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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
4
A religious verse from Psalm 139 1 5 describing God’s intimate knowledge of a person’s thoughts words paths and resting place He is said to surround the speaker with his presence and guidance in every manner of life.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau signals cooperation with Senate Finance and House Ways and Means on data for possible federal tax revision. He argues tax reform must accompany spending cuts, criticizing payroll and undistributed earnings taxes and urging selective immigration limits to permit a gradual melting-pot process.
Lana, a destitute young woman with only three dimes, wanders Manhattan streets seeking work and shelter. Exhausted and hungry, she hesitates before a tall, unknown man from her boarding house, who offers aid and a late dinner, hinting at a possible new alliance amid peril and longing.
The Wheeling Intelligencer argues sympathy for limited refugee aid from Germany while urging not to confuse refugees with general immigration. It warns against surrendering the existing immigration restrictions and notes a decade of quota restrictions and low mood shaping policy.
Ernest F. Millan, organizer of Townsend Club No. 1, calls for the News to shed a decayed view and embrace a new outlook on the Townsend Plan, asserting the rights to the Thanks of Millions Yet To Be.
The Fairmont Times notes Pitt plans to reduce football emphasis after Dr John B Sutherland known as Jock leaves. West Virginia fans, drawn by Pitt’s proximity and West Virginians on Ruth erland squads, wonder how loss will affect winning. The piece argues big schools should curb subsidizing athletes to help smaller colleges.
A letter from Fairmont, West Virginia praises Congressman Schiffler for introducing a Townsend Plan petition in Congress. The writer argues the Townsend Plan would end economic distress, cost no one a cent, and reverse backward thinking, urging continued support of distributive reforms.
President Roosevelt renewed opposition to a referendum required before Congress could declare war, warning it could hamper defense time. He noted a possible quasi-war risk. Guam harbor and aviation facilities funding faced House defeat. Senate Naval committee reviews a $65 million program. The army expansion bill would authorize 6000 planes, with various allocations for personnel, equipment, factory education, and Panama Canal defenses.
Authorities report a moonshining ring operating around Moatsville and Simpson was broken up by raids. Jarred Mayle and Norman Mayle led arrests with bonds ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 dollars. Multiple relatives named Mayle faced charges for sale and possession of moonshine, along with others including James Barnes Edson Weaver and Delmar Shreve. Investigating officers allege a broad network conducted extensive operations in the area.
Spanish observers cited a Miaja speech urging peace as the revolt neared completion. Franco’s forces outside Madrid pressed to enter the capital, while Republican naval units sailed to Bizerte, Tunisia, and were interned. Negrin fled. two destroyers were sunk near Cartagena as the fleet went to sea.
A 1936 critique deconstructs estimates of a vast theoretical tax base from security transactions. It compares a claimed 125 billion gross income to the actual 27 billion market value of stock and bond sales, warning that a 2 percent tax would freeze markets. It previews two Ways and Means bills H R 2 and H R L D proposing elderly annuities funded by such taxes, arguing they miscast transaction volumes and rely on overblown figures.
A garbled column references Axel Storm and a mix of topics from turkey day prep to a New York school skyscraper and Negrin escaping to Pyanco. It mentions military presence in China, spring training baseball, and a Madrid column, ending with a note on WPA bidding regulations and city invitations to bid.
About 50 high school athletic officials and athletes, members of the Grafton Rotary Club, and the public will hear Mr. Marshall. The program may include motion pictures of the Redskins team. Navy plans for a winter sports banquet were postponed when Marshall could not attend, but he will appear in the spring.
Searchers dragged the Kanawha river for the body of Charles Childers 33 a mine company employee believed drowned when he fell from a barge He was the brother of State Police Sergeant J E Childers a Note This item follows a terse, period style typical of a March report on a river accident and search efforts.
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