Rosemont Miner Bailey Dies After Train Collision
Clyde Halleck Bailey, 57, a Rosemont miner, died at 11:45 a m in Clarksburg hospital after being found injured on railroad tracks near the Rosemont post office. Born November 4, 1889 in Rosemont, he leaves widow Mattie, a son Thomas, three daughters Edith Sayler Margania Fisher Nadine Brown, three brothers Harry Carl and Millard, five sisters, and four grandchildren. Coroner not yet contacted as of morning report.
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Clyde Halleck Baiey
Rosemont
Clarksburg
Rosell
Pass
Bailey
Baley
Carksburg
Taylor County
Philmore
Waler Bailey
Mattie Bailey
Oakland
Thomas Bailey
Edith Sayler
Baltimore
The
Rosemint’ Thins
Ona C. Jefferys
Immunization Urged After West Virginia Smallpox Case
Charleston reports Health Commissioner N H Dyer urged all West Virginians to be immunized against small pox after Hardy county reported the state s first 1941 case last week.
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Charleston
N. H. Dyer
West
Body of Rubin Anderson Recovered From Ohio River
The body of Rubin Anderson 26 of Belpre Ohio was recovered from the Ohio River last night. He leaped 175 feet from the Parkersburg Belpre bridge around noon yesterday.
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Parkersburg
Rubin Anderson
Belpre
Divorce Sought By Two Judge Grants Injunction
A bill of complaint filed in Circuit court seeks divorce for Bee Bradley from John Wilson Bradley. They wed June 3 1929 in Garrett County Maryland and separated April this year. Three children. Mrs Bradley granted an injunction restraining her husband from disposing of funds or interfering with the plaintiff and children. Judge Y W Merle Watkins entered the order in vacation. Guy Utterback files for divorce from Mollie Utterback whom he says deserted him 30 years ago. they married April 6 1912.
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Eene Oe Beey
Bee Esa Bradley
John ‘Wilson Bradley
West
Washington Street
Garret County
Merle Watkins
Taylor County
Guy Utterback
Mollie Utterback
Crowd panics after jail escape sparks chaos in Silvis
In Silvis Illinois on June 28 a jailed man identified as William Smith or Silkie Smith, 63, seized a tear gas canister and fled into a terrified crowd of about 200. Deputy Koster said officers fired tear gas and one deputy shot, fatally injuring Smith who weighed 200 pounds and stood 6 feet 3 inches. Smith refused to leave his cell after a vagrancy charge and grabbed the officer’s device during the confrontation. The incident ended with Smith fleeing down the street and crowds scattering as police pursued. General MacArthur's remarks about Japan supervision are reported in a separate item from Tokyo dated June 28.
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Silvis
L Aw
William Koster
Rock Island County
Silkie Smith
Rock Island
Koster
Smith
Koster Sale Smith
James Guewillus
Gore Will Names Heirs and Beneficiaries
The will divides equal shares among Gore relatives in Harrison County and Clarksburg. Salem College receives 2500, West Virginia Wesleyan and Alderson Broaddus colleges 500 each. Gore leaves 500 to Hepzibah's home church and 1000 to Hotel Gore employees on 60 days service. Charities including Salvation Army Red Cross Catholic Sisters of Clarksburg National Society of Friends and State 4-H receive 250 each along with more than 30 other friends and groups receiving 200 to 1000.
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Gore
Burg
Harrison County
Siegel tied to take daughters to Vancouver amid probe
Hill says Siegel appeared to close the home and planned to take his two daughters Millicent and Barbara to Vancouver for a vacation. Esther Siegel, former Flamingo club owner and rackets figure, denied knowing any enemies and said she divorced him for loneliness as Simpson notes no one disliked him.
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Hill
William E. ‘Simpson
Truman signs extension of fiancee entry law for armed forces
President Truman signed legislation extending until December 31 the law allowing alien fiancs of armed forces members to enter the United States for marriage. The existing law would have expired Monday midnight. The item notes British and French views from last week when ministers met in Paris.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Paris
CIO and AFL clash over labor power and reforms
In a speech Murray claims the AFL has 7.5 million members, the CIO over 6 million, and Railroad Brotherhoods about 1.5 million. He pledges to mobilize national opinion to repudiate the Taft-Hartley act and its broader conservative program.
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CIO
AFL
Railroad Brotherhoods
Murray
Mountain Choir Festival Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
The Mountain Choir Festival marks its tenth anniversary with a Folk Festival on Saturday August 23 at 8 30 p m in the Arthurdale Gym W Va directed by Dr Patrick V Gainer of West Virginia University The event features a bean stringing party reminiscences and folk songs with invited notables such as Cal Price Edin Hammonds and Sid Hatfield More events include an Elijah oratorio Sunday afternoon by the Festival Choir with more than 100 voices and a closing Sacred Concert by the Westinghouse Male Chorus of Pittsburgh led by Robert Barkely The festival also includes soloists an accompanist from New York and a guest coach from the Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts
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Arthurdale
W. Va
Mountain Choir Festival Association
Patrick V. Gainer
West Virginia University
Gainer
Cal Price
Marlington
Edin Hammonds
Mill Point
Jean Thomas
Blue Ridge Country
Sid Hatfield
Logan
Sack Pre|ile
Coleen Jacquet
Morgantown
Betty Lou Goss
Vera Keck
Muriel Robinson
Felix Robin
Ralph Brown J
Hattie Sypolt
Elijah
C Robinson
Kinewood
Terra Alta
Towlesburg
Tunneleton
Gratton
Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Felix Robert Mandelson
Baltimore Institute of Musical Arts
Bel Herman Schar2
New York
One Street Man In Jail After Episode
Roy Smallwood of Ona Street is in Taylor County jail awaiting May appearance after a disturbance charge. Deputy W H Canfield arrested him around 3:30 yesterday after noon for allegedly threatening to kill a youth in the neighborhood.
