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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1934
Page
10
At a Winchester Park Association meeting in City Hall last night officials discussed paying the community football team schedule on park grounds. Paul Carper spoke for the football club about the sport’s value and local interest.
A man identified as Alex Colvin of Walkerville Ontario acting as contact for John S Labatt the London brewer was abducted and forced to deliver a ransom note. The note demanded $25 000 to be paid immediately or Labatt would be killed.
Mrs Sallie B Gamble widow of Elisha Gamble of Martinsburg West Virginia died in her sleep yesterday morning at the Morrison Apartment home of Mr and Mrs C C Westwater. Funeral is set for 2 PM tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church Martinsburg with interment in Martinsburg. She had shown illness recently yet died suddenly of a heart attack. She was a longtime Martinsburg resident and member of Trinity Church and Berkeley County Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. Survived by one sister Miss Byrd Harrison of Richmond and several cousins.
Funeral services were held at Ridings Chapel for Henry E. Smith 34 with Rev H E Richardson officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. pallbearers included Frank Swimley Jr Philip Galloway A N Whitacre R B Brill Arbert Fisher and Joseph Bragg. Smith son of L O Smith and the late Amelia Smith of Brucetown died in Catawba Sanatorium of throat tuberculosis after hospitalization since November. He never married and is survived by four sisters and two brothers.
An all day conference of leaders from Reliance U B charge and nearby churches, with Rev E Lee Shaffer as guest speaker, will be held Thursday September 13 at Stephens City starting 10 30 am. Attendees bring a box lunch and an afternoon session will begin at 1 30 pm under Rev H Eugene Richardson.
Ramona Winegar Alexander, 16, of West Virginia, claims she was brought to Los Angeles as a lure by the grand jury to entrap political leaders. Ed Dudley, once with Chicago Secret Six, faces attack charges as the investigations unfold. A curious comparison notes a whale’s tiny brain relative to an ant’s, highlighting an odd scientific aside.
Rhodes Drug Company advertises a complete line of school supplies including pencils notebooks fillers ink and new Parkette Fountain Pens priced at 1.25. contact numbers 373 and 374.
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