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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1933
Page
3
Multiple local church and civic notices describe Christmas concerts at Lams Methodist Episcopal Church South and Opequon Memorial Presbyterian Church, a Christmas service at Opequon Chapel, and holiday greetings. Also reported are births, family visits, and residents traveling for Christmas with names including Lieut Lindsey and Mrs Judith McGuire, Grover C Conner, and other local families.
A weekly schedule lists church choir practices at United Brethren and First Baptist, Christmas programs at Church of Christ and Grace Lutheran, and festive entertainments by Epworth League, Burnt Factory and other groups. Meetings include Rotary Luncheon, American Legion, Lions Club, Girl's Athletic Association dances, and several church pageants.
Announcement details the cast for The Soldier of Bethlehem to be performed Friday December 22 at 7 30 pm. Loy H Hook leads as the soldier with a large local cast and a story based on Christ birth and Herod escape. Also notes a surprise seventy seventh birthday dinner for W B Nesmith of Cross Junction with guests from Winchester Reynolds Store and Whitacre.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute student Denis Hayley plans to arrive the latter part of the week for Christmas with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hayley on West Cork Street in Blacksburg.
The Century Club sets an afternoon meeting on January 2 at Gray Gables Inn, home of Miss Caroline Hunter. Several local residents and visitors including Miss Jane Scully from Fairmont School and Mr. Richard Hatcher of Virginia Tech plan Christmas visits with family this week.
Toronto reports Justice Charles Garrow took under advisement a defense motion to discharge Martin J. Insull from custody in the embezzlement grand larceny and theft by bailee case. The ruling could end a 14 month U S effort to bring Insull to trial. In Chicago, attorney Samuel Ettelson called the Insull receiverships a fraud, alleging elder Insull and bankers conspired to choose receivers and counsel. the court reserved decision.
Magistrate William H Hickey ordered 16 watermen arrested during Monday activity in the Potomac oyster war held for the May term of the Charles county grand jury. Bail set at 300 dollars each. Two defendants from Virginia. defendants from Smith's Island. Bail arrangements began. only two deputies testified. defense offered no testimony.
Hearings heard opposition from industry and railroads as Ways and Means probes a proposal to end consolidated corporate tax returns and tax credits for foreign payments. Acting Secretary John Dickinson warned against extra foreign trade taxes, calling it double taxation while Ben C. Dey of Southern Pacific argued separate returns would push railroads toward bankruptcy.
The Swed ish-American Line freighter Rydboholm bound from Boston reports a fire 500 miles southwest of Scotland. The ship carries general cargo and mail with no passengers. It left Gothenburg December 13 and the master says the fire is confined to No 1 hold containing matches and there is no immediate danger.
In North Carolina, three young men died when their car crashed 20 miles north of Raleigh while a fourth man lay seven hours beneath the wreck in freezing rain. Driver Herman Potts was pinned beneath the vehicle from midnight to daylight after a dispute among occupants, all said to have been drinking. Roe Davis Jr., 22, his brother 26, and Julie Cotton, 19, were dead at the scene. Potts and another passenger were injured, with Potts reportedly dying later or near death.
Helen Hull Jacobs, U S tennis champion and Wightman Cup standout with Great Britain, is named queen of sports for 1933 by over a third of AP sports poll voters. Carl Owen Hubbell, the New York Giants left hander, is named outstanding male performer in the same poll.
The NRA renewed the blanket code for four more months, noting most Chicago laundries comply while one claims financial hardship. Local boards refused an exception to keep price minimums uniform, citing 90 percent conformity among city laundries. A cash and carry leader threatened to seek Supreme Court review if needed.
Schedule listings for Wednesday through Friday December with WJZ WABC WEAF and other stations. Includes performances by Albert Spalding John McCormack Hillbilly Music and Philadelphia Orchestra plus a Philco Christmas advertisement promoting a patented inclined sounding board model.
Lexington December 19 C W Proffitt 30 of Augusta county was fatally injured when his car collided with a truck five miles north of Lexington The truck driver Willis Whitmore of Lexington skidded on a wet road and was held on a technical charge of involuntary manslaughter Proffitt was the son of a former sheriff of Floyd county.
Warner Brothers said Kay Francis has asked them to announce her amicable separation from husband Kenneth McKenna. Miss Francis is in the country and not available for a statement. she was in New York a week before heading to the country.
Mary Pickford, dubbed America's Sweetheart, is photographed at a Fifth Avenue store selecting dolls for her young friends as Christmas spirit fills the holiday scene.
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