Memorial Day Observance Planned For May 30
Grafton prepares a large Memorial Day parade and graveside services at the National Cemetery with Governor Homer A. Holt as principal speaker. The program will be broadcast by WMMN and include four bands and bugle corps. Schools and cadet units will march, decorating veteran graves in the cemetery.
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Grafton
National Cemetery
West Virginia
Homer A. Holt
Walnut
WMMN
Fairmont
Grafton High
Kingwood High
Elkins High
Sons of the American Legion
West Virginia Industrial School
E. G. Kuhn
Gratton
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Cem
Barbour Jury Indicts Many in Philippi Area
Barbour county circuit court grand jury returned twenty two felonies and seven misdemeanors. Indictments announced include Burton Bolyard and James Califf of Philippi for forging a state road warrant totaling 25.60 endorsed by defendants, plus a similar charge on a warrant for 8 dollars to Denzil Gainer. Three felonies and two misdemeanors remain undisclosed as suspects have not yet been located.
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Philippi
Barbour County
Burton Bolyard
James Califf
State Road Commission
O. B. Stemple
Bolyard
Califf
Denzil Gainer
Theatre ticket present at Strand or Dixie tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Howard Pugh of Parkview to tonight's show offering Bordertown with Bette Davis at the Strand or Dangerous to Know and Arizona Terror at the Dixie. Identification may be required.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Howard Pugh
Parkview
Bordertown
Bette Davis
Arizona
Censure Move Discussed Over WPA Endorsement Tie
Anti administration senators weigh a censure resolution over WPA chief Hopkins endorsing Wearin’s Iowa senate bid. Johnson of California expected to draft the measure after Iowa Democrat Gillette’s aides denounced Hopkins. Hopkins says WPA workers may vote freely amid campaign protests by Stewarts from Kentucky.
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Washington
Senate
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Otha Wearin
Iowa
Johnson
R. Calif
Gillete
Wearin
Hopkins
Works Progress Administration
Kentucky
Brady M. Stewart
Louisville
Roosevelt
Barkley
Stewart
A. B. Chandler
Route 50 Landslide Cleared for One Way Traffic
Route 50 near Macomber twenty miles east of Grafton is to reopen to traffic late Friday after a landslide blocked the highway since Monday evening. State road engineer F. Y. Horner said one lane will be opened for one way traffic while work continues at the scene for several days. No cars were buried. the slide covered about 300 feet of highway and was 40 to 60 feet deep.
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Bowlesburg
Macomber
Grafton
F. Y. Horner
Horner
Farmers to Discuss Local Milk Condensary at Courthouse
Farmers and dairymen of this section are urged to meet at the courthouse Friday between 7 and 8 p m to plan the proposed milk condensary for this city. Only interested persons are urged to attend this gathering.
Air Service to Morgantown via Cumberland Sought
Representative Lewis requests approval from the Post Office and Commerce Departments for air express passenger and mail service from Baltimore to Morgantown West Virginia by way of Cumberland Maryland. Dr L S Adams president of Tri State Aviation Corporation says service could start soon if approved.
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Washington
Air Express
Baltimore
Morgantown
W. Va
Cumberland
Post Office and Commerce Departments
Lewis
D.-Ma
L. S. Adams
Tri-State Aviation Corporation
Union Leader Shot to Death in Minneapolis
William Brown a 43 year old president of General Drivers union 544 and a long time labor figure was shot dead last night. Police report a confession by Arnold Johnson 33 organizer for local 544 an AFL affiliate who said he shot Brown twice during union business then went to a tavern and told Miles Dunne a union trustee. A prior labor killing of Patrick J Corcoran remains unsolved.
