Panama Field letters praise life and Joe Briguglio noted as Clark Gable
Private Randall L. Carter writes from France Field Panama to his mother praising post life. He mentions swimming golf boating fishing and recreation and notes Joe Briguglio known as Clark Gable by locals for his charm and Spanish skills. They flew over the Isthmus in a four hour plane hop and enjoyed air views of the region.
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Joe
Clark Gable
Briguglio
Panama
Randall L. Carter
France Field
Canal Zone
W. H. Carter
Randall
Here
Beckley
Good Old West Virginia
Joe Briguglio
Clark
Errol Flynn
Cisco Kid
Germans Leave White Sulphur for Jersey City
About 400 German diplomats newsmen and families departed the Greenbrier hotel in White Sulphur Springs in an orderly move to three special trains bound for Jersey City and the voyage home. They were among 940 aboard the Drottningholm today bound for Lisbon in exchange for Americans. West Virginia state troopers aided federal officials as internees were moved to the railway station. Luggage appeared balanced with arrivals, and officials noted no hoarding or excessive shopping.
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Associated Press
Greenbrier
Jersey City
White Sulphur Springs
Hot Springs
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Rumania
Bulgaria
West Virginia
The Ring Cost Continued From Page Four
Janice plans a wedding night with Van as Mrs Saunders looms large. Janice edits her appearance and nerves fray over the maybes of the ceremony while Van insists they proceed. The scene centers on social pressures, fashion choices, and anxious anticipation before a continuation.
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Miss Garth
Janice
Mrs. Saunders
Wildlife refuges total 263 sites across the United States
The United States hosts 263 wildlife refuges covering about 13 percent of a million acres. Key refuges and agencies preserve diverse habitats, enabling migratory birds, native mammals, and endangered species to thrive across multiple states.
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U. S
Thornhill Joins McGinnis Mann in Beckley Firm
W A Thornhill Jr assistant district attorney of southern West Virginia and former Raleigh County prosecuting attorney has joined McGinnis and Mann. Effective May 1 the firm becomes McGinnis Mann Thornhill with offices at 111% Heber Street Beckley. Thornhill had been connected with the federal court since last September and was associated with Senator M Kilgore.
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W. A. Thornhill, Jr
West Virginia
Raleigh County
McGinnis and Mann
James H. McGinnis
W. H. McGinnis, Jr
Fletcher W. Mann Thornhill
McGinnis, Mann and Thornhill
Heber Street
Beckley
Thornhill
Federal Court
M. Kilgore
Boy aids Allies in Bombay arsenal training
A boy is depicted at a Bombay India arsenal making war materials for the United Nations. He trained under an English instructor assigned to India as part of a broad wartime program to bolster Allied production.
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Bombay
India
United Nations
Kilgore Judge Ties to Law Practice and Noted Colleagues
The record notes the practice of law before Kilgore becoming a criminal court judge and later associations with W. W. Goldsmith, who moved to Charleston in 1937. He had previously worked with W. H. McGinnis Jr during Thornhill's term as assistant prosecuting attorney.
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Kilgore
Criminal Court
W. W. Goldsmith
Charleston
W. H. McGinnis, Jr
Thornhill
Admission Fees at Russell Safe College May Day
Admission fees for Russell Safe college May Day exercises were listless, described as a tin can five pieces of tinfoil a bit of rubber scrap or a war saving stamp with readers reflecting on frugal ceremony donations.
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Russell Safe College
Buck and doe halt steel plant in Lackawanna incident
Production at a vital Lackawanna New York steel mill was halted when a buck and doe bounded into the plant. The buck was trapped in a grease pit, while the doe escaped.
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Lackawanna
N. Y
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Iceland
J. L. Pitzer
A. B. Coates
Charley West
Beckley Machine and Electric Company
10Th Infantry
Mr. Pitzer
Glen W. Pitzer
Beaver
Army
States
Company 1
Pitzer
Fort McClelland
Alabama
Fort Benning
Georgia
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
Glen Pitzer
Randall Carter
Cohen Drug CO
Lisbon
Drottningholm
McGinnis, Mann
S'Jose U
Gale
Rubinstein's
Cara Nome
Coty, Houbigant, Yardley
the Beckley Drug Co
Court House
Jules Jurgensen
Elgin
Bulova
Ranson
Swank
Signet
Sheaffer
Ring Ensemble
Neville ST
Neville Street
Beckley Theatre
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