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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Should Women Pay Alimony (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC-Red) debated by N. Y. Assemblyman William T. Middleton, Oxford Debater Maurice C. Dreicer, Novelist Fannie Hurst for the affirmative; N. Y. Executive Assistant Secretary of State Doris I. Byrne, N. Y. State Senator Leon Fischel for the negative...
...industrial averages stood at 131.94, rails at 25.45, utilities at 20.58. Leading stocks showed such gains as U. S. Steel from $43 to $54; U. S. Rubber from $27 to $32; American Tel & Tel from $129 to $142; Chrysler from $42 to $57; N. Y. Central from $11 to $15; Electric Power & Light from $9 to $1 i ; Johns-Manville from $71 to $84; General Motors from $30 to $36. Moody's Commodity Index rose from 136.7 to 140.8. All told, it was the biggest bull movement in any one week since that following the bank holiday...
Died. Princess Jane di San Faustino, 74; of pneumonia; in Rome. Born plain Jane Campbell in Bernardsville, N. J. she married a prince, became the sharp-tongued social queen of Rome for nearly half a century...