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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1934

Page

6

Grand Prize Amid Nightly Festivities in Jo city

A continued page one item describes a lively evening with multiple prize drawings and dancing to two local orchestras. A Philco radio is among top prizes, with other valuable items to be won as crowds from nearby areas attend each night.

Vancing Ave Legidth Philco Amherstburg Metro Lakeside III Worthy R. Brown Lakeside Ohio

Court Fines Card Players in Betting Case

Justice of the Peace Onal Jefferys fined 13 men five dollars plus costs for betting on a game of chance in Gratton downtown. Attorneys say the magistrate lacks final jurisdiction over such gambling charges, expecting further action by a grand jury. Fifteen others arrested in Werdel had hearings postponed as the Warder defense seeks to waive preliminary steps.

Justice of the Peace Jefferys E. K. Satterfield T. 5 Freezt Sormer Gratton Knottsville Werdel Hugh R. Warder Warder Wil

President Must Plans New Public Works Rollout

President Must heads to Warm Springs with a near term plan to expand public works. Estimates suggest an immediate program potentially in the 5 to 7 billion dollar range. Relief reforms, using FERA funds, focus on more workshops rural industrial communities and rehabilitations loans. Ickes hints at up to 2 billion for slum clearance and Rural electrification.

Warm Springs Hopkins Ickes Federal Emergency Relief Administration FERA Ickés PWA

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