County Accidents Toll in Nation 109 but None Here
National fatalities reached 109 yesterday but Beckley area saw no hospital deaths or major injuries. Kanawha County reported one death and seven injuries in three auto crashes including a game trip to Institute and a Price Hill injury. A man, Jesse Hil, died in a two curve crash near Beckley. A Norfolk and Western train struck a car at Flipping, and a Sterford truck collision killed four men and a boy. An inventor, Jay H Warburton Jr., died from a hunting accident in Pennsylvania. An unidentified man in Huntington died by suicide in the Ohio River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Ces
Kanawha
Kanawha County
Institute
Spring Hill
Charleston
Effie McGuire
Lynx
Ohio
Price Hill
Edward McGuire
Beck
Jesse Hil
Isabell
Bluefield
Norfolk and Estern
Sterford
N. J
New Wildwood Express
Pennsylvania Seashore
Jay H. Warburton, Jr
Lestown
Huntington
Ohio River
Murphy Funeral Slated Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Emerson Murphy of Glen White, 20, who died yesterday in a local hospital of arthritis, will be held in Horspen, Va., at 1 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Horspen cemetery. Surviving: husband Howard, father W. M. Bowman Filbert, five brothers George Bishop Davis Horspen Floyd Filbert Edison Filbert Madison Filbert, five sisters Mrs. Janie Ball Mabscott, Mrs. T. L. Harmon Leckie, Miss Virginia Filbert, Miss Garland Newell, Miss Mary Glen White, and three children Harold Lewis Mallie Lucille and Arnold Lloyd. The birthday of John Underhill, American colonist, born in Warwickshire, England, is not known. he died in 1672.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Emerson Murphy
Glen White
Horspen
Howard
W. M. Bowman
Filbert
George
Bishop
Davis
Floyd
Edison
Madison
Janie Ball
Mabscott
T. L. Harmon
Leckie
Virginia
Garland
Newell
Mary
Harold Lewis
Mallie Lucille
Arnold Lloyd
John Underhil
Warwickshire
England
Notable WVU Alumni Make Educator Roles and Awards
The Beckley alumni of West Virginia University are highlighted for their post graduate work, honors, and careers. George Parker earned an MA in 1932 and rose from Shady Spring High principal to assistant county superintendent. Mrs Parker studied music, and siblings Ethel and Eva Keyser teach at Woodrow Wilson High. W J B Cormany became a principal after Morgantown studies. Willis Tucker led Woodrow Wilson High School alumni chapter and journalism teaching at Marshall College. K Douglas Bowers earned an LL B in 1925, served as assistant prosecuting attorney, joined a law firm, and earlier starred in football and basketball at WVU.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Parker
West Virginia University
Kappa Delta Pi
Parker
Shady Spring
Central Junior High
Parkers
Lynchburg
Virginia
C. L. Hall
First Avenue
Fairmont
Keyser
Ethel
Eva
Woodrow Wilson High School
W. J. B. Cormany
Morgantown
Ma. Twain High School
Willis Tucker
United Press Association
Marshall College
K. Douglas Bowers
Raleigh
Maxwell
Negro Held For Theft of Money
Walter Peters, 39, of East Beckley, was arrested by Patrolmen Roy Harvey and L. D. Maynor on a grand larceny charge. Miss Elizabeth Hairston filed the complaint before Squire Frank Lemon, claiming Peters stole $38 from her pocketbook Saturday night. Peters denied the theft, saying he sat with another woman when the accuser sat behind him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Peters
East Beckley
Roy Harvey
L. D. May
Peters
Elizabeth Hairston
Squire
Frank Lemon
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New Orleans
Associated Press
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Lewis
Neville ST
Paramount
Rinso
Uty
Organized Press
Watures
Indian River Medicine Co.— Lafollette. Tenn
Hamburger
T-Bone
Crescent Grocery
Neville Street
eTavy
Sid ' Dana
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