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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1933
Page
2
A critique of child talk shows adults often use babyish voices and jokes with young listeners. This condescension breeds distance, while straightforward, respectful dialogue from caregivers and service workers earns genuine trust and interest from children.
A long list of prominent figures and corporate leaders is shown with large contributions. Notable names include J P Morgan, Alfred P Sloan, Myron C Taylor, Walter Gifford, and Charles Mitchell among others, with amounts ranging from 300 to 40 000 dollars.
In Denver Charles Boettcher II was held for a $69,000 ransom as Carl W. Pearce pleaded guilty in federal court to kidnapping. Judge J F Symes set sentencing for Saturday morning after Boettcher’s release followed payment by his father Claude K Boettcher of $60,000.
Mayor King outlined proposals for a new hospital layout with the second floor devoted to bed rooms and a first floor housing operating rooms and clinics. A nurses training school may be added if the hospital becomes reality, with earlier Beech Street facilities noted as a 22 bed, self sustaining unit since 1916, praised for a very low death rate nationally two years prior.
Conferees reached a revised bus and truck regulation bill that weakened a Public Service Commission jurisdiction clause. The measure, now heading to the senate, raises rates for large trucks, caps private car fees, and shifts license timing from January to July after 1934. Delegates sparred over railroad influence and road funding while supporters cite needed road-use regulation.
Magistrate Samuel Harrison of Evanston, a Chicago suburb, offered to perform marriage ceremonies without fees as his contribution to the exposition. The Associated Press reports this unusual service amid the event’s activities.
Washington May 25 Republicans move to force the manufacturers tax onto the house floor as part of the public works and industrial control bill. Bacharach of New Jersey to move to send the measure to Ways and Means with instructions to insert the levy to fund a 3.3 billion bond issue. Roosevelt may press for a tax plan if Ways and Means stalls action. The plan includes higher income and gasoline taxes and corporate dividends taxed at new rates.
In Newport on May 25 during cross petition proceedings Mrs Eugenia Woodward Jelke testified for three and a half hours. She charged her husband F Frazier Jelke of Newport and New York with beating her cursing her and generally ill treating her.
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