Grafton Junior Chamber Reorganized Elects Lynch President
A. Carl Lynch was elected president of the Grafton Junior Chamber of Commerce at a reorganization meeting succeeding Francis L. Warder. Delmer Heck becomes vice president with Dr. Robert Gerkin secretary and Arthur Dean treasurer. A civic activity push includes war stamps and bonds sales and relocating the information booth to the courthouse square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Gerkin
Arthur Dean
Abe Tackett
Hubert Parrish
Mason Tucker
J. Paul Murphy
John Booth
E. F. Sampson
Richard Robey
Chamber of Commerce
Blueville
State Road Commission
Merca
B and O Handles Over 65 Thousand Carloads
Carloads handled by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the week ending June 13, 1942 totaled 65 696. Of these 40 269 were loaded on line and 25 427 received from connections. The week shows a rise of 2 073 from the prior year while the week ended June 6 fell to 71 506. 1930 figures for the same period show 66 233 carloads. Also note 3 805 1941 grade crossing accidents caused 310 deaths and 1 908 injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Two Grafton Nurses Ordered to Active Duty
Lieutenants Dorothy D. Dye and Phyllis A. Parlow both of Grafton have been ordered to active duty effective July 1. They will report to Billings General Hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy D. Dye
Walnut Street
Phyllis A. Parlow
Lincoln Street
Grafton
Fifth Corps
Fort Hayes
Ohio
Billings General Hospital
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Walters Dies After Illness at 56 in Fairview
George N. Walters aged 56, formerly of Parkview, died at his Fairview home in Marion county after two years of poor health. A native of Mannington, he moved to Grafton in 1923 and worked at Carr China pottery until illness forced retirement. Survived by his second wife Goldie Flaharty and seven children, two sisters, and funeral plans pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George N. Walters
Parkview
Fairview
Marion County
Mr. Walters
Mannington
Grafton
Carr China
Pearl Evans
Goldie Flaharty
Howard D. Walters
Washington, D. C
Genevieve C. Perry
Washington, Pa
Curtis F. Walters
Charles W
Harold Walters
Altoona B. Lang
Paul O. Walters
Morgantown
Margaret Lavelle
Dee Currey
South Grafton Man Is Fined Five Dollars For Assault
Frank H. Savina of South Grafton pleaded guilty to assault before Justice Ona C. delferys and was fined five dollars plus costs, then released. His wife Clara M. Savina, seeking the couple’s seven month old baby, was told the justice had no jurisdiction and to contact the prosecuting attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Savina
South Grafton
Clara M. Savina
Justice of the
Ona C. Delferys
Savina
British Stop Signals New Libya Battle Line Shift
British pursuit and retreat maneuvers anchor the line in Libya as the Eighth Army shapes its position near Acroma El Adem and Sidi Rezegh amid the fourth week of intensified fighting. Axis traps are avoided and two divisions withdraw to stabilize the extended front near Tobruk and the Egyptian border amid heat and sandstorms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acroma
el Adem
Sidi Rezegh
Tobruk
Ain el Gazala
Britain
Eighth Army
Libya
Entire Force On Standby In North Africa Theater
The report discusses an enlarged Allied command and a separate force operating with the RAF, with London sources warning that supplying Malta is hazardous yet essential. It notes that neutralizing Malta would ease Axis supply lines to North Africa, as convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria faced heavy air attacks from Axis bases in Sardinia Sicily Pantelleria Crete and Libya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RAF
London
Malta
North Africa
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Sardinia
Sicily
Pantelleria
Crete
Libya
Rossi Reg Now No 1 On New Selective List
