Flood devastates Hinton area as New River swells
Damaging floods hit Hinton Gauley Bridge and nearby towns after torrential rains on the New River. Crests expected this morning. Highways closed and rail traffic halted as water rose to feet in low areas. Gas and electricity shut off. Meadow River and Well Creek areas flooded. Gauley Bridge also flooded with about three feet of water and several businesses affected.
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Associated Press
New River
Virginia
Hinton
Gauley Bridge
Radford
Irginia
West Virginia
Hest Rainélle
H. E. Locke
Meadow River
Awell Creek
State Road Commission
Virgil Stevens O
Electro- Metallurgical Company
Virginia Flood Devastates Towns and Roots Death Toll
Unseasonal rains flood southwest Virginia causing damaged homes and roads and at least three deaths. Staunton River rises rapidly blocking routes into Altavista while Radford and Galax suffer severe impact. Red Cross aid quiets disrupted lines as New River water plant goes out of service and railway tracks are swamped.
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Oanoke
Virginia
Roanoke
Staunton
Altavista
Red Cross
Radford
Galax
Norfolk and Western Railway
Theatre Ticket Clipping Admits Strand or Dixie Show
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Charles H White of 1018 West Main Street to attend tonight's screenings at Strand theatre or we theatre showing Out West With the Peppers and The Man in the Iron Mask with Edith Fellows Warren Williams Identification may be required.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Charles H. White
West Main Street
the Gratton Sentinel
Delmar Haddo
Walnut-street
Ken Maynard
Polly
Young
Opera House Theatre
Willkie Flies Back Home to Indiana Stop
Wendell L. Willkie plans a late flight to Indiana to unveil his views on military conscription in his acceptance address. He will address a Kansas City airport crowd en route, with a stop in Indianapolis before driving to Rushville, his wife’s hometown, as part of the campaign trail.
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William B. Ardery
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Indiana
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Rushville
Ind
Willkie
Elwood
Commerce Official Has Resigned U S Position
Edward J. Noble, a Connecticut Republican billionaire and organizer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, resigns as undersecretary of Commerce after two years in federal service. He told President Roosevelt his decision arose from little left he could add to the work. Noble, a candy manufacturer, was brought into government in 1938 to revitalize the department and organize the CAA.
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Washington
Edward J. Noble
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Noble
Connecticut
Roosevelt
CAA
Department of Commerce
Churchill admits bad news from Somaliland
Churchill told the House of Commons that a small British holding force had been driven back by greatly superior Italian forces northwest of Hargeisa in British Somaliland. He said operations were ongoing and promised a fuller statement next week outlining the eastern situation.
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London
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Spres
Hargeisa
British Somaliland
Churchill
Italian Troops Advance Speedily Along Zebla Berera Coast
London authoritative quarters said Italian forces moved along the Zebla Berera coast road in British Somaliland more rapidly than expected. They were reported about 20 miles west of Bulhar, roughly 40 miles west of Berbera, the seaport capital.
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London
Zebla-Berbera
British Somaliland
Bulhar
Berbera
Pact Divides British Sector In Shanghai Settlement
Reports say American and Japanese forces have agreed to split Shanghai's British defense zone after British troops leave North China. The 4th U. S. Marines under Col. Dewitt Peck would take the Central district as defense leaders met for four hours. Official confirmation was expected at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
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Shanghai
North China
U. S
Dewitt Peck
International Settlement
Cudahy Not Rebuked By President for Statement
President Roosevelt told Ambassador John Cudahy there was no intention to rebuke him over remarks in London about Belgium under German occupation. Cudahy said he received no rebuke and would not resign. Sumner Welles had said the interview violated standing instructions, but the incident is now closed.
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John Cudahy
U. S
Belgium
Michael
Mary
New York
Cudahy
State Department
London
Washington
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Political row in Mexico City leaves one dead
In Mexico City a woman was killed and seven people wounded as gunfire erupted during political clashes between factions ahead of congress opening. A 15-year-old was among the injured as crowds supported General Almazan and Avila Camacho backers. Authorities moved to charge Almazan followers.
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Mexico City
Congress
Manuel Avila Camacho
Viva Almazan
Juan Alma
Norwegian Freighter Thermopylae Tracks Mystery Ship
The 6,655 ton Norwegian freighter Thermopylae reported being tracked by a mystery ship within the neutrality zone near the Americas. Initial radio indicated a submarine attack, then a request for position without distress. Coast guard investigators traced her about 450 miles east of New York.
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New York
Thermopylae
MacKay
Coast Guard
Draft Delay Likely Will Be Approved
Administration strategists privately acknowledged a good chance the Senate will reject immediate conscription and back a compromise plan delaying compulsory service until January. They cited Brigadier General Shedd’s statement that the army cannot absorb a full quota of conscripts before December as backing for the Maloney bill to register men aged 21 to 31 now but postpone calling conscripts until 1941.
