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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1931
Page
4
A garbled steel town report recounts pleas of guilty in cases heard by Judge George W. McClintic. It details multiple individuals linked to violent acts, drownings, and property disputes, with distant mentions of taxation and land value decline in West Virginia.
The fragment records advertising terms and deadlines for insertion. Rates start at 2 cents per word for first insertion with a per-word charge later. Inquiries aimed at the business office. Ads for same-day insertion must be in by 9:00 p m. An extra charge per inch applies after 9:00 a m. Removal notices due by 6:00 p m the previous evening.
A violent confrontation between miners led by the Communist National Miners Union and mine property guards at a large Western Pennsylvania mine results in a fatal wound to a striker and nine others injured. The article discusses union strategies, injunctions, and the push for autonomous local contracts within the United Mine Workers framework to avoid international interference.
Speaking of the mine strike, strong urging toward uniting Northern West Virginia miners into an autonomous district with full power to settle wage contracts and negotiate with local mines. The district would fix terms independently of any national or international authority, avoiding centralized dictatorial control.
A Rockefeller era plea for debt relief gains broad praise though legality is debated. President Hoover’s one year grace to European war debt nations is hailed as a hopeful, though legally questionable, gesture that boosts global morale and optimism amid a world gloom. Ruth Nichols faces setbacks and plans a cross Atlantic hop from St Johns to Newfoundland as her aircraft suffers damage and she recovers in hospital. Land value declines shown by Ralphsnyder sale highlight Monongalia County’s economic shifts, with the court sale price near 27000 dollars.
Ford argues that agriculture must join with industry to prosper. He notes engineers are breaking farm products into basic elements to create cheap industrial uses and insists the goal is products not just food. If successful, industry gains markets and jobs while farming gets employment.
West Virginia items report Cabell county reap-pointment of Democratic state board of control member Frank Witcher McCullough. Wheeling Public Service Company seeks authority to discontinue trolley service Elm Grove to Roneys Point. hearings run to June 26. Ed Taylor and Frank Edmondson receive ten days each on contempt charges. State auditors estimate $100000 savings under Hatfield delinquent tax relief. Huntington man Conley Stephenson, 21, drowns in Guyandot River. W H Chrisley resigns as deputy state prohibition administrator to become Beckley officer. Temperatures reach 104 before rain breaks the wave. Bluefield jail sentences total 106 years.
Officials at the Brooklyn Navy Yard announced the testing of a rescue chamber designed to extract submarine crews from sunken vessels without exposing them to severe pressure changes. The pear shaped chamber aims to offer a safer escape method for sailors in danger.
Harrisburg announces the ruffed grouse as state bird and the hemlock as state tree with a new observance replacing Pennsylvania Day. Governor Pinchot signed bills naming October 24, William Penns birthday, as the state observance.
Tokyo June 23 The American embassy filed an application seeking permission for Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh to land in Japan during their projected Far East aerial tour. The document states they expect to depart New York this summer and reach Tokyo via Alaska with Japanese officials indicating permission may be granted. Another filing requests landing rights for Reynald Robins and Harold Jones from Seattle.
In Los Angeles on June 23 a fight between two small boys led to a quarrel between their fathers. Deputies report Ignacio Quintero aged 46, father of eight, was shot dead. Officers sought Leo Garreia, accused by neighbors. Quinterro confronted Garcia about a head wound suffered by five year old Leo Quintero in a fight with Hernando Gareia.
In Magdeburg on June 23 a clash between Communists and police ended after a Communist was killed and a girl participant wounded by a bullet. The incident underscores rising tensions during the period.
Flashes of Life reports a rift among bridge authorities as Wilbur Whitehead Mitton C. Work and others sever ties with Ely Culbertson to form an organization pushing bid uniformity. Culbertson and allies vow to join. Wealthy bet offered on two-player outcomes.
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