Boy Escapes Serious Injury In Car Accident Near Pruntytown
Four year old Bobby Cameron, son of Mr and Mrs Howard Cameron of 612 Maple avenue, escaped severe harm when he opened a rear car door and fell from a moving vehicle on U S Route 50 near Pruntytown. Rushed to Grafton City hospital, doctors treated a lacerated forehead with clamps and assorted head injuries before returning home.
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Bobby Cameron
Howard Cameron
Maple Avenue
Pruntytown
I Gould
Little Bobby
Grafton City
T. W. Heironimus, Jr
Census to Begin January 2 Across Nation
The census starting January 2 will collect detailed data from businesses contractors and manufacturers with strict confidentiality under penalties. The business count should finish by March 15 and the population and agriculture census will start April 1.
Preston County Mill Burns in Tunnelton Fire
A mill owned by William Matlick of Marquess burned completely early Sunday with a filling station and feed store inside. Tunnelton volunteers arrived too late to save it. Estimated damage ranged from 3000 to 4000 dollars, partly insured.
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Tunnelton
William Matlick
Marquess
Youthful Slayer Freed On Self Defense Plea
Charles Sabo, 17, youngest Fayette county arrestee to face homicide charges, was acquitted by a jury on a self defense plea in the killing of his stepfather Mike Karnovich. He testified that he shot Karnovich to protect his mother.
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Uniontown
Charles Sabo
Fayette County
Mike Karnovich
Karnovich
County Agent Busy Plans Christmas at West Virginia School
County Agricultural Agent Carrol Hawkins and staff toil on federal and state reports due by January 1. Barbour County provides 54 turkeys for the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown to feed 481 inmates on Christmas Day. The institution’s farm supplies most holiday fare as the school hosts a weekend of activities including a party, a Scout program for 30 Harrison County inmates, a Christmas Eve program, an 8 a.m. breakfast, a 10 a.m. film, a 2 p.m. Christmas dinner, and at 3:30 p.m. boxes from home.
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Carrol Hawkins
Federal
Barbour County
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Col
R. P. Bell
Clarksburg
Harrison County
da! Movie
Clinic screens 80 for TB X rays and exams at Elks Home
A TB chest and X ray clinic at the Elks Home drew 80 attendees yesterday including many high school students and a few teachers. Sixty four received chest X rays and 31 had special physical exams under the care of Dr. George F. Evans Dr. F. D. Fortney and technician Mr. Brown.
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Elks
George F. Evans
Clarksburg
F. D. Fortney
Newburg
Brown
Evans
Taylor County
Route 250 Youth Dies In Fairmont Hospital
Charles Edwin Hartley 16 a West Fairmont High senior and son of Paul and Pearl Currey Hartley of Route 250 died at 6 10 am in Cook Hospital Fairmont after pneumonia since last Friday. Survived by parents two sisters Pauline 14 Jo Ann 12 Funeral at Janes Memorial Methodist church Route 250 Friday at noon with Revs Bailes and Summers officiating Burial in church cemetery under G T Bartlett direction.
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Charles Edwin Hartley
West Fairmont High School
Paul and
Pearl Currey Hartley
Cook Hospital Fairmont
Pauline
Jo Ann
Janes Memorial Methodist Church
E. G. Bailes
Oakey Summers
Church
G. T. Bartlett
WPA releases funds for Logan County sanitation work
Huntington dispatch reports the Work Projects Administration released 19 740 dollars from the statewide sanitation appropriation for projects in Logan County. Ladies' Gold Pocketbooks at Turners. 217 71.
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Huntington
Work Projects Administration
Logan County
Turners
Fall of Jap Cabinet Held Very Likely
Tokyo sources say the Japanese cabinet is believed to be near collapse unless the United States signals goodwill by reopening the Yangtze River to foreign trade. Conservatives hope the move could spur a new trade pact to replace the previously denounced treaty effective January 26. An informant warned that failing this, confidence in negotiating with America may vanish.
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Tokyo
United States
Lfrim
Japan
America
Storekeeper's Practical Joke Backfires In West Virginia
In Oceana West Virginia Howard Cook faced a setback after a practical joke cost him a ten dollar hat. He had earlier led a group of friends and students in a wagon ride for High School Principal J Lawrence Blankenship to celebrate the birth of the principal's son. The hat was burned as a celebratory joke, but Cook later had trouble locating his replacement hat. The principal, pointing to the ashes, suggested another hat.
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Oceana. W. Va
Howard Cook
J. Lawrence Blankenship
Blankenship
Cook
French Claim 30 Subs Sunk
Paris reports official French estimates credit Allied forces with sinking more than 50 German submarines since the war began. The Siroco destroyed two subs in one week, while front line troops repelled four German raids between the Moselle and Vosges. Government seeks $1.265 billion military appropriations for the first quarter of 1940.
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Paris
Germany
France
Siroco
Moselle
Vosges
Chamber of Deputies
Card of Thanks for E. D. Smith
We thank relatives friends neighbors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for kindness sympathy and floral offerings Rev Withers and the singers for assistance and Bartlett Funeral Home for cooperation after the death of our husband and father E. D. Smith Mrs Mabel Powell Smith Joe Smith
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Brotherhood of Railroad
Institutions Plan Parties in Charleston for Christmas
In Charleston on December 2, state institutions plan home produced meals for Christmas. West Virginia hospitals, schools, and penitentiaries will rely on meat from chickens, ducks, cattle, and hogs raised on-site. The Huttonsville prison reports a fair crop of potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes, and corn after expanding ground. Officers state no concern about meals.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Walter R. Thurmond
Board of Court
Huttonsville
Thurmond
Moundsville
Board of Control
Surgeon J M Myers Dies After Illness at 99
Dr J M Myers longtime Glendale Hospital surgeon aged 99 died after a two week illness in Wheeling on December 20. He served on the hospital staff for ten years and was widely known in medical circles.
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Wheeling
J. M. Myers
Glendale
Sleeping Sickness Outbreak Probes Halted by Refusal
In Spencer, health officials investigate sleeping sickness claiming three young victims under ten. Autopsy blocked as parents refuse examination of brain and spinal cord, hindering identification of disease type and source, Dr J M Depue of Depue Hospital says physicians remain powerless without the needed tissue.
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Spencer
State Health Department
J. M. Depue
Depue Hospital
Death of Mrs Nancy Cozad Brings Mourning to Claude
Mrs Nancy Jane Cozad aged 71 lifelong Barbour county resident died at 10 last night at her Claude home after two years of complications. Survived by husband George M. Cozad and four sons J W Cozad Clarence Floyd Manley all of Claude and a daughter of the late J M and Betty Fry Ludwick. Funeral Thursday at Mt Pleasant church at 2 pm with burial in church cemetery under G T Bartlett.
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Nancy Jane Cozad
Barbour County
Claude
J. M
Betty Fry Ludwick
George M. Cooch
J. W. Cozad
Birdseport
Clarence
Floyd
Manley
G. T. Bartlett
Allies Urged to Aid Finland With Planes Not Troops
Paris dispatch reports Britain and France favor aiding Finland with planes guns and anti aircraft equipment rather than sending expeditionary forces. Allies weigh naval routes and neutrality barriers while League of Nations coordinates aid and seeks clear US involvement.
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Great Britain
France
Finland
Unon
Germany
Norway
Sweden
League of Nations
Russia
The
League
Joseph A.C. Avenol
Hee
London
U.S
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