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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
4
The Grafton Sentinel is a weekday paper from Grafton West Virginia with office addresses at Latrobe Street and Grafton Print Shop. Communications to the editor are welcomed if signed, nonobscene, and offered for discussion of matters of general interest.
The Amery prison camp at Lichfield England is linked to brutalities reported on prisoners. The commandant, accused of harsh methods, faces court martial. A sergeant at the camp has already been convicted. Similar brutality parallels are drawn with civilian prisons and police practices in America.
Sunday observances urged funds for a two million dollar war relief drive. Parishioners were offered meal plans to mimic world hunger, including a sample 500 calorie diet with soup bread water or a lighter option with egg beans potato greens fat and skim milk. The exercise aimed to teach internationalism and brotherhood beyond sectarian lines.
The piece notes Biro-Bidjan in Eastern Siberia north of Manchuria as a land of vast room and resources with 10,000,000 acres and a 1936 census population of 65,000 including only 18,000 Jews. It contrasts its potential for settlers with the current low Jewish presence and extends into social critique on reconversion, brain inflation, and international perceptions of Russia.
The message notes a cumulative quality in right living that grows in splendor like the dawn. It compares the path of the righteous to a shining light that shines brighter toward the perfect day, presented by Press Radio Bible Service in Cincinnati Ohio.
Washington observers note A F Whitney pledges to spend the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen treasury to defeat Truman, but Hatch Act limits and director approval likely bar such use. Labor may back liberal Democrats instead, while John L Lewis failed to sway miners for Dewey or Willkie.
A humorous note claims Winston Churchill received two white kangaroos as pets. It recalls his wartime travel between Washington and London, jokes about commuting and a lighthearted scene of political quips, misprints, and playful absurdities.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin used a blunt Bournemouth speech to condemn the Palestine policy and outline a two fisted Paris conference plan. He rejected 100000 Jewish immigration to Palestine and warned he would sign separate peace treaties if Paris talks fail, aligning with Byrnes on no veto for peace and US UN involvement. He noted Anglo American unity on the issue despite tough rhetoric.
New York reports that the Pot O Gold giveaway show faces revival on an unspecified network after its 1939 1941 NBC run. Sponsors dispute propriety while NBC CBS and ABC schedule tonight’s lineup including Meredith Willson Music Abbott and Costello and Gordon Bennett. A meteorology note defines drizzle as uniform water droplets under one fiftieth of an inch.
In a tense aftermath Brenda’s death unsettles the scene as Inspector Barry and Hunt Berwick navigate questions of motive and means. The killer’s disguise and a tip from Loring Prentiss expose a web linking Polly Woodford’s estate and Brenda’s apartment sale while Jane confronts guilt and fear.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions powdered milk by ARC for undernourished children at recess, a malaria death estimate of 3,000,000 globally, and a stray remark on tropopause and education. Content is inconsistent and lacks coherent narrative or dates.
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