Missing In Action: Grafton Boy Robert Johns Reported
Mrs Bessie Owens of Grafton learns her son Private First Class Robert L Johns of the U S Army is listed as missing in action by the War Department. He was serving in the Philippine Islands at the time of the final surrender and may have been captured. no definite word will be available until confirmation from Geneva prisoners lists. The notice also mentions another son, Thomas Owens, serving in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Johns
Philippine Islands
U. S. War Department
Bessie Owens
Adjutant General
Jonas
Bataan
Corregdor
War Department
Geneva
Corregidor
Veterans group to meet in Wheeling this week
Mr and Mrs A H Carroll Mrs Robert Wittman and Mrs T C Gough will attend the B and O Veterans association and Ladies auxiliary meeting in Wheeling this Thursday and Friday. Headquarters at the McLure hotel. Grand Body meeting and banquet with dance tomorrow. Friday includes another business session and a trip to Wheeling Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Carroll
Robert Wittman
T. C. Gough
B. & O. Veteran's Association
Ladies Auxiliary
Wheeling
McLure Hotel
Gan
Wheeling Park
Grafton Boy Sinks Axis Sub In Gulf of Mexico
Paul Shaffer of Grafton, a U S Coast Artillery trainee at Fort Crockett, was credited by May 25 with firing on and sinking an axis submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. Parents Mr and Mrs James W Shaffer at 3 East Main Street learned of the heroism through brief messages detailing his action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
James W. Shaffer
East Main Street
Paul Shaffer
U. S. Coast Artillery
Fort Crockett
Gulf of Mexico
Peggy Warder Leads St Augustine High Alumni Group
Peggy Warder of Maple Avenue was chosen president of the St Augustine High School Alumni Association at the annual seniors banquet. Charles H Sutton Rose Ford manager became vice president, Jean Rita Lowe Keystone Modern Shows secretary, and Rita Jean Sorge treasurer. A police court note disputed a claim that carnival worker Jean Lucky Bennett was connected to Keystone Shows, with Sutton denying any such association and urging correction. Bennett, a Manchester New Hampshire native, faced drunkenness charges after an incident on Market Street and a confrontation in a vacant house.
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Peggy Warder
Maple Avenue
St. Augustine
Sutton
C. O. King
the Sentinel
Jean “Lucky” Bennett
Manchester
N. H
Market Street
Farmers Cooperative Market Opens In Grafton
The Farmers Market opens next Saturday in the old Boyles building on West Main opposite the Dixie theatre. It will offer honey vegetables eggs butter fruits and poultry and is run by farmers. Sponsored by Taylor County Farm Bureau Farm Security Administration and the voAg department. Tires and gasoline conservation drive market use eligible for treaded tires under rationing. Consumers urged to buy locally.
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Farmers Cooperative Market
Boyles
West Main Street
Dixie Theatre
Taylor County Farm Bureau
Farm Security Administration
vo-Ag
Grafton Senior High School
Tire and Tube Quotas for June Announced locally
The Taylor county rationing board announced June quotas set by Chairman C. W. T. Lockard. The allocations include six new passenger tires, 63 passenger tires retreads, and 26 passenger tubes, plus 20 new truck tires, 29 truck retreads, and 25 truck tubes.
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Taylor County Rationing Board
C. W. T. Lockard
Flag Run Man Nabbed For Theft of Turkey
Bruce Dalton, 50, a farmer of Flag Run, was arrested on a warrant for breaking and entering the Flemington home of Lum Whitehair and stealing a turkey. He was arraigned before Justice of the Peace John Marks, waived preliminary hearing, and was bound over to the grand jury.
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Charerd
Lum Whitehair
Flemington
Bruce Dalton
Justice of the Peace
John Marks
Dalton
Flagrun
Police Nab Two Women On Drunkenness Charge
Two women were arrested by city police last night at the same hour on drunkenness charges. Mrs. Walter Moore on West Main street was fined $5 plus costs, paid. Mrs. Ruby Love, nabbed at her Bluemont street residence, has not yet had a hearing.
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Walter Moore
West Main Street
Ruby Love
Bluemont Street
Kiwanians Attend To Routine of Business
Routine business occupied the attention of members of the Grafton Kiwanis club at their regular weekly dinner meeting.
