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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1935
Page
2
In Athens thousands protest government leniency after rebels from Venizelist uprising receive life terms. Troops guard key sites including Parliament and the prime minister's home. crowds witness public degradation of officers as Cameramen film the event and ex cabinet member Metaxas leads the demonstrators.
The navy depends on tin as a strategic material for wartime needs. Tin is essential for food containers grease and oil gear brass bolts nuts screws rivets pipes valves and flanges solders anti friction bearing metals manganese bronze condenser tubes aircraft components and other naval implements.
Representative McCormack demanded State Department public notice to Mexico that interference with constitutional rights will not be tolerated. He cited evidence that Hermolao E Torres, Mexican consul at San Bernardino California, acted to hinder a religious procession for Our Lady of Guadalupe last December.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond Virginia upkept the Frazier Lemke bankruptcy act of June 1934 as emergency relief for insolvent farmers. It reversed a Maryland district court which held sub section S of section 75 violated due process of the fifth amendment.
State Insurance Commissioner George Ales announced that total net fire loss by Virginia fire insurers in 1934 was 3,258,264.61, down from 1933 and 1932. Bowles credited local fire departments and Richmond fire prevention chief L. B. Jones and the Richmond Safety Council, noting higher premiums overall with stock, mutual, and reciprocal firms reporting 10,140,039.28 in total premiums, up from 1933.
The report notes grasshopper eggs endure extreme cold and can withstand temperatures as low as 10 degrees below zero, challenging assumptions that freezing kills them.
The Lions Club held a meeting at the George Washington Hotel with Sam uel Preston presiding. Committees were named for nominating auditing and a joint meeting role, plus a float committee for the Apple Blossom Festival.
The Federal Trade Commission announced it will file a complaint against the Rubber Manufacturer's Association Inc a N R A code authority over alleged price fixing in fire hose sales. Further details await preparation of the formal complaint.
Paris April 3. An estrangement between Mr and Mrs Robert Gordon Switz Americans on trial as spies against France was reported in the courthouse lobbies as Switz appeared to snub his wife at the close of the Thirteenth Correctional Chamber session.
The Supreme Court indicated it would require Gulf Refining Company of Texas to pay the West Virginia chain store tax on its gasoline plants and filling stations in that state.
Eight appraisements of deceased county residents filed in the county clerk’s office after approval by A. P. Williams list estates from Clarke, Middletown, Stephens City, Gainesboro and nearby areas. Values range from 350 to 14,293.67 with real estate, farms, homes, cash, and personal property noted. Administrators include Larrick, Richard, Purcell, Cochran, Farmer, and others. appraisers named Elijah Pifer and peers.
In Flemington New Jersey on April 3 prosecutors sought a defense witness for perjury charges as Hauptmann's appeal prep continued. County prosecutor Anthony Hauck said he asked New York authorities to arrest Benjamin Heier who testified that a man resembling Isador Fisch jumped the Bronx cemetery wall the night the Lindbergh ransom was paid. Heierer is indicted for perjury. A state rebuttal witness placed Heierer in an automobile accident miles away that night.
Thomas McFarland a 39 year old paint factory worker told in a police lineup he killed his mother in law Nora Kelly 68 and her granddaughter Florence McVey 18 in their Brooklyn home. The suspects displayed no emotion as he described the Sinens night killings.
T B Greer of Roanoke told Richmond Times Dispatch editor that droughts stem from sunspot activity. He argues 11 years of sunspots reduce atmospheric energy to lift moisture, predicting 11 years of sunshine ahead and drought risk ending about 1950.
Plans for the Virginia Press Association summer meeting call for attendees to assemble in Norfolk on Wednesday July 17 and sail that afternoon on the Robert E. Lee or the George Washington to New York for two days of sightseeing and business. Round trip cost is 27.50 including hotel and entertainment. A New York banquet is being organized with L A Gaines Jr Mark Ethridge and J B Wall coordinating. executives of New York advertising agencies will attend and a speaker will discuss Virginia opportunities for advertisers in Commonwealth dailies and weeklies.
Public sale for J H Lockhart and wife trust deeds to be held April 18 1935 at Winchester Virginia offering parcel at East Piccadilly and North Kent streets with modern dwelling and store house. Terms include one third cash and two equal yearly installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Also court notice in Winchester for Mary Evaline King vs Oak Edgar King seeking divorce on desertion with publication and service order.
Trustee will sell at public auction in front of the County Court House Winchester Va on April 20 1935 at 11 A M the property of James B Winkfield insured under deed dated September 29 1922 Lot Nos 4 5 and 6 on Graylea plat fronting 108 feet on National Avenue and extending 160 feet between Gray Avenue and Smithfield Avenue improved by three double brick houses numbered 342 344 346 348 350 and 352. Auctioneer C I Brumback.
Sales Directory lists an auction from April 4 to 11 p m covering real estate personal property and livestock located 2 miles south Capon Bridge at E C Fletchers former home.
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