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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1936
Page
8
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals seeks good homes for three half-grown kittens one black and two maltese. Interested persons may obtain full information by calling telephone 41 J.
Virginia Tech announces dry courses in dairy work and dairy cattle feeding. Dairy Manufacturing short courses for creamerymen and ice cream makers run Feb 2–13 and Feb 15–26. A cow testers course Feb 2–9 trains Dairy Herd Improvement Association testers. Applicants must be 17+, dairy knowledge, good math, personable. County Agent Stine to nominate candidates. apply to VPI dairy department or via county agent.
Peacemakers sought a hurried settlement of a bus drivers stay in strike in Flint Michigan to avoid crippling transportation. Strikers, who walked out at midnight, demand a 20 cents an hour wage increase and a week of paid vacation annually.
Charles P. Stewart notes British papers finally release details of the Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson romance, provoking a public uproar. He contrasts the sensational coverage abroad with the attempted secrecy at its source, where facts and rumors mingle.
A lighthearted column by William Ritt highlights how British coverage misreads U.S. affairs, notes the Windsor-Simson rumors, mocks glamorous treatment of Mrs. Simpson, and jests about headlines, ads, and cultural quirks across the Atlantic.
Chairman Buchanan of the House appropriations committee urged the new Congress to cut relief and ordinary government spending while aiming for a balanced budget by 1938. He supported permanent public works funding though not necessarily annual appropriations and suggested higher taxes to sustain social security and reduce relief.
In Brookville Indiana the jury in the L Hickson first degree murder case for the head and hands slaying of Capt Harry R Miller moved to New Trenton to view the home where the retired firefighter was carried unconscious and later died Judge Roscoe O Byrne planned to rule on a defense motion to visit Kentucky locations where Miller's dismembered body was found within three weeks of his July 11 death.
Ricardo Cortez debuts as Perry Mason in the Capitol Theatre presenting The Case of the Black Cat a national picturization of Hley Gardner's latest mystery which opens tomorrow.
Brigadier General Thomas Holcomb of the U S Marine Corps is appointed major general commanding the Marine Corps, filling the post left by Major General John H Russell who is retiring. Holcomb earned distinction in World War I and holds multiple decorations from campaigns abroad.
Patrolman Carl Steizlitz cuffed a suspect to his own arm after using borrowed handcuffs without the key. A city locksmith freed him and resolved the situation.
Si Larkin buys a new ax and announces early Christmas chopping. The line about the taxpayer who pays and pays and pays adds a humorous political note on taxation.
In Raleigh two Negro preachers planned to baptize Martin Moore, former Asheville hotel hallboy convicted of slaying Helen Clevenger last July. A delegation of Asheville Negroes asked Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill to grant Moore a reprieve as he faces a Friday gas chamber execution. The group questioned Moore’s guilt while Moore answered every detail of the crime.
Police say three men tore up a mile of Pennsylvania Railroad rails from the Busy Run spur near Steubenville Ohio. They cut the rails into pieces and sold them as junk, and investigators arrested them on theft charges.
An advertisement touts ARAX as a digestive aid for gas heartburn indigestion and constipation. It claims to improve digestion by stimulating liver bile flow and cleansing intestines. The ad notes ARAX is sold by a traveling representative at Miller's 107 North Loudoun Street Winchester Virginia with daily availability.
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