Veteran UMW Leader Aiello Dies in Local Hospital
Nicholas Aiello aged 50, vice president of District 29 of the United Mine Workers of America, died at 3:25 p.m. in a local hospital after gall bladder surgery. Funeral Tuesday at 8 a.m. at St. Francis de Siles. burial Sunset Memorial Park. Survived by wife Constance, three daughters, and several siblings. Aiello, a West Virginia UMW organizer since 1917, was born in Calabria, Italy, and came to the U.S. in 1904.
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Sunset Memorial Park
Lester McClung
Raymond Humphrey
Paul G. Reed
John McAlpine
Manuel Vila
George Blizzard
Keyser
Waly
Fairmont
West Virginia
Calabria
Aly
Dominick Aiello
Theresa Aiello
Charleston
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Harewood
Fayette County
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Payette County
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Airs
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Anne Aiello
Tatise Atello
Raleigh General Hospital
Tony Aiello
Belgium
John Aiello
Jenny Lacaria
Katherine
Red Army advances in Europe as Stettin and Brandenburg fall
Soviet forces backed by heavy artillery and dive bombers knife into southern Stettin defenses while East Prussia captures Brandenburg. Zhukov’s troops push along the Oder, reaching Altdamm and nearby river villages. The drive narrows Nazi bridgeheads as Patton’s army seizes Coblenz and expands the Remagen bridgehead. Rhine flank gains threaten Saar and Palatinate.
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Poll Clerks Trained Ahead of March 28 Strike Vote
About 80 special election agents will be trained at the Memorial building March 26 and 27 to oversee the March 28 polling across 80 locations in the Winding Gulf and New River fields. The National Labor Relations Board says two observers per site will monitor proceedings.
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National Labor Relations Board
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United Mine Workers
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MacArthur Youth Dies Of Injuries
Eugene Lewis a 17 year old MacArthur youth died from injuries after being struck by a car Friday on Mabscott Hill. Driver Eugene Conner 22 of Park Street was fined 25 dollars and costs on a reckless driving charge. Final rites set for Monday at Calfee chapel with burial in Calfee cemetery Mt Tabor. Survivors include father H M Lewis and stepmother, a sister Ethel Kearse and a brother Pvt Charles S Lewis in New Guinea.
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Raleigh General Hospital
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5. E. Smith
Meat Supply For Nation Cut Deeply
Washington announces a 12 percent cut in civilian meat supplies starting April 1 lowest point in ten years. Civilians receive 115 pounds per person yearly for April May June quarter down from 130. Lend lease meat shipments reduced while U S army navy needs rise. Britain to receive about 25 million pounds next quarter. Government to parcel five cattle more equitably among slaughterers and packers nationwide.
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City Officer Granted Indefinite Leave
Mayor Robert Winston announced Sgt. Tommy EF. Jones of the Beckley city police force is on indefinite leave effective today. Jones has six years with the department plus a year in the armed forces, and was promoted to sergeant in November, currently on night duty.
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Beckley
Robert Winston
Jones
Red Cross Drive Hits $13,650 in Raleigh County
Raleigh county s Red Cross War Fund total by late yesterday afternoon rose to 13 650 10 with Robert Burns director of the industrial campaign predicting a substantial upward move toward the 43 300 county quota to be reached in March Special observances were held in churches across the county as Red Cross Sabbath ministers planned sermons on the relief work abroad and at home
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Red Cross War Fund
Robert Burns
Red Cross
Young Coal Miners Deferred Under Draft Controls
The Associated Press reports selective service will defer about 145,000 younger men under 30 in five key war industries. Deferments allow local draft boards certificates from wartime agencies for steel, coal mining, transportation, synthetic rubber, and non ferrous mining. The War Production Board assigns 60 percent of young steel workers and 60 percent of copper and zinc mines. Solid Fuels Administration says almost all young coal miners will be deferred.
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Washington
Selective Service
War Production Board
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Solid Fuels Administration
National Coal Association
Town Buster Bomb Claims Unmatched Destruction
The ministry of aircraft production says the new IIton Town Buster bomb is the most destructive lethal weapon yet, with an explosive charge greater than any one piece detonated. It outruns ten German flying bombs or two rockets, and tests included a 22,000 pound dummy bomb dropped from height to verify calculations, delving deep underground before recovery took nine days for 18 workers.
