Rotary governor to visit Grafton club tomorrow
Wesley Moore governor of the 185th District of Rotary International will speak to the Rotary Club of Grafton to advise officers on club administration and Rotary service. Moore, supervisor of music in Summers County Schools, is one of 149 Rotary International governors overseeing 5200 clubs worldwide with wartime expansion noted.
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Rotary Club of
Grafton
Wesley Moore
Rotary International
West Virginia
Moore
Summers
Hinton
Chicago
Ilinois
Rotary Club
Harold R. Fetty
Jed W. Robinson
Tary International
Americas
Australia
Ceylon
China
Enggah
Finland
India
Kenya
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Sweden
Switzerland
Union of South Africa
Federal program resumes training for both white and Negro operatives
An army spokesman said training for white and Negro operational trainees will be resumed this morning as armed guards continue to patrol buses, trolleys, subways, and elevated lines. The service restoration follows Monday's first day with 181 employees not reporting for work, a figure low against the usual absentee rate of about 650.
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Federal
Page Apartment
Army
Moran Services Tomorrow at 2 PM for E. Moran
Funeral services for E. S. Moran 78 of Wickwire and Cherry Run will be held Thursday at 2 PM in the family home with the Rev. Ashley Booth of Fairmont officiating. Burial will be in Moran Cemetery. Survived by his wife Virginia Helen Fast and son J. E. Moran of Fairmont, native Taylor countian and farmer, born October 17, 1866, member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Modern Woodmen of the World. Body to be removed from Bartlett funeral home to the family home this afternoon.
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Smith” Moran
Wickwire
Cherry Run
Ashley Booth
Fairmont
Bural
Moran Cemetery
Virginia Helen Fast
J. E. Moran
Taylor Countian
Mine victim Elson Locker funeral planned Friday
Elson Locker of Flemington 53 an employee of Waddell Fuel died in Philippi hospital after a slate fall that crushed his pelvis. Native of Lynchburg VA he was son of John and Mary Locker survived by wife Nellie and three brothers five sisters. Services at 2 pm Friday at McGrumphy funeral home with Rev J C Vanzant of Clarksburg officiating and interment in Colored Welfare Cemetery Grafton.
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Elson Locker
Flemington
Waddell Fuel Company
Philippi
Lynchburg
Virginia
John
Mary Locker
Nellie Locker
Auto Tax Stamps Continue On Sale In West Virginia
F Roy Yoke, Collector of Internal Revenue in Parkersburg WV, announced that five dollar federal automobile use tax stamps for the 1944 45 fiscal year will stay on sale at his office or via deputies statewide. Fractional year stamps available from Parkersburg or deputies. starting Aug 1 1944, stamps sold at first and second class and county seat third and fourth class post offices, not for fractional year. Penalty for using vehicle before tax is paid includes fine up to 25 and up to 30 days in jail or both. Stamps must be paid by certified check, money order, or cash. cash should be registered if mailed.
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F. Roy Yoke
Internal Revenue
Parkersburg
West Virginia
German Counterattacks, New Divisions Reach Front
Three columns describe German counterattacks across multiple fronts as 16 new German divisions arrive in the past three weeks from central Germany reserves, Western Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Norway. The Russians note attacks may target forts near East Prussia while a Baltic breakout attempt near Estonia Latvia encirclement was halted by Soviet forces in the Birzai area. Since then Soviet-held sectors report advances capturing over 80 communities including Radviliskis near Riga.
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Germany
Poland
Italy
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Norway
Red Army
East
Prussia
Estonia-Latvia
Birzai
Radviliskis
Riga
Borzai
Refuses to Testify Drives Soviet Advance in Latvia and Poland
Soviet forces push along the Daugava toward Riga sweeping through 120 places including Krustpils Front. Advices say a major encirclement gains momentum as German troops retreat from the Gulf of Riga to Baltic shores. In Poland the Vistula bridgehead advance threatens new disasters while Warsaw battles continue.
