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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1939
Page
2
Orson Welles says his CBS Friday night contract came through before the Mars broadcast. He disputes that the Men From Mars program secured the deal and notes personal attention from the publicity. Also mentions Mrs. Roosevelt as a planned speaker in the news item.
Listing of WMMN and other stations daily from 5:30 P.M. to midnight detailing programs, sketches, news, dramas, orchestras, and singer acts across NBC CBS MBS WJZ WHAS WLW and more, with multiple time slots and featured performers such as Little Orphan Annie Tom Mix Lone Ranger and Eddie Cantor.
A dense schedule shows WEAF NBC premiering Al Pearce and Margaret Speaks with orchestral and concert segments. WABC CBS and WJZ NBC offer a mix of dramas, comedy, music, and Senate discussion led by Senator Mead and Taft.
Washington March 13. The house merchant marine committee will study a third lock plan as part of the administration defense program. A Nicaragua canal proposal of 1 billion dollars was reportedly rejected as not fitting the program. The War Department still considers adding a second set of locks at the Panama Canal, costing about 200 million dollars to deter sabotage and ensure impregnable access between oceans.
Charleston March 13 With the 44th legislature closed the drive shifts to selecting a seven member interim committee to study state needs and draft legislation for 1941. Senate President William Lafon and House Speaker Kay Thomas will appoint. Topics include permanent registration claims against agencies nonpartisan school board elections public employee tenure highway classification delinquent land redemption and financing of secondary roads.
A defiant Vienna broadcast by Ferdinand Durcansky, minister in the deposed Tiso cabinet, was interpreted as showing official German support for Slovakia after its Friday ouster amid a bid to separate Slovakia from Czechoslovakia. News dispatches echoed this Nazi sympathy.
A new cabinet headed by Karl Sider, named Saturday to replace Dr. Tiso’s government, faces Slovak disapproval as Durcansky urges a decisive hour. Nazi party outlets decry Czech actions, while Berlin eyes impending troop movements amid regional upheaval. In the United States, widow of oil operator John Bishop dies after a fall. her son Harry is found shot, with another man held for grand jury action.
Mrs. Meina Bishop, a year old native of Zotland, died at New Martinsville on March 15. The obituary notes her local ties and age, with details limited by the fragmentary report.
Russell G. Nesbitt of Wheeling, president of the state Young Republicans, and Mrs. Rosalie Muller of Beckley, president of the Federation of Women's Republican clubs, are scheduled to speak March 25 at a Republican rally in Princeton.
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Pittsburgh March 13 A two year old boy Harold Holt Jr suffers a multi organ growth tumor that squeezes his liver lungs and kidney doctors say there is no cure The father a towboat crewman pleads for help The surgeon notes the tumor cannot be detected until age about two and removing it simply causes it to recur X ray therapy can slow growth but cannot stop it long term
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A stark line of text warns that without treatments the body will deteriorate as a tumor invades vital organs. Death is described as inevitable as the condition worsens, underscoring the urgency surrounding medical intervention.
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