Mrs Wilkinson elected president of City High alumni
Mrs Florence H Wilkinson was chosen president of the Grafton High School Alumni Associates at a business meeting last night before the annual banquet and dance at the Moose home. Other officers include Francis Warder vice president Miss Bara Musgrove secretary treasurer and Miss G Minette Watkins along with Riurris Lambert Virgil Handley Clyde Hickman Marion Skaggs on the executive committee. The banquet, presided over by Arthur G Yates, shattered attendance records and was praised as one of the association’s best. Continued on page two.
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Florence H. Wilkinson
Grafton High School Alumni Associates
Tee
Francis Warder
Bara Musgrove
G. Minette Watkins
Curriis Lambert
Virgil Handley
Clyde Hickman
Marion Skaggs
Arthur G. Yates
Wilkingon
Ruth Jurenp
Bailey Wyckoff
H. Co
Church Union Discussion Is Recommended
Youngstown May 29 The 73rd annual assembly of the United Presbyterian Church discussed steps toward a union with other Presbyterian and reformed denominations. The unity committee favored authorizing draft work with external committees on a basis of organic union while rejecting federation. Some synods reported against arch union, and a resolution urged President Hoover to declare a national day of prayer to address starvation oppression and evils, arguing America's condition results from divine displeasure over U.S. behavior.
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Youngstown
Presbyterian Chhurch
Assembly
Hoover
America
Memorial Day Observance Delays Grafton Sentinel
No edition will be published tomorrow as The Grafton Sentinel observes Memorial Day. The next regular edition is scheduled for Monday evening, June 1, with readers advised to await the return of the newspaper.
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Grafton Sentinel
Mayor King to pitch opening ball at Grafton diamond classic
Mayor Charles O. King will throw the first ball of the opening diamond classic at Athletic Field on Yates avenue at 2 o clock tomorrow afternoon. The event marks the charity double header supporting the Salvation Army relief fund. President Tom Bartlett of the Army advisory board has been mentioned as possibly catching the first ball. Maggiiling has not commented on his pitching hand. Tomorrow may reveal more.
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Charles O. King
Grafton
Athletic Field
Yates Avenue
Salvation Army Relief Fund
Tom” Bartlett
Army Advisory Board
Maggi Iling
Schirru Executed After Plot Against Mussolini
Rome May 29 Michele Schirru an American by naturalization was executed by firing squad for plotting to assassinate Premier Mussolini The execution took place in Fort Braschi with Blackshirt militiamen forming a hollow square and a volley fired into his spine He was the first American executed under the defense of the state law and the seventh to die for anti regime plots with Italian intellectuals later trialed for alleged insurrection.
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Rome
Mussolini
Michele Schirru
Fort Braschi
Special Tribunal For
Schirra
New York
Italy
United States
Sardania
Justice and Liberty
Milan
Flemington to Hold Election Scheduled June 2
The Flemington municipal election is set for June 2 with a full candidate slate. Two tickets, Citizens and Independents, field contenders across three wards. Fred E. Gates runs for mayor on the Citizens ticket opposing A. N. Steuart of the Independents, while Stanley Fleming is unopposed for recorder under Independents. Council candidates are listed by ward with First Ward including Harry Garder.
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Flemington
Citizens’ and
Independents
Fred E. Gates
Citizens
A. N. Steuart
Stanley Fleming
Harry Garder
Radio cruiser nets five in Ohio streetcar theft case
Pittsburgh May 29 aP Three young men and two girls were taken by radio cruiser police for questioning in a street car holdup near East Liverpool Ohio in which a toll bridge keeper was robbed of two boxes of money and bridge tickets. The suspects named Willoughby 21 Bouman 21 Hecklinger 23 Betty Fallon Peggy ONeil 20 and Mary ONeil sisters from Myemidala Pa were found with two loot boxes matching descriptions.
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Pittsburgh
East Liverpool
Ohio
Charles Willoughby
George Bouman
M. Hecklinger
Betty Fallon
Peggy O’neil
Mary, O'Neil
Myemidala
Rep C Mooney Succumbs After Brief Illness
Cleveland May 29 Congressman Charles A Mooney Democratic representative of the 20th Ohio district since 1923 died at his home after a brief illness of lobar pneumonitis. Mooney 52 had been battling the illness since Wednesday Oxygen was used in a bid to rally him He led River and Harbors committee work in Congress and earlier served in the Ohio Senate Born St Marys January 5 1879 he left high school to work in his father insurance office and moved to Cleveland in 1904.
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Cleveland
Charles A . Mooney
Ohio
Mooney
Congress
Washington
River and Harbors Committee
Ohio Senate
St. Mary's
Charge Man Wed Five Women In One Year Period
Memphis Tennessee May 29 A middle aged man named Valin H Burke once a theatre man was held for questioning by postal inspectors over a year span in which he married five women in different states and obtained money or valuables from each. He reportedly married Maud Hardie of Bluefield West Virginia at Covington Virginia on August 5 1930 under the name B A Dawson and left her in Columbus Ohio eight days later after taking funds from her. Nebraskas manufacturers in 1990 were valued at nearly half
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Memphis
Tenn
Valin H. Burke
Poslive Today
Burke
Fae
Maud Hardie
Bluefield
W. Va
Covington
B. A. Dawson
Columbus
What's Doing Here Saturday in Grafton Memorial Day Events
Memorial Day crowds in Grafton will see a parade forming to pass the National Cemetery at 10 o'clock, with services there at 10:30 led by War-Time Governor John J. Cornwell. A memorial to Taylor County World War dead will be held at Court House Square at noon. Grounds open at Grafton Park and Grafton Country Club for public use, the latter as it officially opens for the season. A double header baseball game at Athletic Field on Yates Avenue starts at 2 o'clock to support the Salvation Army fund.
