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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1939

Page

6

Hitler Eyes Eastward Expansion After Salzburg Talks

Jan 6 report says Hitler, after a 3 ¼ hour meeting with Col Joseph Beck, tested Polish willingness to cooperate in Europe under Nazi influence. Observers view the dialogue as a step toward dominance east of the Munich agreement, with Poland as a likely objector.

Berlin Hitler Europe Joseph Beck Qbsersalzberg Beck Poland France Britain Reich Ukraine Germany

Promised Nazi Aid and a Baltic Polish Ukrainian State

The article reports on a proposed federal Polish Ukrainian state under Nazi tutelage with Ukraine loosely autonomous. It notes Danzig Memel restitution under pressure, German influence in Lithuania Latvia and Estonia, and Lithuania’s concessions to Memel residents. Poland worries about Nazi aims in the Baltic and Ukraine and the fate of Polish Jews in Germany.

Ukraine Czechoslovakia Germany Baltic Danzig Memel Lithuania Estonia Latvia Poland Europe

Robert Grayson Takes Job In North Carolina

Robert Grayson son of Mr and Mrs C E Grayson of East Wilford Street left Sunday for Raleigh North Carolina where he will be located for three months having accepted an appointment with the Department of Agriculture in survey work There is a possibility of re appointment He has been employed by the Baltimore and Ohio R A company and Western Union Telegraph company here He is a graduate of the local high school.

Robert Grayson C. E. Grayson East Wilford Street Ralaigh N. C Department of Agriculture Grayson Baltimore and Ohio R. A. Company Western Union ‘Telegraph Company

Bigamy charge lands WPA worker Oscar Bryant in custody

Oscar Bryant, 25, a WPA worker, was detained on a state warrant for bigamy. The warrant was sworn by a 15-year-old girl who claimed she was an expectant mother, per Magistrate Claude Spurlock.

Huntington Oscar Bryant WPA Claude Spurlock

Governor urged to save youth from death penalty

Canon City Colo Jan 6 a 23 year old man Arridy in the death house awaiting execution for the 1937 slaying of Dorothy Drain a 15 year old girl. Gov Ammons weighs clemency after a long conference with attorney Gail Ireland and psychiatrists noting his mental age of six. Ice cream for breakfast was granted as Warden Best tries to ease the final hours. Arridy previously escaped from a state home for mental defectives and was found able to tell right from wrong by a jury. nine postponements and failed sanity hearings preceded the scheduled 10 15 p m EST execution attempt.

Canon City Colo Joseph Arridg Teller Ammons Ammons Gail Ireland Ireland Arridy Roy Best Frank Aguilar WPA Dorothy Drain Pueblo Grand Junction

Fidelity Receivership Hearing Is Continued

In Wheeling on January 6 Judge William E. Baker extended the hearing on a petition seeking receivership for the Fidelity Investment association, a national group with 60,000 investors. Nine Pennsylvania investors filed the petition last December 21, alleging reckless, careless, and wrongful handling of accounts.

Wheeling William E. Baker Fidelity Investment Association Baker Pennsylvania

Employees honored for safety at Standard Oil New Jersey

Diamond safety buttons were awarded to 20 sales employees by the Standard Oil company of New Jersey for driving ten years without an accident, totaling 200 years of safe driving.

Huntington Standard Oil Company of New Jersey

Casman Funeral Set for Sunday in Wendel Church

Funeral plans for John Casman 72 of Wendel changed. Last rites at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Catholic church, with Rev. Father Charles Carroll of Clarksburg officiating. Burial in Webster Cemetery.

John Casman Wendel Charles Carroll Clarksburg Webster Cemetery

Pin removal relieves Rose Marie Anderson throat ailment

In Parkersburg on January 6, Rose Marie Anderson had a safety pin removed from her larynx after swelling of the throat. Doctors had previously embedded a metal pipe to assist breathing following the two month obstruction.

Parkersburg Rose Marie Anderson

Chief Denies Police Paid for Football Field Guards

Chief of Police A E Lockard claims a Taylor County Board report misled the public by listing 64 as police protection for Grafton High's 1938 football season. He says no officers were paid and volunteers guarded fences and parking, with actual police patrolling at no cost to the school.

A. E. Lockard Torlock Rasmussen Grafton High School Taylor County Board of Education

Three Nabbed After Waterfront Pistol Fight in Brooklyn

A harbor police gun battle on a Brooklyn pier wounded Patrolman James Bute and resulted in three arrests after a 3 1/2 month undercover narcotics probe. Salvatore Luisi 22 Luigi Espositivo 42 and Frank Visciano 49, all of Brooklyn, were charged with smuggling and possession as authorities recovered about 250 pounds of narcotics from an Italian freighter and dockside transfers.

Dozer Brooklyn James Bute Ida Hoboken N. J Paul Seiderman Seiderman Harbor Salvatore Luisi Luigi Esposito Frank Visciano Sll

Wilson Named to Good Post

A. Wilson, horologist for the Baltimore and Ohio for 14 years, is named general supervisor of time service by vice president C. W. Galloway. He succeeds the late W. C. Donnelly and oversees 13 000 watches and 172 inspectors across 7000 miles of railroad, with biannual inspections and tight accuracy standards for train crews.

Ss&finel A. Wilson Baltimore and Ohio Railroad C. W. Gallowa Wilson W. C. Donnelly

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