New Deputy Staff Named for Taylor County Sheriff
Taylor county gains new sheriff Vin Newlon who will take office with his announced staff. W H Canfield from Maple Benue becomes field deputy, Edward Grayson from First National of Grafton takes inside deputy role, bookkeepers Mrs Roy Newton and Mrs Elizabeth Mahatty, jailers Ralph Gibson day, Homer Parsons night. Newlon notes residence near ready and mentions past office exchange with Lee Bennett.
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Taylor County
Vin Newlon
Lee Bennett
Grafton
Will
Roy Newton
Elizabeth Mahatty
Ralph Gibson
Homer Parsons
Sheriff Newton
Lee ‘Bennett
Sheriff Bennett
Blood Test Angle Of Chaplin Case Will Be Resumed Tomorrow Afternoon
Testimony on whether Charlie Chaplin fathered Joan Berry's baby resumes tomorrow with a third physician on call. Doctors said Chaplin blood type C, Berry's A, baby Carol Ann's B, making paternity by blood type impossible. Dr. Andrews ill, trial postponed. experts anticipated concluding arguments next week.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Berry
Roy W. Hammack
Newton Evans
Miss Berry
Chaplin
Carol Ann
W. L. Andrews
Andrews
Vocational School to Open in Central Building
Taylor County Board of Education announces a new government supervised Vocational Education program at the old Central School near the second semester start. The facility will include a machine shop a blacksmith and welding section for day school use by high school youths and night use by veterans and adults. First floor renovation proceeds as machinery awaits installation and staff selection continues.
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Taylor County Board of Education
Central School
Firemen Called Out To Piedmont Ave Residence
Firemen were alerted at 7 25 this morning to a blaze at the Piedmont Avenue residence of Joe Fletcher guarding Austria as the Russian drive reported by the Soviet communique spread toward the Danube region. Fire Chief L H Greenwald said the fire reached the ceiling and damaged the area estimated at about 25 dollars.
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Red Army
Bude
Feodor Tolbukhin
First Ukraine
Budapeste Vienna
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Danube
Hron
Garam) River
Joe Fletcher
Piedine
Austria
Sian
L. H. Greenwald
Ipoly
Budapest
Ipolysag
Losong
Sugar in blood and O Henry's prolific output
A human adult has half an ounce of sugar in his blood. In his lifetime O Henry wrote 600 pieces of original fiction.
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O. Henry
Paper War: Soldier’s Life Routed Through Paperwork
A fragmented wartime vignette underscores how a soldier’s life, from draft card to honorable discharge, relies on paper. Rations, records, orders, and even housing and meals are depicted as permeated by paper, highlighting the era’s bureaucratic reach and symbolic reliance on documents.
Former Grafton Resident Mary Liesheit Dies in Pittsburg
Mary Liesheit, formerly of Grafton, died Monday at her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs John W Smith home in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. She lived with the Smiths during their Grafton years and her death is reported by friends. John W Smith, a former Grafton senior high school coach, is mentioned as a relation.
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Mary Liesheit
John W. Smith
Pittsburgh
Liesheit
Smiths
Grafton
Smith
Ice and weather disrupt West Virginia travel
Blustery winds and heavy ice crippled northern highways from Wheeling to Clarksburg, forcing bus cancellations. Chains kept traffic moving in the eastern panhandle, while southern areas saw sleet slow roads. Eighteen people hospitalized for injuries from icy conditions. Rivers showed no imminent flood threat as temperatures rose and ice eased. The narrative includes the Bastogne exchange with the famous Nazi ultimatum and the American reply Nuts.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Northen
Panhanale
Wheeling
Clarksburg
Panhandle
Road Commission
Huntington
Ava Patterson
Kanawha
Marmet Lock
Breaded ruin scene in Peloponnesus Athens survives beam
Charalambros M. Makris sits on the only remaining beam of his ruined home in the Peloponnesus area near Athens. An official OWI photo captures the moment as the war drags on and civilians endure.
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Charalambros M. Makris
Peloponnesus
Athens
OWI
Icy sidewalks injure three residents in city slips
Local residents suffered at least three serious injuries as a freezing rain turned streets to ice. Mrs Clara Getz 70 fractured hip after slipping near 208 East Washington, Ruth Williams fractured wrist on Walnut Street, and Betty Sharp Layman nurse from Knottsville fractured wrist on pavement nearby.
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City Hospital
Clara Getz
East Washington Street
Washington Street
Ruth Williams
West Grafton
Walnut Street
Betty Sharp Layman
Knottsville
Funeral Rites For Former Resident Ida V Wood
Brief word reached here that Mrs Ida V Wood formerly of this county will be laid to rest Friday at 2 p.m. Funeral services are to be held at the Bartlett funeral home with interment in Bluemont cemetery. The body was to arrive this evening by train from Newark Ohio.
