Beer Parlor Proprietor Held After Police Raid
Eldon Brown owner of a Latrobe street beer garden faces a municipal court hearing for allegedly serving beer to an intoxicated person. Police found nurse Simmons Mays intoxicated in the parlor after a raid at 11:50 p m. Mays posted but forfeited an $11 bond. If Brown is convicted his beer license may be forfeited.
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Eldon Brown
Latrobe Street
South Grafton Footbridge
P. F. Gillispie
Brown
Brunswick
West Main Street
A. E. Lockard
Simmons Mays
Lockard
Berlin Stores See Decade's Largest Food Run
Berlin Aug 26 Nazis report the city faces the greatest rush on food shops in decades as housewives rush to buy unlisted items and register names for new rationing. The public reads notices on rationing beginning Sept 1 while auto owners must prove daily gasoline need. A weekend gasoline ban remains to curb fuel use amid wartime shortages.
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Berlin
Germany
Hotice
Jay
Mystery illness menaces Ohio child lives in Powhatan
In Bellaire Ohio an undiagnosed illness has claimed four Powhatan children. Rose Marie Bokulich nine remains critical after her brother John five died Sunday. Earlier in August Elsie Lee Stumpp three Betty Lou five months and Joan two died within ten days. Doctors report Powhatan water safe, illness likely infectious but not contagious.
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Bellaire
Powhatan
Rose Marie Bokulich
John
Elsie Lee Stumpp
Betty Lou
Joan
Aged Colored Lady Elva Hall Dies in Local Home
Miss Elva Ann Hall aged 71 died at 1 15 this afternoon at her sister Mrs Daisy Twittys home 333 Barrett street after a week long illness. Born April 30 1868 she was daughter of Wesley and Betty Hall. Survived by two brothers William and Bruce of Grafton three sisters Mrs Grace Robinson of Fairmont Mrs Mamie Rittenhouse Mannington and Mrs Twitty. She moved from Fairmont seven years ago and was a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church of Fairmont. Funeral 2 30 Wednesday at Warren M E church Thayer street Rev A J Smith officiating internment in Smith cemetery G T Bartlett undertaker.
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Elva Ann Hall
Daisy Twitty
Barrett Street
Wesley
Betty
Strother Hall
William
Bruce Hall
Grafton
Grace
Robinson
Fairmont
Mamie
Rittenhouse
Mannington
Twitty
Miss Hall
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Warren M.E. Church
Thayer Street
A. J. Smith
Smith Cemetery
G. T. Bartlett
Canada Takes Control Of Shipping Activity
Ottawa reports the government has assumed control of shipping and set up a naval control service affecting merchant vessels of Canadian registry. The naval service will govern sailing and routines of all such vessels. Prime Minister Mackenzie King sent peace appeals to Hitler and Mussolini. Hitler had not replied by Saturday and Mussolini promised efforts toward a just settlement.
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Ottawa
Naval Service
W. L. Mackenzie King
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Prem‘r Musolini
Italy
I Duce
Former Court Bids Memorial for Elks Member
The Taylor county court prepared a resolution of respect for a deceased member of Grafton lodge No. 308 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The memorial services were held at the Ross residence, and a copy of the resolution was filed with the court and sent to the Ross family.
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Fage One! Dent
Grafton Lodge No
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Fxalter
Fred Reed
Ross
Taylor County Court
German Liner Sets Sail From New York This A.M.
The Hamburg American liner New York sailed from New York this morning as another German liner, the Bremen, headed for New York. The New York was bound for Bremen, Germany, and was due to dock at 5 p.m. EST.
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New York
Bremen
Germany
Family quarrel ends with two wounded in Charleston
In Charleston on August 28, George Richards required surgery to remove 56 shotgun pellets from legs and abdomen after a family quarrel climaxed in gunfire. His wife was slightly wounded. Hubert Richards, 31, was being questioned by State Trooper Paul Ebberts and Trooper Edwin Starcher and would face malicious wounding charges.
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Charleston
George Richards
Paul Ebberts
Hubert Richards
Nice
Ebberts
Edwin Starcher
Steel Worker Falls To Death At High Tower
Charleston August 28 Harold H. Combs a 21 year old steelworker fell about 130 feet to his death from the top of a civil aeronautics radio beam tower on a construction site near Cross Lenes witnesses said he touched a charged wire and lost his footing as he worked on the CAA tower under construction with reports attributing the accident to a failed footing on the exposed height.
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Charleston
Harold H. Combs
Civil Aeronautics
Combs
CAA
Ab Cross Lenes
Firemen extinguish tree fire on West Main and Leonard
Grafton city firemen responded to a silent alarm at 8 o clock Saturday night to put out a small blaze in a tree at the corner of West Main and Leonard streets. Papers stuffed in the tree were set afire but the flames were quickly doused.
