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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
4
Voluntary communications of letters to the editor will be published provided they do not contain libelous or scurrilous content and are offered for discussion of matters of general interest. They must bear the signature of the author and be published over his or her signature.
A joke item notes Harry Richman donated 38 000 table tennis balls to U S Army camps worldwide. The balls were aboard his 1936 trans Atlantic plane to prevent sinking if forced down. He stored them in Miami and says he did not know how to play with one ball let alone 38 000.
Argus Steele, a famed detective turned author, visits the Fifth Avenue model office after Syria Verne is murdered in her penthouse. The case unravels amid photographers, agents, and models, with no gun or fingerprints found, while Argus contends with colleagues and Ellen Curtis as police probe deepen.
Representative Calvin D. Johnson of Illinois criticizes the New Deal UNRRA program in Congress, saying the United States would provide 75 percent of all foreign farm machinery while American farmers struggle to obtain equipment. He cites 75 percent shares in material and funds for international relief and Western invasion efforts.
Voters in Colorado's First District held a special election to fill a House seat. The Republican businessman ran on an anti New Deal platform against a World War II veteran Democrat who backed Roosevelt. The district shifted Republican for the eighth time in ten special elections since 1942.
A Pearl Harbor release describes the Marshall Islands assault requiring grim sacrifice as troops seize beaches under intense fire. Detroit reports a 1,000 worker sitdown backing a 10 cent wage rise threatening Ford Willow Run. Edgewater Beach notes two unionists expelled for testing 22 to 24 trucks daily instead of the union’s 10 to 12.
The review praises Fred Landon’s Lake Huron as a solid start to a Great Lakes history series. It notes the lake’s mix of mystery and romance, a borderland calm that blends Canadian and American history, and Landon’s thorough treatment of navigation from birchbark canoes to modern ore carriers, with sharp observations on color and a notable Englishwoman.
The passage recalls Mrs Jameson departing York Toronto in 1827 with notebook sketchbook umbrella and basket of necessities. She could not stay content with her husband and forgot the matter in travel as she performed top grade reporting.
New York March 16 The BLU schedule adds three quiz programs headlining Benny Venuta Fred Uttal Milton Berle and Joe E Brown among others The lineup includes Money Go Round Let Yourself Go and Stop and Go plus evening NBC CBS and MBS listings and notes a 1943 year figure: more than 158000 adults served as Girl Scout leaders.
Washington column notes spring arrives amid wartime delays and red tape as new roads around the city frustrate visitors. The writer recalls Temporary L, the Pentagon, and the Arlington bridge area, contrasting idealized leisure with wartime restrictions. Personal vignettes include a young wife awaiting a husband stationed in Ankara and letters describing life, tuxedos, and social forms amid distant conflicts.
Dean Halliday outlines simple garden strawberry planting methods for limited space. The Hill system uses 12 to 15 inch plant spacing in raised crowns with beds yielding three years, while Hedge Row spaces rows three feet apart with 24 inch plant spacing.
A garbled dispatch mixes social quips about fresh paint signs with wartime anxieties. It notes leap fever and a clerged Fence stradt vantage point, then shifts to U S fleet size in 1944 surpassing other powers, and jokes about war time eye strain from peering between sandwich layers.
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