Revival Opens Tonight at First United Brethren Church
Revival services begin at 7 30 in the First United Brethren church with Dr W A from Parkersburg delivering sermons. Dr Knapp, a prominent United Brethren evangelist and former Parkersburg pastor, leads the outreach as Rev R Luzader directs the eight year local church tenure. Tonight features a young peoples group led by Mrs De Martin with Luther Hugill on the prayer circle. Musical director Elizabeth Hoffman and organist Mildred Fer assist in a campaign inviting public attendance.
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Luther Hugill
R. Luzader
Elizabeth Hoffman
Usical
Mildred Fer
W. A. Knapp
Dewey Avenue
Homicide in a City Room Miss Vila Slain
Captain James Kelly of the homicide squad says Miss Vila was killed by someone she knew and suggests the killer waited in her room. Police theorize a brutal strangulation with smothering and possible torture markings, with degeneracy noted. Miss Vila came to the country 19 years ago after her father died.
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James Kelly
Homicide
Miss Oscilowski
Miss Vila
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Buenos Aires
Victory Seen In War Year Predictions Across Nations
Dispatch notes Cordell Hull hoping for peaceful U S relations in 1940 but warns of growing global strain. Goebbels declares 1940 to be Germany’s defining year, while London and Canterbury pledge steadfast resolve. Front reports quiet on the Western theater and Japan and Russia ink a one-year fishing rights accord viewed as a concession.
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United States
Cordell Hull
America
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbel
London
Canterbury
Britain
France
Great Britain
Russia
Japan
Fragmentary Life Scan Scene Unfolds With Horror
A continuation begins with a woman entering the bed she shares with a dark, grisly scene. She discovers a blood soaked bed sheet and a mutilated body, triggering a shock of horror as she confronts the severed state.
First Baby of 1940 Sparks New Year Revels
Crowds roared in Times Square and Chicago streets as 1940 began. Norine O Toole born one second after midnight at St Bernards hospital to Anna O Toole, and a baby boy to Deila Feely at Lewis Memorial Maternity Hospital. Hartford reports a birth at 12:01. Pittsburgh claims the first twins, a girl and sister born three minutes after midnight.
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Miami
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St. Bernards’ Hospital
Norine O'Toole
Anna O'Toole
Lewis Memorial Maternity Hospital
Deila Feely
Stedman G. Sterns
Hartford
One Dead in I C Passenger Wreck at Arcola
Arcola, NL Jan 1 One man was killed and possibly two score injured in a rear end collision between two Illinois Central passenger trains here early today. Authorities said the dead man was tentatively identified as W. T Talmadge of Evanston Illinois. Eight persons were sent to hospitals at Tuscola and Mattoon with serious injuries.
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Illinois Central
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Westville Youth Killed in Room Party Shooting
Walter Summercamp 21 was shot and killed by his close friend Charles Cahill Jr. 21 in Cahill's room just before a party at Summercamp's home. Cahill, held on homicide charges, said the gun misfired initially then fired a second time.
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N. J
Walter Summercamp
Charles Cahill, Jr
Lynwood Lord
Cohill
Lord
Summercamp
Anne Warner
Cahill
Senate houses opener set amid anti lynching debate
Early session expectations place the house on major appropriation bills while anti lynching legislation looms large in the house. The senate plans minor measures with periodic recesses, handling presidential nominations like Edison for Navy secretary and Bell for undersecretary of the Treasury. International questions test the country as it stays separate from the European war. The Dies committee seeks an extension of its life with a Wednesday expiry unless renewed by the house.
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Charles A. Edison
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Daniel W. Bell
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Oil man Sherman dies in Caracas at 63
William Tecumseh Sherman, general manager of Royal Dutch Shell Oil properties in Venezuela for 20 years, died today in Caracas Venezuela. Doyle, a former United States foreign service officer, was 63.
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Venezuela
William Tecumseh Sherman
Royal Dutch Shell Oil Properties
Doyle
United States Foreign Service
Hungarian author Denes faces duel over Nazi paper affront
Julius Denes, Hungarian author and producer, prepares in New York for his second duel in two years. He has challenged Coleman Ratz, a former friend, after Ratz’s Budapest Nazi newspaper printed material Denes deems an insult to Hungarian Jews.
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Julius Denes
New York
Coleman Ratz
Buda-4 Pest
Denes
Republican Motive Sought as 1940 Outlook Raised
In Charleston and Philadelphia reports, Republicans look to 1940 as a banner year for Republicanism and Americanism, while police investigate the murder of Harvey Hess in Philadelphia. Hess, 32, a Cape May choir singer and aide to New Jersey Senate leader R. Grant Scott, was found beaten along the Schuylkill riverbank after a possible robbery was dismissed. 16-year-old Richard Axe led investigators to the nearly naked body. Hess was unmarried and left for a New Year trip when killed.
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Walter S. Hallanan
Philadelphia
Harvey Hess
Cape May
N. J
New Jersey State Senate
Richard Axe
Hess
Schuylkill River
Samuel W. Gerhardt
Cheltenham Township
R. Grant Scott
Finnish Front Updates Hidest of War Losses and Gains
Finnish communiques report heavy Soviet losses including a claimed annihilation of a Russian division, later toned to most destroyed, with 27 field guns 11 tanks and other materiel seized. Russian attacks in Salla and Ladoga sectors were repulsed while artillery activity rose on Ladoga ice and the Karelian Isthmus.