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Latvia
Daugava
Riga
Krustpils
Gulf of Riga
Lake Pelpus
Baltic
Vistula
Poland
Sandomierz
Warsaw
Local Servicemen on Leave and Overseas Movements
Myron R Mil Alfred Wagner is on 30 day leave in England with his father Hugh L Miller. Mil entered service July 1942 and has spent 16 months overseas, serving in Africa and the invasions of Sicily and France. Dorsey P Groves returns to the States for a 21 day furlough after service in Sicily and Italy since February 1941. He will report to a redistribution camp after leave. Hugh Wagner, seaman first class, has arrived in England with brothers stationed in China and Missouri. Walter A Woodyard’s son Howard has moved from Fort Benjamin Harrison to Fort Leonard Wood. John E Bartlett and Paul C Kite have been forwarded from Fort Benjamin Harrison to Camp Robinson. Odbert B Henderson, 28, of Grafton, with wife Mary, is among those qualifying for petty officer rating as motor machinist’s mate third class after graduating from Naval Trainer School (diesel) at the University.
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Myron R. Mil- Alfred Wagner
England
Ciel Usn
Hugh L. Miller
East Bluemont Street
Sicily
France
Dorsey P. Groves
States
Grafton
Jeff Groves
West Main Street
Italy
Groves
Fort Lewis
Washington
Miam Beach
Fla
Hugh Wagner
U. S. Navy
A.W. Wagner
East Mainstree
Cpl
John Wagner
China
Sxt
Missouri
Walter A. Woodyard
Pvt
Howard W. Woodyard
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Leonard Wood
Camp Robinson
John E. Bartlett
Archie Bartlett
Paul C. Kite
Esther O. Kite
Dewey Avenue
Fort Benjamin Har
Ark
Odbert B. Henderson
Mary M. Henderson
Naval Trainer School
Diesel
University
Illinois campus selection trains diesel engine course
The selection to attend the special ty school in Illinois Urbana is based on recruit training aptitude test scores. The course covers use operation and maintenance of diesel engines with theoretical study in diesel engine theory electrical fundamentals and machine shop operation. The graduate awaits further duty orders to sea or shore stations.
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Ilinois
Urbana
Marquis Continued From Page One Newswire
Report notes Allied victories relayed by Allied stations. French citizens discuss the war publicly while youths join in anti-German sentiment with a taunting song. Mentions fewer than 1,000 German soldiers.
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Marquis
War notes and stray facts from a fragmented page
A fragment discusses French troops near their barracks and readiness to move, mentions rail disruptions cutting Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean but escape routes via Brittany to the Pyrenees, and briefly notes Rockefeller Center in New York as a large privately run entertainment venue. It also references Guam as a Japanese-occupied but American-owned island with rich farms and a note about the 1588 Armada storm protecting England.
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Luz
Bordeaux
Bay of Biscay
Brittany
Pyrenal
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Ie, Oliver Wesley Moore Jr
Opera House
MORAN
Fort Pitt Shoe Stores, Inc
Vitamin Headquarters
Malune’s Drug & Chemical CO
Aite
Andrews
Carmel Valley
Cal
Cher
Rae
Dervier
D Tersonal Finance CO
Deveny Bldg
Fairmont, W
Aess Ae
Malone’s Drug and Chemical Co
John Guth
National Bank
W. Va
Coca-Cola Company
Clarksburg
Coca-Cola Bottling
WKS. Inc
Coca-Cola
Willhide
Latrobe ST. V. C. Willhide, Mer
Rockefeller Center
New York
Citfris
America
Guam
Marianas Island
Jwarner Bar Pont
George Murphy
Joan Leslie
Ronald Reagan
Alan A
Ueno
Warner Bros. Studion
Emergency Relief Fame
Dixie Theatre
Wm. S. Hart In
Man
Fregubs
Ares the Great
Derssey-Willard Fit
Saini Ae
Yeatest
Earsey
Swoats
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