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Grafton Kiwanis Club
Tennis Tourney Plans Unveiled by Robey at Cozy Rest
Richard Robey outlined details for a tennis tournament sponsored by the Kiwanians during a gathering at Cozy Rest last night. Attendees included T. B. Cain of Clarksburg and Elkins residents William Grindle and L. J. Bill frets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cozy Rest
Richard Robey
Kiwanians
T. B. Cain
Clarksburg
William Grindle
L. J. Billfrets
Elkins
Two Students on Graf ton Junior High Honor Roll
Graf ton Junior High announces final honor roll for eighth grade. A student pair earns A grades while a long list of eighth graders names on the B honor roll includes Borneman Beagle Boice Bolyard Bryan Burnside Cameron Canfield Collins Corbin Cross Donley Powell Denton Ellers Flesher Fordyce Hufford Henderson Hoffman Howat ter Knotts Lake Malone McProuty Miller Myers Nuzum Peters Stillwell Travis Vance Weaver Wolfe Williams Williams aAaimeton Andrews Bartlett Bragg Courtney Fawley Fauley Gainer Golden Grimes Hollis Hunt Kennedy Kines Lockard McDanield McDermott Moats Murphy Newton Newcome Robinson Sanp Sergeant Wooddell Yoho.
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Robert Borneman
Aldene
Beagle
Mary Katherine Boice
Vonda Bolyard
Martha Bryan
Dorothy Burnside
Frazier Cameron
Flora Canfield
Leonard Collins
Charles Corbin
Monford Cross
Barbara Donley
Geraldine Powell
Charles Denton
John Ellers
Betty Flesher
Hugh Fordyce
Abby Hufford
Loretta Henderson
Laura Hoffman
Kenneth Howatter
Wayne Knotts
Dorothy Lake
Emily Malone
Evelyn McProuty
Nancy aAaimeton
Irene Andrews
Charles Bartlett
Helen Bragg
Colleen Courtney
Mary Jo Ann Fawley
Norma Fauley
Katherine Gainer
Evelyn Golden
Eleanor Grimes
Marian Hollis
Howard Hunt
Betty Kennedy
Clara Jean Kines
Arvie Lockard
Vance McDanield
Helen McDermott
Pauline Moats
Gladys Murphy
Frances Newton
Leroy Newcome
Ann Robinson
Eugene Sanp
Adelaide Sergeant
Jorvatal Wooddell
Alan Yoho
Downtown Blackout Test Declares Surprise Success
Major Charles E. Burke reports last night's downtown blackout test a complete success with only minor incidents. Earnest M. Clark injured a finger at the B and O shop but was treated and discharged at Grafton City Hospital. Banks and hall lights briefly lingered in darkness, while people sought refuge in local buildings as stores shut and waited for the all-clear.
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Grafton
B. and O. Shops
Charles E. Burke
Taylor County Defense Council
Earnest M. Clark
Grafton City Hospital
First National Bank
Bank
McCroy
E. P. Sampson
Taylor County
Andrews Methodist Church
Ceramic Club
Grafton Sentinel
Dance and supper planned for county selectees
Under the Ladies Auxiliary of Taylor county post No. 12 American Legion, a dancing party with a buffet supper will be held from 8 to 12 Saturday night at the Moose home for selectees leaving in June. Ninety men have been called to depart next week. Mrs A N Peters chairs the committee and asks each draftee bring a dancing partner.
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Ladies Auxiliary
Taylor County Post No. 12
American Legion
Moose Home
A N. Peters
West Virginia Extends Voter Registration Deadline
Secretary of State W S OBrien has extended the permanent voter registration deadline to June 30 noting many in the armed forces cannot register. County Clerk Ed St Clair was advised of the change under a law from the last legislature.
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West Virginia
W. S. O'Brien
Ed St. Clair
Barrymore Leaves Only 10000 Cash in Estate
The estate of actor John Barrymore totals ten thousand dollars in cash plus personal property, far below his presumed million dollar career earnings. The will, filed for probate next Tuesday, leaves the estate to his three children Diana Barrymore aged 21, John Blyth Barrymore aged 10, and Ethel Dolores Barrymore aged 12, all by Dolores Costello. Attorney Gordon Levoy noted the will was drafted in his office.
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Los Angeles
John Barrymore
Diana Barrymore
Michael Strange
John Blyth Barrymore
Ethel Dolores Barrymore
Dolores Costello
Gordon Levoy
Cologne Raid Drives Giant British Air Armada
Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris led more than 1,250 British planes in the Cologne assault, the largest armada in air warfare history, destroying targets in the German city of Cologne with 44 planes lost. The report notes the December 30 timing and ties to a separate divorce of Barrymore and Elaine Barrie.
