Newport News and Hampton telephone workers protest contract
In Virginia workers from Newport News and Hampton left their jobs to attend a CIO affiliated protest against Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. demands. An S&P spokesman estimated at least 350 employees joined the meeting, which followed a similar protest on June 12. The exchanges operated on emergency bases.
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Newport News
Hampton
Chespeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Communication
Workers of America
CIO
S&p
Pilot Escapes Crash With Minor Injuries
Air Force Staff Sergeant Monroe Dingott of Ft. Myer escaped with minor injuries when his single engine plane crashed in a wooded area near Quantico yesterday. The plane was demolished after an engine sputtered as witnesses said he tried to land in an open field about 30 yards away.
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Quantico
Air Force
Monroe Dingott
Ft. Myer
Aes Witty Suatttone
Dingott
Fauquier Telephone Company Ordered to Show Cause
The State Corporation Commission directs Fauquier Telephone Company to appear July 19 and show cause why its franchise should not be revoked due to inadequate service and refusals to extend to certain areas. Fauquier serves Remington and parts of Fauquier County.
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Richmond
The
State Corporation Commission
Fauquier Telephone Company, Inc
Fauquier
Remington
Paquier County
Man Sentenced for Manslaughter and Arson
Judge Earl Abbott sentenced Robert Lee Switzer, 36, to six years in jail for manslaughter and arson. He set the arson term to run concurrently with the manslaughter sentence, tied to the burning of a building where Hale's ashes were found.
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Earl Abbott
Robert Lee Switzer
Hale
Seed sale notice at Derick Co op Ween Bureau
Public notice advertises remaining seed stock for sale at Derick Co op Ween Bureau on June 21 1931. Readable text indicates cheap pricing and a call to purchase seed supplies. Local agricultural supplier promotes limited quantities for farmers to obtain seed.
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Derick Co-op Ween Bureau
Veteran Legislator Garrett Dies at 96 in Ridgeway
William Allen Garrett longtime North Carolina legislator and watchdog of the Treasury died in Leaksville at age 96. A Rockingham County native, he served 38 consecutive years in the State Senate after earlier terms in the House, retiring in 1939. Services set for Ridgeway Baptist Church at 10 30 a m Saturday.
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Rockingham County
N. C
Garrett
House of Delegates
Senate
Ridgeway Baptist Church
United States Liner Christening and Dock Flooding
Laborers used battering rams to remove shores supporting the United States in her graving dock. When the dock floods to 21 feet and the ship rests on keel blocks, she will be afloat by 5 a.m. Tomorrow and moved to a fitting out pier for final preparation before transatlantic service next summer. The liner is about seventy percent complete.
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Neport News
United States
Ex VMI Grid Great Hawkins Dies at 43 in Newport News
Albert M. Hawkins a former VMI standout and high school coach at Richmond Suffolk and Kempsville died at his home in Newport News at age 43. A Maury High School product he was named to the 1925 All State team before starring as a fast back at VMI where he earned a B S degree.
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Newport News
Albert M
al) Hawkins
Virginia Military Institute
Richmond
Suffolk
Kempsville
Hawkins
Norfolk
Maury High School
VMI
Fisherman Held Captive by Escaped Convicts
A Virginia fisherman recounts 24 hours of captivity as two escaped convicts plus his captors drove his car across southwest Virginia. Arthur Kedrick Kilbourne and Ted Bate Sot Go Es came from Russell and Scott counties respectively, held him, and debated killing him while switching outfits and driving through Roanoke and Mount Span.
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Hensley
Mount St. Mary
Augusta County
Virginia
Arthur Kedrick Kilbourne
Russell County
Ted
Scott County
Greenville
J. W. Burrows
Balq Mount Span
Roanoke
Dante
Estep
Gaspe
Man Cures Self with Brain Surgery in Self Inflicted Wound
In a British Doctors journal Dr John Slobach of Basingstoke describes a 55 year old retired officer who shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber pistol but survived. He underwent a rough leucotomy removing part of the frontal lobe and recovered becoming rational and more engaged with his surroundings.
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London
British Doctors Journal
John Slobach
Basingstoke
Uicide
Lancet
Slobach
Bad tempered person described as difficult to live with
A fragment notes a bad tempered and unreasonable individual, described as difficult to live with. No further context or identifiers are provided in the text.
Truck Production Faces Curtailment
The National Production Authority proposes material cuts hitting light trucks 40 percent heavy trucks 30 percent and medium trucks 15 percent. The plan, unveiled at a closed manufacturers meeting, drew protests and could force a quarter of one companys workers to lose jobs if adopted.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
Best Sellers of Last Year Show Three 100000 Copy Wonders
The I G L A notes that only three fiction titles surpassed 100000 copies sold: The Cardinal, Joy Street, and Across the River and Into the Trees.
Mrs. Nettie F Nickleson Rites in Romney
Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie F Nickleson 65 of Romney West Virginia who died in Winchester Memorial Hospital will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at the Romney Methodist Church with Rev Rosslinger officiating. The body will lie at Jones Funeral Home until tomorrow morning when it will be taken to Romney for burial.
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Nettie F. Nickleson
Romney
W. Va
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Romney Methodist Church
Rosslinger
Jones Funeral Home
Rom
Fragmentary obituary names prompt limited summary
Unclear fragment lists names associated with a funeral service and burial. Included are E aver Parson Ed Buckbee Carl Shrout and others, with damaged text hindering full details of the deceased or service.
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Ney
Mays Avid’ Eich Mac Uysioll
Xll
Ed Buckbee
Carl Shrout
Eaver Parson
Milk Petition Fails in Richmond
Petition efforts in Richmond fail due to lack of sufficient notaries public to serve at designated stations. The drive sought to attribute the setback to the public official’s inability to secure needed notarial services.
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Richmond
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ABC Network
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