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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
5
Readable notes show North River and South River both described as high and muddy across sections. Observations indicate current flows elevated with turbidity consistent with recent rains, impacting smaller tributaries and nearby flood-prone areas.
Front Royal residents are mentioned in social and civic items. Attendees include George N Buck and Frank Stoutamyer at a Richmond press meeting. Several locals travel for work, family moves, dances, and visits to cities like Baltimore Washington and Philadelphia. The Warren Sentinel reports illness and a school event cancels a basketball game. Confederate Veterans Lee Jackson birthday dinner is announced with Rev. Trainham speaking. Capt. Dewitt transfers CCC duties and returns home for weekend. Mrs. Smith of Markham is seriously ill in Warrenton hospital.
Front Royal, Jan 17. A six room house owned by Herbert Williams and occupied by Bud Williams on the Chester Gap road was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The meat house nearby was also destroyed except for a few chairs. the meat was saved. Front Royal Fire Company responded to the call.
President Roosevelt accepted the resignations of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge as undersecretary of the treasury and L. W. Robert Jr as assistant secretary of the treasury, announced from Washington on January 17.
A blood stained wrecked car found on Route 60 west of Amherst, Virginia, carried West Virginia license and registration to Pritchard Motor Co of Charleston. A fragment of a human scalp on door glass, a size 9-D bloodied shoe, and two blood spattered hats were found nearby, hair on the scalp fragment is black.
Homer Davis, brother to the late Mrs Hetzel Wolfe, recalls the Wolfe home after a carbide plant explosion killed five in the family last Saturday. The eight room rural house is described. Mrs Wolfe as Miss Gladys Davis, Homer Davis, and others stand on the porch in a long-ago photo. Wolfe shows slight improvement. the dangerous kidney wound is healing. Vera, the little daughter, also improves.
The funeral for A. Steele, 63, longtime Alexandria resident, was held today with services at Wheatley Funeral Home and burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. He died Tuesday night at Garfield Hospital Washington from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was active in Alexandria theatricals and in real estate in Washington. He leaves two children Lynn Colvin and Hubert Steele, three grandchildren, and brother Ralph A. Steele of Carlisle.
Local police report that Mamie B. Elliott and G. H. Stutler, arrested November 10, 1934, for short changing at a restaurant, face renewed trouble after later convictions in multiple states. Elliott, accompanied by H. G. Elliott, received varied sentences. G. H. Elliott is jailed in Ashland, Kentucky, for a 1935 short change conviction.
Forrest City Arkansas bulletin reports Major R W Schroeder of the Commerce Department says the American Airlines liner Southern er did not intend a forced landing when it crashed into an Arkansas swamp, resulting in 17 deaths.
In Richmond Virginia the court ruled on what constitutes a garage in a case involving an oil company that rented fifty nine parking spaces at a service station. The decision affects statewide interpretation of garage operation and storage or parking use.
The Discovery II spotted a plane and a man at the Bay of Whales, confirming Ellsworth and Hollick-Kenyon were alive though fatigued by a cold. Radio issues delayed confirmation, with earlier garbled messages and hope shared by officials and families.
The committee debated amendments to the 1901 constitution and focused on heart balm bills aimed at blackmailers. Members argued the measures would hurt blackmailers, not compensate victims, with one saying a $10,000 judgment would not comfort Uriah but would only make David feel worse.
The condemned man awaiting execution learned of a late reprieve as Mrs. Anna Hauptmann visited the death house. A New York Sun report notes New Jersey taxpayers may seek a mandamus to void Governor Hoffman's thirty day reprieve and force the court's sentence.
Paris jury convicts nine of twenty defendants in the Stavisky securities fraud linked scandal that touched rioting in Paris. Gustave Tissier, pawnshop manager, is spared only by his confession. others include Henri Cohen Raoul Desbrosses and Gen. De Fourtou. Madam Stavisky acquitted.
Nye reiterates charges against Wilson and Secretary Lansing for allegedly lying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1919 about secret Allied treaties. He notes a shift in sentiment after J. P. Morgan and partners testified and criticizes press coverage as biased. He defends his stance against powerful banking interests.
