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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1934
Page
6
Virginian license plates 60 243 car owned by N Locke and stored at 333 West Washington Street disappeared overnight. Police search underway as Mrs Locke and Ralph Kunst Jr recall last sighting around 11:30 p m to 1:15 a m.
Fried mans bid to remain on the local welfare board pits him against Miss Marie Neidelhoffer the district administrator who accuses him of lacking qualifications and sympathy while the board endorses him. Tensions highlight a broader clash with state welfare administration over local control and staffing practices.
Funeral services were held this afternoon for Robert A. Scranage 14 of Pruntytown pike after typhoid fever with Rev. Millard Stump officiating and burial at Harmony Grove cemetery. Funeral rites for Mrs Hannah Colebank 63 of Knottsville road set for Sunday 2:30 from Knottsville Methodist Episcopal church with Bartlett Funeral Company in charge.
The article explains lower interest on Land Bank and Commissioner's loans at 5 percent, 4.5 percent until 1938, plus bank loans at 6.5 percent with a 5 percent reduction to 1938. Direct and Commissioner's loans shift to government guaranteed bonds from March 26, exempt from most taxes, fully guaranteed by the U.S. government, selling above par and speeding refinancing nationwide.
Mooney, jailed on a continuing charge, asked President Roosevelt to intercede with Governor Merriam. He cited prior clemency efforts by Wilson to obtain a retrial and said he would welcome a pardon rather than parole. Mooney emphasized no parole request has been made, and noted a 1932 retrial after acquittal by a San Francisco judge.
Chicago on June 9 police report at Grand Crossing police station describes Al Simmons and his wife Thelma, both colored, as participants in a case referencing a king Solomon idea still workable with unclear details.
A heated dispute over custody escalated until Desk Sergeant William Keith recalled a Bible tale. He proposed cutting the baby in half to settle the matter, prompting Al and Thelma to relent. The father offered the child to the mother, while the father would still visit.
Jacob A Peterson of Buckhannon was fined five dollars and costs when arraigned before Magistrate Ona C Jefferys for a road violation. A rear wheel failed on May 31 en route to Baltimore with produce and chickens. Peterson left the truck on a dangerous curve for eighteen hours after multiple warnings. Trooper W G Wamsley of the state police reported five notices to move the vehicle amid a risk of wreck.
Miss Irene Poole, a Fairmont State College graduate, has been selected by the local FERA board to attend a six week training course for social workers at Marshall College Huntington starting June 11. The program, funded by the state welfare board, allows each FERA office to send a representative on full pay while students cover their own expenses.
Greenwood Mississippi June 9 judge S F Davis overruled a motion for a new trial for Dr Sarah Ruth Dean convicted of poisoning Dr Preston Kennedy. Dean was admitted to bond pending appeal.
The acting Mayor W. P. Withers ordered three recent inmates from the local transient center to depart the city this morning. Patrolmen Clarence Silman and John Moran arrested them last night on intoxication complaints after they entered pleas of guilty at arraignment. D. J. Muniz, of Clarksburg, was fined $5 and costs on a charge of peddling safety razors without a license, with arrest by Patrolman Homer Selvey.
Paris reports Jenny Dolly of the Dolly sisters was fined 750000 dollars and given a three day suspended jail term for evading luxury tax on a 51 fret diamond ring bought in Cannes in 1928. The ring valued at 4 000 000 francs, about 200 dollars then, would have carried a 32500 dollar tax. Dolly testified her secretary, now dead, handled the transaction.
Mr and Mrs Gene W Ford and son Layne returned from Elkins where Layne attended and graduated from Davis and Elkins College. They also were in Lexington Virginia for Washington and Lee University commencement where Layne earned Bachelor of Laws after a three year law program.
In Lambert Mississippi an armed mob of about 125 white men seized two young Negroes, Joe Love and Isaac Thomas, from Sheriff W T Haynes and deputies and hanged them from a small highway bridge. The victims, about 25, were taken after an alleged assault attempt on a white woman. District Attorney Greek Rice arrived with deputies to seek mob leaders. The bodies were found hanging from the bridge, necks broken, near a gutted ravine. Love was from Columbus and Thomas from Carrollton. The case prompted security concerns as the mob blocked routes and dispersed toward Clarksdale, with deputies noting efforts to move prisoners to Jackson for incarceration.
Officers at Clarksdale report Sheriff Haynes telephoned that no jail space was needed for two negroes as he stated he had been relieved of them.
In Dedham Massachusetts on June 9 1930 three men the Millen brothers Morton and Irving and Abe Faber were found guilty of first degree murder for killing patrolman Forbes McLeod during the February robbery of Needham Trust Company. The death penalty by electric chair awaits state review with an appeal planned. A crowd of about two thousand gathered as verdicts were read with cheering noted.
The Amalgamated Association's convention committee denounced General Johnson for insulting steel workers at the Garment Workers' convention. Talks with NRA administrator Hugh Johnson about a steel labor board aimed to avert a threatened steel strike, with relations showing some improvement by today. Johnson spoke to the Chicago gathering by telephone from Washington.
Scattered profit taking followed yesterday's sharp bulge but was well absorbed while dullness settled in after mild selling. Nervousness lingered over the steel labor situation as the close remained fairly steady. Transfers about 700,000 shares.
In Belington on a Thursday crowd of 800 welcomed Mrs. Roosevelt. Omer E. Phillips reported a purse stolen from his pocket containing $12.50 and other valuables. No trace of the thief yet.
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