City to lease park for summer season this year
The city commission plans to lease the municipal park for the season to operate the ferry Dust across the Tygart River and keep grounds clean. With growing popularity as an amusement center and a top West Virginia beach, several local men and outsiders offered more than 100 for the year, but Mayor King indicated a local applicant will likely secure the lease after yesterday’s meeting.
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Tygart Valley
West Virginia
King
Bootleggers Sentenced After Guilty Pleas
Md. defendants pled guilty to possession of liquor violating revenue laws and faced prison terms and fines. James Barnhill and Herbert B. Severe received $50 fines after pleas of guilty. Judge Chestnut adjourned the civil actions following brief proceedings.
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James Barnhill
Herbert B. Severe
Chestnut
Senior Play Ends With Mystery Theft at Inn
The senior play features Marie Antoinette’s famed necklace as clues unfold. Suspicion falls on many inn patrons during the rapid unraveling of the plot. A murder is revealed and the body vanishes in a surprising finale.
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Marie Antionette
France
Grafton High to Expand as Stage Project Grows
Center stage spectacle enlivens local high school as builders race the clock. Approval sought to complete a three room addition to the Grafton high school building begun last fall with welfare labor. Permanent roof flooring and walls remain and all materials are on site.
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Grafton High School
CWA
Air mail study hearings list famed aviation figures
The committee under Baker surveys air mail development as background for evaluating the air corps mail transport mission. Witnesses include Eddie Rickenbacker, A F Hegenberger, E P Warner, Brig Gen Oscar Westover, and other army air mail officers as hearings continue toward reorganizing the air corps into a premier flying force.
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Baker
Directions
Air Corps
Eddie Rickenbacker
A. F. Hegenberger
San Francisco
Hawaii
E. P. Warner
Fomer
Traffic Safety Week Observed in Taylor County WV
Taylor county joins West Virginia in Traffic Safety Week begun Sunday and ending May 20 by gubernatorial proclamation. Troopers Hefner and Wamsley devote their time to highway patrols to ensure compliance with traffic laws. They report a fine public response and no arrests so far, stressing safety and service to motorists. In 1933 WV motor vehicle accidents caused 356 deaths.
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Taylor County
West Virginia
H. G. Kump
Claude Hefner
W. G. Wamsley
Wamsley
G M Gerkin Named Officer In WV Optometrist Group
Dr G M Gerkin popular optometrist was elected a vice president of the West Virginia Optometrist Association at a meeting held yesterday in Parkersboro. Other officers elected Huntington president Dr A B Scott Huntington secretary treasurer Dr D M Duncan and Huntington first vice president Dr L E Farnsworth.
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G. M. Gerkins
West Virginia
Optometrist Association
Parkershoro
A.B. Scott
Huntington
D. M. Duncan
L. E. Farnsworth
Former B and O Man M H Shields Dies at 82
M H Shields 82 a former B and O conductor died after a year of ill health. He lived in Grafton before moving to Wheeling 18 to 20 years ago and retired over a decade ago. Survived by widow Agnes Litzinger of Grafton five children Raymond now of Wheeling Thomas Meaks Lena Litzinger Paul and Dennis Funeral Thursday at Catholic church with burial in Wheeling Catholic Cemetery.
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M. H. Shields
Wheeling
Shields
Grafton
Ohio County
Agnes Litzinger
Raymond Shields
Thomas Meaks
Vincent Armbuster
Paul Shields
Chicago
Dennis
Lena Litzinger
Grafton A
The
Knights of Columbus
B. and C Relief
C T U to Offer Program For Mothers
The W C T U presents a Mother's Day program this evening at 8 at Andrews M B Church. The lineup includes an overture by the Andrews Sunday school orchestra, talks, vocal solos by Miss Mattie Je co and Miss Lee Murphy, readings by Jackie Trainer and Betty Lou White, and piano solo by Martha Ridenour, directed by Mrs On a CG Jefferys.
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Andrews M. B
Andrews Sunday School
Mattie Je~co
Jackie Trainer
Betty Lou White
Mrs
Jefferys
NRA Complaints Open At Postoffice In Charleston
In Charleston on May 15 official NRA complaint forms and instructions were made available at all post offices for those alleging violations of approved NRA codes. F W McCullough, state NRA compliance director, urged citizens to obtain the forms and mail complaints to the National Recovery Administration Kanawha Valley Bank Building Charleston W Va. The Wren's Nest in Atlanta has become a public museum.
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Charleston
Fle
National Recovery Administration
NRA
F. Winder McCullough
Kanawha Valley Bank
W. Va
Society figure played charity chanze at benefit ball
Muriel Richards a prominent New Yorker joined guests in games of chance at a recent Society benefit ball. The Associated Press photo captures her among attendees engaging in the fundraiser event.
