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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1936
Page
5
City residents hosted and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Travelers from Morgantown to Cleveland and Washington D C were noted, with several local families entertaining guests from Buckhannon Belington and Fairmont.
Ten thousand people gathered at Lake Elsie near Hankinson North Dakota to hear Detroit radio priest Father Coughlin introduce Representative William Lemke of the National Union for Social Justice in Lemke's home territory. The crowd was attentive as Coughlin addressed the audience.
A two day fishing trip to Solo mons Island off Virginia coast is mentioned as part of a broader report. The ongoing case references George S Kaufman and John Barrymore with doctors and attorneys discussing subpoenas and potential witnesses at a sanitarium. Details include immunization costs, a boy's injury from a rusty nail, and Mrs Matilda Sarven of Ashland Kentucky reacting to her son's death with police and volunteers aiding the boy's treatment.
Dr. Powell Wood county health commissioner says he supplied 12,500 units of serum to a Kentucky boy but had no authority to treat non residents. He notes the act was beyond his provincial duties and reflects limits on public health care.
City police detained Cryola Carrington and Zula Buza at the sheriff of Bellmont County Ohio's request on Saturday afternoon. They had run away from home and were living in Grafton with their uncle Richard Dick Shaffer on West Main Street. Also reported Henry Barton Milan 45 died in a hospital from injuries after being crushed between a mine motor and wall while working as a coal miner for three days.
Taylor county Democratic delegates and Barbour county peers meet in Philippi to nominate the party candidate for judge of the 19th circuit. Incumbent Herbert W. Dent is favored for renomination on the first ballot. Taylor delegates pledged to support him. Delegates listed include Hershel Lambert, Gus Lambert, Joe Powell, Leonard Smith, Tony Mustachio, L. L. Wolfe, C. P. Lucas, and others from Fetterman, Grafton, Knottsville.
Washington August 10 The Pro Roosevelt Labor's Non Partisan league hosts a capital rally led by Mayor George L Berry to hear Roosevelt's labor record praised and a presidential message. Week features primaries conventions and speeches as Knox Landon and Coughlin campaign amid flood relief tours and political stops.
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate, declares support for John L. Lewis and the industrial unions within the AFL, urging against a movement paralysis and siding with the CIO. He criticizes Landon and the American Liberty League as reactionary and comments on Coughlin and Lemke.
The government reports repulse of a rebel attack at Navesperal in the Guadarrama mountains. About 800 fascists killed, Lugones captured, a munitions factory seized in Oviedo. Loyalist forces occupy ten towns in Teruel, surrender Gelsa and Ola, marching on Zaragoza and capturing Ibiza. Diplomatic circles note a British casualty could affect a broader European non intervention accord.
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