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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1935
Page
2
Parkersburg July 10 The Board of Education considers a special school project property after hearing a report on damage. Alva Guinn superintendent of buildings said 150 dollars worth of window panes had been broken since school closed.
In the House of Commons Anthony Eden reaffirmed Britain’s aim to seek a peaceful settlement in cooperation with other nations. He cited hope war can be avoided and that England may still push for a last minute compromise. Reports from Addis Ababa said refugees began leaving for the frontier as foreign firms halted credit, paralyzing business.
Grafton Kiwanis Club plans a summer series of rural meetings starting next Tuesday at Pleasant Creek with efforts to cover all surrounding communities before summer. A July 30 Valley Falls picnic is planned. Kiwanis leaders discussed trade relations with Grafton High School.
A dense broadcast schedule lists NBC CBS and other networks with show titles host names and musical acts across hours from 5:30 P M to 12:00 P M late night. It trails with RCA tube price promotions and low sale prices on several model numbers.
A vivid account portrays river workers who risk life daily to defend or conquer the water. The piece highlights courage, peril, and the stark realities of their hazardous labor.
Strand Theatre opens a two day engagement for Fox film Under Pressure starring Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen. Preview audiences laud it as the most colorful thrilling and human entry in the Lowe McLaglen series with a New York river tunnel background and sand hogs in the cast. Wayne, a government agent, goes to Rainbow Valley to break up an outlaw gang and faces danger, romance, and a dramatic climax before earning a trusted post in the town.
Strange killings in Chinatown feature odd Wong symbols on corpses. Police hint the murders may reflect Oriental-sector warfare as Wong is linked to Keeler novel The Mystery of Mr. Wong. John Wayne set to appear in the new drama adaptation.
Bela Lugosi enacts the title role at the Opera House while Wallace Ford and Arline Judge headline the romantic leads. Ford is the ace-news paperman uncovering a murder plot designed to seize a throne in a mythical Orient kingdom.
Chattanooga editor Richard Earl Walker, 59, associate editor of the Chattanooga Times, typed obituary data for his own notice and then shot himself at his desk. His body was found with a bullet wound to the right temple and the obituary note addressed to whom it may concern lay in his typewriter.
Baltimore July 10 A cloudburst in Baltimore county caused the death of McClelland Johnson 32 year old truck driver. His vehicle plowed into water six feet deep across the Philadelphia road ten miles from here, left the road and overturned. His body was recovered.
Moundsville July 10. Warden C F McClintic said about 6,000 people have applied for positions as guards at the state penitentiary. He noted that applications keep arriving at about ten to twenty five daily as the process continues.
Ray Long died by suicide, investigators say, after leaving no note. The 17 year career editor and executive had risen at Liberty magazine and major studios, mentoring writers like McIntyre Kyne Runyon Lardner. Born March 23 1878 in Lebanon Indiana, he later worked in New York before California. His widow Mrs Lucy Bovie Long was in Greenwich Connecticut at the time of reporting.
Morgantown man James G. McCoy 35 was jailed after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated. Two Morgantown women hired him to take them to this city, liquor was consumed, and one passenger later forced a stop then aided their escape to city hall. McCoy received 30 days in jail, a $25 fine, six month license revocation, and vehicle impoundment. potential extra 10 days if fine unpaid.
S L Dayton 82 longtime Grafton resident and uncle of Mrs Florence Pepper died at his McArthur Ohio home. He succumbed to diabetes and senility on July 2 and was buried July 4 in the Odd Fellows cemetery at McArthur.
In Clarksburg West Virginia F D Coffman reports suffering gas after meals with heart palpitations and constipation. After taking Indo Vin the symptoms cleared and bowels regulated. Indo Vin available at Grafton Drug & Chemical and through Augustus F Coffman in Grafton.
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