Rebels Win as Asturian Army Falls in Northwest Spain
In a swift campaign, General Francisco Franco's forces seized Asturias, ending government control in the region. Government morale collapsed as Asturian miners deserted, burning villages, while insurgent lines advanced and troops dragged artillery into position. Government leaders fled by ship from Gijon to France, with insurgents seizing control of the city and radio stations.
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Associated Press
Spain
Francisco Franco
Asturias
Santander
Gijon
France
Health Center Will Move Soon
Public Health Training center to relocate to Memorial building after courthouse completion. Director F E H Crouch notes space limits at courthouse. the center may be housed in the former prosecuting attorney and school superintendent office area. Previously shifted from Central School annex and then to the jail second floor with the county health department.
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Memorial Building
FE. H. Crouch
County Health Department
Funeral for Joseph Gil bert Cash Held at Stanaford Church
Funeral services for Joseph Gilbert Cash 35 a Raleigh miner who died yesterday in a local hospital of pneumonia were held at Stanaford church at 2 p m conducted by Rev G C Hite Beckley with burial in Stanaford cemetery Surviving: his mother Mrs Perezzo Cash Raleigh wife Mrs Livy Fox Cash Raleigh daughter Margie Jane Cash half brother George Mays Raleigh half sister Mrs C E Campbell East Park Pallbearers were Tom Woodie Mead Campbell George Campbell Howard Woods Thurmie Hebb Eddie Maddox honorary Robert Harvey Clyde Campbell Lloyd Campbell Herman Warden Flower bearers Dorothy Campbell Margie Campbell Mary Felga Gladys Farish Louise Felga Bernice Campbell
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Joseph Gilbert Cash
Raleigh
G. C. Hite
Beckley
Stanaford
Perezzo Cash
Livy Fox Cash
Margie Jane Cash
George Mays
Murder verdict requested in Porter case
Prosecutor Harrison Conaway asked a jury in Fairmont to convict former city patrolman John D. Porter of first degree murder for the June slaying of 19 year old Patsy Cutrone. The jury later heard closing evidence as the trial concluded.
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Associated Press
Fairmont
John D. Porter
Harrison Conaway
Conaway
Porter
Patsy Cutrone
Lot Given for Church Bldg in East Beckley
A unnamed donor donated a lot on F street for a church building in East Beckley. Rev. J. C. Cline disclosed the gift while the donor asked for anonymity. The mission work is led by Rev. A. T. Walker, appointed by the Baptist state mission board. Sunday school started October 10 at Mrs. Ormandy’s home on Seventh street and meets at 10 a.m. weekly. Dr. A. S. Kelly, state superintendent of missions, spoke last Sunday on Sunday School’s role in church development. Community prayer meetings are held Thursday evenings at 7:30 in local homes.
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East Beckley
F Street
J. C. Cline
A. T. Walker
Baptist State Mission Board
Hahn Trial Reveals Alleged Slayings For Gain
Cincinnati prosecutors obtain judge's ruling allowing testimony on other poison killings linked to Anna Marie Hahn. Outcalt says Wagner was murdered by poisoning and that witnesses will show a plan to kill for profit. Names Palmer Gsellman Obendoerfer Hess cited as alleged victims, with Hess described as the only surviving target.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Jacob Wagner
Common Pleas
Charles S. Bell
Dudley M. Outcalt
Wagner
Dudley Miller Outcalt
Stocks Downgrade Prominent Losers Lead Market Slide
New York stocks turned downward with leaders yielding fractions to two points. Steels were freely offered as U. S. Steel Bethlehem and Youngstown Sheet and Tube showed little resistance. Losers included General Motors Chrysler International Nickel New York Central Santa Fe American Telephone Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific.
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Associated Press
New York
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown
General Motors
Chrysler
International Nickel
New York Central
Santa Fe
American Telephone
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Turner Funeral Conducted Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Turner, widow of Capt William Turner, were held in Washington after a long illness. She was mother in law to Eugene Mankin's brother and a former Raleigh County resident. Survived by two sons and four daughters, only one living in West Virginia. Mankin traveled to attend.
