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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1933
Page
8
A quirky census style note lists the Schneider family heights: Elly 86 inches Kurt 88 inches Frieda 41 inches Hilda 43 inches and Anna at seven feet four inches, highlighting the playful discrepancy between four inch and seven foot four.
Police investigate the slaying and robbery of four bachelors at a farm home near LOCROSS Virginia. Bodies found include A U Cannon 77 in a smokehouse pit and nephews Thomas W Cannon 56 John William Cannon 28 outside. Willis Cannon 82 beaten and shot.
The text urges rejecting despair after failure and starting self improvement by ruthlessly cutting away inner evil rather than cultivating noble impulses. It emphasizes decisive self-discipline as a path to growth.
The Senate Banking Committee seeks the widest possible authority for an investigation into J. P. Morgan and Company and major private banks. Chairman Fletcher pledges rapid approval based on Pecora’s questions, noting Morgan refused to answer all but one and questioned the panel’s jurisdiction on seven points.
Brigadier General Golden L H Ruggles U S A retired and a leading authority on ordnance and gunnery died of a heart attack at his winter home in Charleston at age 64. He retired in 1930 after a long career including a West Point professorship from 1908 to 1911 and authorship of a text on stresses in wire strapped guns. He was born in Omaha Nebraska on March 18 1869, son of George Doria Ruggles adjutant general of the U S Army.
A bomb exploded at the rear of the First Baptist Church in Taylorville Illinois during Rev J R Hastings sermon. No injuries occurred but a window shattered and the congregation was briefly scattered before Hastings resumed and finished the service. Officials suspect retaliation for Hastings sermons linking to the coal miners dispute. Hastings had just offered his resignation to accept a call to a Moline church.
B P Householder of Gore Frederick county pled guilty before County Magistrate A J Tavenner to unlawfully killing a deer last December. He was fined 45.25 dollars on two counts killing in a closed season and failure to report the female deer to the game warden. Game Warden F W Pingley filed the charges. There was no open deer season in Frederick county last year. the deer was killed in Back Creek district about four miles southwest of Gore.
Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts executives plan a 6 30 p m meeting at King's Daughters Hospital Martinsburg with about 15 Winchester area scouters traveling by car from Handley Library to Martinsburg. Eugene B Cooper will chair the business session and Dr M H Porterfield will preside over the program.
The magazine Steel forecasts a moderate April upturn in iron and steel demand driven by the automotive sector. The Silk Association of America notes an 8.3 percent rise in February yardage sales of bread silk versus a year earlier. Forest City Brewing expands equipment contracts valued at $400000. The Association of Commerce cites revived wholesale and retail trade from spring merchandise. United Engineering and Foundry reports a 5 percent increase in operations with plants at 20 percent capacity.
A historical estimate places Earth's mass at six sextillion tons while atmospheric weight exceeds five quadrillion tons at about 5 178 000 000 000 000 tons. These figures reflect early scientific approximations and scale concepts of planetary mass and air mass.
President Roosevelt in his inaugural address urged action and first things first. The record shows overhauls including federal bank control, large spending cuts, civilian conservation corps creation, unemployment aid, and plans for federal regulation of securities and agriculture with a major works program and banking reform.
About two hundred rural households near Warren Ohio cut electric lights in protest of high rates. Residents used lamp and candlelight for the second night, signaling continued demonstrations, with no end date set.
City of Winchester invites sealed bids or proposals for a diesel engine driven generator power plant and distribution system to supply pumping quarry power lighting and street lighting at City Hall White Way and related systems. Bids due 4 30 p m Tuesday April 25 1933 with specifications blueprint map and instructions available for a 2.00 payment. The city may reject all bids or award contracts as deemed in its best interest.
At the Roanoke Woman's Republican Club meeting in the Hotel Patrick Henry Roanoke VA state chairman H B McCormac State Secretary Fred W McWane and City Chairman T X Parsons urged intensified organization work for forthcoming campaigns They emphasized Virginia's great political opportunity and the need for upright leaders and broader party unity.
Stephens City Community League announces a series of diphtheria clinics for all students at the public school. Dr. P B Stickley will administer toxin antitoxin from 9 to 11 a m on April 4 11 and 18. A 15 cent fee will cover serum costs as parents are urged to cooperate to protect local children.
A provocative line reflecting fear and vigilance in the face of neighborly threats. The speaker implies personal readiness to defend home if nearby behavior becomes extreme.
An advertisement touts a new internal treatment for piles called Hemroid Tablets. It asserts rapid relief by removing the cause rather than using salves, citing Dr J S Leonhardt’s success with 1000 patients and a money back guarantee at Baker's Drug Store and other druggists.
A 1200 pound sea lion refused captivity at Nelscott Oregon, released then returned to shore as crowds fed it. In Milwaukee James Murphy jokes about the boiler being on the Fritz with a 90 day jail hope. In Kansas City a cock in a window mirrors a Stewar family mystery of a shadow box. Greenwich fireman ruled against rescues on private property after a cat bite. Bend trapper Fey Robideau recounts a winter of trapping only a skunk and a muskrat bite on the way home.
Sturgeon Bay residents organize to address a local issue, mobilizing groups and officials to discuss solutions and actions planned for the coming weeks. Community leaders urge turnout at a public meeting to hear proposals and next steps.
South Carolina faces a decisive clash over 3.2 percent beer laws as the Senate finance committee schedules a hearing Tuesday at 3 p m. Three measures are in play. one passed the House 63 to 39, a second from 19 senators, and a third by Senator Harvey to divert beer profits to government at all levels.
John Powers 31 of New Orleans was critically injured after walking into the propeller of an airplane he had just alighted from at a hangar in Providence. Pilot Harry Charlton said Powers jumped from the plane, passed around the wing, and moved toward the propeller despite a warning to stop.
A nationwide drive to plant hardily larksbur memorials for Spanish American War veterans was launched at the Virginia Department Ladies Auxiliary Spanish War Veterans meeting. The committee seeks auxilians to plant the flowers near veterans' graves as the pension bill reductions drew regret over diminished or eliminated widow pensions.
Harold N. Ickes secretary of the Interior Horace Albright and Senator Hiram Johnson with California visited the proposed Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah Valley. They toured the park area and were luncheon guests at Mimslyn in Luray.
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