Antonio Rossi of Flemington holds serial number U4 in the fourth registration for men aged 45 to 65. The Sentinel publishes the provisional list of 1,946 registrants in installments. individuals here may be called for war work but are not liable for military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antonio Rossi
Blemington
Selective Service
The
Sentinel
Templeton Harrison Weaver
Box 60
Grafton
West Boyd Street
Vincent Covelli
Galloway
Abe Price
Simpon
Lewis Karl Glenn
East Washington Street
Cecil Dayton Springer
Flemington
Everett Bruce Moran
Simpson
Davis Wilson Reed
Rufus Lonzo Sapp
High Street
Charles Joseph Bow‘man
Morgan
Dalley Mills
Main” Street
Jack Merry Norris
West Main Street
William Russell Henderson
West Knotts Avenue
Jefferson Alexander Groves
Russell Veach Smith
West
Main Street
James William Dayton
Wilbur Compher Hall
Otha Charles Compton
C. E. Wyckoff
Thelogis Corcovilas
East Boyd Street
Edmund Hare Reppert
Ole Everett Wyckoff
Love Plaza
Mike Stell
Rosemont
Perry Denver Thompson
Third Street
Wesley J. Wilt
Bluemont Street
Benjamin ‘Joseph Rowland
West Wilford Street
Ray D. Shroyer
Nathan Charles Hall
Washington Street
Louis Henry Balke
Edward’ R. Simpson
Wendel
Richard Kirk
Tom Mayle
Arthur
Tay
James Severe
Thornton
Names with serial numbers carried in tomorrow's Sentinel
A list of residents and addresses with serial numbers 50 to 76 appears, noting that names for numbers 76 to 150 will be in tomorrow's Sentinel. Readers in Rosemont Grafton Flemington Simp son Bridgeport and other towns are referenced with multiple street addresses and routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel Fawley
Rosemont
James Riddelle Mantz
Thayer Avenue
Earl Ray Carruthers
Grafton
Alonzo Curtis Proudfoot
West
Main Street
Charles Newell Harris
Washington Street
Mike Vranish
Fred Evans Gates
Flemington
Frank Porter Lambert
Dewey Avenue
Howard Sylvanus Long
Raymond Cockrell
Wilford Street
Tony Witkowski
Richard Leo Foley
High Street
Jasper Millroy Drummonds
Robert Joseph Smith
Ira Mooney
Wendel
Jesse Lore Smallwood
Nuzum Street
Harry Rice Raislop
Charles Earl Mayle
Simpson
Elias Smith
Bridgeport
Thomas D. Moran
William .Wilson Copenhaver
Bluemont Street
William Clinton Eilers
Grand Street
Ethel J. Rash
Everett Otto Walgh
Knotts Avenue
Walter Everett Robinson
West Main Street
Roy Crayton Hebb
West Wilford Street
James L. Bailey
Thornton
Sentinel
Pick Workers for USO Drive
An intensive United Service drive begins countywide led by General Chairman Mason Tucker. The county quota is 1350 dollars with workers assigned on Main and Latrobe streets and multiple county districts including Booths Creek Pruntytown Thornton Blueville Knottsville Glade Run Lucretia Webster and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason Tucker
Baltimore and Ohio
Carr China Company
Hazel-Atlas
Reppert Coal
Riley Coal
Tucker
Main
Latrobe
Max Beall
John F. Hopkins
Richard Robey
Nell Peters
Walter Beall
Forrest Deakins
Joes Guth
P. 8.Smith
Robert C. Sloan
Booths Creek
F. N. Brooks
Elias Smith
Mary Hart
Pruntytown
Okey W. Grow
Ronald Knotts
Fetterman District
Bertha. Montgomery
R. H. Lemmons
Thornton
Goldier DeMoss
Blueville
Howard Dempsey
W. L. Towles
Knottsville
Blanche Swisher
Ada Thomas
Glade Run
John McCartney
Lucretia
Dewey Shahan
Webster
Ina Warder
Ruth Held Files Bill for Divorce from A Frank Held
Ruth Held filed for divorce in Taylor county circuit court citing cruel and inhuman treatment by her husband A Frank Held. The couple wed in Ohio on March 6 1931 and separated in Grafton on December 6 1940. There are no children and she supports herself by housework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Ruth Held
A. Frank Held
J. Guy Allender
Ohio
Grafton
Farmers urged to plan long war era farming
John Cooper of the Farm Security Administration urged small farmers, especially borrowers, to adopt long-range plans including perennial crops and home gardens that endure for five years or more. He stressed growing small fruits for canning, diversification, and dependence away from year-to-year cash farming, noting the world’s hunger and the need for American farmers to boost production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Security Administration
