Grand Jury Will Probe Slaying of Young Child
Sheriff H L Myers plans to present findings from the investigation into the killing of 10 week old Haldon Fink to Prosecutor A L Hyzer for possible grand jury action. Fingerprints were taken from family members and associates for elimination as suspects as the hunt went into its second day. The body was found in a creek about 12 hours after disappearance, with investigators favoring a suffocation theory and noting a mysterious stranger seen in town as a potential lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde
H. L. Myers
Haldon Fink
A. L. Hyzer
Tryin
Fink
James Powers
Pink
Creek Myers
D. W. Philo
Myers
Ahild
Ohio
Irvin Baker
First Air Mail Flight Launches From Grafton
More than 1,000 pieces of mail weighing about 13 pounds are ready in Grafton for the debut air mail run scheduled Sunday morning June 25. Postmaster James T. Murphy announced the pick up tower near Bluemont cemetery will load mail onto the plane. Reads that nearly every state and several foreign countries are sending letters for dispatch on the first trip, with the Grafton imprint cadet aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
James T. Murphy
Bluemont Cemetery
Union
Theatre invitations for Mrs Eva Poling and others at three venues
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Eva Poling of 400 Christiana street to attend tonight's Strand Theatre showing of Society Lawyer with Walth Wardidgeon, Pardon Our Nerve with Lynn and Adventures of June den with Rosella Towne, Dou Dill at the Dixie Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Grafton Sentinel
Eva Poling
Christiana Street
Walth Jidgeon
Strand Theatre
Lynn
June den
Rosella Towne
Dou Dill
Dixie Theatre
Newlyweds Vanish From Salem Home After Wedding
Mr and Mrs Arthur Snow who wed recently in Salem Massachusetts disappeared from their Marblehead born bride Virginia Anderson s home leaving many unopened wedding gifts Their note read Called away one mercy a matter of life and death Authorities fear the couple may have met a tragic end
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Arthur Snow
Salem
Mass
Virgina Anderson
Marblehead
Federal help offered to idle miners in West Virginia
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to distribute surplus food to miners in Fayette Raleigh and McDowell counties who did not return to work after employers did not sign union shop contracts with United Mine Workers. State public assistance refused distribution, with 3 000 to 3 500 idle miners and up to 20 000 people affected. foods include butter eggs citrus fruit dry beans cornmeal wheat flour and prunes.
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Beckley
United Mine Workers
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Harry D. Elmore
FSCC
Washington
Fayette
Raleigh
McDowell
State Department of Public Assistance
UMWA
Charleston
Elmore
Appeal of Mass Killer Rejected By President
In Versailles on June 15 President Albert Lebrun denied the pardon appeal of Eugene Weidmann the mass killer of six including Jean De Koven a Brooklyn dancer but granted clemency to accomplice Roger Million converting his death sentence to life imprisonment The mother of the miner for profit slayer had pleaded for clemency before the guillotine was set to claim Weidmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
France
Albert Lebrun
Eugene Weidmann
Jean de Koven
Brooklyn
Roger Million
Million
Weidmann
Slayer
Lebrun
Two Killed In Auto Wreck Near Ashland Ky
In Ashland Kentucky at dawn a car veered off the highway and hit a rock on a hillside killing Ray Tussey thirty of Ashland and Agnes Null twenty nine of Ironton Ohio. Three other passengers suffered critical injuries. Mr and Mrs Donald Mitchell of Ironton and Elliott Prescott of Muskegon Michigan were brought to Ironton hospital in critical condition.
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Ashland
Ray Tussey
Agnes Null
Ironton
Donald Mitchell
Elliott Prescott
Muskegon
Mich
Committee Divided Over Fate of Maryland Coal Company
Taylor county circuit court heard two reports urging judicial sale of Maryland Coal company assets with operation allowed if no loss. A third member urged continued receivership and lease to a responsible operator, with sale considered only if operation or lease fails. Tax liens exceed $30,000. Continued on Page Two.
