Roosevelt To Speak On Britain Aid Sunday Night
President Roosevelt will be specific about war aid to Britain in his nationwide radio address Sunday night but will not reveal figures. White House secretary Steven Early said the talk, broadcast from 9 30 to 10 p m over three radio chains, will cover speeding up domestic production and key administration efforts. He added no precise figures will be given for any nation. The same day, Mrs Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of Civil War general Longstreet, joined the No Foreign War Committee, according to Verne Marshall.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Britain
Marly
New York
Verne Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
Helen Dortch Longstreet
Organizat
Bad Weather Halts Greeks Front in Albania
Rain and snow slowed fighting on the Albanian front as Greek forces pressed along the Adriatic coast north of Caimara without contact with the main Italian line. In Tepeleni and Klisura, battles continued amid intense cold and waist-deep snow as Fascist troops suffered from weather and supply shortages. A captured Italian lieutenant colonel reported battalions reduced from 700 to 200 and many soldiers dying from cold or frostbite. Christmas bombing of Corfu followed by Italian air units.
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Athens
Adriatic
Caimara
Tepeleni
Klisura
Bérsaglieri
Corfu
Grafton Sentinel invites to tonight's Strand and Dixie features
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs O G Hall of 443 West Francis Street to tonight's double feature at the Strand theater featuring Too Many Girls with Lucille Ball and River's End with Dennis Morgan and Tim Holt, or The Fargo Kid at the Dixie theater.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
O. G. Hall
West Francis Street
Lucille Ball
Strand Theatre
Silent film star Agnes Ayres dies at 42
Hollywood reports film star Agnes Ayres died on Christmas day from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 42. A contemporary of Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino, she faded after the talkie era and briefly attempted a comeback. Surviving daughter Maria, 15, was reportedly with her father in Mexico City. divorced from Manuel Renchi since 1927. Her first husband was Capt. Frank P. Schuker.
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Hollywood
Agnes Ayres
Miss Ayres
Gloria Swanson
Wallace Reid
Anatol
Rudolph Valentino
Air Line Head Denies Wed Plan With Mrs Vanderbilt
PHOENIX Ariz Dec 26 Jack Frye president of Transcontinental and Western Air denied he and Mrs Helen Vanderbilt have any immediate plans for matrimony. Vanderbilt the former Helen Warner of Clarksburg Va who was divorced by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr at Carson City Nev on December 18. Frye said they are just good friends and he is in Phoenix to rest and recover from a cold.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Jack Frye
Transcontinental and Western Air
Helen Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Helen ‘Warner
Clarksburg
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Carson City
Nev
Fry
One Killed Four Injured In Automobile Collision
Frederick Maryland reports a fatal car crash near New Market last night. William King of Baltimore died, while George Turner a 17 year old soldier from Martinsburg West Virginia and three other youths were injured as their auto struck a pole. Turner was picked up hitchhiking by the group according to police.
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Frederick
William King
Baltimore
George Turner
Martinsburg
W. Va
New Market
Turner
Section Boss Dies in B and O Wreck Near Bellaire
In a Baltimore and Ohio freight collision one mile west of Nefis, section boss John Paisley was killed while fellow worker Paul Robey was critically injured. Robey was transported to Wheeling Hospital in serious condition.
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Bellaire
Baltimore and Ohio
Nefis
John Paisley
Paul Robey
Wheeling
W. Va
Holiday toll climbs with 362 violent deaths nationwide
A holiday toll of at least 362 violent deaths was recorded today in Christmas observance reports. Traffic accidents caused 273 fatalities on Christmas Eve and Day, while 109 other deaths raised the three day weekend toll coast to coast beyond half of last year. Reports cite personal crises, fires, poisonings, explosions, drownings.
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Associated Press
Large Defense Contracts Awarded to West Virginia
West Virginia received national defense contracts totaling 22.4 million dollars from July 1 to December 15, with the Army placing about 17.5 million including 15 million for an anhydrous ammonia plant at Morgantown. Navy awards reached 4.62 million, WPA 68 thousand, and the Office of Education defense training 197 thousand, plus 3.239 thousand to a vital statistics clerical project.
