Foremen Organize Union in Raleigh County
A. J. Jamison announces 180 certified foremen, fire bosses and other officials in Raleigh County have joined the United Mine Foremen of America. He says the group is non radical, seeks no strikes, aims to improve safety, and would bargain with mining firms if needed, requiring only a majority for legality. He plans to visit Fayette and then Fairmont fields to organize further.
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A. J. Jamison
United Mine Foremen of America
Register
Jamison
Fairmont
Fayette
United States
Virginia Beach Outing Planned for Pioneer Investors
More than 80 representatives of the Pioneer Division of Investors Club will spend a weekend at Virginia Beach as part of the Jubilee and an international contest climax on June 26. Attendees and their families from Beckley depart today, with M. D. Campbell of Charleston in charge. A highlight is an address by J. W. Ridgway, chairman of Investors state directors, via international telephone hookup. Agency managers and representatives include Alvin B. Clement Beckley John B. Adams Charleston B F Lewis Huntington F E Muntz Clarksburg Charles H Keny Bluefield.
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Virginia Beach
Beckley
Dion
M. D. Campbell
Charleston
J. WR. Ridgway
Dof
Investors State
Alvin B. Clement
Ohn
B. Adams
B. F.lewis
Huntington
Muntz
Clarksburg
Charles H. Keny
Bluefield
Too Tired to Dig for Gold
Crawford Nebraska editor Karl ee, while driving out of town, believed he saw the end of a rainbow over the buttes. He described a green strip stretching down the hill as if a pot of gold lay there, a tired feeling keeping him from pursuing it.
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Associated Press
Crawford
Karlee
The
Buttes
Hitch-Hikes 2000 Miles for His Dog
Clovis New Mexico report says Douglas Wyoming man Fred Armento an Indian hitch-hiked 2000 miles to retrieve his dog. The dog was left at Fort Sam after a car accident in which Armento’s mother was killed. He was notified the dog had run over and injured and began the journey to reclaim it and bring it to an animal shelter.
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Associated Press
Clovis
N. M
Douglas
Wyo
Fred Armento
Fort Sam
Armento
Man’s Tongue Harbors Hidden Bullet Remnant
Iman Thomas B. Mathews, shot in the mouth six years ago, healed with no symptoms until a recent dental visit revealed a broken tooth fragment lodged in his tongue. A dentist identified the fragment, linking it to the old gunshot injury.
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Associated Press
Puiblo Cole
Iman Thomas B. Mathews
Mathews
Sino Japanese crisis deepens as Wang returns to Nanking
In Nanking Foreign Minister Wang Chung-Hui prepared to fly back from Kuling to lead talks on the Peiping crisis. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and leaders met at the summer capital to urge calm and seek a peaceful settlement while reporting sixty Chinese corpses recovered from the Yurgting river. In Moscow Japan warned the Soviet Union over border clashes with Manchukuo troops, saying shots were fired and casualties occurred as foreign officials protested.
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Associated Press
Nanking
Wang Chung-Hui
Kuling
Peiping
North China
Yurgting
Cabbage Game Ends In Lockup
In San Francisco Paul Schons 28 awakened by cans under his window filled a pail with water and showered Ralph Bacelli a garbage collector. Bacelli threw a cabbage at Schons who threw it back. Neighbors summoned a policeman and Schons was held for assault.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Paul Schons
Ralph Bacelli
Bacelli
Schons
Far East tensions prompt Soviet and Thai statements
The Soviet government warned it would defend itself if attacked again, while Thailand issued a statement through Litvinoff urging Moscow to keep troops off Manchoukuo soil. Shigemitsu meanwhile said the Far Eastern situation appeared reasonably calm despite the exchanges.
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Far East
Moscow
Manchoukuo
Litvinoff
Shigemitsu
Far Eastern
Tattooed smiles and brass rings shape beauty worldwide
The Associated Press reports Malvina Hoffman, a sculptress who studied global beauty, notes varied norms. In Hokkaido the village queen favors a tattooed smile circling the lips to the ears, Central Africa favors huge lips, and Burma favors long brass ringed necks, reflecting regional standards.
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Associated Press
Washington
Malvina Hoffman
Hokkaido
Japan
Central
Africa
Burma
Lord Zombelle Trotter Prepares With Hayrake Drill
Goshen New York Lord Zombelle one of 39 candidates for the 40000 Hambletonian trots at Good Time Park on August 11 works with a hay rake in training. Trainer Walter Cox had considered plowing but spring plowing nearly finished. Sponsor William H. Cane recalls a star colt once pulling a milk wagon in Chester and the trotter R T C who began with a plow. Eskimos and Indians in Alaska face a death rate of 600 per hundred thousand while the white death rate is 50 per hundred thousand.
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Goshen
N. Y
Lord Zombelle
Good Time Park
Walter Cox
William H. Cane
Alaska
Neck Broken He Didn’t Know It ParsonS
W D Close of St George lived with a broken neck for three years after a car crash. Dr Samuel Weisman at the Parsons Clinic says X rays revealed four broken vertebrae and the neck was set in a cast with good chances for healing.
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Parsons
W. D. Close
St. George
Samuel Weisman
Parsons Clinic
Close
Water carrier injured in fall near home
Roy Herschel Lilly a 13 year old Ellison youth sustained a severe laceration to his right hand while carrying water to his father and another man in a field near his home He was taken to Raleigh General Hospital for treatment and was reported recovering today.
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Roy Herschel Lilly
Ellison
Raleigh General Hospital
Man’s hand severed by grain cradle accident in hospital report
Yesterday afternoon a man slipped and fell, his hand entering a grain cradle. A physician said the palm was cut severely and all the tendons of the fingers were severed. Kentucky's poultry industry valued at 20,900,000 dollars.
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Kentucky
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