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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1935
Page
8
Kent, Ohio superintendent William A. Walls is appointed Ohio relief director by Gov. Martin L. Davey. The selection won Roosevelt administration endorsement after initial hesitation from Relief Director Harry Hopkins.
Public auction on Saturday January 26 1935 at eleven o clock A M in the basement of Shenandoah Valley National Bank Winchester Virginia for a large lot of silverware and silver stored in a chest in the basement vault inspection on day of sale Terms CASH immediate delivery after payment to trustee R Gray Williams Trustee reserves right to reject bids Auction under deed of trust from Annie P Smellie widow of James W Smellie and Herbert H Smellie default on debt noted
Robert Donat and Elissa Landi star in The Count of Monte Cristo at Palace Theatre today through Thursday. The film, named one of the year’s ten best pictures, invites all ages to see the tale of a man who hires detectives to elude the law before wrecking three lives. Fox News reel on the Lindbergh kidnapping trial rounds out the show.
An inter city bus ran over a parked car near Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland killing the car’s driver Howard A. Elling. Coroner W. D. Jamison noted the car was crushed under the bus after a collision with a parked truck. Passenger Phoebe Hughes, 22, of Florida Alabama, suffered facial cuts. her three year old baby was unharmed.
Paris January 22. A parliamentary inquiry fixes the Stavisky scandal financial cost at 194 million francs about 12.8 million dollars. The inquiry notes the fallout included assassinations rioting and ruin of several public careers.
Edmund J. Tice of Norfolk and Western notified City Sergeant C. Lee Barr last night that Haan expected to reach Winchester today to return C C Haan held on embezzlement charges at Roanoke police request. Haan had long been tied to the automobile business though few details were released.
Ten soldiers on patrol along the Yugoslav Albanian frontier died from freezing during a heavy snowstorm. Rescue teams recovered seven bodies in the mountains while ongoing snow impeded recovery of the remaining three.
Five Gadbois children were burned to death when laundry on a line above a kitchen stove ignited. A roomer and six other family members were burned and hospitalized in Longeuli Quebec. The victims ranged in age from 11 and younger.
The article notes Roosevelt will use a celebrated china set for diplomats. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador and dean of the corps, likely receives the first serving. Many visitors seek a peek at the new dishes, dated to Washington’s era, but the White House exhibit remains unseen on the ground floor.
Tokyo reports a high official view that Sinkiang could become the future arena for a clash between Japan and the Soviet Union. Koki Hirota stated in a Diet address that Soviet economic and political penetration threatens Japan's mission in the region.
Federal agents probe Alvin Karpis six week Miami stay. One man held for befriending the outlaw. investigators examine finances and ties of several Miami residents connected to the quiet couple at a secluded residence.
Clarence Eisenhardt, 60, a chauffeur, stopped his car before a Chicago undertaking establishment and soon was found dead by a passerby. His body was taken into the funeral home where he halted the vehicle.
Paris dispatch reports Edouard Herriot says France sheltered 2 500 Saar Basin refuges in the past week. He notes all were Saarlanders except 442 Germans and 85 French nationals.
The Johns Hopkins University chapter of the National Student League called for appointing a president of liberal thought. In an open letter in the Hopkins News Letter the group urged open access to free thought, inclusion of African Americans and liberal economic views, while opposing fascism and war.
Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, a famed U S educator, resigns as president of Wellesley College in Wellesley Massachusetts effective June 1936. She is seventy and will have served twenty five years in the post.
The article details Senate plans by Burton Wheeler and William Borah to regulate interstate corporations. Borah pushes federal licenses via the Federal Trade Commission, with regulations potentially sweeping beyond banks and railroads. Wheeler argues for smaller business units and higher taxes on capitalization to limit size and protect small investors.
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