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Washington
West Virginia
National Defense
Office of Government
Wheeling
Work Projects Administration
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Army
Morgantown
Navy Department
WPA
Office of Education Defense
German Troops Pour Into Balkans Amid Oil War Fears
Crowded trains carry an estimated 300000 fresh German troops through Hungary into Romania as experts note Germany may already have about 100000 soldiers in Romania. Both sides guard vital oil sources while tensions rise over Balkan influence. Rail service curtailment accompanies the mass movement amid fears of wider conflict.
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Robert B. Parker
Budapest
Hungary
Romania
Balkans
Europe
Germany
Rumania
Hun
Italy Suffers Big Losses in Greek-Italian War Activity
London reports Italy lost at least 38 aircraft while Britain suffered nine losses in operations from Nov. 7 to Dec. 21. RAF efforts supported Greek forces with offensive and defensive patrols and strikes on Italian troop concentrations, airstrips, and transport hubs, plus heavy bombing of Valona Durazzo and Porto Edda in Albania.
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London
Italy
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Valona
Durazzo
Porto Edda
Adriatic
Cut In Relief Spending Forecast In Next Year
Washington reports that increased defense program employment could shrink relief outlays. Congress gave 975 million dollars to WPA for the current year and may need a supplementary appropriation to extend relief to July 1. Senator Adams notes relief cuts possible as jobs rise but cautions only one relief recipient leaves per three new private jobs.
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Washington
Congress
WPA
Adams
D.-Colo
Appropriations
Profiteering Mayor Executed in Chungking
In Chungking on December 26 reports say Yang Chuan Yu former mayor of Chengtu was executed for hording rice. Prices in Szechuen and West China provinces fell about 15 percent since the Monday execution as central government vows further punitive action.
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Chungking
Szechuen
West China
Yang Chuan- Yu
Chengtu
Yang
Weather hopes for Neely inauguration in Charleston
Charleston December 26 reports say good weather may enable the January 13 oath for Governor-elect M. M. Neely at noon without ceremony disruption. The event would place the swearing in at the Capitol doors overlooking Kanawha river boulevard with U.S. Senator from Fairmont delivering remarks.
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Charleston
West Virginia
M. M. Neely
United States
Fairmont
Kanawha River
Henry D. Hatfield
Old Capitol
William M. O. Dawson
Alien Registration Ends At Midnight Tonight
The four month registration drive ends at midnight for all non citizens in the United States and territories except foreign officials and their immediate families. Those who fail to register face a $1000 fine and up to six months in jail. Registration director Earl G. Harrison urged prompt compliance and warned that nonregistrants forfeit any chance of mercy from Uncle Sam.
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Washington
United States
Earl G. Harrison
Uncle Sam
Widow State Employee Held On Murder Charge
Charleston December 26 Mrs Hilda Neely Brown 34 an employee of the state department of public assistance was scheduled for a hearing today before Acting Municipal Court Judge C Robert Jarrett charged with the slaying of Robert G McClure 31 son of Dr and Mrs A G McClure of Charleston found fatally shot in the widow's apartment Christmas eve Detective Lieutenant Edgar C Bourne reported The couple had quarreled about plans for spending the holiday eve
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Charleston
Hilda Neely Brown
State Department of Public Assistance
C. Robert Jarrett
Robert G. McClure
McClure
A. G. McClure
Comely
Edgar C. Bourne
European Draft Plan Fails To Win Washington Support
Washington authorities said discussions on limiting conscription to 21 year olds were premature by at least three years. Officials argued such a shift would risk casualties among the most numerous 21 year old group if war broke out soon, explaining the current law covers men 21 to 36. Continued on Page four.
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Washington
Congress
Dan Frohman Dies Noted Stage Figure at 89
Daniel Frohman, dean of American stage producers, died at 7 15 am in Leroy sanitarium due to complications from a fall. He had fractured his right hip in a hotel suite fall on Nov 4 and remained in the sanitarium, preserving ties to theater as president of the Actors Fund and former leader alongside brother Charles Frohman.
