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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1934
Page
2
Police comb 16 acre Stoll estate near Balard schoolhouse searching woods and brush as Berry V Stoll, husband of abducted society woman Mrs Alice Speer Toll, waits at home. Officials refuse details while hinting a major breakthrough may come.
Frederick Maryland October 13 The Rev J Stewart Hartman 69 former head of the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church and once superintendent of the Hoffman Orphanage Littlestown Pa died after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken in a Detour garage while returning home from the Frederick Fair and died at friends home in Detour. Survived by widow mother four sons and three daughters.
Paris reports Pierre Lavab named minister of colonies. He succeeds the assisted Louis Barthou, taking over duties in the government.
The Parish House of Christ Episcopal Church hosted a Winchester and Frederick County garden display featuring subsistence garden products. County winners include canned vegetables Mrs Lehring Hook and others. fruits winners include Mrs Edward Miller and Mrs Lohring Hook. pumpkins praised for several residents. stored and dried vegetables and pickles also recognized. Winchester winners list highlights Mrs Pearl Cline and Mrs Ruth Whitlock among others.
Police traced a group led by a man called Monsieur Le Docteur who bought clothes in Lausanne and Paris. The four split up in Paris and Aix en Provence after false Czechoslovak passports. Kvaternik, Kalemen, Chalny and a woman linked to Kramer moved between hotels and Fontainebleau, with the woman and Kalemen leaving October 9, the day of the assassination.
John McCabe 45 and native of Youngstown Ohio was found near the government railroad tracks at Fort Hoyle with a crushed skull and body mutilation. Army officials consider robbery as a possible motive while noting no trains could have struck him. He worked at the camp set up to provide lodging and work for transients.
Atlantic City Oct 13 The House of Deputies at the triennial Episcopal convention considered resolutions condemning oppression of Jews supporting a Legion drive against immoral pictures and calling for government control of the munitions industry. Action was deferred and a resolution to rename the church to American Episcopal Church was sent to committee.
In Baltimore on October 13 a resolution urged Methodists worldwide to begin a season of special prayer for unity among the three church branches and for a liquorless, warless world. The measure appeared in the sesquicentennial celebration report by the committee on findings. More than 2,000 delegates from all states, plus Canada, England, Japan, Korea, and China attended.
C Walter Cole of Towson Maryland was elected governor of the Capital District Kiwanis International at the district convention in Richmond Virginia He succeeds E I Carruthers of Charlottesville Cole will assume office January 1.
Delegates from the International Nudists Conference begin their annual meeting at Nolan Country Club near Akron. Cold weather prompts attendees to wear coats while host R B Abbott of Cleveland explains sessions will likely be clothed. About 100 nudists expected through Sunday.
Middletown football was stifled by Massanutten Academy Junior Varsity at Woodstock with an 18 to 0 defeat. The Freder ick county squad, despite a scrappy effort, faced three Massanutten squads and wore down in the backfield. End Brill, Fox. tackles Keith, Willey. and Derflinger led a sturdy Middletown effort as heavier opponents controlled the line.
Dr. Jean Piccard and his wife postponed the stratosphere balloon ascent due to high winds. The pair expect a delay of a week to 10 days as unfavourable wind cycles persist, with weather changes needed for a flight within the next two days unlikely.
Major John S. Cohen is ousted as Georgia national committeeman after a state convention named Ryburn G. Clay as successor. Cohen refuses to resign unless the president requests it, citing his Roosevelt advocacy. Gov. Eugene Talmadge backed a large portion of delegates to the convention.
National Episcopal leaders balanced the likelihood of greater lay support against reducing missionary budgets. The fiscal issue remains first on the convention agenda with other matters lingering in the background as officials discuss potential creation of an archbishopric if they adopt the status and work recommendations for the presiding bishop.
Social notes list attendees including Alan Peery William Grove Asbury Jackson James Anderson and R T Bryarly Jr at a Pittsburgh game. Frank Likar will be away Monday due to duty in Baltimore with alternate days at the Post Office building. Mrs Rouss and sisters visit Winchester staying at George Washington Hotel and visiting Mount Hebron Cemetery. Young locals attend the Llangollen Dance hosted by John Hay Whitney. Martha Walker Lupton and James R Lupton Jr enroll at George School Bucks County Pa.
Funeral services are planned for Mrs Addie Smith who died in Memorial Hospital and lived near Berry’s Perry. She was the daughter of George W Crenshaw and Anna Wood Crenshaw of Albemarle county and will be buried in Laurel Hill Church yard. She is survived by her husband R C Smith and a son, a sister and a brother.
The sentence notes Achenbach as the surname shared by two renowned landscape painters of the Düsseldorf school, highlighting their celebrated status in 19th century European art.
Police halted the search for a Dillinger aide amid continued reports. Officers identified a suspect as Alvin Karee and noted involvement of Adam Richetti and Floyd in the kidnapping case as per official statements.
Mrs. R. B. Moore and her daughter Mrs. Lewis Bell, guests of Mr. and Mrs. H C Sheetz, have returned to their home in Gaithersburg Maryland after events at Kansas Union Station described as a machine gun shooting incident.
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