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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
5
A Mo reni oil well blaze near Bucharest raged for 42 days, killing two workers and causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Fire crews and laborers struggled to extinguish the inferno, with the incident described as possibly the world’s largest oil field fire.
Wopeka Kansas July 17 Mrs Vivian Scraper 25 was sentenced to the women's industrial farm at Lansing for an indefinite term after pleading guilty to highway robbery in connection with the 13175 Security Benefit Association payroll held up here June 28 The county attorney's office says Cecil Streit 24 her companion has confessed he helped explain the daylight robbery and pleaded guilty to a robbery charge.
At Salem Oregon a Catholic Women’s Society convention adopted a resolution urging women to wear dresses long enough to cover knees while seated. Debates also tackled birth control and the new female fashion, with speakers condemning immodesty and asserting moral duties. A speaker denounced “hit and run” marriages and warned against modern dances and moonshine outings as threats to youth.
Marion Bodmer, raised as a girl after a birth announcement error, graduated from Selins Grove High School as female and played with the girls basketball team. His father G. A. Bodmer, Selins Grove chief burgess, accepts blame for the deception saying his wife did not change the original birth notice. The tale unfolds as Marion later sought to enroll in a boys school and avoided joining the girls amid the auto rides and secretive life.
July 17 ceremonies paid respects to Major Ludwik Idzikowski held in Warsaw attended by government members and the public. Idzikowski’s body lay aboard the ship Iskra at Horta guarded by a watch. Major Casimir Kubala, injured in a trans Atlantic crash, was reported improving rapidly. Engine parts from the plane were loaded onto Iskra for examination in Poland.
The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Bureau of Animal Industry report 1928 saw continued decline in horse and mule populations due to mechanized progress. Government actions, including anti trust charges, were dropped or delayed as rail and transport modernization advances influence the livestock sector.
The commission charged the Missouri Kansas Texas and other carriers with an improper stock purchase that exceeded its authority. Since the railroads sold the stock, the case was dropped.
New Orleans reports a promise of full street car service by week’s end as organized labor gauges public sentiment before uniting allied unions in sympathy with striking carmen. The union executive committee met and plans an open meeting to discuss a general sympathy strike, while armed federal deputies enforce a court injunction amid gradual service restoration.
Mrs. Oscar De Priest wife of Illinois congressman spoke to Pilgrim Baptist Church women describing her White House impressions as guest at a June 12 congressional wives tea. She praised Mrs Hoover as charming cosmopolite with a great soul and dignity fitting her role, noting no excitement inside the White House despite ongoing criticism elsewhere.
HL Cleland a telegraph operator jumped from a speeding speeder to avoid a passenger train near Coffman during a schedule change caused by a derailment. He escaped with only minor cuts and bruises after his motorized vehicle was wrecked landing against a bank en route to his home on country club property.
Telegraph dispatches from Bombay report widespread floods in the Sind division. Sukkur Barrage submerged the township with 12 deaths. Torrential rains caused hundreds of cattle deaths and miles of desert were transformed into a vast lake.
From Venice July 17 Gene Tunney has recovered completely from a recent operation and appears well. He and his wife, famed heavyweight champion, were recognized by American tourists while they sat in front of a state. They retired before admiring Venetians as they planned to stay several days. A local burglary anecdote involving the couple was recounted in casual conversation.
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