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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1929
Page
3
Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller invites society notes by mail or telephone. Call between 3 and 4 p.m. for the next day’s edition. Phone number listed as 33.
Mrs. Theodore Tiller to host a table for the National League of American Pen Women Celebrity Breakfast on October 26 at the Willard Hotel entertaining 10 guests. Mrs. Tiller chairs the national social committee and is a past district president.
Mrs. Virginia W. Simpson returns to Winchester after council visits in Norfolk and plans trips to Benna Vista Roanoke and Clifton Forge with a District No. 16 Pocahontas meeting led by Great Sachem Robert Wright. Also notes Century Club resumes October 25, Jacksons’ wedding trip home, Miss Beulah Pingley in Memorial Hospital after paralysis stroke, and Mrs Ruth F Franklin visiting Gettsyburg cousin in East Piccadilly street.
The Girls' Athletic Association plans a winter Club Night at 7 30 tomorrow, a new idea replacing the regular team. The event aims for broad attendance to ensure success, with committee members Mrs Margaret Hodgson Goss Mrs Magdaline Fansler and Miss Nan Keeting guiding the program.
The Tuesday Bridge Club met for supper and bridge with Mrs. Frank N Hack as hostess at her South Washington Street home. Twenty members attended.
Otis Sargent and Albert Norton returned from Baltimore after attending the Notre Dame Navy football game. Mrs. Helen Richards of Mount Rainier Md visits Mrs. T J Dale for a week. Revenue Commissioner C W Trenary is in Richmond on official business. Mayme Stryker of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co is home ill on North Kent Street. Miss Lucy Cooley of Middletown was in Winchester for shopping.
H Foster Bain, director of the Bureau of Mines, testified that Albert Fall kept subordinates from negotiating final oil leases without his approval. He said Elk Hills and Pearl Harbor proposals were submitted to Fall, who presided over the Teapot Dome contract and prior Pearl Harbor rights.
President Hoover telegrammed Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald expressing gratification that the British visit has brought the two nations closer. The reply followed MacDonald’s earlier telegram as he departed for Canada.
Washington in October 16 and amendment to the tariff bill would abandon the commercial reciprocity with Cuba. Senator Witerman Republican of Colorado introduced the measure seeking to end the reciprocal trade arrangement between the United States and Cuba.
Two men believed deserters from Fort Hoyle’s artillery unit were found unconscious in the Norwegian steamship Vera’s hold. The government fumigation squad gas used to kill vermin exposed them. Resuscitation efforts succeeded and they were hospitalized with one in critical condition. The men identified as Ephrian Myers and Garrett.
Washington October 16 Chairman Britten of the House naval committee said after a White House call that West Point and Annapolis would resume football relations this year. He noted the President’s desire for a game at Soldiers’ Field Chicago December 6 and urged a joint plan with war and navy secretaries and third parties to set playing rules. A sunflower grew 25 feet up a cottonwood trunk at Pomeroy Ohio.
J Hammond Brown general manager of Baltimore Radio Shop Inc testified before the Radio Commission about unequal wattage distribution in the first radio zone. He cited Maryland with 6.2 percent of the population having 0.4 percent of wattage while New York with 45 percent of the population had 62.05 watts. Brown noted WFBR on air since June 16 1922 and described its ownership history from Baltimore News and the Baltimore American to William R Harst and finally private interests.
Queen Shenandoah the pointer owned by Frank S. Miller of this city won a blue ribbon at the northern Virginia field trials and beach show held at Herndon yesterday. Many dogs from northern Virginia competed in both show and trials as residents attended in force. The note adds a light pun about the proud father of twins.
Senator Sheppard of Texas proposed an inquiry to determine if the government may prosecute buyers of liquor under the Volstead act section 6 which bans manufacture sale or possession without a permit. The proposal aims to clarify enforcement of Prohibition laws and the rights of buyers.
A continental crop report notes varied apple outputs with high quality Crimean fruit and solid demand for early shipments in September. Italy sees mixed results with hail damage and drought, while Austria's yield is very small and Slovakia and Carpathian Russia look more favorable. Bulgaria and Yugoslavia report good production, Romania's apple crop rises to about 13.57 million bushels, and Poland reports on national agricultural findings.
About 12,500,000 fruit trees were killed by the severe 1928 29 season. Pear trees suffer a near 90 percent loss. Poland may depend on foreign fruit supplies for several years due to the blight.
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