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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1931
Page
1
Prime Minister MacDonald says the disarmament conference should yield not only pieties but real standards and that Hoover's initiative will influence world peace. Baldwin replies to labor leader as London notes the move and the hopeful mood ahead of the meeting.
An explosion on the steamship Emilias De in Hartlepool harbor today killed two people and injured seven others. Cal Hartlepool reports the incident occurred during boiler operations, with authorities investigating the blast and its cause.
In Pittsburgh on June 29 tear gas was fired by Coal and Iron Police at three truckloads of striking miners aiming to parade at Ellsworth in defiance of a burgess order. State police, ordered by Governor Pinchot not to disrupt peaceful roadways, did not intervene. Miners regrouped, dispersed groups, and reentered their trucks. A later march was planned toward the Wildwood mine of Butler Consolidated Coal Company.
In Steubenville area a gunshot wound and a head injury occurred at Bradley mine No 1 Smithfield amid the Eastern Ohio mine strike. Stanley Karnish and Gabo Kado jailed, 3,000 miners on strike for eight hour day and union recognition. dynamite set under Harry Blackers home at Fairport mine.
Charleston June 29 A new fiscal year begins Tuesday bringing reduced funds to operate state government. Departments face economies to stay within allotted amounts, using personnel cuts or salary reductions and strict office savings. Some heads have announced plans, others have yet to decide, as the budget aims to cover an estimated deficit of 1.697 million dollars and a net decrease of 3.6 million over the last biennium. Page Two.
Washington June 29 Officials report a near deadline for the Hoover debt holiday plan with the suspension of intergovernmental payments to apply to the year starting at midnight tomorrow. France and Germany are at issue over credit use while Poland and Czechoslovakia show support, and Mellon and Edge are pressed to finalize preliminaries and seek Franco German understandings.
Richmond Va June 29 Bishop William Benjamin Beauchamp 62 of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dies in a hospital after a three week illness from pernicious anemia. He presided over the Baltimore and Virginia district since 1930 and was known for foreign mission work. Born Farnham Va he served in Louisville Richmond Portsmouth Nashville and Danville rector roles and led the Laymen's Missionary Movement.
The seventh day of ovenlike heat gripped the nation with upwards of 200 fatalities. Illinois reported at least 46 heat deaths, Chicago 30, while Iowa and other central states faced crop and cattle losses. Temperatures ranged 97 to 103 across several cities, with brief relief in the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Eu genia Bankhead daughter of Representative William Bankhead Alabama and sister of actress Tallulah Bankhead married Ennis Smith a New York businessman in a Rosarita Beach ceremony near Tijuana on Saturday night. Bankhead had prior marriages including Norton Hoyt and Wilfred Butt. the Butt match was annulled. The report notes the ceremony occurred on the South Pacific coast with a later page six continuation.
Local youths from Grafton led by Joseph Evans performed on Station WMMN from 10 15 to 10 45 yesterday morning. John Evans sang two solos with his own accompaniment and Virginia Robinson also sang two solos with Miss McDaniel. Curtis Lambert spoke on Fourth of July facts and Virginia Cox spoke on vacation use. Howard White closed the program with a benediction. Miss Little accompanied the group on piano. Talbott assisted with prep as Morgantown district aims.
Vladivostok June 29 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty resumed their globe circling dash at 6 p m today taking off from Khabarovsk toward Nome on a projected non stop flight of 2100 miles across the north Pacific Weather at take off favored an uneventful crossing and the aviators expressed confidence in a quick safe arrival They preferred a non stop hop to Petrovavlovsk which would add 200 miles and more time Continued on Page Three
Under Sheriff W J Mays deputies arrested sixteen men for violating the injunction against picketing at the Wendel mines operated by Maryland Coal Company following last week’s mining closure and demonstrations. Capiases issued under a court attachment order by Judge Warren B Kittie Tate. Thirty five others were summoned to appear at the November court term.
In London Andrew W. Mellon secretary of the treasury discussed a U.S. war debt moratorium with British leaders. The report notes Taylor county detainees facing contempt rules and bonds up to 1000 dollars, to appear at the November circuit court term, linked to Maryland Coal company actions during a 1925 injunction against mine picketing.
Governor Adalberto Tejeda urged the district court to uphold a state law restricting priests to 11 officiating in Veracruz Mexico He argued priests act as representatives of a foreign power due to arrangements between Italy and the Vatican, calling them parasites who spend the people’s money. June 29 Veracruz Mexico.
Madrid reports that the national assembly leans Republican with a Conservative-Republican-Socialist bloc winning a large majority of the 470 seats. Mi gel Naura states the cabinet is likely to be formed along revolutionary lines led by Niceto Alcala Zamora. At least seven killed in nationwide unrest as observers note collapse of the monarchy and a drive to banish Alfonso.
No official complaints were handed in this morning about oil on the water at Grafton Park yesterday Mayor C C King said the issue would be discussed with pump station men The plan to use a sand box to filter oil from steam and boiler discharge proved successful last year and could be repeated this year.
Ottawa June 29 Conscious smiling and unhurt Howard Smith 16 was rescued after 22 hours trapped in a caved in well. He was repairing a pump when the accident occurred and was brought to surface by a rope from W Spencer Kelloge Seneca Ill. after rescue crews and volunteers dug a lateral and then the well. He was treated to ward off pneumonia and asked Where's me upon surfacing. His mother Mrs Edith Smith is under a doctor’s care as officials assess the incident.
Washington June 29 An Association Against the Prohibition Amendment urges repeal of the 18th amendment to provide enough federal revenue to wipe out the deficit. The group cites 16 states opposed to prohibition and two states that repealed laws, estimating federal revenue from alcohol at 906 million dollars, potentially ending the deficit.
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