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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1939
Page
5
A garbled market blurb lists apples and potatoes with steady tone and mixed price ranges for Illinois Maryland Indiana and North Carolina. Mentions new stock baskets and sacks and odd phrases about a walking VKr and an aged physician.
Baton Rouge July 7 Governor Earl Long launches a cleanup campaign within Huey P Long era political groups after reports of financial irregularities at Louisiana State University. Dr James Monroe Smith, jailed on embezzlement charges, faces tax and WPA misappropriation probes as grand juries pursue leads. Long abolishes the state publicity bureau and halts officials selling state materials through private firms. Smith abandons attempts to post 50000 bond, hoping for better conditions in jail.
Soviet dispatches describe repulsing Japanese forces in central Khalka area near the Mongolian border amid ongoing clashes since May 11. Reporter describes harsh march to the front through marshy plains, mosquito infestations, and rain as both sides deploy light artillery and tanks while supply trucks stream forward. District Attorney Charles A. Byrne announces readiness to charge educator Smith with forgery and operating a confidence game if he leaves jail.
$15,000 in gems vanished from a hotel room of Mrs. Douglas Wheeler of Miami Beach. Herz jewels were sought by bloodhounds as police hunted a sneak thief at Montauk, L I where she summered at the seashore resort.
Aerial feats and international intrigue mark Columbia's Trapped in the Sky at the Strand Theatre. Jack Holt plays an Army Intelligence officer pursuing sabotage of a silent electric powered bomber while foreign spies and a glamorous movie queen drive fast paced action and witty misadventure.
Sixth of the two year series follows the Hardy family as they abandon Carvel for Detroit amid sudden fortune. Lewis Stone stars as Judge Hardy with Mickey Rooney as Andy, Fay Holden as wife and mother, Cecilia Parker as daughter, Sara Haden as Aunt Milly, and Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict. New faces Virginia Grey plays a cabaret glamour girl, John King is the city heir, and a large supporting cast includes Minor Watson, Halliwell Hobbes, Aileen Pringle, Marsha Hunt, and Truman Bradley.
The second Annabel film spotlights personal appearance tours with Jack Oakie and Lucille Ball. Ruth Donnelly and Lea Page reprise roles from The Affairs of Annabel, joining the star duo for another light musical comedy in this Hollywood screen feature.
Dr James Monroe Smith was returned from Canada to face embezzlement charges involving Louisiana State University funds. He was booked at Baton Rouge jail and described his flight home as ill ad.
Dixie Theatre opens Silver On the Sage starring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy. The western shows Cassidy pursuing rustlers who steal cattle from his Bar 20 and pin a murder on his friend Lucky Jenkins. Hayes and Hayden co star as his saddlemates.
Wallace Beery stars as a veteran police sergeant in Sergeant Madden at the Dixie Theatre. Alan Curtis plays his rookie son whose pursuit of quick promotion leads to clashes with law and his father. Tom Brown portrays Beery’s foster son while Laraine Johnson plays the Irish waif who marries Curtis and enters the criminal world.
Pittsburgh markets report salable hogs 300 head, price ranges 7.00 to 8.00 for various weights, cattle at 5.50 to 9.25 for beef, calves 4.00 to 10.50, and sheep at 3.25 to 10.50. Hog sales down 25 cents, cattle steady, calves and lambs mixed, roughs noted. Produce demand described as more rate, with U.S. and Pa. Dept. Agr. involvement.
A garbled pastiche mentions Shakespeare Michelangelo and Columbus, a neighbor celebrating Dad's Day with a pawpaw tree, a simile about a tune, Mussolini’s Rome to Addis service, and odd lines about coal tar, Ethopia, and livery stables in a stray newspaper fragment.
Ad promotes three groups of simulated leather bindings as ideal permanent library sets for home use. It urges readers to clip a first coupon and present it at a book station to claim any book for 39 cents, then repeat to build two sumptuous home libraries.
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