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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1939
Page
7
Saint Igor Cassini 22, a Washington newspaper columnist and grandson of a former Russian ambassador, was abducted after a Warrenton country club event. He was tarred and feathered, released to a farmhouse, then taken to a hospital with no serious injuries found.
Robert C. Townsend, 26, national secretary treasurer of the Town send movement, was designated by 11 000 delegates at a national convention in Indianapolis to succeed his father Dr. Francis E. Townsend when the pension plan founder can no longer serve. Relatives feared for the matron’s safety after she had not been heard from for over a month.
Federal officials announce that reading and conservative Ise Jones of Texas, a silverhaired chief of the Reconstruction corporation, has been picked by President Roosevelt to head the new Federal Loan Agency. Under Jones he would consolidate the nation’s leading agency as part of a broad plan for government reorganization.
State police seek James Monroe Smith former LSU head to confront a special grand jury over a university funds shortage reported as several hundred thousand dollars. Governor Lewin, set to resign, stays in office pending affair resolution.
Austin Street businessmen in Forest Hill hosted a party for WPA speed workers in honor of their hard work widening the street ahead of schedule. At the sandwich table were Arthur Baldwin William Comerford and John M Carmody chief of the Rural Electrification Administration named by President Roosevelt to lead the Federal Works Administration one of three new agencies created to merge overlapping bureaus.
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