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Washington
Senate
William E. Shedd
Maloney
State Moves To Collect Delinquent Utilities Taxes
Charleston reports 125 public utilities owe the state $22,061.23 in delinquent taxes, with W. H. O’Brien asking payment before potential court action. Delinquencies range from a few hundred to $7,040.25 by Wheeling Traction, amid a list covering 1933 to 1939 including railroad car firms, telephone concerns, water firms, oil and gas, bus lines, and electric railroads.
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Charleston
O'Brien
Wheeling Traction Company
Tot Spared Mercy Death Dies Of Glioma
In Chicago on August 15, baby Helaine Colan aged two years four months died from a glioma after a jury of physicians and clergymen advised an operation risking total blindness. Her parents Herman and Estelle Colan faced the choice between mercy death and surgery. The procedure removed the left eye and part of the optic nerve but failed to halt the cancer.
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Chicago
Helaine Colan
Herman and
Estelle Colan
Federal employment over million mark during June
The Civil Service Commission reported that defense expansion pushed federal employment in June to 1,011,066 in the executive branch, up 33,076 from May and the highest since records began. It notes especially strong hiring across the war and navy departments, the Panama Canal authority and the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Commission
War and Navy Departments
Panama Canal Authority
Civil Aeronaut
Hollywood Leaders Deny Red Charges In Emphatic Denial
Hollywood figures including Fredric March Francis Lederer Jean Muir Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney deny being Communist party members or supporters as John Leech testified. The Dies Committee plans secret hearings next week amid murder indictments stemming from a waterfront killing tied to a union dispute.
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Los Angeles
Communist Party
John Lewis Leech
Portland
Oregon
March
Hollywood
Mer
Dean Landis
Harvard Law School
Texas
Dies Congressional Committee
Dies Committee
Leech
Comn
Air Ministry reports 31 German planes downed yesterday
London report says 31 German planes were destroyed in yesterday's battles. British loss tally stood at seven fighters with two pilots saved.
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Air Ministry
London
Greek Cruiser Helle Sunk by Unidentified Submarine
The Greek light cruiser Helle, built in 1912 for China as Hei Fung and later acquired by Greece, was torpedoed and sunk by an unidentified submarine. Helle displaced 2115 tons, carried 232 crew, and armed with three six inch guns and two torpedo tubes, capable of carrying 110 mines.
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Athens
China
Hei Fung
Greece
Jane's Fighting Ships
Jane's
Two Air Corps Men Die In Plane Crash At Disbrow Park
In Rye New York on August 15 Lieut Henry C Thompson 25 of Muskegon Heights Michigan and Private E E Spencer were killed when their BT-14 training aircraft from Mitchel Field crashed in Disbrow Park and burned. A second plane vanished over Long Island Sound during routine training. officials gave no additional details.
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Rye
Henry Clayton Thompson
Muskegon Heights
Mich
E. E. Spencer
Disbrow Park
Thompson
Mitchelfield
Long Island Sound
Mitchel Field
Spencer
Britons Fight Off Invaders Across Britain in Air Attacks
British defense reported shooting down ten German warplanes today with six over southeast England three over a northeastern coast town and one over Scotland. Anti aircraft batteries engaged along the southwest coast as raids aimed at shipping continued. Berlin attributed bombers and fighters to widening air activity along extended lines from southeast to northeast Britain.
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London
Britain
England
Scotland
Kentucky Lacks Funds for Possible Draft Costs
Washington dispatch reports Governor Keen Johnson informed Kentucky congressmen the state cannot finance any conscription costs if needed. Johnson noted the legislature gave no provision for such expenses and there is no constitutional authority to spend without action.
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Washington
Kentucky
Keen Johnson
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Johnson
Japan's Last Political Party Quits Voluntarily
TOKYO August 15 The Minsekto Japan last and largest political party dissolved voluntarily so members may join a proposed single national party under Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The Mineseito backed the government's Chinese policy and had urban and industrial support as all other parties were already disbanded.
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Tokyo
Minsekto
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Mineseito
Lawn Fete Tonight at Harry White's Lawn Loveland
Benefit event at International Shrine Fund hosted by the Mother Church of Mother's Day in Loveland Addition near Route 50 and 119. In case of rain the fete will be held Friday at 115-4.
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Harry
West Virginia Republicans pledge smaller government platform
At Charleston on August 15 the Republican state judicial convention endorsed a platform calling for reduced state and national expenses, nonpartisan county boards, three-man road commission return, actual-cost county jail feeding, municipality aid, and beer sales only with local approval. It asserts defeat of Roosevelt as essential and previews judges Haymond Maxwell and John H. Hatcher for the Supreme Court.
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Charleston
Republican Party
West Virginia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Haymond Maxwell
John H. Hatcher
Supreme Court
Sweeney
Bad Weather Delays Nazi Bombing Raids
Berlin reports German bombers resumed assaults on Britain after a weather lull. The high command cited unfavorable conditions for the slowdown, noting 26 British planes destroyed yesterday with many losses in air and on the ground. Attacks targeted harbors, ports, troop concentrations, power plants, and factories in southern and central England and Wales. A German cruiser was reportedly sunk at sea in the same period.
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High Command
England
Wales
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