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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1932
Page
2
The chancellor stated Germany will not arm but demands equal status and respect within the League of Nations. If security is denied, Berlin will act as Defense Minister Von Schleicher outlined. He stressed no desire to arm and urged other nations to honor commitments.
Hollywood reports blue eyed actresses have the best chance in movies. Paramount found only one brown eyed actress among fifteen under contract. Detailing the eye color spread, Claudette Colbert is the brown eyed signer while Elissa Landi is green eyed. Technicians cite blue eyes as a superior photographic quality.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr stars as a Broadway columnist in Love Is A Racket at the Opera House. The First National picture, directed by William A Wellman and adapted from Rian James novels, features Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Frances Dee, Lysle Talbot, Warren Hymer and Andre Luguet in a fast paced modern plot about love affairs and Broadway intrigue.
The Grand Theatre presents the Paramount comedy Million Dollar Legs tonight with an all star cast led by Jack Oakie and W C Fields. Klopstokia’s Olympic spoof features Mata Machree Lyda Roberts Susan Fleming and Dickie Moore in a farcical tale of weight lifting presidents spies and a winning Olympic team.
Airplanes fought a Boise State fire in the Clearwater forest as flames drove back 260 firefighters and burned a camp along an 18 mile front near Spokane on August 18.
The project adapts an original script credited to Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Henry Myers. Henry Cline directs, noted for his past as a Keystone Kop member.
Jouett Shouse, former Democratic National Committee chair, is named president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. He succeeds Henry Curran as vice chair on the board. Pierre du Pont, chair of the executive committee, says the group must mobilize in several states to push ratification. Shouse calls the move a constructive opportunity with large possibilities for the association. The group argues the Eighteenth Amendment police power should not reside in the federal constitution.
The article lists officers of the organization at its twenty-seventh annual state convention in Charles Town led by Curran who welcomed Shouse. Officers include F. X. Arey vice president Herbert C. Miller state master of arms D. C. Dolly secretary I. G Cale conductor I. T. Johnson inspector C. B. Harden guard W. R. Wable guards and I. H. Irvin trustee. Retiring president is O. B. Shockey. The 1933 convention will be held in Charles Town.
R Unger of Unger’s store in Morgan County was elected state president of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America during a gathering in Rowlesburg on August 18.
Benjamin Zimmerman was convicted of first degree murder in the slaying of State Prohibition Officer J. L. Hodges. Judge R. F. Hutcheson fixed a twenty year sentence in the state penitentiary and set next Monday for a hearing on the defense motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to law and evidence.
Grafton public schools report a drop in per student costs compared with 1929-30. High school cost per student fell to 92.75 yearly from 110.18, and monthly cost dropped to 10.30 from 12.24. Grade school per pupil yearly cost eased to 52.19 from 61.25, and monthly cost to 8.80 from 5.80. Enrollment changes are noted in both levels.
Iain reports two games tomorrow featuring American and Cleveland at Philadelphia. J. H. Wentz, North Carolina’s oldest fireman by service, retires after a 43-year career with the Charlotte department.
A 16 year old boy repeatedly expelled for vicious pranks on teachers recalls a troubled home life. His father once tricked him by promising an impossible birthday toy and revealing it as a cruel joke. The youth, once a model student, grew to retaliate as he aged and left preparatory schooling behind.
President Hoover returns from a three day Chesapeake Bay fishing trip tanned and happy. At the White House, he and guests share tales of the expedition. The president altered plans and did not land until near sunset after a successful angling outing.
A fragmented crossword page shows across and down clues with assorted wordplays. Entries touch on geography history and language, referencing figures, places, and common phrases, including capitalized names and potential puns from a late era puzzle.
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