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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1939
Page
1
Washington report notes Congress, led by critics of Roosevelt, cut WPA funds by 50 million while approving large defense and other programs. Despite calls for economy, overall appropriations topped 13 billion in a peacetime year as agriculture gains and AAA aid shifted outcomes.
This note questions why a pilot would land at the abandoned airfield and urges removal of markings that Mislead the public. The writer also advocates a safe path for pedestrians and cyclists and cites Mary Baker Eddy on right thoughts and deeds.
Pi Vice President Garner travels toward his Uvalde home after meeting well wishers at a Dallas train stop. He says he will fish and rest, hints at a front porch campaign, and declines discussion of the Garner for President movement.
A one story colonial home on the Elizabeth Maxwell farm near Bartonsville burned Saturday evening. The 100 year old structure, built of old timbers, was leased by E. Earl Shade who exercised an option to purchase. Estimated value 2000 to 2500 dollars. most loss insured. Occupants L. H. Robinson family were away at Gore picnic and unaware of the blaze. Origin undetermined. house not wired for electricity.
In Berryville Virginia 28 marriage licenses were issued by Clerk J Elwood Thoma in Clarke County during July, 14 fewer than June. All couples were white with Walter Crim 48 and Lillian Pyne 38 as the oldest pair. Youngest pair both 21. Pennsylvania led with 21 residents, Maryland had 16, and six applicants were local residents.
Washington notes predict fights over unfinished Roosevelt program items as the 1940 Congress looms. President Roosevelt and allies seek to push New Deal measures. Republicans forecast stronger anti-Roosevelt coalition and greater independence next year. Leadership signals indicate continued legislative battle on neutrality, lending programs, and constitutional processes.
Thirty two heirs of the late Belle Williams are listed in a chancery suit filed by Cora L. Enders Funeral Home to recover funeral expenses and debts. An order of publication targets all heirs, though the suit names Gertie Allen of Berryville as a primary party in claims to seize real estate for payment.
In Manassas Virginia on August 7 National Guard units from Maryland Virginia and Pennsylvania rehearsed a safe realistic mock battle on the historic field of the first Civil War clash. Maj Gen Milton Reckord and Maj Gen Edward Martin laid down safety rules including 100 yard separation from the enemy no fixed bayonets and precautions for tanks and high speed weapons.
Mrs. Leona Draper, 19, confessed to shooting and killing her husband Dewey Draper, 41, at their Middlepoint home after he allegedly beat her. The couple had a 23 month old child. Police said she used a shotgun on the porch as he went to feed the hogs, and he died instantly.
In Cumberland Maryland 8000 Celanese employees remain idle as the United Textile Workers CIO Local 1847 maintains the stoppage at the Celanese Corporation plant. Labor Department conciliator John J. Connor reviewed the dispute but no mediation conference is set. Pickets gather at the gates with no disorder reported as night shift halted Friday.
The Justice Department moved to dissolve the Schine theater chain and its affiliates in an equity suit charging monopolistic restraint of trade. A United States attorney filed the suit in federal court alleging anti competitive practices by the Schine group of 190 theaters across multiple states and eleven major production and distribution firms.
In Pennsboro West Virginia a 14 year old mother cuddles her newborn daughter in a hill cabin. She longs for a doll though she has never owned one. The baby girl Geraldine Delores weighs eight pounds and was born last Thursday to 23 year old John Stackhouse and his wife whose first child died a month after birth in 1938. The couple lives on her father's farm in a three room shack. The mother has lived there most of her life except for a marriage at 13. She hopes to someday have a doll for her daughter.
River North Fork remains in fair condition with slight clearing noted while the South Fork shows muddy waters and reduced visibility. Local observers report typical spring turbidity and no major obstructions so far.
Frederick County Board of Supervisors approves a committee to plan a joint celebration with Frederick and Hardy County citizens for Route 275 near High View, WV. Rosenberger and Gold will represent the board, cooperating with the Winchester Chamber of Commerce, possibly including a barbecue. A forthcoming road budget for the next fiscal year totals 76 342.75 dollars, with a vote approving the budget and authorizing changes to Route 614.
