Four Wrecks Hit Taylor County Over Weekend
Four wrecks reported to police over the weekend in Taylor County left three injured two seriously. A rosemont heavy fog crash sent a newspaper truck driver to Clarksburg hospital with severe hurts after striking a telephone pole. Charles F. Clark, 65, of Rowlesburg, was injured in a Route 50 collision causing his truck to roll off Laurel Mountain. he later returned home after rib fractures were treated. A Route 250 crash on Trap Springs damaged two cars. Leona Postjeralt sustained a severe facial cut. Authorities also arrested C W Shaffer for passing a car on a curve with obstructed view near Valley Inn on Route 50.
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Taylor County
Clarksburg
Rosemont
Rowlesburg
Charles F. Clark
Laurel Mountain
Grafton City Hospital
Clark
Trap Springs
Bernard C. Postlewait
Quantico
Mart. McCauley
Fairmont
St. John Street
William P. Cannon, Jr
Mrs Rogers Burial Is Planned Here Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Rogers, 40, wife of Henry Rogers, who was killed by an automobile in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning, are set for tomorrow in Ambridge and then proceed to Webster for graveside rites at 2 30 p.m. daylight time. She was a native of this county and lived in Grafton until five years ago, with her father and sister Mrs. John Locke residing in the county.
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Henrietta Rogers
Henry Rogers
Ambridge
Webster
Torrid Spell Hits Grafton With Official 96 Yesterday
Heat wave grips Grafton as the official high reaches 96 with 103 in the shade any relief is weeks away. Humidity stays high, nights are uncomfortable, and crowds seek cooling at Valley Falls Paradise Beach and on the river booms as ice cream stores run low. West Virginia and the nation endure record heat with little prospect of relief, Bluefield reporting 91 heat and lemonade stands by the chamber of commerce.
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Grafton
Leslie Clayton
Pennsylvania
Sar Egaarre
Taylor County
Valley Falls
Paradise Beach
Charleston
West Virginia
Bluefield
Mercury
Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Beliak
Wellsburg
Businessmen Plan Fifth Annual Goodwill Motorcade Route
Clarksburg July 28. Upper Monongahela Valley businessmen map a Goodwill Motorcade for September 9-11 routing through Pennsylvania and Maryland. The trip would visit Cumberland and Hagerstown in Maryland and Chambersburg Somerset Bradford Pittsburgh Uniontown and Washington in Pennsylvania, directed by Sutton Critchfield of Fairmont with E B Smith as acting manager.
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Clarksburg
Upper Monongahela Valley
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Cumberland
Hagerstown
Chambersburg
Somerset
Bradford
Pittsburgh
Uniontown
Washington
Smith
E. B. Smith
Upper Monongahela Valley Association
Motorcade Route Across West Virginia and Shenandoah Valley
Sponsored motorcades travel through most sections of West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with routes extending into parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The details indicate broad regional mobilization with transportation emphasis across multiple states.
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West Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Wilbur Newcome Held After Main Street Arrest
Wilbur Newcome was nabbed on Main Street Saturday night by Constable Ray P. Thomas and lodged in the county jail charged with drunkenness. Justice of the Peace Ona C. Jefferys planned to hear the old offender later in the day.
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Main Street
Ray P. Thomas
Wilbur Newcome
Justice of the Peace
Ona C. Jefferys
New Store Opens on East Main Street by Julian Barton
A new men’s and boys’ store is set to open in the storeroom at 6 East Main Street this week. Julian R. Barton, formerly of Washington DC, will operate a complete furnishings enterprise here focusing on men’s and boys’ clothing, work clothes, shoes, and sportswear, with potential future expansion to ladies’ furnishings.
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East Main Street
Julian R. Barton
Washington, D. C
Mr. Barton
Treaty terms Vichy Japan to occupy Indo China areas
Japan will occupy two coastal points in French Indo China and inland areas in Annam and Cochin China by agreement with Vichy. Indo Chinese roads and possibly railways will be used to move south to new bases as rice shipments to Japan increase. Japanese forces already in northern Indo China. Darlan and Kato agreed on larger rice deliveries to Japan.
