Guy Tetrick Named Again WV Publishers Leader
Clarksburg’s Guy Tetrick was reelected president of the West Virginia Publishers association at the annual meeting. Officers include Col. J. H. Long Huntington daily papers vice president and treasurer, Herman P. Dean Wayne weekly papers vice president, James W. Weir Elkins secretary. C. T. McHenry Morgantown named to board of directors replacing Borwell S. Reid. Other directors reelected: H. C. Ogden Wheel ing R. L. Smith Charleston George Hahne Follansbee William Woodyard Spencer H. G. Whetsell Kingwood. WV members of the Associated Press arranged 1939 legislature coverage and updated the state mat service for more spot news and feature pictures.
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Charleston
Clarksburg
West Virginia Publishers Association
Col. J. H. Long
Huntington
Herman P. Dean
Wayne
James W. Weir
Elkins
C. T. McHenry
Morgantown
West Virginia Publishing Company
Borwell
Luke Ross Named Chester SEC Office Manager
Luke B. Ross, formerly manager of the local employment office and an instructor at Grafton High School, has been appointed manager of the Chester office of the State Employment Service. He has served as assistant manager at Wheeling and has previously been manager at Grafton and Elkins.
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Luke Ross
Chester
SEC
Luke B. Ross
Grafton High School
State
Wheeling
Mr Ross
Grafton and Elkins
United States Liner Damaged At Le Havre
Lloyds agent at Le Havre reports the United States liner President Harding was seriously damaged after striking a quay wall on entering port. The 19,869 ton ship left New York on November 23 and was en route to Hamburg. authorities survey the damage.
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London
Lloyd's
le Havre
France
United States
President Iarding
New York
Hamburg
Lloyd’s
Shirley Temple and Ching-Ching The Pekinese Pay Scale
Shirley Temple insists on paying her Pekinese Ching-Ching for appearing in Just Around The Corner at Dixie theatre. The dog joins the on set lounge scene on a payroll of 25.00 a day, but balks at a bath sequence demanding steps up to 7.50 a day for the dog’s bit part.
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Shirley Temple
Loch Century Fox
Dixie Theatre
Shirley
Chingy
Irving Cummings
Cummings
Ching
David Hempstead
Cunnings
On screen, Shirley, Chingy, and a famed cast in 1930s films
The article lists Shirley, 80, earning seven fifty daily for a charity Milk Fund while the rest of the cast of Just Around The Corner includes Charles Farrell, Joan Davis, Amanda Duff, Bill Robinson and Bert Lahr at the Dixie. It also reviews It Happened One Night and You Cant Take It With You and notes the far Himalayas Lost Horizon.
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Shirley
Ching
Chingy
Charles Farrell
Joan Davis
Amanda Duff
Bill Robinson
Bert Lahr
Capra Creates Film Saga On Happiness At Strand
Strand Theatre presents Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You as part of a larger project celebrating the pursuit of happiness. Critics note Capra's films form a pattern joining humor romance drama and fantasy into a contemporary Human Comedy.
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Frank Capra
Boul
Capra
Strand Theatre
Balzac
Societ
Zola
Johannes V. Jensen
Marcel Proust
John Galsworthy
Forsyths
Joys of Living musical comedy at Opera House
Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr star in a new musical drama with Jer ome Kern melodies woven into a sprightly plot. The stormy romance centers on Dunne's lavishly supported family and Fairbanks Jr as a sea vagabond who preaches happiness by doing what he believes.
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Irene Dunne
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Jerome Kern
Miss Dunne
Fairbanks
Mortimer Snord Rivals Charlie McCarthy in Film
Mortimer Snord, a bucktoothed farm boy dummy from near Keokuk Iowa, debuts as a rival to Charlie McCarthy in Letter of Introduction at the Opera House. Edgar Bergen manages both and cast Mortimer alongside Adolph Menjou Vandera Leeds and George Murphy. Mortimer has surprised audiences as the year’s breakout screen sensation.
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Mortimer Snord
Charlie McCarthy
Opera House
Mortimer
Edgar Bergen
McCarthy
Keokuk
Hollywood
Charlie
Adolph Menjon
Vandrea Leeds
George Murphy
Christmas Gift Idea: Watch Skaggs & Co
A note praising a gift choice featuring a Watch Skaggs & Co. item as an ideal Christmas present. The snippet highlights the family friendly appeal and suggests timely purchase for holiday gifting.
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Skaggs & CO
One Time Hero Convicted Of Attempt On Superior
JERSEY CITY N J Dec 2 The room hero of the Morro Castle disaster was jailed awaiting sentence on a conviction of trying to kill his Bayonne police superior with a home made bomb. The state charged Rogers sent the bomb to Lieutenant Vincent J Doyle to gain his job. Judge Thomas H Brown said the defendant is guilty as charged and will sentence on Dec 15. Rogers who stayed at his post during the Morro Castle fire in 1934 now faces up to 70 years in prison.
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Jersey City
N. J
Morro Castle
Bayonne
Rogers
Vincent J. Doyle
Doyle
Common Pleas
Thomas H. Brown
New Jersey
Father acquitted in child assault case at Wood County
Parkersburg December 2 A Wood county circuit court jury acquitted 45 year old George Bumigarner of the charge of maliciously assaulting his 8 year old son Bumigarner testified he whipped his son for running away but said he gave the boy only one light tap with a small stick
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Parkersburg
Wood County
George Bumigarner
Bumigarner
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