Swim Named To Succeed Fugitt In Raleigh Board
Swinm, former Raleigh County schools assistant superintendent, was named secretary to the Raleigh County rationing board succeeding W R Fugitt. The appointment followed a joint board meeting at 10 o clock yesterday morning. Fugitt plans full-time duty at the Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest. Swimm previously led Rhodell grade school, led the Lions Club, and served as leadership training chairman for the county Boy Scouts.
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RC. Swim
Raleigh County
W. R. Fugitt
Raleigh
H. A. Sloan
R. H Magee
Swink
Fugitt
Chamber ‘Ft Commerce
Raleigh County Schoo
Chamber of
Lions Club
Boy Scouts of America
Italians Demand Mussolini's Death
An Italian businessman visiting Barcelona from Rome reports walls painted with death threats against Mussolini after his fall and says Rome held a holiday mood with songs and toasts as fascist symbols were torn down. He notes soldiers and youths celebrated, and many spoke of vengeance while the word peace spread through the city.
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Associated Press
Barcelona
Rome
Gigms
Duce
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
American Legion to Nominate Officers and Elect Delegates
The American Legion group will meet to nominate officers for the coming year and elect delegates for the state convention at Parkersburg on September 4 and 5. Commander Mr. K. Rubush announced that the regular meeting will be held Monday, August 9 at 8 p.m.
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Parkersburg
American Legion
K. Rubush
Hope 10 Start Shady Cannery This Week
The Shady Spring community canning project will open Tuesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. once started, delayed by steam valve shortages due to the war. Presidents of local Parent-Teacher associations form an advisory committee. Minor Scott was voted president with Blair Bennington as vice president and Miss Lucy Mossburg assisting operations.
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Shady Spring
J. M. Collins
Collins
Shady, Spring
Minor Scott
Table Rock
Blair Bennington
Coal Ridge
Lucy Mossburg
Edith Richmand
Charlie Jordan
Willie Clark
Stuart B. Angell
E. M. Ashworth
Franklin Lilly
Sherman Trail
Miss Mossbury
Land Transfer Ledger Listings in Beckley County Clerk Records
Real estate deeds admitted to record list 14 transfers across Beckley and adjacent districts. Names include South Beckley Land Company sellings and various Walker and Stansbury family transfers, with tracts ranging from 12.5 to 29.7 acres and prices up to $16,400. Also noted are parcels in Crab Orchard and Mitchell's Ridge with dozens of named buyers and sellers, including Bank of Raleigh and Lilly Land Company.
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Harry Anderson
Sponte
South Beekley Land Company
B. B. Corker
Mildred Carker
South Beckley
Dooley Walker
Bernie Walker
Holly Walker
Clownes Willer
Straley Walker
Alva Walker
Lindell Walker
Craver Walker
Slab Fork District
Graver Walker
Dues Walker
Clowney Walker
Lindel Walker
Bertie Walker
Stab Fork
Willis E. Meadows
Hill Fot
W. EL Meadows
Coal
G. TL. Walker
H. A. Stansbury
Boyd Schiber Mack
Fairdale
Cha Stansbury
Glen Daniel
O. B. Brooks
Oak Grove
Charles Stansbury
Deanfield
HH. A. Stansbury
Fuckey Gail
Fairdale Ston
Roy Bower
Mitchell's Ridge
Slab Fork
Milton Hendrix
Mont Hendrix
Kelly Hendrix
Byrd Hendrix
Ash Hendrix
Don Hendrix
Mary Honaker
Dora Walker
Ethel Kenny
Ward Hendrix
Herbert Hendrix
Fee
Peachtree Creek
Marsh Fork
T. F. Canaday
Elizabeth A. Taylor
Lester
Sta
Willie Woody
Nathaniel Smith
Stratton
Beckley
J. H W. Jarrett
Marjorie Tonkin Clarke
Beckles Court
Tonye Same
Litty Land Company
Fairview Really Company
E. If
Foley
Fairview Truck Farms
Ida Mae Cuthrie
Wilson T. Boyd
Shockley Creek
Louise Bundy
Annie T Mitchell
Fot
Slanaferd
Death Toll Rises In West Virginia Floods
The flood across Braxton and surrounding counties claims many lives with 22 confirmed dead. Names include Mrs Asdin Queen and her children, plus several others from Heaters and nearby areas. Dwellings destroyed, churches and stores swept away, while health officials issue typhoid precautions and public clinics. Local officers report about 16 homes lost at Copen and multiple school buildings ruined.
