Odd Fellows Building Sold By Insurance Co
New York Life Insurance Co sold the Odd Fellows building on West Main to D. W. Lawson for about 6000 dollars. Deed not yet recorded in County Clerk Rd St Clair's office. The building houses the Grafton News and the 4 and B tea store. Parrish Realty handled the deal for the insurer.
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Odd Fellows
West Main Street
New York Life Insurance Company
D. W. Lawson
Rd. St. Clair
Grafton News
con‘Armmede
Parrish Realty Company
Firemen Plan Benefit Game and Dance for Labor Day
At a regular fire department meeting President Russel Mathews formed committees for a Labor Day Community Picnic at City Park a ball game to follow at Athletic Field Sunday August 27 and a Roll-A-Drome dance August 29 Tickets are on sale with admission at the door. The Old Timers vs Young Firemen game features Elmer Behen leading the youngsters and Dick Schmalz guiding the elder players.
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Russel Mathews
City Park
Elmer Behen
Fire Department
Dick" Schmalz
Igneé
L. H. Greenwald
Huntington Hospital to Close September 1
Huntington will shut its municipally operated hospital on September 1 due to a curtailed city budget. City medical director W W Dry announced the move, following a budget requirement by the good government association bloc in the city council. The venereal disease clinic will be moved to offices in City Hall.
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Huntington
Dry
W. W. Strange
Good Government Association
Cty Council
Strange
Bee
Bolivian exiled leader Toro eyes return after Busch death
In Santiago Chile Col David Toro, exiled Bolivian president, says he would return to La Paz if summoned to help form a government after Col German Busch dies from a gunshot wound. Propaganda Minister says Busch died by his own action amid mental strain. General Quintanilla takes provisional presidency as Bolivia declares three days of mourning.
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Santiago
Chile
Col
David Toro
Bolivia
la Paz
German Busch
Busch
Mario Flores
Toro
Chaco
Paraguay
Carlos Quintanilla
Beckley Youth Identified in Second Theatre Holdup
Beckley youth Sandy Costello, 20, identified by theatre ticket seller Mrs. Virginia Shumaker as the robbers who held up the Granada theatre on March 19, escaping with $13. Costello and Ralph Marcus, 20, both of Beckley, were arrested after the Ritz theatre robbery, with state police recovering $159 of the $161 seized.
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Bluefield
Newt Wilson
Sandy Costello
Beckley
Hinton
Granada Theatre
Virginia Shumaker
Costello
Ralph Marcus
Ritz
C. H. Webb
Death of noted dramatist Sydney Howard in tractor accident
New York mourns Sydney Howard, renowned playwright and film scenarist, killed when crushed by a tractor on his 700 acre Tyringham estate in Massachusetts. The writer had spent hours drafting a dramatization of Carl Van Doren’s Pulitzer biografía of Benjamin Franklin before the tragedy occurred.
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New York
Sydney Howard
Tyrmaham
Mass
Carl van Doren
Benjamin Franklin
Tractor Mishap Injures Composer's Son-in-Law Howard
A tractor left in gear leaped forward when spun by Howard, 48, son-in-law of conductor Walter Damrosch. It struck him with such force it bulged a garage wall ten inches. The incident involves the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Howard and reflects a workplace accident.
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Barrow
Howard
Walter Damrosch
Teey
Lion Hunted Aboard Ship Near Cape May
News of a lion loose aboard the ship Amazon bound for Venezuela after a tarp failed. Coast Guard at Cape May asked Beatty circus trainers to intervene with two lion handlers from Clyde Beatty Circus. Buck warned the lion might need shooting if not recaptured aboard off New Jersey coast.
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New York
Amazon
Cape May
N. J
Benezuel
Coast Guard Attoniet
Clyde
Animal Circus
Atla City
Labor League Accuses WPA of Discrimination
Martinsburg August 24 Labor's Non-Partisan League charged discrimination by WPA officials against labor organizations. Leon Rice said complaints were lodged with Charles Sauier Wheeling in charge of the WPA labor division R A Mollohan Parkersburg district director and E A Hoke Fairmont. Rice contends unions work for the WPA were dismissed without usual procedure and many in need of work were not employed because of their labor affiliations.
