City Police Solve Gas Station Robbery in Graf ton
Detention of a 15 year old Graf ton boy and a search for a second youth were announced as police solved the City Limits service station burglary. Loot included 31 gallons Prestone, tobacco, candy, tobacco tins, razors, gloves and tools. One youth in custody implicated his companion and led officers to the cache along the B and O near Beaumont factory site. A second boy remains at large. authorities plan further action in West Hill. The arrested youth is held in the county jail awaiting a juvenile court hearing.
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Grafton
A. E. Lockard
City Limits
Clarence W. Kelly
Webster Pike
Kelly
Lockard
Beaumont
Sunoco Motor
Big Ben
Prince Albert
Americans in Warships Drop Leaflets Rallying Revolt
Warships yesterday dropped leaflets urging the proletariat to revolt against bourgeois tyranny. Officially 50 were known to have died in yesterday's raids alone and casualties in the countryside were still mounting.
Three Flemington students attain perfect marks in second six weeks
Principal L W Talbot announced that three senior students Mattie O Keefe Junior Reppert and Helen Benda achieved perfect A averages for the second six weeks of the school year. The honor roll lists several 12th 11th 10th 9th and 8th graders with grades B or better across subjects.
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Flemington High School
L. W. Talbot
Atttaining
Mattie O'Keefe
Junior Reppert
Helen Benda
Mary Caruso
Carrie Sinsel
Ruth Sheets
Shipping losses and Soviet stance amid wartime updates
The report cites DNB on tanker losses averaging 7,500 tons per ship with about 20 tankers damaged or lost. DNB urges larger losses exist unseen by British Admiralty and notes limited comment from authorized sources on the Soviet Russian Finnish situation. Col-Gen von Brauchitsch tours the Siegfried line as neutrals are watched and a western front communique mentions feeble artillery and scouting activity.
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DNB
Germany
Russia
Walther von Brauchitsch
Rhenish
Siegfried Line
Miller elected historian of Stonewall Jackson Stamp Club
Graf ton stamp authority H C Miller was elected historian of the Stonewall Jackson Stamp Collectors Club of Clarksburg at a recent meeting. Gus tav Spath of Clarksburg was chosen as new president. Installation is planned in January due to December meeting cancellation for Christmas holidays.
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H. C. Miller
Grafton Stamp Authority
Stonewall Jackson Stamp Collectors’ Club
Clarksburg
Gustav Spath
Dewey enters presidential campaign in New York
President hopeful Thomas E. Dewey formally announces his bid at a New York campaign press conference after pledging to rally state leaders to his cause. In Helsinki Finland, Prime Minister Cajander is ousted as Riikin Bank head Risto Ryti forms a new cabinet reshaping policy toward Russia.
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Finland
United States
Congress
Russia
United State
Laurence Steinhardt
Moscow
Washington
Estonia
Sweden
Dewey
New York
Disrut
Thomas E. Dewey
Ruese
Yount
Amney
Republican Party
Helsinki
Pi—Risto Ryti
Bank of Finland
Aimo K. Cajander
Cajander
Elias Erkko
Erkko
Vaino Tanner
Cafender
Juhu Kusti Paasimer
Nish Deleration
Funds Sought to Free Kuhn in Bund Appeal
New York reports the German American Bund launched a fundraising drive to appeal Fritz Kuhn’s forgery and theft conviction. National Vice Leader G Wilhelm Kunze said Kuhn’s leadership control over Bund funds undercuts claims of theft while Kuhn awaits sentencing in his cell.
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New York
Bund
Fuehrer
Fritz Kuhn
Bunds
Fuher
G. Wilhelm Kunze
Kuhn
Kunze
Nccessor
Bund rally condemns Kuhn as Bund leader in Bronz Ast Night
Kunze spoke at a Bronz Ast rally claiming Fritz Kuhn leads the German American Bund and will stay in command. About 400 German households and men cheered as he urged more funds to sustain the campaign and freedom for Kuhn, while criticizing trial coverage.
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Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Kunze
Kul
Kuhn
Florence Camp
Accused Wife Denies Guilt in Greenbrier Murder Case
Ruth Dillon, indicted for first degree murder in her husband’s death, told Circuit Judge Mark L. Jarrett she is innocent. The trial was continued to April 1940 as her attorney said she cannot physically stand trial. Dillon was wounded in the abdomen in the incident at Lewisburg.
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Lewisburg
Ruth Dillon
Greenbrier County
Mark L. Jarrett
Party Parley Opens in Fairmont For Republican Rally
The West Virginia Republican league holds policy meetings and a Thanksgong conference with about 500 delegates registered. Key speakers include Dewey Sho, A C Schiffler, Richard Dowins, Donald Tornbeck, and Russell Nesbitt. No officer elections this year due to two year terms.
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Fairmont
Fine
You Republican League
Sesson
Jim Shott
Bluefield
Dewey
A.C. Schiffler
Wheeling
West Viraing
Congress
Richard Dowins
The
Young Republican
Donald W. Tornbeck
National Federation, Congressional District Committees
Russell G. Nesbitt
Nesbitt
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I Fixer Dugan
Buck Rogers
George O Brine
Grant Withers
Talbo
Rose Isabella
Geraldine Wolfe
Mary E. Williams
Edythe Newton
Gladys Riff
Ann Ross
Katherine Hawkins
Nola Bartlett
William Lipscomb
Roland Findley
Jimmie Succurro
Norma J. Poole
Nancy Edwards
John Bobella
Lewis Stout
Charles Newhouse
Dorothy Brown
Violet Davis
Ruth Mitch
Betty Whitehair
Eugene Biffle
Buddy Purkey
Betty Brown
Margaret Smith
James Bonnell
Tat Trem
Dixie
Joe E. Brown In
Malone’s Drug Store
Malone Drug Store
Republi
Soar Jewelry Store
Teddy
Santa Claus
Morrison’s
Haarlem
Xmas
Tena
Beale Zor
Sharemaster Schick Remington
Cord
Pinkhams
Ufebuoy
Phillip’s Dental
Colgate
Jas Cho
Bobby
Hazel
Sremie Bint
Baie Bae
Elgin
Sebox
Scicles
Grafton Drug & Chemical
Colelene
Ll of
Pride
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