Dance Hall Fight Sets Stage For Hidden Hearts
Sara Sue Davis navigates social tensions after a dramatic night where Dr. Holgate and Thornton defend her. Duke O’Reilly is knocked out, and Leila’s husband Mr. White confronts a looming melee. Cleo helps Sara Sue confront her own love for Thornton and the dilemma of supporting his romance with Miss Peaches Pomeroy.
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Dr. Holgate
Sara Sue
Mr. White
Leila
Thornton
O'Reilly
Holgate
White
Thornton Holgate
Duke O'Reilly
Sara Sue Davis
Bob Towner
T. J. Sanders
Black Cleo
Cleo
Gurleys
Marcia
Houston
Worthington
Ike
Mr. Gurley
Kaira
Mistah Dr. Holgate
Cale'lus
Cale‘lus
Peaches Pomeroy
Nevah
Clea
Sera Sue
Law
Mintuh
Enthan
T-1
Bel
T. J
Lawdy
Anouuh
Huey Sara Sue
Thornton Gate
The Lord Come as Purifier and Watchdog over Cities
A fragmented editorial debates state versus municipal revenue roles, urging municipalities to accept reduced budgets and consider liquor store profits to fund policing. It argues for tighter municipal payrolls, stronger state administration, and careful control of local spending.
Riverside Drive Fetterman Bridge Link Proposed by Civic Leaders
Local citizens urge state action to connect the old Fetterman bridge site with Riverside Drive via the abandoned Wabash right of way. They argue a small investment would finish a Riverside Boulevard and ease access to Hazel-Atlas, while noting a forthcoming state budget cut raises questions about service levels and school funding.
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Feterman Bridge
State Road Commission
Hazel-Atlas
Fetterman
Riverside Drive
West Grafton
Pruntytown Pike
West Main Street
Road Commission
Wabash
Feterman
Taylor County
Commission
Riverside Scenic
Beech Street
Path to real social security plan urged by experts
The Social Security Advisory Council repeats its call for shared costs after 1940 with government funding capped at one third of expenses. It argues the tax burden harms the poor and criticizes the dream of a massive reserve fund funded by IOUs and future taxes. The piece warns that old age annuities will require new taxes and emphasizes payroll realities for workers.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Social Security Advisory Council
Social Security Funds Reformed for Real Pay as You Go
The advisory council urges ending large reserves and shifting to a pay as you go system with modest emergency funds. It calls to begin pension payments in 1940 and extend benefits to wives, include more people, and curb extraneous spending funded by social security. It argues current taxes burden wage earners and hampers business and employment.
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Treasury
Tugwell
Advisory Council
Striking Double Life Darkens Morgantown Saga of Coster
The Morgantown Post profiles F. Donald Coster, once jailed, who built a fake life with new name and false credentials while heading an 87 million dollar drug firm. His rise was matched by a fraud scheme using dummy subsidiaries, ending when his greed outpaced his deceit.
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Morgantown Post
F. Donald Coster
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
America
Coster
Washington, D. C
Heidelberg
New York City
European Cold Wave Claims Many Lives Across Continent
Winter's deep freeze stretched across Europe with deaths in Lisbon, Paris, Belgium, and across Hungary Sweden and Norway tallying record lows. A Lisbon ferry collision sank a dredge with 25 feared drowned while trains derailed and shipping pressed distress signals.
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London
Tagus
Lisbon
Paris
Scandinavia
Norway
Sweden
Hungary
Black Sea
Belgium
Czech Official Plans Private Visit To U S
Czechoslovak minister to London Jan Masaryk will sail December 30 for a private visit to the United States aboard the Washington liner. Eduard Benes, president or former president, will sail February 4 aboard the Queen Mary. Benes has finished lectures at the University of Chicago and is writing a detailed account of the Sudetenland crisis and cession events.
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Londo
Jan C. Masaryky
Doc
London
United States
Washington
Eduard Benes
Queen Mary
Benes
University of Chicago
Masary
Czechoslovak Sudetenland
Germany
Detention Home Quarantined Over Scarlet Fever Cases
Pittsburgh December 20 authorities placed Allegheny County Detention Home under a ten day quarantine after three scarlet fever cases were found there. The move aims to prevent spread as health officials enforce state rules during the Christmas season.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Santa Claus
Court Action Sought for Wheeling Firm in SEC Case
Papers filed by Strother and McDonald ask a receiver for the Wheeling company after citing an SEC affidavit. The SEC bill of complaint was filed last Wednesday. Fidelity is described as an investment loan association selling investment certificates and bonds with lump sum or periodic repayments. The Jackson affidavit claimed deficits of 3.5 million dollars in the contract reserve fund on two occasions and alleged insufficient securities backing cash surrender values.
