No Discrimination in Drafts From Small Towns
Central Press columnist Charles P. Stewart cites Major Gordon Snow of Salt Lake City arguing that selective service favors small town and farming communities. Local boards know draftees well, ensuring fair classification and minimizing lasting community disruption while stressing national duty and shared sacrifice.
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Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
Gordon Snow
Salt Lake City
National
Washington
Utah
Major Snow
Night at the Alhambra test for Kit in New York
Kit faces fear on stage at the Alhambra amateur night with Vance as her promoter mentor. She delivers a bold, husky pop number to rapturous applause and shows she can win. After the show they celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, dreaming of further triumph and a chromium cup.
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Vance
Kit
Alhambra
New York
Reillys
Mary Moore
Tye
Mary
Pete
Sid Sandles
Armendi
Dan Loving
Jerision
Hit
Baby Gloria
Ling Tong
Big Boy
Coney Island
Detroit
Reading a Good Newspaper Is Essential For Students
Clyde Mc Carty urges Harrison county school principals that newspapers are the best text for social sciences. He advocates dedicating at least one fifth of social studies work to current events and warns that ignoring current events leads to an uninformed education. He stresses newspapers train readers to evaluate propaganda and understand world affairs, including Hitler and the Kremlin.
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Parkersburg News
Parkersburgh News
Clyde McCarty
Harrison County
McCarty
Shrewd Yankee Trading Reevaluated by Wheeling Intelligencer
The Wheeling Intelligencer questions the late naval base deal with England, noting the President acted without Congress to transfer destroyers and defend bases. It argues Americans gained only a treaty to receive bases in exchange, with one site proposed being a swamp in Trinidad instead of a northwest port area.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
United States
Congress
Amcan
England
Associated Press
Trinidad
Port of Spain
Hitler's New Tune Chides Peace Appeal Amid Aggressive Rhetoric
In a curiously defensive workers' address, Hitler hints at a dream of Europe under his rule, pitching cooperation with the "have-nots" and unity without violence while blaming foreign plutocrats and Churchill for war. The piece discounts Hitler's promises and accuses him of empty rhetoric and lethal intent.
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Hitler
New York Times
Europe
Germany
Churchill
Freiburg
Rotterdam
Birth records prompt push for complete entries in 1939 data
The article notes parents often fail to provide full birth names for infants, with a higher incompleteness among Negro families. It cites 2399 1939 births, six white twin triplets sets, 891 white twins, 70 Negro twins, three Negro triplets, and a 54 year old eldest mother. West Virginia’s 1939 birth rate is 21.8 per 1000, mortality down to 54.8, Charleston lowest at 40.6, Moundsville highest at 75.6.
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Campbell
Santa Claus
West Virginia
Charleston
Moundsville
Italian Air Force Attacks Greek Troops and British Convoys
Italian planes including dive bombers attacked Greek troop concentrations and march columns while a submarine sank a 12,000-ton steamer in a British Atlantic convoy on December 5. Malta airfield was bombed and Cretoni suffered minor damage and injuries. High command reported renewed attacks on Micabba airfield in the British area.
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Pane Une
Atlantic
Malta
Cretoni
High Command
Micabba
Italian air commander rescued after crash at East Africa raid
The communique reports a car ing rescue of the commander of an Italian air formation. His damaged aircraft was forced down in enemy territory during a raid on Goz Regeb airfield in East Africa. Another plane landed beside the crippled craft, crewed by rescuers, and carried the commander away safely.
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Land of Malta
Goz Regeb
East Africa
National Guard Doctors Examine Officers for Federal Induction
National Guard officers from Martinsburg Terra Alta and Kingwood were given physical examinations today by army medical boards preliminary to federal service induction. The board will resume its work Monday. The semi annual concert of the high school glee club and bands will be next Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
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Ant
John Smith
Doctor Brown
Jim Jone
Cain
Charleston
Dec
National Guard
Martinsburg
Terra Alta
Kingwood
Army Medical Boards
Glee Club
Local minstrel show in Fairmont draws big crowd
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employes staged a lively minstrel at the local theatre on January 29 1916 with Reno Fleming and Earl Knight among the performers. The ensemble delivered popular songs comic bits and a finale with special scenery and electric effects. Several veteran locals including A H Freygang and John Moran's lineage were noted for directing and origins of the show. A separate note covers county salary decisions for the sealer of weights and measures with the Taylor County Court defending a $600 annual wage after initial resistance and debate.
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Baltimore and Oho Railroad
Reno Fleming
Earl
Fiyzy) Knight
Fairmont
God Nugat
Reno Flemu
Faimont
A. H. Freygang
Thurl Brooks
George Husston
Walter Cook
Earl Knight
Joseph Newham
James Burns
George Cannon
Edward Dowden
Daniel Foley
Edgar Foley
Thomas Garvey
Ha Hamilton
Clarence Kort George Laird
Clyde Mays
C. D. ‘Motter
Joseph Madera
C. Aschroeder, Jr
C. A. Sinclair
G. Thomas Vance
J. W. Waters
G. H. Welch
Richard Foley
Old Shakespeare Hall
St. John and
Railroad Streets
John Moran
Peter Moran
Edward S. Arscott
Thomas Boland
John Boland
Charles Childers
William Devine
Charles Cameron
Charles Levine
James Don
Ling
Lacy
Favor of
You
Maguies
Yelahis
Taylor County
Ins
Gratton
Sch
Sentinel
I. N. Grimes
Marion County
Harrison County
Charles R. Durbin
Frank P. Robinson
George W. Luzadder
Taylor County Court
Knudsen warns defense focus must be wartime level
Knudsen urges rapid production and discipline beyond dictatorships as he questions sustaining Friday night work cuts and urges training workers to operate equipment. He notes bomber output forecasts must be cut and stresses time’s critical role for industry and labor in wartime readiness.
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Knudsen
Maauis
Dinson
General Motors
Hoover
Europe
America
Run or mane Forked Coal pHONE 474 105 bu lic bu
Readable fragments indicate a note about a coal operation or license status with contact or figure references. The text is fragmentary, offering limited context on location dates or parties involved, but suggests regulatory or logistical details for a coal business.
Fugitive Found on Robbery Indictment Arrested
Police in Huntington report the arrest of 44 year old A. Lewis who had fled on a robbery indictment. Local officers said Lewis, who had been living in Charleston, South Carolina, had forfeited bond in 1935 and was picked up yesterday after a chase through city streets.
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Lewis
Huntington
J. H. Chapman
A. Lewis
Char
Inleston
S.C
Medical Science Advances In Treatment of Varicosities
Varicose veins are common and disable many. injection therapy replaces painful vein stripping. The method occludes the inner vein lining, turning veins into cords, is office based and usually requires minimal downtime. Rest and dressings aid ulcers while UV light helps. overall, modern surgery gains control over varicose veins and their complications.
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New York
Clendening
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Kremlin
Stalin
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