Bailey Warns War Roads Get Priority
West Virginia highway commission warns future road work may be curtailed or halted to prioritize war related projects. U.S. 60 deemed most important for Kanawha Valley industries and war materiel, with extensions and rights of way already under plan to support DuPont plant and military needs.
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Releroad Commission
Ernest L. Bailey
West Virginia
U.S
Commission
Kanawhe Valley
Patrick Street
South
Charleston
VA. & Army Engineers
Plane walkout ends after two hour stoppage
Dec 19 union officials reported a two hour stoppage by about 8,000 Wright Aeronautical employees across five plants ended tonight. William H. Showers, president of the Wright Aeronautical Employes association and union, said night shift workers began protest at the request of management cuts to a wage incentive plan.
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Wright Aeronautical Corporation
William H. Showers
Wright Aeronautical Employes Asociation, Inc
Campbell resigns as trade education director in Kanawha county
W G Campbell resigns as director of personnel and safety for trade and industrial education in Kanawha county. County School Supt Virgil L Flinn announced the resignation yesterday. Harold Seakins of the State Education Department will succeed him, while Harold Seakins was not clarified in the text. an Office of Production position is mentioned in error.
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W. G. Campbell
Kanawha County
Lethe
Virgil L. Flinn
Harold Seakins
State Edn Department
NYA
South Charles
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Broadcast On NBC WGKY
Radio log notes the Met Opera broadcast of Mozart's Figaro from the Met stage with Ezio Pinza Bidu Sayao John Brownlee Rise Stevens and others conducted by Ettore Panizza. Also mentions Judith Anderson in Lincoln Highway drama and Salvation Army basket event with U S Grange program discussions and various musical segments.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Nbc-Wgky
Ezio Pinza
Figaro
Bidu Sayao
Susanna
John Brownlee
Count Almavia
Rise Stevens
Cherubing
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Dr. Bartolo
Irra Petina
Marcellina
Ettore Panizza
Judith Anderson
Moam
Miss Anderson
Rebecca
Maurice Evans
Broadway
The
Gazette
WGKY
Charleston
Salvation Army
U. S
United We Stand
James J. Davin
Pennsylvania
National Grange
Fred. Branckman
Grange
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Wosy
U S Belligerency Does Not Alter Relief Need
James H. Kelly, head of Kanawha county British War Relief committee, stated that U S belligerency does not change the need for wartime relief. Joseph E. Davies, head of the president's committee, informed local agency that relief remains desirable, provided it does not impair or duplicate Red Cross and other American welfare programs.
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U. S
James H. Kelly
Kanawha County
British War Relief Society
Joseph E. Davies
Red Cross
Weight of the Earth Measured by Four Methods
Henry A Rivera of San Diego California outlines four methods to weigh the earth. One uses a plummet near a tall mountain to measure deflection, another places a pendulum near a thousand pound lead bell to gauge gravitational pull. He estimates the earth’s weight at about sextillion, 32 quintillion tons, implying a solid steel composition.
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Henry A. Rivera
Prains
San Diego
Caliiorca
Theaters present rise and shine stars and serials list
The daily theater lineup features Rise and Shine with Oakie Darnell Murphy and Brennan plus Playtime in Hawaii Kathleen with Tem ple, Herbert Marshall and Laraine Day. MGM cartoon, One Foot in Heaven return, Merrie Melody, Saddle Mountain Roundup with Range Busters, Citadel of Crime with Armstrong, Adventure of Red Ryder serial, Mutiny in the Arctic with Arlen Devine, Naval Academy with Bartholomew, Tillie the Toiler with Kay Harris, Sporting Blood with Young O Sullivan, Men of the Timberland with Devine Arlen, Scattergood Meets Broadway with Kibbee, Son of Davey Crockett with Elliott, Strange Alibi with Kennedy TTY, Topper Returns with Blondel Young, Blonde from Singapore with Rice Erickson, Gambling Daughters with Parker Pryor, Lone Rider Ambushed with George Houston, Dick Tracy serial.
