Rebels Open Big Drive to Capture Spanish Capital
Rebels push toward Madrid with a northward thrust from Toledo while pressing a southern advance. General Franco signals steady progress. Loyalist defenses stiffen at San Sebastian as the Junta relocates its nerve center toward Valladolid to near Madrid.
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Associated Press
Germany
Madrid
Willingenss
Kamerun
Augusto Barcia
Toledo
Capi
Francisco Pranco
San Sebastian
Spain
Burgos
Valladolid
Drive Safely In Sudden Showers Warns of Skid Risk
The Taylor County Safety Council urges caution during sudden showers as rain mixes with road dust to create a slippery film. Drivers should reduce speed to prevent skidding and loss of control.
Year’s Record Temperature Equalled Here in Heat Wave
A blazing July sun pushed readings into the nineties across West Virginia with Grafton recording 96 degrees, tying the year's peak. U.S. Weather Observer W. E. Clayton disclosed the trend as hot weather continued, with several minor illnesses reported and one death linked to the heat in McMechen.
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Grafton
U.S
W. E. Clayton
First Baptist Church
Associated Press
West, Virginia
McMechen
Viola Paolucci
Rotary Club Pays Tribute to Dr. Warden
The Grafton Rotary club honored Dr. A. R. Warden at a Cozy Rest Inn meeting, with Dr. William Knox delivering a eulogy. A resolutions committee was formed to express the club and county’s grief over the longtime member’s death, and pallbearers visited Bartlett Funeral Home after the service.
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Grafton
H. E. Flesher
O. Jay Fleming
Leslie J. Lear
Bartlett Funeral Home
Federal Attorney Plans Charges Against Company
Pittsburgh report says U S District Attorney Charles F Uhl considers union charges that men were transported across state lines to work at the Coroapolis Standard Steel Spring plant. The mill closed after a strike by a local Amalgamated Association chapter. Lee Pressman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee alleges 35 or more strike breakers were brought in.
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Pittsburgh
U. S
Charles F. Uhl
Coroapolis
Standard Steel Spring Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Lee Pressman
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis Committee For Industrial Organization
Study Relocation Planned for Elk River Dam Project
Huntington August 22 The United States Engineers Office says a study has begun to relocate highways for the Clendenin reservoir project on the Elk river. Engineers are making property appraisals and surveying railroad locations.
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Huntington
United States Engineers Office
Clendenin Reservoir
Elk River
Grafton High Band to Perform Downtown Tonight
The Grafton High School band will give a concert this evening at 6:30 in the First National Bank square. Music director John Evans has drilled students all summer, yielding one of the best bands for its size and age in the state.
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Grafton High School
National Bank Square
John Evans
Pair Rescued In Coal Mine After 72 Hours
MOBERLY MO Aug 22 A miracle rescue tale spans the state as two miners J W McCann 50 and Demmer Sexton 37 survive 72 hours trapped 110 feet underground after a fire and cave in killed two companions Edward Stoner Jr 26 and George T Cameron 27 The rescue chief Arnold Griffith credits a narrow chance at life as workers dig through debris to reach the bottom shaft keeping the survivors hopeful in hospital with Sexton in critical condition
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Moberly
J. W. McCann
Demmer Sexton
Arnold Griffith
Edward Stoner, Jr
George T. Cameron
Stump Chosen Chairman Party Finance Committee
John S. Stump Jr of Clarksburg is named chair of the Democratic state committee finance group. Other appointees include Herbert Fitzpatrick Huntingdon, H B Davenport Charleston, Fred McIntosh Spencer, A W Paull Wheeling, Lawrence Tierney Bluefield, Sophia Benedum Bridgeport, J B Samuel Parkersburg, and George Beckley. Eugene Beana Charleston named ree? of
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Charleston
John S. Stump, Jr
Clarksburg
Democratic State Committee
R. C. Andrews
Herbert Fitzpatrick
H. B. Davenport
Fred McIntosh
Spencer
A. W. Paull
Wheeling
Lawrence Tierney
Bluefield
Sophia Benedum
Bridgepoors
J. B. Samuel
Parkersburg
George C
Andrews
Eugene Eana Charleston
Evidence All In Arguments Get Started In Murder Trial
At Asheville North Carolina August 22 194? defense motion for non suit denied and judge ordered counsels to begin arguments in the murder trial of Martin Moore a 22 year old hotel hallboy charged with killing Helen Clevenger in Bat tery Park hotel room early July 16. Rebuttal testimony ended after James Pinkins testified Moore sought to evade work and contradicted Moore about learning of the death until 7 p m July 16. Body found about 8 30 a m. Miss Clevenger was an 18 year old New York University student killed about 1 a m that day.
