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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1932
Page
3
The Sun day School of United Brethren Church plans a picnic Thursday afternoon August 11 at Jordan White Sulphur Springs near Stephenson with swimming games and a picnic supper. Members to meet at the church at 1 pm for transportation.
A detailed social calendar lists multiple afternoon and evening events across Frederick area clubs. Highlights include Four-H picnics at Pembroke Springs and Kline's Grove, Lions club dinners in Charles Town and Winchester, Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel, church choir practices, a North Frederick Home Demonstration Band Hall social, Rotary and Loyal Temperance Legion meetings, American Legion sessions at the George Washington Hotel, and an annual Branson Four-H picnic at Clevenger's bottom.
Lieut G William Cooper, surgeon in the United States Navy, and his wife Edith Derbes were honored at a dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs Grover C Cooper on N Cameron Street. The couple recently wed in Houma Louisiana. Dr Cooper has completed three years of sea duty in Haiti Panama and the Central American coast and will join the Naval Hospital staff in Pensacola Florida.
The Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren Church holds its regular monthly meeting Friday evening August 12 at 7 30 at Miss Gladys Patton 552 Fairmont avenue. A special request asks all members to attend on time. Mr and Mrs Irvin Snapp are visiting here from Fort Valley Georgia with Mr Snapp the entomologist heading the Peach Growers station.
Messrs Hugh Green and L W Hedrick return after a Beverley Beach visit. D M Timberlake resumes Swan Abram Hat salesman duties in Louisville. Many others travel or visit relatives in Lynchburg Harrisonburg Richmond Capon Bridge and Collingswood while some recover at home from illness.
The widow seeks habeas corpus relief as Higgins notes lack of evidence for a first degree murder charge in the Reynolds case. Libby’s attorneys push for swift hearing while Mrs Reynolds remains distressed en route to motherhood after Reynolds’s July 6 death at Reynolda following a birthday party. The shooting victim, 18, was found with a bullet wound on a second floor porch and died four and a half hours after hospital transport.
Greta Garbo drew crowds in Gothenburg as the liner Griswold docked. Police and dock workers restrained thousands of fans while Garbo slipped ashore late, with rumors of a sea exit dismissed when she finally appeared.
An industrial landslide in Kohaico province near Sharin buries a construction crew. Twenty two men are reported dead and twelve injured, AP reports from SEOUL on August 8.
Thomas M Sheetz 56 longtime Norfolk and Western station agent at Boyce Virginia died after an acute indigestion episode. He collapsed at the station yesterday afternoon and expired after return home for treatment. Survived by widow Mazie Woolfolk daughter Martha Ann and son Ensign Richard. Funeral arrangements set for Boyce with services at Emmanuel Episcopal Church and interment in Fairview Cemetery Roanoke.
Closing futures prices for wheat corn oats rye were reported in Chicago. Wheat September old 55 percent new 55 percent December 1914 May 6334. Corn September 33 percent December 345g May 39. Oats September 183g December 2034 May 233. Rye September 35 December 38 percent May 4234.
Mrs. William Glaize of South Cameron street received a telegram Saturday announcing the death of her sister Mrs. A. J. Forbes in Altoona Pennsylvania where she had been living for several years. Mrs. Forbes was formerly Miss Miller.
Eph Kelsey of Newport remarks that carpet beating is nearly as good fun as carrying out the ashes in a wry remark cited by the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Governor Albert C Ritchie in Annapolis handled Commander W W Waters plea for a B E F colony with courtesy and clear reasoning. He met Waters as a man to man, kept firmness yet showed sympathy, and avoided enemies while ending the bid. The piece portrays Ritchie as humane and practical in diplomacy.
Photos show Prof. Piccard entering his all metal gondola as the balloon looms above. The sequence captures a close-up of the scientist and the gondola poised for ascent.
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