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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1934
Page
4
Classified rates set at two cents per word with a 25 cent minimum and 1.50 for memorials or four stanzas. Cards of Thanks priced at 75 cents. Display ads with border due by 10 A.M. on publication day. Transient rate 42 cents per inch with contract rates available.
A garbled passage includes Psalm 71 19 praising God and noting his high righteousness and greatness. The surrounding lines are unclear and fragmented, containing repeated fragments and stray phrases.
The Easter sunrise service grows across the country from New England to California. Worshipers gather on hilltops or open spaces at dawn to pray sing hymns and hear an Easter message as the sun appears. The Moravian traditions at Bethlehem and Winston-Salem helped seed the custom.
A March election in Italy featured a single fascist ticket and a yes-no ballot to approve Mussolini's regime. Voters chose hand-picked deputies, while the Premier plans a five year rule via a new Council of Corporations under a dictatorial cabinet.
Dr Clifford R Shaw of the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research notes that blaming foreigners for crime is unfair. He reports foreign born youths show delinquency rates proportional to their numbers and actually commit fewer crimes than native born youth.
The notes identify Andrew Jackson as the seventh U.S. president with birth and death years. It confirms Canada has a small navy. It attributes the line Beauty is but skin deep to Sir Thomas Overbury, noting his dates.
The text argues crime rates track with environment and racial population shifts. As families move from run-down areas to better neighborhoods delinquency among children declines to normal levels. In Chicago some districts show constant rates for 30 years despite population changes.
Norfolk officials move to ban two chocolate candies found to contain alcohol. Daniel M Walsh of the Baltimore federal food and drug administration led checks in Norfolk, noting the product sold in small stores accessible to children. The candy traced from Baltimore to New York with no identified manufacturer.
A Charlottesville jury acquitted Mrs. William P. Casey in the murder case of Elsie B. Ray. The defense portrayed efforts to end an illicit affair between Casey's husband and Ray the waitress. Casey testified she offered Ray money clothes and a railroad ticket to quit Charlottesville.
Richmond March 30 an attachment issued today against a man who gave the name John W Ao wee Ses to appear in police court to answer a charge. He was arrested at a local street last night and bonded on recognizance in the sum penciled note "Virginia congressman" on the back of the warrant. Reports to inform representative John W Flanagan of Bristol failed to locate him.
Several hundred dollars in tires and tubes were stolen from the Standard Oil service station during the night. Shenandoah county authorities investigated with several clues noted at dawn. Entry was gained by opening a window with a crowbar. exact loot total not yet determined.
Paris reports that John Francis Amherst Cecil and his wife have initiated a friendly divorce. The couple married in Biltmore in 1924 after Cecil, son of the London Cecil lineage, wed Cornelia Vanderbilt, a prominent American heiress.
The Navy Yard supply officer C Edrington was struck on the head and jailed in a vault for about six hours as a hold-up drained roughly $3000 from the vault. An on duty sentry and others at the gates reported no suspicious activity and no valuables found.
Tiggie awakens on a cliff after a stormy night with Harvey's help. A giant spider appears in a dreamlike sequence as friends rescue him and plan to finish a film. He returns to a cottage where Viola awaits, and he reunites with her in a tender embrace, recognizing home in her arms.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation ending at 8 am as none. March to date totals 2.29 inches, year to date 4.65 inches. 21 year average is 34.71 inches with monthly breakdowns: January 2.41, February 1.97, March 2.82, April 3.21, May 3.94, June 3.65, July 3.41, August 3.29, September 2.34, October 3.00, November 2.33, December 2.34.
Washington predicts a quick end to the investigation into Dr. William A. Wirt's charges, with Democratic leaders like Speaker Rainey saying a prolonged probe could unsettle the recovery program. They urge careful committee selection, possibly a five member panel with three Democrats and two Republicans, to avoid political thrusts while the program continues. In Virginia, a chancery order in Frederick County directs an estate inquiry for James N. Carr deceased, with May 1, 1934, set for hearing at Winchester to settle property, taxes, liens, and executor accounts.
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