Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive

Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 2

Location:
Wilmington, Ohio
Issue Date:
Page:
2
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

I I I I Page Two THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL OHIO. WILMINGTON, Monday, January 21, 1935 WINTER ROUTED BY HEAVY RAINS IN COUNTY AREA Four-Inch Snow Disappears; Traffic Is Slowed By Impenetrable Fog Drenching rains and rising temperatures routed a one-day seige of winter in Wilmington and. Clinton County Saturday night and Sunday. Four' Inches of snow, which fell Friday night and. -Saturday morn ing, vanished in a soupy tog.

Total precipitation for the 36-hour period was 1.13 inches, according to the report of Erskine R. Hayes. Rainfall during the last week amounted. to 2.42 inches, approximately the same that for the entire month of December, weather records disclose. Maximum temperature Sunday was 49 degrees and the low was 35.

Minimum Sunday night was 46. Monday. at 8 A. the thermometer reading was 58. Wind, shifting to the northwest, caused the mercury 'to drop and the readlag at 1 P.

was 37 degrees. City and county emerged from the fog late Sunday with almost a clean slate, as far as traffic acct dents were concerned. Despite the necessity for driving with lights. sunday there were no major mishaps in this section. Two trucks collided in the 3C Highway five miles east of the city but damage was slight.

Automobiles moved cautiously during the day and traffic was at minimum. ROTARY HOLDS OPEN MEETING Members Received in Last 12 Months Schooled in Objects Of Rotary Presentation of the six objects of Rotary to those who have become members of the club in the last year was the feature of the program of the Wilmington Rotary Club at its luncheon session in the General Denver Hotel- Monday. During the question period, Thurman Miller and E. E. Terrell, charter members, answer.

ed the majority of the queries of the new members. Robert E. Hadley told of plans for the convention of Rotary Inter. national to be held in City, In June. The local club will be represented at the sessions.

Discussion of club business 00 cupied the rest of the open meeting. Rotarians Fred Graves and Elmer of Washington C. and Everett Bates, member of the Blanchester club, were guests. READ THE CLASSIFIEDS LAMAX 100 and 25c 10c and 200 Today and Tuesday The Blinding Love of Antony of Egypt's Great Queen! "CLEOPATRA" MA Cecil B. DeMille Production WithCLAUDETTE COLBERTWARREN WILLIAM HENRY WILCOXON Ian Keith Joseph Schildkravi KEN MAYNARD in "FARGO EXPRESS" FRI.

SAT. W. C. FIELDS With BABY LEROY "It's A Gift" STARTING NEXT SUNDAY: Sylvia Sidney in 'Behold My Wife' The Weather By E. R.

Hayes Weather Bu. Special Station Temperature for 24 hours ending sunset, Sunday, maximum, 49; minimum, 35; lowest during night, 46. 58 10 A. 50 12 M. 38 1 P.

M. 37 Precipitation .70 Character of Day Cloudy Wind at I P. M. Northwest COLUMBUS, Jan. 21 -(P) Weather outlook for the 36-hour period beginning at 8 P.

M. Sunday: The cold wave is spreading eastward over the Mississippi Valley and lake region. Zero temperatures: prevail over: the upper lakes and near zero as far east as the Indiana line. The further advance of this area will bring a marked change to colder to this vicinity in the next' few hours changing the rain into snow this afternoon followed tonight by much colder weather with snow flurries. There is a temperature range this morning of 98 degrees between North Dakota and southern Florida.

DAILY TEMPERATURE CHART 8 A. M. Yes. Today Max. Atlanta, cloudy 56 56 Boston, cloudy 32 32 Buffalo.

rain 42 Chicago, snow 12 40- Cincinnati, cloudy 54 58 Cleveland, rain. 48 48 Columbus, cloudy 56 56 Denver, clear 2 Detroit, rain', 36 38 El Paso, clear 18. 42 Kansas City, clear 16 Los Angeles, clear 44 58 Miami, cloudy 72 76. New Orleans, rain 70 New York, cloudy 40 40 Pittsburgh, cloudy 48 48 Portland, rain ..42 42 St. Louis, cloudy 6 48 San Francisco, clondy 42 48 Tampa, clear 64 82 Washington D.

ra 36 36 Yesterday's High Jacksonville, clear 78 Montgomery, partly 78 New Orleans, cloudy, 80 Today's Low The Pas, clear -44 Battleford, clear -52 Prince Albert, cloudy -52 THORNE COMPANY TO PRESENT STYLE SHOW To Feature Entertainment At Vienna Farm Institute A feature of the Farmer's Insti: tute at New Vienna tonight will be the style show given by the H. H. Thorne Company, There will be an- hour's program portraying the full scope of en's apparel and accessories. Sport and afternoon dresses, coats, suits will be shown and tori mal dinner and dance frocks of. the evening.

