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BECKLEY POST-HERALD, i DCOAJLiCi A Aliens Praise The U. Study For Citizenship Test A At Jr. Chamber Of Commerce's Americanism Class W. VA. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1949 I love America.

In these words, the British war Jnde told how she felt about het new home. "I don't think there's a country the world like it," said Mrs Finch, attractive, haired wife of a local dentist, Finch is one of 24 persons! attending Americanization classes! uncer the auspices of the Junior! Chamber of Commerce. They meet every Friday in the circuit court! room in Beckley. All of them hope some day toi take the oath of allegiance to the! flag of the United States. But be-! lore they can become citizens they! must pass a test by a federal ex-! am-ner, slated for May.

i To prepare them for this ihe JCC Americanism Committee! conducts classes on the basic prin- i ciples of cur American way of! Jife. Movies are shown and lee-1 lures are given on the setup of! our government and nation. Aside from learning American' government, perhaps the biggest' job for these prospective citizens! is getting acquainted with the! English language. In this respect at least Mrs Finch is more fortunate than the others. The 21-year-old Briton arrived, here three years from Divizer in the southern part of Sbc met and married Dr.

Finch in 1945 while he was -stationed in Tilshead near her home. Mrs. Finch, like all Britons suffered privation but escaped bombing during during the war. Her family, including her four sisters and one brother, sur-j vived unharmed. "The town of Divizer escaped I the heavy German bombings for! the most part," said Mrs.

"We had only two or three' actual raids. Besides, "she "our home was well out in the! country so we weren't effected! much." The phase of the war that'stands put most vividly in her memory is the London blitz. Mrs. Finch said she had the "misfortune" to be caught in a "buzz bomb" attack but "came out of it all right." In the few years she has been in America, Mrs. Finch has been both pleased and amazed at the "lack of any real class system.

"In this country you can get ahead quicker. There is no distinction such as we have in England." She hopes to make a visit home soon. In the meantime, however, she "is quite contented with her duties here as a Sammy Assad Bassett, another member of the Americanization class, has been in this country les? than 18 months. Bassett, who is 22, came to America after marrying the former Mary Elizabeth Rahall of Beckley. He said he met his wife while Mr.

Sam Rahall was travell- ing in Syria with his daughter. At the present time he is working in his father-in-law's confectionary store. "I'm very happy about being given a chance to become an American citizen," said Bassett. "In Syria," he there is not much freedom. But here nQ erground, earning the British citation for heroic guerilla fight-! Set For Jackson's Mill A two-day conference cf teachers at schools sponsored by the Save The Children Federation will be.held at Jackson's Mill May 27-28, it was announced yesterday.

Eleanor EL Reynolds, Southern State Area Director, Mid sponsored schools are located in the area embracing Booue, Lincoln, Putnam, Nicholas. Wyoming, McDowell, Summers, Monroe and Greenbrier counties. It was explained that the Federation underwrites, through private donations and school- sponsored fund raisinr parties program of clothing; distribution among aeed? children and their families. Going To Join A Pyramid? It's Illegal, Warns Lynch i Court Fines Three On Liquor Counts FIVE U.S,KNAPP,62, DIES AT HOME If you get an invitation to join a pyramid club, better think it over! u. S.

Knapp, 62, executive sec- first retary of "Ihe West Virginia State The whole thing is illegal. Judicial council and former deputy That's the opinion, anyway, of i clerk of the state Supreme Court, Police Court Judge G. Berk Lynch, i died yesterday at his Charleston I Three persons paid fines total-j "So far 1 have had no case brought! home. $300 after they were me charging anyone i He was the father of guilty in police court last night of i taking part in a pyramid club but i Knapp of Becklev i violating the liquor laws Judge i looks to me like they are knacD a nraeticlps Berk Lynch presided. Yynch said.

a years in Those lined were; Earl Burton, "We have a statute on the books mont and other had $150 for illegal sale and posses- that prohibits gambling and from. been ill for the last three months sion; F. O. Stanley, SiOU for ille- what I've heard of the setup He was educated for the law at ga! possession and Silas Ison, $50 these clubs it appears that there West Virginia University. He tor illegal sale.

Fines of $15 each is gambling involved," he added, 'ed as an Army Major in the First were levied Frank Brown, and However, Lynch said he would World War. TM reserve any final decision on Knapp serve LAUDI.VG AMERICA, THESE MEN A.XD WOMEN OK FOREIGN LANDS Storekeeper Offers $100 Solution Of Burglary U. S. 24 aliens who have from 13 foreign lands seeking homes around Beckley learn offered $100 reward McVey, of Woman Is Sought Howard Little for gambling. Three i i aiv tlliai ucwlMUt: others forfeited bond of 13 each matter until he is called the on to lerved as the first mana- i oi the Charleston field office iuiic-ueu uuiju ux matter until he is called on toi Oi ine new office after they failed to appear on sim-; actually judge a case arising from of the "reau of Old Age and Sur- ilar charges.