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Jack Oakie
Linds Darnell
George Murphy
Walter Brennan
Hawaii
Capitol
Kathleen
Shirley Temple
Herbert Marshall
Laraine Day
Felix Bressart
MGM
Heaven
Fredric March
Martha Scott
Saddle Mountain
Range Busters
Robert Armstrong
Red Ryder
Custer
Arctic
Richard Arlen
Andy Devine
Freddie Bartholomew
Tillie the Toiler
Kay Harris
Robert Young
Maureen O'Sullivan
Scattergood
Guy Kibbee
Davey Crockett
Bill Elliott
Arthur Kennedy
Joan Tty
Rialto
Topper
Joan Blondel
Roland Young
Singapore
Florence Rice
Leif Erickson
Cecelia Parker
Roger Pryor
George Houston
Credit Houses Warned To Register by Jan 1
Between 200 and 300 Charleston concerns engaged in credit sales must register with the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond by Jan 1. Dewey E Kuhns, manager of the Charleston Retail Credit Association, said the general license issued with new installment rules expires Dec 31 and individual licenses are required to continue installment selling of covered articles. Violators face up to a $10,000 fine and penitentiary term.
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Charleston
Federal Reserve Bank
Richmond
Dewey
Kuhns
Charleston Retail Credit Association
Nine Couples Seek Marriage Licenses in County Clerk Office
The county clerk’s office processed applications for nine couples to wed. Names include Robert Edward Gobel and Donia Ellen Taylor, Frederick Cablish and Mary Francis Douglas, Richard Alva Boyd and Clothilde Gaugot, Paul Jewell Yoak and Marguerite Durst, Severn B. Goff and Macel Lois Wooten, George William Reynolds and Vanna May Richards, Ralph Less McLaughlin and Leone Gale Painter, William Wantlin and Maysel Kathryn Dougherty, and Robert John Isaacson with Melissa Elizabeth Cole. Also notes Mexico’s road program plans greater equipment needs than available.
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Robert Edward Gobel
South Charleston
Donia Ellen Taylor
Bigley Avenue
Frederick Cablish
Manongalia Street
Mary Francis Douglas
Lee Street
Richard Alva Boyd
Ruttner Avenue
Clothilde Gaugot
Route 1
Charleston
Paul Jewell Yoak
Marguerite Durst
Red Oak Street
Severn B. Goff
Maxie Street
Macel Lois Wooten
George William Reynolds
St. Albany
Vanna May Richards
Ralph Less Mclaughlin
Cheyenne
Wyo
Leone Gale Painter
Dunbar
William Wantlin
Maysel Kathryn Dougherty
Elkview
Robert John Isaacson
New Britain
Property Transfers List Impacts Kanawha City to Charleston Area
Multiple transfers recorded incl John Bi and Grace Beane parcels in Kanawha City and Charleston area. Le roy Osborne and wife acquire property, First National Company to Empire Federal Savings and Loan, H A Robson Estate to W B Geary, Cities Insurance and Finance to W C Thomas, and several other conveyances in Charleston, Dunbar, and Wood County along with Stell district.
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Picton
Leroy Osborne
Kanawha City
Grace Beane
Mary A. Beane
Tacketts Creek
Jefferson District
Phoebe Roberts
Tional Company
Wees Addition
Dunbar
W. J. Thompson
Empire Federal Savings and Loan Company
Spring Hill
H. A. Robson Estate, Inc
W B. Geary
West Charleston
Cities Insurance and Finance Ccompany
W. C. Thomas
L. C. Massey
South Charleston
C. E. Kimbrough, Sr
C. R. Rohr
Sadie Y
Sheffield
Etta Hardman
Robson Home
Charleston
Lee Batten
Donald O. Bragg
Stell
Wood County
Dorothy Dix On Monotony Of Household Duties
Dorothy Dix argues housework is monotonous yet universal across professions. She contrasts housewives with actors and salesmen, urging enthusiasm and attitude to find joy in domestic life. She praises cookery as art and lauds rearing children as a rich, varied calling.
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Aeidam
Johnny
Sue
Dorothy Dix
Man Misses Train Reported To Lost Property Office
A man told London authorities he missed his train and reported to the Lost Property Office. In Sweden, barley is being mixed with rye and wheat flour to stretch supplies for bread and beer.
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Lost Property Office
Apt Abana
Ferther
Sweden
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