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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1935
Page
7
A draft of proposed changes by operators was sent to the United Mine Workers for consideration. Union members were warned to avoid law violations or public disturbance. The notice urges orderly procedure and good judgment as the strike planning fixes a midnight start on June 16 across the soft coal fields, excluding Canada.
Old MGM Picture Mona Leslie faces pursuit by Bob Harrison, then elopes. At the Harrison home, Harrison Sr declares Bob an enemy for jilting Josephine Mercer. Mona befriends Josephine, Ned Riley disapproves, and tension rises as Josephine announces engagement to Ralph Watson. Bob becomes menacing while the party drifts apart.
In a bustling race day setting, Josephine marries Ralph amid relieved fanfare mocking Bob’s heartbreak. Bob confesses love for Josephine in a tense billiard room confrontation as Mona faces a choice between loyalty and romance.
Paramount drama features Richard Barthelmess as an escaped convict hiding in a theatre audience. A cloakroom boy thief and a rich woman with a lover propel tangled lives toward a stopping climax as the criminal is captured.
Monogram Pictures crew filmed from a balloon suspended 3000 feet above Southern California mountains. William Cagney and June Collyer star in Lost in the Stratosphere with Eddie Nugent aiding control of the weather probe. Melville Brown directed the camera work for the Opera House feature opening tomorrow.
Distinguished Western star John Wayne headlines Sundays at the Opera House in Riders of Destiny the first film in Lone Star Productions eight film Western series. Wayne born in Winterset Iowa educated in Glendale California and USC. He played football at college before entering acting via Raoul Walsh and Fox studios.
Wayne wed Josephine Saenz daughter of Dr. Joseph Saenz Southern California consular representative for Santo Domingo and Panama in a socially prominent ceremony.
Strand Theatre presents Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Reckless opening Sunday starring William Powell and Jean Harlow. Randall, a renowned dance director, joins as Harlow's dancing partner in a lavish musical sequence. The film features Broadway stage life, Westchester society, race tracks, carnivals, mansions, yachts, and other elite settings.
Washington May 31 A producer committee prepared proposed alterations to the Guffey coal stabilization bill and sent them to Senator Guffey for attorney review by the United Mine Workers of America. The revisions reportedly drop the national coal reserve and production allocation features, pending union acceptance.
Sheriff Lee E. Bennett announced the nine percent penalty for delinquent taxes went into effect on all uncollected taxes today. The statement notes the start of the penalty period and signals enforcement steps by local authorities.
More than 80 percent of 1934 taxes had been paid with penalties rising after June 30 to 12 percent. After July 1 the sheriff will publish a mid-summer delinquent list as ordered by the legislature. A check for 28,729.11 arrived just before the penalty period as payment of second half taxes by local utility property owners.
The victim, 30 or 35, was found with a head wound. Two black girls discovered the body with clothing shreds on a barbed wire fence and a bloodied road site suggesting the body was dragged from a car. Police and agents theorize Ellison, returning from Washington, picked up a hitchhiker who killed and robbed him then escaped in the car. Ellison’s sister is Mrs Willard, widow of Admiral Arthur L Willard. The slain man was son of the late Circuit Judge Andrews Ellison of Kirksville Missouri.
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