Wreck Blame Placed on Engineer in Delaware Collision
New York Central crash near Delaware left three dead including engineer James Newman and injured 34. Officials blamed Newman for running a red signal as trains Midnight express and Eastern Mail collided. fireman Barrett survived severe burns. Debris cleared by Monday night. damage estimated around 50,000 dollars.
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Steel schedule changes at Wheeling Steel plant
The rod mill will not operate this week and the wire and roll mills will not start Wednesday as planned. They will resume on a single shift basis from 11 PM to 7 AM. The barrel document line restarts Thursday morning. Most departments idle Tuesday for Christmas. coke works to remain idle.
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Temperatures Report from Observer Schireman
Weather notes show today's low around 44 degrees and a high near 61. Yesterday's high reached 56 with a 43 degree low.
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Sterday
Two Score Dead In Week End Tragedies Throughout Nation
A holiday period seeps with fatalities across the country as a series of accidents claim many lives. Reports include a Ventura crash in a ravine, a Nevada plane disappearance in fog and snow, a Pittsburgh family shooting after a Christmas vigil, a Wilmington car plunge in fog, and fatal crashes in Lincoln Nebraska and Medora Indiana among others.
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Pope Urges Prayer for Peace in Christmas Address
In a Christmas address to the curia, Pope Pius XII denounced the war clamour and urged global prayer for peace. He warned of increasing arms and the perils of conflict while calling for comfort from the Virgin Mary amid turmoil and recent Vatican accord with Italy over Loreto.
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I Did Not Kill Osborne opens new mystery serial
The Times launches Victor Bridges new mystery I Did Not Kill Osborne focusing on Nicho las Trench charged with murder and a cryptic woman known as Trish who watches from his room. Readers are drawn into clues about who she is and why she phoned the cops.
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Airplane Carrying Three Children Sought in Nevada Mountains
Elko Nevada December 24 rescue parties searched the winterbound mountains north of Elko for a plane missing with pilot Floyd de Long and three young passengers headed to Mountain City. Passengers were Donald Stinton 13 June 16 Ruth Womack 13. Two search planes were to fly at dawn to aid in the effort.
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Roper Reports Broad Rise in Nation’s Business
Secretary Daniel C. Roper’s annual survey shows a 26 percent rise in factory employment and 24 percent in industrial production, with 43 percent payroll gains. Exports and imports climbed, profits up 76 percent, and overall business activity rebounded after four years of decline amid economic relief and currency devaluation.
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Seaman Store Robbery Foiled By Safe-Guarded Cash Box
Amateur safe crackers broke the safe knob with a sledge hammer at the D. M. Allison hardware store in Seaman but failed to enter the safe. They took a cash register worth about $10, two show window guns, and other merchandise, fleeing after entry through a rear glass. The battered register was found under straw in the Allison coal yard nearby.
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Albania denies revolt amid King Zog anniversary reports
Albania declares there is complete calm as it rejects foreign reports of a Dirba region uprising. An official foreign office statement says false rumors circulated in Athens aimed at spoiling the 10th anniversary celebration of King Zog.
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Portsmouth Charities Spread Christmas Cheer Across the City
Portsmouth charitable institutions and churches join to assist poor families on Christmas day. About 225 people at the Transient Bureau will dine, with 50 children served first a chicken meal and adults served later a fried rabbit menu. Christmas parties and meals are planned at the Union Mission chapel Salvation Army and for Transients at the Bureau and Union Mission. The Elks and Eagles plan baskets for lodge members and churches aid additional families with dinners and baskets.
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Oak Hill Boy Rejoins Navy After Discovering Parents Dead
Clyde McCoy 20 returns home for Christmas to find both parents, Mr and Mrs Claude McCoy, killed in a 1931 automobile accident. The Ashland resident, once listed from Pikeville, plans to reenlist tomorrow in memory of his loss. He urges other youths not to run away.
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Holiday Tuesday edition notice and holiday comics
The Times announces a Christmas holiday schedule with no editions Tuesday and resumption of regular editions on Wednesday. An extra comics page with Tuesday releases appears in today’s issue, followed by Tuesday cartoons on page 16.
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Selby Shoe Co distributes over 40000 to 3000 employees
The Selby Shoe Co plans a year end extra payment of earnings for six months ending Nov 30, totaling over 40000 dollars for more than 300 employees at the Portsmouth parent plant and the Trenton branch Ironton plant. Production remains strong with about 5000 pairs daily in Portsmouth and 3000 in Ironton as orders stay brisk.
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Ironton Workers Get 5 Percent Christmas Bonus
Fifty three Henrite Products Co. employees in Ironton received a 5 percent Christmas bonus, about $3,000 distributed among them. A. C. Henry heads the company which makes electric brushes.
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Fire probes into repeated burning of one room school
Sheriff Al Bridwell and deputy state fire marshal Sanford Linck investigate a Brusby Fork school near Twin Creek after a third annual fire. The one room building was burned last week, with about 15 children enrolled. The sheriff expects arrest, finding a single culprit amid parent dissatisfaction blamed for the fire.
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Two Die After Lake Erie Tug Explosion
Coast guards search for two missing crewmen after a blast destroyed the Iona tug in Lake Erie. The vessel had three motors blown overboard and only John Gottschalk and his son Edward were believed aboard at the time.
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Large Sofa among Gifts Passed Through Express Office
A scattered note from Spokane Washington describes a large sofa among Corlats gifts that moved through the express office and was marked with stickers as open until Christmas.
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