Death investigation of Jess Wilson ends in closed case
Grafton prosecutors ruled the inquiry into Jess Wilson's disappearance and linked skeleton finds near Poplar Island to a death likely in Marion county. Fred Hall, a local garage attendant, claimed Wilson was alive in May and seen at Kingmont, while other witnesses supported the tale, but state troopers found no confirmation in Powell or Kingmont.
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Taylor County
Jess Wilson
Grafton
Mulligan Avenue
Poplarsland
Tygarts Valley
Francis L. Warder
Wilson
Marion County
Powell
Poplar Island
Fred Hall
Hall
Kingmont
John C. Ross
Powes
Warder
Ross
State Penitentiary
J. C. Penney Department
John W. Ross
Young Ross
Pennsylvania Railroad
Canton
Ohio
C. W. Dye
Dye
Felix Yanero
Step-father in Johnstown linked to chicken theft case
Moundsville prison records received by Trooper Dye identify George Wilson of Johnstown Pa as the stepfather of a man linked to multiple chicken thefts. Wilson, age 42, 5 feet 7 inches, 164 pounds, maroon eyes and black hair, with two scars, was discharged years ago. Police pursue leads, acknowledging the case remains very difficult to solve.
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Kingmont
Johnstown
Wilson
George Wilson
Moundsville
Dye
Bertha May Boyce Rites Planned in Hammond and Haymond
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Bertha May Boyce, born July 15 1902, wife of Opha Boyce, who died after a weeklong illness at her Kingmont home, include 1 pm service at the residence and a 2:30 pm service at Haymond church near Grafton with burial nearby. Carpenter Ford directing. Survived by her father Sheridan Smith, husband, five children Donald of Hammond Eileen Paul John and Dave Blake at home, and three sisters Flora Shaffer Lena Hawker Flossie Braddock.
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Bertha May Boyce
Opha Boyce
Kingmont
Haymond Church
Grafton
Carpenter & Ford
Sheridan Smith
Lydia Adams Smith
Mary D LaRue Files for Divorce in Taylor County
Mary Whorley LaRue filed for divorce from Ralph F LaRue in Taylor County circuit court. The couple wed in Oakland Maryland on July 14 1932 and separated May 30 1935. She seeks custody of their 8 year old daughter, attorney fees and support.
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Taylor County
Mary Whorley LaRue
Ralph F. LaRue
Oakland
Fairmont
Friedman In Charleston To Get Oath As Senator
Attorney Harry Friedman of Grafton is to take the oath as state senator from the 14th district in Charleston tomorrow, alongside Fairmont appointee Howard Hardesty. Governor Neely appointed Friedman to succeed W J Husston, who resigned, and Senate Clerk A Hale Watkins will administer the oath, marking a rare double oath for two district appointees from the same district.
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Harry Friedman
Grafton
M. M. Neely
W. J. Husston
Charleston
Howard Hardesty
Fairmont
Earl Smith
Senate
A. Hale Watkins
Hussion
Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board
Dryfield speaks before Clarksburg play leaders
J Bernard Dryfield supervisor of Tay county recreation project spoke to the Clarksburg Volunteer playgrounds meeting last night. The gathering, sponsored by the Young Women’s Christian Association, heard that Dryfield is currently taking a special course in recreation at West Virginia University.
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J. Bernard Dry‘gld
Tay
Clarksburg
Young Women’s Christian Association
Dryfield
West Virginia University
Steel Workers Picket Huntington Plant Over Contract
Picketing members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee patrolled the Huntington plant of the American Car and Foundry company which has government materials priorities for rail car construction. Ezra D. Adkins of SWOC local 1652 said union members would stay on picket until a new contract is agreed or mediation is accepted.
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Huntington
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
American Car and Foundry Company
Ezra D. Adkins
SWOC
Mayor Moves to Shield Hospital Project From Politics
Mayor Charles O King proposes an emergency ordinance to create a five member nonpartisan hospital board with the mayor as ex officio chair. The board will control construction and operation, set rates, hire staff, and fill vacancies, with meetings to begin within weeks. Dr Dorsey C Peck and B Guy Kuhn are named as likely appointees amid discussion of campaign promises.