John Cooper
FSA
Taylor County
Cooper
Mr. Cooper
80 Students Enrolled In U B Bible School
Enrollment reaches 80 pupils at United Brethren church on Dewey avenue as two week vacation Bible school begins with courses in Bible missions and handwork. Faculty includes Mrs Sloan James Crouser Mrs Boylen Mrs Dotson Jean Bolyard Mrs Stillwell Mrs Bailey Flora Losh Anna Boylen Mrs Poling and Ida Belle Poling. Bertha Krupp’s daughter is noted for giving her name to the World War I cannon Big Bertha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
Dewey Avenue
R. ©. Sloan
James Crouser
Carl Boylen
C. F. Dotson
Jean Bolyard
A. A. Crouser
Merrill Stillwell
D. J. Bailey
Flora Lee Losh
Anna Jearr Boylen
Troy Poling
Ida Belle Poling
Funeral Services Set For Beckley Newsman
Beckley June 17 Funeral services for J Ratford Watkins 37 editor of the Beckley Raleigh Register will be held tomorrow afternoon at Augusta Ga his former home Watkins a former correspondent in charge of the Charleston bureau of the Associated Press died yesterday in the Marine hospital at Parris Island DC after an illness of four months
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
J. Ratford Watkins
Beckley Raleigh Register
Augusta
Watkins
Charleston
Associated Press
Marine Hospital
Parris Island
D. C
Friday Night Phone Ban for Countywide Test
Communications chief F R Frasher announced a Friday night blackout requiring all nonemergency telephone use to stop from 9 p m until the all clear, with division and sector leaders mobilizing workers beforehand. The Tay lor County Civilian Defense Council met at the Moose Home, reviewing orders and correcting minor errors from zone tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. R. Frasher
Civilian Defense Council
Taylor County
Moose Home
Test of blackout alert to cover county lines
Major J P Easley and Joseph Jefferson will supervise a county wide test Friday night to halt traffic after a blackout. State police and defense council heads will assist at county lines while sirens whistles and church bells sound the alert in Blueville Bronlow Park Loveland addition and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Islaid
J.P. Easley
Leston
U. S.new Mexico
Dempsey Army
Joseph Jefferson
Maritime
Wheeling
L Ion
State Council
Moose Hall
Company A
Dorsey Bal~ley
Defense Council
Hazel-Atlas
Pruntytown
Wendel
Blueville
Bronlow Park
Loveland Addition
Roosevelt Accepts Dempsey Resignation as Interior Undersecretary
President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of John J. Dempsey the interior undersecretary who plans to run for governor of New Mexico. Stephen Early said he knew nothing about the reported resignation of Francis B. Sayre the Philippines high commissioner when asked if Roosevelt had received it Sayre declined to confirm or deny and said any information must come from the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
John J. Dempsey
Interior
New Mexico
Stephen Early
Francis B. Sayre
Philippines
Fragmented wires spark bizarre tax day musings
A garbled reflection mixes war talk and odd trivia. References to Hitler, Goering rumors, a Georgia canary, a 12 year old Australian boy's troop carrier, and June tax day merge in a fragmentary, humorous tirade. The piece reads like a quirky columnist notebook.
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Grafton Junior Chamber of Commerce
A. Carl Lynch
Civic Body
Opera House
Buck Jones
Tim McCoy
Silver
Sidney Blackmer
Harry Langdon
Priscilla Lane
Robert Cummings
SUN
G. N. Walters
Welch Radio Service
Beech St
Rossi
USO
Sam
Malone’s Drug & Chemical CO
U. B. Bible School
Bertha
Friedrich Alfred Krupp
Big Bertha’ Cannon
Loar Jewelry
Denmark
Ete Oberon Douglas Pee Ter Rae Er Eee
Ath
Dempsey
Richard W. Knotts
Shateal Press
Hitler
Goering
Adolf
Malone’s Drug and Chemical CO
Marian’ Martin
Grafton Sentinigli
Pattern Department
New York