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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1939
Page
8
Grafton High School reports the fourth six weeks honor roll with 130 students earning B averages or higher. seniors include Mary Elizabeth Clark Richard McProuty Virginia Shafferman and others. juniors and sophomores also listed along with freshmen.
Robert George Morgan of Philadelphia seeks relatives in Grafton area. He is the son of Thomas Wheatley Morgan, formerly of Grafton, and his mother was Janet Florence. Morgan hopes to contact Florence or Glynn family members in Grafton or nearby, with police aiding the search at his request.
Col F C Harlington, WPA administrator, warned that unless Congress provides 150 million by April 1 drastic relief reductions may begin. Over 3,000,000 on relief could drop to 2,000,000, with monthly cuts of 150,000 even if funds are approved. Senator Harrison said Roosevelt is sympathetic to cutting government spending if feasible. Debate over business tax shifts touched on maintaining revenue. Barkley predicted Senate action on the Byres bill to reorganize public works and raise social security payments.
The document lists two groups of students by class year. Sophomores include Matthew Strader Kathleen Watk ins Benjamin Wilson Jane Wolfe Virgil Young. Freshmen comprise Wanda Lee Ball Jo Ann Bart itt Andrey Bartlett Alice Bloom Floyd Borneman Donald Boylen Mary Erase Janice Burge Lenore Carpenter Jo Clair Compton Lil la Copenhauer Velma Cross Austin Hatch Paul Hunt Edna Kester Martha Jean Kuhn Wayne Daugherty Edward Decker John Edwards John Fordyce Bruce Lamb Harry McMullen Betty Lee Miller Virginia B Newcome Betty Newham Gwendolyn Newton Gwendolyn Proudfoot Pauline Shafferman Virginia Stine Pauline Wilson.
Reported fighting continues in Madrid with Miaja government forces and loyalists clashing amid sniper fire and barricaded civilians. Communist uprisings in Puerto Llano and Ciudad Real were said to be suppressed while Nationalist forces under Franco monitor the capital from outside.
Four Charleston residents Frank R. Lyon Jr William Miller Drea and John H. Good plus Donald Griffin of Parkersburg and one other from Charleston sat the state bar examinations. Eight applicants failed according to Secretary William B. Mathews of the Board of Law Examiners.
The report discusses disarmament talks potential widening to include the United States as Germany faces economic strain from armaments. France signals willingness to discuss arms limits while shoring African defenses. In Hungary, Bratislava reports say Slovak premier Tiso protested his ouster as unconstitutional amid moves toward Slovak autonomist action. machine guns at Bratislava press plant heighten tension with the German minority.
Foreign minister Frantisek Chanykovsky says Germany views Slovakia as a Czech affair. Slovak parliament head Martin Sokol met in Prague with Premier Rudolf Beran and Slovak envoy Karl Sidar. President Hacha names Vice Premier Josef Civak to replace Premier Joseph Tiso and ousts two ministers as radicals press for independence. troops and police dispatched to Slovakia to restore order.
Senator Byrd discusses savings on large, nonbudgeted relief outlays while President Roosevelt requests 150 million dollars more to run the WPA to July 1. He warns cuts face difficulty due to existing budget estimates and stresses relief expenditures as the area for potential savings. The Byrd group, chaired by Taylor of Colorado, advocates a blanket reduction.
Straight A averages were made by seventeen students of the St Augustine High school for the fourth six weeks period ending last Saturday. Sisters of the Divine Providence, in charge of the scholastic work, announced Those on the A honor roll ere as follows: Eugene Hussion, Rose Ford, Katherine Reed, and Rita Riftee seniors, Marie Forcello, Mary C Haislip, Constance Limbers, Rita Jean Sorge, and Jo St. Clair Wright, juniors, Rita Barlow Ruth Lowther, Betty Patterson and Alice Reed, sophomores, and Mary Virginia Dent, Jo Clare Lalley, Martin Foley, and Paul Jackson, freshmen.
One man was slightly injured and two cars were heavily damaged in a 6 am crash on state route 77 two miles west of Rosemont. Virgil Lipscomb, 63, of Flemington, was cut above the forehead when a car driven by Henry Lipscomb, 28, and A A Howell, 28, of Clarksburg, sidewiped. An after-accident dispute led to accusations, later dropped at Justice of the Peace John Marks. Deputies and state officers investigated.
Harold Hastings 35 asserts innocence as his attorney Russel Ramsey says he will stay in jail until trial. Coroner J D Bradish sought a grand jury after an inquest verdict that Lett Schlett 29 was deliberately run down and killed with an automobile on a snowy road January 27.
Among his four attorneys the suspect described his killings for money including the strangling of Miss Jean de Koven, a Brooklyn dancer, at Weidmann's rented villa in suburban St. Cloud on July 23, 1937. He faces charges over obtaining 20.80 in cash and 480 in travelers checks by her death.
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