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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1932
Page
4
The notice requests letters to the editor up to 600 words and states anonymous communications will be ignored. It also advertises classified ad rates: two cents per word for the first insertion, one cent per word thereafter, with same-day ads due by 9:00 a.m. and after-hours composition charged at 6 cents per inch. Removal orders are due by 6:00 p.m. the previous day.
Long, fragmented column notes the fading Lindbergh kidnapping saga as Jassie searches rogues galleries for John, while stressing the charitable crisis in the county. It highlights 260 plus families relying on public aid, warns of rising need, calls for public funding, reconstruction, and urgent legislative action to prevent starvation, and ends praising safety inspections and brake checks during Traffic Safety Week.
The Grafton Kiwanis Club will travel to Webster next Tuesday evening for its weekly meeting at the Webster Baptist church. Miss Mattie Jace will speak on The Flag as Flag Day is observed in the state. The Kiwanians and ladies will convene at the courthouse at 6 o'clock and drive by cars to Webster.
Mrs. Nora Bonnell Weston waitress pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the fatal January shooting of her common law husband Theodore MacDonald. Judge John C. Southern sentenced her to 18 years in the penitentiary. Bonnell, frail and ill, weighed 98 pounds and had been jailed since the night of the killing.
The Cumberland News urges officials and veterans to oppose the Washington bonus march. It argues relief funds are exhausted and concentrating unemployed people there would worsen conditions for ex soldiers and all jobless alike. It calls on officers and veterans groups to use reason to stop the movement and protect workers from added misery.
A critical view of the Bonus Marchers in Washington, arguing the protest targets unemployment policy, not theft. It claims leaders falsely accuse the government of funding banks and railroads while noting flour aid to the hungry and government credit supporting borrowing, referencing the 1932 St. Louis golf open.
The Exponent flags a seven year delay in the murder case of gangster Three-Fingered Jack White. Charged with killing a policeman in 1926, he was convicted in 1927, reversed, retried and reconvicted in 1931, then freed as the charge was finally dropped. The paper critiques the legal system's immunity from swift justice.
A fragment notes Mrs Bonnell was indicted not on the March trial date, illness delayed proceedings, and jealousy cited as motive for the McDonald slaying with Mrs Merle Watson at a Glen Elk restaurant. Court imposed sentence after the state waived the first degree count.
Cincinnati June 10 Police were ordered to eject a crowd of about 600 to 700 ex soldiers en route to Washington for a soldiers bonus payment from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad yards after officials refused transport. Leaders said they had been promised transportation and were surprised by the railroad’s sudden decision.
Police report that about $200,000 in securities for life insurance and annuities disappeared from the administrative offices at Girard Trust Company on Broad and Chestnut in Philadelphia. The items had been delivered moments earlier by the Pennsylvania company.
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza bet A Hoffman of near Simpson will be held at United Brethren Church on Dewey Avenue at 2 30 PM Saturday with Pastor Lois Luzadder in charge. Burial will be in Bluemont cemetery. Mrs. Hoffman died at the home of a son in law near Simpson on Wednesday night. The body is at the late home. Delbert Hoffman of Malden Washington cannot attend. another son Bliss Hoffman of Tam…
Sentinel classifed ad policy outlines rates two cents per word for the first insertion and one cent per word for subsequent insertions. Minimum charge is 45 cents. Each initial and number counts as one word. Ad space limited to proper classification. Errors must be reported immediately.
Detroit waits as Fleischer, tied to a three man killings case on Collingwood avenue, is postponed for Monday arraignment while New Jersey state police and federal officials plan to question him about the Linbergh case and related gangster activity.
Mrs W F Ware of Wilford St fell and sprained her ankle Monday evening. Her many friends were wishing for her speedy recovery. Miss Virginia Nutter, teacher at Shinnston High, is visiting Miss Virginia Samples of West Washington St. Mrs Orlu and Parsons of the Knootsville road underwent an appendicitis operation at City Hospital last evening. Her condition is very good.
Owens-Illinois Glass Company to run its Fairmont plant on four and six hour shifts, creating work for 200 people. Preference to former employees and men with families. An additional furnace will be fired soon.
A deed of trust dated March 3 1925 by Augustus Poe and Nora Poe secures a debt. Trustee John A Weaver will sell June 11 1932 at 2:00 PM at the front door of the Taylor County courthouse to the highest bidder the 240 acre Wickwire Creek tract in Fetterm an district bounded by Mathews Rogers Rogers and Carrothers with minerals reserved. Cash in hand day of sale. May 20 27 June 3 10.
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