Santa gift to boy causes auto crash in Grafton
Seven year old Donald Niner of East End was hospitalized with a fractured left leg after his Santa gift wagon collided with a passing car on East Main street. The driver, Eugene Barchfeld of Pittsburgh, stopped, helped, and transported the boy to Grafton City hospital where Dr. Peck treated the fracture. Barchfeld and witnesses said the wagon appeared to come from Addison street, and that he did not see the child until impact. Donald wished to keep the wagon safe for others and asked authorities to hold it. The boy’s parents are Robert and wife, workers on a road construction project.
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Sarita
Donald Niner
East End
Grafton City Hospital
Donald
Santa
East Main Street
Addison Street
Lad
Eugene Barchfeld
St. Paul Street
Pittsburgh
A, and P, Company
Barchfeld
D.C. Peck
A. E. Lockard
Oes
Grafton
A. and
Captain Lockard
Robert Niner
Niner
Life's Start Provides Clues On Virus Pattern
Life's start continues from page one with living tissue rearranging into a different pattern and becoming alive, even reproducing. A photograph shows a network of molecules, each the size and shape of a wooden match, about one seventy fifthousandth of an inch long and two to three mil months thick, forming the tobacco mosaic virus material, a major crop pest.
Pattern of Molecules Forms Geometric Edge Structure
A descriptive passage compares a flat object assembled from matches to a molecular edge. Each border molecule sits with a regular gap, about a molecule’s width, due to electrical forces. Inside the edge a solid floor forms with a single layer, then a second and third layer stack toward the center, creating pyramids of three matches thick in geometric arrangement.
Panama-flag vessel Charles Pratt sinks off West Africa
The Charles Pratt, owned by Panama Transport a Standard Oil subsidiary, sank near a British West African port. It left Aruba on December 5 bound for British-Mexican Petroleum at Freetown with 5 million gallons of coal, marking the eighth Panama-flag sinking since the war began.
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Standard Oil
Charles Pratt
Panama Transport Company
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Aruba
Netherlands Island
Venezulea
British-Mexican Petroleum Company
Freetown
Panama
Fall of Port Describes Italian retreat and Tobruk plans
An Associated Press report from outside Bardia notes Italian forces faced heavy attrition after the fall of Salum twelve days earlier. The aim was to delay until Tobruk could reinforce, with captured equipment found to be more abundant but of poor quality and largely anti motorized.
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Royal Air Force
Mussolini
Bardia
Salum
Tobruk
Associated Press
Brave Greeks siege gains and prisoner captures
Greek forces claim local successes with 200 prisoners taken and war material seized. Front reports indicate sharp fighting near Kitsura, the mountain gateway to Tepeleni and Valona, with 41 Greek troops retreating, 1 captured, and heavy weapons including mortars, machine guns, rifles, horses, and mules in enemy hands.
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Kitsura
Tepeleni
Valona
Naval base bombed as Italy targets Preveza and more
Italian warplanes claimed direct hits on steamers at Preveza on Greece's west coast. Bombing and fighter formations struck Albania targets including troop preparations and highway junctions. Ground fighting saw enemy attacks repulsed with prisoners and automatic arms reported.
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Rome
Preveza
Greece
Albania
Thirteen Sentenced In Liquor Conspiracy Case
Federal Judge Harry B Watkins sentenced 13 men after individually weighing their cases in a West Virginia Ohio Kentucky bootlegging ring trial. The defendants faced terms up to three years with some probations and fines while 41 others were indicted. Moonshine was allegedly distilled in Lawrence county Ohio and Boyd county Kentucky and transported to bootleggers in the Huntington district.
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Ministry of Home Security
Huntington
Epirus
Greece
Harry B. Watkins
Lawrence County
Boyd County
White Sox Pitcher to Wed Club Treasurer
Chicago December 28. The engagement of Miss Dorothy Comiskey, treasurer of the Chicago White Sox, to John Rigney of the White Sox pitching staff was announced by Mrs Grace Comiskey. Miss Comiskey, 23, daughter of J Louis Comiskey and granddaughter of Charles A Comiskey, said the marriage would take place next fall. Rigney, 26, led White Sox pitchers in 1940 with 15 wins and 8 defeats.
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Chicago
Dorothy Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
John Rigney
White Sox
Grace Comiskey
Miss Comiskey
J. Louis Comiskey
Charles A. Comiskey
Rigney
Thomas J. Rigney
River Forest
Ill
Judge Musmanno Returns To Battle Drunk Driving
Pittsburgh December 28 Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno, famed for his campaign against drunken driving, will sit all night as a committing magistrate in criminal court New Year’s Eve to swiftly handle intoxicated motorists. City, county and state police will patrol hotspot areas. Offenders will be warned first and bailed into court if they proceed to drive.
