State police chief resigns. Hess to take over post
Charleston December 20 Governor Neely announced John W Bosworth resignation as superintendent of state police and said H Clare Hess will assume the post tomorrow Hess 44 formerly lawyer in Mannington and veteran of World War I will become the fourth state police superintendent this year Bosworth plans to publish a weekly newspaper at Elkins and spend time in Florida. he had aimed to finish subversive activity cases and report to the FBI.
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Charleston
Neely
John W. Bosworth
H. Clare Hess
Fess
Gio
Bosworth
CIO
FBI
Elkins
Florida
Hess
Mannington
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Te PI Bation and Parole
Gmd
Long
American Legion
Monongalia
Marion
Preston
Average School Attendance Figures For Month End
Average attendance for the third month of the year ending December 18 was 93.2 percent. County attendance officer R Virgil Rohrbough disclosed figures showing high schools at 95.3 percent and the total district average at 91.3. One room schools averaged 93 percent led by Jarretia at 97.4. East Grafton topped at 96.6 while Simpson Junior High led the four schools with 95.8.
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R.virgil Rohrbough
Iarretia
East Grafton
Simpson Junior High
Knottsville Father Pays Costs In School Case
Dayton Poling of Knottsville charged with failing to send his 15 year old son Ray to public schools was freed after paying costs following a trial before Justice George L. Jolliffe. He promised the boy would miss no more school.
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Dayton Poling
Knottsville
Ray Poling
Justice of the Peace
George L. Jolliffe
State offices seek workers in West Virginia merit system
Open competitive exams announced for clerical stenographic and business machine operator roles across state and county departments including Health Public Assistance Unemployment Compensation and Employment Service. Salaries range from 60 to 160 monthly with HS education and relevant experience required. Obtain forms at local offices or write to Dale Noble Atlas Building Charleston WV.
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West Virginia Merit System Council
J. I. Booth
State Employment Service Office
Health
Public Assistance
Unemployment Compensation
Employment Service
State Employment Service
Dale Noble
Merit System
Atlas Building
Charleston
West Virginia
Church Plans Yale Christmas Program At United Brethren
Rev Lois Buzader announces a Christmas program at United Brethren church with Sunday school children. The lineup includes multiple recitations such as I Had A Reason by Jeannie Henderson and Just Merry Christmas by Linda McKeen, songs, solos, and a dialogue. Offertory Melodie performed by Anna.
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United Brethren Church
Lois Buzader
Jeannie Henderson
Linda McKeen
Don Mims
Janet Sue Boylen
Rosalie Losh
Sue Randall
Naughty Mouse
Ruth Crall
Little Star
Helen Louise
Charlotte
Ann Stilwell
Andrew Losh
Annabel Curry
Lohg
A. Manger
Connie McProuty
Dolores Jenkins
Charles Keener
Charles Keener, Solo, “Star of Bethlehem
Alta Sloan
Shepherd's Bed
Junior Girls
Ey Offertory
Melodie
Anna
Recitation and Playlets by School Groups
Jean Hoylen presents Last Year's Doll. Helen Virginia Redinger performs Christmas In Africa. Tunior boys sing There's A Star. Junior girls perform Golden Gifts. Tontor girls participate.
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Jean Hoylen
Helen Virginia Redinger
Africa
Tunior Boys
Tontor Girls
Wealthy Cape Charles man shoots wife then kills himself
Ruric Nottingham, 74, a Cape Charles real estate and seafo business figure, shot his wife Ella Nottingham, 55, three times in the neck and body on the cellar landing, then fatally shot himself in the basement of their brick home. Mrs. Nottingham was hospitalized in serious condition. Coroner Dr. W F D Williams labeled the death as suicide. Neighbors and sister Ella Nottingham, visiting, heard a scream but not the shots. the motive remained undetermined after the investigation by Cape Charles Town Sergeant H D Ewell.
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Cape Charles
Ruric Nottingham
Cape’ Charles
W. F. D. Williams
Northhampton
Nottingham
Waddox “Memorial Hospital
Country Boy Slays Family and Fires House Near Little Falls
A 16 year old Morrison county farm youth confessed to shooting his parents, a younger sister and brother in their home 18 miles east of Buckman Minnesota. He admitted siphoning gasoline and spreading it around before firing from outside the house and starting a fire. After the killings he drove to Buckman and later informed his sisters in Duluth Minneapolis and Little Falls of the “terrible accident.” He was detained upon returning to the scene.
