Severe Sea Battle Reported In Neutral Waters
A long range clash in the South Atlantic between a German Q boat disguised raider and the British armed merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle left the British ship with slight damage and casualties. The German raider fled as heavy fire ensued and both sides expended significant ammunition. The German report claimed the British auxiliary cruiser was severely damaged. The confrontation ends with the enemy raider steaming north at high speed. Continued on page seven.
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London
Carnarvon Castle
Admiralty
South Atlantic
Britain
Black inmate awaits execution at state penitentiary
In Moundsville on December 6 Paul Tross, a 41 year old Black man from Keysers, faces a 9 PM hangING after Governor Holt refused to delay. He maintains innocence over a criminal incident involving a white schoolteacher. Warden Callison said Tross was moved to the passing hour cell as the execution nears.
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Moundsville
Paul Tross
Keysers
State Penitentiary
Tross
Homer A. Holt
Leo Callison
Theatre ticket admission prompts ID check at Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs C C Whitescarver of 102 West Boyd Street to tonight's screenings. She may attend "Girls Under 21" at Surana Theatre or "Prairie Schooners" with Bill Elliott at the Dixie Theatre.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
C. C. Whitescarver
West Boyd Street
Surana Theatre
Bill Elliott
Dixie Theatre
R. L. Foley
High Street
Bobby Breen
Opera House Theatre
Deanna Durbin Plans Summer Wedding Rumor
Hollywood reports Deanna Durbin 19 and Vaughn Paul plan a summer wedding after a year of gossip about their engagement. Durbin’s mother Mrs James Durbin formally announced the plans while Deanna showed friends a bright new diamond amid speculation and unmarried dating since age 17.
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Hollywood
Deanna Durbin
Vaughn Paul
Deanna
James Durbin
Paul
Swift Punishment For Army Rebel Decreed
Maros Vasarhely, Hungary, Dec 6. Romanian Premier General Ion Antonescu ordered a drumhead court martial for Romanians who rebel against the army with swift execution after conviction. Refugees said the decree aims to strengthen the army amid feared clash with the Iron Guard. Judgment to be handed in 24 hours and carried out within 10 hours without appeal.
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Maros
Swiss Protest To British Over Air Raids
The Swiss Federal council ordered its minister in London to protest alleged frontier violations by Royal Air Force bombers. British planes reportedly flew over the Jura mountains and Geneva Wednesday night, and Turin in northern Italy was bombed the same night by RAF aircraft.
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Bern
Switzerland
Federal Council
London
Royal Air Force
Jural Mountains
Geneva
Turin
Italy
Neely Seeks Permanent West Virginia Federal Judges
Senator Neely of West Virginia introduces a bill to permanently create three federal judgeships in the state. The proposal would change current law so that when a vacancy arises in the northern district, the roving judge from the northern and southern districts would not inherit the northern bench.
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Washington
Neely
D.-W. Va
West Virginia
Death penalty given slayer in bludgeoning case
In Norristown Pennsylvania on December 6 the jury sentenced William J Earnest to die by electric chair for the first degree murder of Mrs Ethel Atkins formerly married to a member of the Duke tobacco family Seven men and five women deliberated and returned a verdict specifically recommending the death penalty Continued on page 7
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Norristown
William J. Earnest
Ethel Atkins
Duke Tobacco Family
State Committee Reports Spending Last Campaign
The Democratic State executive committee spent $47,929.30 in the successful campaign to elect its ticket. Total contributions of $53,588.01, mostly from state officials and employees, were listed in the report by treasurer G. H. Crumpecker of Princeton. New receipts of $33,226.56 and expenditures of $34,531.31 were noted since the last statement, with gifts including $500 from W. W. Trent and $350 from R. E. Talbott. the largest item was $13,016.47 from a state road commission employee.
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Charleston
Democratic State Executive Committee
Secretary of State
G. H. Crumpecker
Princeton
W. W. Trent
R. E. Talbott
State Road Commission
Dave's Cafe Special Roast Chicken This Weekend
A small town cafe promotes a special bake on Saturday and Sunday featuring roast chicken with hot biscuits for 25 cents. The offer is on at 243 West Main Street, inviting local diners to stop by over the weekend.
Former TVA chief Morgan loses court appeal upheld removal
The sixth U S circuit court of appeals upheld the dismissal of Arthur E Morgan as TVA chairman, affirming a lower court ruling that his ouster by President Roosevelt in 1938 was constitutional. Morgan, former Antioch College president, claimed $4683 33 in back salary and argued his removal was illegal.
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Cincinnati
Sixth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Morgan
C. C. Simons
Detroit
Supreme Court
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Roosevelt
TVA
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilien
Thial
Rosier To Get Senate Place Named by Newspaper
Charleston dated December 6 reports a Morgan town newspaper claims Governor elect Neely will appoint Dr. Joseph Rosier as interim U S Senate member, citing long friendship and support. The Dominion-News also says Byron Randolph and A Hale Watkins are likely to be chosen as state senate president and clerk.
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Rosier
Charleston
Morgantown
M. M. Neely
Joseph Rosier
Paymont State Teachers College
U. S. Senate
The
Dominion-News
National Education Association
Neely
Byron Randolph
Clarksburg
Democratc
A. Hale Watkins
State Senate
Senate
Free Defense Training Courses Offered in Region
Approximately 10 000 people in western Pennsylvania West Virginia and western Maryland are to be trained in free national engineering defense courses Regional Director John D Beatty of Carnegie Tech reports More than 1000 in the Pittsburgh area have signed up with most classes starting January 6 and offered in evening hours to suit employed men West Virginia University will join several institutions in Beatty's district in offering the courses.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
John D. Beatty
Carnegie Tech
Beatty
West Virginia University
Portsmouth bombed by German planes in night raid
London officials report a three hour raid on a south coast town identified as Portsmouth. civilian casualties feared, many left homeless, shelters set up in schools as anti air defenses defended the airspace. continued on page six.
