09 Dec 1936
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1936
Page
1
Fourteen people including autogyro inventor Juan De La Cierva died when a KLM Douglas airliner crashed near Croydon Airdrome in dense fog. Three survived with injuries. the German Baron Gottfried Meyern-Hohenburg, ex-husband of Luli Deste, is among the dead. No Americans aboard.
Anent the local radio reception conditions, improvements cited since the Radio Commission revival. Chairman E A Crowl and assistants credited for reducing static from devices. still work needed and citizen cooperation essential. static also from faulty tubes aerials or trees. check sets if reception remains ruined.
Paris reports a German Junkers aircraft abruptly attacked a French Air France plane in Spanish insurgent territory. Four passengers were injured including Havas and Paris Soir correspondents. the pilot and radio operator survived unhurt as the plane wrecked near Pastrana. The embassy warned of grave consequences.
The Social Security Board approved Connecticut and Pennsylvania unemployment insurance laws, bringing to 18 the states aligned with the federal program. Arizona awaits submission. at least six more states expected to enact the insurance before December 31 to receive a one percent payroll tax credit for 1936.
Pure Food Store advertises Glace Pineapple for fruit cakes priced 39 cents per pound. Listing appears in a small shop promotion with product and price details.
Mary S. Yeakley offers a quick list of gift ideas including scarfs bags hose and handkerchiefs as thoughtful novelties for shoppers seeking small presents.
The Tifi City Council will review the 1937 budget this evening amid a stalled move to secure wider approval. Officials plan a discussion on projected expenditures and revenue measures for the coming year.
City council meets in special session to discuss the tentative 1937 budget led by Herman Hable. Expenditures are expected near 300000, about 24900 higher than 1936's 275100, with no firm tax rate yet announced.
In Wise Virginia on December 9 the court overruns a motion to void the indictment and accepts a new defense theory that Edith Maxwell died of a heart attack 18 months prior. The 22 year old former teacher faces a second trial for the killing of her father Trigg Maxwell amid renewed deliberations on women’s jury rights.
Agriculture Department officials outlined a revised federal farm program with 500 million dollars in payments designed to share benefits with more farmers. The plan adds small operators, more dairymen and ranchers, and ties payments to reducing corn acreage and soil fertility improvements. Congress must appropriate funds before implementation.
Government bombers hit the Fascist front along Casa Del Campo Park and the Campamento de la Retamares supply base. Seventeen insurgent planes attacked the Bara jas airport and government positions on the Mazanares river. Socialist batteries fired throughout the morning as Franco’s forces held back.
Columbia network carries a special program on WJSV WABC and WBT at 11 45 a m next Tuesday and Thursday aimed at every housewife in the area. The schedule runs from November 30 to January 15 with intermittent airings.
Practical everlasting gifts offered by Hodgson and Brown as exclusive Stieff Silver agents in Winchester Virginia. Sterling pieces priced from one dollar and up, advertised to shoppers seeking durable heirloom quality.
Washington Pathé crew from George Dorsey and Jim Corrigan recorded Dr. L. M. Allen on West Water Street as he recalled delivering Wallis Warfield forty years ago in Blue Ridge Summit. The event drew praise for the doctor and included both silent and sound footage.
Herman Hable proprietor of Hable's Palace Theatre announced a free Christmas program for Winchester children on Thursday morning December 24 at 10 o'clock. The event offers toys candy and fruit and aligns with mothers and children plans for Christmas Day.
Two very petty female kittens need homes one maltese and one black. Phone 41-1 for contact. Also mentions IVER JOHNSON Dayton Columbia Colson Finest Bicycles Made and W. C. WILLIS 38 E Piccadilly.
London December 9 AP Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin summoned a sudden cabinet session to discuss late constitutional crisis developments. Government whips ordered MPs to cancel outside engagements as preparations for a definitive Commons statement on King Edward's choice regarding Queen Wallis Simpson proceed apace.
President Roosevelt sails with the Indianapolis and Chester off Trinidad after a South American peace mission. The flotilla nears Port of Spain for refueling with a planned Caribbean演 show. Roosevelt enjoys sun and theatre aboard, reporting no illnesses.
In New Castle Kentucky Circuit Judge Charles C Marshall granted bail to Brigadier General Henry H Denhardt charged with the murder of his fiancee Mrs Verna Garr Taylor.
Nebel Mills to expand with a Staunton Virginia plant described as one of the east’s most modern. The 110 by 150 foot fireproof building will have glass block light around the exterior and gas heated air conditioning. Total costs estimated at 240000 for building and machinery with 20 Reading textile machines for upper hose production.
Judge Leland W. Carr of Ingham circuit court named a sanity commission to examine 25 year old Hope Morgan an East Lansing society girl charged with first degree murder in the impulse to kill slaying of her former college chum.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons he hoped to announce tomorrow King Edward's decision on his plan to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson. An earlier session extended over two hours as Attlee pressed for any hopeful news amid the constitutional crisis.
Frank Wissler of Mount Jackson was elected president of the Virginia State Horticultural Society for the coming year at the Roanoke convention held with the American Pomological Society. Several vice presidents were also named as the joint meeting opened its second day with calls to modernize the fruit industry through scientific advances.
The Thomas Ramsey property at 668 North Main Street with an 8 room residence and 38 feet front by 182 feet deep will be sold on Saturday December 12 in front of the Court House.
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