Woods announces Book 4 a modern complete business directory with four indices. The publication offers reference usefulness and notes a canvassed city data set. It carries a $7.50 price and warns it cannot guarantee all details, but aims for authentic information.
Death reported for T Bud McKee at the home of Mrs C M Defibaugh in Bedford county Pennsylvania He was in poor health for some time in his seventy sixth year His wife predeceased him He survived by four daughters and one son Funeral at Ebenezer Church of Christ Gore on Sunday at 1 PM Rev J Goode officiating Interment Ebenezer Cemetery Pallbearers are grandsons Russell McKee Arthur Pugh William Deilbaugh Roy Wingfield Leslie Whitacre and Ray Whitacre
A series of crashes at the junction of Stewart and Boscawen streets injured six people. A Packard owned by A. A. Haeringer, driven by Lee Miller, and another car owned by Charles A. Rudy of Langley Field, Va., collided. Nurses Miss Louise Echard and Miss Fannie Dyer received slight injuries along with Eva Evans and Lyman Crawford. A hearing is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
The President voiced confidence in a long term program for American agriculture aimed at sustaining gains, broadening adjustment efforts, and encouraging soil conservation. He said county agents would help implement the relief plan and referenced a previous October statement on a twofold objective to prevent a slump and incentivize efficient soil use.
R Gray Williams of a Richmond firm serves on the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone board and the State Library Board. He argued Virginia's position before the Virginia Supreme Court, federal courts, and the U S Power Commission case on New River non navigability. He is general counsel for Northern Virginia Power, division counsel for Baltimore and Ohio, local solicitor for Pennsylvania Railroad, and president and counsel for Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
Baltimore and Chicago markets show mixed livestock results with cattle steady to weak and hogs mostly steady to higher. Cattle prices include cutters 3.75 to 6.00, beef cows 5.00 to 6.00, bulls 6.00 to 6.50, while hogs trade around 9.85 to 10.05 for 180-270 lb and lambs are limited with demand modest. Produce and feed items listed with varied pricing.
A dense ad style inventory lists wholesale prices for flour and corn products by brand and bag size. It includes Cracked corn Shelled corn Scratch feed and various dairy and meat items with per bag or per hundred rates and unclear trailing figures.
Markets opened steady then cooled as volume dwindled and prices moved in a narrow range. Oils lagged as metals shed ground after a silver price cut. transfers totaled about 2.3 million shares while currencies showed small moves with the pound at 4.9534 dollars and the franc at 6.62 cents.
Canada sold nearly 3 million bushels for export in the last 24 hours lifting wheat prices. May contracts hit 1.00% with gains noted in Chicago and Minneapolis. Closing quotes show wheat May 1.00-1.00 1/2, corn mixed, oats steady, with lard and pork futures higher.
The Atlantic Greyhound Lines settled an action over the Hopewell drawbridge tragedy in which fourteen died. Funds totaling 3250 will go to Gibson B. Smith, administrator of Everett Martin Smith of Richmond. The agreement was approved by Judge Julien Gunn before filing in Richmond Circuit Court.
The judge noted the government could seek a rehearing at the Supreme Court in the Hoosac Mills case but said he might delay if Attorney General Cummings provides a firm assurance the government will not pursue a rehearing. The court added that delaying is the safest course.
ROANOKE VA Jan 17 Judge John Paul of the Western District Federal Court refused to enter any order releasing a million and a quarter dollars in impounded tax funds awaiting further decision on the case.
In Richmond on January 17, Governor Peery received a copy of a State Board of Agriculture resolution urging state law amendments to appoint a separate inspector of apples and peaches. The governor said he had not yet reviewed the proposal.
Richmond January 17 The Virginia high court denied Mrs. Helen D Stoneham’s appeal to obtain a divorce from Dr. Graham Stoneham, upholding a circuit court decree in Sussex County that neither party was entitled to a divorce.
Notice to employers and the public that insurers including Aetna Casualty and Surety seek approval to raise rates and modify rules for Virginia Workmen's Compensation. The proposal includes average 1.5 percent increases with sector variations, loss constants of 19 dollars for manufacturing and eight dollars otherwise, and hearings set for February 21, 1936 in Richmond.
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