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Taylor County
Herbert W. Dent
Maryland Coal Company
Wendel
H. R. Warder
Jed. W. Robinson
Kittle
George M. Kittle
Philippi
Lienholders
Livestock Inspection Planned for July 1 Start
Charleston reports the Department of Agriculture will create public market zones June 1 with mandatory livestock inspection. Commissioner J. B. McLaughlin issued 18 market supervision and livestock grading regulations under the 1939 legislature, including cattle Bangs disease inspection and hog cholera immunization. All livestock entering zones must be handled and sold through the markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Department of Agriculture
J. B. McLaughlin
Bang
Former New York World Publisher Passes Away
Ralph Pulitzer former publisher of the New York World and heir to the Pulitzer newspaper fortune died just after his 60th birthday in New York. He had been in poor health since 1930 and had abdominal surgery May 1 at Presbyterian Hospital. Born in St Louis he began work on The World in 1900. He was twice married first to Frederica Vanderbilt Webb and later to Margaret K Leech. His wife two sons and a sister were at his bedside.
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New York
Ralph Pulitzer
New York World
Fortune
Joseph Pusig
Presbyterian Hospital
St.Louis
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Pulitzer
the World
Frederica “Vanderbilt ‘Webb
Margaret K. Leech
William 8. Moore
Former Local Man Guilty of Check Forging
Samuel Alfred Frye a 38 year old former Grafton and Clenden man was found guilty by a Harrison county jury of passing a fudged 3750 check on a Clarksburg store last March Judge Arles J Harbert delayed sentence and ordered Frye held in the county jail
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton and Clendenain
Samuel Alfred Frye
Harrison County
End of Flint Strike Prompted by State Police Action
Flint Michigan June 15 State police 100 strong dispersed a CIO UAW crowd at Fisher Body Plant No 1 after a dramatic morning surge of 800 with CIO armbands. Workers returned to General Motors plants at 7 am and a settlement with GM was claimed.
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Flint
Mich
Michigan
Briff
General Motors
Homer
Martin
United Auto Workers Union
ABL
Uaw-Cio
Fisher Body
CIO
Showers Help Advance Crops In Some Sections
The Weather bureau reports drought remains severe in extreme southwest and north and south central counties while local showers bring improving growing conditions in scattered areas. Temperatures for the week ended June 13 were slightly above normal.
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Parkersburg
Weather Bureau
Union Presses Conditions Over Trans-Pacific Shipping Plan
In San Francisco on June 15, Harry Lundegerg secretary treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific told the U S Maritime Commission the government must run a proposed trans-Pacific line under union conditions or not at all. The union is in a bitter dispute over the hiring policy for government-owned merchantmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
United States Maritime Commission
Harry Lundegerg
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Commission
Germany Held Responsible for Disasters Verdict Reversed
The Mixed Claims commission ruled Germany liable for the Black Tom and Kingsland munitions disasters before U S entry to WWI. The tribunal, with Supreme Court Justice Owen J Roberts as umpire, overturned its 1930 Hamburg decision approving the industrial accident theory. American claimants seeking up to 50 million dollars argue sabotage by German agents caused the Lehigh Valley terminal and Kingsland plant damage. Germany denies responsibility, citing accidental destruction of munitions bound for allies. The commission’s decision is continued on page four.
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Washington
Mixed Claims Commission
Germany
Black Tom
Kingsland
N. J
United States
International Tribunal
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Hamburg
New York
Lehigh Valley
Kingsland Assembly
Federal Income Surpasses Early Estimates
Washington reports that federal income today exceeded Roosevelt’s January budget projections for the year ending June 30. Officials expect the deficit to be about 500 million dollars less than the 4.072 billion dollar figure set in January, as the June 15 deadline for the second 1938 income tax installment brought in over 400 million dollars to federal collectors.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tris
Wife of Publisher Dies After Brief Illness
Mary Kathrine Shott, wife of Hugh Ike Shott Sr., publisher of the Bluefield Telegraph and Bluefield Sunset News, died after a short illness from heart ailment. Born November 25, 1871, in River Philip Nova Scotia she moved to Lynchburg Virginia at eight, married January 10, 1894, and lived in Bluefield since, apart from years when her husband served as U.S. representative for the fifth district in Washington.
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Bluefield
Mary Kathrine Shott
Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield Telegraph
Bluefield Sunset News
Hugh Ike ‘Shot, Sr
U. S
Washington
Basic Coal Price Set by U S Coal Commission
The Bituminous Coal Commission on June 15 fixed 2128 dollars per ton as the base for prices in area 1, covering the Appalachian field which accounts for about 70 percent of U S coal. National minimum prices will be set later this month but take effect only after a hearing. arrangement hinges on transfer of work to the interior department on July 1 per Roosevelt's reorganization order.
