Cabinet Members Hopeful Year Brings Better Times in 1932
Washington witnesses a hopeful start to 1932 as cabinet members foresee recovery. Secretary Lamont notes liquidity easing and early rebuilding. Secretary Doak reports signs of improvement despite current shortcomings. Nightlife thrives as crowds fill venues while officials prepare for a White House New Year gathering.
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New Year Messages From World Leaders Preview 1981 Outlook
Lamont notes global financial strain despite favorable 1981 start and cites May June crisis in Central Europe. Hoover predicts many problems in a New Year message to foreign service officers. Doumer and Hindenburg send New Year greetings stressing cooperation and duties for the year ahead.
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Funeral rites set for Miss Willa Smallwood in Grafton
The body of Miss Willa Smallwood was moved from Hamilton funeral parlors to the home of Mrs. John Hamilton at 301 Walnut Street. In state until 2 p.m. tomorrow, rites will be conducted at the home by Rev. F. C. Herod of First Baptist Church. Interment at Bluemont cemetery by Hamilton Funeral Co. Surviving nieces and nephews include Mrs. David E. Hawthorne, Mrs. C. M. Smith, Mrs. C. M. Howard, all of Akron, Mrs. Paul Paymer of Painesville, Mrs. Raymond Wolfe of Detroit, Mrs. C. B. Jones of East Main Street Grafton, W. W. Smallwood of Roadhouse, Tl, and M. J. Smallwood of Pine Grove, W. Va. She died suddenly of a heart attack in Wheeling at a sister’s home. She had lived in Grafton until three years ago when she moved to the Panlian idle city.
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Painesville
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Detroit
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Roadhouse
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Pine Grove
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J. T. Humphreys
Wheeling
Sister of John Carroll Dies at Kingwood Home
Mrs. Lilly Carroll Johnson of Kingwood, longtime Gratton resident, died at 8:20 last night at her brother John W. Carroll's home. Ill health and heart trouble noted. Surviving sisters include Miss Mary G. Carroll and Rose Alkire of Germantown, Md. Burial planned in Westernport, Md., Saturday morning. funeral plans not announced.
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Croup kills Rosemont girl in brief illness
Lavolle Thompson, seven, daughter of Joseph B. Thompson and Stella E. Holland Thompson, died after a short illness. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Mount Clare Methodist Episcopal Church near Clarksburg. Rev. William Roach will officiate and burial will follow in Union Cemetery. Bartlett Funeral Company in charge. Survived by parents, two brothers Lawrence and Eugene Thompson and two sisters Marie and Francis Thompson.
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Miners Stage Strike In Kentucky Headlines
Haran Ky January 1 First reports on the National Miners Union strike say about 10 percent of Harlan county workers are affected with more in Bell and Knox counties. Pickets went on duty at several mines with no disorder at the start. Many mines operated to test strike strength on New Year’s Day.
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National Miners Union
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Two More Bodies Found In Hotel Wreckage
Wreckers raising the ruins of the new Court Hotel in Springfield Massachusetts recovered two more bodies today, raising the known death toll to eight from the blaze that started last Saturday.
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Arms delegate chosen for Geneva conference team
Norman Davis former undersecretary of state was appointed as the fifth member of the United States delegation to the Geneva arms conference.
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Norman Davis
United States
Tornado hits Robinson Bridge area kills three in Alabama
Three Negroes died and 15 were injured when a tornado struck Robinson bridge, eleven miles from Montgomery, destroying five Black homes and damaging many others. The storm's news reached the area late today.
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Ala
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Gloomy Dean Hopeful After Commons Visit
London January 1 Dean Inge known as the Gloomy says he prefers this Parliament to the previous one though he finds it lacking. He praises the House of Commons as largely lively young gentlemen who ran for election as a joke without expecting to win. He would rather be governed by them than by the untrustworthy crowd he laments.
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Dean Inge
House of Commons
Italian's Store Bombed in Colorado Last Night
A bomb destroyed the combined home and grocery store of R. Dominisio in Trinidad Colorado just after midnight. The Dionisio family was not home at the time. Motive has been established according to officials.
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Four Bullets Removed From Conley Head
Clyde Conley a state road employee and governor’s nephew in Kingwood was found to have four bullets removed from his skull at Cumberland hospital. The projectile entered the inner skull and pressed on the dura mater causing seizures, but officials expect improvement after removal. Conley initially shot himself with a revolver after a prior poker blow left him dazed and injured.
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Clyde Conley
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Hunter Makes Profit From Mountain Lions
Redding California January 1 C W Laidshaw earned 180 from the state and 35 from the county for four days work tracking and killing predatory animals He bagged seven mountain lions in that period a record kill for the time frame
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Mrs Harader Will Not Appeal Murder Case
Kingwood Jan 1 Mrs Mary Harader 42 will not seek an appeal in the murder of postmaster Cecil Michael 26. J W Gibson attorney announced late yesterday Judge A G Hughes passed sentence Monday. The case featured an insane plea and a circuit court jury mercy recommendation.
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Llord Harader
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East Meets West In Shrine Charity Game
East and West meet in the seventh Shrine charity game in San Francisco, drawing an expected 45 000 to 55 000 fans. Net profits go to the Shrine Hospital fund as star players from major colleges assemble for a classic aiming to showcase speed, depth, and passing power.
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Shriner
Three Wheeling People Injured In Auto Wreck
Three Wheeling residents were injured in an automobile accident in Greeksburg Pennsylvania when a bus blew a tire and forced the car off the highway. The driver was Joseph Wolfe of Wheeling West Virginia. Injured were Joseph Kress age 42 with head lacerations, Mrs Frances Kirshener age 98 with fractured ribs, and Miss Elizabeth Kishener with a fractured collar bone.
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Wheeling
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Wolfe
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Elizabeth Kishener
Investigate Report That Parachute Fell
Bluefield reports an investigation into a falling parachute sighted by four Bluefield area hunters near Bland County Virginia. Plans call for two planes to search for traces if weather allows. Lt. BE. H. Bobbitt Jr., an Army pilot missing since Friday, was en route from Selfridge Field Michigan to Hot Springs Virginia.
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Bland County
BE. H. Bobbitt, Jr
Selfridge Field
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