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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1930
Page
3
A personal notice indicates social updates may be mailed and that P. Miller will receive news by telephone between 3 and 4 PM for the following day. A contact phone number is provided as 33.
The Century Club session features Mrs. W A Baker on Christian missions in Africa, detailing West and East Africa regions, Islam's impact, and Mary Slessor of Calabar. It highlights Mary Slessor’s life, twin murder custom, and her work among Natives in Calabar before WWI. Also notes Mr. Frank G Walter Jr of Chicago on a Santo Domingo engineering visit and rail survey with a lumber group.
Mrs Richard Evelyn Byrd and her granddaughter Miss Margton visit in Washington. They will stay with the Danish legation secretary’s sister on Amherst Street over the weekend.
Dr and Mrs H B Whitacre of Martinsburg motor to New York for a conference of the Eastern association. Dr Whitacre, a native of Frederick county, serves as president of the West Virginia Osteopathic Society.
The Co operator of Cincinnati notes Eugene Branch manager of the George Washington Hotel as an exemplary outer hotel man. Lawrenceville School’s Lewis H Hyde visits with his mother Mrs. Hyde and fellow students. Geese L Commissioner Crammer and family from New York register at the Washington Hotel. Major and Mrs Flood plan to return to 405 West Cork Street after winter in Florida and Union. Fosbrink and Dorothy Green travel to Baltimore for weekend visits.
John W. Flannagan, Bristol and Clintwood lawyer born in Louisa County, was chosen by acclamation as Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia Ninth District. Unopposed, he accepted amid cheers, pledging to represent Southwest Virginia’s mountain residents against centralization of federal power.
Testimony from Charles A. Kricks of Blyth & Bonner showed the money raised by the Union Carbide Co. for the improvement association had been deposited with the firm. Huston asserted the funds were fully turned over to the association.
Owing to the Union Christian Endeavor Service at the Presbyterian Church this Sunday there will be no Christian Endeavor service at the United Brethren Church. A large attendance is expected at the Presbyterian Church. The public is invited to attend. Miss Elsie Carpenter, Sec. A. S. Hott, Pres.
L S Brown a Frederick area farmer died at his home near Middletown yesterday at nearly fifty three. Born December 31 1877 he spent his life in the area and is survived by his widow Ida Fewell five sisters and a niece. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 am from his home with Rev J B Hupman officiating and burial in Leeds Parish Episcopal Cemetery Fauquier county. Pallbearers named James L Willey R P Boyer B E Good Joseph R Watson Lewis Borden and E F Pingley.
Congress cannot adjourn before June 1 under the most able conditions Senator Watson of Indiana said in the Senate. Plans for a week recess follow after the tariff bill is passed as leaders push to finish the long-pending tariff measure.
The article notes no progress on parity as France demands naval tonnage and Italy seeks parity with France. Mr MacDonald leads efforts to reconcile opposing sides while Secretary Stimson, off duty, toured Windsor Castle with his wife. A holiday mood affected the American delegation.
An earthquake lasting six seconds struck Kingston Jamaica at 10 30 this morning. Walls of several concrete buildings were cracked and damage was reported.
Howerton 19 and Mrs. W. L. Stone 46 were found dead at a rural filling station near Carle on the Martinsville road. Howerton had a bullet through his left ear and a note about loving a girl jailed in Martinsville. Mrs. Stone’s fatal head fracture remains unexplained. no weapon found. Sheriff seeks answer as store shows struggle clues.
In New Castle Pennsylvania on March 21 the state began final arguments in the Schroeder case seeking the electric chair for Irene Schroeder 21 for the slaying of a highway patrolman. District Attorney John S Powers urged jurors not to be swayed by sympathy and argued that under Pennsylvania law a robber who commits murder is equally guilty with the killer. The prosecution contended Schroeder was not abnormal and cited her testimony along with that of W Glenn Dague who is to be tried separately for the killing as support.
Aboard the S S Europa on its maiden voyage from Cherbourg Breakwater to Ambrose Light the ship completed 19 hours 12 minutes at noon and had covered 930 miles at an average speed of 27.6 knots. Head winds and a swell hindered progress during the day.
Description touts Kellogg's All-Bran as a daily cure for constipation and anemia prevention. Claims include iron absorption, improved complexion, and avoidance of pills, urging daily use and a natural approach to digestive health.
Graf Zeppelin plans its first South American flight from Frederickshafen to Seville then Rio de Janeiro Pernambuco the West Indies and Havana before returning via Lakehurst New Jersey to Seville and Frederickshafen with takeoff between May 10 and May 15.
New York March 21 un expected rise in the call money rate from 3 to 4 and then to 4 percent unsettled stock prices after an early surge, lifting more than 60 issues to new highs for the year. Volume expanded with indications total sales would exceed 5 million shares for the first time this year as the ticker lagged the market by up to 40 minutes.
Arthur Beeler of Lebanon Church Shenandoah county was struck by a train near Strasburg last night. He suffered severe scalp wounds and hand injuries and was taken to Memorial Hospital by Dr G G Crawford. Dr P W Boyd treated him. he is not in critical condition. The cause and exact location of the accident could not be ascertained.
Amos B. C. Whitacre aged 67 longtime cashier of Farmers and Merchants National Bank at Hamilton Loudoun county died Wednesday. A Fauquier native he resigned four years ago for health. Survived by three sisters all in Washington. Funeral held last evening body to be taken to Romney West Virginia for burial.
In Moscow on March 20 the All Union Congress of Atheists heard speakers urge followers to end violence against religion. Emelyan Yaroslavsky led calls for peaceful argument and scientific explanation to persuade peasants and stop church closures, bell removals, and forced enrollment in the League of the Godless.
Primo Carnera floor Frank Zavite in 1 51 of a 10 round heavyweight bout in Jacksonville Florida. Carnera delivered a solid right to the body ending the fight early for his 11th U S knockout.
Thomas Barnes one of two escapees from Speigner prison was killed in a gun battle with county officers in Montgomery Alabama. Authorities said accomplice Lee Hudgens was missing and a sheriff's posse abandoned a commandeered truck after the encounter leaving the two men on the run. The raid wounded two others.
Mrs Hugh Pierce of South Loudoun Street has returned home after receiving treatment at the local hospital.
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