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Roy Smallwood
Ona Street
Taylor County
John Snider
Smallwood
W. H. Canfield
Hoon
B and O railroad clerk marks 79th birthday at yard office
Nick Fisher aged 79 celebrated at the Baltimore and Ohio yard office where he serves as a clerk to the yardmaster. Tall and brisk, he recalled joining the B and O around 1900 and noted a 43 year career including four years with other firms in the Fairmont area.
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W. N
Nick) Fisher
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fisher
Fairmont
Road
Dunkerque Liberation Noted Amid Pool Hall Approval
A Taylor County court granted permission to operate a pool hall for Michael Hib of Rokemont after his application presented this week. The report notes only about 500 natives remained in Dunkerque when it was liberated from Nazi control in May 1945.
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Mike’ Hib
Rokemont
Taylor County Court
Dunkerque
France
Meadows On Spot In Capitol Building
Governor Meadows told West Virginia veterans that the capitol building is overcrowded and officials must be ousted to provide space for VFW. He noted the need for impartial action and invited VFW officers to meet to discuss a solution. The VFW asked for offices comparable to those of the American Legion.
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Charleston
Meadows
West Virginia Veterans of Foreign Wars
Capitol
Star Convention
Statehouse
Amercan Legion
VFW
American Legion
State Capitol
West ‘Virginia
American’ Legion
Pledge and cash contributions feature on labor day telephone drive
A brief item notes pledge and cash contributions during a labor day telephone drive. Local volunteers encourage support, highlighting community assistance and fundraising across the region.
Floods Pose New Threat Of Heavy Damage To Areas
Flood waters draining from the western half of Missouri threaten further damage along the Mississippi. Red Cross says 33,657 made homeless across four states of Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Illinois. Dikes breached as 901 along western Missouri river and tributaries fail. Floods have cost Missouri at least 50 million dollars in crop losses. More than 60 highways were blocked in the northern part of the state. Mississippi flood crests 40,000 acres south of St Louis.
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Kansas
City
St. Louis
Red Cross
Lo Wa
Nebraska
Missouri
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Col
W. E. Potter
Jefferson City
Tex Douglas
Missouri Agriculture Commissioner
State Highway Department
Mississippi
Mrs Lillian Bloom Die of Illness at 49
Mrs Lillian C Bloom aged 49 of 138 West Main Street died yesterday at 7 PM after a year long illness. A West Virginia native, she worked in restaurants 15 years. Survived by husband John F Bloom a 1928 death. children Betty Harrington James Bloom Charlotte Lake Phyllis Shipley John F Bloom Eunice Haught. siblings Charles and John Sheets. sisters Jessie Haught Leland Wilson Daisy Vandergort Goldie Boon. four grandchildren. Burial details not provided.
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Lilian C. Bloom
West Main Street
West Virginia
John Frederick “Bloom
Bloom
John Marshall Sheets
Birdie Menear Sheets
Betty Jean Harrington
Nevada
James Bloom
Charlotte Lake
Grafton
Phyllis Shipley
Baltimore
John F. Bloom
USN
Lawton
Washington
Eunice F., Haught
Eola
Charles L. Sheets
John Sheets
Fairmont
Jessie Haught
Eola la
Leland Wilson
Daisy Vandergort
Goldie Boon
Anne Home
Card of Thanks for Genevieve Whelan Cauliflower
The Whelan family extends heartfelt thanks to all who offered sympathy, floral tributes, and assistance after the death of Genevieve Whelan Cauliflower. Special thanks to Bartlett Funeral Home for their kindness during this time.
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Bartlett Funeral Home
Genevieve Whelan
Spee
Mary Ann
Julia
Whelan
Forts and volunteers guard Degognia Fountain Bluff levees
Nearly 1,000 soldiers from Scott Field and Fort Sheridan join auxiliary coast guardsmen and civilian volunteers at the Degognia Fountain Bluff levees thirty miles south of Chester in efforts to contain the river. West Point became a strategic fort in early American history for defending the Hudson Valley and controlling communications between New England and the Middle Atlantic states.
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Chester
Tll
Scott Field
Fort Sheridan
Coast
West Poidt
Hudson River
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Lilly Acquitted By Jury On Char Of Vote Stealing
Lilly acquitted by jury on charges related to ballot theft in Raleigh County. Co defendants include W Red Thornhill county prosecutor candidate and Edward Simon courthouse janitor. Thornhill trial moved from Raleigh County to Logan circuit court for fair trial concerns. several indictments dismissed. A separate notice reports a fatal auto crash involving Calvin Hoover and a railroad employee family escape injury. Community honors expressed for Mrs Mary Poling with thanks to Rev Mrs J Rudolph Wilkinson and Bartlett Funeral Home for support during illness and death of a beloved mother and wife.
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Raleigh
Henry Lilly
Bate ‘Commission
Lilly
Red) Thornhill
State Suate
Gener
Edward ‘Simon
Thornhill
Loganty
Raleign County
J. Rudolph Wilkinson
Bartlett Funeral Home
Mary Poling
Levi Poling
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