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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1932
Page
1
Secretary Mills urges Congress to repeal current excise taxes and adopt a general manufacturers sales levy of two and a quarter percent. He warns revenue shortfalls and urges drastic cuts in government spending, projecting deficits next year and the year after, even excluding debt retirements.
Charleston seeks 100000 annually for crippled children with the West Virginia Crippled Children's Council presenting the appeal to the state budget commission. The panel treated the request as part of a broader budget revision process amid 15 to 25 percent cuts ordered by the recent legislative special session.
Twenty one players on the Blue team trained at Baltimore stadium for two sessions ahead of the North-South charity game this Saturday. Jock Sutherland of Pittsburgh and Mal Stevens of Yale supervised the workout sessions.
The Charleston Clearing House Association asked the State Bankers Association to test the legality of the recently adopted constitutional amendment for tax levies. A resolution draft was approved for the executive and legislative committees meeting. The amendment classifies property and fixes rates by class, adopted Nov 8. Officials questioned publication timing and constitutionality.
In a New York dispatch and local report, the welfare board plans further loans totaling 40 137.50 from R P C to cover January and February. Applications for work on goods and streets reach 700 with 450 men on one or two days weekly, 131 on two days, and 22 direct relief cases. Flour distributions through Red Cross at Salvation Army home reach 1 200 weekly, with seven truckloads and 1 350 barrels shipped for county aid as Capt Arnold notes ongoing needs.
Washington lawmakers clash over prohibition repeal with Democrats pressing a beer bill to pass before Christmas and Senate action aimed at Volstead Law modifications. The Judiciary Committee plans Monday hearings as divisions surface on excluding a saloon return clause and on repeal of the 18th Amendment.
The new national transportation committee led by Calvin Coolidge begins a three day hearing in New York to hear suggestions from 16 organizations on coordinating the nation’s vast transportation system. The automobile industry presents its case as the Security Owners Association, representing railroad bond holders, participates.
Mrs Anna Draybelle Vankirk widow of Dr W F Vankirk died suddenly of angina pectoris at her home 19 West Washington street about 1 20 this afternoon. Funeral plans and obituary will be available tomorrow. Hamilton Funeral Company in charge.
Belgian ambassador Paul May delivered a note to Secretary Stimson requesting a postponement of war debt payments due December 15. The note elaborates Belgium’s November 15 plea for suspension while a general settlement rethink is considered. Paris reports exiled Bolshevik Leon Trotsky and his party are escorted through France en route to Copenhagen.
Dr. William Anderson of West Penn Hospital reports seven years of work on a new bronchial asthma treatment. He claims 75 patients completed the course and have remained attack free for one to five years. The method injects oil medicated with chemicals through the throat with a local anesthetic, delivering medicine into the esophagus to reach the lungs.
Long Beach California December crime tale follows detectives tracing mutiny, strangling attempt, and a backshot murder aboard the yacht Carma. Captain Walter Wanderwell, famed traveler and suspected spy, dies as a mysterious stranger known as Guy reportedly boards with a mixed crew of nine women and seven men amid a rum running plan.
Berlin news reports bedlam in the Reichstag as Communist members shouted Down with Von Hindenburg and sparred in the session during a debate on constitution changes. Fists and scuffles erupted on stairways and outside as protesters were ejected. The piece also notes Christmas postcard postal rates and office hours.
President Hoover asks Congress for a trimmed budget totaling 4.218 billion dollars with a 2.25 percent manufacturers tax and a maintained one cent gasoline tax. He calls for rigid economy, a 11 percent salary cut, and a 127 million dollar reduction in veterans benefits to cover a projected deficit of about 307 million dollars.
In Winston Salem a settlement of Smith Reynolds estate may leave Libby Holman Reynolds’ unborn child as heir to about 18 million dollars. Lawyer Bennett Polikoff said talks were under way with Alfred Holman and that final terms would not be set until February after the child is born. Charges against Libby Reynolds for her husband’s death were dropped for lack of evidence.
Court session postponed to Friday as recount of votes in Barbour judgeship proceeds. Attorneys from all sides are in Philippi observing the process while candidates monitor the tally.
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