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England
Portsmouth
Britain
Movie House
Glass industry outlook and bottlenecks warned
White Sulphur Springs December 6 a spokesman for the National Glass Distributors association forecast improved business next year despite stock shortages that may cause bottlenecks. Defense orders were cited as driving plants to near peak operation levels.
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National Glass Distributors Association
Plane Crash Toll Mounts as Probe Starts
The United Air Lines crash near Chicago Municipal airport raises the death toll to nine with stewardess Florence M. Little among the dead. Capt. Philip C. Scott and co pilot George S. Young perish. seven passengers injured. Air Line Pilots Association urges immediate re creation of the Air Safety Board to prevent further airline accidents.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
Florence M. Little
Miss Little
Chicago ‘Municipal
Airy Safety Board
David L. Behneke
Air Line Pilots Association
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Department of Commerce
Some Predict New Deer Kill Record This Fall
Charleston dispatch notes state deer hunters await official tally after a game official predicted the season could set an all time record. Chief Game Protector H Prentice Farley reports unofficial counts exceed 900 with major counties still to report. 896 deer were bagged in 1939. At least 60 illegal kills were reported and 30 arrests made with more pending.
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Charleston
H. Prentice Farley
The
Conservation Commission
Farley
Garner Planned to Attend Roosevelt Inauguration
Friends expect Vice President Garner to return to Washington for the Roosevelt Wallace inauguration on January 4 after staying at his Texas home since October. His exact plans remain unconfirmed, but colleagues foresee his early January return to the capital.
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Garner
Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Texas
State Industrial Payrolls Head Toward New Record
West Virginia industrial payrolls near the best year in history despite a coal slump in October. The Workmen's Compensation commission projects gains from normal business upturn. October payrolls totaled 34,487,196.24 dollars, up 37,589.23 from a year earlier. Through October 31, the total for the year stood at 320,086,350 dollars, up 39,496,166 from the first ten months of 1939. Government orders also noted.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Workmen's Compensation Commission
Phillips Starts Talks With Morgenthau On British Finances
Sir Frederick Phillips undersecretary of the British treasury opened talks with Secretary Morgenthau today on Britain s financial state. Senator Nye and allies prepared to oppose any move to extend aid, arguing loans could drag the U S into war.
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Washington
Frederick Phillips
Treasury
Morgenthau
Britain
Nye
R.N. D
Ex-Convict Held For Shooting of Woman
EAST LIVERPOOL Ohio December 6 An unnamed ex convict is held for questioning in the shooting of Mrs Sylvia Anderson 45 mother of four at her home last night Her husband Howard Anderson said she had been threatened over their reconciliation after a four year separation Police were tipped the 45 year old ex convict now a steel worker planned to meet his wife at Congo West Virginia They arrested him as he walked from his hiding place He drove to a pottery where his wife works and told her he had shot a woman He persuaded her to accompany him across the Ohio River to Congo where he said goodbye and left their car
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East Liverpool
Sylvia Anderson
Congo
W. Va
Ohio River
Weather Delays Alcatraz Watch Amid Dense Fog
Warden A. Johnston and guards on Alcatraz Island await a weather break to end a tense lockdown of about three hundred inmates after two days of thick fog blurring the prison. The stormy conditions have kept convicts confined to cells since Wednesday afternoon.
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San Franciisco
A. Johnston
Alcatraz Island
Greenwich Observatory Damaged By Bomb Raid
Greenwich Observatory sustained blast damage in a recent air raid yet the time ball still functions. The revolving globe, the observatory clock and telescope room suffered damage from high explosives and fire bombs. A section built in 1675 from Sir Christopher Wren's design was hit. Bones were reportedly blasted from graves of ancient Scottish kings and queens by bombs near Edinburgh's Harrow House. Windows of the palace were broken near the ruins of an old chapel.
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London
Greenwich Observatory
Christopher Wren
Edinburgh
Harrod House
Thhe Palace
Athens denies Italian claim of sinking Greek destroyer
The Greece Admiralty called the Italian claim that the submarine Delfino sank a Greek destroyer on November 29 in the Aegean a fantastic invention. The Athens news agency report said the Italians claimed a non existent exploit and that Greek destroyer forces are intact.
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Athens
Greece
Delfino
Aegean Sea
Greeks Seize Porto Edda and Press on in Albania
Greek troops occupy Porto Edda, a key Italian base in southern Albania, as Argirocastro falls or is about to fall. Forces advance west from Premet toward Tepelini, with fires reported at Porto Edda and Argirocastro and Greek claims of strategic gains across a two mile front from the Adriatic to the Yugoslav border.
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Athens
Porto Edda
Albania
Argirocastro
Premet
Klisoura
Kiisoura
Adrian Sea
Tepelini
Badoglio Resigns as Army Chief in Italy
Rome December 6 The resignation of Marshal Pietro Badoglio as chief of the Italian general staff was announced today. He is replaced by General Ugo Cavallero a veteran of three Italian wars and former commander in East Africa. Cavallero is 60 and served as an aide at the start of World War I.
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Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Ugo Cavallero
East
Africa
Badgolio
Italy
Hindenburg
Cavallero
Badoglio
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Jane Russel
Los Angeles
Jack Beutel
Dallas
Tex
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State Committee
Dave
Ilegal
U. S
Circuit
Trans Industy
Phillips
U.S. Treasury
Edmund J. Flynn
Roy D. Williams
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