They were; Mike; membership in one of the clubs wors Insurance under the Social Snyder, Louis Murelii, and Louis oilce Chie Anthony Sea Securil Administration. Franchi. las ordered his' Ke the de ut clerkship of John Husiing Shumate, no ad-1department to conduct "Pyramid; theA PP el court to take the dress, paid a $50 fine after he Club Raids," providing someone 0 Wlth the Judicial Council Beckley state police joined yes- wa-i found 8 uilt Magistrate; furnishes the information and for Mrs. i i Meadows on a charge of swears out a warrant. a a searc a Meadows, of Marianna, reported i driving while intoxicated Shu- Prosecuting Attorney Ned since Sunday by her hus- iat e) wast Thursday by land offered no com ment whw ate hce Pemberfon, for in-; The 19-year-old woman was last seen by Meadows at 8 a.

m. Sunday 1 when he left on a fishing trip, i When he returned, he said, his wife was no longer at home. A search of the home revealed she had taken along a small brown suitcase and a blue Mrs. Meadows was described as being five feet nine inches i ueing live leei nine mcnes in America means with the aid of the formation leading to the arrest of height, weighing 1GO pounds, with Beckley Junior Chamber of Com- the persons who looted his store light brown hair and wearing blue- merce. Classes are he in the cir- Wednesday, March 23.

i jeans, with a blue coat with white r.jTprjMs: Mc shoes stein help Syrian Sammy Bassett SLAB FORK DEMOCRATS FORM ORGANIZATION following its creation by the 1947 Legislature to promulgate rules and regulations for courts of record in the State. Knapp is survived by his widow questioned as to his opinion mother, Mrs Knaoo of the legahty of the clubs. "I think Washington, two other sons, James the whole inmg is pretty much up i and John Knapp of Charleston and a -H ldSe 3nd liCe a dau hter Marianna Knapp finals, he said. 0 Charleston, and three sisters, When informed of the Prosecut- i Mrs. Anna Jacobs and Miss Effie ing Attorney's statement, Lieuten-i Knapp, both of Washington and 11 i I rt i 7 1 1 a 11 i a Police remarked: -If you well as the BecHeyan.

Sophia Town Hall to organize a eet the orosscllt a Democrat club, Bernard Lawson, acting chairman, announced. J. C. Shumate, acting that's a deddcd can't get the prosecuting to commit himself then where the matter stands." There have been scores of unof-'Russell C. Rowan of Gap Mills ficial reports that the pyramids a Mrs.

A. C. Shaver returned which have been built across the last week from Dertoit. Mich. GAP MILLS ITEMS GAP MILLS, Apri) 1 Mrs.

door $200 with his lessons. former Italian guerilla CJaudio You, Above, class members keep their ear on the lecturer. Representing Hun- gary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Scot- land, Wales, Britain, 1 tu wurms inirujcan motion pic Canada, Syria, Poland, Spain OS 0 ul ai- drink, ranking be- while he is here. Lithuania and Egypt they hope to i i water and milk. His reply: "I am too old." pass the test in May which will i make them citizens.

Many have been here years; others are new i arrivals. BEVIN IS TOO OLD' inside and stole! WASHINGTON, April in the organization. worth of merchandise. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin! of Britain was asked today if Marseilles is the "tne' 'ea says the National Geogra-j Society, is the world's third jean motion picture problems" i ing World War II, the Germans a farming, so became a lawyer brother-in-law, Mr. Claude O.

Hagan. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Patrick Henry, American and children of New H.

H. blockade the old port. AND 'GUERRILLA 1 YON War II trapped him in a small (for the U. S. on the Vulcania ar- tauan t0 and in Au ust i riving in New York July His 1943 he was drafted into the father, Eli Yon, who had returned Twenty days later he deserted, to America before th Mussolini's banner and joined the! the necessary papers war.

signed you can vote and you have more of everything--cars, telephones, refrigerators and lots of gadgets 1 never saw before." Practically every member of the class has a story to tell. Some are sad, ethers exciting. Perhaps the one story that combines all of these things-- and in Ital y- to bring them Speaking in halting English the i here as soon as possible 24-year-old Italian described howl nn he was captured bv the German-: 1S terested ln only to escape after he learSed a he was to be shot. I- I me he TD He iost hls citizenship hi his ihe British and the Americans! long stay abroad too told us that we should fight! Then, lookinsf back reflectively pnH i A Italy with his parents when he Early last summer, Yon took'krcw it was verv- i was four. The outbreak World i the Allies at their word.