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Minneapolis
William Brown
General Drivers Union
Patrick J. Corcoran
Brown
Corcoran
Drivers Union
Frank Forestal
Arnold Johnson
A. F
Miles Dunne
Union
Forestal
Johnson
U S Participating In Foreign Trade Week Emphasized
Washington May 26 The United States highlights participation in foreign trade week with statements from President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull praising reciprocal trade agreements and urging continued international commerce as a path to world peace. Hull called self sufficiency a danger and noted 17 reciprocal deals in four years. maritime commission plans to deploy liners California Virginia and Pennsylvania to boost South American trade relations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
South America
Maritime Commission
California
Virginia
Pennsylvania
West Virginia Industrial School for Boys Upgrading Sought
Memorial City Post 3081 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars leads a statewide drive to modernize the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown near Grafton. A resolution to Governor Homer A. Holt urges action to secure new buildings, praising Superintendent R P Bell for four years of progress.
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Memorial City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Grafton
West Virginia
Pruntytown
Homer A. Holt
Bell
R. P. Bell
United States of America
Police Called as Crowd Storms Friedlander Store
Grafton shoppers flocked to Friedlanders Go ing Out of Business sale with the doors opening at 9 am. Police had to maintain order outside and inside as hundreds of women jostled for bargains.
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Grafton
Friedlander
Headley Announces For County School Board
Ed S. Headley, manager of Taylor County Hardware and president of the Taylor County Parent-Teachers association and the Grafton Kiwanis club, filed as a Democrat for the county board of education. He resides in Blueville Fetterman district and is active in school and civic improvement work. He is the first Democrat to file for a seat. Dr. Paul P. Warden and Arthur G. Yates, both Republicans, have already filed.
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Ed S. Headley
Taylor County
Taylor’ County
Parent-Teachers Association
Grafton Kiwanis Club
County Board of Education
Headley
Blueville
Fetterman
Board of Education
Paul P. Warden
Arthur G. Yates
Secretary Ickes Secret Wedding in Dublin Ireland
Secretary Harold Ickes wed Miss Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee in a Dublin church shocking the American press. He is 64 and his bride 25, a Smith College graduate visiting with her uncle John Cudahy. His first wife died in an auto crash in 1985.
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Harold. Ickes
Jane Dahlman
Milwaukee
Dublin
Ireland
Ickes
Smith College
John Cudahy
U.S
Solar
Japan reshuffles cabinet as militarists gain grip
Tokyo May 26 Japanese cabinet resignations shift power to militarists. Foreign minister Koki Hirota and war minister Gen Sugiyama leave. Lt General Seishiro Itagaki becomes war minister and Siehin Ikeda takes finance. New foreign minister Gen Kazushige Ugaki appointed. Koichi Kido remains in cabinet despite stepping down as education minister.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Koki Hirota
Sigiyama
Okinobu Kaya
Seishiro Itagaki
Siehin Ikeda
Gen
Kazushige Ugaki
Koichi Kido
Ickes and Bride Reach London on Honeymoon
Harold L. Ickes United States secretary of the interior and his 25 year old red haired bride arrived in Fishguard Wales on the third day of their honeymoon. They sped to London and he spoke of their trip as most pleasant. He noted he had known his bride Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee for 14 years and that they planned the marriage when she visited Ireland two months ago.
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Fishguard
Wales
Harold L. Ickes
United State Secretary of the Interior
London
Ickes
Jane Dahlman
Miwaukee
Ireland
Roosevelt Works On Speech At Arthurdale Project
President Roosevelt prepared a 15 minute nationally broadcast speech to be delivered from Arthurdale West Virginia detailing the new relief program. He planned to visit Reedsville and inspect the 165 family cooperative before continuing to Arthurdale for the address slated to air via NBC CBS and Mutual radio services.
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Roosevelt
Arthurdale
Washington
W. Va
NBC
CBS
Mutual
Mr. Roosevelt
Reedsville
Virginia Suffers Heavy Loss in Princeton Blaze
NORFOLK VA May 26 President Carl Bucholtz of the Virginian railway estimated 5000 fire damage to the New River division office building at Princeton West Virginia. The fire Tuesday night burned about a third of the frame building but the old records were duplicated in other offices. Cause of the blaze not yet definitely determined.
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Norfolk
Carl Bucholtz
The
Virginian Railway
New River Division
Princeton
W. Va
Bucholtz
Death case defense doctors testify on 16 year old defendant
In New York on May 26 defense psychiatrists testified that Donald Carroll aged 16 was suffering a temporary mental disorder when he entered a death by own action pact with his blonde sweetheart last March and shot her to death. Drs Samuel Feigin and Edward M Gould testified for the defense as Sydney Rosenthal rested his case.