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Salla
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Kianta
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Gulf of Finland
Lost Youths Found After Long Hudson Search
Two trail blazers leading a sun morning hike found the missing youths on Mount Timp after seven miles from Dunderberg. More than 200 searchers, including five girls from City College, scoured the Bear Mountain Palisades area as a biting cold swept the Hudson river.
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Mayor of Whitesville Slain In Restaurant Riot
Whitesville mayor Clarence Martin, 37, was fatally injured while attempting to quell a disturbance at a restaurant. State Police Corporal Walter Hampton said two miners, Robert Clark and Herbert Epline, both 28, were detained for questioning with no charges filed. Martin died later in Charleston hospital.
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Walter Hampton
Clarence Martin
Hampton
Robert Clark
Herbert Epline
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Epline
Intensive Cold Wave Strikes This Section
A cold wave settled in the Monongahela river valley with temperatures collapsing to winter lows. Davis West Virginia residents endured four degrees below zero while other towns ranged from two below to two above. Pittsburgh recorded five degrees, Morgantown and Fairmont two degrees, Greensboro four.
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Greene County
Finland President appeals for foreign help in New Year message
Helsinki January 1. President Kaarlo Kallio appeals to Finland's friends for active frontline assistance to stop the Soviet invasion. He notes abundant gifts from abroad and volunteers from many countries ready to join defenders, praising neighbor Scandinavian contributions.
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Khosi Kallio
Friends of Finland
Kallio
Black man burned in Wellsburg house fire
George Woodward, a 47 year old Black man, died when he returned to a burning shanty to recover belongings. Firefighters found the scene near Wellsburg on January 1.
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George Woodward
Postmaster Randolph Colston Dies at Summit City
Randolph C. Colston, a World War veteran and 20 year postmaster at Summit City, died in this town on January 1. His service spanned decades and he was a respected local official.
Escaped Lifer Surrenders to LA Officers
London Ohio January 1 Supt William Amirine said he would seek immediate return of Marion Webb who surrendered in Los Angeles less than three months after escaping from the prison farms honor camp at Lebanon Webb 57 a former jockey is serving life for killing a racing judge at Akron fifteen years ago Webb blamed an unfair ruling for the death He had been moved from London to Lebanon six years ago
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William Amirine
Marion Webb
Los Aneles
Lebanon
Webb
Akron
Famous Stables
Five ships sunk as war action announced by admiralty
The admiralty said three British and two neutral vessels totalling 4699 tons were sunk by enemy action during December 24 to 30. In Pittsburgh, Ralph Angle, 30, claimed the city’s human polar bear title by swimming in the icy Monongahela River at 15 degrees, then rolling in the snow.
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Admiralty
Pittsburgh
Ralph Angle
Jason Rogers Remembered in Local Funeral Services
Jason Rogers, a government mail carrier for over two decades, rests in Newburg after funeral arrangements announced. The deceased belonged to Junior Order, United American Mechanics, Aurora lodge No. 33 A Masons, with services led by Newburg lodge and assisted by Grafton and Mystic lodges. Funeral is set for 2:00 PM Wednesday at 29 Leonard Street with Rev. Okey W officiating.
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Mystic Lodge
Leonard Street
Clergyman assisted at funeral and local notices
Grow of the Church of Christ officiated with Rev H J Mitchell assisting, burial in Knottsville cemetery under G T Bartlett. Remains to be returned home tomorrow and lie in state until service. Local items include Red Cross roll call growth, Whooping cough fatality of 12 month Carol Ann Shroyer, and settlement of 12 year old David Cleavenger’s $75 claim. Several deaths and incidents reported including James F. Hickman, 77, and Grover C. Poe, with community notices from Grafton and Weirton.
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Red Cross
Carol Ann Shroyer
David Cleavenger
James F. Hickman
WPA
Thelma Ruth Work
Weirton
Cecil Daugherty
Grafton
Austin Maxwell
Thomas Madden
Booths Creek
H. W. Dent
L. L. Reckart
Knottsville
Philippi
William G. Stathers
Clargsburg
State Legion
Rotary Club
Hannah V. Paugh
Pleasant Creek
Lla Mae Ross
Grafton High Bearcats
Bobby Cameron
Nancy Jane Cordd
Alee
Claude
T. B
Michael T. Cody
Catt “Hina Employe
Erzincan Survivor Describes City Reduced to Ruins
A survivor from Erzincan, reaching Ankara, says the city is no longer a city but a necropolis with tombs of ruins. Hundreds of bodies lie buried under wreckage as troops clear paths and repair wrecked tracks.
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Ankara
Grafton Football Wins 20-0 in Finale
From the 39 News Review fire page: Grafton defeats Buckhannon 20 to 0 to close the season. Obituaries note Cekley M. Austin 51 district supervisor for G.C. Murphy stores, and several local residents including Ethel Hanley Jones 34, George W. Wright 81, Mary Alice Moore 81, James Deliver McCartney 81, and Charles T. Wolfe 29. Fire damages cost 2855, a tuberculosis clinic planned, and various community events and staff changes are reported. Local incidents include a highway strike injury, a car collision, and plans for improvements at Carr China.
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Buckhannon
Cekley M. Austin
G.C. Murphy
Knottsville
Dave Jackson
Knottsville Pike
Charles T. Wolfe
Taylor County Bar Association
Clarksburg
C. F. Schroeder
Virginia Shaw
Francis L. Warder
Money for 1940 Babies Offer From Esso Marketers
Parents of babies born in this state on January first are urged to open savings accounts with Esso Marketers. Five dollars will be credited for each newborn, with tenacious bonuses for twins, triplets, quadruplets, and quintuplets born on New Year’s Day.
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Esso Extra
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Maine
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