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Martha Turner
Eugene Mankin
Raleigh County
Washington
Bus Driver Delivers Empty 12 Mile Route at Grandview
Ingram's Bus prompts a live press follow as Robert L. Ingram runs a 12 mile Grandview route to Shady Springs high school with no passengers. He maintains a strict schedule despite students walking and a truck offering lifts. The "Covered Wagon" nickname sticks while a Grandview citizens group seeks to reverse a bus swap with Stoco high. Transportation Supervisor T. L. Gatherum states no change and that 32 students must continue with the traded bus.
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Robert L. Ingram
Grandview
Shady Springs High School
Register
Ingram
Board of Education
Stoco High School
T. L. Gatherum
Firemen Called to Burning Pine Tree
City firemen extinguished their eighth fire of the month at a residence on Hull Street where children reportedly built a fire under the pine tree. Rosin oozing from the bark caught and started the blaze but caused no damage. total October fires, including three outside city limits, amounted to fifty one dollars.
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Gus Lilly
Hull Street
Bernard Martin
Martin
Mt Hope-Woodrow Wilson game postponed to tomorrow
The Mount Hope-Woodrow Wilson high school football game was moved from tonight to 2 30 tomorrow due to wet fields. Principal T F Bartlett said the Strick began Monday causing absences though most students now attend. A larger bus for Stoco students eased travel to 9 o'clock classes and reduced early arrivals.
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Mount Hope
Mount Hope High School
Ilant
Mrs Sutherland Complains Men Hog The Credit
Mrs Natalie Sutherland Walker of Huntington charged male political leaders keep larger benefits from political activity and urged women to develop leadership. President of West Virginia Federation of Republican Women’s clubs she told the state convention that women must understand public questions and resist being relegated. She noted 39 counties have organized clubs.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Natalie Sutherland Walker
Huntington
Greta Garbo Declares Friendship With Stokowski Not Marriage
Hollywood reported Greta Garbo told an examiner in a copyrighted story she is very good friends with conductor Leopold Stokowski but marriage is out of the question. Garbo's name had been linked to him this week as his wife reportedly prepares for a six week Las Vegas separation to obtain a divorce.
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Associated Press
Hollywood
Examiner
Greta Garbo
Leopold Stokowski
Las Vegas
Nevada
Health official begins school program on social diseases
County health officer Dr W W Hume launched a drive in schools to educate pupils about social diseases. He spoke to Woodrow Wilson High School on Wednesday to over 800 ninth grade and graduating students, urging cleanliness of mind and body and abstinence from alcohol and temptations.
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W. W. Hume
Woodrow Wilson High School
Robber Given 25 Year Sentence In Kilgore Case
Judge Harley Kilgore imposed a 25 year penitentiary term on Paul Richmond 26 for armed robbery of taxi driver Claude Britt after Richmond admitted striking him, robbing him of money and stealing his car. Richmond escaped from county jail the day before his arrest near Shady Spring after a drinking spree. Other defendants pled guilty and were sentenced including James Barton 27 who admitted stealing Charles Ross vehicle then a Home Motor lot car, Barter said thefts occurred while drunk and had a prior forgery term. Orville Combs 20 and Robert Yates 21 of Richlands were sentenced to two years for breaking and entering a bathhouse in Amigo and stealing cash and clothing with credit for 116 days in jail. Clin Richmond 22 faces three years for breaking and entering. Richmond and William Edward Cole were indicted for robbery of Victory Tobacco company warehouse with several thousand dollars in cigarettes and merchandise. about a third of the loot recovered.
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Harley Kilgore
Paul Richmond
Glen Hedrickman
Kilgore
Richmond
State Penitentiary
Claude Britt
Shady Spring
James Barton
Fayette County
Charles Ross
Beckley
Home Motor Company
Cumberland
Kentucky
Barter
Barton
Orville Combs
Robert Yates
Richlands
Virginia
Amigo
Clin Richmond
William Edward Cole
Victory Tobacco Company
Ill inmate Mrs Walden to report. ill in Beckley hospital
Circuit Judge C M Ward said Mrs Eugenia Siss Walden, jailed for operating a house of ill fame, may not leave Beckley hospital while ill with influenza related sinus trouble. Bond granted last Sunday requires her return to jail tomorrow to serve the 12 month term.