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U.S
Strother
Jackson
West Virginia
New York Central Seeks Authority to Issue Bonds
Washington December 20 The New York Central railroad and the Toledo & Ohio Central railway jointly ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to issue 2 067 000 of 3 4 per cent refunding and improvement mortgage bonds Series The issue would refund an equal amount of Kanawha and West Virginia railroad 5 per cent first mortgage gold bonds The plan ties to refinancing obligations and improving debt structure with a cross collateral move in the rail network.
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Washington
New York Central Railroad
Toledo & Ohio Central Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad
Fire Insurance Meeting On Property Loss Classification
Representatives of fire insurance companies in the state met with State Auditor Edgar B. Sims to discuss adding figures on property losses by classification. The conference, decided in September after a rate reduction totaling about 600000 dollars annually, aims to refine loss data and adjust classifications accordingly.
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Charleston
Edgar B. Sims
U S Citizen Faces Berlin Treason Trial
Berlin reports George Roth, a naturalized American, arrested in Hamburg after leaving the liner Manhattan. He is charged with treason for possessing German language communist literature printed at Le Havre. Roth was born April 8, 1905, in Gross Stenheim on the Main. his parents live in Germany. The U S State Department ordered an investigation, with Consul-General Willur Keblinger in Hamburg monitoring developments.
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Berlin
Department of Justice
George Roth
United States
Hamburg
Roth
New York
Manhattan
le Havre
Gross Stenheim
Germany
State Department
Willur Keblinger
Westinghouse Announces December Profit Sharing Bonus
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. said employees will receive a 4 percent profit sharing bonus in December, up from 3 percent in November and none in October. October was the first month since May 1936 with no bonus under the plan.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co
Girl Passer Says Forced to Pass Bad Checks
Margaret Taylor of Warwood claimed she was forced at gunpoint to cash bogus checks by a man she identified as Robert McDaniels. Prosecutor Lee Spillers said she accompanied him to M. O. and later to Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She was moved to Wheeling from Charleston by state police.
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Wheeling
Margaret Taylor
Warwood
Lee Spillers
Spillers
Robert McDaniels
M. O
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Charleston
Virginia Man Stabbed In Roadhouse Quarrel
Welch December 20 John Ball of Buchanan county Virginia was hospitalized with a serious knife wound after a roadhouse fight authorities say Ball was found by the highway near Sneger. Constable Joe C McCoy stated Ball was involved in the incident as investigators questioned Rashley from Davy Seebert Cook Marine Arthur and Dewey Tilson of Mohegan about the case.
100-Year-Old Woman of Webster Springs Dies
Webster Springs, Dec. 20. Family members gathered as Martha Jane Wooddell, aged 100, lies near death with physicians giving little hope of recovery. She celebrated her centennial on October 24 and has been critically ill for weeks. mother of James W. Wood Joel, a Clarksburg hotel manager.
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Webster Springs
Martha Jane Wooddell
Bouncing Bed Case Puzzles Virginia Town
In Jonesville Virginia villagers chase a natural cause for nine year old Bertha Sybert’s bouncing bed a mystery the grandmother links to witchcraft. The bed has scratched bumped and quivered at night with Bertha noting fear but no alarm. Reverend Victor Sword admits the event lies beyond his knowledge and calls it uncomfortable.
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Jonesville
Virginia
Bertha Marie Sybert
Rebecca Jane Sybert
Bertha
Victor Sword
Sybert
Workers Agree to Wage Slash at Follansbee Mills
About 1 500 workers in the Follansbee Brothers payroll have accepted a 15 percent wage cut starting New Year. trustee John Follansbee said workers took the initiative at a recent meeting. The firm runs tin plate and shoe mills with 1 300 employees in Follansbee West Virginia and 200 in Toronto Ohio.
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Pittsburgh
Follansbee Brothers Company
John Follansbee
Follansbee
W. Va
Toronto
Ohio
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CSO
Follansbee Mills
Follansbee Brothers
FBI arrests man after arms codes found in room
Philadelphia reported that a man, unnamed in the release, was arrested at the directive of the local FBI office after investigators found what appeared to be arms specifications codes in his room. A. Bernard Leckle, chief of the Philadelphia office, announced the action.
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FBI
Philip
Mexico
Leckie
Securities and Commission
Donald Coster
Musica
Philadelphia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
A. Bernard Leckle
Salem Pilot Dies in San Antonio Plane Crash
Salem reports the death of Pilot Lt Perry Lyonis in a plane crash north of San Antonio Texas. The crash scattered wreckage over yards with witnesses including Justice of the Peace H Jr and Judge Davis noting the nose struck and the craft overturned. Lyons commanded coast air base and was a familiar figure in New England aviation circles.
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Strikee Nose Downs
Justice of the Peace
H. Jr
Davis
Salem
Mass
Perry
Lyonis
San Antonio
Tex
Lyons
Ley
New England
Rupert H. Germaine
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