Clarksburg Club Dinner Highlights Quota Event
Local Quota club members Mrs Sadie Franz and Mrs Bess Ebert attended a Clarkburg dinner at the Country Club. Ada Strickling reported on sessions from the international convention in New Orleans while Florence Caplan and Jean Strickling provided musical pieces. Elizabeth Bond Young's marriage to Dorsey Fowler was noted with Fowler and Rosemont ties. A Rhythm band rehearsal and King’s Daughters Bible class session also described.
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Clarksburg
Sadie Franz
Bess Ebert
Clarkburg
Ada Strickling
New Orleans
Florence Caplan
Jean Strickling
Lillian Stickman
Sarah Markowitz
Blanche Thiesing
Mrs. Bear
Jasevercelt
Elizabeth Bond Young
Peter Bond
Salem
Dorsey Fowler
Rosemont
Central Playground
Play Center
Jimmie ‘Scott
Dany Moore
Jackie Powell
Ferry ‘Doyle
Lewis Wittman
Bonnie Jean Butcher
Phyllis Boyce
LeWanna Jarvis
Glenna Ruth Waller
Kathryn ‘Thomas
Frances Strader
Virginia Ann Doylé
Mary Ann Kelly
Helena Dougherty
Mary Ann Behen
Mary Jean Tucker
Patty Ann Wolfe
Shirl
Ann Miller
Gladys Lee’ Miller
Elizabeth Gill
Ralph Shahan
Veronica Turner
King's Daughters Bible
U Beehurch
Merrill Stillwell
Myrtle Mathews
Luzader
Helen Louise Stillwell
Ruth Crouser
Charles Warder
Burma
Mildred Hefner
Loren Hoffman
Local church and club notices spell June gatherings
June calendar lists Blueville M E Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs. Alice Shroyer home with Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman as co host. P H C lodge meets at 8 pm. Taylor county Sunday school banquet set for 6 pm at St Johns Methodist. Phila thea class of First Baptist hosts a 6 30 pm covered dish dinner taught by L L Bradley. Mrs. Stillwell presides. class holds quiz. 23 members and 5 guests attend. next hostess is Mrs. Sherman Reed for July.
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Ladies’ Aid Society of
Blueville
M. E
Alice Shroyer
Elizabeth Bowman
P. H. C. Lodge
Taylor County
St. John's Methodist Church
Philathea
First Baptist Church
L. L. Bradley
8. M. Squires
Stillwell
Daisy Dotson
Guy Powell
A. B. Cutright
Sherman Reed
Williams Return From Fredericksburg Visit With Moore Family
Mr and Mrs Walter Williams Sr return to Blueville after visiting Dane W Moore and family near Fredericksburg Va. They bring Kathleers and Buddy home. Dane and Mr and Mrs Charles Bush and son of Cincinnati are guests of Mrs Harold Kemple and family South Graf ton. Mrs C V Whetsell of Ronce verte visits Walter Williams Sr. Mrs Rhoda Hall is admitted to City Hospital for minor surgery.
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Walter Williams
Blueville
Dane W. Moore
Fredericksburg
Moore
Kathleers
Buddy
Dane
Charles Bush
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ueville
Rhoda Hall
Grand Street
City Hospital
Veteran Rail Engineer Killed In Charleston
Clarence D. Middleton of Middleport Ohio a railroad engineer with 30 years service was fatally injured today by a New York Central freight train on a city sidetrack. He died at a hospital a few minutes after being struck and his body was severed at the pelvis. Assistant Superintendent L S Emery said Middleton had gone to the siding to see friends on the train. Kanawha County Coroner C F Sayre ruled the death accidental.
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Charleston
Clarence D. Middleton
Middleport
New York Central
L. S . Emery
Middleton
Kanawha County
C. F.sayre
Teacher Mary Faherty retires after 52 years service
Mary Faherty, a long time educator in Mineral County West Virginia and Garrett County Maryland, retires after a 52 year teaching career including 40 years at Piedmont grade school.