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Asheville
N.C
Martin Moore
Helen Clevenger
Battery Park
Donald E. Phillips
James Pinkins
Miss Clevenger
Pinkins
Moore
New York University
Ed Frady
Charleston PWA grant for Elk River bridge under study
Officials said Charleston West Virginia applied for a 450000 grant to build a bridge over the Elk river in Charleston linking Kanawha Street and Columbia Boulevard. The span is estimated at 1000000 dollars. Mayor D Boone Dawson urged action during a conference with PWA expediter Robert Fernsler.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Charleston
W. Va
Elk River Inn
Kanawha Street
Columbia Boulevard
D. Boone Dawson
PWA
Robert Fernsler
North Carolina Man Is Held For Police There
Kelly Aldridge alias Thom as Wiggins twenty three, who told State Trooper W E Murphy his home was Durham NC, was taken into custody on fraud charges in Durham. He said he had a prison record and a missing sum in his department prompted him to flee the country. Murphy sent a telegram to Durham police chief to confirm the statement after the boy waived extradition.
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Kelly Aldridge
Thomas Wiggins
W. E. Murphy
Durham
N. C
Murphy
Railroad Worker Electrocuted in Bluefield Yard
Bluefield reports 37 year old Thomas E. Davis died after coming into contact with a high voltage wire in the Virginian Railway yard. Officials say more than 11,000 volts passed through his body as he worked in the yard.
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Bluefield
Thomas E. Davis
Davis
Taylor county schools to reopen September 8
More than 5000 Taylor county students will begin a nine month term on September 8 with officials saying readiness is complete for another school year. In 1935 36, total enrollment reached 5305 across elementary and three high schools, with 4079 in elementary, 125 in high schools, and remaining in higher grades. Superintendent E Guy Kuhn declined to estimate this year’s enrollment or predict increases, noting cyclical patterns and shifts from transient families. Continued on page five.
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Taylor County
E Guy Kuhn
Kuhn
Car Stolen Vehicle Found Abandoned in Findlay Ohio
A Ford owned by Everett Brown stolen from Tygarts Dam on August 18 was found abandoned after a wreck in Findlay Ohio, over 300 miles from Grafton. State troopers broadcast a description of the suspect, who remains at large, and Ohio officers provided the discovery details. The extent of the damage is not yet known.
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Troper
W. E. Murphy
Everett Brown
Tygarts Dam
Findlay
Ohio
Grafton
Murphy
Ohio State
Ben
Level Of Tygarts At Coffman Is Very Low
The level of the Tygarts river at Coffman near Grafton is at its lowest stage this summer and within four inches of the 1930 low. Low water and concrete from Tygarts dam construction hinder fishing, leaving the area sparsely used by sportsmen this season.
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Coffman
Tygarts River
Grafton
The
Sentinel
Tygarts Dam
Former Preston Legislator Felton Dies at Manheim Home
Elias Scott Felton, 83, longtime Republican figure and former Preston County legislator, died at his daughter’s Manheim home after illness. A retired farmer and schoolteacher, he served as justice of the peace for years and as a delegate in 1911-1912.
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Preston
Manheim
Elias Scott Felton
W. B. Shaver
Wiliam
Catherine Meighen Pelton
Whetsell
Felton
Preston County
Pelton
County Levy Budget Approved After Fox Meeting
State Tax Commissioner Fred L. Fox and County officials in Charleston adjusted Taylor county's levy estimates restoring cuts to the assessor and courthouse and jail repair funds. The relief fund was raised to meet a 15 percent mandate, with reductions in advertising and election expense to bolster the general relief allocation. The contingency and miscellaneous expense adjustments were noted as ongoing, with continued coverage expected on page eight.
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Taylor County
Fred L. Fox
James C. Holt
Charleston
Fox
Virginian brakeman struck by engine dies in Mullins hospital
Barkesdale, a Virginian Railway brakeman, was killed after being struck by a locomotive while crossing a track in the Elmore yards after finishing a run. He lived in Pontoon, with his family and home listed in Preston?
