Interim group aggests library as shrine here
An interim legislative group advised the Grafton Mother's Day Committee to pursue a library as a shrine rather than a memorial. The plan includes site selection on Main Street, architectural plans, cost estimates, and maintenance arrangements with a June 28 report due. Local effort hinges on community action and support.
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Grefton
Robert F. Gerkin
Gerkin
Charles W. T. Lockard
Main Street
Lightning Strikes Wires Cause Alarm at Vandergrift Home
Lightning struck electric wires at 207 Grand Street during a spring storm, cutting lights and triggering a fire alarm. Firemen arrived and found no fire, only a power outage at the residence of R. M. Vandergrift.
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R. M. Vandergrift
Grand Street
Colonel Mallonee recalls death march of Bataan
Col Richard Mallonee, a Grafton native and survivor of the death march from Bataan to Camp O’Donnell, discusses four brutal days under tropical heat and brutal Japanese conditions. He served 29 years in the army, toured much of the globe, and plans to stay in service after 30 years. His sons Richard Jr. and Paul also served in World War II, with Richard now a Mines student and Paul at Stanford University.
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Richard Mallonee
Grafton
Bataan
Allie Chamberlain
East Washington Street
Fort Bragg
N.C
Mallonee
United States
Camp O'Donnell
Luzon
Col. Mallonee
George Parker, Jr
O'Donnel
Tarlac
Formosa
Wainwright
Leyte
Japan
Manchuria
Mukden
Union
Maine
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Calif
Germany
France
China
Manila
Philippines
Pacific
Luzon Island
Lingayen Gut
Gen
Richard C. Mallonee, Jr
Paul C. Mallonee
Richard
Army
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Colo
Paul
Jury weighs defense bid to overturn verdict in fatal child death
Jury continued from page one on a defense motion to set aside the verdict with a possible penalty of one to five years. Mrs Loughry, who is due to have another child in September, was indicted for murder in the death of her six year old Wesley Leroy last May 1 at Independence. The state says she whipped the child to fatal injuries. eS Smith of Flemington. The front end of one car was smashed and the undercarriage and right side of another were damaged when Davis and a youth Charles C Davis were driving to fish. Both cars were insured.
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Page
Loughry
Wesley Leroy
Independence
Barbour County
Weather and Wrecks Reported Near Webster Afternoon
Two vehicle crashes were logged near Webster in a heavy rain. a Plymouth sedan driven by Charles E. Davis of Morgantown skidded and overturned after meeting a 1941 Chevrolet sedan driven by Ralph Shan. Deputy W H Canfield noted the mishap occurred around 3 30 P M amid downpour.
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Webster
W. H. Canfield
Canfield
Plymouth
Charles E. Davis
Morgantown
Ralph Shan
Ralph
Child saved by coat net as two-year-old falls
Pittsburgh on June 19 reports two year old Steve Purtell fell two stories yesterday. Joseph Deller watched from across the street and rushed to catch the child in the folds of his coat, which he fashioned into a firemen net to break the fall. The boy sustained only a brush burn on his tummy.
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Pittsburgh
Steve Purtell
Joseph , Deller
Deller
Wallace warns against weakening OPA price controls
Secretary of Commerce Wallace urged vigilance against inflation as Capitol Hill negotiators begin shaping an OPA extension. He warned that weakening price and rent controls could trigger a boom and bust like after the last war, stressing business must cooperate to stabilize the economy and avoid profiteering charges.
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Washington
Wallace
OPA
Capitol Hill
Mrs. Stubblefield Sees Party Prospects In West Virginia
FAIRMONT June 19. Mrs Frances Ogden Stubblefield Charleston National Republican committeewoman West Virginia told Marion county Republican women's club meeting last night. Mrs W Wyatt Payne Huntington state GOP secretary executive committee shared the view. More than 100 club members and guests attended.
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Fairmont
Frances Ogden Stubblefield
Charleston
National Republican
Bennett and Coulter to wed at Riverside Mission Inn
Actress Constance Bennett 40 and Col. John Theron Coulter 34 will marry Saturday at the Riverside California Mission Inn. It is Bennett fifth marriage. Coulter formerly chief of staff of the Army air transport command Pacific division.
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Hollywood
Constance Bennett
John Theron Coulter
Army Air Transport Command
Pacific Division
Riverside
Calif
Mission Inn
Miss Bennett
Col. Coulter
Nettleton
Miss
Morgantown Lad Injured In Scaffold Fall At Power Plant
Harold Smith seventeen of Morgantown Route 4 was severely injured on the B and O power plant job as he fell about 25 feet from a narrow scaffold while wheelbarrow was toppled onto him. He suffered a fractured left arm and arm lacerations and was taken to City hospital in shock. He remained dazed and recalled the incident only the next day.