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Piedmont
Mary Faherty
Mineral County
W. Va
Garrett County
Barclay on Bridge and a Reading of the Ceiling
In a bridge column, Barclay discusses memory lapses at trick one and analyzes a tricky deal where South opens one spade with a four card suit and later reveals a complex sequence. The narrative examines how misread signals by West and misperceptions by East can affect the nine tricks, with commentary on bidding choices and declarer play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
North
King
West
East
Pending bill assailed over federal coal mine inspections
Senator Neely's proposal for annual federal inspections of coal mines drew strong opposition from West Virginia Secretary Jesse V. Sullivan who called it an undue interference and a step toward federal control from mining to market. The bill, backed by the United Mine Workers, aims to inspect after accidents or on petition by workers. Sullivan warned of disastrous consequences and invasion of state rights.
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Washington
Neely
Jesse V. Sullivan
West Virginia. Coal Association
Sullivan
Senate
West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
Secretary of the Interior
West Virginia Coal Accidents Compare Worker Ratios
A coal association official notes a 1938 tally by the state compensation commission showing an accident rate of 13.8 percent of coal industry employees. He compares this with 17.6 percent in six other major West Virginia industries, citing a division of authority as the basis for the figures.
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West Virginia
Coal Association
State Compensation Commission
Minnesota Lawyer Now President Of Kiwanis
Minnesota lawyer Bennett O Knudson of Albert Lea was elected Kiwanis International president by acclamation. Charles L Donley of Pittsburgh and Robert J Prettie of Winnipeg were elected vice presidents, with Dr. W Eugene Walcott of Des Moines named treasurer.
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Boston
Bennett O. Knudson
Albert Lea
Minn
Kiwanis International Today
Charles 8. Donley
Pittsburgh
Robert J. Prettie
Winnipeg
Manitoba
W. Eugene Walcott
Des Moinés
Iowa
Former Senator Nominated as U.S. District Judge in Wisconsin
President Roosevelt named former Senator F. Ryan Duffy for the eastern district of Wisconsin. Duffy will replace retired Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger. A staunch New Deal supporter, Duffy lost reelection in 1938 to Republican Senator Wiley of Wisconsin.
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Washington
Roosevelt
F. Ryan Duffy
United States
Wisconsin
Duffy
Senate
Ferdinand A. Geiger
Wiley
R.-Wis
Search Fors Lost Babies Will Be Ended Tonight
A large organized search by CCC enrollees for Harold Hixson six and Charles Hixson four in Elk Mountain Wyoming ends at nightfall unless new clues appear. Officials say the brothers vanished a week ago from a fishing camp in the Medicine Bow range and likely did not survive the cold mountain nights.
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Elk Mountain
Wyo
CCC
Wyoming
Harold Hixson
Charles Hixson
Medicine Bow Range
Sex Guess er Misses Fire Seeds of a Girl Baby
Newark New Jersey June 21 Sidney Fortel, a self taught sex-predeterminator, predicted a son for his wife by a deadline but the baby born yesterday afternoon was a six pound twelve ounce girl. He said miscalculation proves figures can lie yet he plans another baby with no misgiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
WN. J
Sidney A. Fortel
Fortes
Beth Israel Hospital
Fortel
Wold
Neutrality Proposals Delayed by Senate Committee Plan
In Washington on June 21, the administration’s neutrality proposals received a definite slot but next Wednesday’s date causes another week’s delay. Chairman Pittman said they would be a special order for the Foreign Relations Committee on June 28. The panel met to review revisions in the Bloom bill while President Roosevelt urged congressional action this session.
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Washington
Senate
Pittman
D-Nev
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Rep. Bloom
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate panel OKs Panama treaty to raise canal rentals
The Senate Foreign Relations committee approved a new treaty with Panama to increase annual rentals on the canal and readjust commercial relations between Panama and the Canal Zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Panama
Canal
Canal Zone
Housing Authority Abandons 383000 Housing Plan
Martinsburg authorities voted 3-2 to scrap a 383000 project for 100 low cost dwellings. Members cited dissatisfaction with support during a 14 month housing study and returned the plan to the city council.