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Grafton
National Cemetery
John J. Cornwell
Taylor County
House Square
Grafton Park
Grafton Country Club
Yates Avenue
Salvation Army Fund
Tariff Rates Revealed Not High Enough
Washington May 29 The Republican National Committee says ample evidence shows the Hawley Smoot tariff rates are not high enough and cites Representative ConneryDem Massachusetts urging a 60 percent over the present 20 percent ad valorem duty on boots and shoes. Democratic leaders attack the rates but have not named reductions to propose. The statement argues protection of markets and workers amid wage cuts abroad.
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Washington
Republican National Committee Today
Connery
Massachusetts
Tariff Commission
Old Confederate and Blue Soldier Memorial Day Parade
Confederate veterans join with the Blue Line in March to take part in Memorial Day observances in Grafton. Old soldiers living in Taylor County will ride or march to National Cemetery on Walnut Street, joining the Gray Line veterans as they honor the dead. The parade, led by Mayor King and Police Chief Homer Selvey, is expected to include nearly 2,000 participants despite some illness. Governor Cornwell arrives to deliver an address at 10:30 a.m. at the National Cemetery, with a reception at Hotel Gratton before the ceremonies. Traffic on parade routes will be restricted from 8 to 12 a.m. and decorations will be completed by city school children.
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Taylor Country
Grafton
By +O, square
National Cemetery
Walnut Street
Taylor County Légion
Pont No.2
Ralph H. Cline
John W. Keener
Wickwire
Gideon
Reese
Route 2
Catholic Cemetery
Newton Dadisman
McGea
Lemuel T. Currey
Prineytown
John J. Cornwell
Romney
National Comet
WMMN
Fairmont
Hotel Gratton
King
Homer Selvey
War Time Governor Cornwell Visits Grafton for 24 Hours
Former Governor John J. Cornwell arrives in Grafton from Romney for a packed 24 hour itinerary. He will be greeted at Hotel Grafton, address the Rotary Club, speak at the high school graduation, attend a Memorial Day breakfast, parade, and National Cemetery ceremony before returning home. He will not grant interviews.
Mayor Urges Caution In City Traffic
Mayor Charles O Xing urged drivers and pedestrians to use extreme care on Memorial Day in Grafton. He asked automobile operators to drive carefully observe hand signals and watch traffic lights at intersections. Streetcars will carry many into the business sections so caution is urged at Main Street stops and discharge points. If unsure where to park or picnic dinner, ask a policeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles 0. Xing
Grafton
Ity
Briand and Laval Upheld by Four Confidence Votes
Paris reports Prime Minister Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand survive four consecutive confidence votes in the chamber of deputies. Cabinet support carried margins from 298 263 to 332 256 as the body backs the officials amid government dissolution ahead of the June 13 presidential installation.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Pierre Laval
Aristide Briand
Amooth
Hoover to honor war dead with Decoration Day address
President Hoover will travel to Valley Forge Pennsylvania for Decoration Day services. He will deliver a Memorial address on the grounds where Washington and Baron von Steuben trained volunteers during the winter of 1777. Hoover, Mrs Hoover and aides will attend with a return to Washington planned for later that day. Herbert Hoover Jr will depart for Palo Alto to spend the summer with family.
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Washington
Hoover
America
White House
Valley Forge
George
Capitol
Philadelphia
Nlon League
Theodore Joslin
Lawrence Richey
Joel T. Boone
Valley Verge
Geo. . Washington
Brandywine
Germantown
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
State Park
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Palo Alto
Calif
Memorial Day Parking Restrictions Announced
The notice states no parking from 8 to 2 a.m. on May 30 along Main Street from the Bridge light to the Post Office and along Post Office to St Marys street past the concrete bridge to Walnut Street. Parking also restricted on Walnut Street. Authority: Major King.
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Main Street
Bridge
Postoffice
St. Mary's Street
Serosa
Walnut
Chain store owner dies after resisting robbery
Indianapolis reports the death of Lafayette A. Jackson, 64, operator of 260 grocery stores, who was wounded during a hold up attempt he resisted. The incident follows his involvement in challenging the 1929 Indiana charter tax law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Local police pursued three suspects in the gunfight near the company’s Indianapolis operations.
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Indianapolis
Lafayette A. Jackson
Jackson
United States Supreme Court
Igs
Jackeem
Charles Bauer
Pergeant
Agim Town Carters
Weill
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SEC
Schirru
Squad
O. J. Morrison, Jr
Pat. B. Withrew
Union Mission
Charleston
Wobu
C-Mooney
Lobar
Nebrasta
G. O. P. Committee
Veterans OF Gray Line
Cornwell
Hotel Grafton
City High School
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Monongah
Briand
Laval
King Major
L. A. Jackson
Lis
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