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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
3
The Lend-a-Hand Circle of the Presbyterian Church announces a picnic for church members and families at Gratton Park on Thursday at noon with a rain alternative in the church at 6 PM. All members and families are warmly invited to attend.
Delegates voted on a broad property and income tax plan amid fierce debate. The measure shifts power to classify and tax incomes and grants exemptions including $200 for household goods, with Senate amendments pending and a lame duck ratification move approved.
Irene D explains a skin freshener she developed to mimic morning dews and British fogs. She uses a perfume-like spray on neck and face, claiming it wakes the skin with vital freshness and a healthy glow from daily use.
eJamés Findley Holt and William Burdette, roommates at West Virginia University at Morgantown, left this morning for St Albans, West Virginia, where Holt will visit the Burdette home for several days. Burdette has stayed with Holt on Maple Avenue for the past several days.
John P Baer, 57, head of a Baltimore banking house, died from a self inflicted pistol wound. Coroner Mor risey ruled death by own action. His body was found in the cellar under the general offices by bond department manager J E Irvine after a conference with a customer. A pistol lay beside the body. no notes were found.
Charleston July 27 Governor Conley paroled Emerson Camp former Kanawha county superintendent of schools who served most of a three year term for larceny of school funds Camp was released from Moundsville penitentiary Saturday parole approved unanimously by the prison warden and state pardon attorney.
In Washington on July 27 the police action to clear the rotting bonus marchers' shantytown on Pennsylvania Avenue stalled due to missing orders from the treasury department. George W. Rhine, hired to clear the occupied property, delayed sending a wrecking crew as officials again postponed the evacuation deadline for the former soldiers.
Steel and several independents show deficits up to expected levels while gains appear in American Water Works and other issues. Radio Corporation common rises slightly, preferred up two. Miscellaneous rails advance. American Telephone and Westinghouse dip then recover. U S Steel and Standard of New Jersey slip, Steel preferred drops four then recovers much of its loss.
Berkeley Springs July 27 A B Lutman age 67 died at his daughter’s house after a neighbor found him unconscious near the residence with bullet wounds. Relatives said Lutman had been despondent prior to the incident.
Oklahoma City July 27 Jennings Bryan Griffin 33 brother of Bennett Griffin an Oklahoma City aviator whose bid to circle the globe in record time ended in Russia died after an appendectomy operation Bennet Griffin was returning home after a crash in a peat boat near Barisov Russia
Elkins July 27 55 year old Knapp is jailed after stabbing his son Edward 23 in a quarrel with a pocket knife. The son is in serious condition and a witness is held as a material witness.
Berlin July 27 Defense Minister Kurt Von Schleicher a key figure in the imperial military establishment and a main backer of the present German government declared in a radio talk that he is firmly opposed to military dictatorship after Berlin and Brandenburg were freed from martial law.
Eighty three carmen of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad former Gillespie and Beard shop workers laid off in 1929 vote to file a million dollar suit for back wages and damages, alleging breach of contract. The filing follows long dispute and aims to recover owed sums.
Predictions said voting could end in deadlock while the defense minister argued dictatorship was impossible since only a government with the broadest basis of the people could exist.
Mrs. Ed ward Greathouse, 45, mentally ill for years, killed herself with a shotgun at her home near Cowen. A five-year-old son found the body and alerted neighbor Mrs. W. F. Hollister. The Webster county sheriff and coroner ruled the death a suicide without a formal inquest.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, amid intense official duties in Albany, informs the House of Delegates he cannot accept its invitation to make a van address. The message notes the press of state business and his regret at missing the engagement.
In Wheeling on July 27 Eva Croy 55 fired a shotgun at three berry pickers on land next to hers. None were hit as she said she fired into the air. She was held on $500 bail for grand jury action.
Bluefield American Legion Junior baseball team defeated Hinton 14 to 2 to win the sixth and seventh districts championship. They advance to face St. Mary’s Junior Legion at St. Mary’s Friday to begin a Southern division championship series.
