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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1932
Page
7
The Capitol Theatre will award a Leonard Electric Refrigerator to one patron. From May 23 to June 15 ballots are given with every paid adult admission to vote on the refrigerator’s disposition. Local seller Glaize and Brothers and Southern Wholesalers, Inc. distribute and sponsor.
In Esthenia and the Baltic region a tradition persists where brides entering new homes cast men into a ceremonial fire. The piece notes the custom in a Collier's magazine context, reflecting on ancient rites amid modern times.
An Ottawa ad claims internal pile treatment M-ROID cures bleeding and protruding piles by addressing bad blood circulation in the hemorrhoidal veins. It touts Dr. J. Bihardt as the discoverer after testing 1 000 patients with 960 successes and sells one bottle at Baker's Root Store A with a money back guarantee.
Mayor James J. Walker of New York says he is prepared to testify before Samuel Seabury chief counsel of the Hofstadter committee in New York City on May 25. The appearance marks the climactic moment in Seabury’s graft and corruption probe into municipal government.
The two open posts on the Methodist Episcopal church board of bishops are filled by Rev. J. Ralph Magee district superintendent of the Seattle area and by the second longtime clergyman named in the report, completing the ministerial appointments for the ecclesiastical leadership.
Gray Williams of Winchester was the principal speaker at Front Royal Memorial Day exercises in Warren Park Theatre. A procession from the courthouse to Prospect Hill Cemetery followed a 2 PM program with music, flowers on Confederate graves, and participation by American Legion, VFW, Warren Memorial Association, Warren Rifles, UDC, Randolph-Macon Academy cadets, Boy Scouts, and more.
A compilation of local anecdotes and recalls from Winchester including a tree growing from a window at South Braddock and West Cecil, obituaries like Charles W. Ramsburg, storm and power outages, charity drives for the Children’s Home Society of Virginia, and misc. regional notes spanning updates from one to fifteen years past.
A household tip explains how to prevent window sticking by rubbing cords with soap and operating windows after application. A Ottawa trapper claims a strong man can overtake and capture a wolf in eight hours, despite many able-bodied men preferring to flee.
Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery headline the three day Palace engagement of Letty Lynton. The film, based on Marie Belloc Lowndes’s novel, follows an heiress entangled in romantic misadventure across tropical resorts New York society and a transatlantic liner. Supporting cast includes Nils Asther Lewis Stone May Robson Louise Closser Hale Emma Dunn Walter Walker and William Pawley.
Warner Bros star Kay Francis opens at the Capitol Theatre in Man Wanted directed by William Dieterle. The plot follows a wealthy wife who favors business over idle pleasures and grows estranged from her playboy husband. Francis shares scenes with David Manners and a notable ensemble.
A columnist notes an Alabama congressman advocates a law to reestablish commodity prices at predepression levels and quips about reversing all bank balances. The dialogue contrasts with editorial banter from other papers on crime and tax enforcement.
Police officer Patrolman Clarence Campbell was shot and killed during a bank cash heist in New Castle Pennsylvania. Four robbers seized a satchel with twenty three thousand dollars as they emerged from the Liberty Hotel lobby and fled in a maroon sedan toward Ohio.
President Hoover returned to the White House after an early morning drive from the Rapidan mountain retreat where he spent the weekend. He left Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Edgar Rickard of New York at the Rapidan camp.
The cruiser Los Angeles departed from Lakehurst for a coastal practice voyage expected to reach Chesapeake Bay. If weather worsens it will return to base at sunset. otherwise it will continue overnight on the cruise.
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