Four Die in Hotel Fire in Vermont Inn
Four persons were feared dead and at least 12 were injured when the 136 year old Jesse Welden Inn in Albans Vermont burned. Fire Chief R H Sweeney estimated over 200000 dollars in damage and said hotspots prevented entry for searches. About 100 guests escaped by jumping or climbing from windows into near zero temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
St, Albans
Jesse Welden Inn
Sameee
R. H. Sweeney
Chicago Daily Papers Merge Into One Morning And Evening Edition
The Chicago Times and Chicago Sun will join to form the Chicago Daily Sun and Times with combined news and pictures. The Sun founder Marshall Field gained control of the Times last fall, leading to the merger and a shift to a single morning and evening newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Times
Chicago Sun
Chicago Daily Sun
Times
Marshall Field
The
Sun
Pub
Usher
Radio Musicians Strike Delayed As Negotiations Continue
In New York the union and four networks agreed on a 60 day status quo extension to avoid a Saturday strike. The accord allows duplication of programs on FM stations and enables live music for FM broadcasts starting Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
American Federation of Musicians
FAI
First Daughter Born In Four Generations
Owensboro Kentucky reports the birth of Cary Miller Triplett to Mr and Mrs Bréderid A Triplett at the local hospital. This marks the first daughter in four generations of the Triplett family since 1852 when Harriet Graham gave birth, though she died at age three. In Charleston a neglect charge may be filed against four parents after their children were found without food in an unheated Olcott home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charleston
Robert F. Roth
Olcott
Kanawha County
Puzzle Across Clue Fragments and Hidden Terms
Fragmented crossword style clues list varied entries and partial phrases. The readable segments mix numbers, language hints, and scattered definitions, yielding an oblique puzzle page segment with uncertainties and garbled words.
Puzzle Fragment Notes and Clues from Yesterday
A scrambled list of crossword style clues and fragment phrases appears, suggesting a puzzle solution set. Entries include numbers and partial terms like Long-legged dirs 10 and Completely muddied 2% along with scattered words such as Nervous touching 5S and Surface measure 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Jn
Benneylvania
Beckley Accused of Withholding Title in Auto Trade Dispute
Preston Treadway accuses Curley Allen of trading cars without producing titles. A hearing before Magistrate George O Mills is set. Treadway filed a warrant January 24 alleging Allen operates Curley s Place near the 1921 BY Pass and a used car lot. State Police learned Treadway lacked a title and ordered him to keep the car off the highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George O. Mills
Preston Treadway
Curley Allen
Treadway
Allen
Curley
PSC Water Rules Hearing Opens Before Public Service Commission
The Public Service Commission heard proposals to overhaul long standing water service rules. Key changes would require free extensions of 75 feet per applicant and cap surcharges for extensions beyond the free amount. Other revisions aim to update rules in effect since September 1, 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charleston
Iene Public Service Commission Toay
Earl H. Morris
Commission
P J McQuade 83 Dies at Blue Jay
Patrick J McQuade 83 longtime superintendent of the Blue Jay Lumber Company mines in Blue Jay died at his home at 3 55 am today He served 45 years with the firm before retirement He was a member of St Francis de Sales Catholic Church Survivors include his daughter Mrs F E Tulley of Detroit and two sons James and John at the home The body was taken to Calfee Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick J. McQuade
Blue Jay Lumber Company
Blue Jay
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church
FE. A. Tulley
Detroit
Mich
James
Taft to Open Hearings on President’s Request Next Week
Senator Taft said the Senate House Economic Committee will begin hearings on the President's request next week. The anti inflation law requires the group to decide within 10 days what it will recommend to Congress in cases like this.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
R-Ohla
Senate House
