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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1939
Page
7
Baltimore and Chicago livestock markets reported varied moves on April 22. Cattle and calves at Baltimore were mostly lower, hogs scarce with mixed quotes, and spring lambs firmer. Chicago hogs steady with modest price shifts and steers and yearlings easing slightly.
On farm 244 miles west of Staunton on Morris Mill Road. Wednesday April 26 at 10 o'clock rain or shine. Barn offers a general line of antiques glass and china ware. Comfortable room and seats. Lunch served. Drive out and spend the day in the country follow the signs.
The market traded quietly with transfers under 200000 shares the smallest since June last year. Investors kept commitments light ahead of the weekend amid Europe’s tensions and Hitler’s upcoming Reichstag speech. Foreign markets were quiet and the British pound stood at 4.68 dollars. Notable quotes and stock prices included Am Can 91, Am Rad 12, Anaconda 2344, AT&T 15742, Packard 80, Penn R R 1755, Western Union 1814, Woolworth 42.
Wheat prices showed fractional gains aided by short covering and dust storm reports in Kansas, with May at 69 3/4 cents and July at 49 1/2. Oats supported by cash buying around 31 cents for May, corn weaker on pressure, and beans trading mixed with July and May quotes scattered across futures curves.
Burnsville West Virginia residents joined a bucket brigade to battle a costly blaze that destroyed six business buildings six residences two churches and two locked locks in the town’s northern district. Sheriff R W Brosius put losses at about 50000 and noted the fire began in a vacant apartment threatening all 230 homes before being contained.
Charleston April 22 The United Mine Workers presented unemployment compensation claims to Washington asking federal authorities to override a state ruling denying jobless pay. William Blizzard vice president of UMWA district 1 sent a telegram to A J Altmeyer chairman of the social security board declaring the miners are locked out by no fault of their own and are entitled to jobless pay.
In Seaford Delaware on April 22 a fisherman Irving H. Jefferson age 50 drowned in the Nanticoke river. His tangled body drifted into a net owned by L. H. Jamison as he was alone in his boat and apparently fell overboard and was dragged down by the net.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrives at Wright Field from Washington and meets Brig. Gen. George H. Britt to inspect air corps research and engineering laboratories. He will stay over the weekend as a guest to discuss aviation development.
A police squad of eight detectives hunted two men after a liquor store clerk was shot to death during an attempted holdup on Wash Boulevard last night.
Twenty two members of the Men's Bible Class of the Lutheran Church traveled to Toms Brook for their annual banquet. Homer Harlee led the welcome, with B F Davis and others attending. The list includes Howard Groves George Jones Frank Brown and Rev Edwin Smith.
Berryville High regained the win column with a 10-0 victory over Upperville. Bobby Houghton pitched a three hitter with nine strikeouts as Berryville capitalized on Upperville errors and five hits, including Dickie Potts' fifth inning triple, to pull away in a seven inning game.
Baltimore April 22 Attorney J Bernard Wells will seek arraignment of Aurelio Marco Tarquinio Tuesday on a charge of slaying and dismembering Evelyn Rice 31. Prosecutor plans an early trial and seeks an unqualified first degree murder verdict with the death penalty.
In Havre de Grace Maryland on April 22 J H Bud Stotler trainer for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was injured in a three car collision on a foggy Philadelphia road. He suffered bruises and cuts to the head and face delaying plans to watch Vanderbilt impound run in the Chesapeake stakes.
Mary Perkins, chair of the Willing Work Club at Mt. Zion colored M. E. Church in Middletown, announced the fundraising drive to paint the church succeeded. The group raised 25 dollars, bringing total funds to 75 dollars for the painting project and cost, and she thanked both white and colored supporters.
A debate at Gravel Springs next week centers on the proposition that home negligence causes the world's immoral condition. Sponsored by the Winchester and Mount William societies the teams include Affirmative W F Luttrell N B Fout N C Williams and Negative H Luttrell J D Luttrell H A Snapp.
Ministers and Sunday School superintendents urged to mention that April 22 is National Be Kind to Animals Sunday during talks tomorrow. The appeal comes from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
A decree of divorce was handed down in Corporation Court in the case of R. Thornton Bryarly versus Phyllis H. Bryarly on grounds of desertion. Neither party may remarry for six months.
The Republican leadership plans to maintain party unity for the 1940 campaign by avoiding commitments to any contenders. Dinners will feature speakers one at a time to reduce factionalism, with Taft and Bricker initially set for separate events. Hoover’s contacts with Dewey spark speculation over Dewey’s bid.
The Rev J Edward Graefe of the Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg Pa will supply Grace Lutheran Church pulpit tomorrow morning and evening and teach the Men's Bible class State teaching staff of the seminary. he has been a missionary in India. Public invited to all services.
President Roosevelt toured the Shenandoah Valley visiting Endless Caverns near New Market and Monticello. He traveled without a police escort and dined with his wife Ethel Roosevelt and son Franklin Jr at a University of Virginia area home.
Author Flickinger outlines a biography of General Daniel Morgan, detailing his actions before and during the Revolution and his frontier background. He will rely on Morgan papers in the county clerk’s office and aims to expand research in Washington, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, with Griffin’s indexing help and county clerk office expansion aiding access.
Don J. Sterling was elected president of the American Society of News Editors on April 22, succeeding Allen White of Emporia. Sterling, a founder and former first vice president, serves as managing editor of the Portland Journal.
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