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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1944
Page
3
A West Virginia OPA enforcement report shows one individual indicted for price and gasoline regulation violations in April. All defendants pleaded guilty. seven were fined a total of 3500 dollars and four others await sentencing.
Private Snowden R Williams of Harper West Virginia recounts a dawn air clash with Jerry fighters near the Anzio beachhead Italy. He describes spotting two waves of planes, scoring a fuselage hit and watching the formation break up while under German shelling and bomb threats.
County officers raided the Prosperity residence of P. T. Belcher under a magistrate warrant for home brew and found 35 quarts hidden inside. Belcher, absent during the raid, was later arrested at the local bus station and jailed. A noon hearing before J. P. Meadows followed.
The Office of Price Administration reminded housewives that red ration stamps R-8 S-8 and T-8, valid Sunday, must last four weeks rather than two. The longer period reflects ration free status for most meats and some red paint foods and a proportional cut in points for remaining rationed items. A separate report notes a person found guilty of possessing home brew was fined $100 plus costs and jailed 30 days.
Funeral services for Jerome A. Hoke 66 of Beckley will be held this afternoon at 2 at the Presbyterian church. Dr. J L Lineweaver to direct with Warren Masonic Lodge 109 in charge at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum. Active pallbearers named. Postscript about British POWs learning tailoring and guaranteed postwar jobs.
Mrs. Sarah Young died at 76 in December and willed that her heart be pierced by a knitting needle before cremation, a deathbed instruction noted in the will.
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