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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1936
Page
1
London and Knox to confer next week on campaign type while party factions clash over platform. Hamilton named party chairman as Governor Landon and Col. Knox direct to unite the ticket. Hoover praises the ticket and platform as party lines up a no quarter drive to defeat Roosevelt.
Topeka Kansas June 13 Gov Alf Landon urged an immediate fighting campaign for the Republican presidential bid saying the party would move along the road to victory in November He welcomed running mate Col Frank Knox and members of the national sub committee and praised D M Hamilton as RNC chairman noting his hard but fair fighting style Hamitlon led the forces at Cleveland and Landon said Kansans who opposed him would verify his character Continued on page.
Lodge officers James C Holt and Herschel H Rose preside over a Flag Day service featuring the Grafton High School Band, recitation Old Glory, and a patriotic address by Francis L Warder followed by oath of allegiance.
Chesapeake and Ohio filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to sell 9.28 million dollars in trust equipment certificates to finance 5400 new freight cars. Certificates carry 2 1/4 percent interest and mature from 1937 to 1946. They were sold above par subject to IOC approval.
Dr Cyrus Maxwell, 73, of Morgantown, told West Virginia obstetricians he officiated at 3 350 births over a 40 year career. He said he attended 2 000 consecutive births without a fatality during his practice.
Four plane passengers including Jesse Jones of the RFC survived a flaming near crash after a belly landing south of Dallas. Pilots Ed Hefley and Eugene Schacher credited for saving them, praised as cool as cucumbers amid the blaze. Also aboard were former Gov. Hobby and his wife, and Joe Toomey, Jones' secretary.
In Danzig today a mass meeting under German Nationalists aimed at uniting opposition parties against the Nazi government erupted into violence. A Nazi storm trooper was killed and at least 50 others were injured as Nazis infiltrated the crowd of about 1,000, furniture smashed, chairs used as clubs, and punches and kicks flew.
John L. Lewis plans a drive to recruit up to a half million steel workers into the United Mine Workers fold. Philip Murray will direct the campaign to organize throughout the steel industry, with a June 17 Pittsburgh meeting calling organizers to mobilize.
A day of widespread storms helped end drought across the southeast with heavy rains in North and central North Carolina, northwestern South Carolina, and extreme northwestern Georgia. Eight fatalities from lightning were reported, including four killed near Cross City, Florida, when lightning struck a truck carrying eight men. Estimated relief costs stayed around 135 million dollars as crop damage was halted.
Clarksburg June 13. State party chiefs from the Cleveland convention select a state chairman and organize the executive committee. Judge Summers H. Sharp meets with Hugh Ike Shott and Vernon Johnson to discuss candidates. Hallanan optimistic on Landon carry. Continued on page eight.
Cleavenger, once semi retired after a missed flood forecast, reappears with long distance weather forecasts. He claims the moon governs rain and asserts wet weather will continue through at least the 19th when the new moon arrives.
Emergency education administrators and teachers from Barbour and Taylor counties gathered at College Hill school in Flemington. State and district supervisors were present along with Prof. H. Y. Clark of Glenville State College. Morning focused on the nursery school operations followed by a luncheon. Afternoon addresses were reported as instructive and entertaining.
Johnstown Pennsylvania suffers fresh downpour flooding as more than an inch of rain in one hour overwhelms clogged sewers. Basements fill and merchants lose stock intended to replace losses from the St Patrick’s Day flood. Creeks do not overflow this time.
CHARLESTON June 13 The planning board will present to Governor Kump a draft to make the organization permanent Chairman W P Wilson of Wheeling called a Sunday meeting at 10 a m The proposal follows the governor's call for a special legislative session to establish the board as a statutory unit Kump appointed the board last year at the request of the National Resources commission to develop industrial recreational and social plans
Nella Penuzzi, 23, manager of the Red Parrot tea room at Club Arcada, was found shot and beaten near Dunham Castle on the Dunham gravel road two miles north of St Charles. A night patrolman located the body in an exclusive residential area as Sheriff Kantmeyer continued investigations.
West Virginia United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary launch joint annual encampments in Wheeling with Arthur G. Orme of Trenton addressing the veterans and Mrs. Irma Hill Vogel of Pontiac speaking at auxiliary sessions. The encampments end Tuesday.
Albany June 13 Lieutenant Governor Bray acting governor signed extradition papers for Ellis Parker Sr chief of detectives in Burlington county New Jersey. Parker faces charges in Brooklyn linked to the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation. He lives in Mt Holly New Jersey and was indicted after the abduction probe. he later repudiated a confession claiming he kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
In St Johnsbury Vermont on June 13 Dr Francis Townsend the old age pension advocate predicted the destruction of both major parties in favor of a humanitarian program in America He arrived to begin a national campaign for any one but Roosevelt He was accompanied by Gerald J Smith a Share the Wealth promoter and former Huey Long lieutenant
Mayor William W. Voisine of Ecorse near Detroit is in hiding amid alleged threats by the Black Legion. The outspoken mayor angered the organization with a two fisted probe into its activities in Ecorse.
Springfield Massachusetts judges urge a full probe into nearly fifty suspicious deaths across Ludlow Chicopee and Indian Orchard near Springfield. Officials review insurance records as District Attorney Moriarty investigates an alleged insurance racket tied to three recent poisoning cases.
Georgia supreme court upholds an anti insurrection statute under which Angelo Herndon, a Negro communist, was sentenced to 18 to 20 years on the chain gang. The court reverses a Fulton County judge who found the statute vague. Herndon, backed by liberal groups since 1932, faces serving his term or appealing to the U S Supreme Court.
Judge A G Hughes sentenced Charles Gribble aged 23 to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assault on James O Harem elderly cobbler. Gribble escaped from the county.
John Hoban 53 of Wendel near death from a four inch stab wound above the heart in an altercation at a Wendel boarding house. Jake Klekner, also of Wendel, admitted guilt and said he ordered Hoban to leave before stabbing him. Dorsey Marple allegedly slashed Andrew Gillis a week earlier. Hoban admitted six hours after injury. infection feared. landlord Charlie Chockey present. Both Klekner and Marple placed in Taylor County jail.
Jackson's Mill West Virginia June 13 WPA Administrator F Witcher McCullough told a gathering of WPA workers that by June 1 the state organization had built 3112 miles of roads and 38 public buildings plus nine complete city water systems. Projects listed include water systems at Petersburg Keyser White Sulphur Pruntytown and other locales and 1373 miles of creek and hollow roads along with 220 miles of farm to market roads improved.
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