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New York
Daniel Frohman
Leroy Sanitarium
Frohman
American Theater
Lyceum
Tse
Charles Frohman
Lusitania
Footlight Folk
Actor’s Fund
Grief Stricken Father Bars Public From Rites
Alton Heinbuck, grieving father of a wife and five children lost in a Christmas Eve fire, restricted attendance to immediate relatives for funeral services and burial at an undisclosed cemetery. Funeral home officials said he asked that no burial location be announced. Heinbuck had recently found night work in Washington after a long period of idleness.
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Washington
Alton Heinbuck
Upper Marlboro
Heinbuch
Young Roosevelt Slated For Clerkship in Law Firm
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is slated for a 2100 dollar clerk job at the Wall Street firm Wright Gordon Zachry and Parlin, starting January 6. The 28 year old son of the president, Groton graduate of 1933, Harvard 1937, UVA law 1939, married Ethel Du Pont on June 30, 1937. The announcement was made by Wallace P. Zachry after a prior plan to join Garey and Jantece was abandoned for the campaign.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Wall Street
Wright
Young Roosevelt
Groton
Harvard
University of Virginia
Ethel du Pont
Wilmington, del
Meat ration reduction planned in Britain in January
London reports Britain's meat ration is likely to drop from one shilling per week to about 30 cents early in January. The one shilling allowance bought around a pound and a half of beef, with rationing by price rather than weight.
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London
Britain
Aerial truce observed on Yale holiday
A Christmas ceasefire eased the air war between Britons and Germans with the only fighting the downing of a German plane near the Orkneys by the fleet air arm and four crew captured. King George VI warned the future would be hard even as Britons celebrated Yuletide in shelters, songs, and family scenes.
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London
Orkney Islands
Scotland
Fleet Air Arm
Royal Air Force
Empire
George VI
Windsor
Campaign spending under review for tighter limits
Washington December 26 Drastic limits on individual political contributions may be recommended by the senate campaign expenditures committee to curb national election costs. Chairman Gillette of Iowa asked members to study proposals restricting both individual gifts and party expenditures. The Hatch Act sets 3 million dollars yearly for party committees and 5 thousand dollars per donor, yet Gillette estimates over 20 million was spent in the November presidential election by multiple groups backing candidates.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Gillette
D.-Towa
Gillettee
Building Permits Rise in Fifth District for 1940
Richmond report shows 30,781 permits issued in January to November 1940 in the fifth district, up from 29,195 in the same period 1939. West Virginia issued 175 permits valued at $342,057 in November, vs 196 permits valued at $1,336,431 in November 1939.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
West Virginia
Bank
Sald
British coast braces as Christmas truce holds
British guards along the Dover Strait doubled their vigilance on Christmas Eve amid a tentative truce with Germany. Bren guns and other automatic weapons patrolled beaches while traffic was halted and IDs checked, with no German planes reported crossing the frontline by early afternoon.
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London
Channel
Strait of
Dover
Inington
Berlin
Walther von Brauchitsch
Adolf Hitler
England
Coast Guard Searches For Lost Crew After Ship Distress
Coast Guard and Cutter Shawnee launched a rescue sweep from Point Arena after a lumber schooner Stanwood sent distress calls. Ten guardsmen aboard a small motor lifeboat were last seen lashed together in rough seas on Christmas Day. Mrs. Cecil Thomas, wife of the officer in charge, said they are feared in trouble as crews scour the coast near Humboldt Bay.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Coastsguards
Point Arena
Stanwood
Cutter
Cecil Thomas
Ietary
Coast Guard Penaauark
Shawnee
Humboldt Bay
San Frans
Grafton Sentinel Invites Attend Tim McCoy Bill
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs F M Martin of 275 High Street to attend tonight's presentation featuring Tim McCoy and Hugh Barters in a double bill at the Opera House theatre titled Slightly Tempted and Busters.
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Grafton Sentinel
F. M
Martin 275
Street
Tim McCoy
Busters
Hugh Barters
Opera House
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