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New Grafton City Hospital
Finnegan's Rock
Charles O. King
Board of Trade
Catholic Church
Ministerial Association
Women's Club
Taylor County Medical Association
Commission
King
Dorsey C. Peck
Grafton Screon
New Hospital
B. Guy Kuhn
Miss Berger Passes Away In City After Illness
Miss Catherine Rosalie Berger, elderly resident of 1123 West Railroad Street, died at home at 11:15 this morning after a year long illness. A Grafton native, she was the daughter of the late Frank A. and Catherine Bender Berger and lived in the city all her life. Her only immediate survivor is her nephew Frank Ross of the First ward. She was a member of St Matthias Episcopal Church. Funeral arrangements by G T Bartlett are incomplete and will be announced late this afternoon.
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Catherine Rosalie Berger
West Railroad Street
Grafton
Frank A
Catherine Bender Berger
Frank Ross
Four Ordered To Report For Induction In Army
Four selectees and one volunteer have been ordered to report at the Taylor County Selective Service board offices in the Professional building at 10:45 a.m. daylight time on August 7 for final physicals at Huntington before entering the U S Army. Recipients named are Charles Edward Whitehair Paul Putzek Leonard Newman and James Robert Johnson a volunteer.
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Taylor County Selective Service Board
U. S. Army
Huntington
Charles Edward Whitehair
Paul Putzek
Leonard Newman
James Robert Johnson
8. & O. Freight Loadings Show Increase For Week
The week ended July 19, 1941, saw Baltimore and Ohio rail areas move 66,369 cars, including 43,914 loaded on line and 22,455 from connections, up 13,920 from the prior year’s 52,449 total. An additional rise of 6,884 cars over the previous week’s 59,485 was recorded, with 40,776 loaded on line.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Connection totals reach 1931 weekly figures
The report notes 18,709 received from connections in the week. For the same week in 1930 the total was 66,044, with 43,859 loaded on line and 22,205 received from connections. The figures highlight year over year changes in load and connection receipts.
Farm Women To See Meat Cooking Demonstration
Mary Wren of the National Livestock and Meat Board will present a meat cookery demonstration at 3 o clock EST Thursday at Jacksons Mill as part of the West Virginia Farm Women's camp. Homemakers invited. Demonstration will cover proper temperature control and waste from high heat. Fetterman playground hosts Dad and Mom's Day with a weiner and marshmallow roast at 8 p.m. Friday.
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Jackson's Mill
West Virginia
Mary Wren
National Livestock Jand Meat Board
Chicago
Gertrude Humphreys
Farm Women
Miss Wien
Fetterman Playground
West Point in Lisbon Harbor near the Portuguese frontier
The U S Naval transport West Point docked in Lisbon at 8 10 am with German and Italian diplomats aboard unable to land until American consuls enter Portugal. Police guarded the dock as special trains carry U S diplomats approach the frontier and a luncheon awaited in Sintra for the detainees.
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Lisbon
United States
West Point
Haror
Portumese
Sintra
America
Legation
Portugal
Dack
Tague River
New York
Germany
Italy
Spain
British raids prove costly in southwest Germany
Berlin reports British raiders dropped many explosives and incendiaries overnight but caused negligible damage as RAF losses rose to 15 planes. Frankfurt and Mannheim named as targets while German defenses claimed 11 British planes shot down and four boats destroyed. New German strikes hit British sea trade, sinking a 5,000 ton merchant ship off the English coast and bombing ports in the Humber and southeast England.
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Berlin
Germany
High
Frankfurt
Mannheim
RAF
Britain
The
Humber
England
Sheriff and trooper escort prisoner from Grafton to Baltimore
Sheriff Lee Bennett and State Trooper G F Randall left late yesterday to return Dorsey W McVicker of Courthouse district to Grafton to stand trial or non support charges. McVicker waived extradition and the officers drove by car to Baltimore and back, expected to return late today with their prisoner.
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Lee Bennett
G. F. Randall
Dorsey W. McVicker
Courthouse
Grafton
McVicker
Baltimore
Costs of Lucky Strike Manufacturing Drop in 1925–33
Lexington July 23 The government says American Tobacco and co defendants cut manufacturing costs from 1925 to 1933 while selling prices rose. James R. Coon an accounting executive testified costs declined year by year and month by month in 1933, though rising after 1934 but still below 1925 levels. Gardner of the Maryland Tobacco Growers Association then testified on Maryland buying operations.
