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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1941
Page
5
Cairo March 15 British forces in the western desert declare war on the common house fly. Posters announce a formal state of war against flies led by Musca Domestica. Reports from Libya describe secret breeding and a vast offensive against the insect foe.
National defense contracts totaling 159 497 were awarded to West Virginia manufacturers for February 16 28. Navy awards reached 157 420 including 130 840 to Ane Lumber Parkersburg for white oak and 26 560 to L J Stifel & Sons Wheeling for cotton drill. Army awards 5 521 included 31 724 to Washington Manufacturing Huntington for khaki cotton trousers and 1 197 to Ames Baldwin Wyoming Parkersburg for shovels.
Athens reports king George II will abdicate in favor of his brother Prince Paul as a step toward an armistice in the Greek-Itale War. Paul is married to Princess Frederika, a granddaughter of former Kaiser Wilhelm. Government remains openly hostile to peace proposals.
The federal office of education said contracts for defense training in West Virginia totaled 70,078,929 dollars for all defense needs from July 1, 1940, to February 2, 1941, with February totals reaching 105,978 dollars for the defense training program.
The Senate considered a measure requiring the Bureau of Mines to conduct federal inspections of all coal mills nationwide. The legislative proposal, approved by the House yesterday, would task several inspectors with making formal recommendations to safeguard miners.
The marriage of Prosecuting Attorney William Lemon to Miss Katherine Dotters was announced today by relatives. The wedding occurred Tuesday in Martinsville with family present and vows exchanged in a formal ceremony.
A Boston native Mrs Lowtrice Rathbone was nominated unopposed as a Conservative member of the English House of Commons to succeed her late husband Flight Lieutenant John Rathbone killed in a German bombing raid. She is 30, mother of two, and currently in the U.S.
The labor board proposed a order directing Midwest Steel Corporation Charleston West Virginia to reinstate one worker with back pay and grant remedial wages to ten already reinstated after alleged discrimination for union activities with CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee. It says 11 were laid off in March and April 1939 for union involvement. all but E M Webb have been rehired. E M Webb is named among those not yet returned. The action notes April 4, 1939 as a pivotal date in the large group of firings.
A teacher at West Philadelphia High School was suspended after posting a letter insulting President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The episode sparked comment with the remark Well, lots of, eh ple criticize the President, don't they, reflecting public tension over political remarks in schools.
The board ruled that the corporation’s plan to stop processing country scrap and lay off workers was not caused by business conditions alone but was influenced by union activities. It found the April 4 1939 scrap market level merely provided an opportunity to act.
The article describes a plan to name 100 one woman boards to recruit 9100 local girls over 18 for dances. These 1000 girls will join a Girls Defense club and be ready to move to staglines as needed with chaperons providing transport and amenities, no seeing Wellie Home for soldiers. after the dance, charges are taken home by chaperons.
A man fitting a tan, weathered profile was seen fleeing south just after Miss Welsh retired. Her corpse was found with a hammer nearby and a knife outside the window, while gloves and a severed hip fragment lay nearby, signaling a brutal murder under investigation.
New Puerto Rico governor Guy W. Swope relaxes from duties with a game of pool at La Fortaleza, the governor's palace in San Juan, showcasing a lighter moment during transition.
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