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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1927
Page
1
President Coolidge urged Congress to pursue a restrained national policy while outlining a moderate expansion for defenses and natural resources. His annual message touched on farm relief taxation flood control foreign relations and military affairs with emphasis on prohibition enforcement and expansion plans.
In Cincinnati court, defense witness Berger testified that George Remus enraged when his wife was mentioned and when Franklin L Dodge Jr was named. The testimony aimed to explain the alleged killing as a product of volatile tempers rather than premeditation.
The document outlines farm relief via a federal farm board managing a revolving fund to aid cooperatives, flood and navigation aids on the lower Mississippi, moderate treasury-recommended tax cuts while retaining certain excises, and a capable army reserve. It envisions a larger navy without a naval-building race, strict prohibition enforcement, and wartime labor measures. It also notes international efforts toward outlawing war, Philippines congressional oversight, and a $12 million dam for the Panama Canal flood protection. It calls for halting further merchant shipbuilding, transferring ships to private capital, and a Gulf to Atlantic waterway via the St Lawrence.
The President informs Congress he opposed the McNary Haugen farm relief bill and favors a federal farm loan board with a revolving fund to aid in cooperative marketing and surplus disposal. He supports Treasury and Navy expansions, river flood measures on the Mississippi, and a Boulder Canyon dam while urging separate consideration of flood control as a national issue.
Charleston December 6. John Bond former state auditor held in Kanawha county jail after voluntary return with Sheriff Massey with doctor consent. Bond’s prior bond forfeited when he missed trial due to an operation. No trial at this term as jurors were excused and no special petit jury planned. Huntington December 6. A man and wife drowned after a car plunged into Indian Buyan Creek near Proctorville Ohio during fog, with A N Kibler driver. Mrs Amos found drowned, man and woman about 32, five children. Car recovered half an hour later.
Cincinnati December 6 George Remus provoked Judge Chester R. Shook with an outburst in his murder trial prompting three men and his daughter Rotola to restrain him. The judge warned of contempt as Remus defended his rights, insisting he could couch objections and challenging the court. Bailiffs crowded around as the court's order to sit was reiterated.
Six railroad men were seriously hurt and one possibly fatally wounded when an Atlanta Birmingham and Coast freight train derailed near here. A blaze followed from derailed gasoline tanks threatening the train. Ambulances were delayed. injured were taken to Atlanta in private cars. Cause of the derailment was not yet known.
Increasing cloudiness likely to bring rain late tonight. Wednesday brings rising temperatures, especially in eastern portions. Forecast calls for damp conditions across the state with warmer temperatures shifting eastward by midweek.
Julius Rosenwald wife of Sears Roebuck head is seriously ill in a ledapical coma. Condition improved today after two intestinal operations in the past three weeks.
Congress opens with a $236 million tax reduction bill backing rate cuts and exemptions, while the new session faces storm clouds as President Coolidge’s annual message reveals controversy and Senate uncertainty.
Five state highways totaling about 1250 miles will be designated as through traffic routes by the department of highways under the 1927 legislature. Vehicles entering these roads must stop completely before proceeding. The William Penn highway, traffic route 8, will extend from the West Virginia line to Franklin beginning January 1.
Cross examination of Mrs Lilliendahl concluded as the state pressed details of her claim two Black defendants killed her husband Dr A Wm Lilliendahl on Sept 15 near Mays Landing New Jersey. Prosecutors tied her to a meeting with co defendant Willis Beach the morning of the killing and she wavered on prior statements. The case resumes on page eight.
Senator Norris of Nebraska, leading Republican independents, opened the zero hour on the Senate floor urging bar of Frank L. Smith and William S. Ware from office. He introduced resolutions to withhold their oaths and condemn the campaigns as funded by a bid for a senatorial toga, signaling a major purge over the disputed Pennsylvania and Illinois contests.
Washington December 6 The House paid tribute to Nicholas Longworth of Ohio praising his fairness and long service in public office Speaker Longworth spoke warmly of Garrett of Tennessee as a fine character and expressed mutual admiration amid party heat Garrett announced his candidacy for the Democratic senator nomination in Tennessee and thanked colleagues for support.
A fierce early season blizzard roared south from Canada with sub zero temperatures. Traffic stalled as rescuers report marooned oil workers near Shelby and schoolchildren in danger near Brady. Winds and heavy snow hinder verification as the storm sweeps toward Alberta and the Dakotas in a broad western cold wave.
More than a score of persons were injured today when a trolley moving down grade toward Hoboken crashed into the rear of a car stopped to discharge passengers. Both cars were crowded and confusion followed. William A. Patton, 75, former assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and former president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad, was among those noted in the report.
Geneva December 6. Senator Raoul Dandurand Canadian representative on the League of Nations council calls for strong action against the narcotic evil. The report, unanimously adopted, urges rapid ratification of the Geneva opium convention and study of stricter control of narcotic factories. Canadian ratification will be submitted to parliament. An international conference to check counterfeiting will be convoked next year by virtue of a revolution adopted by the council.
London December 6 1922 MacDonald was unanimously re elected leader and chairman of the parliamentary labor party J R Clynes was elected deputy leader Members discussed the possibility of MacDonald resigning the leadership soon due to ill health
Six victims were residents from Dingess county area, witnesses in the murder trial of Elijah Wellman and his three sons. Fire started in a hallway between sections of the rooming house around six, trapping eight people as stairways burned. Bodies found in an upper bathroom. some wrapped heads in soaked blankets. Victims include Mrs Will Hampton and her children, Pearl Johnson Brown ing, deputy Marcum, Bob Ireson and Albert Ireson, George Kappnrals, and Cinderella cafe proprietors and residents above the ground-floor. Origin uncertain though firemen suspect a trash pile in the hallway. The upper floor was largely destroyed. page two continues.
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