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Vichy
France
Japan
Annam
Cochin- China
Gulf of Siam
Malaya
Indo-China
Jean Darlan
Satomatsu Kato
City Commission Plans To Hold Meet Tomorrow
The Grafton city commission adjourned in regular session until tomorrow at 10 o clock to hear a report on a conference with Don Byrum city hospital project contractor and to hear the appointment of a new hospital board of control by Mayor C C King. The meeting with Byrum was held at the office of E G Kuhn county superintendent of schools this morning.
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Grafton
Creditor's Suit Filed Here By Attorney Ford
A general creditor's suit was filed in Taylor county circuit court by Attorney Gene W. Ford as plaintiff. Named defendants include Pearl V. Fox, Charles C. Fox, Real Estate and Improvement Company of Baltimore, William M. Kennedy, William H. Ball as trustees, Emily E. Sommerville executrix of Sidney H. Sommerville, deceased, and J. M. Riffee doing business as the Union Drug Company. The suit aims to collect on a judgment.
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Taylor County Circuit Court
Gene W. Ford
Pearl V. Fox
Charles C. Fox
Real Estate and Improvement Company of
Baltimore
William M. Kennedy
William H. Ball
Emily 5. Sommerville
Sidney H. Sommerville
J. M. Riffee
Union Drug Company
Woman Nabbed Goes To Jail For Unpaid Fines
Mrs Katherine C Nutter 25 was arrested on Lincoln street at midnight Sunday for drunkenness and causing a disturbance. After a municipal court hearing before Mayor C O King she was jailed for failing to pay fines of 10 and 5 dollars plus 2 dollars costs. Police say she fought officers as she was loaded into the cruiser and earlier fought her husband.
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Lincoln Street
Katherine C. Nutter
C. O. King
Eyewitness Boy Describes Iceland Landing Arrival
Peter Gudjonsson, a 15 year old cabin boy aboard the Icelandic steamer Dettifose, reports that American forces landed in Iceland and will arrive in the United States aboard the ship’s passage to New York. He described the scene with confidence and noted the sense of relief among sailors and crew.
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Iceland
United States
Peter Gudjonsson
New York
Helen Morgan Weds Lloyd Johnson in Miami Beach
Helen Morgan, famed singer of Manhattan during prohibition, becomes Mrs. Lloyd Johnson after marrying in Miami Beach, Florida. The ceremony follows Johnson's final divorce decree, issued two days earlier.
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Aolen Morgan
Manhattan
Lloyd Johnson
Los Angeles
Miami Beach
Fla
Johnson
Knabenshue's Brother Dies in Kingwood Rites Held
Funeral services were held at 10:30 this morning in Kingwood for F. C. Hackley 68 a former Kingwood resident who died in Maine last week He was the half brother of AB Knabenshue of this city who attended the last rites in Preston County.
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Kingwood
F. C. Hackley
Maine
Ab, Knatshue
Preston
Visitor Arrested for Drunkenness in Simpson
Sam Cimo, 35, visiting Simpson, was arrested by state police and Deputy Sheriff Charles Burke at 11 p m Saturday after being found lying beside the highway. He lives in Pennsylvania and posted a $10 bond to appear before Justice of the Peace John Marks of Flemington district today.
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Sam Cimo
Simpson
Charles Burke
Cimo
Pennsylvania
Justice of the Peace
John Marks
Flemington
Alleged Fighter Picked Up At Route 250
Raymond Carson was arrested by state police and Deputy Sheriff Charles Burke for fighting at the Mountain View camp along Route 250 early Sunday. He posted a $10 cash bond to secure release from county jail pending trial before Justice Ona C. Jefferys.
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Mountain View
Raymond Carson
Charles Burke
Justice of the Peace
Ona
Dale Sapp Arrested By City Officers Sunday
Dale Sapp, 35, was arrested at 12 40 a m Sunday at Main and Bridge streets on intoxication charges. He was later released by Mayor C O King into custody of his uncle to attend police court for trial Thursday.
