Trail to Speak At Convention
The National League to Promote School Attendance asked Assistant Superintendent Sherman Trail to speak at its national convention next October in Rochester New York. Trail is the sole West Virginia invitee and will present a 20 minute paper under the theme The Rapprochement of Community Service Social Legal etc and School Attendance. Raleigh County was one of two WV counties represented at the last national meeting in Louisville with Trail Sam Caudill and E R Hartson also attending.
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National League To
Sherman Trail
Rochester
New York
National Organization
Trail
West Virginia
Raleigh County
Louisville
Kentucky
Sam Caudill
E. R. Hartson
Wayne County
Would-Be Citizens Invited To Attend Civics Classes
Attendance at American government classes is encouraged for citizenship hopefuls and may aid in examinations, though not required by law. At Cincinnati, 40 petitions filed by noon with about 15 more aliens summoned. final exam date likely next month. Numerous applicants include Spaniards, Italians, Yugoslavians, Germans, Poles, and Syrians. Italians lead among alien-born in seeking citizenship.
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P. B. McHugh
Cincinnati Naturalization Office
McHugh
W.P.A
Naturalization Department
Henry Beziat
Bernard Bailes
Albert Laso
McAlpin
Spain
Mike Susick
Pinecrest
Doss R. Lama
Lanark
Antonio Francesco Cossa
Mabscott
Benito Morales Lorenzo
Sophia
Ivan Antone Jedinak
Edwight
Francesco Caruso
Stanaford
Hans Eitel Gorter
Breslau
Germany
Henry de Tomas
Rhodesl
Valeria Woroniecki
Beckley
Waroniecki
Andrew Kurdziel
Colorado
Stanley Waroniecki
Poland
Frank Joe de Paola
Eccles
Alfonso Bassan Janutolo
Giovanni Ciedi Peraldo
Francisco Barea Abad
Mary Cimala
Albert Lowen
Gussie Stromberg
Valeria Waroniecki
Bicycle Tags to Be Issued Here Tomorrow
City to issue bicycle licenses to about 400 owners starting tomorrow at city hall from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Tuesday excluding weekend. Frances Biggs says 300 tags are on hand with 100 more to ship. 300 applications already filed. Lions Club will assist police in processing and distributing the ordinance, ownership cards, and care charts. Each owner must appear in person with 50 cents and their bicycle. police to enforce the tag rule starting Wednesday May 20.
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City Recorder
Frances Biggs
Lions Club
Dorsey Biggs
Lions Club Committee
Biggs
Roberts
Chinese destroy bridges on Salween river near Paoshan
Chinese spokesmen reported progress in the Salween river area, saying the bridges across the river at Lu in China have been destroyed. Chinese forces hold the east bank against Japanese vanguards about 60 miles west of Paoshan, 180 miles inside Yunnan from the Burma border.
Allied air base warned as Coral Sea battles extend
Australian leaders warn the Coral Sea fighting is not over and only continued strikes against Japanese bases to the northwest and northeast can prevent invasion. Allied raiders fly a 1300 mile round trip to Amboina, a Dutch base between New Guinea and Celebes, 656 miles northwest of Darwin and about the same distance southeast of Mindanao.
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Allseies
Coral Sea
Amboina
Australia
New Guinea
Celebes
Darwin
Davao
Philippine
Mindanao
Soviet Kharkov Offense Surprises Germans In Major Soviet Push
Soviet reports say Kharkov drive by Marshal Timoshenko is the real operation, smashing first German lines and pressing toward a second. The offensive draws massive reserves, tanks, and air support from the United States and Britain, with Allied shipments increasing. Germans suffer heavy losses as Russians claim to hold a new line after repelling the Kerch breach.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Kerch
Ukrainian
Leningrad
United States
Britain
Russia
Germany
Red Star
Semeon Timoshenko
High School Boys Enlist in Air Corps
Beckley youth Darrell Blaine Ashworth becomes first high school graduate to be accepted under Class V-5 for naval aviation training. After three to four months physical prep at four centers, he will undergo primary and advanced flight training to earn wings. Additional enlistees Meador and Peters also reported. Engineer Corps vacancies to May 25, urging applicants to enroll.
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Darrell Blaine Ashworth
Beckley
Naval
Navy
Charleston
Joan Anthony, Jr
Universities of
Iowa
Georgia
North Carolina
St. Mary’s College
California
Naval Reserve
Pensacola
Florida
Corpus Christi
Texas
U. S. Naval Reserve
Marine Corps Reserve
Anthony
Ordie Olen Meador
True
Cecil Clyde Peters, Jr
Eunice
To Rouse Flow of Liver Bile Adjustment Plan
An advertisement promotes Kruschen Salts as a health aid to stimulate bile flow and relieve constipation. It instructs a 20 day daily dose in water before breakfast, claiming benefits for headaches, sluggish bowels, and biliary digestion. It advertises Kay's Cut Rate Drug and offers a money back guarantee.
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Kay
Defeat hangover over Japanese navy after losing ships
Japanese forces melted into scattered, battered units as battleships and carriers vanished or were damaged approaching two dozen ships sunk or damaged. American losses were far lighter. Tokyo boasted of a sweeping victory, while experts dispute the claims and question the extent of the reverse.
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United States
Tokyo
Yamamoto
Philippines
Not Invincible Story Of A Victory Not Won
The fragment describes a campaign to present a victory as secured when it was not. It questions the deliberate spread of a sham triumph and implies strategic fakery in public messaging. It hints at a broader pattern of misleading conclusions in the narrative.
Canadian Troops Arrive in England for Training
Canadian troops fresh from an Atlantic convoy landed in southern England and began advanced training as the Canadian First Army moved closer to its final organization.
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Associated Press
England
Atlantic
Canadian First Army
Duke of Gloucester arrives in Teheran on Middle East tour
The Associated Press reports the Duke of Gloucester, personal aide-de-camp to King George VI, has reached Teheran, Iran, as part of a tour of the Middle East, with the visit announced today.
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Associated Press
London
Duke of Gloucester
King George VI
Teheran
Iran
Middle East
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