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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1931
Page
3
Fragments indicate social and personals notices with references to a department map and telephone contact. The garbled text suggests a classifieds style brief urging readers to call or mail for information.
Local society pages list regular meetings for McKinley Chapter of Eastern Star Lions Club Century Club Kiwanis Rotary Girls Athletic Association and American Legion with lunches dances and dinners. Births marriages and visits ashore highlight a busy week with notable entries from Memorial Hospital Shenandoah Valley Academy and local families.
The Rev and Mrs John Armstrong Welbourne hosted a Leesburg house warming with many local guests including Rev and Mrs Robert Nelson and families. A Staunton Military Academy tea dance entertained Cadets at the George Washington Hotel with prominent patronesses. The Girls Athletic Association planned a 9 PM formal at Mrs Harold Weeks home with Soddy Haines Orchestra. Mrs Strother Sherman and Miss Mary Sherman returned from Washington for health treatment and were later to receive further care near home. Mrs R C Hook left for Elon College commencement with her son Kenneth B Hook a graduate.
Thousands witnessed army maneuvers at Columbus Park in South Boston and rushed to the Columbia subway station causing a crush. Police aided women with babies as crowds surged and some fainted. Earlier nearly 700 enemy airplanes darkened New England skies with a major aerial display over Dorchester Bay and Boston.
A Yale theology professor Douglas D. MacIntosh and Canadian Marie A. Bland were refused U S citizenship by the Supreme Court over scruples against bearing arms in war. Five justices favored exclusion with four dissenting.
Sigismund Szachewich and John Nafus, both convicted of murder for the 1930 Warrior Run coal company pay car bombing, were electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary. The men showed no emotion as execution began.
Mr Ivan Jackson of Martinsburg West Virginia travels with the Jack Schill Orchestra to New York for an Arcadia Ballroom engagement. Mrs Gocenour of Upperville showcases dresses and bags for Winchester Memorial Hospital. Harry Brill and Ray Everhart depart for Roanoke for the Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd Fellows annual meeting. Mazie Garber of Philadelphia visits L Jacksons and attends a Friends meeting in Hopewell. Winchester Book Club plans its annual banquet Thursday night at Wayside Inn Middletown.
Frank L. Allers death car driver and informer in the Norris payroll murder case died in Maryland penitentiary hospital from two stab wounds inflicted by a fellow prisoner. Edward West, serving 20 years, held in a special cell. Warden Brady said the slayer was known. West’s detention ordered by State's Attorney O'Conor as S Soc. Socolow and Smith remain in prison. Hart escaped previously. Carey hanged for guard killing. Allers attacked while showering. six inch blade stabbed him in the back twice. blade possibly left inside.
An involuntary petition of bankruptcy was filed in U S District Court against the American Bond and Mortgage Company alleging liabilities over 5 million dollars. The Maine organized firm with Chicago head offices funded hotels and apartment houses in Washington New York and Brooklyn amid a DOJ investigation sparked by stockholder complaints.
William N. Mitchell Jr., 19, a Southwestern College senior in Memphis, was shot in a classroom. Police say it appears self-inflicted after he told friends he would kill himself over a troubled romance. He served as business manager of the school newspaper and was from Grenada, Mississippi.
Francis Crowley goes on trial for the murder of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch in Mineola New York. The arraignment and jury selection faced a slow start as the panel was exhausted with only two jurors in the box, and the trial was adjourned until tomorrow.
Clarke County Virginia held a May Day pageant on the Rosemont Orchards lawn attended by about 500 scholars and patrons from across the county. Little Miss Mildred Larrick was crowned queen by Bradshaw Beverley Byrd with 14 rural schools participating and numerous awards given for essays maps and exhibits.
F Byrd and guest Mrs Granville Meade led a delegation with Leslie Kline superintendent, Miss Starling school supervisor, Mr Sanford Lexington physical director, Joseph B Denny, Holmes Hardesty, Prof D G Cooley, A F Robertson superintendent, Miss Cophen haver nurse, and Rev and Mrs Ethno among others in Warren County notices.
Federal Judge John Knox blocked Primo Carnera from fighting Jack Sharkey at Ebbitt's Field Brooklyn on June 10. The Madison Square Garden Corp seeks to compel Carnera to honor a contract tying him to September action, pending trial of the Garden suit.
A weak NYSE list dragged Chicago Board of Trade values lower. Liverpool closure influenced traders as crop news weighed on futures. Wheat July 6 85, September 6 8 9? December 7 1. Corn July 54 1/2, September 52 1/4, December 46 1/4. Oats July 26 1/2, September 26 1/4, December 29. Rye July 37 1/2, September 38, December 41.
In New York on May 25 stocks declined in dull trading as investors remained nervous about a recovery. The market closed with sales totaling 1,750 shares, reflecting persistent downward pressure.
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