He sailed Nine High Schools Present Acting Talent In 16th West Virginia Festival Of Drama By JIM RUNNER The third session the 16th dell. They had questioned his re- annual West Virginia high school fusal of the bribe drama festival will begin at The -daughter" contended her a.m. today in the Woodrow would be turning traitor High school auditorium. to his employer by testifying At last night's second session: against his employer. Robert was one-act plays were presented by i steeled with the contention, "what- Ceredo-Kenova High, Parkersburgi ever we are to the world, let us High and Williamstown High.

honest with ourseK-es." John Kirkpatrick's "New School The seemingly defeated man was of Wives" was presented by with the announcement Kenova school under the direction! from the president of a rival bank of Mrs. Nan S. Hutcbinson. Action 'played by Richard Elliott, that was "just not like anything" at tgjd Robert a'job was Miss.Ingram's finishing school, jhim at the rival bank Ellen had brought her three i Dr. Blank, commenting "on the friends home, Roberta, a called it a mature playing Amazon-type, played ay and said the mood was good Sara Lee an to hold the interest of blonde, portrayed by audience.

Ke was distracted" Bailey; and Harriet, a bespeciac- however, he added, with the too led stately brain, characterized heavy make-up of the faces of by Patricia Staley. the elder characters. Eoberu Hager, the resigned hus-j The whi Dr fc band ana father, and the said had so i a i whose part was taken by Helen a Wh am Bachelor Frazier, perplexed at the Conrad Seije presented b'v daughters acnons and her fnends th thespians from Williamstown an IC A iHigh and directed by Mrs. A happy ending turned up withi a 3 the appearance of Ellen's boyj ora friend Warren, a self-centered' If there tjpICdl of an engineer, played by Bob McCon-; neU. In his proposal he confessed his love for her because she wasn't "much'of anything." The critic judge, Dr.

Earl W. Blank, of Berea College, in his appraisal said of this piay that the Beckley Field office of the Social choice was good and The charac- Security administration, yesterday terizations commendable. He made announced that approximately observation that it was a bit 400 persons in Monroe, Raleigh and ''too talky" and could have been Summers counties receives. S. A.

cut. The part of the wife set "a monthly payments totalling tempo," he stated. 000. by Percival During 1948. he added about Wilde, was selected by the Wood $500.000 in monthly benefits and county group for their presenta- lump sum payments were made in ticn.

The director was Mrs. Grace r.he area. Marie Merrill. The Social Security Administra- The tenseness of the rnay tionf he saidt expects that bv the centered in action 01 Robert cnrt of Junc there be a most Ksaimviri a hanV rlprk nnrtravwl i un-wed male, it was aptly por- jtrayed by James Thomas 'playing the part of a lecturer in this play with-n a piay. The lecturer was a self-styled expert on marriage, for he admitted to being a bachelor through inclination, r.ot of necessity.

He told his audience he had made his of marital bliss from the lofty peal: of bachelorhood. He brought his characters, Algernon, played by Bob Griffith; Algy's love mate, Henrietta, played by Carlene Walker; the ever- ever-present mother-in-law, taken by Geraldine Conroy; the wife's Aunt Emma, played by Pattv and to "add to the confusion, the wife's kid sister, por- Itrayed by Lintia Davis. the lecturer showed the 'billing and cooing of pre-mar- and the aftermath when the wedding was forgotten. It all ended with dishes being thrown iby lovely Henrietta with poor Aigy unsuccessfully doing a dodging jact. Some of the front row audi- jence were splattered by the i missies.

Dr. Blank called the performance the "finest example of pure entertainment" IN 3-COUNTY AREA RECEIVE S.S. A. BENEFITS S. Roger Brown, manager of the -t 4 i JVO in, a nank clerk, portrayed 3, 0 00,000 beneficiaries on the rolls by Fred Shnver.

jr. The gray- across country- SO by June hatred clerk, tne audience was; he said, claims are expected to told was the only witness to his; exceed $500.000 per month This employer's crime of nussppropri-i general trend will also hold true' ating funds. in the Beckley area, he predicted He was to be a witness the fol-, Since monthly berefits bccgmo towing day and had turned down payable under he A a $100,000 bnbe from his employer payments certified to the treasury who asked him to testily witn department in one month exceed- three vv-ords "I don't remember." ec $50.000.000. Brown added. This The clerk a conscience.

occurred in the month of Decem- turned a deaf ear to his wife, i her. 1948. he explained, when total played by Margaret; his son, certifications, monthly and lump as Charles Bayer; and his sums, throughout the" nation, to- caughter, played by Dorothy Rud- jtaled SPOHIGHT Question-of-the-week: Who is your hero? Today's SPOTLIGHT falls on Mary Pearl Martin, four, of 115 Clyde street, Beckley: "I like Roy Rogers best horse's name is Trigger and if I had a horse like that I would pet him all the time and would ride him too. I go to the every time Ro.y Rogers and Trigger on. I surs like io watch him.

I like Dale Evans, the the cowgirl too. When I get big I want to be a cowgirl like she is. Trigger can do irk-ks, too. I like to see him. AS PURE AS MOSEY CAM BUY WORIDS UPOEST SElUP AT 10 Vitginia, in 1736.

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