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Harold Smith
Morgantown
Bossart and Williams
Morvantown
State Gets Out Movie On The Coal Industry
The State industrial and publicity commission announced that Magic Mineral, a coal themed motion picture short, will premiere in Bluefield Sunday. Most filming occurred in the Bluefield area, including a scene at a boys vocational mining school in the city.
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Charleston
State Industrial and Publicity Commission
West Virginia
Bluefield
Mrs. Virginia S. Lee Dies at 90 in Creston West Virginia
Mrs. Virginia S. Lee, 90, mother of former state attorney general Howard B. Lee of Charleston, died yesterday at the home of another son, Wirt D. Lee, in Creston, Wirt County. Funeral arrangements were not immediately available.
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Elizabeth
Virginia S. Lee
Howard B. Lee
Charleston
Wirt D. Lee
Creston
Wirt County
Neil
Fire guts Gigli villa in Rome. damage $22,000
A blaze at the villa of opera tenor Beniamine Gigli in Rome caused extensive damage last night. Fire origin undetermined and losses were estimated at $22,000.
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Rome
Beniamine Gigli
Three Court Members by Each President Feared Change
Senator Eastland with Senator Bridges pushed a plan to limit to three the number of Supreme Court justices per president and retire four Roosevelt appointees. The measure would temporarily fill vacancies with lower court judges until new presidents appoint replacements. The plan seeks hearings on the court feud and would require two thirds of Congress and three fourths of states to become law.
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Jack Bell
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Eastland
D-Miss
High Court
Bridges
R-N H
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Hugo S. Black
Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter
Harold H. Burton
Truman
William ©. Douglas
Frank Murphy
Robert
H. Jackson
Wiley Rutledge
Fred Vinson
Senate
Hugo Black
Jackson
Black
Kiwanis Club Hears Lad Tell Of Boys State
Kiwanis members heard Harvey Hawkins recount his trip to Boys State at Jackson's Mill during a Belvedere club dinner. Hawkins was sponsored by Kiwanis and four new members were inducted: Robert Denton Early Laymen Richard Leonard and Pearson Fleisher.
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Kiwanis Club
Harvey Hawkins
Jackson's Mill
Belvedere Club
Young Hawkins
The
Kiwanis
Robert Denton
Richard Leonard
Pearson Fleisher
Poling Charged With Disturbance in Grafton Court
Paul Poling of Grafton was fined $10 and costs in police court for causing a disturbance on Boyd street at 6 45 p m yesterday. He was arrested by Patrolman Dwyer. Glen Rosier also faced a drunkenness and disturbance charge and was cited $11 bond after failing to appear before Mayor C C King.
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Poling
Paul Poling
Grafton
Boyd Street
Dwyer
Glen Rosier
East Main Street
C. C. King
Youths Enlist in Regular Army for Physical Examinations
Charles F. Hildreth of 715 On a Street and George Richard Kinsey of 53 West St. Charles Street left for Columbus Ohio to take their physical examinations for entrance in the U S Army. The youths enlisted in the regular army on Monday per local recruiters.
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Charles F. Hildreth
George Richard Kinsey
West St. Charles Street
Columbus
Ohio
U. S. Army
Prosecution Continues in Navy Officer Morals Case
Rollins a veteran of 27 years naval service pleads innocent to adultery morals offense theft gambling embezzlement and misconduct charges arising from an all night party in his basement quarters at the North Severn officers mess where he formerly was stationed.
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Wage Ones Rollins
North Severn
Postmaster Faces Embezzlement Charge in Kingston
Dorothy Webb Profitt, 32, Fayette county Kingston post master, is held for federal grand jury action by U S Commissioner W H Belcher on a charge of embezzling 2300 dollars in government funds between May 1945 and June 4 1946.
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Charleston
Dorothy Webb Profitt
Fayette County
Kingston
U.S
W. H. Belcher
Tear gas compound blocks eelworm damage in crops
Chloropicrin, the World War I tear gas, has been found effective as a preventative against eelworm damage across several crops, offering a potential alternative protective approach for farmers.
Wisconsin Death Case: Father Kills Wife with Hammer
In Tampa Florida on June 1 detective Capt. D. D. reported that Roscoe M. Tucker 58 attacked his wife Evelyn Mable and daughter Doris 13 in two homes with a hammer and axe. The 19 year old son Kenneth fled as Tucker fought officers and was killed. Tucker died from gunfire after wounding a detective. The case also mentions distant relatives and a note about goat skins in multiple countries.
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Tampa
Fla
D. D
Stephens
Roscoe M. Tucker
Evelyn Mable
Curtis Alton Nipper
Metro Beach
Doris
Kenneth
Shykove
Tucker
Nipper
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the World
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Jack Benny
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Mrs.Stubblefield
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