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Little Falls
Minn
Morrison County
Ustin L. Grimes
August Dehler
Anna Mae
Kenneth
Grimes
Buckman
Duluth
Minneapolis
County Officials Paid and Local Payrolls Reported
County officials and employees received December salaries as Sheriff and County Treasurer Lee Bennett distributed the payroll today. Local payrolls included Carr China and Hazel Atlas Glass, with DuPont checks also issued yesterday and today. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pay is due to be distributed Monday.
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Lee Bennett
Carr China Company
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
DuPont
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Nottingham tragedy linked by pistol and fatal wound
Mrs. Nottingham wished breakfast cooked then followed by a man who was later found on the cellar floor with a pistol in his clenched hand and a bullet wound to the temple. Authorities reported the severed scene on the landing and a gun involved in the fatal incident.
Too Many Relatives Opening Night Hit at Lawson Center
The production Too Many Relatives drew a knockout opening night crowd with thrills and wide laughter. The cast delivered an excellent performance and the show returns this evening at Lawson Social Center auditorium at 8 00 p m with tickets 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.
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Lawson Social Center
Lawson Center
Vesper Choir Plans Cantata at First Baptist Church
The Vesper Choir under Miss Naomi Robinson will present a Christmas cantata titled Glad Tidings of Great Joy at the First Baptist Church this Sunday evening at 7 30. The program includes solo numbers and chorales with Wayne Daugherty and Miss Robinson among the performers. Public invitation to attend is not extended for this or other church services.
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Naomi Robinson
First Baptist Church
Choie
Judea
Sollo
Wayne Daugherty
Goebbels Sees Tough War Ahead For Axis
In Bern on December 20 Goebbels, German Propaganda minister, warns that the changed world picture requires a longer, harder war. Das Reich front page says axis fate improves but warns lightning advances may end. He cites Far East conflict and axis prospects against Britain and the United States.
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Bern
Switzerland
Paul Joseph’ Goebbels
Axis
Liane
Das Reich
Goebbels
Britain
United States
Navy says submarine sinks additional enemy transport
The Navy reported today that a United States submarine had sunk an additional enemy transport. SS SESE
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Washington
Navy
United States
Christmas Program at St. Paul's Methodist Church
The Christmas program at St. Pauls Methodist Church is set for Sunday at 7 30 PM featuring Welcome and Hidden Christmas Gift performances with students from primary to youth groups, a pantomime Manger of Bethlehem, a full cantata Good Tidings of Great Joy, and organ and piano music plus a benevolence offering directed by Mrs Lockard and Agnes Helms.
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St. Paul's Methodist Church
Welcome
Foster Lloyd Brown
Shirley Ann Bumgardner
Bobby Cameron
Joyce Ann Cole
William Courtney
Joyce Cuppett
Ronald Elis
Betty Lou Freeze
Mary Margaret Frey
Ellen Gainer
Morella Ann Gerkin
Pegsy Haislip
Clove Louise Hershman
Ollie Virginia Hershman
Frances McWilliams
John
Foster Brown
Arvie Lockard
Agnes Margaret Helms
Lockard
Charles W. T. Lockard
Eileen Patton Leonard
Grant Colfax Fuller
Nina . McDade Powell
Eleanor Borneman
Frances Leonard
Ruth Marie Bumgardner
Julius Kennedy Nabbed For Theft of Automobile
Julius Kennedy is jailed on a theft charge after a Barrett Street auto vanished yesterday. County and Sergeant J C Helms nabbed Kennedy on Latrobe Street. The stolen 1935 Dodge four door sedan belonged to L J Bennett. Officers tied the car’s disappearance to an inmate from the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown.
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Julius Kennedy
Barrett
J. C. Helms
Kennedy
Latrobe Street
Bo Ghuste
Morggantown
L. J. Bennett
Auto
West Wirginia
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Matinee
Arizona
C. P
Pesor
U. S
Hawaiian
Oahu
Skaggs
YALE
Dixie
Moe
Grafton
Sterling
Malone
Vesper Choir
Naomi ‘Robinson
Chris
D.W. Lawson
Webster Pike
Phobe
Baker’s
Yuletide
Skaggs’ & CO
Prince Albert
Velvet
Sir Walter Raleigh
George Washington
Kentucky Club
Big Ben
Malone's Drug and Chemical CO
Whitman
Martha
Joan Manning
Nunnally
Meyer
Archdeacon
West
Virginia
Togeday
Eleanor Powell Jo
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