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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1939
Page
6
The past week at the Recreation Center showcased a successful program for developing playground leaders. Courses covered arts and crafts, game technique, child psychology, and playground administration to boost self expression and leadership, guided by J Bernard Dryfield Virginia Watkins and Carl.
Eighteen year old Beatrice Wood was held without bail on an abduction charge after admitting taking five month old Gerald McCrohan from his carriage while the mother shopped. The baby was returned unharmed after detectives found him with her claimed sweetheart Frederick Bauers. Wood sobbed that she did not mean to steal the child to wed him. The father urged punishment to protect other children.
Real estate listing offering a 65 acre farm with a completely remodeled one room modern house, electric furnace, bath, electric hot water, hardwood floors. Includes phone contact 926312 for inquiries.
F R. B. Shrout serves as president of the Welch division of the McDowell County Chamber of Commerce, highlighting local business leadership in the region.
West Main Street Church Sunday School board plans summer teachers training with Rev E L Lowery teaching The Worker and His Bible and Kenneth Robinson teaching Methods of Teaching. Any teacher may enroll by applying and buying the text. Also observes Children's Day on the fourth Sunday in June. A unified morning worship will precede class sessions.
Public meeting in Elkins held by the Chamber of Commerce to oppose the Baltimore and Ohio plan to withdraw two passenger trains. One route Elkins to Charleston and another Grafton to Elkins. Protest was decided on.
UK newspapers weigh diving bell feasibility after Squalus disaster off Portsmouth on May 23 where 26 men died and 33 were saved. Critics question reliance on experts and note Thetis voyage risks. Some papers highlight hull remained afloat yet no survivors, save four via Davis lung apparatus.
Mrs. Susan Burdett Powell widow of Jasper Cather Powell and former Grafton resident died about 2 PM yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Harry Pressley Robinson in Fairmont. Born March 28 1846 in Fauquier County Virginia she settled in Graf ton in 1876 moving to Fairmont in 1906. She survived by her daughter Lora Powell Robinson and granddaughter Mildred Robinson Carroll of Chicago. Burial planned here.
Agnes Osborn 28 a nurse from Staten Island is arrested in the Cop shooting case involving Patrolman Emmett Cassidy. She hides her face as she exits police headquarters after she says Cassidy's gun went off while she was recounting alleged loving advances following a party.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in the home of her daughter. Rev Hugh D. Pickett, pastor of the First Baptist church, will conduct the rites. Burial will follow in Bluemont cemetery in Grafton by R. C. Jones.
Wives and sweethearts of seamen gather by the docks near the Thetis wreck in Liverpool. Salvation Army workers distribute toffee and food as the crowd waits and hopes for news. Women cry, men pace, and a grim, silent mood hangs over the scene.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for George William Moore Hooff a 79 year old druggist who also served as mayor chief of police and councilman in Point Pleasant The notice lists his varied public roles and the scheduled services for the local community.
The text notes dissatisfaction among senators about full representation, referencing a luncheon where senate wives praised Mrs. John Nance Garner to influence the vice president. It mentions Mrts and an intercession, with a brief line about Sir Ronald as a guest of honor.
At a luncheon in the capital, the ambassador agreed to extend invitations to the entire Senate and all senatorial wives, after a recommendation by the vice president and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Republicans stand to gain as earlier plans limited invitations to seven, while most House members remain uninvited due to the large guest list.
The Thetis remains one of the year’s grave submarine accidents. The Squalus rescue efforts ended with 33 saved by a diving bell while air pressure and trial dives drew out hopes. British admiralty reported 98 aboard, including seven new civilian technicians, as salvage work continued.
Reports from Cammell Laird and the British admiralty described abandoned hope for most of the four men trapped in the submarine Thetis off Great Orme. Salvage efforts focused on raising the stern while oxygen was dwindling. A British spokesman noted only a faint glimmer of signals could exist, but survival seemed unlikely.
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