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Pittsburgh
Michael Angelo Musmanno
British Detachment Destroyed Near Bardia in Combined Action
The daily war bulletin says a British mechanized detachment was destroyed near Bardia in an action conducted with air force support. Crews were captured as the operation dispersed enemy units and silenced artillery. An Italian warship shelled the British and Libyan warship crews.
Shepherdstown Teacher To Wed State Official
Shepherdstown announces the engagement of Roga lie Skinner to H. K. Baer the Charleston state supervisor of elementary schools. The announcement came at an informal dinner and bridge party last night. The marriage date was not disclosed. Miss Skinner is a Shepherdstown Public Schools teacher and graduate of Shepherd State Teachers College.
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Shepherdstown
Roga
Lie Skinner
H. K. Baer
Charleston
Skinner
Shepherd State Teachers College
Pee
Mayor's Sister In Critical Condition At Braxton Co Home
Mayor P. F. Gillispie rushed to Newville Braxton County after a message said his sister is at the point of death. City hall reported only that her illness is critical and no details were released.
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P. F. Gillispie
Newville
Braxton County
City Hall
Gillispie
Fiend hunted in murder of father and daughter
In Clarion Pennsylvania a gang of farmers and police hunted a suspect for the killings of Reuben Wentling and his 12 year old son, with Elizabeth Wentling attacked after a double murder on the Wentling farm. The father died at a hospital. the mother and daughter were injured but not seriously.
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Clarion
Pennsylvania
Reuben Levi Wentling
Reuben Levi
Wentling
Olive
Elizabeth
Git
Wentling Farm
Here
Amos Dolby
Dolby
Elizabeth Wentling
Reuben, Jr
Ill Health Is Cause Of Woman's Death by Own Action
Huntington. The body of Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, 45, was found near her home. Coroner F. X. Schuller ruled a self inflicted bullet wound caused her death after reports she had suffered ill health.
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Huntington
Elizabeth Harris
F. X. Schuller
Harris
Neutrality clash and Irish question in wartime editorials
Gayda warns against American intervention, criticizing sending ships to Ireland as a violation of neutrality. Rome voices support for Ireland in a potential Britain conflict, while German officials push continued inclusion of Eire in the Nazi blockade zone despite neutrality act amendments.
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United States
Gayda
Ireland
Britain
Washington
Giornale D'Italia
FDR
I. Popolo - di Roma
Roosevelt
Karl Megerle
Foreign Office
Hire
Eire
Rome Radio
Germany
Italy
Roosevelt Sena
Wheeler Seeks Congress Review for Expanded Aid to Britain
Senate discussions centered on the president's power to lease battleships aircraft and munitions with congressional approval. Wheeler said legal avenues exist to mobilize, while others urged seeking a negotiated European peace. Roosevelt declined comment amid questions of bipartisan support for any war-related aid shift.
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Atd
Britain
Wheeler
Tydings
D.m4a
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Holt
D.-W. Va
United States
Roosevelt
Pish
RaoNt
Congress
Tail of plane severs in midair crash survivor lands
Millard K. Melnnis, 26, survived a midair tail-severing crash over Hillsgrove State Airport and landed the damaged craft in a field. He was treated for a leg laceration at the hospital. The other student pilot, Gilbert Kornstein, 19, died in the plunge.
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Hillsgrove
R.I
Millard K. Melnnis
Gilbert Kornstein
Stop tipping urged by U S women watchdogs
Chicago speech by Mary Anderson of the United States Women's Bureau called for abolition of tipping as undemocratic. She warned irregular employment worsens hardships for wage earners dependent on tips and urged reform at the American Association for Labor Legislation meeting.
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Chicago
Mary Anderson
United States Women's Bureau
American Association
Mary Barhett
Gilson
University of Chicago
Cumberland farmer dies by self-inflicted gunshot wound
Martin Kidd, 93, a Cumberland Road farmer, was found shot in Bluefield on December 28. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Morton Wagner labeled the death a suicide, noting the circumstances as a wisticide investigation.
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Bluefield
Martin Kidd
Cumberland Road
Morton ‘Wagner
Ford to Get Big Contract for Scout Cars and Plants
The War Department moved toward awarding Ford Motor Co a 1,500 scout car contract worth 1,387,500 amid labor protest by Hillman of the defense production board who argued for labor safeguards. The agency also announced a 21,965,420 contract to fund an aircraft engine plant and magnesium casting foundry at Dearborn Michigan and a $122,323,020 Pratt and Whitney motors contract. Sandusky Ohio будет site for an $11,000,000 TNT plant by Trojan Powder Co and an $34,060,000 ammunition loading plant to be run by Rene Gamile Defense project.
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Washington
Sidney
War Department
Ford Motors
Hillman
Defense Production Board
Robert P. Patterson
War
Hillmann
Labor Board
Ohio City
Ford’ Company
Rene Gamile
Cinethnatl
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