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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1935
Page
5
Washington July 11 Senator George W Norris oldest lawmakers together with a call for holding company reform and wealth taxation. The Nebraska Republican member and fourth oldest in the Senate reflected on past battles and the outlook under President Roosevelt.
Bonds valued at over $5,000 have been sold by city postoffice officials for the first 10 days of the month. Totals for the last five months reach $69.00. Reported monthly sales show $24,506 in March, $7,406 in April, $21,300 in May, and $10,818 in June.
In Charleston, Robert Branch, condemned for the Ohio county murder of Brady Hill, pleads for life to Governor Kump urging clemency or a stay of execution. The House Ways and Means Committee suspends hearings on the president's tax program until tomorrow due to missed witness appearances and overall delays.
In Southport England on July 11 Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena and Robert Ramillon of France were among players invited to the Houchins family reunion at Peace Springs tennis tournament. The event proceeded with matches including 6-2 6-2 and other set scores noted during the semi final rounds of the professional circuit.
H R Gibson superintendent of the Monongah division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and Earl Stimson chief engineer of maintenance of way toured the short line from Clarksburg to Pairmont today. After the morning tour they returned to Grafton with Stimson.
At 1 30 this morning George Reed a printer was put on probation after arraignment before Mayor E Otto Waugh on disorderly conduct amid claims he was forced to disrupt to gain entry at the Grafton Transient Bureau. Reed testified police were summoned. Hayward Hilkey pleaded guilty to drunkenness and paid a 5 fine. The mayor ordered William Burk to leave town after nab at 1 o clock for loitering on Latrobe street. A man with a fictitious name on the docket paid 15 and an unnamed woman paid 10 in connection with an unlawful assembly in the city park.
William Beavers commodity director of the local FERA announces that 1200 dozen quart fruit jars were received yesterday for distribution next week to needy families after investigations. Jars will only be given to families that pass inquiry. A demonstration at Grafton high school features Miss Frances Broverman from Hazel Atlas Glass Company. She will lead canning demonstrations and invites housewives to attend another session at 7 30 tonight. Demonstrations are free.
Secretary Morgenthau said the treasury will likely offer a 100 million dollar bond issue due 1955 and 1960 at 2 7/8 percent with option basis. Earlier issues matured in 1946 and 1948 at three percent. The borrowings will align with money needs. Sale of baby bonds expected to surpass 100 million tonight.
Raleigh July 11 Dr Carl V Reynolds state health officer today advised school authorities throughout North Carolina not to open for the usual summer between crop sessions because of the danger from infantile paralysis Seven additional cases were reported today bringing the 1935 total to 345 only 104 of which were still contagious Burns Received Some Time Ago Prove Fatal Martinsburg July 11 Burns received in a fire that destroyed his home two weeks ago proved fatal to Amos Luther Martin 58 The widow and four sons survive
Harold Kramer former CWA and FERA engineer for Taylor county has been named district engineering director for the Works Progress Administration with headquarters in Fairmont. Robert Roth becomes acting director and George J Gow acting supervisor as WPA opens offices in the Watson hotel. The Fairmont district covers Wetzel, Monongalia, Preston, Marion, Harrison, Barbour and Taylor counties with 4500 square feet of offices and fifteen rooms. Work begins immediately on unfinished ERA projects and new administrative appointments are expected soon.
Homer Yates is to be arraigned before Justice W. E. Rightmire at 7:30 tonight on a charge of stealing meat shop implements from Miss Bertha Newcome. The warrant sworn July 1 lists 15 meat trays worth 19 dollars, a cone meat cleaver worth 50 cents, one butcher's steel at 1 dollar, and two knives totaling 2 dollars.
A representative shouted abuse as Brewster voted on bills. He supported substituting the house bill which lacked a death sentence while voting for the Senate bill which included it. He opposed removing a section granting the SEC power to simplify holding companies and backed final passage of the house bill.
Moundsville's West Virginia Penitentiary built for 900 inmates now houses many more with cells turned into dormitories and even the death house used as sleeping quarters. Warden C. F. McClintic reports overcrowded exercise yards as prisoners shuffle rather than walk, amid rare violent threats and a long standing policy of psychology over force since 1933.
The article discusses penitentiary life with the band and Pen Revue as longstanding features and notes proposals to confine short term convicts, which failed due to funding concerns. It reports on advertising psychology, brand familiarity among printers, and shifts in bond paper usage, alongside political mentions and unrest related to policy proposals.
The report describes a disrupted telegraph link between Nagoya and Shizuoka. Shizuoka is described as the clean airy capital of its prefecture and Suruga province, famed for lacquerware, basket work, and bamboo plaiting. Tea bushes cover the district, with hills forming the landscape. Farther from Shizuoka to Nagoya the land is flat and rice fields stretch toward the sea.
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