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Associated Press
Lonsdon
Ministry of Aircraft Production
RANGOON GIVEN 4TH BLASTING NO B-29S LOST
Allied air activity near Japan pushes into Kyushu and Shikoku as carrier task force conducts near record attacks. Japanese reports claim heavy raids and air battles as Kobe and Osaka feel the blast of incendiaries from long range bomber strikes. Reconnaissance confirms extensive destruction of Osaka industrial targets and ships at Kobe.
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March Grand Jury Convenes in Raleigh County
Raleigh county grand jurors begin the March term of criminal court and review presentments against about 28 people. Judge W A Riffe will set the trial docket for those pleading guilty. petit jurors start hearings March 26. New presentments include auto theft, maiming, grand larceny, armed robbery, neglect of children, and other charges with Earl Meadows accused in a grand larceny case.
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Criminal Court
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Pete) Meadows
Fast Beckley
1200 Yanks Freed By Reds Enroute Home
About 1,200 former American war prisoners freed by the Russian advance arrived at a Middle East port five days ago and are now enroute to the United States. Repatriates and 400 British ex-prisoners jammed the vessel's rails as a service band played. The men were in good shape despite hardships and wore mixed All Ned and Red Army uniforms.
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Frank O'Brien
Associated Press
Cairo
Middle East
United States
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U. S
Heaberlin Out as Workmen's Commission Chief in WV
Governor Meadows likely to name a successor to Charles L. Heaberlin as workmen's compensation commissioner by April 1. Heaberlin, a Republican, was appointed in 1941 to succeed A. G. Mathews, Democrat of Grantsville. Capitol insiders expect a cautious, piecemeal reshuffle with changes continuing into the new fiscal year starting July 1.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Workmen's Compensation
Slaterall
Statehouse
Charles L. Heabertin
Clarence W. Meadows
Heabertin
Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
Kopperston Infant Dies In Hospital
Mary Magdeline Foley seven months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Tennel Foley of Kopperston died late yesterday evening in a Rose funeral home. The infant was to be brought to the Kopperston home of the parents at 1 o'clock this morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Tennel Foley
Kopperston
Rose Funeral
Germans Lose Palatinate as U S Armor Presses Front
Allied forces push through the Saar and Palatinate as Coblenz falls to Patton’s Seventh Army and Mainz nears danger, with third army tanks advancing toward the Rhine. Armistice talks rumors swirl while Allied bosses deny any ceasefire.
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Associated Press
Paris
Coblenz
Bonn
U.S
Palatinate
George S. Patton
U. S
Saar
Siegfried Line
Warten den Abr
Police Raid Three Road Houses In Raleigh County
State police conducted surprise raids on three Raleigh county road houses leading to fines of 100 dollars plus costs for unlawfully selling tax paid liquor. Owners Geo Slipkovich, Y Huber, and Theodore Ferraro were cited by Magistrate J FP Meadows. no jail time was imposed. A small quantity of Viquer was confiscated.
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Crab Orchard
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Theodore Ferraro
Jimmy
U S Third Army Reenters Coblenz After 22 Year Gap
The U S Third Army returned in triumph to Coblenz Germany where 22 years after occupation began American forces again secured the city. Tanks rolled through ancient streets as 87th Division troops crossed the Moselle in assault boats and gathered about 500 prisoners while German resistance faded and shells from Ehrenbreitstein watched.
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Associated Press
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Rhine
George S. Patton
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Moselle
87Th
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Ehrenbreit+stein
France May Join West European Security Bloc
London circles indicate France could back a regional security pact with the Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg and possibly Norway aligned with San Francisco conference aims. The Manchester Guardian criticizes Crimean voting and warns the Big Three plan may deny smaller nations a voice, noting France's independent stance at San Francisco.
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London
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Germans Warned Frankfurt Mannheim Will Be Levelled
London broadcast an Allied warning to German civilians and foreign workers in Frankfurt on Main and Mannheim Ludwigshafen to flee as these areas face merciless bombardment. The BBC said no shelter would be safe and urged evacuation to the countryside until the battle passes, stressing the aim to curb Germany's war industry.
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Manneheim-Ludwigshafen
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