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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
2
Frank Gomez, 28, confesses stabbing his fiancée Katherine Nauer, 17, then claims he saw a man assaulting a woman near Brighton Massachusetts. The woman’s body is found later in a burning car in a remote Watertown area.
New York radio listings show June 6 features Clifton Fadiman hosting Information Please on WEAF NBC and a roundtable at the University of Chicago with H V Kaltenborn and Dr Mortimer Adler addressing Have We Time to Think. Willkie speaks tonight on NBC CBS and WJZ with programs including Vox Pop and Red Cross. The schedule lists Rudy Vallee Bing Crosby Dorothy Thompson and a 56th Woodmen of the World anniversary plus a Toronto Promenade Symphony and a shipboard concert.
In a private session Dies Committee members declare a large Soviet spy ring operates in the United States. Nicholas Dozenberg, a Russian military police agent, is jailed for passport fraud. Margaret Rasch, 21, and John O Leary were found wounded in Central Park New York with Rasch dying and O Leary near death. Notes suggest they planned suicide due to blocked marriage.
Harry A. Cad Dow testified before the House Ways and Means Committee that more sales tax is needed to raise 656 million dollars annually for five years to finance a proposed increase in the federal debt limit. National defense programs require the extra funds.
National Open golf at 6 15. MBS 1 WOR symphony. 8 30 Gould music. Pepper on Allies policy at 10 15. NBC CBS WEAF NBC morning blocks. Light of the World serial and Vic and Sade. Li l Abner and Hedda Hopper. Farm and Home hour. Josef Honti concert. Alma Kitchell briefcase. Lafayette college commencement at 10 30. Belmont Park race at 3 45.
A historical radio timetable lists Gen in the World W210 and multiple station lineups across WMO and NBC networks. It notes orchestras led by Dick Stabile, Richard Himber, Kay Kyser, Freddie Martin, Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, and Eddy Duchin among others with times and station calls such as WMMN KDKA NBC CBS and WWVA.
Dr Logan Clendening answers reader questions on why fruit juices irritate acid dyspepsia and how they become alkaline salts in the intestine. He notes summer vaccination is safe with precautions and urges timely immunizations, plus details five pamphlets offered by the doctor for ten cents each.
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