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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1926
Page
3
Social and personal notes report Miss Mary Dale, superintendent of Nurses at Charles Town General Hospital, on a month long vacation to her Bermuda Island home. Mrs Grigsby of Berryville will serve as superintendent during her absence.
The annual Christmas seals sale operates from Mrs. S. Rosenmeyer on North Loudoun Street. Buyers can drop in any time for as many seals as desired. The drive aims to exceed prior years as hundreds of sufferers benefit from the sale and gifts should spread message of cheer through every letter and package.
Iowa Republicans threaten to repudiate the party if Congress and the administration do not pass farm relief legislation. Mrs. T. P. Hollowell says Iowa delegates stand with Midwestern allies demanding relief and accuse the party of Eastern influence over four years of policy on agriculture.
In Martinsburg, orchard owners resist three mile radius cedar eradication charges, challenging per acre assessments as constitutional class legislation. They vow court action, aiming for state Supreme Court review, with penalties and interest if upheld. The levy caps at $1 per acre for ten year old orchards and 50 cents for younger trees to fund cedar cutting.
The body of Charles E Buckley died yesterday at his son Frank L Buckley’s residence in No 3 South Stewart street was sent to Wappinge 18 NY for interment with his son and daughter Helen Buckley. Buckley age near 80 native of Bustleton PA spent most of life in NYC and Philadelphia a traveling salesman over 50 years with John Pullman Co widow Mary E Buckley survives with one son two sisters died earlier including Helen Buckley who married Dr E E Montgomery and Sue Buckley who married Col Louis Brechemin Buckley retired from business and had lived with his son after fracturing his hip last April
Washington December four defense counsel in the Fall-Doheny oil trial presented an expurgated version of the navy reason for storing oil at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The witness Admiral J K Robison said that having a naval fuel oil supply there is of great value to national defense. Names of foreign powers were omitted by order of Secretary Wilbur and the judge, and Robison avoided confidential details.
Alanson B. Houghton the American envoy to the Court of St. James arrives in Belfast next Wednesday on a special invitation from Lady Craig to open a charity bazaar. He will stay at Hillsborough Castle the government house as guest of the Duke of Abercorn governor of north Ireland.
Four men die and three survive when a small fishing schooner sinks at sea after a day’s fishing. Rescue aboard the Merchants and Miners steamer Ontario brought the survivors, including captain William Parks of Brooklyn. Names of the drowned crew were not known to Parks. The schooner sailed from New York last Monday with seven aboard.
The U S state department broadcast a general alarm to consuls at Caribbean ports to seize the schooner Arsene J after it escaped with two Federal Prohibition agents aboard. Prohibition chief H C Anslinger urged cooperation and noted the ship bears papers to Tampico.
Jurors found all three defendants not guilty on the first indictment amid court instruction and crowd tension. Mrs Hall and relatives hailed vindication while bail matters lingered for Henry De La Carpender and Willie Stevens awaiting next hearings.
Maurice L. Rhoads of Chambersburg Pennsylvania was accidentally shot in the leg by a fellow camper in the Caledonia section of South Mountain. He died before hospital transfer. Earlier this week Irving Jacobs of York Pennsylvania was also accidentally shot while leaning on his gun.
The Chamber of Commerce will be open 6 to 9 30 each Saturday night until year end to sell automobile truck and motorcycle licenses. The hours target workers unable to obtain 1927 licenses during the day.
Albert Olson asserts the body of Clara Olson was planted on a hillside near Erdman Olson’s home to divert suspicion from the missing 18 year old, who vanished Sept 9 and was found in a shallow grave near Erdman’s residence amid ongoing investigations in Wisconsin and nearby states. The inquest was postponed after a pathologist delay.
A Louisville Times quotation notes a middle aged man begins to see that even if he were single the girls would be little interested in his status.
The bank informs clerks that mustaches are banned during business hours while allowing facial hair at night. The notice, attributed to an exchange, frames the rule as a daytime mandate with an informal exception for after hours.
The lame duck session approaches as ten Senators and about fifty House members depart after election losses or opting out. Notables include Oscar W. Underwood, Tincher, Voigt, James Wadsworth Jr., and George Wharton Pepper among others. The group features veterans from various states preparing to end long terms.
The piece lists political figures from multiple states facing shifts as the current Congress heads toward a lame duck session. Wets and drys feel the impact with William D. Shaw from Georgia losing in a primary, Phillip Hill of Maryland failing to win the welts nomination, and David W. Stewart to assume the unexpired term of Albert B. Cummings. George W. Brookhart’s successor will join the Senate after March 4 while Frank D. Scott and Francis Patterson Jr. depart the House in March after four terms.
CHICAGO Dec 4 Shori Harry Sherwood of Crawford ity Wis and Albert Olson father of Erdman Olson 18 charged with the murder of his sweetheart Clara Olson were to return to Chicago tonight to view the body of a young man who died by his own hand here November 5 The body was that of a youth who ended his life with poison in a hotel where he registered as John Carr Sheriff Sherwood said it was unlikely the body was Erdman Olson
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