Eight New Vienna young women will be models and the Vienna orchestra 'will furnish music. MAY CONTINUE CLASS Wilmington College will continue the extension course at Washington C. if sufficient enrollment is obtained to constitute a class for the second semester. (Copyright- by Associated Press, 1935) MURPHY WI "The Theatre That Never Disappoints!" To day than the Route Dangle He Cheated! Mote story is that the he thrill- actually -packed lived! TODAY and TUESDAY DARRYL ZANUCKS A OLE SALACE. MIGHTY Crazy" News Events WEDNESDAY THURSDAYII COMING SUNDAY KEN MAYNARD in Montgomery and Harding in "OLD SANTA FE" of A Bachelor The most ancient inscriptions are those found in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and these countries have furnished by far the largest ber of these, records of Oriental history and civilization.

STRIKE UP THE BAND out the country. More than four million persons and every important orchestra in the country are expected to take part Above (center) is a typical. Birthday Ball gathering, assembled under the auspices of Gov. Alt M. Landon of Kansas at Kansas City.

last year. Insert (upper. right) some New York social registrites laying plans for the Waldorf toria Birthday Ball in New York City. Left to right Laura Brown, Lucretia Osborn, Doris Terhune and Pamela Prime, popular members of, New York's younger set. Upper left, of the infantile paralysis victies.

tims will benefit by the parwho with heroic 137 co-workers during their hospital attaches, were a stricken The girls pictured here, I fight against. the recent epidemic in Los Angeles, Seven- AS HAUPTMANN HEARS TESTIMONY Caught in pensive mood in the courtroom at Flemington, N. where he on trial for his life. ty cents of every dollar raised this year will be retained by local communities to rehabilitate infantile paralysis victims. Thirty per cent will be turned over to.

a Birthday Ball Commission for Inpointed by Paralysis Research, apfantile: the President, and under the chairmanship of Col. Henry L. Doherty, who is also national chairman of the 1935 Birthday Ball. UNION BUREAU TO PRESENT PROGRAM Entertainment To Be Given Thursday Night A talk on' "Electricity on the "Farm" by Edwin Henderson of the Dayton Power Light a tion picture and one-act play "Henry's Mail Order Wife" and music will feature the program to be- presented at a meeting of Township Farm. Bureau in the Court-house Thursday at 8 P.

M. Plans also will be formulated for completion of the township membership campaign and requirements for a standard Farm Bureau will be presented. The play will be staged by restdents of the Kingman community. The cast includes Earl. Mills, Roy McNemar, Sherwin Buckley, Sarah Shidaker, Adella Ellis and George Haynes.

Henderson's talk. will be Illustrated, with a motion picture. The musical program will include accordion solos by Harold son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

J. Peterson, of Xenia. A tap dance will given by Martha Ellen Peterson and Charlotte and Jackie Swindler, of Xenia. Percy E. Green, chairman of the bureau, will preside.

PROPERTY P. E. Snyder, Blanchester hardware dealer has purchased the Morfis property, a seven room frame house and lot, on, east Center street. ARTIFICIAL THROAT INSERTED TO SAVE BABY'S LIFE Dr. Insley and Miss Little "Miss was born with- tion by Dr.

Insley and his assist- by the grafting of living tissue. out a throat." Whereupon the ant, Dr. Bay, of a rubber tube X-ray pictures had disclosed that baby was rushed to a Baltimore: down the child's throat through the esophagus, led only to the hospitad. P. Insley is shown which to feed her while they collar bone instead of the stomwith "Miss following inser, sought to, extend the esophagus ach.

TAX STAMP SALE BEGINS AT OFFICE OF TREASURER Merchants Must Buy Stamps Before January 27- Discount Allowed Disposition of the first of 056,000 Sales tax stamps to Wilmington and Clinton County retail merchants began at the office of County Treasurer J. Raymond Gray Monday. The stamps must be obtained before, Sunday, January 27, when the state sales tax levy becomes effective. Penalties will be assessed merchants who do not comply with the statute. Three per cent.

discount 18 allowed on all stamp sales regardiess of the amount, the treasurer announced Monday, The stamps are being sold In units of 100 In one and two cent denominations and in lots of 10 In all larger values. Five persons have been added to the staff in the treasurer's office to facilitate service to merchants and the county official requests that purchases. of stamps be made promptly to avoid a last minute rush; Receipts for vendor's permits must be presented. Those who assisting in the work are Burdette Bennett, Mrs. Etta Buckley, Mrs.

