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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1933
Page
1
A long controversy ends with a major NRA coal code draft set for public hearing Monday. The code includes wage scales from 5.3 to 4.0 and a 36 hour work week. Union leaders and coal operators continue to file objections and seek modifications.
Marian Young Read of Oak testified in her $100000 alienation suit against stage actress Windsor that a torn love letter found in her husband Al Read’s hotel room indicated an affair. Read described stitching together the note and sending it to her mother as evidence, saying her husband promised to end the relationship.
Large 3 layer cakes and ICAN rolls advertised with dozen prices. Apple and cherry pies two for 25 cents. Wich buns and all kind kites two dozen for 25 cents. Sliced and unsliced bread jumbo loaf at six cents. Kleen Krust Bakery supplied.
Washington issues the complete text of the bituminous coal code under the national recovery act. It defines industry scope, employer and employee terms, hours limits, minimum inside wages, weighman rights, semimonthly pay, and employee organizing protections, with provisions on share work and district schedules.
In Havana, leaders from all factions met at the presidential palace to study the nation’s problems amid upheaval that has produced two revolutionary governments and drawn 30 American war ships to Cuban waters. A secret session indicated provisional President Dé Cespedes may be reinstated and a coalition cabinet formed to replace the five-man junta. Guards and delegates discussed conciliation under government invitation to hear viewpoints of each faction.
Planes scout Cuba and Washington report six navy seaplanes en route from Norfolk to the Canal Zone. A head on collision near Cayman in the Virginian railway area killed passenger train engineer James Crotty and injured six crew members including conductor R H Scott and fireman George Guthrey. The freight engine was damaged as the passenger locomotive climbed onto it after the crash.
Washington officials welcomed the prospect of higher salaries as the budget bureau requested next year’s expense estimates with base pay figures and no fifteen percent reduction. The bureau warned the move should not be seen as signaling a policy change, a caution read by fiscal agents at several major federal agencies.
Akron dispatch reports Max Riffle age 26 was extradited after a hearing and turned over to West Virginia authorities. He faces a charge in Braxton county linked to the slaying of Hugh Ocheltree two years prior and will be taken to Sutton, West Virginia.
A modern fire proof hospital for Grafton, estimated at 150000 dollars, gains momentum after a Charleston meeting among Mayor Charles O King, Attorney Gene W Ford, and Dr Dorsey Peck. Congressman Ramsey and the WV board engineer discussed securing a 150000 dollar federal loan under a 30 percent grant with repayment over twenty years at up to five percent interest. The plan aims to self liquidate and use a federal loan via FEMA/ Public Works.
Washington reports transportation coordinator Joseph B. Eastman ordered enforcement of the emergency railroad act to protect labor from management interference. He sent a questionnaire to rail managers to confirm status of company unions and reiterated that management must avoid coercion or funding labor groups, preserving workers’ freedom to choose. New York officials plan immediate reviews to boost employment or reallocate work following the recent reply from Eastman.
Four youths including Robert Razzo and Robert Buffa of Detroit along with Douglas Whitsitt of Toronto and Charles Davidson of Port Huron were jailed for kidnapping and killing Joseph Nesbitt, an auto service manager found in a ditch. Razzo admitted shooting after Nesbitt was forced from his car at gunpoint for $87.
Seven year old Paul Defenbaugh Jr. was seriously injured at the Exchange Mill on Latrobe Street when his foot brake released and the hand elevator shot upward. His head was trapped between the sill and the elevator as it passed. Montgomery, owner of the mill, fell and injured himself while freeing the boy. Dr. E R Bucklew treated him at City Hospital with a guarded prognosis.
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, noted militant minister and longtime foe of Tammany Hall in New York, died in Ventnor N J at age 91 after falling from his home roof. His niece Mrs Grace Moore said he had been walking in his sleep recently though his health had been excellent.
New York reports that Saturday trains resume and the securities market will reopen, with most commodity exchanges following suit tomorrow. The note indicates a return to normal operations after the disruption.
Saturday specials list items for sale including medicines like iron quinine and strychnine 12 oz bottle bay rum 1 pint white pine syrup fountain pen carat solid gold tipped with iridium with prices shown.
Group 7 of the First Christian church will hold a bake sale on Saturday September 9 starting at 11 oclock at Lee Bennett and Sons Paint store. Home made pies jest bread and candy for sale.
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