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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1932
Page
3
The Grafton Sentinel society page requests readers to telephone all social items to the society editor by 11 am. It asks hostess to communicate with the office immediately after social events to aid timely handling.
Group D of the Society of Andrews M E church met at J N Yates home on Walnut yesterday with seventeen members. Mrs L J Lear led devotionals and Mrs C L Reynolds led the business session. Summer plans were laid, a garden party funded the church, and refreshments were served by Mrs Yates. June gathering set for Miss Rose and Lora Ford on Walnut.
Washington May 11 The non partisan campaign to balance the government budget moved swiftly with White House praise. A special Senate appropriations subcommittee to craft a gigantic economy measure will meet with President Hoover and bank members, backed by Republican and Democratic leaders. Debate looms on a billion dollar revenue bill while sales tax changes face uncertain approval. Senator Jones chairs the economy committee with three Republicans and three Democrats, aiming for substantial savings to balance the upcoming tax bill.
Senator McKellar, author of ten percent cuts in appropriation bills, predicted savings of between $300,000,000 and $500,000,000 in this Congress as he spoke on the floor.
Charleston May 11 Re turns slow in six state offices Democratic nomination leads include former Congressman William S. OBrien ahead of 10 contenders for secretary of state with John S Hull in second. W W Trent leads for superintendent of schools and incumbent William C Cook holds the Republican nomination edge over R Worth Shumaker for state treasurer. Richard E Talbott heads two other Democrats for treasurer while W S Johnson leads the Republican race against A S Bell.
In St. Julia Andorra on May 11, Spanish workers hired for a hydraulic project walked out. The mayor organized townsmen with shotguns, and the strikers were escorted to the Spanish frontier.
In Wheeling on May 11 Wilda Cunningham an office employee suffered severe burns when a lightning bolt struck a lamp beside her in the Wheeling Steel building. The bolt ignited a steel waste burn in a room five stories above as part of the incident.
A pamphlet style menu lists meals for breakfast lunch and dinner including Orange Juice Cereal Eggs Toast Coffee and Salisbury Steak with Braised Vegetables. It provides Spring Salad recipe with onions pickles paprika pimentos and salad dressing plus notes on using leftover vegetables and methods for cooking and broiling the steak.
Chicago May 1 The Red Cross distributed free farm board wheat reducing calls for a government dole says William Baxter Jr Red Cross executive The effort is strongest in Pennsylvania mining areas and drought struck Oklahoma with 40 000 000 bushels allocated by Congress now over half distributed Baxter notes 1 533 512 barrels of flour requisitioned to aid 1 926 937 families Nearly one barrel per four for three months is the assumed need States report flour distributed Ohio 127 033 Pennsylvania 206 945 Tennessee 37 470 Virginia 19 808 West Virginia 34 941
Three Rivers New Mexico May 11 Albert B Fall, released from state penitentiary, spoke from his ranch bed asserting time will vindicate the naval reserve plans he made as secretary of the interior. He warned the Chinese and Japanese tensions showed the value of a Honolulu oil base and predicted his descendants would see his judgment proven.
Mr and Mrs Otis Smith and Gertrude Smith with Marshall Swisher returned home Sunday from a tour of Virginia visiting Shenandoah Caverns. Includes classified ad lines for wall paper double roll at 10 and 16 cents and again 10 and 15 cents with names Allie Gaines.
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