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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1935
Page
8
The House passed a bill prohibiting wartime profits and blocking a conscription trigger beyond wartime limits. Young independents led the charge, adding strict wartime scope while stripping draft authorization and prompting Senate countermeasures on passports loans and ceilings on belligerent financing.
Newark April 9 stockholders assailed Bethlehem Steel leaders over high salaries led by Charles M Schwab and Eugene G Grace at the 30th annual meeting. A proposal to cap pay at 20 percent of 1934 profits failed as 355 votes for and 2 370 220 against. Grace cited profits of 550 000 in 1934 after heavy losses in 1932 1933. An angry shareholder from New York denounced the pay as unfair and warned of war time profiteering.
A Bethlehem figure criticizes aging leaders for abandoning activities while claiming Bethlehem remains close to his heart. The speaker argues against blood money prophesied by Father Coughlin and notes wealth hoarding by others as widowed New Yorker Mrs. Gallagher warns there are no pockets in shrouds.
In Middletown Virginia on April 10 revival services opened at the Southern Methodist Church led by Rev. W. P. Saunders. Rain kept crowds down early but attendance grew. Miss Sadie Harris played organ, young singers performed, and children presented a selection under Mrs. W. P. Saunders. The pastor preached on I Pray for Them from John 17:9 stressing Jesus praying for believers and the Word’s truth. Tonight’s theme is The Indifferent and tomorrow The Unfair.
Ab Jenkins, automobile racer, set a new half mile record of 54 seconds in Charlottesville this afternoon.
A bread loaf called PRUNO WHEAT is advertised as both food and laxative. It claims to help constipation when eaten daily, especially for women and children, by providing a natural remedy without drugs. It urges regular use and markets itself as a tasty solution.
The first test of the new mountain road from the lodge entrance to the mansion took 15 seconds faster than three years ago. The test precedes Saturday's dedication on Jefferson's 1092nd birth anniversary, with weather keeping speeds down from potential records.
The federal alcohol control administration permits larger output of whiskey by relaxing the distilled spirits code. Existing permit holders may increase plant capacity, and new permits are possible for plants of 1000 gallons daily or more, or smaller plants making only brandy or certain spirits. The change follows a Recovery Act framework after distillers criticized prior restrictions.
James Whittington and Carson Jenkins of Strasburg are jailed in Shenandoah county charged with killing a 200 pound calf owned by Walter Stickley. They denied the charges and later claimed alibis. Sheriff’s deputies found bloodstains on their clothes. A hearing is set for Saturday in trial justice court.
Torture charges were filed against Dr. C. B. McLaughlin and T. B. Brown as part of a prison camp abuse investigation in Charlotte North Carolina. The others named include Henry Little J W Budy R C Rape and T M Gordon. Woodrow Wilson Shropshire and Robert Barnes, both 19, suffered frostbite and gangrene after being kept in a dark cell and chained on a concrete floor. Shropshire will return to the central prison hospital in Raleigh for treatment while Barnes remains too ill to attend the hearing.
Annapolis reports funeral arrangements for Judge Nicholas Harwood Green of the Anne Arundel circuit court are postponed pending his body’s arrival at home. Green, 63, died today in Hialeah Florida after a three week illness that began in September. he had been elected to a 15 year term as an associate judge of the fifth judicial circuit.
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