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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 07, 1941

Page

5

Radio schedules and city blackout display in New York

Mrs Dwight W Morrow endorses the lease lend bill in a CBS radio address at 12 45 p m Saturday Senator Styles Bridges backs it on NBC Blue at 7 p m while Senator Pat Mc Cartan opposes it on CBS at 10 15 p m Clarence Chamberlin and Laura Ingalls discuss aviation on CBS People’s Platform at 7 p m Saturday The blackout plan in Seattle Washington and nearby areas involves Army Navy and air corps observers photographing a darkened metropolitan island with flights circling overhead to document the event

New York Dwight W. Morrow Anne Lindbergh CBS Styles Bridges New Hampshire Pat McCartan Nevada Clarence Chamberlin Laura Ingalls Nbc-Red Nbc-Blue MBS NBC Walter Huston R. J. Thomas NBC Blue Marchfield Calif Ernie Wights Billy Loose Seattle Wash Army

Lakin Report details mismanagement at asylum farm

The Lakin committee faulted improper farm management at the asylum, alleging staff misconduct and falsified accounts. Superintendent E L Youngue and his unlicensed son faced criticism, with relatives protests cited over the son's hiring. The report urged appointing a qualified supervisor for state institution farms.

Youngue Jackson Lakin EL. Youngue E. L. Youngue Board of Control

Nighttime blackout at 800-room hotel sparks drill plan

As a 15-minute blackout nears at 10 40 p m hotel staff prepare. House detective will marshal a corporal guard with bell hops porters and assistants at darkened stairways to stop exits. Hundreds of escape lights must be shut off individually. Street traffic halts though trains avoid the effect with stations resembling tunnels.

Great Northern

More CCC Enrollees In County Are Solicited

Miss Elsie Beaty director of the department of public assistance and in charge of CCC enrollment asks all men between 11 and 23 not in school to contact the relief office Monday morning between 8:30 and 12. Applications are needed now. Pay for CCC work is eight dollars for the enrollee, seven held each month, and fifteen sent home to dependents.

Civilian Conservation Corps Elsie Beaty Department of Public Assistance CCC Relief Office Miss Beaty

Four condemned men prepare for execution in Texas jail yard

The four inmates Meharg Boyce Heard and Landers spoke in brief statements before their 11 a.m. CST execution hour. They remembered families offered prayers and asked forgiveness while affirming crime does not pay. Each man planned final messages to loved ones and supporters prior to the scaffold.

Mother Meharg Landers Meharg Boyce

Dixie Theatre Shows Wild Bill Hickok Western Revival

The Dixie Theatre screens across the sierras with Bill Elliott returning as Wild Bill Hickok in Across the Sierras. A vengeful bandit seeks Woodworth’s death, Hickok resumes his gun career, climaxing in a face to face duel during United Artists release festivities. The program also features a mystery thriller Who Killed Aunt Maggie at the Opera House for a two day run, with Wendy Barrier and John Hubbard amid a decaying south mansion plot and a long list of suspects.

Bill Elliott Columbia Dixie Theatre Screen Sierras Wild Bill Hickok Law and Order Elliott Mitch Carew Wild Bill Hickok Dan Woodworth Arroyo Woodworth Hickok Jon Eugene Oneill Dixie Theatre United Artists Release Canary Islands Miss Morales Island Mexico City Rio de Janeiro Buenos Aires London Paris Hollywood Rio Maggie Wendy Barrier John Hubbard Wendy John Deep South Wistaria Hall Charles Amblar Walter Abel Mona Barrie Onslow Stevens Joyce Compton Willie Best Daisy Mothershed Edgar Kennedy Tom Dugan Arthur Lubin Albert J. Cohen Stuart Palmer

Latin beauty stars in Dixie film role

Carmen Morales, noted Latin beauty with stage screen and radio work across four continents, plays a bumboat girl in the colorful John Ford cast at Dixie.

Carmen Morales John Ford

Opera House Mystery Promises Secrets From Long Lost Diary

Republic teases a tale of a yowling cat, a string of strange intrigues by Nylon Rose, and a secret room unveiled in a diary from 1865, inviting readers to uncover historic clues and hidden spaces.

Nylon Rose Republic

Strand Theatre to Feature Mary Martin Song Hit in Love Thy Neighbor

Mary Martin famous tune My Heart Belongs to Daddy from Leave It to Me is heard on screen for the first time in Paramount comedy Love Thy Neighbor opening Saturday at the Strand Theatre. The film showcases her distinctive delivery that vaulted her to Hollywood.

Cess Hollywood Paramount Victor Herbert Bing Crosby Benny Allen Daddy Cole Porter Abbott Mary Martin Strand Theatre Couse Mary

Pennsylvania Central Airliner gets Clarkeburg stop approval

The civil aeronautics board approved a temporary intermediate stop at Clarksburg West Virginia on the Pittsburgh to Birmingham route. The stop awaits completion of the Wheeling airport before becoming permanent.

Washington Pennsylvania Central Airlines Civic,eronautics Board Clarksburg W. Va Pittsburgh Birmingham Wheeling

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