Annual Roundup Held in Virginia
About 300 shaggy ponies from Assateague and Wallops Islands swam ashore to attend Chincoteague Island’s annual pony penning. The event, part of the firemen’s carnival, draws a large Eastern Shore crowd with pony races and wild pony rides.
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Associated Press
Chincoteague
Virginia
Assaleague
Wallops Islands
Chincoteague Island
Clarence Beebe
Howard Pyne
Walter
Crump Plans Hepcat Turn at Big Republican Rally
Memphis voters hear E H Crump will perform a dance contest challenge at a Thursday rally at the fairgrounds. He taunts Mayor Walter Chandler and County Commission Chairman E W Hale to a dance duel, with Chandler and Hale accepting amid playful boasts.
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Crump
Hepcat
Republican
Rere
Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
E. H. Crump
Shelby County
Walter Chandler
County Commission
E. W. Hale
Fairgrounds
Chandler
Hale
Tam
Hillman leaves a $69,990 estate in New York filing
Sidney Hillman labor and political leader who died July 10 left an estate of 69,990, with widow Bessie A Hillman filing for waivers to release assets from the state estate tax commission. Authorities report he left no will and was president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and chair of the Political Action Committee. In another item, strikes halt work on a 6 million dollar American Cyanamid plant at Willow Island and the State Main project. A final line notes Hari's real name Rout 16 between St. Marys and Margaret Gertrude Zeller, Pike.
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Associated Press
New York
Sidney Hillman
State Estate Tax Commission
Bessie A. Hillman
Charles W. Ferry
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Parkersburg
Willow Island
Hari
St. Marys
Margaret Gertrude Zeller
Pike
iNew Coal Company To Operate Here
The Beesley Smokeless Coal Corporation based in Charleston with chief works in Shady Spring district is incorporated with a capital of $5,000. Incorporators are Clyde E. Pratt of St Louis Missouri We J Shearn of Central City Kentucky and Joan M Ray of St Louis Missouri.
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Beesley Smokeless Coal Corporation
Charleston
Shady Spring
Secretary of State
Clyde £. Pratt
St. Louis
We. J. Shearn
Central City
Joan M. Ray
Steel Piles Up In Pittsburgh
A freight car shortage and scant scrap hurt Pittsburgh district steel mills. A industry spokesman warned the box car and gondola shortage could force curtailments within a week as storage for finished products ran tight across the district.
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Pittsburgh
Associated Press
Steel Industry
Whiskey party planned to oust tainted liquor in Oklahoma
Tulsa Sheriff A Garland Marrs, defeated in a runoff, will host a $50 000 whiskey party before his successor takes office. Because of Oklahoma law he must destroy 10 000 pints of seized liquor. Marrs hopes legislation will allow sale to fund taxpayers.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
A. Garland Marrs
W. V. Caffey
Twolund
Oklahoma
Liquor Running Car To Be Sold
A 1942 Pontiac sedan owned by Elmer Huckhannon was ordered confiscated and forfeited to the State Liquor Control Commission to be disposed of as provided by law. The government claims $338.07 in internal revenue taxes for transporting liquor. The State Liquor Commission to pay off the claim and storage charges. In a separate case Susie F. Canter bury vs Delbert W. Canter bury the defendant was ordered to pay $75 monthly support for herself and children and to restrain from molesting the plaintiff.
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Lo Elmer
Huckhannon
State Liquor Control Commission
Criminal Court
W. A. Riffe
Circuit Clerk's
Buckhannon
State Liquor Commission
Susie FB. Canterbury
Delbert W. Canterbury
Ben H. Ashworth
West Virginia University gets 40000 for new chemistry building upgrades
The Board of Public Works released 40000 from the postwar contingent fund to re equip West Virginia Universitys Chemistry Building Morgantown citing recent chemistry developments. It also released 2835 for Concord College Athens to provide emergency student housing and 3000 to Shepherd College Shepherdstown to prepare architectural plans for a new men s dormitory.
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Associated Prous Charleston
Board of Public Works
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Concord College
Athens
Shepherd College
Shepherdstown
United States Communists Align With Militant Line
The national board of the U S Communist Party issued a statement in New York directing a return to militant class conscious Marxist Leninist theory. It calls for mass action against inflation and rents, reopening wage talks, backing labor-backed candidates in November, breaking ties with Franco Spain, and withdrawing U S troops from China. The Daily Worker published the conclusions after July plenary sessions. Fire destroys eight room home in Beach Hill district near Pleasant with property loss estimated at 6500 dollars.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
National Board
Daily Worker
Spain
China
Associated Press PT
Pleasant
T. E. Meadows
Pt. Pleasesant
Beach Hill
Here
Meadows
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Latrobe
UN International
Reine Son
Hunt's
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Lipton's Tea
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