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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1949

Page

6

Stock Market Edges Up and Down as Trading Narrow

In New York and Chicago a muted session followed a month long rise with fractional changes. Gains and losses were mixed with some names like Bethlehem Steel and General Motors higher while others such as Chrysler and Dow Chemical fell. Wheat and corn opened firm on the board, oats slipped in price, and a brief note on poultry receipts and beef cuts concludes the Market report.

New York Bethlehem Steel Youngstown ‘Sheet General. Motors Woolworth Oliver Corp Lockh ‘Ennecott Copper Phelps Westinghouse Electric American Woolen Southern Railway Texas Co Republic ‘ Steel Chrysler Montgomery Ward Chicago Eorn Board of Trade Coun Jly Baltimore Associated Press

Union Head Dies in Cleveland Home

A. F. Whitney, 16, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, died suddenly at his Cleveland Ohio home. Pope Pius XII urged German Catholics that faith in God can endure amid disintegration of order and morals under the Nazis and hinted regimes opposing religion would be temporary.

The Brotherhood of Railway A. F. Whitney Cleveland Ohio International Pone Berlin Pius XII Vatican

Prohibition easing eases access for Kansans tomorrow

Prohibition news notes retailers may reopen gradually over two to three days easing access for Kansans. A china towns battle stirs in Kiangsi province near Hunan above Guangdong. Meat animal statistics show thirty seven percent raised east of the Mississippi River.

Kiangsi Hunan Kwangtung Anton Mississippi River

Spot Flood Washes Out Panhandle Detour

The State Road Commission reported a spot flood washed out part of the detour between the mouth of Seneca and Petersburg area in Pendleton and Grant counties. The detour for routes 4 and 28 would be unusable for at least two days. Meanwhile Berkeley Springs faced rising waters, flooding several homes and submerging a state park bathhouse by three feet. estimates place damage around $1,000.

Charleston State Road Commission Seneca Eeterdaurg Pendleton Grant Petersburg Moorefield Berkeley Springs Gracen Heare

Church tensions flare as government seeks control

A 6 am mass read a controversial declaration while later services were canceled without explanation and worshipers were turned away. Justice Minister Cepicka branded Archbishop Beran a traitor as a plan to require government approval of all church appointments and to seize church property was drafted.

Alexei Cepicka Beran Cepicka

Handsome case details blood drinking confession

The statement recounts how a suspect described killing McSwain and disposing of his body in a 40-gallon tank with acid. It alleges Haigh fatally hurt McSwain’s parents in 1946 and Dr Archibald Henderson and his wife in 1948, claiming a ritual of drinking blood in each prior case.

Hamric to Attend Buick Preview in Pittsburgh

E S Hamric a local Buick dealer travels to Pittsburgh for a full day preview of the new Buick Special model to be public next month. About 117 dealers from the Pittsburgh Zone attend at the William Penn Hotel as Buick touts its redesigned lowest priced model in a major postwar dealer convention. Mr R F Blair Zone Manager will preside and relay technical details to dealers.

E. S. Hamric Buick Pittsburgh William Penn Hotel R. F. Blair

Buick Field Sales Convention For Dealers Described

Buick top management held a comprehensive field sales convention for dealers detailing all manufacturing engineering sales and merchandising aspects to describe the Special they obtained during the event.

Buick

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