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Sutton
Central West
Sisters
Fénight
Floyd
Cirta
Ritchie
Nelson
Taneen
Toriy
Fas County
Mes
C. B. Simons
Copen
Dresoers
Asdin Queen
Myre
Tom Deusher Ea
Queen
CLRB
Simons
O. N. Singleton
Cutlipsyile
Braxton County
Virgil B. Harris
Guerrilla Chief Reported Taken in Philippines
London reports a Tokyo dispatch stating that Col Hugh Strong of the US Army, who remained in the Philippines to lead guerrillas, has been captured by the Japanese. The broadcast says he is charged with aiding the puppet Philippine interior ministry, though official records list no such officer.
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London
Berlin
Tokyo
Hugh Strong
US oSarma
Philippines
Guerril
Strang Wa
Army Register
Washington
Oman
Hugh Strmasha
Manila
Coal Dealers to Meet Here in Memorial Building
The sale office of the O P A announces a meeting of all retail coal dealers in this area on August 19 at 8 p m in the Memorial Building to discuss retail prices on coal A representative of the O P A will be present.
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O.P.A
Wallace as new food agency chief eyed by liberal agrarians
Washington reports a campaign by liberal farm groups to make Vice President Wallace head a proposed combined food production, price control, and rationing agency. The plan would replace the war food administration and the office of price administration and is linked to AAA veterans and former AAA officials.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Wallace
D. C
Speaker
Henry Wallace
MDLR
Tim
The
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Washington
A.A.A
AAA
Sessler Amends Suit Over Airport Bond Election
Herbert Sessler filed an amended bill in Raleigh county circuit court seeking to halt sale of bonds for Pennian airport development. The state supreme court may decide soon whether to hear arguments challenging the attorney general's recent ruling approving the bond election. Ashworth noted the amendment adds harsher language but mirrors core allegations of irregularities and lack of organized opposition.
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Herbert Sessler
Raleigh
Sonds
Pennian
State Supreme Court
H. Ashworth
Catania Citizens Endure Nazi Terror Under German Rule
The mayor of Catania, a dapper marquis, described a month of terror under German occupation as Allied bombs displaced quarter of the 250,000 population and 50,000 stayed behind. He cited looting, commandeered goods, and a firefight near Aascahicia where Germans and Italians clashed with resistance, killing several. The marquis said Germans know they will lose the war.
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Noland Noergaard
Catania
San Giuilia
Aascahicia
Registrants To Be Reexamined In West Virginia
West Virginia health officials report 9461 of 246070 registrants from November 1, 1940 to last July 3 found infected. The national plan by the Public Health Service and Selective Service aims to reexamine and place under treatment those infected, with state and county units cooperating.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Trait
D. Ey Offier
U.S. Public Health Service
Jonerion
Heath Department
Names of West Virginia soldiers added to POW list
Washington war department added two West Virginia soldiers to the list of Army personnel held as prisoners of war by Germany. Staff Sgt. Theodore W. Finck, son of Mrs. Anna B. Finck of Wheeling, and Pvt. Simon C. Wilson, brother of Junior Wilson of Nestorville, are the latest names.
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Washington
West Virginia
War Department
Germany
Theodore W. Finck
Anna B. Finck
Kay Street
Wheeling
Pfe
Simon C. Wilson
Junior Wilson
Nestorville
Proposed Airline Would Touch Beckley Port
Delta Air Lines seeks federal permission to run service from Cincinnati to Norfolk. Beckley likely becomes an aviation crossroads as the proposed route would pass between Charleston and Roanoke. Existing lines already pass near Beckley with Pittsburgh to Birmingham and Washington to Nashville routes. Beckley is on the route to everywhere and could gain air trail access once Raleigh County Airport is built.
