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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1937
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists mailing and carrier subscription prices and rates for classified and display ads. Memorials and cards of thanks have fixed fees, with deadlines and national ad reps noted.
A biblical quotation from James 5 4 condemns the hire of laborers kept back by fraud as their cries reach the Lord of Sabath. The passage emphasizes social justice and divine accountability for wage practices and worker treatment.
Analyzed remarks from Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 warn that government can borrow briefly but must avoid perpetual deficits. The piece argues the current recovery era requires drastic economies, curtailing the federal bureaucracy, and placing efficiency over political expediency to prevent inflation and high taxes.
The President pledges to veto congressionally passed appropriations and to push for a reduced relief provision of 1.5 billion dollars. He warns against immediate apportionment of large sums and cautions that prior promises of a balanced budget were not fulfilled.
The President moves away from expansive programs toward a balanced budget, urging expenditure restraint as essential to fiscal stability. He signals a return to sound finance, learning from past lessons as banks stop buying bonds and the government must curb spending. Senator Byrd’s committee studies may aid further pruning efforts.
A New York Times April bulletin from the New York Public Library discusses early baseball origins. It cites A G Spalding’s commission and debates whether the game is modern and American or with English roots, noting 18th century references and the 1839 Doubleday attribution.
A compilation of trivia and fact Q A style answers covering authors, demographics, labor, cables, parades, aviation, education, diamonds, sun dogs, Lubber land, divorce law, stewardesses, Yang and Yin, Panama Canal traffic, Roosevelt, Christ of the Andes, and the English Derby with concise replies and named sources.
Cornelia Anne Larus escorted by Massanutten Cadets crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII by Senator Townsend of Delaware. Mrs. R. B. Avey remains seriously ill in local hospital from a black widow spider bite. Dorothy and Louise Te vall praised for Cedar Cliff Sunday School record. Blue Ridge Country Hunt Club opens for 1936 summer season with golf and tennis in play.
Five years ago F A Shryock announced the grand feature parade would be the greatest in the festival’s history. Honolulu and the United States react as a racial bias jury convicts four Americans including three navy men over the Hawaiian incident. The Star reintroduces the four page colored Slim Jim comic section. A circuit court jury will determine the validity of Scott Grant’s will.
Ten years ago President Coolidge considered invitations from governors of flood affected states to visit the damaged areas. Judge Philip Williams is sworn in as judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit by Governor Byrd. Mrs. Katie Graber Webster leaves her estate to her four children. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is entertained during a two day festival here.
Twenty five years after the killings of three court officials the Allen gang faces trial before Judge Walter Staples in the same Wytheville courthouse where the murders occurred. A dwelling on East Water Street is broken into by a colored thief. The Mackay Bennett searches for bodies with Titanic victims returning C. W. Edmonds, a Bell Telephone linesman, after being struck by lightning.
Forty years ago John F. Jones of Jones Creamery on Piccadilly street installs a phone in his shop. Confederate veterans plan a Nashville convention next month. William Totty breaks his ankle at the U S Express office. H H McGuire earns an MD at University College of Medicine Richmond. Historic note: April 30 1870 the United States buys Louisiana territory from France.
A reader from Boyce Virginia questions why two newer police officers halted a man who fled rather than face them. She argues law abiding citizens do not run from police and asks for clarification of the incident and the force’s actions.
The article analyzes President Roosevelt's apparent move from NRA style price and wage controls to a plan favoring government supervision of labor negotiations and a new antitrust framework. It cites steps like the Mellon's aluminum monopoly indictment, a letter to Garner, and Cum-mings' push for anti-trust revision, noting possible court clashes and revised definitions of unfair trade practices.
A brief observation explains South Africa often uses two languages on stamps, typically English or prints two stamps of each value with one in Dutch and one in English. The note highlights bilingual stamp practice as a recurring feature.
Jacqueline weighs Jim Asson's marriage proposal against money and security as Colonel Lutman and Asson push for a quick answer. She questions motives behind the match and debates wealth versus independence while plotting her next move on a Danube terrace.
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