Nov. 26, 1935

Staff

Published Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Stories featured in the Suffolk News-Herald on this date 68 years ago include:

NEW YORK (AP) - The chief investigator for Bruno Richard Hauptmann declared today that he had learned on "unimpeachable authority" that Lindbergh ransom bills have turned up recently in Boston and Worcester, Mass.

The department of justice in New York said "we have no information in this matter."

"I have been informed," the investigator said, "that almost $700 in Lindbergh ransom money has been received by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank since Hauptmann's arrest. It is continuing to show up. My authority is unimpeachable, despite the denials of the police."

Mason School has best 5-point pupil

Clara Lee Cunningham, fourth-grade pupil at George Mason School and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Cunningham, 118 Pinner St., has been chosen Suffolk's best Five-Point health pupil and will represent this city at Richmond Friday.

In Richmond, Clara Lee will see all the sights of the state capital, have her picture taken with Gov. George C. Peery and be entertained by the high officials of Virginia's educational system.

...Wilbur Cross, also a George Mason pupil, represented Suffolk at the health rally last year.

Brewer thanks chamber directors for support

With expressions of appreciation for loyal cooperation given during his administration, R.L. Brewer Jr., president of the Chamber of Commerce, last night presided over the last regular meeting of the directorate preceding the annual meeting to be held Dec. 2.

Although the financial situation is somewhat eased, G. Lloyd Bell reported that an old deficit still plagues and handicaps the commercial organization. Desiring to clear the organization of the burden, President Brewer named Bell, M.E. Bennett Jr. and C.S. Forsberg a special committee to plan ways and means to achieve a balanced budget.

Miscreants make way with cornerstone of church

Nansemond County officers and most of the congregation of Mount Ararat Christian Church (African) are looking for a missing cornerstone, its contents and the thief who dislodged it.

The laying of the stone took place Thursday with much churchly ceremony during a meeting of the Western African Christian Church conference in Nansemond County.

In the stone's vault were placed a few coins, records of the congregation, which was founded in 1866 and a roll of the present church officers. A collection toward the building fund of the new church was also taken by the elders at the service.

"Somebody must have thought we put that money in the box with the papers," a church officer said.

Holy Neck farmer injured

Catching his hand between the sprocket and chain on a peanut picking machine early today, C.T. Parker of Holy Neck suffered a mangled left hand and lost his thumb.

The accident occurred while Parker was picking peanuts on the farm of Harvey Darden, near Holland. He was treated at Lakeview for his injury.

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