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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1931
Page
7
Edison remains hospitalized in Orange New Jersey as doctors report his frail health. Dr Howe compares his condition to an elevator cable with only a few strands left, noting visible improvement but no guarantee of immediate recovery. Edison has a chance of living for some time.
Civilian possemen joined city and county officers in a hunt for a black man after he killed Augusta Williams and wounded two other Birmingham society girls during a four hour captivity after a highway hold up. Nell Williams was shot in the spine and Jennie Wood injured in the arm. all were prominent in Birmingham society.
Atlantic City August 5 Five Cubans and an American were taken for questioning by police in connection with a rumored revolutionary plot. The men tried to board a ship off the Jersey coast during the night and were arrested as they landed on the steel pier. Police said they were well supplied with money but gave no further details on the plot or connections.
Chicago on August 4 reports blame on Communists for a brief but bloody riot on the south side over eviction protests. Three Black residents were killed, others wounded, and several police injured. Mayor Cermak and Corporation Counsel Sexton move to curb further trouble and aid evicted families.
Sir Hubert Wilkins polar submarine Nautilus departed Bergen heading to Tromsø then Spitzbergen en route to the north pole with plans to explore polar routes and Arctic waters.
P Leslie Kilroy 46 cashier of the First National Bank of Lonaconing shot and killed himself during an audit by bank examiners. President W W Shultice and directors declined to comment as the investigation continues. Kilroy had 20 years with the bank and was active in civic affairs. Miss Margaret Smith found the body. Magistrate William J Ford ruled it a self-inflicted death with no inquest.
Miss Mary Kramer returns home after spending several weeks with relatives and friends in Leonardtown Maryland.
Four men and nine girls were seized in a raid at Belle Grove Inn on the old Annapolis road just outside Baltimore. Detectives reported automatic pistols and a loaded submachine gun magazine found at the feeder house and handed the detainees to Anne Arundel county for potential grand jury action. Police also hunted for seven men in a touring car with sawed off shotguns and planned to identify the owner of shotguns found in other raids. Authorities aimed to question witnesses about beer running conditions in the county.
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