Mrs. Edmund Hardin Heads Taylor County Crippled Children's Group
Mrs. Edmund Hardin was elected president of the newly formed Taylor County Crippled Children's Society. The meeting at the Grafton Banking and Trust Company building named officers and an executive committee, with plans to obtain state aid and establish a clinic for crippled children.
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Edmund Hardin
Taylor County Crippled Children’s Society
Board of
Grafton Banking and Trust
Hardin
A. A. Miller
C. F. Shafer
Dorothy Beavers
A. Ray Shaw
Belle van Kirk
W. J. McGonagle
Q. le Conk
F. 8. Suddarth
Torlock Rasmussen
Kenneth ‘Haun
R.virgil Rohrbough
W.S. Johnson
State Society
Ihe
Poisoner Hunted After Poised Dogs Die Across Town
NEWSBURG May 17 Authorities hunt an unknown poisoner after at least six dogs and two cows died from ingesting poisoned meat. Mayor B J Horschler urged state police aid, calling the acts a threat to human lives.
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Newsburg
B. J. Horschler
Horschler
Army to Retain Morgantown Boxing Schedule
West Virginia University boxing will retain Morgantown as a host site with a dual meet set for February 17, 1940 at West Point. Athletic Director Roy M. Hawley announced the arrangement noting the Mountainers have won twice in four prior meetings with the army squad.
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Morgantown
Army
West Virginia’ University
Roy M. Hawley
West Point
Mountaineers
Wellsburg Gretna Green plan to speed blood tests
Wellsburg taxi firm argues for rapid venereal disease blood tests to speed marriages at Gretna Green. May 26 marks new law requiring three day waiting period. Company offers 11 dollar package including license witness and secrecy with doctor on call and in office laboratory.
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Wellsburg
Gretna Green
Wellsburg Taxi Company
Hank J. McGrumphy
Notaries
Three Day Law Spurs Large Wellsburg Marriages
In the first year of the three day law the company’s efforts brought 3096 couples to Wellsburg. This figure represented only about a third of the annual marriages here when retirements were less stringent.
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Wellsburg
Derangement Blamed for double tragedy in Kanawha City
Charleston May 17 Authorities labeled temporary mental derangement as the cause after Mrs Nellie Dooley 37 former assistant secretary of the state Sinking Fund commission and her four month old son died in a locked Kanawha City bathroom Mrs Dooley bled after slashing her wrists and her infant son was drowned in a tub Coroner Dr C F Sayre said she undoubtedly was temporarily deranged Dooley resigned from the Sinking Fund commission in December a year after marrying J Beverly Dooley an insurance adjuster She had been appointed to the post in 1933 and was born Nellie Litton of Wayne county Newest Gorham Sterling pattern Greenbrier at Skaggs & Co"}
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Charleston
Nellie Dooley
State Sinking Fund Commission
Wayne County
Proposed Huge Airship as Carrier for Bombers
A Navy officer testified before Congress that a mammoth dirigible could serve as a mother ship for nine bombers and 12 to 14 attack planes and release them at high altitude. President Roosevelt halted immediate construction, urging caution over safety. Congress trimmed a 500000 dollar dirigible allotment from the naval appropriations bill while funding related equipment at a Maryland nitric acid plant.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Congress
A. B. Cook
Bureau of Aeronauics
Senate Appropriations
Cook
Swanson
Senate
Indianhead
Smetty
Chile
Knights Templar Gather at West Virginia Grand Meeting
ELKINS May 17 A large Knights Templar gathering for the Grand Commandery of West Virginia filled the town with an estimated 500 to 860 uniformed members. The parade and session were planned with Charles N. Orr of St Paul Minn as grand generalissimo and guest of honor, signaling wide state representation.
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Elkins
Knights Templar
Grand Commandery of
West Virginia
Charles N. Orr
St. Paul
Minn
Architect Drawings Of New Grafton City Hospital Displayed
An architect sketch for Grafton City Hospital, due to be finished January 1 1940, is shown in Loar Jewelry store window. Mayor P P Gillispie announced L D Schmidt of Fairmont is lead architect. WPA project, contracted to Don J Byrum of Wheeling, progresses on schedule despite rock removal obstacles at Finvear's rock site.
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New
Grafton City Hospital
Loar
P. P. Gillispie
L. D. Schmidt
Fairmont
Finveear
WPA
Don J. ‘Byrum
Wheeling
Holt reviews long battle over coal commission elimination
Senator Holt of West Virginia reviewed a three year fight against the National Bituminous Coal Commission in a Senate record statement. He supported abolishing the commission and transferring its duties to the Interior Department under Roosevelt’s reorganization. Holt accused the commission of favoritism and waste, stating it cost taxpayers millions and harmed industrial stability.
