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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
6
Capitol officials discuss state revenue plans with utility and business leaders. Kump proposes a general sales tax as hearings set dates for manufacturers water and power firms. Legislation drafting pauses until hearings finish and a special session begins April 10 with bills expected for advance mailing.
Ron J Blondell and Bill Powell lead a Warner Bros. hour featuring a dramatic hit, Fox News and a comedy reel. The program includes vaudeville with Alabama Cotton Pickers broadcast via KDKA WMMN.
Noted rosarian discusses the rise of everblooming hardy climbing roses led by Blaze and New Dawn. Describes hybridization history, plant breeding by Luther Burbank, Van Fleet, and Capt. George C. Thomas, with examples from Spain and Britain and notes on growth, color, and uses for home gardens.
Charleston March 29. Auditor Edgar B. Sims issued an order restricting withdrawals from West Virginia insurance companies. No cash surrender value, loans, or accrued dividends may be paid except in specific cases. Exceptions include loans for premiums, limited cash surrender values under $100 per individual, and selective payments for industrial policies after investigation. Interest and due principal may be paid for deposits as allowed.
A read fragment indicates contracts may require continued payments and installments without a withdrawal option. It implies ongoing obligations under current or future contracts, highlighting a legal or financial framework that enforces continued sums despite exercising or not exercising withdrawal rights.
The subject, once Wright, is remanded after two and a half hours of deliberation. The Highlander officer saluted as he left the courtroom followed by his escort. Lieutenant Eric Stewart, his officer brother, stood with a serious face. his mother, Mrs Elsie Beatrice Wright, was absent. The defendant had changed his name to Bailie-Stewart in 1929.
President Roosevelt orders a revised federal wage reduction tied to the drop in the cost of living since 1928. The new measure preserves a maximum 15 percent cut and reflects a 21.7 percent CPI fall by December 1932, with savings estimated at 120 million annually. The change follows an 8 1/3 percent furlough-based cut from Hoover era policies.
John H. Mills, leader of a local cult, is being held in jail after being directly charged in connection with his mother's death. The case, reported from April 3, details ongoing investigations and legal proceedings surrounding the sect's activities.
Ww. J. Mays mentioned from Page One murder. Six followers detained as accessories after alleged strangulation of 3 year old Lucinda Mills. Jonathan Mills, his mother, and others linked to a cult ceremony. parents as victims and witnesses recounts emerge in court context.
The Roosevelt reforestation measure advances as part of a broader relief program with a $500 million fund and a $1 billion public works plan. A civilian conservation corps is proposed to employ 240,000 jobless in forests and public lands at about $1 a day, funded from unobligated treasury construction funds. Debate covers fund limits, two year duration, and expanded land use for county and private lands.
Senator Robinson denounces the budget plan claiming it unbalances funds while the Roosevelt relief bill faces Republican opposition in the Senate. Meanwhile a burglary in Rogers, Arkansas prompts local residents to react and a wildlife league meeting is set for March 20 at the Grafton Hotel featuring speakers on the new game law.
Newburg March 29 Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Newburg Methodist Episcopal church for Charles M Hollis 1% reti druggist and former justice of the peace who died at his brother William Hollis Hopemont home. Interment in Knights of Pythias cemetery. He was born in Newbury and lived fifty years there, later operating drug stores in Uniontown and Homestead PA. He also ran a butcher shop in Newburg and served as justice of the peace 1927-1932. He was married to Laura Harrington who died in 1925. no children. He belonged to Damon Judge Knights of Pythias and Dramotic Order Knights of Khorassan.
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