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Mullins
Barkesdale
Viginian Railway
Elmore
Barksdale
Princeton
Cause of Engine Blast Probed by ICC Inspectors
Hinton August 22 three inspectors of the Interstate Commerce Commission began a probe into the cause of an explosion on the Piney Creek branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio that killed three trainmen Engineman Brown Nunnally of Hinton Fireman Ray E Singer of Oak Hill and Conductor Blaine Simmons of Raleigh The damaged locomotive was brought to the shops in Hinton for inspection E L Boch general manager of the C and O said he believed the blast was caused by the engineer letting water run low in the boiler
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Hinton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Piney Creek
Chesapeake and Ohio
Brown Nunnally
Ray E. Singer
Oak Hill
Blaine Simmons
Raleigh
E. L. Boch
Death Penalty Sought For Sixteen Plotters
In Moscow on August 2 Prosecutor Andrey Vishinsky demanded the death penalty for all 16 confessed conspirators against the Soviet Union calling them mad dogs who must be shot. He proclaimed a pitiful and disgraceful end awaits these people as he wrapped up the prosecution.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Andrey J. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Two Accused Negroes Are Taken Back to Carolina
In Welch on August 22 state troopers transported Harry Johnson and Green Harris two accused Black men to North Carolina. Authorities say the pair are charged with murder for allegedly killing another Black man in a quarrel two months earlier in Asheville North Carolina.
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Carolina
Welch
Harry Johnson
Green Harris
North Carolina
Asheville
Wood County Farmers Seek Lower Freight Rates
Drought damaged forage crops across ten Ohio river counties prompts Wood County farmers to seek reduced freight rates for feed. They plan a meeting at Point Pleasant to urge federal aid as shortages push up feed costs and foreshadow higher meat prices this fall.
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Charleston
Wood County
Ohio River
Department of Agriculture
Point Pleasant
W. H. Sill
J. B. McLaughlin
Two Cases Before Mayor In Police Court This Morning
Mayor E Otto Waugh heard two cases in police court as facts emerged. Earl Carder, arrested on Main street after liquor denial, is slated for a charge of driving a car without an operator's license once released Monday. Cecil Powell, a tunnel worker, was released from jail then jailed again within a day for drunkenness.
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E. Otto Waugh
Earl Carder
Main Street
W. E. Murphy
Carder
Cecil Powell
One of Sextuplets Lives in Mendon News
In Mendon Missouri on August 22 an apple-cheeked baby girl survived among sextuplets while five others were stillborn. The mother Adelin Speichinger, 36, already mother of nine, might have had six live babies if her health had been stronger. Local physician and family described the birth and the slow spread of news through the countryside.
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Mendon
Adelin Speichinger
Girl Stricken After Attending S S Picnic
In Parkersburg a fourteen year old girl named Elizabeth Pursley contracted infantile paralysis after attending a Sunday school picnic. She had been ill for a week, but paralysis appeared following the outing, prompting doctors to urge parents to isolate all others who attended.
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Parkersburg
Elizabeth Pursley
Landon Train Tour Draws Massive Ohio Crowd
Governor Alf M. Landon travels through Ohio en route to West Middlesex Pennsylvania delivering his anti-New Deal message. He stresses drought relief should not be treated as political credit, while addressing large crowds and planning three eastern speeches. He notes no individual or organization should receive political credit for relief efforts.
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Landon
Alf M. Landon
Ohio
West Middlesex
Tom O'Shanter
Pennsylvania
Lima
West Middlesex Welcomes Lanfor President Campaign Rally
West Middlesex Pennsylvania bursts with crowds as Alf Landon opens his Republican presidential campaign speech at Tom O Shanter golf course. An estimated 50 000 to 100 000 supporters pack roads and parking for the open air rally timed for 3 p m local time. The Kansas governor’s bid draws nationwide traffic with cars lining routes from Ohio and beyond.
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West Middlesex
Alf M. Landon
Little West Middlesex
Tom O'Shanter Golf Course
Ohio
Kansas
G. Edward Green
State Republican Committee
London
Ictus
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Taylor County Safety
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Clevenger
Thornton
Rotary Club
DR. Warden
W. E. Knox
Stump
Bluefield Yard
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Indiana
G.O. P
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