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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1926
Page
5
The Scopes case appeal reached the Tennessee Supreme Court in oral argument as a crowded courtroom heard last minute introductions by Dr. John R. Neal and K. T. McConnico for the defense.
Robert I. Ripley sails to England to produce a weekly sport cartoon for a London radio station and transmit to New York by wire then by airplane to U.S. papers. He will cover the Walker Cup, Wimbledon tennis, the British Open Golf Championship with Hagen and Jones, and about a dozen other major events.
Washington marks the unveiling of a monument to John Swedish designer of the Monitor. The turreted ironclad created for the Union clashed with the Confederate Merrimac in Hampton Roads on May 9 1862, after heavy rain had damaged Federal shipping. Workmen are shown inspecting the scene.
The obituary notes the funeral will be at Mount Hebron Cemetery with Rev. J. C. Hooks honored. The two sons and four grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
The steamer Lake Grama sank today in Lake Ontario near St. Catharines Ontario. Mrs Gaillard Ochrelony Tuck of Louisville Kentucky arrived to visit her nephew and niece Dr and Mrs Keister Adams at their North Braddock Street home.
The attorney general criticized the anti evolution measure on technical grounds arguing it violates state constitution and the fourteenth amendment. Charles Strong of New York counsel for the Unitarian Laymen League testified in favor of Scopes stating some Christians reject evolution teaching yet maintain faith in God and called the law un American and unconstitutional.
The District Nurse Association will meet in office rooms at the Chamber of Commerce Building Wednesday June 2 at 4 p m Members urged to attend Visitors invited Secretar y
David E Boyce a Stonewall Brigade Confederate veteran died at 5 AM at his son Thomas Boyce’s home in Macedonia aged 85. He served in Company D Thirty third Virginia Infantry and was wounded in the Civil War. He is survived by two sons, Hampton P and Thomas, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral at Macedonia Church at 2 PM Wednesday.
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