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Eugenia “Siss” Walden
C. M. Ward
Beckley Hospital
E. H. Hedrick
F. L. Banks
Ward
Trap Hill Land Sold to Cozart and More Transfers
Mr and Mrs Lewis Snuffer sold 86 acres on Breckenridge creek in Trap Hill to Mr and Mrs Samuel Cozart per a deed filed at the county clerk. Other transfers include Miss Effie Parker and Mrs M J Griffith selling 10 acres near Coal City to Mrs Marie Tremblay. Charley and Inez Thomas bought a Lester lot from the Grandisones Burl Pettry sold a Grady N Allen lot in Beaver Heights Beckley. The J F Lilly Land Co sold two Crab Orchard lots to Mr and Mrs W F Rutherford for 425. A Second Street lot was transferred to George Holmes by Lilly Land Co. The Lilly Land Co turned over a Prosperity lot to Emory L Creed.
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Lewis Snuffer
Breckenridge Creek
Trap Hill
Samuel Cozart
Effie Parker
M. J. Griffith
Marie Tremblay
Coal City
Charley
Inez Thomas
Lester
J. M. Grandison
Burl Pettry
Grady N. Allen
Beaver Heights
Beckley
J. 4. Lilly Land Company
Crab Orchard
W. F. Rutherford
Second Street
George Holmes
Lilly Land Company
Emory L. Creed
Kelso Promoted to Supervisor in Southern West Virginia
G L Kelso sanitary engineer at the Public Training center has been named supervisor over six counties in southern West Virginia. Dr E H Crouch says Kelso will oversee sanitary inspectors in Raleigh Fayette Boone and Greenbrier Monroe and Pocahontas counties. H K Gidley previously led the men and will now oversee the remainder of the state.
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G. L. Kelso
Public Training Center
West Virginia
E. H. Crouch
State Health Department
Kelso
Battle on Shanghai Front Draws Claims of Gains
Chinese and Japanese forces fought along a 25 mile Shanghai front with each side claiming progress. A Chinese airman bombed the Whangpoo river waterfront while exchanges continued. The Idzumo flagship reportedly remained undamaged as shelling continued in Hongkew and Pootung.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Idzumo
Pootung
Hongkew
International Settlement
Whangpoo
Coal Board to Fix The Prices
Washington the coal commission invoked power to coordinate and propose minimum prices for the soft coal industry. Producers districts set up by the Guffey Vinson act to stabilize prices failed to agree, the commission ordering data by October 25 and awaiting untangling the price situation. Chairman Hosford Jr. refused to forecast timelines as the six week dispute ends unanimously amid criticism of the producers boards.
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Associated Press
Washington
Coal Commission
Guffey Vinson Coal Act
Charles F. Hosford Jr
Hosford
Producers’ Board
Harry R Tribon Buried Thursday
Funeral services were held for Harry R Tribon assistant secretary of the treasury of the Gulf Smokeless Coal company at Tams. He died Monday in Asheville North Carolina where he had lived for health reasons for six and a half years. Burial was in Middleboro Massachusetts. He leaves his widow a son Russell of Charlotte North Carolina a daughter Dorothy of Asheville and a sister Mrs Agnes Wilbur of Massachusetts.
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Harry R. Tribon
Treasury
the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company
Tams
Asheville
N. C
Middleboro
Mass
Russel
Charlotte
Dorothy
Asherville
Agnes Wilbur
Massachusetts
James Woodward Dies in England at 78
Word has been received of the death of James Woodward aged 78 on October 8 in Liverpool England. His son James Woodward who lives on the Johnstown road is a mine foreman at Stanaford. His wife passed away fourteen years ago.
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James Woodward
Liverpool
England
Johnstown Road
Stanaford
Weather outlook for eastern regions this afternoon
Cloudy and slightly colder with possible rain in the east this afternoon and early tonight. Saturday expects fair skies and slightly cooler conditions in the extreme east portion.
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Phes
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R. L. Ingram
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Wilda Gill
Edna Lilly
Cora Lee Ransom
Roy Harrah
Norman Redden
Homer Kidwell
Len Ashworth
Kermit Thompson
Mt. Hope
Stoco
T. F. Bartlett
Whitby
Walden
Greta
Stokowski
Cozart
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