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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1935
Page
3
Community effort grows as many children lack suitable footwear while teachers notice the hardship. Messages from local figures highlight charity drives and school activities, including a Handley High alum planning for Mexico City and students gathering for birthdays and performances.
Wednesday events include Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel and junior and senior choir practices at United Brethren and Grace Lutheran churches. Elks, Rotary and American Legion meet weekly, with postponed Kernstown and Bryarly league sessions noted.
The Music Lovers' Club plans its second concert Saturday February 2 at 8 30 pm at the George W Jon Hotel featuring Christine Gunlangson a Baldwin College vocal teacher accompanied by Miss Fishburn. She studied in Milan and New York, has performed in major cities, and season tickets for the remaining three concerts are available.
Joseph S. McQuay, once Shenandoah county native and longtime Reading resident, died at Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. His funeral services will be held in Reading with a brief service in North Braddock Street and burial at Charles Evans Cemetery. He had recently come to Winchester to spend winter with his brother on National Avenue and fell ill there.
London reports a warm welcome for David Lloyd George as he enters the political arena with a plan for a national recovery. Sir John Simon lauds his return and says Lloyd George has spoken the nation's mind on national rather than party handling of current difficulties.
Moscow denies reports that four Soviet aircraft crossed into Manchoukuo and bombed Pogranchnaya with official calls it absolute nonsense. Meanwhile reporters in London note Japanese troops massing near Halin and Dairen amid claims of border clashes and Chinese casualties.
Daniel Snyder, grilled by Washington police over a Chevy Chase Md. double murder and hold-up, denies knowledge of the crime. He was arrested in Washington and taken to the robbery scene. Bullets from his guns differ from those in the Chevy Chase shooting. Mintien says Snyder will be charged with two hold-ups in Nov and Dec, with police noting a Baltimore address but asserting he hailed from Waynesboro Pa.
Efforts to enforce the city ordinance on coal sales led to Wilford Welch of Burlington West Virginia being fined fifty dollars plus five dollars twenty five cents costs after being caught selling four tons without a city weigh bill. He was charged with peddling coal and lacking the required weigh bill. The only other case heard was Robert Fletcher charged with drunkenness, fined ten dollars twenty five cents.
Miss Louisa Orr about 55 was killed and her sister Miss Fannie Orr 50 60 was injured when a white assailant robbed them of 175 dollars and set their home ablaze eight miles southwest of Benton Arkansas Sheriff Virgil A Shucker used bloodhounds to track the killer Fannie Orr said she fought the attacker after the murder and dragged her sister from the burning house to summon help The sisters had lived alone and were reputed to keep a large sum in the home
August J. and Louis Leblanc brothers died from freezing during a blinding snow storm that swept Millinocket Lake last Wednesday night. The incident was reported from Millinocket Maine on January 26.
David Hunt er Riddle 56 nephew of Major Robert W. Hunter died suddenly from a heart attack Thursday evening at his Chambersburg Pa residence. He was a native of Martinsburg W Va and son of the late Henry A. Riddle and Martha Hunter Riddle. Funeral held at Falling Springs Presbyterian Church with burial nearby. Survived by three children Elizabeth, the Rev Harry Riddle and Robert.
Funeral services for Miss Charlotte Nesbet Dieffenderfer, longtime Winchester resident and member of the Dieffenderfer family, were held at her sister’s home on South Cameron Street. Rev. Robert B. Nelson and Rev. Wallace M Brashears led a simple service, with one hymn. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers included E C Heitmuller and others. several nieces in distant cities could not attend due to bad weather. She was in her eighty seventh year, daughter of the late George B. and Camilla Wilcox Dieffenderfer.
In Newark New Jersey on January 26 1932 Bruno Hauptmann braces for a tougher cross examination as prosecutors sharpen their case over the Lindbergh kidnapping. Attorney General Wilentz probes alibis finances and handwriting linking notes to the defendant while defense observations loom.
Testimony details Hauptmann being allegedly mistreated by police during interrogation for ransom note writings. Prosecution questions about injuries while writing and the chain of custody with state handwriting experts linking writings to his admissions. Judge Tren overrules Wilentz objections to the line of questioning.
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