Family Frantic As Mother Disappears in West Virginia Town
Mrs. Paul Gum, 43, mother of eight and WPA worker, left home last Wednesday heading for Grafton after telling sister she would find a household job there. Police seek clues as husband and children, ages four to twenty, fear she suffers amnesia and wandered away.
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Paul Gum
Booths Creek
Grafton
Julia
Gum
WPA
Cleo Patterson
Shinnston
Sentinel
Legion Opens Job Campaign in Indianapolis
The American Legion mobilizes over a million members in a nationwide drive to stabilize employment and create more jobs for workers over 40. The national committee based in Indianapolis aims to educate 25 largest employers per state on merit rating and reserve funds, citing potential savings of about half a billion dollars annually in unemployment compensation.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Jack Crowley
Rutland
Greyhound Announces Holiday Excursion Rates Nationwide
The Greyhound Bus Lines announce special excursion rates for round trip travel to most points on the nationwide system. Travelers may depart between December 15 and January 10, with officials noting preparations for extra holiday crowds and a strong travel boom anticipated.
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Greyhound Bus Lines
Greyhound Nationwide
Strike Called in New York Packing Houses
A strike by the United Meat Workers CIO affiliate was ordered in 60 major New York City packing houses. About 1,000 workers at the big four companies Wilson Swift Armour and Cudahy plus John Morrell and Rath plants walk out with heavy picket lines. The union seeks wage increases, recognition, a closed shop, 40 hour week, seniority, and paid vacations and holidays. talks with most firms stalled except Cudahy’s. Mayor LaGuardia’s office may seek exemption for hospital and school meat supplies.
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New York
New York City
United Meat Workers
CIO
Wilson, Swift, Armour
Cudahy
John Morrell and
Rath Packing Companies
Hermann Hoffman
Packing House Workers Organizing Committee
Cidahy’s
LaGuardia
Germany relaxes some Nazi anti Jewish measures in new DNB release
Berlin December 12 The German News Agency says restrictions on Jews entering hotels restaurants and Aryan owned shops will be relaxed after January 1 and reiterates no ghettos will be established. The report notes barred Jews were previously excluded from large hotels.
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Berlin
DNB
Gaston Means Continues His Noted Prison Career
The case recounts Gaston Means, convicted June 13, 1932 in Washington for obtaining a large sum from Mrs. McLean by promising to retrieve Col. Lindbergh's kidnapped son. He has been moved among Atlanta, Lewisburg, Leavenworth, and Springfield prison hospitals, with a long history of sensational activities and prior convictions in several high profile cases.
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Washington
McLean
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlanta
Northeastern
Lewisburg
Leavenworth
Eussiness
Springfield Prison Hospital
Lindbergh
United States
Justice Department
Senate
Harding
Garrison School Baby Contest Ends Tonight
The Garrison colored school P T A baby contest wraps up tonight at Warren Methodist church Thayer Street. Contestants show strong gains over the weekend and today's standings list Maxim Parsons 600 Willie Hollifield 2000 Charles Comedy 7000 Ruby Dalton 13000 Howard Owens 2700 Jean Puller 8650.
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Garrison
Warren Methodist Episcopal Church
Thayer Street
Maxine Parsons
Willie Hollifield
Charles Comedy
Ruby Dalton
Howard Owens
Jean Puller
Nazi Emigration Policy Shifts In Official Announcement
German officials outline a gradual two year emigration plan for Jews, easing hotel restrictions for foreign Jews while reserving exceptions for the Kaiserhof Berlin and the Nurnberg Deutscheroi. Violent acts against Jews will be punished severely, with emigration framed as a method rather than a policy change.
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Kaiserhof
Berlin
Deutscheroi
Nuernberg
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Warn Against Fr Coughlin Says Mundelein Clarifies Role
Chicago December notes Cardinal Mundelein states Fr Charles E Coughlin may express personal views but cannot speak for the Catholic church. Bishop Sheil reads a church statement. Frank Hogan urges Catholics to oppose all forms of racial and religious intolerance. Hogan cites Pope Pius against anti Semitism amid NBC coast to coast broadcast.
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Chicago
George Cardinal Mundelein
Charles E. Coughlin
NBC
Bernard J. Sheil
Frank J. Hogan
American Bar Association
Washington
Pope Pius
Father Coughlin
Detroit
Skaggs & CO
Mayor Turns Pawnbroker In City Court
Mayor P F Gillispie presiding in municipal court accepted a $65 watch from WPA worker James Riggs as security for an $11 fine and costs after Riggs promised to pay on the next WPA payday. Other offenders including Glen Rosier and John B McGrumphy were fined $10 and $1 costs, while F E Duckworth paid later. Fred Michael was ordered to leave town for loitering and warned against panhandling.
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P. F. Gillispie
James Riggs
Grafton
Riggs
Glen Rosier
John B. McGrumphy
West Main Street
Fred Michael
Shinnston
Michael
Appreciation note from Moats for community help after fire
Mr and Mrs Andy Moats express deep gratitude for kindness shown after their home burned and during their son's illness. They especially thank Mayor Gillispie and the Carr China company employer, plus those who provided food and clothing.
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Gillispie
Carr China Company
Andy Moats
Former Local Resident Dies Saturday Evening
Word was received by local relatives Sunday morning of the death at 9 o'clock Saturday night of Charlie B. Warder of Lawrenceburg Kentucky, brother of the late J. H. Warder of this city and a former blacksmith at Pruntytown where he was born and raised. He was a brother of Miss Rose Warder of Pruntytown W. W. Warder of Mannington and Ernest Warder of Akron Ohio. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon.
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Charlie B. Warder
Lawrenceburg
J. H. Warder
Pruntytown
Rose Warder
W.W. Warder
Mannington
Ernest Warder
Akron
Ohio
Bible reading session completes 19 hour New Testament trek
In Philadelphia the Baptist Temple held a marathon scripture reading. Readers including Earl Montgomery Harvey Cressman and Dr. Daniel A Poling took turns delivering Matthew through Revelation for 19 hours 10 minutes. Congregants in choir robes listened as hot food was served and dawn yielded to daylight.
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Philadelphia
Christ
David
Abraham
Earl Montgomery
Earl Montgomery, A Member of the Conjeregation
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Harvey Cressman
The
Baptist Temple
Rabbit fever spread fought in Charleston
Charleston reports tularemia with one death and at least four ill. Health Dept warns disease most prevalent in West Virginia history, with ten suspected cases and many unreported. Trappers, especially, urged to take care. hunting season ended recently as trapping ramps up.
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Charleston
Department of Health
West Virginia
T. H. Blake
Memel election hints at Nazi push for annexation
A Memel Sunday plebiscite drew over 90 percent participation from the region's 190000 inhabitants, with radicals predicting a Nazi landslide as Landtag seats favor the party. Neumann warned that Memelland fate may be decided by January while looms a possible Reichstag summons. An American reporter was beaten by guards for not saluting, and many Jews fled the Memel area as Lithuania declared a state of emergency.
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Landtag
Neumann
Reich
Memel
Memelland
Germany
Hitler
Reichstag
Robert Sellmer
Milwaukee
Lithuania
Antanias Smetona
Memel Decree Sparks Rumors of Student Arrests in Kaunas
Continued from page one, a decree for protection of the state was issued as more than 100 Kaunas students were reportedly arrested by private sources. Newspapers note many were released, yet signs of a planned strike demonstration emerged. Memel’s horse co director Ernest Neumann, a 50 year old veterinarian, issued a rallying cry.
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Memel
Kaunas
Ernest Neumann
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Peo
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