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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1929
Page
2
Moscow reports from Tass and Harbin indicate Manchurian forces moving to the eastern frontier with Russian white guards linked to the plan. Seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway reported. arrests of Soviet railway workers noted. Chinese officials replace management of the railway.
About 75 members of the King’s Daughters Bible Class and families enjoyed a park picnic at Grafton park with swimming games and a basket dinner. Beulah Baptist Ladies Aid Society met at Mrs. Effie Brown’s Pruntytown home with 20 members and 9 visitors, led devotionally by Mrs. Donley Matthews, business session, refreshments, next meeting August 9. Mountaineer Council No. 44 Junior Order United American Mechanics held a large regular meeting at Wehn Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Breakall of Cumberland announce the arrival of a baby boy on July 11. Mrs Breakall is a former resident.
Domestic troubles in a patrolman household led to arrests of seven officers and a former sergeant in a robbing ring. Mrs. George M. Duvall, wife of one arrestee, supplied Investigator John Gibson with information. Charges of burglary and grand larceny were filed against Duvall, C. Raddock, and Fred Doma for dividing loot with a brother.
P H White a former Grafton boy has been appointed assistant state bank examiner and will relocate to Charleston. He grew up in Grafton, graduated from Grafton High School, later worked as vice president at Clarksburg Trust Company and has long been linked with banking across the state. He is son of the late Arthur White and nephew of local merchant 8 K Whit. The Charleston report says he has been officially connected with the banking commission since July 1.
Manila July 13 Thirty two purchasers of tickets as steerage passengers were denied passage aboard the liner President Taft when she sailed from this port yesterday. Rejections were in part due to meningitis regulations of the U S Public Health Service. Six not permitted to board were meningitis carriers. five were cholera suspects and twenty one had fever.
Rear Admiral Thomas P Magruder will resume active duty August 1 under Secretary Adams who assigns him to command the fleet base force on the Pacific coast. Magruder had been removed in 1927 after criticizing Navy management and had been described as punished. He has over 40 years of service and holds the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Legion of Honor.
L W Mendell and R B Reinhart conclude a 246 hour 43 minute endurance flight aboard the Angeleno after tail flutter and debris force a landing. They set a new endurance record, praised engine reliability, and thanked supporters.
Gloria Swanson motion picture actress has applied for a French passport and will sail August 2 from New York to join her husband the Marquis De La Falaise. She recently returned to America from France to make pictures here.
Armed guards were posted around Arthur Henderson's London residence after police judged it probable that harm could be planned. A man demanded to see him, produced a pistol, and vowed to get him ret. Two well dressed men later visited the secretary's flat, left after threats, with police withholding their identities.
London reports Helen Wills, American tennis queen, delaying her sail home after retaining her Wimbledon crown. Pleasure mixed with business kept her in London another week, postponing her departure.
Alan Hoover younger son of the president is en route to Washington to join his parents. He will spend most of the summer at the White House and then enter Harvard for post graduate work.
Topeka Kansas July 12 A complaint charging Mrs Vivian Scraper 25 and her companion Cecil Streit 24 with highway robbery in the 14000 Security Benefit Association daylight holdup here two weeks ago was filed yesterday in the court of Topeka The complaint was filed by state officers after Mrs Mary E Dye Kansas City mother of the alleged confessed woman robber asked the Shawnee county district court for a writ of habeas corpus directing the release of Mrs Scraper from jail on the ground she was being held illegally
Virginia Williamson 19 and Emma Millioan 18, both from Parkersburg, were swept from a bathing wharf by swift current above lock 18 in the Ohio River. Williamson drowned. Millioan was rescued. Ralph Nelson 28 attempted to help, freeing one girl and swimming ashore with the other. Bathers downstream failed to save Williamson after warning. Body believed carried over the lock 18 dam.
Negotiations between German and Belgian representatives on the marks question have concluded, yielding an agreement tied to the Young plan. Germany will pay Belgium 27 annuities starting March 31, 1980, totaling about 38.85 million dollars initial and varying subsequent payments, with in-kind settlements possible during moratoriums.
The trade body heard reports today about a proposed creamery to be added to the Imperial Tea Cream Company's plant here. Inquiries from other industrial concerns were noted as part of the discussion.
Taylor county business leaders discussed a permanent dairy creamery as farmers would gain local marketing, with Imperial Ice Cream Company proposing plant expansion in West Virginia. Bankers and business leaders noted the need to study milk production costs and records before committing to a Grafton creamery, while other firms eyed location in the region. The Logan plant and operations in Charlestown Williamson Athens Oakland Md. were cited as model sites.
Majors Ludwik Idsikowski and Casimir Kubala departed Le Bourget Friday at 10:47 p.m. for New York. Captain Dieudonne Coste and Jacques Bellonte followed with a departure at 11:32 p.m. They crossed Le Havre region and reported all well by 2:25 a.m. after passing over Santander, Spain.
New York July 13 Two men were killed and a third wounded in a gun fight at the Hotsy Totsy Club on Broadway. An unidentified man with three bullet wounds lay on the club floor before three men left a wounded casualty at a hospital and fled. Police identified victim William Cassidy 36 of New York and said a third man, Cassidy’s brother or acquaintance, was taken into custody. The wounded man died later. Miss Klaude Spaur of West Virginia University spent the weekend at home.
Historic St. John's Church in Richmond faces possible destruction from an antiquated heating system as a $10,000 campaign for modern warmth proceeds. The building hosted the 1775 Virginia assembly where Patrick Henry delivered his liberty or death speech to patriots including Washington Jefferson and Randolph.
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