Mabel Smart, Miss Norma Jefferis and Miss. Mary Craig. TERRELL SELLS GREGORY FARM NEAR SNOW HILL Sale of the Gregory farm of 751 acres in. Green Township, property of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance to Mr. and Mrs.

H. G. Bates, of this city, was an: nounced by E. E. Terrell, Wilmington real estate broker, Monday.

The farm is about one and one half miles north of Snow Hilt Country Club, just off of State Route 73. ONE DISEASE CASE IS REPORTED IN COUNTY One case of communicable disease was reported in the county Monday by Dr. W. K. Ruble, Health Commissioner.

Mary Louise Dunseith, Clark Township, has scarlet fever. The case is the first for several weeks. PNEUMONIA FATAL TO COUNTY RESIDENT Mrs. Helen Richardson, 28, Expires Monday, 111 10 days with pneumonia, Mrs. Helen Richardson, expired at her home at Villara Chapel Monday at 2 A.

M. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon, she was born November 1, 1906, near Westboro. She was widely known In that community.

She was a member of the Macedonia Christian Church. She is survived by her parents, her husband, Homer Richardson, two sons, Wayne and Dale Richardson, both at home, and one brother, Ben Sheldon, of Cuba. Funeral services will be held in Villars Chapel church Wednesday at 2 P. M. with Rev.

William Arthur in charge. Interment, in charge of Albert L. Hannah; be in Sugar Grove cemetery. A social event which is expected to make the recent English royal wedding seem like gar. den party will embrace more than 5,600 American communities on the night of January 30, when the entire nation will cel ebrate fifty-third President birthday anniversary with dances for the benefit of infantile paralysis victims through- KARPIS SHOOTS WAY OUT OF TRAP (Continued from page one) tion of childbirth.

A detective's cheek was gashed by a slug from the sub-machine gun. The gun fight began with startling suddenness before dawn yes. terday. Atlantic City police had receiv. ed a request from Florida to be on the lookont for a stolen car, the occupants of which were known to have a shotgun and automatic pistol, Patrolman Ellas Saab spied the machine in a garage near the boardwalk.

The men who left it there were traced to the adjacent Dan-Mor Hotel, on Kentucky Avenue, and a squad of detectives and police set out to arrest them. Officers were stationed at front and rear entrances of the building, another stood in the lobby and two went to the fourth floor room where Karpis and' Campbell were quartered. The women were asleep in an adjoining room. Smashing in the door, Dan Mulhern stepped into the opening with pistol in hand. "Stick 'em up," he commanded.

"We're officers." "Stick 'em up yourself, coppers," retorted. Karpis, who was fully dressed and holding the sub-machine gun. Firing as he turned, the bandit sent a burst of slugs at the doorway as Mulhern ducked. The two detectives tried to halt the outlaws' flight from a corner in the hallway, but their revolvers were no match for Karpis' weapon. Karpis fired a volley through the door of the women's room to awaken them.

Police said it was one of those shots which struck his companion. He then dashed down back stairway. TRUCKS DAMAGED IN CRASH DURING FOG Virginian Suffers Minor Foot Injury in Accident Trucks, operated Amelia, Va. and Walter Vir. git: Willis, :47, Washington: C.

were damaged when they collided on the 30 Highway five east of Wilmington Sunday at 8 A. M. during the heavy fog. J. C.

Moore, 28, Amelia, who was riding with Adams, suffered minor toot injury. State. Highway Patrolmen tigated the accident. DO YOU KNOW Damp weather la the worst weather for colds and grippe; Be prepared with the best cold and grippe remedies and preventatives. from your Rexall.

Drug Store. Beins: Store. BUY THIS WEEK SAVE THE TAX NO Rollator Recommended By Hundreds of Housewives ATWATER-KENT HOUSE AND CAR RADIOS This is the last week to buy that new Norge refrigerator of Atwater-Kent radio at a saving. Sales tax becomes effective Sunday, January 27. C.

M. CASHMAN 377 E. Main Phone 2277 Bruno Hauptmann listens to the evidence by which the state expects to convict: him. The THRIFTY PEOPLE MONEY HAVE Because TIME the, THEY to Rad.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About Wilmington News-Journal Archive

Pages Available:
447,143
Years Available:
1879-2019