New York reports that after an uncertain morning the stock market regained momentum on bullish stimulation. Steels showed weakness for a period as traders digested the June quarter report of U.S. Steel.
John Barton Payne head of the American Red Cross will speak here Monday evening August 1 in connection with the sixth school of missions in session. Citizens from the Tablelands and Alleghenies join a special session at the Park with Mountain Lake Institute. Special music features the sessions and a pioneer jubilee is planned at Mount Storm on Route 50 next Sunday.
White Mall Maryland July 27 two thousand dollars was stolen from the vault of the White Hall Bank by a negro and a white man as the bank opened Harold Es sor manager and Miss Lida Slade assistant were held up and the robbers escaped in an auto Within an hour a negro identified by officers as one of the pair was captured in a nearby swamp by a posse After the capture no funds were found on the man who said he was forced to accompany the white man and was later driven from the car.
William Olerich of Washington went to Baltimore to buy a truck and tucked 2900 dollars in his shoe. A $1000 bill slipped out and disappeared while police traced the money to James Allen, who admitted finding the cash and spending about 150 on new clothes before surrendering the rest after Olerich declined to prosecute.
Parsons July 27, Garrett Summerfield of Mackeyville driver of the car in which Mrs Ella Comstock of Hendricks was killed Monday waived preliminary hearing and was held in Tucker County jail in default of 2000 bond for the September grand. Two other passengers Otis Fansler and Martin Kisa Moré, both of near here, were fined for intoxication on the public highway. The hearings were held as Mrs Comstock was being buried at Hendricks.
Attorney and Mrs. Hugh R. Warder of Lincoln street announce the birth of a son on Monday night at their home. This is their second child. Mrs. Warder was Miss Rosalie Tierney, daughter of the late J. F. Tierney, formerly of 663 Beech street.
Elkins, July 27. Paul Melnick, 45, of near Shinnston, who served a year and a half at Atlanta federal prison, pleaded guilty to liquor safekeeping and was sentenced to four years in Atlanta by Federal Judge William E. Baker.
Primo Garnera giant Trilian heavyweight fought his first U S appearance since Europe. He scored a technical knockout over Jack Gross of Philadelphia in the seventh round of a scheduled ten round bout at Ebbets Field. Cantera weighed 268 pounds and Gross 206 1 2. Malaria causes 2,000,000,000 deaths worldwide each year. The oldest town is said to be Tepe Gawre ruins in northern Mesopotamia.
Kiel Germany July 27 a group of buoys marked the spot where 69 German naval cadets drowned when the Niobe a three mast windjammer training ship sank in Kiel Bay during a squall. The youths were trapped at their desks in the schoolroom between decks as the vessel went down in eleven fathoms of water.
A summer menu lists jellied ham, potato salad, bread, plums, pineapple, sour cream spice cake and tea. A Baltic Sea disaster report describes the German naval trainer Niobe sinking near Kiel after a gale-borne thunderstorm, with 69 lives lost and 37 cadets among the dead, survivors rescued by the steamer Therese Russ and transferred to the Koeln, amid uncertainty about additional survivors.
A man was charged with years and five months on the accusation of killing his brother Albert Putnam Chamberlin and concealing the dismembered corpse.
Richmond Virginia dispatch reports the pardon of 77 year old Dr. W. Chamberlain for the murder of his brother. The governor granted a conditional pardon directing custody to his daughter Mrs. Clayne Axford of Wheatland Wyoming. Chamberlain has served 14 years.
In Saratoga Springs New York July 27 a flood of coins poured from a hidden preserve jar in the wrecked residence of Harry Pattee former president of the General Carbonic Gas Company of New York. Police halted the treasure hunt as investigators claimed state ownership and estimated the hoard at up to 500000.
London July 27 A request by George Lansbury head of the Parliamentary Labor party to seek intervention by the Pope Archbishop of Canterbury the chief rabbi and the Preschurch president was rejected by most religious leaders The archbishop said Prime Minister MacDonald had done all possible and intervention at this time would be inadvisable The Pope had not yet replied
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