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New York
Donald Carroll
Sydney Rosenthal
Carroll
Samuel Feigin
Edward M. Gould
Mexican Government Men Destroy Rebel Air Base
The Mexican government says planes raided and destroyed a Cedillista rebel air base near El Rucio in San Luis Potosi after War Minister Manuel Avila Camacho declared rebel planes had bombed towns. Bombing ships hit the air field while gasoline tanks were blasted and guards scattered. A swift plane dropped leaflets at Tampico promoting Gen Saturnino Cedillo. Earlier reports spoke of two pitched confrontations between detachments.
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Mexico City
Cedillista
Manuel Avila Camacho
United States
el Rucio
San Luis
Potosi
Tampico
Saturnino Cedillo
Aultis Sent to Wheeling as C and P Manager
Harold W. LEMON named manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone company in Grafton to replace Joan W. Ault who moves to Wheeling as commercial representative. Ault has 24 years with C and P and has led exchanges in Grafton Philippi Belington and Elkins for 14 years. The new manager is expected to arrive early next week.
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Harold W. Lemon
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Grafton
Joan W. Ault
Wheeling
O. E. Swecker
Clarksburg
Ault
C. and P
Philippi
Belington
Elkins
Charleston
June 24 Set for Aubrey Howe Hearing in Clarksburg
CLARKSBURG May 26 A. Bi Lawman chairman of the police civil service commission said June 24 has been set for a hearing of charges against Aubrey Howe 23 former motorcycle patrolman declared wounded a fellow officer and kidnapped another The three member commission met to consider Howe rein statement request who is held in county jail for feloniously wounding Patrolman Blair Bartlett Attorney A J Rosen sh ine said the ex traffic officer may drop the request for a hearing.
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Clarksburg
O. Bi Lawman
Police Civil Service Commission
Aubrey Howe
Robert Ziegler
Howe
Blair Bartlett
A. J. Rosenshine
Entire U S Fleet Moved From Pacific For Atlantic Maneuvers
The Navy announced the entire U S fleet will shift from the Pacific to the Atlantic next year for maneuvers and a visit to the New York Worlds Fair. Bases will be left in January and the operation will last about six months, with a visit to New York planned in May. The routes extend through the West Indies and Atlantic down to the equator.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pacific
Atlantic
New York
West Indies
Equator
Navy
Accusations Answered by New TVA Chairman
Harcourt A. Morgan, TVA director and new chairman, told a joint congressional inquiry that former TVA Chairman A. E. Morgan led a campaign of dissent and obstruction to discredit the TVA program. He said A. E. Morgan exceeded proper limits and hindered the agency, while defending TVA results and offering cooperation to uncover all facts in the controversy.
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Washington
Harcourt A. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
A. E. Morgan
Joint
Congressional Inquiry Committee
Harcourt Morgan
T. V. A. Board
Congressional Committee
H. A. Morgan
David J. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
T.V. A
Ppee Ae
Arthur Morgan
Lillen
Thal
Dr. Morgan
Tammany Hall Chief Nabbed In NY Policy Racket
May 26 report lists James J. Hines a Tammany Hall leader named on police blotter as ally and political fixer for Schultz gang in a $100,000 policy racket. Dewey aims rackets war, Hines charged with taking up to $1,000 weekly as payoff. Bail set at $20,000. statements cite connections to crime and politics with other named figures.
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New York
James J. Hines
Tammany Hall
A Schultz
Hines
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Fe Pecora
Georgeberg
Harry Schoenhaus
J. Richard Davis
Schulta
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Barbour
Blood and Masonic Brothers
Lindsey A. Wolfe
Moatsville
Mystic Lodge No. 75
A. Masons
Francis Wolfe
Blair
Francis
Lindsey
Darwin
Delbert
Dallas D. Wolfe
Route 50
Minneapolis Union
U. S
Ickes Young
Jane Deh Ae
Bride
Blaze
Aultis
Telephone Company
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