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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1940
Page
1
Republican nominee Wendell Willkie asserts he will not enter specific commitments on U S foreign policy. He says he favors an unhampered right of public discussion and would reserve his independence from administration or party pressures.
Crowley, Louisiana Aug 10. Some 10,000 people were made homeless by the greatest rainfall in the state's history. Up to 24 inches fell in hours as towns flooded and utilities failed. Rice cotton and carp crops damaged. Capital Crowley dark with water several feet deep in business areas. Governor San Jones appealed for relief as railways sent trains with supplies and doctors to aid nearby communities.
In Huntington on August 10 the state judicial convention nominated H. H. Rose of Fairmont and W. T. Lovins of Huntington for Supreme Court seats and adopted a platform opposing three constitutional amendments. Eight presidential electors were chosen as Senator M. M. Neely denied plans to withdraw from the gubernatorial race.
Paul Tross a 41 year old negro handyman condemned to die on the gallows Monday for criminal attack told reporters he is innocent of attacking a Keyser schoolteacher. He visited by prison officials and newsmen reaffirmed his faith and lingering hope for clemency while insisting he changed his plea from innocent to guilty.
Italian troops pushing toward the coast of British Somaliland reached beyond Audein east of Hargeisa after already announcing the capture of Hargeisa. Tailian communique said planes bombed Berbera, damaging a harbor ship and burning two British aircraft on the ground.
James A. Farley, retiring postmaster general and Democratic national chairman, was named chairman of the Coca Cola Export Corporation with duties to expand foreign business. Robert W. Woodruff said Farley would lead export efforts from Wilmington offices, start date and salary undisclosed, effective Aug 17 resignation as party chairman and cabinet departure Aug 31.
Italian motorized infantry and heavy guns pushed toward British positions south of Berbera as air attacks hit Italian supply ports. Egypt prepared for a possible coordinated drive toward the Suez Canal while the British reported the advance toward their main positions continues.
German high command claimed raids damaged Airmotors Aircraft Ltd. at Rochester and a munitions plant at Faversham. Docks at Newcastle and shipyards at Sheerness and Chatham were hit. An airport north of Bristol was destroyed by bombs as British air defenses reported several aircraft downed.
President Robert L. Barton of the Ohio Young Republican league is added to the speakers list for the Republican state judicial convention in Charleston on August 14 and 15. Sybil Holmes of Boston joins as an accepted speaker, while Judge Frank W. Nesbitt of Wheeling is set to give the keynote and open as temporary chairman.
Debate resumes on Monday as Oregon Senator reports possible Alaska invasion. Fiscal stalemate persists with Maloney and Burke-Wadsworth plans tying conscription to voluntary enlistment. Maloney proposes delaying draft to January and registering men 21 to 30. Army enlistment figures for June and July cited as peacetime records.
Five persons died and four were injured in a head on crash two miles north of Elizabethtown Kentucky. Three identified victims were Carl Thomas Miller 23 Edward Ray Gardner 26 both Magnolia and Walter Polley 27 Hogenville. The two female victims remained unidentified. A woman and three men were taken to Louisville hospitals.
President Roosevelt began a weekend tour of New England defenses observing conditions at the Portsmouth navy yard where five submarines costing 27 million dollars were under construction. He traveled with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and was greeted by New Hampshire Governor Francis Murphy. State police and Secret Service guarded the party as they toured the yard, later boarding the White House yacht Potomac for the trip to the Boston navy yard.
The Pennsylvania committee on medical preparedness selects physicians to remain at home to care for industrial workers if conscription arises. Dr. Charles H. Henninger of Pittsburgh says 13,000 practicing physicians were reported to the national committee and that the goal is to keep civilian health services intact by exempting those needed for civilian work.
Berlin dispatch reports Nazi press praising Germany's winter food outlook while voicing worry for conquered regions. German papers claim Germany has adequate supplies and Balkan crops help, but occupied territories like the Low Countries and France face shortages due to Britain's blockade.
The Old National Bank marked its diamond jubilee with an open house for Martinsburg citizens. It described itself as the largest bank in the eastern panhandle and upper Shenandoah Valley, reporting total assets of 3,517,274.86 excluding trust assets of 471,140.48.
Police and health officials fight infantile paralysis as 26 county cases are quarantined. Fifteen year old Ned Comm died in an iron lung, marking the week’s second fatality from the epidemic in Huntington.
Washington reports the Navy orders 2900 Marines from Quantico to Guantanamo Bay Cuba for intensive winter maneuvers. The move, aided by converting four ships to destroyer transports, aims to position the brigade for rapid Central or South American deployment amid hemispheric defense plans following the Havana Pan American conference.
In Bucharest the Romanian government enacts new anti Jewish laws amid Axis pressure for cessions to Bulgaria and Hungary. Nationalist factions opposing territorial concessions push the move, with Premier Ion Gigurtu urging obedience to German Italian wishes as a painful but cleansing sacrifice to rid Romania of Jewish influence.
Martinsburg reports an eastern panhandle survey of 25 large growers finds a 1940 crop average in quantity and fair to good quality. The four counties Berkeley Jefferson Morgan Hampshire total about 3,750,000 bushels with county estimates of 2,000,000, 800,000, 400,000 and 550,000 respectively. Growing season was uniformly good though a bit late and conditions have been normal since early summer.
West Virginia farm wage levels on July 1 were the second highest in nine years. The federal state crop reporting service said the index stood at 111 percent of the 1910-14 base, with 108 in 1939 and 112 and 111 in 1937 and 1938. Monthly wages averaged $22.50 with board and $33 without board. daily wages were $1.05 with board and $1.50 without board.
German bombers launched mass attacks on British ships protected by balloon barrages and dropped whistling bombs on coastal areas. Reports say balloon-protected ships off the southeast coast repelled the assault with anti-aircraft fire, while casualties occurred in northeast towns and along the northwest coast amid heavy raids that disrupted residential areas.
Two prison fugitives surrendered after a running gun battle that left Oilton police chief critically wounded and a farmer kidnapped. Bill Hall and Joe Lovelace claimed they dragged a dead woman from the car after a pistol gun duel, while Lovelace said the woman identified as Culp, 30, of Asher, was slain. Sheriff L L Fisher said police chief dying.
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