Blasting Raids By British Hit Kiel Emden Bases
London reports large fires and heavy damage at Kiel and Emden naval bases after RAF raids. Other targets included Wilhelmshaven Rotterdam and airfields in German occupied France. Five British aircraft were downed during the night operations.
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Japan's ships fear seizure on distant seas
Japan ordered radio silence for its merchant fleet to avoid seizure by the United States after President Roosevelt denounced the Indo China occupation. Forty two ships linger at sea or head home and the liner Taruta Maru vanished off Yokohama with 5588 bales of raw silk worth 2.5 million dollars aboard.
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The Great Mr Nobody at Strand and Forced Landing at Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Nathan Hall of 207 E Washington to tonight’s screenings. The Great Mr Nobody plays at the Strand while Forced Landing runs at the Dixie in a defense era program. Identification may be required.
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Dixie Theater
Cycling Judge Regains Faith
Philadelphia July 25 A U S District Court Judge George A Welsh 63 back from a 16 day 667 mile bicycle tour in which he spoke with scores of ordinary Americans says Americas future is safe You can count on the people They will not fail us Welsh left his Delaware county estate July 7 for an unannounced tour of Pennsylvania Delaware and Maryland Travels Incognito he talked with mechanics plumbers paperhangers railroad crossing watchmen and even Governor Walter W Bacon of Delaware He then swam with a fireman and stayed at a dollar a night hotel Page CYCLING JUDGE
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U.S. District Court
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Deleware County
Pennsylvania
Deleware
Maryland
Walter W. Bacon
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Keyser Man Appointed Lieutenant in Medical Corps
The War Department announced John Stafford Rogers of Keyser West Virginia has accepted appointment as a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve in the Officers Reserve Corps. Rogers will serve in the medical unit and fulfill duties assigned by the department.
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Huntington Proposes City Defense Council
Huntington proposes a city defense council to coordinate all municipal defense activities in one agency. The ordinance, submitted to the city council, was disclosed by Mayor Claude V. Swann.
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Navy creates Pacific Patrol
San Francisco July 25. The Navy plans an auxiliary force of small coastal craft for close in patrol in case of war. Hundreds of fishing and pleasure boats along the Pacific coast will be mobilized and equipped with suitable guns, all on a voluntary basis following lessons from Dunkirk.
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Dunkerque
Navy
Pacific Coast
Northern District Health Conference At Park
The Northern District Health conference held at Oglebay Park discussed replacing personnel drafted into military service during its summer outing in Wheeling. Speakers included State Health Commissioner CG. F. McClintic and doctors Thomas H. Bruce and A. M. Price. The State Health Association set the annual convention for November 17–19 in Charleston.
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Thomas H. Bruce
Hancock County
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Charleston
State Health, Association
Slab Fork Girl Crowned Tomato Queen at Berkeley Springs
Berkeley Springs selects Natalie Bailey of Slab Fork as Tomato Queen for the fifth annual Tomato and Health festival to be held August 30 through September 1. Director Paul Yost announced Bailey, 18, daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Bailey, won over nine contestants.
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Soviet claim of Smolensk battle and air defense
Soviet reports say a German infantry division near Smolensk was wiped out as Moscow's air defenses repelled a fourth Luftwaffe night raid. Battles raged across Zhitomir west of Kiev Petrozavodsk region near Lake Ladoga and in the Porkhov Polotsk Nevel area as Russian forces resisted with stubborn fighting.
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Polotsk-Nevel
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Red Air Force Found Potent
After a month of war the Russian air force appears stronger than expected with planes in action over Moscow, defending the capital and targeting German airfields and columns. American experts remain silent, while German claims of destroying Russians are questioned. An independent estimate once put strength as high as 15,000. See RED AIR FORCE Page 5
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State Official and Kingwood Girl Planned Marriage
Howard J. Gibson supervisor of the levies and assessments division of the state tax department and Miss Trembly of Kingwood will be married tomorrow morning. The ceremony takes place at the home of Mrs. G. Milne, Gibson’s sister. After a two weeks trip through New England states the couple will reside in Charleston.
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Howard J. Gibson
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Who Is Frances In Tennessee's 117th Army Unit
In Jackson Tennessee on July 25 a report notes about a dozen Tennessee 117th infantry members receiving post cards from Elizabethton addressed to battalion members. All cards end with With love Frances but the sender remains unknown.
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Tennessee
117Th Infantry
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Halting of Oil to Japan Seen on Capitol Hill
Washington July 25. Abandonment of the two year old policy of giving Japan access to US oil was considered likely as Japanese forces moved southward to occupy key bases in Indo China and threaten Singapore the Netherlands East Indies or the Philippines. The Navy may be used to safeguard Far Eastern interests and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed back to duty due to the national emergency.
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Bar Harbor
Firm ignores peace offers at strikebound plant
Huntington July 25 officials of the American Car and Foundry plant again refused state mediation. William B. Mackey, sub regional organizer for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, predicts the plant will stay closed at least until Monday as union members refuse to enter following a contract expiration at midnight Tuesday. R. W. Ward, district manager, reported the stand.
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State Newspaper Council Opens with Golf Tournament Socials
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS July 35 The West Virginia State Newspaper council opened its annual two day meeting with a golf tournament and other social functions planned for today. The conference will end tomorrow night with a banquet.
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Strand and Dixie Theatres Schedule Sunday Shows
Beginning July 27 the Strand and Dixie theatres will open for Sunday night shows at 8:00 EST or 9:00 DST.
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Dixie Theatres
Stiff Fighting on Stalin Line Hampers Blitz
German high command reports the offensive against Russia continues despite stiff fighting on the Stalin line. They claim many prisoners and war material captured daily, bombed targets near Moscow and north of the Kremlin, and rising deserters as political trust erodes. Nevel region described as about 300 miles west of Moscow with 230 miles of claimed advance.
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High Command
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Smolensk
Germans Bag Heavy Air Toll
Berlin reports a costly German victory over British raiders with 33 RAF planes shot down on the channel coast front. The high command says nine four motored bombers were downed and asserts German fighters suffered minimal losses while using a new air fighting method.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos Billed at Opera House Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Anne L Stevens of 318 Christiana Street to tonight's showing of Robin Hood of the Pecos starring Roy Rogers at the Opera House.
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Japan Gains Bases in Indo China and Seattle Move Promised
Reports say Japan wins rights to station warships at Cam Ranh Bay and air bases in southern Indo China and to post troops along the coast and in Cambodia. Major General Sumita to direct occupation of bases. In Washington Roosevelt hints at a tomorrow action possibly freezing Japanese assets in the United States, while offering no specifics.
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Raishiro Sumita
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US attitude amazes Japan in Tokyo report
Tokyo today reports rising official and popular resentment at the United States stance toward Japan. President Roosevelt’s remarks, cited in past tense, are scrutinized as Japan studies why American oil access was restricted. Indo China references were omitted from the published text. Officials withheld full comment pending official text.
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Upshur to get road offices move planned
Charleston July 25 The State Road commission central office and repair shop of the prison labor division temporarily at Harman in Randolph county will be moved to permanent headquarters at Buckhannon Commissioner Ernest L Bailey announced last night Bailey said the move would occur soon and a new site established in Buckhannon
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Prison Labor Division
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