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Martinsburg
WPA
Leon Rice
League
Charles Sauier
Wheeling
Wpagiabor
R. A. Mollohan
Parkershire
E. A. Hoke
Fairmont
Rice
Five men arrested in Charleston linked to multi state liquor gang
State police in Charleston announce five men charged with operating a five state liquor gang. George Edward Fraizer and Robert Fraiser plus Jimmy Dodd John J. Bumpus and Stanley Hamilton are in custody. Two more men are sought for questioning as officers pursue connections to stolen vehicles and federal fugitives.
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Charleston
James Fillinger
C. E. Musgrave
E Gorge Eward
Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
West
Ohio
George Franter
Cattettsburg
Kenova-Cattettsburg’ Bridge
Frazier
West Virginia
Big Sandy River
Fillingler
Robert Frazier
George Frazier
State Penitentiary
Stock Market Recovers From Early Losses Amid War Fears
New York August 24 stock market showed improvement as early declines over five points due to European war fears were reversed by midday. Key movers included Bethlehem Steel Youngstown Sheet General Motors Montgomery Ward Goodrich Western Union and Union Pacific with aluminum America American Gas Lake Shore Sherwin Williams and Carrier Corp advancing.
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New York
Wither
Home Exchange
Bethlehem Stel
Youngstown Sheet
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
Goodrich
Western Union
Ida
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Aluminum ‘of’ America
American Gas
Lake ‘Shore
Sherwin Willamsrand Carrier Corp
Woman Arrested on Indecent Exposure Warrant
State police arrested Carrie Miner about 35 on an indecent exposure warrant issued in Barbour county. She was taken from her place of employment on McGraw avenue to Philippi for trial today.
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Barbour County
Carrie Miner
McGraw Avenue
R Day
Philippi
Mrs Lily Bott Receives Final Citizenship Panels
Mrs Lily Bott of South Grapton was granted final citizenship in a district court in Clarksburg yesterday. She declared she is now an American citizen, noting she was an English citizen the day before. Bott, born in Northumberland England near the Scottish border, came to the United States and Grafton in 1926.
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Lily Bott
South Grafton
U. S. A District Court
Clarksburg
Americans Urged to Leave France at Once
Paris reports the United States embassy formally advised all American citizens to arrange to depart France after the government mobilized reservists. The embassy issued a notice citing the worsening European crisis and recommended Americans leave promptly. Grafton Rotary Club announces fall lyceum series with The Murders Merry-Makers set to perform in Grafton on September 18 with Frank C. Collins leading the committee.
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Paris
United States
France
Grafton
Rotary Club
Lyceum
Frank C. Collins
E.G. Kuhn
John Hopkins
Exam Ordered In Death Case
Los Angeles stories reveal a juvenile suspect Richard Jensen, a former reform school inmate, facing a hearing after 13 year old William Williams was found dead in the Jensen home basement in Montrose. Sheriff deputies report the youth claimed he planned to dismember the body using a butcher knife, citing a detective magazine idea. He added he was not sorry for the act.
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Los Angeles
Richard Jensen
Richard
William Williams
Jansen
Montrose
Sherif
William J. Penprose
Whittier
the Reform School
Senator McCarran Plans Special Session on Neutrality Bill
Senator Pat McCarran said his Washington office received word that President Roosevelt would call a special session of Congress to consider neutrality legislation. He told reporters he would regret any move leading to a prompt halt of the Senate debate.
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Salt Lake City
Pat McCarran
D. Ney
Washington
Papeervel
Congress
McCarran
Rose
Mussolini Talks Military Power With Italian Chiefs
Rome reports Premier Mussolini conferred with the Traian Army Navy and Air Force chiefs and Fascist leaders on Italy's military matters. The meeting followed concerns over the France Germany axis and the German Soviet pact as Italians readied for potential security shifts.
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Rome
miitary mab=ters
Traian Army
Navy
Air Force
Pascist Laan
Conce Jaksolini
Ttalians Wales
Germany
General Henderson Named Prison Warden
Welfare Director Charles Sher Wood announced the appointment of Frank D. Herrier as warden of Penta to succeed James C. General Henderson was named prison warden in Columbus Ohio with the appointment announced today.
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General Henderson
Columbus
Charles Sher + Wood
Frank D. Herrier
James C
Appreciation from the Marsh family after loss
The bereaved family of S. L. Marsh expresses thanks for sympathy shown during their sorrow. They wish the Good Shepherd of The Air to guide and protect each recipient. Mrs. S. L. Marsh and Children.
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Ng S. L. Marsh
S. L. Marsh
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