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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1933
Page
3
Society editor Coral Parrish Montgomery reports on local events and social happenings. Phone contact listed for society notes submissions.
A June 8 1933 wedding at the Lutheran parsonage Wheeling joined Miss Mary Louise Hawkins daughter of Ray B Hawkins and Mr Robert W Shafferman son of William M Shafferman The couple plan a honeymoon trip to Cleveland and Chicago before settling in Morgantown with a reception and best wishes from friends.
A screen actress describes daily beauty steps. She keeps a jar of cleansing cream at her dressing table to remove makeup, washes with pure unscented soap, rinses with hot water, cold rinse, dries with a towel, and applies powder sparingly.
Local residents share visits and trips. Mr and Mrs Ray Bolyard and others toured Seneca Caverns. William Wolfe and family visited Morgantown. Mrs Ethel Custer heads to Wesleyan College. Oliver Montgomery improves after erysipelas. Davis Evans to Morgantown summer school. Various relatives visit Graf ton from Louisville, Annapolis, Morgantown, and Dayton.
Baltimore June 12 Mrs Janice Burns Mick 33 brunette divorcee faces murder charges in the slaying of her husband Lonnie Mick at the Mick estate near Darlington Harford county The prisoner may seek release from Belair jail today on a writ of habeas corpus Sheriff Reese Bowman said she would consult counsel to plan release Mick was struck by two bullets one causing a superficial wound the other a fatal arterial bleed She told authorities she shot after her husband attacked her following a trip to Lancaster Pa Her counsel Edward Holland said no definite steps have been planned for release and a petition would be filed with Judge W Walter Preston of Harford Circuit Court
Chicago reports ongoing efforts by prohibition leaders to defend state laws as the 18th amendment repeal debate continues. Fred K L Squires of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation says retention measures will target remaining wet states and push restoration where repeal has occurred.
The article notes that many states have repealed or retained laws within the past year. It lists twenty nine states with either statutory or constitutional prohibitions, including Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Charleston June 12 Ninety percent of American Legion members favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. West Virginia commander Hetz Pownall urges Legion members to vote June 27 and to work to maximize repeal support, citing official Legion publication the Legionnaire.
Mr and Mrs Frederick L Thompson of Akron Ohio welcome their baby daughter born this morning at the home of Mrs T M Deegan on Maple Avenue The infant is unnamed and Mrs Thompson was formerly Miss Blanche Deegan of the city
Washington on June 12 reports a survey showing key measures likely to reach the White House before adjournment. The list includes the industrial recovery public works bill, the independent offices bill with veterans' compensation cuts, the 3.5 billion fourth deficiency appropriation, the Hawaiian governorship bill, and a 25 million government reorganization proposal set to take effect in 80 days unless both branches disapprove. Other items like Glass-Steagall reform and various bankruptcy, arms embargo, and oil controls bills are in doubt or unlikely to pass before adjournment.
Charleston reports police investigate the origin of Charles Phillips, 64, a Rupert resident in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, who resembles the famed Charlie Ross kidnapping case. Authorities note Ross vanished in 1874 and became a national sensation, linking Phillips to a possible long-lost parentage mystery.
Sergeant Jay Rowe cites a long-ago tale linking a man raised as Phillips to the 1874 Charlie Ross kidnapping. An elderly caregiver recalls receiving a boy from Craigsville via a Captain Walters near Staunton, with two men in a buggy allegedly taking him home. The Ross family mystery centers on a birthday and identity hints.
In Charleston on June 12, Bernard E. Williams, 37, of Montgomery, was shot to death in a London restaurant. State police ordered his wife held for a preliminary hearing after she claimed he shot himself during a quarrel.
The article describes a rose pink crepe gown with dull finish contrasting short gray fox sleeves and a velvet flower adornment. It notes form fitting lines, a single ornament, and conventional placement of flowers. Paris favors a tight evening skirt with low circular flounce and ripple flare.
The text details a bread salad recipe with lettuce, hard boiled eggs, onion, and dressing, plus buttered bread assembly. It also lists a sugar cookie dough method with butter sugar sour cream almond extract nutmeg and baking. A ham carving dish uses ham, celery, onions, egg yolks and a creamy sauce.
Four people died and three injured in a Bayard crash south of Georgetown. A truck driven by Lee Morgan collided with Walter Hudson's automobile near Williamsville. The deceased include Annie Hudson 19 Walter Jester 9 Winona Hudson 11 and Annie Tubbs 55. Mrs Tubbs died later in Lewes Hospital. Morgan was held on a manslaughter charge.
The board of trustees names Dr. Paul H. Peterson of Minnesota as a research fellow in plant pathology and Dr. Elizabeth Dyer of Yale as instructor in chemistry at the University of Delaware in Newark.
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