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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1939
Page
7
An Adrian designed ensemble for The Women features a black net evening gown with paillettes and layered transparent ruffles creating a dramatic train. It pairs with a beige wool dress and beaver bolero, knitted sleeves, a beaver over shoulder bag, heavy beaver mittens, and a beaver skull cap.
Stocks opened briskly but failed to sustain gains as early recoveries faded. Light selling dominated final hours with about 600000 shares traded. European events including Italian German talks and Mendelssohn & Co.’s Amsterdam suspension influenced sentiment despite strong London. Major securities listed with varied moves.
Baltimore and Philadelphia markets show slight price shifts across produce and livestock. Apples and sweet potatoes ease, eggs steady, butter firm. cattle, calves, hogs and sheep vary with regional demand and grading, Chicago notes a five year hog low and mixed cattle activity.
Local markets are corrected daily by The Star. The paper notes it does not assume responsibility for typographical errors that may occur in listings.
The listing shows prices per barrel and per bag for Patent Brand and Local Retail feeds including Short Patent, 24 and 48 pound bags, 98 pound bags, Corn Meal sacks, Horse feed, Baby chick feed, Young poultry, Leghorn and Guinea fowl breeds, cattle categories with prices for steers cows heifers calves, hogs and lambs. Also includes miscellaneous screenings and mixed feeds with varying price points.
Chicago reports a nervy wheat trade with early declines giving way to net gains of up to 7-8 cents. December wheat fell 3-4 cents, May by one cent, and September remained firmer most of the session but ended slightly lower.
The report lists closing grain futures for wheat corn oats soybeans rye and various months with futures ranges and cash prices from Chicago Baltimore and Winchester markets. It notes modest price differences across September December and May contracts and cash bids for No 2 red and yellow corn plus oats and rye, with lard bellies and seed values also cited.
Delmar Robinson, son of August, recalls starting work in 1917 and details the evolution of apple storage from barrels to modern controlled conditions. He notes past grading by eye, limited varieties like Yorks and Bens, and no federal inspection, contrasting with today’s storage and quality standards.
The article recalls 1917 apple varieties under federal inspection and the S. L. Lup ton orchard as perhaps the largest in the area. Off grade apples went to cider and exports influenced crop disposition. It profiles Mr. Robinson, Dickinson College graduate, who married Louise Hall of Fairmont and has three children Delmar Jr 16 Anne 14 Martha 5, with Delmar Jr a Handley student and potential varsity contender.
In a tense convention scene Barkley urged voters to approve the record presented, claiming Republicans have no viable issue left. President Roosevelt warned against conservative or lip service candidates, saying he cannot support a straddle-bug platform or an old Democratic party death by inaction. He kept his stance on a third term unclear while asserting parity could fail if shaped by conservatism.
The convention featured Sen. Pepper advocating a third way to Roosevelt's ideas. Delegates cheered while Pepper claimed he stuck to his prepared text. Roosevelt urged voters to support a liberal humanitarian program and challenged reactionaries to explain their plans.
Jefferson, labeled with multiple aliases, led two abducted women to a coastal Florida area from Miami. Miss Dunn was found dead in Palmetto underbrush with stab wounds and a head wound. Miss Bolton was released unharmed after a harrowing three days in his car. He claimed to seek sympathy from a former sweetheart and blamed Dunn for provoking violence.
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