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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1936
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star offers yearly and short-term mail subscriptions with prices from 30 cents for one month to 3.50 for one year in advance. The notice lists political candidates Carter Glass for Vice-President and A Willis Robertson for U S Senate and a House seat for the district.
A trimmed quotation from Isaiah 28 7 notes the priest and the prophet erring through strong drink and stumbling in judgment. The text warns that wine and strong drink obscure vision and lead to missteps in discernment.
The passage argues that retained earnings raise stock value and tax revenue through profits, inheritance taxes, and potential sales gains. It asserts objections to the law, urging the next Congress to vote for repeal due to these financial implications.
The piece states Governor Landon calls the recent Congress tax on undistributed corporate profits a faulty law. It argues it discriminates against small firms, slows business recovery, risks bankruptcy, stabilizes depressions, and lets government micromanage corporate policy. It questions the law’s stated aim to tax dividends for wealthy stockholders and suggests broader harm.
The Norfolk Pilot notes Heywood Broun reprinting limits on his Governor Landon West Middlesex speech. It lauds Broun’s golf analogy critique of Landon as a political speaker and contrasts it with market and WPA golf course references.
A column sketches a humorous tale involving a new Oklahoma City neighbor planning a coming out for her son Jim, sparked by a Crowley party invite. It also cites brief quips about income, moving families, political speeches, and press freedom across several papers.
Front Royal Lions Club selects a committee to assist in planning Warren County’s centennial celebration. Queen Astrid of Belgium dies in a collision in Switzerland when King Leopold III’s car leaves the highway. King Albert of Belgium died in a mountain-climbing accident seven months earlier. Emperor Haile Selassie prays for victory. State auditor reports county treasurer R. S. Smith’s finances sound with large sums beyond amounts owed.
Five years ago Mrs Paul Gaylord and Mrs James P Reardon hosted for Mrs J M Steck Jr a recent bride and Miss Elizabeth Stuart whose engagement to Mauril Trimble Jr has been announced. Mrs Ovid Petrescu former principal visits. Mt Zion United Brethren Church at Fawcett's Gap is sold by only three members are oft. Hog calling contest at Winchester Fair. Rev Leo Polman evangelist of California will conduct revival at First Brethren Church.
Miss Beulah E. Kackley of Berryville and Harry P. Light of Summit Point marry. Miss Isabelle Hammack resigns from the city manager’s office to enter Cornell University. Dan P. Wine resigns as executive secretary of Shenandoah Valley Inc due to apathy toward the regional group. A hurricane along the Louisiana coast causes four deaths and one million dollars in damage.
Twenty five years ago Thomas Buck McKay died suddenly at Nineveh. Judge and Mrs F B Taverner of Woodstock entertain at cards for their niece Miss Mary Newman and her guests. E W Braithwaite recently elected supervisor of Gainesboro district will also teach school in the county this winter. Mr and Mrs John Swift Goldsmith of Birmingham Ala are one of the latter's parents Dr and Mrs R P Page in Clarke county. Mrs Katherine Forney of this city aboard a train wreck near Salisbury Junction Pa escapes with shock and bruises.
A historic change records the renaming of New Amsterdam to New York on August 29 1665 marking a pivotal shift in colonial and city identity. The event reflects Dutch origins and English takeover shaping later governance and urban development.
A reader can obtain answers to any factual question by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington D C directed by Frederic J Haskin. Enclose three cents for a reply.
The Eye in the Sky device, used to decide close race finishes, debuted at Santa Anita two years ago and has since been employed at Narragansett Arlington and Washington Park tracks. A movie type machine records 165 frames per second, requires five operators, and costs tracks 300 dollars per day to rent.
A Q&A rundown covers per capita wine intake in France vs the United States, the average life of a dollar bill, the 1816 year without a summer, the G A R encampment date in 2025, what codeine is, birth dates of New Deal figures Tugwell Moley Frankfurter Berle Eastman, Bell and Watson in the telephone test, and the Irish canine wake lament.
The piece assesses Senator Arthur H. Van denberg of Michigan who at the Cleveland Republican convention seemed unlikely to win the nomination. It notes the shift in outlook as Landon’s campaign gains steam and speculates on what might have been had Van denberg pursued the ticket, suggesting his odds could have been roughly 45 to 55 if he had accepted.
A Central Press column quotes readers jokes and quips about aging hair color politicians and golf knickers. The letters reference postal service life and a humorous view of public figures. Names include EMMA T. St. Louis. G. P. New York. BOOJUM St. Petersburg. OKEE DOKE Baltimore. CARL R. Salt Lake City. W. P. H. Woonsocket. ALAGA ZAM Minneapolis. AUSTIN ACE San Francisco.
Gay Elwell, a check girl at the Pontchartrain club, mingles with Detroit socialites after filling in at a dinner. Breck and Tim Keenan admire her while Doctor Wilson helps her with a burn, as Gay navigates affection, fashion, and springtime city life amid Bennett era club scenes.
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