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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1933
Page
5
Chicago May 27. Excited buying pushed wheat prices up as much as four cents on proposals to change the gold standard law. Most gains held by close with wheat 2 1/4 to 3 cents higher, corn up 1 to 1 3/8 cents, oats up 1/8 to 5/8 cent. December wheat led with nearly 80 cents, about 33 to 35 cents higher than five months prior.
Poona India May 29 Mahatma Gandhi ends a three weeks fast to honor untouchables. He drank orange juice to break the abstinence and spoke of the undertaking in God's name. His appearance showed the toll of the hunger strike with sunken eyes and emaciated cheeks.
Local wholesale and retail market snippets list prices for shelled corn dairy feed cracked corn mixed feed middlings and screenings. It notes butter fat prices and cattle terms with several typographical errors and incomplete lines.
Candidate declares self nomination for the House of Representatives covering Clarke Frederick and City of Winchester under Inde pemdané claim. Nominee identifies WVATL and 29 31 N. H. Sibert as reference points or affiliations.
ENSBURG New York May 29 One man drowned after he and 15 others jumped into the St Lawrence river to escape a blaze from an exploding gasolene engine aboard a drill boat near Chippewa bay The boat had replaced a prior vessel destroyed by an explosion last July with seven dead and 17 injured Herbert Reynolds a mechanic from Alexandria Bay was too injured to swim after the leap Fifteen other men swam to free a barge loaded with dynamite and were rescued by a tug
Frederick Maryland May 29 The trial of State Senator Emory L Coblentz charged with violating Maryland banking laws opened with attorney Leo Weinberg moving to quash the indictment He asserts lack of local jurisdiction The senator who presided at Central Trust Company of Maryland deposits knew the bank insolvent previously faced a Cumberland trial for a related charge whose conviction was reversed by the Court of Appeals The current case resumes a November proceeding paused for the appellate ruling
Mrs Ruth Bryan Owen United States minister to Denmark presents credentials to King Christian X in Copenhagen on May 29 in a ceremony with royal escort and court officials. She then meets Queen Alexandrina in a special audience.
Virginia Senator disclosed receiving an anonymous letter threatening assassination and said similar notes were sent to others as a result of mob psychology from the committee investigation. He noted the letters followed his right to vote on the committee.
In 1843 Zurich adopted postage stamps marking a cantonal reform. The U.S. Post Office gained permission on March 3, 1847 to issue stamps with five and ten cent values featuring Franklin and Washington. A new series appeared in 1851 and stamped envelopes followed in 1852 with a letter registration system added on March 8, 1855.
A note recalls La Marseillaise composed by Capt Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg with revolutionary echoes. A farmhand in Hjorts Hog, Sweden uncovered 878 coins of Danish German and Swedish origin dated 1613 to 1677 along with valuables.
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