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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1933
Page
1
The legislature weighs a $74 million indirect revenue bill with a pivotal personal income tax proposal. A federal style net income plan is examined as committees study the effects on business and utility taxes, with a substitute graduated levy urged to replace a flat one percent tax on incomes over $600.
Nadine Vogel Love 6 of Kansas City was found dead May 1 in woods a mile north of Bonner Springs after vanishing April 20 on her way home from school. Dr. Williams said she likely died days earlier and had been dragged about 40 feet by a rope. Three men hunting washrooms spotted the body. investigators name Hagler Fink and South as persons of interest.
Former U S Senator James J Davis of Pennsylvania faces an indictment charging he caused interstate shipment of lottery tickets in connivance with the Loyal Order of Moose. Trials for June 12 were set in Washington for other defendants including Theodore Ag Miller Abdaymond Walsh and Charles H Tube. Postponement requests and affidavits were noted for several defendants.
Rengo News Agency reports Japanese forces advancing north of the great wall have attacked with air support and reportedly occupied Kiriglungchen, nearly annihilating opposing forces according to a correspondent.
Tornadic winds hit southeastern Arkansas and western Mississippi causing multiple deaths and injuries and destroying nearly 200 homes. Red Cross relief camps opened as National Guardsmen secured the stricken area and aided evacuees in Yazoo City and nearby towns.
Washington scenes widen as nations set envoy talks with President Roosevelt on war debts peace tariffs and currencies. Argentina Italy Germany arrive joining Latin American and European officials for extended conversations. Officials including Pant of Mexico join as the diplomatic procession reaches Washington.
Poona May 1 The aged Mahatma Gandhi from Yerawa jail will begin on May 8 a three week unconditional irrevocable fast to advance his anti untouchability campaign. He says the fast is for self purification not political maneuvers though it follows his arrest January 4 1932 under regulation for passive resistance. He adds he wishes to live for the Harijan cause but is prepared to die if needed. reports quote his son Devidas who tried to dissuade him.
Mrs Mary Davis of Latrobe conveys a letter from President Franklin D Roosevelt thanking her for confidence and prayers. The note, shared with local readers, reflects enduring Democratic sentiment and Roosevelt’s gratitude for supporter loyalty.
Police report that Kelly, a suspect from Onitlands Maryland, was held in Charleston on bad checks and escaped from custody. The incident occurred earlier, with authorities noting an escape involving a guard and a tract.
Bombs exploded in downtown Chicago wounding property but no lives. Police named Communists as arrestees and targeted plants including Marshall Field & Co Illinois Bell Sprague Warner Nabard Spencer Bartlett and Howar Willett in the May Day unrest while Boston prepared riot squads and New York deployed 18000 officers as a precaution.
Washington May 1 Democratic leaders abandoned efforts to force a vote on the administration inflation bill amending farm sections and mortgage refinancing while planning to push final action this week. Roosevelt proposals for broad public works and employment programs, railroad rehabilitation, and foreign policy moves are tied to the bill’s passage.
Squire James L. Lilly aged 71 died Sunday evening at City hospital after months of neuritis and a Friday attack of ill health. A magistrate born February 23 1862 in Cameron Marshall County he lived and worked in the area, serving in public office until his health declined. Continued on Page
Washington May 1. Charles B Crispe former Georgia congressman told the house labor committee that a 30 hour work week would scrap American industry and be unconstitutional. He opposed secretary Perkins plan for a minimum wage and warned it would destroy cooperative bargaining and justify similar limits on imports.
Lima reports Senor Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro, Peru’s president since 1931, was assassinated Sunday after reviewing 20 000 young men. A gunman fired into the presidential car, wounding the chief executive. Guards and bystanders exchanged fire. the president died at the Italian hospital despite rapid treatment.
In Linden Texas on May 1, Paul Oakley a faith healer known for self defense faces murder charges in the so called devil slaying of Bernice Clayton a 5 year old crippled girl who had infantile paralysis investigators report he planned to cure the child and the event occurred last December 19 near a shill community as the court considers insanity pleas
Yonkers residents report Bertha Deshery spent 110 dollars in four hours. The incident centers on how a six year old girl managed the funds and the unusual pace of expenditures within a single day.
Fragmentary OCR yields an item musing on religious humanit y amidst wars and the establishment. It mentions periodicals or agencies urging the public to support humanitarian efforts and religion in a postwar theme. The readable text is uncertain about names, dates, or concrete events.
Primghat Iowa May 1 four twenty three men were arrested today by national guards detach for halting a foreclosure sale and the subsequent attack on Judge C G Bradley at LeMars. Included among those arrested are Simon Joaseim county chairman and William Claussen county they were brought to jail and removed to military triply Sick y Le Mare Tas Ro1 ane Vit courts in Ply ch
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