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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1934
Page
7
Mr Tealah D Wright of 303 East Piccadilly street is seriously ill with pleurisy and lung congestion. John Kerr school hosts a Red Cross sewing session Tuesday at 2 oclock. all interested in sewing for the Red Cross urged to attend.
Miss Margaret Anderson directs the Christmas play Snow bound at Christmas for the United Brethren church and urges all cast members to attend a 7 o'clock rehearsal tonight at the church. Mt Williams forms a 4‑H Club with Miss Elizabeth Farrar assisting. Irene Orndorff elected president and Richard Orndorff vice president.
Advertisement for Marian Martin pattern 9212 describing a two piece afternoon dress with integrated sleeves and draped front, sized 12 through 42. Includes order details, fabric yardage, and price for pattern and Winter Pattern Book, addressed to Winchester's Star Pattern Department in New York.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1531 B offers two sleeve options puffed or long for party dresses and modest undergarment concealment. Includes little bloomers and features Swisses dimities organdies chiffon seersuckers and novelty lawns. Size 4 requires about 2 1/2 yards of 86 inch material. Tomorrow: matron's afternoon dress in two fabrics.
The roster includes Misses Jeanette Brewer Anna May Boose fon Brill Hazel Pauver Made Jane Orndorff Grace Sager 2 Wallace Edna Fauv Wilson Ambrose William Clauser and Stanley Hopkins. Brit Miss Vernon is noted as sister of Victor Vernon of Washington DC an evangelist and singer visiting here.
Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith of Concord enters the case challenging the Reno divorce from Smith Reynolds alleging it was illegal and void and accusing Libby Holman of knowing its invalidity before marrying Reynolds.
Classified ads announce whiskey kegs wanted for cider and sale of Atwater Kent radios. Listings show American Cooperage Co in Maryland and Virginia Apple Storage in Winchester, VA with dates 781:9-19 to 12-10 and Willis' Bicycle and Radio Shop 12-4-15.
Geneva reports a Yugoslav threat to act without the League of Nations if Hungary does not satisfy Hungary over the assassination dispute. Little Entente support for Yugoslavia. Britain France Italy seek a negotiated settling while Yugoslavia considers direct action against Hungary. About 2,700 Hungarians have been expelled amid border tensions.
A DuPont official testified before the Senate munitions committee that graft was paid in powder sales to China but claimed it was an exception to normal practice. The panel did not uncover bribery in Poland deals. an Argentine agent was dismissed over indiscriminate bribe offers.
Denver dispatch reports James F. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars said President Roosevelt may order full payment of adjusted service certificates from relief funds under NRA. Van Zandt cited assurances that roosevelt would act before January 1 to avoid upsetting Congress and the recovery program.
In Nashville the American Farm Bureau Federation heard President Roosevelt and Edward A. O Neal discuss agriculture by long distance phone. Roosevelt cited a one billion dollar rise in farm income this year and urged a still larger increase. O Neal outlined a 10 point program for progress and backed an honest dollar and the agricultural adjustment act.
Paris reports the French cabinet approved a fifth war debt default to the United States and planned sending the usual note to Washington. Edouard Herriot urged payment and a settlement with Washington, while Washington said the move was not surprising to officials.
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