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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1938
Page
2
City officials plan a public hearing after a unanimous vote to repair or build two defective sidewalks. The sites are in front of the Paulkmer property on West Boscawen Street near Main and the Miller property on North Kent Street.
Special to The Star Charles Town Aug 3 John A Proctor led Clayton L Haines as 11 precincts mostly in adjoining counties reported results Proctor carried Jefferson County 2494 1197 Haines won in Charles Town district and vote tallies for county officials showed William Jones re nominated with 2330 votes Marshall Orndorff 849 F Lewis Jordan 717 Dr M J Melvin won Jefferson county commissioner 2140 to 1244 J Matt Garrett won Charles Town district 2178 over Charles H Moore 1527 Jefferson county House of Delegates votes went to W P Alexander 1744 and U S Martin 1028.
City council weighed electrical interference with radio reception but took no action. City manager said city owns survey equipment yet no volunteer to chair the radio commission. Over 60 cases of static previously found have been corrected. current static from new devices operating without commission approval. Since E A Crown's resignation, efforts to appoint a chairman have failed.
Rome reports the government announced that foreign Jews will be barred from all Italian schools starting fall term 1938 1939. The decree excludes Italian citizens, with 47 000 Jews who hold citizenship unaffected. A separate communique notes a new program to increase armed forces efficiency following a high level meeting.
Perry McKee of Frederick County died yesterday in Staunton Hospital in his 75th year. The body is at Omps Funeral Home until tomorrow at 1 pm. funeral at 2 pm at Trone Bethel Church with Rev Statton Shade officiating. Survived by son R C McKee Gore. daughter Mrs Gertie Anderson. Francis McKee of this city. Wife Isabelle Eliott preceded him in death. He belonged to the Disciples of Christ and was a longtime farmer.
Manager Chub Mallory predicts a tough game as the Park hosts the Indian Head Nine at Park Ball Park. The Indians boast one of Maryland’s strongest lineups with ex college and pro players, including Captain Bott and other notable opponents. The Kiwanis Club paid tribute to Howard Metz Solenberger, adopting resolutions in his memory.
Captain Mathias Bott of the local Salvation Army will lead the mid week prayer service at Grace Lutheran Church tonight at 8 oclock. The public is invited to attend.
Winchester Club golfers shift focus after Lester Arnold’s championship win. Two August events, the Governor’s Cup and Byrd trophy, set with 36 hole net score rules, tie-breaks by low handicap. Finals run Sept 5 to 12. Junior Arnold and Derek Hailey reach third flight finals with matches scheduled tomorrow and Friday.
A Daily Vacation Bible School will open at Grace M. E. Church Middletown Va with Miss Elinor Wrenn as supervisor and Rev J T Brown pastor inviting all interested. Sessions run 9 to 11 30 each morning with a Friday picnic at Rouss Park Winchester for attendees.
Martin J. Walsh testified before the Senate civil liberties committee that he and three other workers received compensation from Youngstown Sheet and Tube for reporting alleged intimidation of families of loyal workers during the back-to-work movement that helped end the Little Steel strike last summer.
Des Moines Iowa August 3 Governor Nelson Kraschel declared the federal government acts only with states delegated authority as he confronts the National Labor Relations Board over the Maytag strike. The NLRB ordered the hearing to resume in the federal courthouse tomorrow despite Kraschel’s closure order.
Mayor Anderson and city officials weigh options to fund a new or repaired armory after September 30 deadline. Adjutant General S. Gardner Waller urges immediate action as WPA loans seem unlikely. President Marshall may form a council committee to meet with Col. Anderson on August 8. Winchester benefits from National Guard salaries, with annual funds around 12 000 to 14 000 linked to local units.
At last regular meeting dubbed the lame duck session four members were honored as they retire Peyton Marshall president since Fred Glaize’s death Ralph Snapp A Lee Coble and others did not seek re election in June Goode and Rosenberger successors were appointed and new members Miller Streit Walter Anderson Marvin Weaver and Lawrence Hollis will start in September
In West Virginia the three Democratic incumbents backed by the New Deal won renomination amid strong leads with 373 of 478 precincts reporting Edmiston and Johnson winning easily on incomplete returns. Ramsay led Haymond with about 5 000 votes as UMWA support boosted his margin in the northern panhandle. Four Republicans secured nominations without opposition for the general election.
A 101 year old Lexington resident recalls joining a church at 13, celebrates a July 23 1938 birthday, and notes 82 years in the same house. He praises his church and preachers, says he reads The Star, and hopes to attend next Sunday with a friend typing his message.
The School Board hears a request from Garland R. Quarles for erecting white way lights on Jefferson street to light the Handley School campus area. Temporary repairs to the parking lot and roadway are planned until permanent street work can be funded.
Members of the Friendship Fire Company will sponsor an event at the engine house at 8 o'clock Friday night featuring Pappy Slim and Curly. The public is invited.
York report states Mrs. Ethel Regina Swartz 31 wife of a factory worker is charged with killing her seven months old daughter Louise. District Attorney Brennenan says Swartz confessed she stuffed cotton in the infant’s mouth struck her head with an electric iron and strangled the child with a stocking.
John Rohrer aged 28 died when a pickup carrying seven road workers veered into a pole on Walnut Lane. Rohrer suffered a fractured skull as the collision killed him almost instantly. Other workers were injured.
The Star recounts a Grace Church Sunday school journal found by Fred J. Larrick of Middletown. Dedication ceremonies feature Dr. W W McIntyre of Winchester delivering the sermon on the Ministry of Music with D R McAleer of Baltimore playing. Bells donated by E Olin Larrick memorialize his niece Emma Larrick Kline.
B B Jones host to Virginia Purebred Hog Breeders Association at Audley Farm near Berryville Audley followed by farm tour showing Hampshires mares foals and yearlings The event drew about 200 guests and no speeches were given Jones denied plans to convert Audley into a hog farm emphasizing hogs as a profitable complement to his horse breeding program.
In South Paris Maine Paul N Dwyer an 18 year old convict serving a life term for the murder of Dr James G Littlefield tests that former Deputy Sheriff Francis M Carroll killed the doctor Dwyer said no to having murdered him and identified Carroll as the killer Prosecutor Ralph M Ingalls portrayed Carroll as a vicious war veteran who threatened the boy if he spoke Carroll the man on trial faced the accusation as Dwyer stood before a packed courtroom including his former sweetheart Barbara Carroll 18 Carrolls daughter
A stick of dynamite was found in an electric motor in the Montebello tunnel shaft about a mile from the site of a recent fatal blast. The motor lies about 160 feet below the surface. Police and State's Attorney J Bernard Wells opened an immediate investigation.
A foreign office source said Mexico sent a note to the United States rejecting arbitration in principle for expropriated farm lands but left room for further discussion.
Cincinnati August 3 1930 prosecutor Dudley M Outcalt told three judges that Lindberg Trent 15 confessed slayer of six year old Shirley Ann Wood attempted wholesale poisoning of schoolmates a year earlier Arthur Fix counsel corroborated the statement.
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