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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1935
Page
8
Secretary Ickes announced a new decentralized public works administration in every state to speed projects and coordinate with other relief programs. He favored using relief rolls for labor and said the act is broad enough to cover subsistence homesteads despite a comptroller general ruling.
Washington April 8 The Senate refused to consider the Black 30 hour week bill as NRA constitutional questions loom. Senator Couzens opposed immediate action and urged waiting on recovery law extensions while Black pressed for a 30 hour limit. Only 20 Senators supported debate. The Schechter poultry case appeal and a speedy NRA ruling dominated court actions. Blue Eagle critics pressed the movie code reform amid industry complaints.
The AAA reports $731,982,189 collected in processing taxes to fund farm price supports but $887,512,255 spent to raise prices. Cotton and wheat taxes draw protest from textile makers while Wallace defends the program as necessary to aid producers. A Senate repeal measure advances as the dispute continues.
Rain and snow delay festival preparations but the last week of April is planned for the parade. Local clubs and organizations including Winchester Garden Club Rotary Lions Kiwanis American Legion Handley High School 4 H and more are building floats with color schemes of yellow purple white red Nile green and pink for Winchester’s grandest festival.
Staunton reports identify mystery man as Wheeler J. Woodson of Nelson County, father of Percy Woodson, missing since February 7. The elder Woodson, injured with a skull fracture, says he was attacked, robbed, and held two months by masked captors in a shack, while meals came from a blindfolded woman.
A man suffering from amnesia was found on the city outskirts and brought to the jail. He told Deputy Long he thought he was Woodson, and due to bad weather Woodson was left at the jail last night. His family plans to take him to University Hospital in Charlottesville for treatment.
Automobile linked to Woodson showed stains initially thought to be human blood but tests confirmed animal blood, shaping the investigation's direction and raising questions about the evidence.
In a Danzig suburb violence flared as Nazis failed to reach a two thirds majority. Three petitions seek restoration of freedom and accuse the Nazi government of partisan laws and selective custody. Police report beatings and shootings amid renewed tensions near Brantau and Zoppot.
Richmond officials said a new federal public works bill could relieve Virginia from matching a 2.278 million drive to July 1. The plan may let the state avoid a large deficit and boost highway projects, with railroads possibly sharing half the cost of rights of way.
Ammonia on a cloth can lift white marks from wood furniture, followed by polishing with furniture oil to restore shine.
For a fourth day, House leaders and Ways and Means Democrats failed to agree on using a gag rule to advance the Social Security bill. President Roosevelt’s stance could determine whether the measure is liberalized. A liberal bloc of over 30 Democrats Progressives Republicans and Farm-Laborites planned to meet Thursday to discuss the bill.
Charlottesville April 8 meeting of the Seventh District American Legion convention heard Homer Chaillaux charge that cheap alien labor and foreign elements fuel unemployment. He urged strong action to curb immigration quotas and claimed four and a half million aliens are on relief rolls. Other speakers addressed child welfare and bonus payment support.
Don ald R Richberg assailed critics of the NRA and AAA during the American Red Cross convention before 1700 delegates. He warned that opposition to the New Deal programs threatens democracy by urging blind hostility and self seeking, urging restraint for the greater good.
Mississppi at the Capitol Theatre features Joan Bennett and Bing Crosby in a Paramount musical romance. W C Fields supplies comic relief in this light entertainment for today and tomorrow.
Washington reports a House vote approving a war gains bill while a recommitment motion looms. The measure would authorize drafting authority and price controls upon war declaration, with licensing power and production order rules. Senate hearings later aim to curb profits and impose wartime salary limits.
Washington reports the L Grief and Brothers Inc counsel warned the Staunton Virginia plant could close if disorders continue. The case involves the Staunton Manufacturing Company Mutual Benefit Association and access by the Clothing Workers of America. Union witnesses claim the company failed to deter worker intimidation and the plant manager was removed in a non union workers’ action observed by local police.
At an Aldermanic hearing Dr. Zimmerly and his associate Richard Parker were arraigned on narcotic charges and alleged performing illegal operations. The 67 year old doctor is jailed on bail and police seek bones found in an ash heap as investigators pursue a missing person case involving Elsie Miller and the death of Mrs. Lawson.
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