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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1949
Page
6
Police battled a man described as a child killer for hours, firing from windows and tossing tear gas before using fire. The suspect, Everall, 28, was shot by Detective Charles McCabe as he lay on the ground after the confrontation outside a two story frame home.
In Whitesburg Kentucky two Thornton brothers Jesse Earls about 23 and Ernest Earls about 21 were charged with wilful murder after an early morning shooting. Burt Sonny Bates 24 was shot in the head and died while his younger brother Herman 20 was wounded in two leg shots and hospitalized in Seco Ky. Ernest Earls had been shot in the leg and treated at the jail.
Failure continued from page one notes two years of work on reciprocal trade agreements halted by June 30 or death of the reciprocal trade agreements act. President Truman could not grant approval after June, though the U.S. helped start talks in France. Senate tardiness leaves the United States in a strange spot as renewal approval lags and trade deals slow.
Testimony released by the committee after President Truman accused it of withholding favorable remarks spotlighted Vaughan and Haragon who are slated to testify before the panel after it resumes hearings. Harry Hofman testified that Maragon arranged an Army transport for Stoffman, Maragon, and Emmett King to Paris on Werley business and Mundt noted influence in high circles.
The article reports that ten days before his death the Klan was unmasked and Simulza, tied to the event, revoked the charters of three Klaverns near Chattanooga Tennessee. The crackdown followed beatings of 22 people, mostly at masked bands, in the blue hills of Georgia and Tennessee. U S Attorney General Tom Clark labeled the Klan subversive.
A correction notes an error in yesterday report on the Sentinel awarding three champion line pistets to 4-H Club Judging winners at the fair. It acknowledges misnaming mamma pig as papa pig and references Mountain Lil Mountain Bill and O Boy as ancestors, expressing regret for the confusion.
A scientist explains how weather works and how humans might alter it. Towering cumulus clouds can bring beneficial rain or thunder storms with hail and tornadoes. He cites cloud seeding with dry ice or silver iodide as a way to induce rain or snow in certain conditions.
The article discusses cloud seeding ideas and potential dangers, then shifts to U S military aid to Western Europe. It notes absentees and defections from northern Democrats, and mentions Rep Richards amendment to halve the fund. Taft criticizes judiciary committee actions on Clark nomination as arbitrary.
An article discusses Beckley’s city dump southeast of downtown, noting a small caretaker’s shack amid rubble and a mountainside waste disposal area. Trucks dump refuse toward Piney River, with a continuous fire and odors mostly moved away by the Bureau Wings, while the city sits on a plateau above a deep gorge.
Clark recounts a Senate clash where Ferguson assailed the nominee on Eisler related wiretapping, parole handling of gangsters, and the 1946 Kansas City vote fraud. Connally defends the nominee amid sharp exchanges and criticism.
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