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Muriel Richards
Freca
Funeral services for James E. Phillips at 2 PM
James Eliver Phillips, 33, died early Sunday at the Baltimore and Ohio passenger station while awaiting a train to Johns Hopkins Hospital for brain tumor treatment. The Rev. B. E. Hanes officiated at First Church of Christ. Burial followed in Moran Cemetery.
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James Eliver Phillips
Baltimore & Ohio
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
B. E. Hanes
First Church of Christ
Moran Cemetery
Poppy Day to Be Observed Here May 26
Grafton will honor World War dead and aid living victims by wearing memorial poppies on May 26. The American Legion Auxiliary led by Mrs Florence H Wilkinson will direct activities with volunteers distributing poppies and collecting contributions for veterans and their families. A corps of volunteer workers is forming to distribute the flowers citywide, with poppies ordered from the hospital where disabled veterans make the little flowers. The day aims to honor those who died and involve the public in supporting veterans.
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Grafton
United States
Flanders’ Fields
American Legion Auxiliary
Florence H. Wilkinson
American Legion and Auxiliary
Legion
Three Men Admit Kidnapping Near Harvard Street
Five people were arrested in connection with a kidnapping five days earlier. Gettle, exhausted yet hopeful, described it as a bad dream while his wife, an invalid, rejoiced at news of the rescue. A failed $60,000 ransom bid preceded Gettle’s safe return to his wife and four children. Police had tracked suspects to an apartment at 600 North Harvard Street, where devices were used but yielded no immediate clues.
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Gettle
Hey
North
Harvard Street
Terun
Law at Gettle mansion ends long wartime time
Details show a raid at the Gettlemans mansion concluding a prolonged pursuit. Gerr and Lieut H P Gearhard took their positions, waited through waning hopes, and the law moved in at the proper moment to strike and end the ordeal.
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Ger
Lieut. H. P. Gearhard
Gettle Mansion
Baltimore and Ohio program delights audience
The program features vocal solos, playlets titled Lizzie Gets the Business and Liggie Gets Busy, a piano solo, and a Chicago Fair lecture. Performers include Miss Lee Murphy, Miss Olive Dennis, Mrs. Della Wittman, Miss Nellie McGrady, and Mrs. Harold Cole, with awards for best business-getting story and closing with Hail the Baltimore and Ohio.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Lee Murphy
H. R. Gibson
Oliver Dennis
Margaret Tallbolt
Stevens
Lizzie
Lizzie Bando
Nellie McGrady
Gertrude Everwork
Florence Wittman
Liggie
Josephine Beauty
Della Wittman
Lucy Homebody
Leo Crane
Ethel Trumps
Mary Martin
Mary
S. T. Seymour
Chicago Fair
Ollie D. Dennis
C. L Ford
C. D. Powell
John Bickford
Ann Tucker
T. ©. Gough
H. Leo
Griffith
George A. Hannon
The
Baltimere
Ohio
County Mines Recover Trade After Coal Restart
County business shows improvement as coal operations resume in the region. Merchants report steadily rising trade over the past two weeks with Saturday sales described as the best in four years. Crowded sidewalks and bustling shops gave the city a revived, old time feel.
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Tom
Flyers Over Flight Plan Revives Oldhope
The article describes an ambitious aviation pursuit with a bright orange and maroon monoplane named Leonardo da Vinci prepared for a forty hour flight. Pontl and Sabelli express confidence in reaching their goal within the planned duration, detailing the flying conditions and the unprecedented nature of the proposed journey.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Pontl
Sabelli
Coal firms granted charters in Marshall county
Charleston May 15 two coal companies were granted charters by the secretary of state to operate in Marshall county and maintain headquarters in Uniontown Pennsylvania.
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Charleston
Marshall County
Uniontown
Secretary of State
Palestine Deluged by Rains Kills Seventeen in City of Tiberras
A cloudburst on May 15 struck Tiberras on the Sea of Galilee, sweeping away 17 people and injuring many others as walls of water flooded streets. Refugees found shelter in hospitals and schools while troops and police searched ruins and a food shortage emerged. Similar floods hit Abadieth on the Jordan, with at least three dead and others missing.
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Jerusalem
Gpil | Gren
Tiberias
Sea of Galilee
Abadieth
Jordan
Tisberias
Two Army Aviators Drowned As Plane Falls Near Shreveport
Two Army aviators at Barksdale Field died when their pursuit plane plunged into the Red River, about six miles north of Shreveport Louisiana. The craft struck a telephone line across the river. Believed to be Lieuts Norman W Speaker and William H Doolittle.
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Shreveport
Barksdale Field
Red River
Here
Norman W. Speaker
William H. Doolittle
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