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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1934
Page
4
Chief Justice Fletcher Riley proposes faster justice by eliminating delay tactics in appeals. He notes the plan, started less than a year ago, could let courts decide appeals immediately after filing, deterring dilatory tactics and speeding overall judicial results. If legal in Oklahoma, it may spread to other states.
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Advertising rates list two cents per word with a 25 cent minimum and要求 cash with copy. Memorial verses priced at 1.50 for four stanzas. Display ads due by 10 AM with 42 cents per inch. National ads handled by Devine-Tenney Corp with offices in New York Chicago Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta.
Fragmentary religious text cites the line Love not the world and warns that loving the world makes the love of the Bathers not in him. The excerpt references Jol 2315 and appears as a devotional or scriptural quotation.
A Baton Rouge dispatch reports the Louisiana Legislature in special session granted the governor and Senator Huey Long unprecedented authority. The eight powers cover army command, election control, investigation of the New Orleans government, tax levies, police suppression, gambling crackdowns, crime prosecution, and disarming enemy police, signaling a de facto dictatorship for Long though legally vested in the governor. The move fuels debate over political rivalry between Mayor Walmsley and Long and echoes historic centralized rule.
California election chatter centers on Hiram Johnson seeking Republican Democratic and Prohibition nominations while likely facing no opposition for the Senate on all three ballots. Eight run for the Democratic governorship led by Upton Sinclair whose reformist platform attracts attention and funds from speeches priced at 50 cents.
The text asks three trivia items about annual US fire deaths, Blarney Castle construction, and The Outline of History author. It states an estimated 15 000 annual US fire fatalities and credits 1449 to Cormac McCarthy and The Outline of History to Herbert George Wells.
The piece notes three Republican hopefuls for governor Frank Merriam C C Young and John Quinn with Hoover support looming competition. A new Commonwealth Party forms with Raymond L Haight running on a platform seeking military suppression of radicals. Primaries set for August 28 and outcome uncertain.
The piece recalls travelers and students misperceiving distances and routes across the United States. It notes two young women misreading Route 20 and a British visitor misjudging a Lake Erie drive, illustrating broader concerns about geographic literacy and the effectiveness of schooling.
A River Rouge Ford plant tour showed 60 000 workers on three 8 hour shifts producing 3 500 units daily. The piece praises the Ford system, calls labor alive and alert, and credits Henry and Edsel Ford with inspiring hope for American industry.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court and state courts struggle with a 2000 case backlog. Forty district judges and three Criminal Court of Appeals judges draft tentative opinions without extra pay. The Bar Association will appoint 150 qualified attorneys as temporary justices to prepare ten hypothetical opinions.
Riley service station at Market and Gerard streets advertises eight grease varieties and the latest equipment in the city, promising up to date automotive care from Jack and Bobby Riley.
Answers reveal the bishop’s chief church as the cathedral and theocracy as a government recognizing God’s immediate sovereignty. Greek and Norse deities named are Zeus and Odin with Wo tan noted.
Present and past rainfall data show no precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. August figures to date total 4.46 inches, year to date 22.45 inches. Average monthly and yearly values from 21 years of Winchester Laboratory records appear, including January 2.41, February 1.97, March 2.82, April 2.21, May 3.94, June 3.65, July 3.41, August 3.29, September 2.34, October 3.00, November 2.33, December 2.34 inches.
The Star reports Grover Kinsey, emergency county agent, explains the wheat reduction program and government reasons. Hugo Milburn, 21, dies after a car sideswipes a dynamite truck and overturns on Martinsburg Pike. Governor Pollard opposes beer legalization while four people die in two truck crashes near Wilmington, Delaware.
The Grantham family gathered for a reunion at Middleway in Jefferson County West Virginia. A statement says the state Democratic campaign will be financed solely in Virginia. A separate note reports two Swiss flyers believed lost in a trans Atlantic flight. John F Staub aged 76 dies of paralytic stroke at his Berkeley home. Girl Scouts enter camp at Camp White Rock.
On Center City University campus Professor Donald Reeves is found shot in his English department office. Officer Callaghan questions janitor Dan while securing the scene and chasing early clues including a fired gun and locked doors. Dan doubts suicide and hints at conflicts with students and colleagues. The inspector orders the door kept locked as the investigation begins.
American airmen led by Lieut Lowell H Smith depart Iceland heading for Greenland. Virginia Chemical Company of Stephens City seeks bankruptcy with liabilities of 36447 and assets of 13673. Lewis Stone and Helen Chadwick appear at Empire Theatre in Why Men Leave Home. William Taylor killed one person and wounded three before taking his own life at Madison Court House. The Flying Moores are booked for the Winchester Fair.
A 15 foot rock blasting trench is needed to lay a sewer line at the Cameron and Boscawen intersection in front of the old post office. All residents are urged to connect to the sewer.
The piece extols Admiral Byrd for four months in isolation at the earth's edge. It compares his endurance to Prometheus and Cowper, noting he sought no help and did not fear danger. It argues his rugged solitude elevates humanity and marks a new standard of courage.
Warner Bros Capitol presents Leslie Howard in Of Human Bondage closing today. The bill begins with a double feature tomorrow and Friday including Jack Holt with Fay Wray in Black Moon and W C Fields with Baby LeRoy in The Old Fashioned Way. Black Moon adapts Haiti Moon from Cosmopolitan stories and the Old Fashioned Way follows a roaming theatrical troupe eluding a sheriff. Tomorrow's short subject is a Paramount souvenir.
Warner Oland returns as Charlie Chan in Fox's mystery Charlie Chan's Courage at Hable's Palace Theatre. The film adapted from The Chinese Parrot stars Donald Woods with Drue Leyton and a supporting cast including Murray Kinnell Reginald Mason Virginia Hammond Si Jenks Harvey Clark directed by George Hadden with Seton I Miller screenplay.
Warner Bros Colonial presents Buck Jones in a two feature program. The main serial Vanishing Shadow chapter eight runs with Buck Jones in The Dawn Trail delivering western action. The tale centers on a feud between sheepmen and cowmen in the Texas Panhandle.
Home demonstration groups from Stephens City and Reliance joined in a joint picnic at Strasburg Bathing Beach. Seventy five members attended enjoying swimming and a basket lunch led by agent Elizabeth Farrar and with poultry specialist Bess Hodsden in attendance. The event plans to become an annual gathering.
The front line of Americas amateur golf army remains almost intact for the National Amateur Championship at Brookline Mass starting Sept 10. A 36 hole sectional qualifier played yesterday on 23 courses nationwide left only three leading golfers failing to qualify for the event.
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