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Grafton City
West Main
Leonard Streets
Five Shot In Strike Fight At Pineville Mine
In Pineville Kentucky five men were shot in a clash between pickets and workers near the Kentucky Ridge coal mine. Arnold Smith was seriously wounded as guards move into Bell county after a strike by miners protesting contract terms with United Mine Workers CIO. Deputy Sheriff Richard Lawson was among the injured.
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Pineville
National
Bell County
Walter
Harlan County
Isbor
Arnold ‘Smith
Albert Ott
Walter Green
Delmer Goodin
Kentucky Ridge Con Company
Arnold Smith
Richard Lawson
Kentucky Ridge
Coleman Fuel Compan
United Mine Workers
CIO
Aged Man Fatally Struck by Car Near Litzemore
State Police Sergeant Ezra Zirkle reported 75 year old Philip N Stone of Bentree was fatally injured when he walked into the path of a car at Litzemore. The incident occurred August 28 and the man died from his injuries.
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Charleston
Ezra Zirkle
Philip N. Stone
Bentree
Litzemore
Japanese Aviators Reach Alaska in Transpacific Flight
Seven Japanese aviators pilot the Nippon monoplane landed at Nome Alaska after a 200 mile hop from Kamchatka. They continued toward Whitehorse and plan to reach Vancouver Seattle San Francisco and Los Angeles before turning east. Pilot Sumitoshi Nakao leads the voyage under Nichi Nichi and Osaka Mainichi sponsorship.
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Nome
Alaska
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
United States
North Pacific
Bering Sea
Kokkaido Island
Komandorskie Island
Kmachatka Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Sumitoshi Nakao
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Osaka
Red Cross Class to Open September 15 in Grafton
The Grafton Red Cross chapter announces a home treatment class in injuries and disease to begin September 15 with nurse Mrs Violet Hovatter from Grafton City Hospital in charge. Interested registrants should contact Mrs Luther C. Ford or Frank C. Collins, the chapter chairman, as the meeting place is not yet determined.
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Wea
Leading Stocks Rally After Early Decline
New York August 28 investors saw a late rally in the stock market after leaders fell 1 to 4 points amid renewed European war fears. Leading issues including Steel, General Electric, Chrysler, American Telephone, and Eastman Kodak advanced while Aluminum of America and Gulf Oil retreated.
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New York
Asley
Steel
Goodrich
Chrysler
Montgomery Ward
International Harvester
American Telephone
Anaconda
Westinghouse
American Smelting
General Electric
Eastman Kodak
Santa Fe
Central
Loft
Aluminum of America
Electric Bond
Share
Gulf Oil
Lockheed
Pittsburgh
In Memory of Gloria Duff Beloved Daughter Remembered
A memorial note from mother and grandparents marks one year since Gloria Lucille Duff died on August 28 1938. The message speaks of grief yet faith as she rests beyond the river in a land of glory where loveliness never dies and joy awaits at sunset.
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Gloria Lucille Duff
Bkies
Resolution of Respect for Former Taylor County Commissioner John Morgan Ross
The County Court of Taylor County records with sorrow the passing of John Morgan Ross, former commissioner 1921 to 1926 and president in 1925 and 1926. He served faithfully, guiding county highways and civic duties, and the court offers condolences to his widow and family while ordering resolutions into the records.
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County Court
Taylor County
John Morgan Ross
Ross
Indictments Of Four Attacked As Invalid In Ohio Case
In Columbus Ohio on August 28 attorneys for four men charged with abducting Charlotte Null from Parkersburg West Virginia on August 20 argued indictments were invalid at a removal hearing in federal district court. Judge Mell G Underwood continued the case until September 7. The defense said the Lindbergh law charges were improper as affidavits lacked ransom mention. Accused are Rinaldo Bebutch John Foster Richard Hill and Harold Custer all of Steubenville.
Silver Shirts Head Accused of Diverting Assets
Washington August 2 The Dies committee investigator charged William Dudley Pelley with diverting between 35000 and 40000 dollars of Galahad Press assets to his own uses. Barker testified that the religious publishing house operated from New York Washington and Asheville and was declared bankrupt in North Carolina in 1934.
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Washington
William Dudigy Pelley
Robert B. Parker
Galahad Press
Pelley
Barker
Variey Times
New York
Asheville
North Carolina
Asds
Christian Enomies
Joss Toers
Dies
Texag
Rhea Whitley
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Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Cam
Sander
Poland
Central Press
London
Great Britain
Europe
Canada
National Guardsmen
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Red Cross
Aarvey A. Poe
Central Press Radiophoto
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