H D Lamp of Highland avenue Winchester is jailed awaiting a Trial Court hearing on driving under the influence reckless driving hit and run and improper auto use charges. His coach sideswiped Jim Royston of Berryville on Route 7 near the Opequon at 430 to 500 am yesterday. Lamp and an unidentified woman fled the scene. Lamp was later arrested at home. Royston faces no charges yet. Lamp suffered a bruised chest. both cars damaged. no other injuries reported.
In New York a despondent mother, Miriam Kantor, 32, leapt from her Bronx apartment roof after a boy 11-year-old Frank Kantor begged her not to kill herself. The family, including Norman 14 and Ruth 9, had been distressed by two years of financial trouble.
London reports six southeastern European nations advance mobilization plans with over two million men to be called by next month. Yugoslavia Bulgaria Romania Hungary Greece and Turkey rush reservists to army and air centers while frontier fortifications rise and factories run 24 hours. Prime Minister Chamberlain plans daily contact with London and Hore Belisha travels to Paris for talks.
Madrid reports the Spanish government pressed a clean-up of criminal and subversive elements after executing 58 men and two women for a triple killing. Seven more people were to be executed for the assassination of Isaac Gabal don, his daughter, and a civil guard, raising the total to 60 alleged Red conspirators. Officials said most executed were former Republican soldiers or longtime communistic or subversive elements.
In Strasbourg France a renewed hunt for the phantom Strasbourg strangler began after the silk stocking murder of Jeane Graziani. Police report a neighbor saw a man leaving the scene, matching prior descriptions of the suspect linked to eight earlier slayings since 1932.
The 503 foot Beaverhill of the Canadian Pacific line, en route from Montreal to London, struck an iceberg about 100 miles off Newfoundland at 5 40 a m EST. The vessel reported no immediate danger and steamed toward London, with officials expecting arrival on schedule. Coast Guard Champlain aided on ice patrol and confirmed the berg impact.
Warsaw reports from Danzig say Nazi authorities agreed to negotiate the customs dispute sparked by the Danzig Polish herring and margarine war. Polish sources welcomed the move but voiced irritation at German Nazi actions as Marshal Smigly-Rydz warned Poland could roar its guns if principles of customs control are violated.
The White Hall Community Leadership School and Vacation Bible School sponsored by United Brethren and Methodist Churches runs August 9 to 18 in White Hall School building. Sessions 8 to 10 am on Wednesdays and Fridays first week and Mondays Wednesdays Fridays second week. Dean is Rev. C Arthur Sadoosky. Courses include Old Testament study by Mr Sadofsky and "My Community and the Christian Ideal" by Rev. Wm Obaugh. Mrs Melvin Brown and Mrs J W Lodge lead children’s activities. Campfire services August 11 14 and 16 officiated by Rev. C H Funk Rev L G Brid gers and Ellsworth Orndorff.
Dr Charles Christiansen of Milwaukee and an unidentified passenger escaped with minor injuries after a Piper Coupe crashed while taking off from the old airport east of Winchester Route 50. Damages estimated at 1500 dollars, plane deemed beyond repair. They continued to Washington then New York.
Hankow reports United States Consul-General C J Spiker protested Japanese bombing of the American Lutheran United Mission at Kiushan Henan province on July 26. Six bombs hit the hospital. six Chinese were killed and two wounded. all foreigners safe.
The Winchester Evening Star will be published an hour earlier than usual tomorrow to allow staff and their families to attend the annual picnic at Rosemont, the publisher H. F. Byrd home. This will be the second such event with staff and carrier families taking part.
Harrisburg August 7 state labor secretary Lewis G Hines blamed negligence by the State Turnpike Commission for a rock fall that killed four workmen in a tunnel near Somerset Western Pennsylvania He faulted the failure to install proper safety devices in the tunnel. A separate local note from Malin Oregon City Marshal Dick Stevenson draws his pay without working for it.
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