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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1933
Page
4
The text appears to be a publisher’s catalog notice including Associated Press credit and circulation details. It records rights and pricing lines while noting exclusivity for AP dispatches and local news. No specific events or individuals are identified in readable content.
The text mixes lines about making right paths with a reference to Proverbs 27 2 about letting others praise you not yourself. It presents fragmented phrases and a quoted maxim without a clear news angle or event.
The article catalogs key provisions of the industrial recovery code including a forty hour week for white collar workers and a thirty five hour week for mechanical labor until December 1 1933 with a six week exception. It also sets an eight hour daily limit and minimum wages from twelve to fifteen dollars weekly, plus age limits and price controls.
The Alexandria Gazette notes a national strategy to increase employment hours and wages this year. Employers face financing challenges but the NRA urges cooperation without compulsion, stressing self interest and patriotism.
The article notes that automobile accidents impose a heavy financial burden on Maryland and the nation. James Roosevelt highlighted a yearly cost of about 703 million dollars, driven by lost wages and supported by medical care and insurance. It argues car carelessness wastes vast sums.
A speaker urges calmer driving and courteous behavior at street intersections to reduce accidents and save lives. The argument emphasizes the financial costs of crashes and the avoidable tragedy of injuries and fatalities.
One year ago Winchester Rotary Club announced its standing committees for the coming year. Frederick County Sunday School picnic set for August 11 at Kline's Grove in Vaucluse. Young Democratic Club led by Burr P Harrison lays out a vigorous campaign. Seven hundred firemen tackled the $6,000,000 Chicago grain elevator blaze. Winchester Park Association plans a banquet at Cy Mee's camp to honor the baseball team.
Sally Grweynne travels from Chicago to Daytona to become secretary to John Kembie Proctor. On arrival Proctor is dead and Sally and Ted Chandler, a newspaper man turned chauffeur, investigate suspects including Gus Vitelli and Fred Proctor. A photograph of Proctor and Vitelli is secured as Sally and Ted inch toward the truth.
Roger Babson says farm situation nears crisis as political observers foresee changes on the horizon with President Harding's death. The report mentions a variety of local items including deaths, sales, and civic notes.
Warner Bros CAPITOL presents a lively Melody Cruise at Capitol Theatre running until 11 PM. The cast promises love laughs and risqué humor aboard a pleasure ship with seductive beauty and tuneful dialogue. Kay Francis stars in Mary Stevens MD opening Monday.
The Colonial Theatre hosts the big event with The Three Musketeers sweeping into town and a Ken Maynard feature showing. Gates open late as programming runs until 11 PM for an exciting movie day.
Rex Bell stars in The Fugitive at Hlable's Palace tonight a fast western epic about a young ranger fighting cattle rustlers. The program also includes a Hokum Mystery Comedy Phantom of the Air chapter eight and Mickey Mouse Cartoons. Monday and Tuesday Jack Holt headlines The Wrecker with Genevieve Tobin Sidney Blackmer and George Stone in a dramatic tale of a man wrecked by love and pride.
Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard and his wife Violet Elizabeth McDougall arrived in White Sulphur Springs W Va to frame recommendations for the upcoming special beer session. He will meet with budget and fiscal officials and legislators on beer repeal referendum and public works. The Porto Ricans note and wild rice paragraphs follow in this column.
Precipitation data show past four hours ending 8 a m with August to date 1.01 inches and year to date 25.79 inches. Winchester Laboratory lists 20 year average annual rainfall 34.53 inches and monthly averages: January 1.6, February 2.0, March 2.70, April 3.11, May 3.73, June 3.81, July 3.45, August 3.45, September 2.15, October 3.06, November 2.25, December 2.37 inches.
Richmond August 4 Receipts from motor vehicle taxes remain steady while other state revenue drops about 15 percent. License tax receipts for the 5 1 2 month period ended August 1 totaled 5 435 615 83 compared with 5 459 543 53 for the same period in 1932. Gasoline tax collections for the first six months of the year are about 23 000 higher than 1932, keeping total motor vehicle revenues at last year’s level. Licenses issued include 242 909 passenger cars and 37 127 trucks.
Harrisonburg readies for the Virginia State Firemen's convention with Main street and Court Square decorated. Flags banners and pennants go up. Electric lights loaned by Virginia Public Service Co. will be strung as delegates and out of state officials arrive. Housing demands surge ahead of Tuesday arrival.
Strasburg Virginia August 4 William E Carson chairman of the State Conservation and Development Commission announced that the plan of arbitration for the settlement of exceptions to appraisers awards in the Shenandoah National Park land condemnation has been signed by attorneys for owners representing 26 500 of the 39 000 acres in dispute. If the price total for the acreage stays within a 1 600 000 fund the purchases can be made immediately. Five circuit judges to be appointed by Governor Pollard will form the arbitration board. If some tracts push total cost beyond the fund the commission will abandon those and seek the 12 500 acres remaining through court action.
White Post residents Emmett Stuart Frank Stuart Betty Meade Stuart and Maizie Hatcher returned from a week at Myrtle Beach visiting Francis Stuart. Sunday guests at Mrs. Mary Gore's home included Gray and Dr. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Page of Roanoke, Mrs. John Mareelos Louise, We Erine Clark and children, and O. Berryville.
In Washington the administration weighs the role of large electricity firms amid recovery debates. Critics say power companies resist cooperation and skim profits, while federal reforms target public interest over corporate gains. In New York Pennsylvania and Ohio, strikes test troop deployment in a volatile shift toward reform.
Secretary Frances Perkins presented figures in Washington on a steel code arguing a 40 hour week would not raise purchasing power or require higher wages since June’s average was 87.9 hours. Observers foresee a 35 hour week after a battle while New York questions J P Morgan’s stance on U S Steel and code power.
Wall Street sees activity from the Bookkeepers Stenographers and Accountants union as it seeks new members amid wider labor organizing. The movement targets workers connected to finance and related industries.
Reports say the packing industry is organizing a corporation to finance the sale of meat surpluses to Russia as part of efforts to dispose of excess supplies. The move involves creating a legal entity to handle shipments, credits, and distribution to the Soviet market.
Rev and Mrs Warner and Miss Constance Warner from Washington D C visit their Shenandoah River camp near Milldale for August. Residents and guests from Richmond Roanoke Lancaster Pa Norfolk Wilmington Del Front Royal Berryville Clarke County West Virginia join in local social rounds and family visits.
Vision Historical argues that linking memory with historical parallels helps prevent panic or over confidence in current events. The piece stresses learning from past patterns to guide present decisions and maintain steadiness during uncertainty.
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