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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
7
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A jumble of brief notes reports on a Newark letter carrier facing marital peril as police watch a wife’s daily schemes, Evangeline descendants preparing for a 175th anniversary commemoration in Grande Pre, a Chicago note on livestock research, White Plains robbers evading a siren theft, a Miami flying menagerie returning from Panama, Rex Fairbanks planning to adopt two children, a Boston physicist finding radium worth $2,000, and a Rockefeller led tennis court being built in Greenwich with night lighting.
Amusement event described with references to the American Legion and Loyal Order of Moose ensuring children's enjoyment. Notes mention a five cent entry and two sessions Saturday and the final day of a large amusement week in GraffoA with crowds expected both afternoon and night.
Five train riders were captured by B. and C. officers C. H. Fry and John Grub in the East End and near the freight yards. The men identified as Alex Rohlin Oscar Sears Carl Payne Eugene Clapp and Horace Alexander received ten days in jail plus costs.
Pittsburgh edition notes steady demand for produce with apples priced around 1.25 per bushel and various regional potato and fruit prices. Entries list New York Duch esa and New Jersey Stars apples, Virginia Wealthies, Pennsylvania Gravenstelny, and Cobblers from New Jersey and Long Island with sacks and barrel quotings.
A new Radio show slant on the younger generation as the film Tanned Legs, featuring Ann Pennington and Arthur Lake, opens at the Opera House next week for three days. The dress, songs, dances, and wisecracks mix with lightweight drama to engage twentieth century youth on screen.
Cleveland August 15 Raymond Porello survived a massive gas explosion that wrecked his newly bought two story brick home. Police suspect the blast targeted the Porello brothers involved in the Cleveland corn sugar trade. Debris ignited flames as investigators consider arson and a possible plot.
Early report states no bodies recovered after a blast at a house. Loss estimated at $25,000. Witnesses recall two men in a large car with out-of-state plates entering the house with a large package. A month earlier Joe Porello and his bodyguard were slain at a speakeasy, and three weeks later James Porello met a similar fate.
Detectives seized a suspect after a 15 minute struggle and arrested another man in a Chinatown laundry. They found a revolver and knife on Bullatan, plus a package containing two more revolvers and six long knives. In the laundry they retrieved cart ridges an ax a 10 gallon still and a large quantity of mash.
The prisoner testified he was hired by State Senator Edgar Hurley to stage a fake dynamite run from Oakland to Sacramento in 1913. He claimed arrest and a prison term for illegal explosives transport and admitted further offenses. Hurley denied the charge, suggesting it aimed to derail his re election bid. He said he paused seeking a pardon pending Mooney’s case outcome.
Pilot J took off from Stultz Field to pursue a new junior transcontinental east to west record. In Elmira New York state troopers and deputies thwarted an alleged plan to burn an International Relief Workers camp at Vanetten, with hundreds of men on site. Dr Ira Nelson Ellis former Worcester Polytechnic Institute president died in Cambridge Massachusetts. Navy official Mary Baker murder case indicts Herbert Campbell of Virginia Highlands. Adolph Kurdte fined in Chicago for organizing a golf ball theft gang.
AP dispatch lists multiple regional updates including Hoover and governors crafting a drought relief program. Also notes air trial in Washington, state political wrangling as miners face convention seating, a train collision in Columbia with two engine men killed, arrests in a tong war, and various other local incidents and records from across the United States and overseas.
Washington reports a deficit of 214 million in government operating costs for July 1 to August 12. The shortfall is 2.56 million less than a year ago, and may be wiped out by the September third-quarter income tax installments. For 42 days this fiscal year, receipts were 183.34 million, down 52.20 million from last year, while expenditures reached 397.85 million, 55.73 million less than last year. The sinking fund reduction to 25 million vs 103.86 million in 1929 is cited as a major factor. Also: annual picnic and campfire services details and the West Virginia Epworth League Institute near conclusion with Dr. Ralph C. Brown presiding. The Bikins district won stunt night honors, followed by Buckhannon and Morgantown districts.
Birmingham, Ala. Aug 14 Mrs James K Vardaman 76 widow of former governor and senator from Mississippi died here yesterday less than two months after her husband s death.
Buckhannon West Virginia August 15 nearly 300 delegates were expected to attend the district picnic today with plans for discussion and social events among local groups and associations.
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that its probe into chain store systems across marketing and distribution is nearly finished with increased staff in Des Moines and Washington. Investigations have covered grocery shoe drug department clothing variety furniture confectionery tobacco hardware, with prior work in Washington and Cincinnati. The inquiry, begun upon Senate direction in May 1928, seeks to determine if consolidations violate antitrust laws or need regulation. Window cleaning is cited as New York's most hazardous job in a recent survey.
Aug 18 reports Dale Jackson and Forest O Bring press on their monoplane endurance flight from Lambert St Louis. Despite engine trouble and uncertainty when the motor will stop, skilled mechanics have yet to locate the fault. The pair plan a state fair tour while offers pour in, including a financial reward to the pilot for staying aloft longer than the previous record. The monoplane has logged 598 hours in air as of 6 11 a.m., beating the prior mark by over 46 hours.
In Cincinnati area a Bell Telephone plan to aid rural subscribers in Hamilton, Butler, and Clermont counties allows one third of monthly bills to be paid now and the remainder in two installments. The state public utilities commission approved the plan, with Towal exchanges organizing installments and jurisdiction retained to monitor during the drought period.
A London bulletin reports that a blood transfusion given to Lord Birkenhead for bronchial pneumonia had a beneficial effect. The bulletin notes a slight rise in general strength and says the chest condition remains satisfactory.
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