Congress
Sanitariums Under Construction Near Breslau Poland
Two new tuberculosis sanitariums with 450 beds are nearing completion near Wroclaw the former Breslau as authorities push for expanded public health capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Associated Press
Wroclaw
Breslau
Eccles No 6 Mine Inspection Finds Good Compliance
Federal Inspector J A Noon notes Eccles No 6 mine by Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates shows reasonably good adherence to federal safety code with some exceptions. The idle shaft due to damage from a nearby gas explosion was inspected in November. 247 workers on site produced 859 tons daily. No injuries in the No 4 blast. Improvements include ventilation doors air locks and dust suppression, with recommendations for safer hoist signaling equipment updated trip lights and electrical protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wip
Man to Predict Weather for Self
WAYNESBURG Pa Sam FE Martin of Wind Ridge plans to predict weather himself on Groundhog Day next Monday He will observe a motherless groundhog found two years ago by his son Kenneth The boy has kept the animal despite its unpredictable weather signs and named it Billie after it returned last summer with four weather predictors
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Waynessburg
Sam FE
Martin
Wind Ridge
Kenneth
Billy
Billie
Land Company Trades Stock for Property in Raleigh Beckley
Struffer Land Company acquires land holdings including Snuffer Apartments on Fayette Street Beckley and mineral rights on 39 acres Marsh Fork Coal River 19.2 acres Surveyor's Fork and more in exchange for stock. Shares split among Myrtle and Freed Hawley Hallie and W L Shumate Tressie and J L Wood and Orange and Gladys Snuffer with remaining fifth to Delores and J P Karr Richard Snuffer and Erma Snuffer widow of Vinson Snuffer. The deal includes $10 000 debt assumed from the Snuffer estate. Other county deeds listed include transfers involving Jones Campolo Lilly McKinney and other entities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh County
Snuffer
Fayette Street
Beckley
Struffer Land Company
Corporation
Myrtle
Erma Snuffer
Vinson Snuffer
Richard
Venila Snuffer
Marsh Fork
Coal River
Trap Hill District
Lester
Breckenridge Creek
Gavandotte Mountain
Trap Hill
Ethel Jones
Hazel Jones
Mary MM. Jones
Atkinsville
Stacy Campolo
Bill Tovlone
Giovanna Mastroeni
Homewood Addition
Lilly Land Company
Channie Davis
Beckley Court
J. H. Lilly Land Company
Pauline Farley
Shady Grove Farms
Shady Spring
McMillan Land and Finance Company
Fred Marcus
Eunice Athalene Foster
Villamont Addition
Bertha
Isaac McKinney
Roy E
Dorothy M. Lilly
Robert E
Thelma McKinney
Eva Short
Alta'fair Stinson
Harvey W
Doris Barrett
W. J. Pinwell
Pineeres
Park Heights, Inc
John M. Redden
Park Meights
George F
Audrey L. Duncan
Minnie Poteet
Mannix
Roger B
Macil Bloom
W. Pugh
Crow Road
E. P. Ewart
Als
Daniel Plumley
Ewart Heights
Gandhi and Wartime Strife Highlight Indian Politics
The article recalls Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign during British rule in Burma and India, notes his wife’s death in 1944 while confined by the British, and mentions his long marriage. It also references his leadership of the Congress Party, his 12 day fast, and efforts to ease Muslim Hindu tensions amid colonial conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Amery
Burma
Gandhi
Aga Khan
Ian
Brother
Sis
Congress Party
Death toll in partition warfare climbs past one thousand
The death toll in the Arab Jewish partition conflict reached 1000 as fighting flared along the Jaffa Tel Aviv border. A Jewish woman died this morning marking the 18th casualty in 36 hours. A gun duel erupted in Jerusalem with Arab marksmen near the old city wall and Mount Zion, as British forces opened fire to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Montefiore Ghetto
Old City Wall
Mount Zion
Benefit Dance Aims to Rebuild Italian Orphanage
A benefit dance to aid rebuilding the Casino orphanage in Italy, destroyed in the war, is planned for Saturday night from 9 to 12 at the Spanish Hall on Prince Street. The event is sponsored by the Soffs of Italy chapter in Beck ley with Tony Sparacino as club president and dance chair. Abraham Brothers' string band will provide music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Spanish Hall
Prince Street
