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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1930
Page
3
Social and personal items are accepted for the department by mail or to editor Isabelle P. Miller. News can be reported by telephone between 8 am and 4 pm for next day coverage. Phone number listed as 33.
Turner Ashby Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy will hold a silver tea December 11 from 3 30 to 5 30 at the McCormac home on Handley boulevard. The event funds winter relief and memorial projects including Stratford and a Maury bust. Guests invited. local social notes follow.
Mrs. 8. Donald McFadden and Mrs. Eugene B. Cooper travel to Washington to attend the Beethoven Festival at Constitution Hall. The ten Symphony Orchestra led by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky performs the Leonore Overture No. 3, the Violin Concerto in D major, and Symphony No. 5 in C minor with Efrem Zimbalist as soloist. Friday's soloist is Josef Hofmann.
A marriage license was issued in the Corporation Clerk office to Roy Mason 21 and Miss Virginia Boyce 16 with consent from the bride’s father Lloyd Boyce. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Mason of the city.
Mr J W Newcome is in Washington on business. Mrs R G Mitchell of Boyce visits. Mrs Howard Solenberger returns from Baltimore. George Taylor and Carl Hicks of Winchester with Miss Genevieve Massie of Stephens City were guests at a turkey and oyster dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Carl Martin.
The Retail Grocers Association president said all member stores will close Friday December 5 from 2 to 5 p m. Handley Shenandoah Valley Academy football teams will play a benefit game on Handley field for the city unemployed.
In Marlboro Maryland 65 prohibition agents plus 25 Washington patrolmen pursued a major drive to dry up liquor flowing into Baltimore and Washington. By December 3 they reported one liquor seizure one destroyed still and the discovery of an abandoned still as efforts continued across four counties.
A man and a woman were killed by illuminating gas in east Baltimore. Three family members were overcome as a gas leak affected the household. a milkman found Earle R Saddler 46 in a chair by a stove with burners open but unlit. Cassalboom's wife Anna 40 lay unconscious on a second floor couch. Mrs William Phillips 36 and her semi conscious husband Harry Phillips ? their 14 year old daughter summoned help.
Washington debates unemployment drought relief with Hoover proposing 100 to 150 million for employment projects and seed and feed loans for farmers. Senate and House show mixed support with plans for public works, drought loans, and the Muscle Shoals dispute shaping early session priorities.
Nathaniel Herbert Wheeler, 45, was sentenced to four and a half years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for stock mining frauds. Prosecutors said witnesses from Illinois, Florida, Alabama and other states placed losses between 800000 and 1009000 dollars. Wheeler had pleaded guilty to five indictments of using the mails to defraud through stock purchase clubs of 30 members contributing 1000 dollars each.
In Madrid a newspaper reporter fired a pistol at Premier Berenguer as he entered the office. The bullet missed, and guards overpowered the assailant. The incident occurred amid a gathering of correspondents.
The House and Senate conferees on the Muscle Shoals legislation agreed to report a disagreement and send the Senate government operation bill to the House for a vote, signaling continued stalemate on the project.
A new Lions International club will be organized in Romney West Virginia with Winchester Lions Club leading the program. Dr Keyser will receive the charter from Dr Litgleighn of Clarksburg as district governor. Welcome greetings will come from Richard Simmons and John Cornwell among others.
Improvement reported this afternoon in the condition of City Sergeant C. Lee Barr of South Loudoun street after an illness presumed to be appendicitis began yesterday afternoon. He faced a difficult night but rested easier today.
A Virginia forestry commission meeting in Richmond discussed taxing forest land and forest fire protection. Speakers backed a yield tax on timber at harvest and suggested higher income tax to offset non productive years, with plans to report to Governor Pollard ahead of the next General Assembly.
Organizations including Va. Woolen Co. Northern Va Power Co. Coca Cola Co. Lions Kiwanis Rotary Country Gentlemen Sarah Zane Reuss Friendship South End American Legion and Elks plan a meeting tonight at 7 30 pm to complete arrangements. Members urged to attend.
International Harvester Company will give one hundred $500 scholarships to outstanding 4-H Club members for study in any U S college of agriculture. The award, announced by Vice-President Cyrus McCormick Jr., honors the one hundredth anniversary of the reaper invention and includes ten for eastern states.
Roy C. Knotts 38 acting chief of police of Logan W Va died after being shot five times in a pool room. Enoch Scaggs charged with the murder. Knotts, who died from wounds, said he was unarmed and had no trouble with his attacker before succumbing. Scaggs made no statement.
In Washington the Senate campaign funds committee said it uncovered expenditures of 272312 dollars for the Davis Brown primary ticket in Pennsylvania over the 368962 dollars reported to the committee.
New York notes a slow market retreat as molasseslike liquidations unfold. Investors remain cautious after Hoover's report that income tax cuts are not warranted, while bankers favor conservative policy. Early gains fade and prices slip with call money back to two percent.
Dwight W. Morrow was administered the oath today as senator from New Jersey in Washington on December 3. This marks his formal entry into the United States Senate.
Three bandits robbed the Ex change Bank in Birmingham, bound employees and customers with ropes, fleeing with about $3,000. Local police canvassed the area for clues and suspects.
Wealthy publisher Court land H. Young, age 54, was found dead in his West Fifty fifth Street apartment. The apparent cause was asphyxia from smoke from a fire that engulfed the living room. Young founded Young's Magazine in 1899 and published Breezy Stories Yellow Book and Droll Stories among others. Guests in the story include Mr and Mrs John B Price of Hazleton PA.
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