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Lexington
American Tobacco Company
Tobacco Antitrust
James R. Coon
Bronxville
American
Liggett and Myers
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Coon
George S. Gardner
Baltimore
Maryland Tobacco Growers Association
Maryland
Name of 29th Division Has Infantry Added
Fort George G. Meade Maryland July 23 The 29th division will now be known as the 29th infantry division following War Department instructions The word infantry was added because infantry units predominate in the division and this designation clarifies its makeup
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Fort George G. Meade
29Th Infantry Division
War Department
Point Pleasant Votes Bond Issue For Sewers
Point Pleasant council approved issuing 232000 dollars in bonds to purchase the water works and sewer systems from Point Pleasant Water and Light company and plan to take over operation on August 1.
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Point Pleasant
Union Plans To Protest Dismissal Of Mine Men
VAN LEAR Kentucky July 23 The United Mine Workers CIO will protest to Consolidation Coal officials over Superintendent M M McCormick's order not to rehire dismissed workers at the Van Lear mine District Representative R A Daniels said McCormick told union reps at a conference yesterday there were no jobs for the men The conference followed an 800 worker strike that ended with workers returning to duty Monday
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van Lear
United Mine Workers (Cio
Consolidation Coal Company
M. M. McCormick
R. A. Daniels
Mcormick
Factory man held in slaying at Kanawha City
Robert C. Moore, 32, assistant in the molding department of a Kanawha City glass plant, was charged with the bludgeon slaying of Lou H. Woods, 29, a West Virginia Steel salesman. Woods died after an unconscious morning discovery and head injuries from a fight tied to domestic troubles. Moore remains jailed without bond awaiting arraignment.
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Charleston
Robert C. Moore
Kanawha City Glass
Lou H. Woods
Edgar C. Bourne
Moore
Bourne
May Change Double Line Marking On State Roads
Charleston July 23 The West Virginia State Police Superintendent proposes changing double line markings to expedite traffic and improve law observance. A letter to Road Commissioner Ernest Bailey notes warning signs appear where passing is safe. He suggests using colored paint on the safe side to indicate lawful passing in certain cases.
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Charleston
West Virginia
John W. Bosworth
Ernest L. Bailey
Bosworth
Ohio
Maryland
Former Road Official Leaves WV Sand and Gravel Firms
Buckhannon reports that Burr Simpson, former State Road Commissioner, resigned as president and general manager of West Virginia Sand and Gravel and Standard Brick and Supply of Charleston due to illness. He has returned home for rest.
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Buckhannon
Burr Simpson
West Virginia Sand and Gravel Company
Standard Brick and Supply Company
Charleston
Simpson
Wheeling Driver Killed In Truck Crash
Cameron report says Wilfred Clutter of Wheeling a truck driver for a soft drink company was killed when his vehicle plunged over a 150 foot bank and landed in the lawn of R W Chambers last night.
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Cameron
Wilfred Clutter
Wheeling
R. W. Chambers
Raleigh County Voters Reject Special Levies
Beurl Beckley July 23 Raleigh County tabulation shows two levies failed. School board proposed 571000 for building program drew 3192 yes and 2418 no, short of 60 percent. County court levy 180000 to pay overdraft failed 3019 yes to 2585 no, short of required margin. Voter turnout under ten percent.
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Beckley
Raleigh
Bluefield Jaycees Plan Defense Stamp Burning
Bluefield July 23 The Bluefield junior chamber of commerce will stage what it believes will be the first defense stamp burning party on the night of August 12. President William Kell said that each of the 170 members will buy the stamps and toss them into a fire on the steps of the post office.
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Bluefield
Powder Magazine Blast Kills Many In Spain
A powder warehouse exploded near Seville today, with a terrific blast that shattered windows across the city. The number of casualties was not immediately known as fire swept the warehouse and spread.
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Spain
Seville
Wichita Simmer Reaches 102 to 108 Downtown
Wichita experiences extreme heat with thermometers hitting 102 to 108 degrees downtown while residents seek relief. At the city airport five miles away a cooler 90 degrees is recorded amid widespread perspiration and heat discomfort.
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Wichita
Kas
Wichit
Pete
Maicipal
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