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Main
Bridge Streets
Dale Sapp
C. O. King
Sapp
State Supreme Court Begins Special Term
Charleston July 28 The state supreme court opened a special term to handle 35 to 40 accumulated cases from the last term. No time limit was set. In an early action the court denied a reapplication for an appeal by Mae McCormick Edwards from a Cabell County circuit court ruling demanding an accounting from attorney T Sel den Jones.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Mae McCormick ‘Edwards
Cabell County
T. Sel‘den Jones
Japanese Troops Land In Southern Indo China
Japanese troops began disembarking in southern Indo China today under the new Japanese French joint defense pact. Reuters dispatch from Hanoi reports the action as part of the agreed arrangement.
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London
Indo-China
Reuters
Hanoi
Logan County Records First Drowning of Year
Logan County reports its first drowning of the year as Robert Lee Holstein 24 an Elk Creek Coal Company employee is drowned in the Guyan River near Christian Logan 16 miles from Logan Witnesses say he stepped into 12 feet of water seeking relief from a 100 degree heat and the body was recovered four hours later Pricads said he could now swim The drowning occurred near his home in Logan County
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Logan
Robert Lee Holstein
Elk Creek Coal Company
Guyan River
Christian
Holstein
Pricads
Logan County
Three Tourist Camps Are Approved In State
Health Commissioner C F Mc Clintic announced three more tourist camps approved today bringing total to 80 new additions in the state. The list now lists 275 camps overall with Green Acres at Ripley Camp Charleston near St Albans and The Elms at Glendale in Marshall county among the newly approved sites.
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Charleston
C. F. McClintic
Green Acres
Ripley
St. Albans
Japanese Trucks Arrive to Move Troops in Indo China
In Saigon Japanese military trucks from Hanoi arrive to transport incoming Japanese troops to nine bases in southern Indo China. The vanguard of Japanese forces for these bases is believed aboard four transports and four destroyers expected here Wednesday.
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Saigon
French
Indo-China
Indo
Hanoi
Three Escape Death As Home Burns To Ground
Early morning fire drives Mr and Mrs Leonard Simmons and their 3 year old daughter Sylvia Carol from their Spencer home. Mrs Simmons woke to a noise and alerted her husband. They escaped with no possessions saved. Loss estimated at 4000 dollars.
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Spencer
Leonard Simmons
Sylvia Carol
Cumberland Youth Back Front Trip to Iceland
Cumberland Maryland July 28 William N McLaughlin a yeoman in the U S Naval Reserves reports his convoy duty to Iceland involved witnessing aerial fights between Nazi and British planes. He told his parents the voyage overall was routine aside from the combat.
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Cumberland
William N. McLaughlin
U.S. Naval
Norfolk
Iceland
George B. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Naval Reserve
Connecticut
Finnish Purge Order Said To Target Red Army Officers
Helsinki dispatch reports the Finnish information bureau says Stalin signed an order to liquidate nine Red Army generals including former Western Front commander Pavlov and Western chief of staff Klimovsky. No independent Moscow confirmation.
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Helsinki
Finland
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Moscow
Pavlov
Klimovsky
Uist
Slaying officials charged with cowardice and desertion
Police report arraignment notes held in Slaying on charges of shameless cowardice and incapacity to lead. March and Decker identified as players, while a toy pistol was cited in young allegations. George Confere, 18, fatally scalded in Cedar Grove. memorials recall Florence Jacobs who died July 28, 1938.
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March
Decker
Charleston
George Confere
Cedar Grove
Florence Jacobs
Model hurt At Point Of Toy public safety item
Two nabbed after a 17 year old model reported being forced at a public safety item point following a dance Saturday night at the Quaker Ridge Tennis Club in Mamaroneck New York. The incident occurred in July with two tennis players detained for questioning.
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Mamaroneck
N.Y
Quaker Ridge
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