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Europe
Ada
Central Press
Cologne
Germany
Arthur Travora Harris
Bomber Command
Barrymore
Elaine Barrie
USO Plans County Drive in Taylor County
The United Service Organizations announces a countywide fundraising drive in Taylor County this month to meet a 1350 dollar quota. Chairman Mason Tucker leads the campaign with Jed W Robinson of the YMCA, Claude S. Ebert Salvation Army, Mrs C E Grayson YWCA, Postmaster James Murphy National Catholic Service, and Simon J Friedmann Jewish Welfare Board assisting. The USO aims to provide services for armed forces and support morale for democracy.
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United Service Organizations
Taylor County
Mason Tucker
Tucker
Jed W. Robinson
M. C
Claude S. Ebert
Salvation Army
C. E. Grayson
Y. W
James Murphy
National Catholic Service
Simon J. Friedmann
Jewish
Morgantown Glass Firm Still Tied With Strike
Morgantown June 3 A stalemate deepened in a glass workers strike involving about 170 employees at the Beaumont Glass plant as 12 or more pickets returned to the closed facility. The strikers from the miscellaneous workers branch of the AFL demanded a five cent hourly raise and offered to drop the raise condition if seniority is enforced and job transfers to lower paid positions are ended along with other concessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown Glass
Morgantown
Beaumont Glass Company
Miscellaneous Workers
American Flint Glass Workers of America
AFL
Idaho Governor Works To Save Sugar Crops
Boise on June 3 Gov Chase A Clark faced the farm labor crisis firsthand. Sunburned and blistered he learned the harsh realities of sugar beet work and plans to remain involved to protect sugar crop production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Boise
Chase A. Clark
Governor Volunteers for Field Work Amid Shortage
The governor, released from regular duties to ease a field hand shortage, spent five hours with a borrowed hoe. He described the work as far from easy, calling it hard and not a breeze.
Sugar ration rules for home canning crowd Taylor county
Demand for sugar to can fruit in Taylor county overloads the rationing board offices. Major Burke notes applicants must estimate finished quarts, apply separately for each fruit, and provide family totals, past canning quarts, and planned future quarts. Preservation limits allow one pound per person for the year.
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Taylor County
Taylor County Rationing Board
Charles B. Burke
Vinson Drafts Plans For Expanding Navy
Chairman Vinson of Georgia drafted an $8.3 billion measure to construct about 500 fighting ships, a program aimed at nearly doubling the United States fleet. The plan, announced in Washington, details a massive expansion of naval capacity under his leadership.
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Washington
United States
Vinson
D.-Ga
Final war radio messages from Corregidor reported by Strobing
Pvt Irving Strobing of Brooklyn sent the final radio messages describing the last hours of Corregidor before surrender to the Japanese. The report portrays the grim plight of American troops as shelling and bombing overwhelmed their lines until the capitulation.
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Irving Strobing
Brooklyn
War Department
Centrat Proeay
Vinson Proposes Largest Navy Build Ever Authorized
The House Naval Committee chair Vinson announced plans to introduce a bill for the largest naval construction program at once, asserting that the two ocean Navy could be completed within the next 24 months.
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House Naval Committee
Vinson
Former cops defend castor oil intimidation claim
Charleston reports two former county law officers testified in federal court that they did not threaten to harm sect members to force their release. Deputy Sheriff Martin Catlett and Richwood chief Bert Richwood said they gave castor oil to four individuals and escorted nine from Richwood on June 29, 1940, as part of the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Nicholas
Martin Louis Catlett
Bert
Richwood
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Axis
Opera House
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Fred Scott
Arlene Judge
John King
Mon
Damon Runyan
Butch
Virginia Bruce
Dick Poran
Carnival
Turkey
Fort Pitt Shoe Store
N Honor
Prin. Rasmussen
Grafton Junior High School
Torlock Rasmussen
Hitler
Hell
Queen Motor Sales
Ponto
Malone's Drug and Chemical Co
Air Marshal
A. T. Harris
USO
Morgantown Glass Firm
Welch Radio Service
Beech St
Altman
Cash Feed Store
Latrobe St
Trojan
Choy
Pratis and
Lees
Sergt
Malone's
Drug & Chemical Go
Pras Basserma
Martin Kossel
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