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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1932
Page
1
A slow moving Charleston legislative session narrows its agenda as most bills exit conference committees. A compromise on reducing public official salaries is reached, while a 20 percent personnel cut and city fund transfers for poor relief remain in dispute. The salary bill expands to include communities, with a meeting hoped for today to finalize remaining provisions.
A Japanese push into Jehol is anticipated this autumn to solidify Jehol as part of Manchukuo after a recent skirmish near Peipiao left Japanese casualties and Chinese losses reported as heavy. The foreign office signaled action while the war office denied a large invasion plan.
Logan County Sheriff J D Hatfield calls a Logan resolution investigation into deputy appointment purely political and insincere. He welcomes inquiry but notes the motive is political after Delegate Fergell who introduced it lost the sheriff nomination.
Bluefield area reports a sustained rebound in coal mining. Everett Stover, district inspector, notes thirteen hundred miners returned to work in the last two weeks across parts of Raleigh Mercer and Wyoming counties. Repairs at the Flat Top mine at Herndon near completion, aiming to reopen September 15 and provide employment for a substantial number of workers.
John W. Winkler, 63, storekeeper, shot and killed his wife Josephine, 57, in Pittsburgh. He then faced a personal crisis. motive remains unknown as police report no clear reason for the murder suicide attempt.
New York August 23 report to the third international congress of eugenics notes alcohol as a supposed race poison but the committee takes no stand for or against prohibition. The document discusses heredity, deterioration of germ plasm, and calls for reducing alcohol consumption while abstaining from integrating human biology and heredity studies in schools.
D I Bruce Payne 80 died of typhoid fever at his Flemington home at 11 this morning. Funeral set for 2 pm Thursday at Simpson Baptist Church with Rev N B Hamrick officiating, burial by Bartlett Funeral Co. in Simpson cemetery. Survived by wife Alice Marple Payne, five children, two sisters, and other relatives. Payne's crossing between Flemington and Simpson named for his father.
Eugene H Endrich former president of the National Canners Association died while undergoing an operation in Sandusky. The report notes that murders in England last year reached 109, slightly below the prewar figure, with only 10 remaining unsolved.
Aerial dispatch reports multiple pilots speeding toward Europe from the United States with plans to reach Oslo and London. Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen launched from New York toward Oslo with a stop in Harbor Grace while Clyde A. Lee and John Bochkon aimed at Harbor Grace and Oslo from Barre Vermont. George Hutchinson and family departed toward St John New Brunswick for London. Mollison and Ulrich prepared for Rome requires clear weather to resume solo flight. Five planes eastward over the Atlantic would mark a record. Port Greville Nova Scotia noted 12:25 p.m. E. T. today.
Berlin reports detail death sentences for five Nazi followers over a Communist killing. Courtroom riots, police with carbines, and street clashes followed the verdicts. Nazi leaders and storm troops warned of reprisals as the government debated commuting penalties.
Mrs Eeith Rockefeller McCormick, near death several times this week, was reported bright and cheerful and stronger than at any time in three weeks in Chicago. The illness and recovery are noted as a remarkable turn for the widow of Harold McCormick, prominent Chicago industrialist.
Valley Stream New York August 23 Two 24 year old housewives Mrs Louise Thaden and Mrs Frances Marsalis completed a new women s relief fueling flight endurance record of 196 hours five minutes and four fifths over the Curtiss airport Their companion Mrs Marsalis teased the crowd as Mrs Thaden collapsed and was later reported not seriously hurt The pair landed after more than eight days circling refueling their craft Stewart Reese and John Ranger l assisted with the fueling planet bouquets greeted the flyers and the story notes the official time to be checked in about a week Continued on page five
Richmond, Aug 23. Mrs Nellie Kumler a housekeeper confessed to Sheriff Ellison that she shot and killed Mrs Eleanor Gunsaulis common law wife of Guy Gunsaulis at the Gunsaulis home. She later repudiated the confession. The narrative described events leading to the firing of the shot last week and the burial of the woman in a shallow grave.
Sioux City reports say the farmers holiday movement grows stronger with mass meetings parades and blockades spreading from Iowa to Minnesota and Idaho. Governors discuss martial law while Lewiston Idaho farmers pledge not to sell 5 million bushels of wheat for 60 days. Also notes licensing rule classifies motorized bicycles as motorcycles. China flood affects farm population comparable to the entire U.S. farm population.
Nearly 30 people rioted on a Cleveland street car refusing to pay fares. Five injured as windows were broken and the trolley wire pulled down. Police officer Thomas Anglin 32 and conductor John Repaskey were attacked. both helped by a passenger, while three riders were struck by the motor control handle.
A young man and his companion, believed to be Dorothy Soder and Walter Davison, drowned when their canoe overturned near Oakmont on the Allegheny river last midnight. The pair, recently arrived from Terre Haute Indiana, were listening to music from a roadhouse and have not been definitively identified.
Clarksburg notes a GOP schedule of rallies announced at state headquarters led by Chairman Charles J. Schuck and Mrs. J. E. Cannon. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. leaders and Barbour county members meet in Philippi. Thursday the Lewis county Republicans convene in Weirton. Five Ohio River counties visit Friday and Saturday with events in Minotbourne New Martinsville Moundsville New Cumberland and Wellsburg with various 2 p.m. or 8 p.m. starts.
The first state convention of West Virginia Young Republicans will meet October 8 at the Chancellor hotel in Parkersburg. Several hundred delegates are expected. speakers include Cy Townsend Gale Ebert Walter Hallanan and Cheviss Shick. A luncheon at noon precedes a 2 pm business session in the hotel’s second floor ballroom with club representatives invited to present plans for the upcoming campaign and to elect officers for the West Virginia Young Republicans.
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