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Washington
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Holt
W. Va
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Senate
West Virginia
Democratic Party
United Mine Workers of America
Fake cemetery lot scheme busted in Monongalia County
Sheriff Moore M Reynolds reports four men arrested in Clarksburg area for selling fake cemetery plots. Harry M Freeman of Syracuse and George Maloney of Cleveland are held on selling without license charges. Theodore Homer Sr and Jr of Diamond Ohio posted bond for selling property without licenses. Local cemetery owner contracts used as blinds to push plots. In Huntington Parkersburg Charleston, Ellen Lorraine White, 15, died from automobile injuries near Cassville Monongalia County.
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Clarksburg
Moore M. Reynolds
Harry Max Freeman
Syracuse
George Maloney
Cleveland
Theodore Homer, Sr
Theodore, Jr
Diamond
Youngstown
Reynolds
Charleston
Huntington
Parkersburg
Charday
Jeston
Wheeling
Newark
Ellen Lorain
White
Cassville
Monongalia County
Postponed West Virginia Newspaper Women Convention
Officials of the West Virginia Association of Newspaper Women announced the convention scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Parkersburg has been postponed. It will now be held in connection with the annual summer outing tentatively set for White Sulphur Springs.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia Association of Newspaper Women
Couple Slain for Espionage in Moscow Case
Moscow dispatch reports a mother known as Nina and her daughter Ellen were executed for spying for a foreign Fascist power. Testimony before a military court alleged the daughter used marriages to gain access to officers in Ukraine’s border district and to recruit other military men, with the court also punishing loyal officers for lapses.
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Moscow
Kieve
Red Star
Nina
Ellen
Coal Miners Held to Jury After Preliminary Hearing
Fifty nine Harrison county coal miners charged with violation of the red men's act were held for action by the Lewis county grand jury after a preliminary hearing before Magistrate R V Malloy. All were present with bonds set at 900 dollars each. McWhorter, 28, trucker, testified he was attacked by about 100 men after he ignored orders to leave a partially loaded coal car near Jane Lew. State Trooper S E Tribbett corroborated the arrest.
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Weston
Harrison County
Lewis County
R. V. Malloy
Clarksburg
Robert McWhorter
McWhorter
S. E. Tribbett
Tribbett
Jane Lew
Joe Louis Planned to Referee Legion Boxing Card in Clarksburg
Clarksburg May 17. Joe Louis world heavyweight champion will defend his title next month in New York against Tony Galento and has agreed to referee an American Legion sponsored boxing bill to be presented Memorial Day May 30 in Clarksburg. Holman Williams of Louis stable will meet Ralph Gizzy of Pittsburgh in the ten round main bout.
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Clarksburg
Joe Louis
Tony Galento
New York
Holman Williams
Louis
Ralph Gizzy
Pittsburgh
Bridgeport Wins OK to Enlarge Davisson Run Dam
Bridgeport receives Public Service Commission authorization to enlarge the Davisson run dam in Harrison County to secure a more adequate water supply. The commission approved enlargement plans but did not endorse current dam safety, noting the dam was built in 1923.
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Charleston
Bridgeport
Public Service Commission
Davisson Run
Harrison County
WV to graduate nearly 17 thousand in spring States report
West Virginia education officials announce about 17 000 students will graduate this spring from 284 high schools and 15 private and parochial schools with commencements spread across late May to early June. About 15 000 high school seniors are expected by the week ending June 2 and 1 598 college seniors are candidates for degrees. West Virginia University plans 450 graduates on June 3, Alderson Broaddus 20 on May 22, with others through June 7.
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Charleston
West Virginia
State Department of Education
A. J. Gibson
David Kirby
State Board of Education
Gibson
Little
Alderson-Broaddus
West Virginia University
Roosevelt Expect New Grandchild This Summer
Washington May 17 The president and Mrs Roosevelt expect to have a tenth grandchild this coming summer according to family announcements from the White House in Washington.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt aide expects baby keeps John’s wife in Washington
Mrs. Roosevelt said at her conference that Anne Clark Roosevelt, wife of John Roosevelt, will be in Washington for the king and queen of Great Britain’s visit because she is expecting a baby. The John Roosevelts were married last June in Nahant and now live in town where John works for a department store.
Germany Executes Two More As Foreign Spied
Berlin reports two convicts Emil Zeidler aged 38 and Richter aged 33 were executed for supplying military secrets to a foreign power. This brings the total executed as spies since January 1 to 20.
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Germany
Berlin
Emil
Zeidler
Richter
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