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Washington
Bituminous Coal Commission
Appalachian Field
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Com
WPA Supporters Fight Restrictions On Federal Relief Bill
Washington June 15 Leaders in the house move to preserve the federal relief program by passing a 1.716 billion dollar bill before June 30. Rep Woodrum says four major amendments are being drafted to keep the measure's form and address WPA funding, Youth Administration budget, construction caps and state administration options.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep
Woodrum
Virginia
Ipanea
Bradley
House Appropriations Committee
National Youth Administration
Judge Sentences Close Friend to Prison Term
MOUNDSVILLE June 15 Judge James F Shipman sentenced a close friend and former deputy state tax commissioner to the maximum of 10 years in prison for embezzlement. Frank P Ross pleaded guilty to one of 17 indictments for embezzling 1308.86. Prosecutor J W Rickey said the State Tax department reported a loss of 12091.42.
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Moundsville
James F. Shipman
State Tax
Frank P. Ross
J. W. Rickey
State Tax Department
Royal Couple Sail Tonight
Nova Scotia welcomed the royal visitors with a loud roar as the Brittanic majesties moved through the province on the final Canadian stop before boarding the liner Empress of Britain tonight for Newfoundland and home to England. The tour lasts 30 days.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
Newfoundland
England
Pictou
Prince Edward Island
School Chief Probing Abuse of Jewish Youth
Baltimore June 15 The city school superintendent held a closed inquiry for 18 high school students suspended after Melvin Bridge 14 a Jewish youth reported a letter H branded into his neck. The inquiry was not a hearing and results were not to be made public.
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Baltimore
David E. Weglein
Melvin Bridge
Weglein
Murray McNabb
Howard W. Jackson
Jackson
Solons Won't Allow Repeal Threat in Round Robin
Twenty-one senators sign a challenge to neutrality law refusing any repeal of the arms embargo. They argue that an open alliance with Britain France Russia or Japan would be more honest than selling munitions to sea-controlling nations during wartime. Hull urges repeal as Bloom bill advances, permitting munitions sales when neutrality invoked.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Russia
Japan
Hull
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Horseshoes Disappear One Slain In Barnyard Golf Feud
PHELPS Kentucky June 15. An argument over missing horseshoes at a country store escalated to gunfire. Store owner John Riddle 33 was shot and killed. Howard Hurley 44 was shot in the abdomen and listed in critical condition at Williamson hospital. Hurley’s three sons were held for questioning by Pike County officers.
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Phelps, Ky
John Riddle
Williamson
Howard Hurley
Pike County
Hurley
Court Directs Sale Sought in Poe Suit over Westerman Property
Mrs. Pearl E Poe sues in Taylor county circuit court seeking a court directed sale of property in Westerman near Thornton owned by her husband Grover Cleveland Poe and Robert T Travis administrator of John Mays estate. Attorney Eugene Sommerville represents Poe. The bill requests sale proceeds be awarded to Poe who claims she contributed 300 of her own funds to the property.
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Westerman
Thornton
Pearl E. Poe
Taylor County
Grover Cleveland Poe
Robert T. Travis
John Mays
Eugene Sommerville
Poe
Tension across Far East row as barricades face troops
In Tientsin on June 16 British and Japanese troops faced each other behind barricades. British Consul General Jamieson demanded immediate steps to end searches of British subjects and ships in the Hain river. He cited incidents of two British soldiers searched in uniform and called for an end to Japanese interference with British shipping and the concession exits.
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Teintsin
Edgar G. Jamieson
Hain
Tientsin
Jamieson
Hain River
War orders to aid business in Pittsburgh area
The Post-Gazette says between 30 million and ? million in educational war orders may be released to Pittsburgh plants to aid defense production during a national emergency. Pitts burgh industries are expected to be called upon by the War department under the ece program to support ordnance and chemical warfare materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
the Post-Gazette
War Department
Spain
Invitation to Tonight's Double Feature at Opera House
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs A R Kinseley of 6 East Wilford Street to attend tonight's double bill at the Opera House. The program presents Fighting Thoroughbreds featuring Mary Carlisle and Ralph Bird and Prairie Justice starring Bob Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Grafton Sentinel
A. R. Kinsely
Wilford Street
Mary Carlisle
Ralph Bird
Bob Baker
Opera House
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Grand Jury
Tot
Strand
Dixie
Maryland Coal Company Holdings
Circuit Court
AFL
Maritime Union
Frises
Reich
Roberts
Isend
U.S. Coal Commissioners
WPA
Hier
Appropriations Committee
George
Elizabeth
Solons
Topota Hespi
Far East Row
Chamberlain
Britain
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