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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1935
Page
4
The Grafton Sentinel urges a strong, representative Board of Trade to rejuvenate local business, address county development, and attract new enterprises. It praises a capable membership committee and highlights the program’s potential to spur lasting community improvement and permanent gains.
The piece argues for retrenchment and pro-business recovery over punitive taxes on profits. It warns about damaging self-defeating policies, notes wheat and food imports, and ridicules brain trusters while urging simpler regulations and avoiding destruction that leads to scarcity and poverty.
The piece denounces state relief organizations for pressuring the jobless to take low paid harvest work by offering groceries and essential supplies under the dole system. It argues relief agencies must cut off benefits to enforce private employment at wages from six to twelve dollars weekly, asserting employers cannot be forced to pay more.
The article notes emphasis on farm to market roads under the Works Progress Administration in the state and mentions the selection of a former governor for a leading role. It discusses the policy aim to improve rural connectivity and the political implications of appointing a prominent former state leader.
Cumberland News argues against a plan to tax businesses by size and proposes practical alternatives focused on revenue feasibility and economic impact. The piece critiques the proposed tax and outlines substitute measures to support public needs without stifling growth.
A letter from the Daily Review criticizes government policy on farming and trade. It cites Bowser Sales Trading Corp shipping 27 carloads of eggs and a prior Free Distribution by Relief into Tyler county. The piece argues for boosting domestic production and ending subsidies that suppress arable farming and livestock. It warns continued policies could force reliance on international imports for essential foods.
Central Press analysis by Charles P. Stewart and Leslie Eichel examines how House Rules Chairman John J. O’Connor and Senator Hugo Black pursue different targets in probing lobbying in Congress. The piece discusses whether motives aim at the White House or the interests, and predicts broader political implications across Roosevelt’s forthcoming cross-country tour.
In a whirlwind romance Val Preston, a lieutenant aboard a gunboat, marries Lia Gareune in Shanghai. The narrative follows Navy life at Puget Sound and Bremerton, Lia's boastful relatives, and Val’s struggle to control Lia after a provocative party reveals underlying tensions and a looming court martial risk. The scene shifts to social clashes among officers and their families as personal loyalties test duty.
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation adopts measures to protect insured shareholders with new limits and rules. Insured associations now have $5,000 per account, joint accounts insured jointly up to $5,000 per holder, and loans may extend beyond 50 miles with safety data. Premiums drop to 1-8 of 1 percent and extra assessments cap at 1-8 of 1 percent. Expanded mergers and asset purchases allowed, brokerage restricted.
Prince Rupert B C July 24 UP N A Sokoloff vice president of Amtorg Inc Soviet Russia Trading Company was found safe today after search for overdue seaplane began Sokoloff and Jerry Smith pilot were aboard the aircraft missing since morning over the coast sought by coast guard and Royal Canadian authorities
In Galway workers protest Protestant employment amid Catholic unrest across western Ireland. Factories faced walkouts and a clash occurred when some workers refused to join striking colleagues. Catholic church leaders in the Free State condemned attacks on Protestants in Limerick and nearby southern regions.
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