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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1934
Page
8
Winchester families on relief roles and others received 365.80 for the week ending August 9. Frank W. Bailey notes 49 men worked 1043 hours earning 312.90, with 16 on Handley High School grounds for 354 hours earning 106.20. Sixteen more served town runs and earned 206.70, plus six skilled laborers with 175 hours earning 53.90. Grand total 365.80.
Chicago and other cities show mixed grain prices with No. 2 red wheat around 1.08 to 1.15, corn at 76 to 82 cents, oats near 55 to 60 cents for various grades, and surrounding markets in Baltimore Richmond New York Philadelphia noting arrivals, prices, and stock levels for butter eggs potatoes and poultry.
Fresh non ferrous metal buying gave a firmer tone to stocks though most of the list remained near unchanged. Early gains appeared in U S Smelting and American Smelting while firms like U S Steel American Telephone Santa Fe New York Central Du Pont Loews Westinghouse and General Motors held steady or edged higher. Scattered strikes and labor talk added hesitation as the dollar drifted lower on silver news with total stock sales around 310190 shares.
Funeral services will be held at Payne's Chapel at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Thomas Hasson Mills, son of Mr and Mrs George R Mills. He died Thursday night at age eleven. He was born January 1924, not 1934 as previously reported by The Star.
Bernard Allen is acquitted of murder in the slaying of James Ryland Wilkinson. The defense invoked temporary insanity and unwritten law as a basis, and after about an hour of deliberation the jury delivered the verdict. Mrs. Allen embraced her husband as he thanked Judge Gordon B. Ambler, who presided.
A highway first aid station in Middletown Virginia was dedicated by Winchester Frederick Red Cross officials. Located at Long's garage it is the second Frederick station after Stephens City. The event featured Rev W L Dudley Bishop Walker Bond and Miss Jane Rhodes with the Red Cross volunteers.
Harry E. Miller 39 ex United States Army chief operator at Remount Station Front Royal died of pneumonia in Walter Reed Hospital Washington D C after WWI service in First Division Signal Corps. Born Pittsburgh 1895 he is survived by widow Esther Martin and son Harry E. Miller Jr plus three sisters. Funeral at Southern Methodist Church Front Royal with Prospect Hill Cemetery interment. Remount Station and American Legion attended.
Capitol Theatre screens Murder In The Private Car a MGM comedy mystery with secret panels sliding doors in disguise rooms that wow audiences. Cast includes Charlie Rugles Una Merkel Mary Carlisle Russell Hardie Porter Hall and Berton Churchill with Ben Bernie opening Monday in Shoot The Works as band leader to star in his first talkie.
The Colonial screens a double feature with Tim McCoy and Shirley Grey in Beyond The Law and She Made Her Bed, paired with Richard Arlen and Sally Eilers. Beyond The Law follows a railroad detective who dives into danger to unravel a daring express train robbery in a desolate canyon.
Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan appear today at the Palace Theatre in Winchester with three stage shows at 3 PM 8 PM and 10 PM plus screen show Fargo Express. Loretta Young and Gary Grant lead the Monday Tuesday bill with Born to Be Bad and a Paramount News Reel along with Going Spanish.
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