Knox
Marie Wilson
John Hubbard
Gordon Richards
Jack Norton
Ralph Controlfoyee Compton
Sir Lancelot
Lamberti
Rodent
Atty Kemp Rectary
Fann Macxald
AE Ay
Uman HI
Technicolor
Pogar Dinah
Bergen
Shore
Donald Duck
Charlie McCarthy
Allacena
Grafton Drug & Chemical CO
Malone
Eer
Mar
C-Oil
Woodbury
Forhans
Rasre
Phillip
Nee Eis
Aspiy
Tal Mac
Eagles
Square Dane
Featuring
Newburg
Ramblers
Eagles Lodge
WisDon
Nest
Masonf’s Drug and Chemical Co
Round
Ted Mitchell
Clarksburg
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