Cold Weather Fires Claim Two More Lives in Virginia
Two more deaths from cold weather fires raise the toll to ten after a boiler blast at the Brandon Apartments on West Grace Street Richmond. Dorothy Newman 23 a schoolteacher and Lawrence Green a janitor died in Richmond hospitals. A separate blaze destroyed a brick building part of Sussex county high school at Stony Creek with $30,000 loss. Petersburg firemen aided to save the older school section.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Yester
Dorothy Newman
Lawrence Green
Richmond
Brandon Apartments
West
Grace Street
Sussex County High School
Stony Creek
Petersburg
Commission Divides on Virginia Coal Mine Law Reform
Three of the six member Legislative Commission favor creating an independent Department of Mines and Minerals with headquarters at Blacksburg. Endorsers include Senator R. R. Parker and Delegates Scott Litton and C. Vernon Smith. Other members recommend keeping the current Mines division under the State Department of Labor and Industry.
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Richmond
Virginia
Department of Mines and Minerals
Blacksburg
Price
R. R. Parker
Appalachia
Scott Litton
Russell County
C. Vernon Smith
Grundy
Charles E. Burks
Lynchburg
H. M. Bandy
Norton
National Guards Guard Arraignment in Prentiss Mississippi
Three National Guards companies stood by in Prentiss Mississippi as two African Americans faced arraignment for the killing of a peace officer. Sheriff McGee asked Governor White for troops amid rising tensions after the deputy’s death during a liquor search led by former city marshal J C Sanford.
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Prentiss, Miss
National Guardsmen
S. G. McGee
Hugh White
J. C. Sanford
Favors Exempting Some Newspapers
Washington January 10 Senator Wiley of Wisconsin introduced a bill to exempt newspapers with 5,000 or less circulation from the Wage and Hour Act. The proposal would amend the act to add weeklies or semi weekly papers under this limit, expanding current exemptions from less than 3,000 circulation.
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Washington
Congress
Wiley
R-Wis
Stephenson Notes and Local Movements in VA and WV
Stephenson VA January notes report Janney Owens family moving to Kernstown and well wishes for their new home. Rev R B Moore preached at Church. A L Omps visited Clyde Mauck near Inwood W Va. Albert Longerbeam returns to Army Medical Center Washington DC after visit with Prince family. Numerous local visitors and ill health updates accompany the rural social notices.
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Amos Prince
Prince Home
Kenneth Smallwood
Ge Earl Smallwood
Rest
B. Moore
Winchester
Berthe Ashwood
Maud Prince
Harry Prince
Washington
Magnus Rudolph
E. C. Rudolph
Baltimore
Winifred Rudolph
Harvey Grim
R. B. Moore
Helen Mauck
Near Inwood
W. Va
Love Campbell
M. P. Ebert
Brucetown Notes
Rev and Mrs J D Russell of Front Royal visited friends here Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Horner and their young daughter of Martinsburg were guests of Mr and Mrs James Royston Sunday evening. Mrs Olie C Windle and Mrs Charles Windle of Lebanon Church called on Mrs J B Snapp. Mrs Katie Hieskell of Winchester visits Mr and Mrs Frank Lee Bregg. Mrs Tom Price is ill at home.
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Brucetown
J. D. Russell
Front Royal
Horner
Little
Martinsburg
W. Va
James Royston
Olie C. Windle
Charles Windle
Lebanon Church
J. B. Snapp
Katie Hieskell
Winchester
Frank Lee Br
Old Lady Sees Life Sweet Amid Family Strains
A reader column argues that most families show care for aging parents and calm in-laws, urging focus on the good in human relationships. It cites a loving example where children support a once affluent mother and calls for understanding over pessimism about families and aging.
Dog-Lives 24 Days With No Food Or Water
LYNBROOK N Y Jan 10 Rusty an Airdale lived 24 days without food or water after being inadvertently locked in the late Arthur Ericksons one room home during a will search. A passerby saw the emaciated dog on a bed as police opened the door. The dog weighed about 10 pounds lighter and began receiving water then milk mashed food and beefsteak.
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Lynbrook
N. Y
Rusty
Airdale
Arthur Erickson
Leslie Ott
Wage Hour Law Plan Dropped From Virginia Reorganization
Richmond January 10 The State Chamber of Commerce committee on taxation and government dropped a proposal to administer the federal wage hour law in Virginia through a state agency, saying enforcement should not be moved off the federal statute books.
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Richmond
Chamber of Commerce
Committee On Taxation and Government
Virginia
Division of
Industrial Hygiene
Department of Industrial Relations
Bureau of Industrial Hygiene
Department of Health
Commonwealth of Virginia
Analysis Of House Given By Clerk Dodson
E Griffith Dodson of Norfolk announced in his acceptance speech that the Virginia House of Delegates has 91 Democrats among 100 members. He noted the average age near 48 to 49 with ages spanning 29 to 73 and a mix of 40 lawyers 26 farmers and 23 merchants among the members from ten denominations and with extensive higher education across more than 74 colleges.
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Richmond
E. Griffith Dodson
Norfolk
House of Delegates
House
Roger
Bank Balance Sheet From Frederick County Virginia 1940
This record shows assets totaling 225 598 63 including cash premises and deposits. It details liabilities of 225 598 63 with capital accounts 42 016 95 and notes the bank's capital consists of common stock par 25 000 00. It is sworn before Notary Public Fred E Kline January 8 1940.
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Ccss
United States
Serene Vene
C.pital
M H. Rhodes
W R. Campbell
Beli
State of
Virginia
Frederick
Fred E. Kline
Maryland motorists may carry drive carefully license plates
Maryland motorists may carry a 1941 license plate inscribed with the ad monition drive carefully. W Lee Elgin commissioner of motor vehicles said the black on aluminum tags would bear the slogan at the bottom. Plates will be the same size as 1939 1940 issues.
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Baltimore
Maryland
W. Lee Elgin
Motor Vehicles
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