Soffs of Italy
Beckley
United States
Tony Sparacino
Abraham Brothers
Three Men Held In Store Robbery
Calvin Fekete Charles Prince and Boyd Rice all of Crab Orchard were jailed in Raleigh County on breaking and entering charges after state troopers arrested them in connection with a robbery at James Grocery in Crab Orchard. About 40 dollars in cash and 40 dollars in cigarettes were reported stolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Fekete
Charles Prince
Boyd Rice
Crab Orchard
Raleigh County
Walter Hampton
R. Tabscott
James’ Grocery
Crap Orchard
Beckley Firemen Respond to Two Incidents
Traffic on Neville and South Oakwood streets halted at 9 40 a m when a large trailer truck caught fire as it rolled down Neville Street Fire Chief Bernard Martin cited a leaking gas line and a backfire igniting spilled gasoline causing damage Central Motor Lines of North Carolina owned the truck. At 4 30 p m yesterday flames damaged the living room wall of Celeste Pettina’s home at 310 Temple Street discovered by neighbor Joe Pettina. The Pettinas live there with Mrs Pettina a Raleigh County teacher. the house is owned by S C Cappellari.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neville
South Oakwood Streets
Neville Streets
Bernard Martin
Central Motor Lines of
North Carolina
Celeste Pettina
Temple Street
Martin
Joe Pettina
Airliner Crash Probe Links British Passengers and Bermuda Search
Dispatch from Bermuda reports a BSAA plane with six crew and British passengers crashed 449 miles northeast of Bermuda. Most passengers were believed British. names withheld pending relatives' notification. Wreckage-search by seven planes underway. The flight last communicated 1.75 hours before contact was lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Army
North Africa
French North Africa
Brisbane
Australia
Bermuda
BSAA
Lisbon
Azores
Berrauda
Frigid Weather Grips Northern Michigan and New England
A cold snap produced subzero readings across northern Michigan with -17 in early reports. Snowfall from 10 to 12 inches hit Watertown after a blizzard, while Canton New York saw -14. New York City and Burlington Vermont plus Caribou Maine logged frigid lows with fair, colder conditions forecast for New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Michigan
New York
Watertown
Mercury
Canton
N. Y
New York City
Burlington
Caribou
New England
Man Held On Check Charge In Beaver County
Abraham Man Held On Check Charge. Robert Winston Bennett, 30, unemployed laborer of Abraham, bound over to the grand jury by Magistrate J. H. McGhee of Beaver for issuing a bad check. McGhee arrested him in a Shady Spring store and Bennett is jailed on a $390 bond set after failure to post. He allegedly passed a $315 worth check to George Vanney, a Shady Spring used auto dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham
Robert Winston Bennett
J. H. McGhee
Beaver
McGhee
Shady Spring
Bennett
Raleigh
Hennett
George Vanney
Woman and car foil midtown diamond heist in New Orleans
A bold trio including an unnamed woman companion and a flashy skyblue convertible trapped and aided the arrest of Eddie Brouel 26 of Chicago and Detroit a parolee. Diamonds valued at 25000 were recovered along with 70000 in bonds and 15000 in express checks found in Brouels car. the woman and Mana Jean Brouel 19 wife of the suspect were held for investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Orleans
J. L. Schering
Eddie Brouel
Chicago
Detroit
Michigan State Penitentiary
Brovel
Broule
A. W. Watters
Watters
Brouel
Mana Jean
Fourteen Injured In Rail Collision Near Mitchellville
Fourteen passengers were injured when the Louisville and Nashville Hummingbird collided with a standing freight train on a sidetrack near the Tennessee Kentucky border. The diesel train, en route from New Orleans to Cincinnati, derailed two cars and sent a third into the air as icy tracks slowed it to about 15 mph. Passengers sustained cuts and bruises and were taken to Franklin, Kentucky for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Be Tile
Associated Press
Mitchellville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Tennessee-Kentucky
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Louisvile
Nashville
Franklin, Ky
C. L. Kincade
West Va
Highway Accident Victim Improves at Beckley Hospital
