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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1931
Page
3
Short department note inviting readers to mail or call telephonically for social and personal news. Provides telephone number 33 and indicates mail should be addressed to The Evening Star rather than specific staff members.
A sequence of club meetings and social events listed for Tuesday through Friday. Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Grace Lutheran choir practice. Warrenton Horse Show dances with music by Mr Husk O Hare. Rotary luncheon at Battletown Inn. Girls Association hay ride. American Legion Post luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. Public invited to horse show dances and events.
Reports from Winchester Memorial Hospital state that Mrs. Lucy Hinkle Mrs. Gladys Hinkle and Mr. W H Painter injured in a Sunday automobile collision near Hanging Rock are improving and had a satisfactory night. Others in the car including Mrs. Alva C Richards and her daughter Miss Billie Richards plus Miss Caroline Painter suffered minor injuries and were not hospitalized.
Baltimore residents Tunstall Smith and others plan visits to Maryland and Virginia after a marriage. Mrs Hart hosts a sixty first birthday dinner with a large guest list from Baltimore Martinsburg and nearby towns. A Girls Club hay ride to Strasburg is planned for August 27 with signups at Lord and Spencer’s. A surprise birthday dinner honors Russell Triplett featuring a pink and white cake and attending friends. Front Royal hosts a summer supper party with Washington area guests. Clergyman Rev Fred H Chambers visits after Apple Blossom Festival. Little Theatre to meet Sept 1 at Handley Library for important business. various locals return from travels and guests of Easier routes.
Section B of Christ Episcopal Church Millwood plans a festival September 9 from 4 to 7 p m at the rectory with tea and a sale of fancy pieces cake and home made candy. The public is invited.
Bishop James Cannon Jr. accuses the Senate inquiry into his 1928 anti Smith campaign of being a vindictive personal attack by a Virginia Democrat and a Boston Republican under Catholic influence. He objects to the panel continuing the probe of his $63 300 Virginia expenditures and asserts the panel lacks proper authority.
Governor Roosevelt urged immediate action in a message to the state legislature's extraordinary session. He focused on widening immunity powers for probing New York City and refused to entertain debate on upstate Republican inquiries or Tammany Hall ties, insisting the NYC matter be decided promptly on its merits.
Haye Riley president of the Lions Club presided at the George Washington Hotel luncheon today with good attendance. Dr George Snarr spoke on behalf of underprivileged children. Alexander of Bickers Motor Company attended as guest of Sibert Smith. Plans for a ladies night in late September were discussed, entertainment chaired by Herbert Miller. District officers meet at the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke on September 3 with Herbert S Larrick and Hoye Riley expected to attend.
The battleships Arkansas and Wyoming with 1000 midshipmen weigh anchor in Hampton Roads for the annual training cruise ending with debarkation at Annapolis. 300 cadets ask to remain aboard for a reserve cruise. Admiral Bloch endorses the idea and shore leave will be granted during port calls.
President Hoover announced five new members to the National Advisory Committee aiding Walter Stifford Jr. on unemployment relief. Owen D. Young of New York joins alongside Conrad Mann Kansas City P G Stillsbury Phoenix Iz S P Bush Columbus and James S Bell Minneapolis. Gifford national relief director said the panel would include representatives from every state and a national campaign to raise funds for local relief was planned.
Speculative traders continued to dominate grain operations on the Chicago Board of Trade. Closing quotations list Wheat September 4674, December 5034, May 564. Corn September 4114, December 37, May 42. Oats September 19, December 214, May 24. Rye September 317, December 35, May 39.
Col and Mrs Charles Lindbergh rested in NEMURO Japan preparing to continue to Tokyo. They toured sights and expressed fondness for sahimi raw fish at a dinner hosted by Mayor Ando. Lindberghs tuned the plane’s motor and Mrs Lindbergh visited Obi shi radio station to compare notes with operators.
Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the Kellogg Peace Pact signed in Paris on August 27, 1928. The pact pledges nations to condemn war as a means to settle international disputes and to seek pacific solutions. The text notes the first article rejects recourse to war and renounces it.
Frank Bowman of Altavista Virginia died at his home after a long illness from a complication of diseases. He was 65, born in Shenandoah County and will be transported to Winchester for burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery after funeral services at the cemetery chapel. He married Iva Funkhouser, who survives him, with siblings in Martinsburg and Hagerstown among others.
Col Luke Lea of Nashville and Luke Lea Jr. with Wallace B. Davis were found guilty in Asheville North Carolina Superior Court of conspiring to defraud Central Bank and Trust Co of 1 136 million dollars. Charlet was acquitted. Convictions included actual misappropriation with heavy potential sentences.
The DC-X arrived in Charleston harbor at 12 35 p m on its flight from Miami to New York. It will stay in Charleston tonight then proceed to Norfolk and on to New York Thursday.
Hagerstown Md Aug 25 word confirms the fatal shooting of B Saunders Bullard Jr 18 son of Lieut Comdr B Saunders Bullard at Mare Island Navy Yard Calif. Relatives say he was cleaning a rifle when the accident occurred August 17. His mother Miss Marjorie Williar of Catonsville Md is the former fiancée and granddaughter of Rear Admiral W H G Williar.
The New York stock market drifted lower in sluggish trading with only feeble morning gains. It recovered midafternoon but slid 2 points in late trading. total volume remained under a million shares. Call money was steady at 1 1/2 percent.
Text outlines that nations, as high contracting parties, must seek any settlement of disputes by pacific means and refrain from non peaceful solutions, emphasizing the instrument of national policy in their relations.
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