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Delta Air Lines
Thhey
Cluecinnathc
Norfolk
Virginia
Hat W. Ob
CBS
Mart
Beckley
Delta System
Charleston
Roanoke
Pennsylvania Central Air Lines
Pitttsburgh
Birmingham
American Air Lines
Washington
Nashville
Hart
Harley Kilgore
Fayette and
Summers County
Raleigh County
C and C Permitted to Quit Blue Jay Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted Chesapeake and Ohio Railway permission to abandon its 14.66 mile Blue Jay branch from Glen Morgan to Fiat s up. The line carried vast lumber shipments to Blue Jay Lumber mills and bypassed parallel U S rules 19 21 considered adequate for local service.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Blue Jay
Blue Jay Lumber Company
Glen Morgan
Fiat
J.C. C
U. S
Blue Jay King
Group backs expansion of state airway facilities
MOOREFIELD The state planning board at Lost River State Park formed a post-war committee to study West Virginia needs and endorsed expanding airway facilities. Dean C. R. Orton of WVU, board chairman, cited reports by Rep. Jeramus Randolph and Walter L. Hart and urged a food-sized airport in Charleston before broad aviation growth. The board will draft an overall aviation needs report as the post-war committee begins research with five branch groups led by A. C. Spurr, J. E. Offner, Patrick Koonta, W. W. Armentrout, and Orton.
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Associated Press
Moorefield
State Planning Board
Ati
Lost River State Park
West Virginia
Dean C. R. Orton
West Virginia University
Whatlow
Jeramus Randolph
D.-W.va
Walter L. Hart
Morgantown
Neely
Hart
West Virgina
Charleston
Orton
A. C. Spurr
Fairmont
J. E. Offner
Patrick Koonta
W. W. Armentrout
Dummy Railroad Stations Fail to Deceive Allies
An Associated Press report from the German frontier describes bright dummy railway stations built to mislead Allied bombers that failed to fool them. Travelers recount muddled crossings at the border and crowded trains, while noting bombed cities, power outages, and a scene of war weariness with wounded veterans in streets.
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Associated Press
Germany
Berlin
Two Bluefield firms fined for child labor violations
The Associated Press. CHARLESTON two Bluefield firms pleaded guilty to employing youths under the legal minimum age and were fined by Magistrate FE Davidson at Matoaka. Dennis Bragg of Goody Koontz Drug Co and J B Becher Lumber Co were named. Becher Lumber's fine was suspended on probation. Kelly Sawyer of Bluefield was fined $10 and costs for selling four tons of coal and overcharging for six tons.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Bluefield
FE. L. Davidson
Matoaka
Charles J. F. Sattler
Dennis Bragg
Goody Koontz Drug Company
J. B. Becher Lumber Company
Labor Department
Sattler
Kelly Sawyer
Purse Snatcher Sought By Police in West Virginia Store
Mrs. Clara May Stanley of Laurel Creek West Virginia was in a local liquor store yesterday evening filling out a bill when a man grabbed her purse containing 20.75 pounds, photos of her sons in the service and rationing books and fled. No further information was available.
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Clara May Stanley
Laurel Creek
W. Va
Welfare Work and Civil Service Roles Discussed by Board
The board received reports on welfare work probation and Pennsylvania role along with civil service matters. Officials considered program updates and administrative implications for continued oversight and funding.
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Ration Board
Mussolini
American Legion Group
R. A
Ray
Harpers
Practical Welding School
Kanawha St. East Beckley
HOPE
Grace Wyley
Huntington
Clarge
Miss May Chesney
Miss Ve
Werder
Tumse
Hlt
Colines PL
Bastes
State CC
Walter WR. Mitchell
Addess
Wickard
Jones
Piet
American Farm Bureau
State Extension Services
Congressional
Roosevelt
Chester Davis
Board of Economic Warfare
Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Sessler
Cinder Block Cinder Block Inc
Daim Cell
Lewis Chevrolet CO
Ital
America
Reich
Duesseldorf
Bluefield Firms
Cleveland von
Beckley Ice & Feed Co
Prince St. Beckley
Neville St
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