Jack Ribes, injured in an earlier month automobile crash in which another person died, shows steady improvement at Beckley Hospital. He remained unconscious for more than a week after admission and then began to regain responsiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Ribes
Beckley Hospital
Ribes
Beckley Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape Charge
Beckleyan Wheeler Vaughn, an East Beckley resident, pleaded guilty in Raleigh County Criminal Court to attempted rape. Judge W A Riffed set sentencing for Monday February 11 at 11 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckleyan
Wheeler Vaughn
East Beckley Negro
Raleigh County
W. A
Judge Riffe Proposes Ten Years to Life for Chisolm
Chisolm faces a sentence range from a minimum of 10 years to life imprisonment after conviction on the attempted robbery charge. The judge, Riffe, weighs the punishment as resonant with the crime and related circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riffe. Chisolm
Jury Deliberations Highlight Harris Murphy Case Testimony
The trial features conflicting testimony with Alec Verdulla claiming no discussion of the case with Harris family members while witnesses recount alleged talks at the Verdulla home. Mrs Murphy testifies of injuries and a forced encounter. Harris denies charges and cites consensual relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ion
Alec
Harris
Pete
Harrises
Verdulla
Evelyn
Oick
Solons Brush Off Truman Aid Plea
Senate leaders rejected President Truman's demand for 6.8 billion dollars to fund the European recovery plan. Senator Taft and Senator Bridges voiced caution, urging careful analysis and opposing taking the full amount blindly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solons
Truman Aid
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
French political shift tied to De Gaulle amid currency reform
The text notes deputies from various factions may back De Gaulle returning as premier. It details a currency bill requiring surrender of all 5,000 franc notes with fines and imprisonment for holders, plus a Finance Ministry plan instructing citizens to turn in notes at banks. Decree guides small holder repayment with subsequent steps for large holders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Ministry
Mussolini Mistress Said to Be in United States
Rep McDowell of Pennsylvania said a former Mussolini mistress, now in the United States, may be summoned soon by the House Un American Activities Committee. He described her as married and living on the west coast, as part of a probe into illegal entries of undesirable aliens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daymon Honaker
Murphy
Whitesville
W. A. Rifle
Honaker
Solon
Mussolini
U.S
Associated Pless
Washington
McDowell
House un-American Activities Committee
Pennsylvanian
United States
Beckley Man Charged With Drunken Driving
Michel C. Price aged 26 of Beckley is lodged in Raleigh County Jail on a drunken driving charge. Police report says he was arrested early this morning within Beckley city limits and booked about 3 30 a m. He will be tried in Police Court tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Raleigh
Michel C. Price
Price
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chicago Daily Papers
Canterbury
Megion Us
Agen
Luni
PSC Water Rules
P. J. McQuade
White House
Leonards D'Vincl
Sons OF Italy
Prince Street Turday
Land Company
Huntington
U. N
Lupino
Eleanor Parker
Tee
Gig Young
Peter Godfrey
Palace
Roy Rogers
Andy Devine
Sir Arthur
George Ureet
Hime
Mickey Rooney
Donlevy OL
Killer McOy
Wyoming
Doubla
Oregon Trail
Monts Hare
Adgrian Booth and
Sister Kenny
Alexander Knox
Rosalind Rudeell
Vianney
Humphrey Sogart
Sette Davis
Hit the Saddle
Rey Ropers
PINE
Devil's Canyon
Alan Lane
Martha Wentworth
Immny Cloyd
Jean Porter
Woay
Oak Hill, West Va
Iday
Bobby Cook
Elmer Hickman
Alarm Clock Club
Fiana Maeda
Star
Eddie le Mac
Mt. Hope
Bing Crosby
Newa
Tims
Tex
Witter
Charlie Todd Ray
Mont Carr
Jan Garber
Sian
Ned Ragland
Alec Verdulla
Howard Gray
Jarrold’s Valley
Mirs. Murphy
Carmel Cantley
Ocie Harris
Chester Murphy
Sirs
Young Harris
Bridges
R-Nh
Appropriations Committee
Western
Europe
Guy Lombardo
Heaven
Wizeemann's
Clementine
Henry Fonda
Linga Darnell
WOFE
Sacred Heart
Lehert
Sammy Kaye T Vchegn
Philosopher
Maric
Window
Mary Rea
OUR Daily Bread
Rotary Clab Heckley
Huntington H
Muric
Blue Room News
WCFC
Channel
IGN
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!