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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1931
Page
4
Notice lists advertising rates and deadlines for the office. Warnings about freight travelers and public policy commentary focus on railroads, public service corporations, and political reform. Remarks praise Pinchot and critique corporate influence in state governance, with notes on tariffs and cross-border trade effects involving Canada.
Fairfield Times reports Huntington minister Rev. J Blant Belk delivered the baccalaureate at Davis and Elkins College condemning gangster and racketeer films. He argued most such pictures are unsavory and mislead audiences about America, urging producers to cease glorifying crime to avoid driving patrons from theaters.
In a small courtroom crowd, Leck Frey hears the verdict as his wife and baby cry. The case stems from the killing of Marlon Dayton in a Bleen summer cottage on the Tygarts Valley river five months earlier. Defense lawyers Robert and Francis Warder urged that Frey acted in self defense.
Dayton fired at Leck Frey and his son Robert as they left the cottage after trailing him through snow. Frey and son say Dayton followed him armed, after breaking into Robert Frey’s home and confronting him with a flashlight and revolver. Prosecution contends Frey overstepped self defense by arming and pursuing Dayton.
The article notes Robert Frey, not charged with a felony, faces sentencing after the Marion Dayton murder case. It discusses delays and possible appeals, with Judge Kittle holding the verdict and potential prison time ranging from five to eighteen years at Moundeville State Prison.
Washington reports United States Coast Guard identification bureau chief Lawrence A. Phillips used fingerprint records to confirm Allen K. Phillips as Allen K. Phillips, a Long Island slayer known as Philip Knox Knapp. Police traced Knapp to West Orange New Jersey where he was living as Phillips after enlisting in the Coast Guard at Staten Island.
The West Virginia Justices and Can Association chose Charleston for its 1932 convention and closed the two day meeting with a motor tour in the upper panhandle district. George Hurd of Richwood was elected president, Carl Fisher of Wheeling first vice president, David McSwain of Wheeling second vice president, H. B. Clay of Charleston.
Meantime Weston and A. E. Cameron of Wheeling are noted in the opposition slate with Weston as secretary and Cameron as treasurer, indicating a split in leadership roles within the group.
Nashville June 3 debate on impeachment against Governor Henry H Horton opened in the house with Rep John Tipton saying the first of eight articles warrants indictment. The article alleges Horton conspired with Luke Lea and Rogers Caldwell to direct state departments for their financial gain in exchange for political support and newspaper influence. Other articles will be considered later. Farmers of Scotland county North Carolina cut cotton acreage 15 percent this year.
Sentinel classica states advertising rates are two cents a word for the first insertion and one cent a word for each additional insertion. Inscriptions must be consecutive and set in regular style with a 45 cent minimum. Each initial and each figure counts as one word. Example three hundred forty five equals five words.
Legal notices record orders of publication in Taylor County West Virginia. Cases involve The Merchants & Mechanics Savings Bank of Grafton v B W Auvil and others to foreclose on lots 3 4 and 5 in John L Hechmer plat. Published in Grafton Sentinel. Also liens on Cohen building complex and related parties including The New Liberty Loan and Savings Association. Bond liquidation notice for Grafton schools dated June 2 1931. Also report of C J Summers Union Bank cashier suicide in Martinsburg June 2 1931.
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