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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1937
Page
2
Washington reports postmen will boost staffing by 120000 extra clerks and carriers to ensure on time delivery of gifts. Officials urge citizens to mail early, mark packages not to be opened until Christmas, and rely on temporary or volunteer staff for Christmas Day delivery.
Two men, Eddie Patterson aged 25 from Zanesville Ohio and Frank Calhoun aged 26 from Troy Michigan, were picked up at 2 45 am today by city police and ordered out of town when arraigned before Mayor E Otto Waugh in municipal court this morning. The two are known loiterers in the area and faced a city order to leave.
Amid a Chicago hospital mystery illness, eleven babies have died while one infant, Sandra Peterson, recovers and returns home with her mother. A nurse stands with the mother and child as officials report rising unemployment and new relief spending discussions in Congress.
Arno Fieldner argues delaying coal derived gasoline benefits conservation. government expert notes current methods wasteful and costly. Baker says coal by products could shift rail traffic profits. four tons of coal needed per ton of gasoline. energy yield only 40 percent.
Hopkins says winter relief needs for WPA in Rochester Minnesota are higher than prior estimates yet affordable within the current $1,275,000,000 appropriation. The program spends about $100,000,000 monthly and has $775,000,000 remaining, with no current plan for extra funds. He notes no implication for winter employment numbers and cites solvency of the budget.
Reports from the front describe bitter hand to hand fighting near Nanking as Japanese forces press a spring assault. A spokesman said the city is in the process of falling though no final victory is claimed. more than 50 Japanese planes supported the attack while communications with inside Nanking were severed and Americans inside remained unconfirmed.
Martinsburg notes the retirement of P. J. Ashby Whitmore age 69 after 47 years as a telegrapher with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, marking a long career in rail service.
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