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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1927

Page

5

Radio Programs Listed By Associated Press Schedule

Eastern standard time table of radio programs across multiple stations with names like New York Symphony Orchestra and The Quaker Girl, detailing hours, station call letters, and network offerings for a New Year’s Eve period. The list includes ensembles, concerts, dance orchestras, and various broadcasts from stations such as WEAF WNAC WOR WLIB and KDKA among others.

Associated Press Wiz New York New York Symphony Orchestra Slumber Music KDKA Pittsburgh Westinghouse Band Rochester Philea

Gold wave grips western Canada with cold snap

Western Canada faced frigid blasts with sub zero temperatures from the Pacific coast to western Ontario and snow flurries across the three prairie provinces. Edmonton plunged to 30 degrees below. In other news Marshall H. Saville of Columbia University was named president of the American Anthropological Association, and William Jacoby of Baltimore City College won the Boys National Junior Tennis championship for the second time.

Winnipeg Canada Pacific Ontario Prairie Provinces Edmonton Andover Mass Marshall H. Saville New York Columbia University American Anthropological Association William Jacoby Baltimore City College

New Year Services and Elections At Local Church

Absence of the Rector cancels Sunday service on January 1. Sunday School opens at 9 15 with a song service and classes at 9 30. Morning service with a 10 30 sermon. Afterward a church meeting to elect Connells members to fill two elder and two deacon terms. Trinity Church in Newburg hosts 3 p m preaching with Luther League devotional at 6 30 p m and vesper/sermon at 7 30. Members urged to resolve to attend regularly this year. Visitors welcomed.

W. H. Shafferman The Connells Trinity Church Newburg Luther League God

Blindness Ahead Drives UW Student on Europe Tour

Miss Carol Hovins a 20 year old former University of Wisconsin student plans a Europe tour to store vivid memories before blindness expected within a year. Graduated with honors she taught school a year and will travel until darkness falls then return to the U S to pursue work after study at a school for the blind.

Exclusive Central Press Dispatch Adison Wisconsin Carol Hovins University of Wisconsin Miss Hovins Europe United States

Methodist Protestant Church Events and Services

The Methodist Protestant Church invites all to Sunday School at 9 30 with S M Digman as superintendent and morning worship at 10 30 led by Rev LB Oldaker, conference president. Evening service at 7 30, midweek prayer at 7 30 Wednesday, choir practice at 7 80 Friday, and a 7 30 Monday monthly business meeting. The friendly brick church on the corner extends a welcome to strangers and those without a church home.

S.M. Digman LB. Oldaker Offaker Deherias Grafton W. VA King's Daughters J. A. Jolliffe Epworth League Thhis Jr. Epworth League Betty Stafford

First United Brethren Church Plans Weekly Services

The bulletin outlines services at First United Brethren Church with 9:30 Sunday School under Guy Bennett and Mrs. Sharp, 10:30 Communion and a short sermon, 6:30 Christian Endeavor, 7:20 preaching on Looking Forward, and Wednesday prayer at 7:30 with Week of Universal Prayer. The pastor is away, no morning or evening preaching. Choir rehearsal after the prayer meeting.

Guy BE. Bennett Christian Endeavor Society Ines Udon Hattie Beathig Samuel Tucker

Church notices from Grafton Sentinel list multiple services

The Grafton Sentinel provides a dense church notices page listing services and meetings across FIRST M B CHURCH SOUTH L and ST PAULS M E CHURCH HL M Riddle, with pastors Casto Jolliffe and Ev Jans. It includes schedule items for morning worship, Sunday School, Epworth League, prayer meetings, cottage prayer meetings, choir rehearsals, and revival preparations beginning January 8, inviting members and the public to participate.

Revenue law haunts New York New Year's celebration

New York officials raid the Chez Morgan seizing furnishings worth 50000 under a law aimed at fraud against internal revenue. Prohibition agents will be dispatched to clubs as crowds of about 100000 dine and dance tonight, spending an estimated 1,000,000 for the New Year Eve festivities.

New York Camp Jet

Five Flyers Hurt As Hydroplane Crashes in France

A hydroplane test flight over Etang De Berre near Alarcesilles France ended disastrously as five occupants were killed after plunging from 1 200 feet. The cause remains undetermined. In Fairmont Michigan athletic director Fielding H Yost arrived to spend New Year’s Day with his mother Mrs Blzena Yost at View near Valparaiso.

Alarseilles France Etang de Berre Fairmont Fielding H. Yost University of Michigan Blzena Yost Vairview

Bank Officers Indicted Over Bank Credit Frauds in Indiana

Indianapolis Dec 31 Clyde A Was chairman of the Indiana Republican strike committee and Valentine D Weaver former president of the closed First National Bank of La Grange Ind were indicted by a federal grand jury for violating federal banking laws. They face conspiracy counts and multiple overt acts involving forgery and misappropriation dating back to 1928. The Walb Construction Company president Walb faced checks drawn beyond balances and improper credits to Walb accounts. Govt outlines long list of alleged unlawful acts with potential fines up to 5000 and five years imprisonment per violation.

Indianapolis Clyde A Indiana Republican Strike Committee Valentine D. ‘Weaver First National Bank of la Grange Ind Walb Im Federal Banking Examiner Weaver Fbank Walb Construction Company Perons

New Year's Message at First Christian Church

C J Howearth minister leads Bible School at 9 30 with J A Keljer superintendent lesson on John the Baptist and Jesus Junior Church follows. Evening worship at 7 30 features sermon The Man With the Withered Hand and the New Year message Going Forward.

Bible School J. A. Kel‘jer John the Baptist Jesus Christian Endeavor

Fog delays mercy errand by air over southern villages

London reports fog halted joint Salvation Army and British Air Ministry efforts to air drop food and milk to snowbound villagers in Kent Surrey and Hampshire. Five planes stood ready at Stagslane Airdome awaiting better visibility. Instructions urged those with food shortage to mark 15 foot black circles on the snow for parcel delivery.

London Salvation Army British Air Ministry Kent Surrey Hampshire Stagslane Airdome

Father and Son Are Accidentally Killed

Indianapolis December 31. Lorenzedow and Frank Stevens, a father and son, were electrocuted yesterday when the elder Stevens touched a derrick that contacted a high tension wire. The son died trying to aid his father, also in contact with the same surface. Two other workmen on the scaffold were burned while removing the bodies.

Indianapolis Dee Lorenzedow Frank Stevens Stevens

Fingerprints Slayings Clue In Washington Pa Case

Investigators scrutinize fingerprints found at the field outskirts of Washington to identify the slaying of Thelma Young a 17 year old domestic. Fred Drew a Black man is held as a suspect as bloodhounds from West Virginia were withdrawn after many visitors to the scene.

Washington Dee Thelma Young Washington and Jefferson College Fred Drew West Virginia

Navy Parents Blame Navy in S-4 Disaster

The parents of Commander Roy K. Jones accuse the Navy of “emeflcling our dear boy and his comrades” and of cruel indifference toward the crew of the sunken ship. They demand a congressional inquiry as Secretary Wilbur orders a special Navy probe focusing on rescue efforts and communication delays after the sub S-4 sank.

Washington Navy Department Roy K. Jones John M. Jones Jones

Airplane Liner Downed Near Bagdad Reported Safe

The Cairo Bagdad airliner crash site was located about 200 miles west of Bagdad and all aboard were reported safe. A relief plane carried gasoline to the stranded craft to enable its onward flight.

Caine Egypt Cairo-Bagdad Bagdad

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