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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1941
Page
5
A medical society address discusses the habitual ill, the neurotic patient who seeks sickness despite normal tests. Doctors note most suffer fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, headaches, insomnia, and abdominal pain. Psychological therapy shows promise as the best approach.
The passage riffs on memory, language, and names, noting twin-like place names such as Pinsk and Minsk. It weighs protest headlines, age, and a flamboyant monarch paying Havana hotel bills, while hinting at a Broadway show joke reflecting wartime tastes.
Beckley June 28 Mrs Gusta Adkins 40 on trial as accessory in the slaying of her husband Willie Adkins. Defense expected to close today. Cleopus Adkins 19 pleaded guilty to the murder last fall and is now serving a life sentence.
The Thirty-Eighth Division, formed by Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia guards at Camp Shelby Mississippi in 1917, is based there again today. It moved to France in 1918 but did not see line action as a division, with members serving as replacements in other units. The insignia features a blue left half and red right half shield with a white interlaced C.
Brigid Elizabeth Hitler, estranged wife of Alois Hitler, campaigns against her German kinsman in New York. She wears an Aid Britain pin as she advocates support for the British relief effort. Her son serves in the Canadian army.
Testimony outlines alleged kin relations and a plan to harm the youth involved in the Sleep us case. Eunice Adkins, sister of Sleep us, stated Mrs. Adkins offered $25 to kill him, detailing the home visits for courting activities.
Mrs Gerald L Comfort of Chester Pennsylvania sought divorce from James J Comfort Watertown Massachusetts scoutmaster citing cruelty and gross neglect for failing to provide. She said she was forced to eat cornbread and water. Petition taken under advisement.
Robert Lyle Ames of Schenectady New York age twenty appears in New York on arrival interviews after being accepted into Britain's civilian technical corps. He will help operate aircraft transmitters for General Electric and support Britain in secret radio air defense. In Bath Maine Dr Merrill Joss faces murder charges amid a complex social case involving Elizabeth Mayo, a tea-room operator near Joss's mansion, tied to the motive alleged by authorities.
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