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Martinsburg
Fairest of Fair Crowned Miss Television at World’s Fair
Cary Smith a former Northwestern University co ed was named loveli est of 600 girls at the New York World’s Fair and received the title Miss Television as the finale of a three day beauty contest broadcast over television waves. She is pictured with the silver perisphere and trylan presented to her.
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Cary Smith
Northwestern University
Trylan
WPA Halts New Public Building Projects Over 40 000
Washington June 21 The Works Progress Administration temporarily suspended authorization of any new public building projects exceeding the 40 000 limit set by the house in the relief bill. Colonel F C Harrington ordered state administrators not to start projects lacking presidential sanction before June 14 that exceed the non federal 40 000 or federal 50 000 thresholds. Officials said the move aims to avoid complications if the senate accepts the house restrictions, but Harrington may revoke it if the limit is removed. The relief bill is before a senate appropriations sub committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Works Progress Administration
House
F. C. Harrington
Harrington
Senate
Senate Appropriations
Building Industry Hit In Price Fixing Report
New York June 21 Thurman Arnold assistant U S attorney general told the New York Building Congress that high construction costs are caused by restraints of trade at every level of the building industry Protective tariffs and aggressive combinations he said hinder progress He added anti trust laws aim to prevent price fixing production limits and arbitrary control over goods not to crush mass production that benefits consumers.
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New York
Thurman Arnold
U. S
Arnold
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Justice
New York Building Congress
Lynn girl turns down seven year film contract
Scorns Hollywood Helen Wells, 24, of Lynn Massachusetts, named the most moviegenic girl in New England by a talent scout, rejected a seven year motion picture contract and fame claiming she needs more experience. She had acted in summer Federal Theater productions and a commercial movie short.
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Helen Wells
Lynn
Mass
New England
JAIL FEEDING COSTS RAPPED BY FEDERAL JUDGE
Bluefield June 21 Federal Judge George W McClintic criticized West Virginia jail practices telling a southern district grand jury that 42 cents a day is allowed to feed prisoners. He warned half may be pocketed while prisons remain overcrowded at Moundsville with 950 inmates idle. He noted Congress bans selling prison made goods, leaving taxpayers to bear the cost of prisoner upkeep.
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Bluefield
George W. McClintic
West Virginia
McClintic
Moundsville
Congress
Private Detective Testifies at Buckner Trial in Federal Court
New York June 21 A private detective Noel Scaffa known for recovering jewels testified at the federal court trial of William P Buckner Jr a playboy promoter. Scaffa described his dealings with Buckner and broker Werney Turner and said Turner headed a group since 1923 that planned to seize an entire bond issue in 1938.
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New York
Scaffa
William P. Buckner, Jr
Playboy
Jessie Woolworth Donahue
Tnis
Buckner
C. Werney
Turner
Tuer
Anwod
Cameron Defends Industry Against Criticism at Kiwanis
W J Cameron Ford spokesman rebutted claims that business is inherently evil. He argued industry raised living standards by moving work to factories, improving homes, reducing hours, and raising wages, insisting reforms came from industry itself and democracy rests on its foundation.
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Boston
W. J. Cameron
Ford Motor Company
Cameron
Kiwanis International
Aare
Induston
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Society Reporter
Barclay
Shepard Barclay
Ledear
Caroline Bowers Woodman
James R. Angell
New Haven
Jesse Sullivan
Minnesota
Kiwanis
U.S
Sid
Housing Authority
Ise Pre
Monongah Ela System
Yee PU
General Motors
Caryl Smith
WPA
Hollywood
America
U.K
Ford Company
Buckner Treat
William P. Birr
Brady Schurman
Doris “Peewee
Aldgon
Washit
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