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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1929
Page
8
Rev Harold Metzner of Waterville Maine will deliver What Can I Do With My Life as part of outdoor union services at the baseball park Sundays at seven thirty. He is a Wesleyan graduate and pastor of the First Methodist Church in Waterville. Metzner is visiting his parents at 214 McGraw Ave. The announcement came from Rev H B Workman.
The presidential party of seven was secluded today at the Hoover fishing preserve in the Blue Ridge near Madison Virginia to escape the stress of administration. The group spent time at the fishing grounds and engaged in informal talks away from officials.
The party yesterday endured a hard drive rain soaked journey from Washington. Mrs. Hoover and son Herbert Jr were present along with Dr. Vernon Kellogg and news writers Mark Sullivan and William Hard. They expect to return to the capital tomorrow.
Three men robbed the Dauphin National Bank in Dauphin Pennsylvania early today, taking about 2000 after knocking out cashier Harold F Cobaugh as the bank opened. The trio, two white men and a Black man, fled in a car later found abandoned on a highway. Cobaugh recovered, grabbed his pistol, and gave chase, firing as he pursued the vehicle.
Los Angeles July 6 Stepin Fetchit Lincoln Perry a leading negro film comedian was named defendant in a suit for alleged breach of promise to marry filed by Yvonne Butler 17 seeking 100000 damages. He was married June 27 to Dorothy Stevenson.
George Landroy editor of Le Matin Brussels died at Mammoth Hot Springs hotel from burns after boiling water from Castle Geyser erupted while he inspected Grand Geyser. He was on a Carnegie Foundation tour of European journalists when the geyser eruption occurred. Also noted is Gotha’s Almanac tax on bachelors of 100 marks and the treatment of divorced men.
Budapest reports Prince Abdul Kadir son of the late Abdul Hamid sues Mustafa Kemal Pasha for recovery of Turkish crown jewels valued at 25 million dollars. He asserts the jewels were personal imperial assets since the sixteenth century and challenges government ownership and sale.
Four men led by W W Thomason a federal prohibition enforcer are charged with murder for the fatal shooting of James Harris and Lowry Harris during a liquor raid at the Harris farm near Tecumseh Oklahoma Jeff B Harris aided Thomason and others in the raid deputies Lewis and Williams were said to be assisting Harris admitted wounding the farmers Investigators noted Harris was not a regular federal agent and the raid involved a chicken coop encounter during which Harris fired a weapon The note about basketball innovation appears unrelated and is omitted
Chicago report says George Maloney saloonkeeper gunman and convicted killer was wounded three times by an unidentified man. Police see the shooting as retaliation for the December 31 slayings of Hugh Me Govern and William McPadden in the Granada Cafe. Maloney, recently manslaughter-convicted, is free on bond pending appeal. A bystander taxi-escorted woman companion aided, while bystanders fled as gunman fired across the street. Doctors expect recovery. In West Virginia, Virginia Lucas, 56, daughter of late judge Daniel B. Lucas, died in an automobile crash on Harpers Ferry turnpike. aunt Lizzie Brooke unharmed. Lucas was a noted writer.
Mrs. Alice Bonner of Moundsville was injured when an automobile swerved into a railroad landing at the depot on July Fourth and was taken to her sons' Buckhannon home in improved condition. Other patients injured in holiday accidents at City Hospital were improving. Dr Harry Flanagan and companion also recovering. Tom Densmore and Robert Retlinger sustained injuries in the same accident. Mrs James Shingleton and Marion Stafford rested after a tonsil operation. Miss Mary Belle Fotey of Clarksburg recovered after a major operation. Carl Turmey underwent a major operation this morning, and Morgan Keller of Philippi arrived for medical treatment.
Weather disruptions delay Honolulu flight and a veto stirs talk of crime measures. The article notes Governor Farrington and Ottawa officials amid discussions tied to a sudden, radical response to crime waves.
Gideon M Lawler aged seventy seven died today at his daughter Mrs Lloyd Maullers home 637 Boyd street after a brief heart attack He was the son of Joseph and Sarah Lawler pioneers in the area He leaves a widow Mrs Martha Tucker Lawler who died about forty years ago He was a member of the M E church South since boyhood Funeral services set for Monday at eleven o clock at the Lawler chapel with Reverends F P E and B B Lamberts officiating Interment at Lost Run near the Lawler chapel Taylor county
A New York Times report states a committee of American petroleum executives will travel abroad to discuss world oil industry issues with European representatives. Topics include export price setting, reducing friction between American and foreign oil interests, and curbing production globally. R C Holmes of Texas Corporation already travels. Moffett of Standard Oil and Whaley of Vacuum Oil are slated to sail on the Aquitania. The aim is to align American and European gasoline export pricing amid opposition to higher base prices.
The Chicago Tribune reports a plane bound for Iceland diverted by bad weather after a garbled message and fog. The Great Whale stop 260 miles north of Rupert House followed a Thursday night stay, with crew Robert Gast, Parker Crather, Obert Wood aboard. The aircraft, departing Chicago Wednesday, planned a Farn route to Mount Ryans Greenland via Port Burwell to Reykjavik, Bergen, and Berlin.
Washington reports from deep in War Department files reveal Major General Rear Admiral Powhatan Carter, born August 6, 1819, in Garber County Tennessee, who served in the Mexican War and Asiatic squadron, rose from acting brigadier to major general, led the Naval Academy as commandant, and died May 26, 1891. The piece also notes two colonial Virginia carriages joining Henry Ford’s Wayside Inn collection.
Senator Smoot, chairman, has completed a sliding substitute for the tariff bill's rate increase. He says it offers lower rates than the house proposal and expects Hoover’s favor, but he withholds details until committee resumes next week. The sugar schedule remains the most contested section of the measure.
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