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Ida. V. Wood
Newark
Ohio
Bartlett Funeral Home
Bluemont Cemetery
The War Today Review on European War Prospects
A columnist weighs likely timelines for the European conflict. Moscow offensives in Hungary and Slovakia and a potential Polish Vistula push could pressure Nazi defenses. Western counteroffensives strain Reich resources while intelligence lapses spark accountability concerns. The Japanese war hinges on Europe’s timeline, with an eighteen month estimate after Germany’s surrender.
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Pee Tenenene
Rhine
War Production Board
Vistula
Poland
Reich
Hungary
Slovakia
West
Reith
Europe
Germany
Uniform Seaman Second Class Killed In South Pacific War
Gilbert John Stansbury 19, seaman second class, son of Mrs. Nettie Stansberry of 446 Pearl Street, was killed in action October 23 aboard a destroyer in the South Pacific. He was born in Grafton September 28 1926, an only son, and attended Grafton High School before enlisting September 24, 1943.
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Gilbert John Stansbury
Nettie Stansberry
Pearl Street
Grafton High School
W. R Lear and Son Photographers
Grafton
Young Stansberry
Allied forces tightening grip on Asia in World War II drive
The report describes British naval reinforcements in the Orient and over two million Indian troops ready for action to reclaim Burma and the East Indies. Allied positions are strong as bases and sap fortresses target Japan’s lifeline, with Tokyo and other Nippon cities increasingly within reach. A German style imperial rescript notes a critical war situation.
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Hig
Orient
Burma
East Indies
Philippines
Japan
Tokyo
Sap
Nippon
China
St Augustine 10 Meet Alumni Five Tonight at Auditorium
The St Augustine quintet opens basketball season tonight at 7 p m in the St verstine auditorium, meeting the Alumni quintet. Coach Peck Board leads the local Irish, with a January 2 clash vs St Patrick's eyed as a top upcoming game. lineup includes Moran Turner Waters Hussion Flanagan Tucker Timbers Reed Cockrell Campbell. Alumni lineup not published by noon. Rebecca West born Cecily Isabel Fairfield in Kerry. Soybean sprouts can be planted any day year. no soil or sun needed. Buddy Young of Illinois rushed nine times vs Ohio State. four tackles by Bill Hackett. Before 1939 much world optical glass came from England Belgium Czechoslovakia Germany.
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St. Augustine
St .Verstine
Peck Board
Weit
St. Patrick's
Donald Moran
Greer Turner
Bob Waters
John Hussion
Eugene Flanagan
Bob Tucker
Tom Timbers
Ralph Reed
Bill Cockrell
Ralph Campbell
Buddy Young
Illinois
Ohio State
Bill Hackett
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ecuElizabeth Mahaffy
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Bob Steele
Boatterbrain
Judy8Canova
Alan Mow
Billy Gilbert
Die Floyd, Jr
Gacharge
JAP Ships
Federal Communications Commission
San Jose
United States
Nimitz
Strategic Airforce
Pacific Ocean
Iwo Jima
Mindoro
Manila
MacArthur
No Jima
Saipan
Linnaeus
A.V. Cuppett’s
A. V.cuppett and Co
Coe
South
Lock
Shrewsbury
U. S. 60
Crown Hill
Bastogne
Ourthemear
Mourtheuville
Marche
St. Hubert
Homores
Libret - Tillet Libramont
Harold Paul Clovis
C. C. Clovis
Parkview
Norfolk, Va
Frank
Bill) Douglas
Ted Sandsbury
West Boyd Street
Fred Douglas
Aurora
Earnest Allen Reed
New Guinea
Pacific
Earnest M. Reed
West Main Street
Thomas Lee Hyatt
USNR
Oscar Hyatt
Longstreet
Brooklyn
N. Y
Young Hyatt
Cpl
Oscar Hyatt, Jr
France
Joseph William Hyatt
Marianna Islands
W. A. Colebank
Kirby Street
W. W. Colebank
Comforts
Shan Tot
Tenth Air Force
James L. Penny
OT. Augustine
Alumani
Irish
Rebecca West
Cecily Isabel Fairfield
County Kerry
Ireland
Thien
England
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Malones Drug and Chemical Co
Sander Mine
Shelby Run Road
Pruntytown
Grafton Domestic Coal.co
Frank Gerard
Prop
Standard Garage Co
Maple Avenue
Brooks ‘F. Martin
Hamric
Dixie
George Sanders
Linay Darnell
GE Brush Family
TPS
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North Pole
COAL
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