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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1938
Page
9
Market notes from Baltimore dated December 10 show bids for bees, stays, and staysman varieties with slight changes. Livestock prices in Baltimore and Chicago edge lower on cattle hogs sheep while eggs butter and poultry rates appear mixed and steady in Philadelphia reports.
The daily market page lists wholesale and retail prices for items including flour, corn, meal, and live poultry. Prices cover bags of different weights, fowl, hogs, cattle, and butterfat with ranges noted for several categories.
New York trading opened with a cautious lift as leaders added fractions while activity held around 450000 shares in two hours. Steel, aircraft, motors and mail order shares led gains with General Motors signaling December output strength. several names slipped as end-of-year inventory and tax selling receded.
Chicago reports grain prices retreat slightly from recent peak as profit taking and a weekend weather forecast loosen buying. Wheat and corn show fractional declines while oats soybeans and fats trade steady to firm. Cash grain markets cite No 2 mixed corn 53 percent No 2 yellow 53 3 quarters No 2 white 56 oats No 2 white 31 1/4 to 32. Barley ranges by state and Timothy Red Clover seed prices listed. Baltimore quotes No 2 red winter wheat 71 cent Winchester wheat 68 cent New corn 45 cent.
Blair the home agent for Frederick county outlines a weekly schedule from December 12 to 17. Activities include office mornings, 4-H Club and Home Demonstration Club meetings at various school houses and homes, Christmas suggestions demonstrations, program planning, and a Friday visit to White Hall 4-H Club territory with a Saturday Homemakers Market office note.
Two Congress members compared private utilities with Fascism during the TVA investigating committee session. Senator Schwartz questioned if TVA is socialistic and asked whether utility integration could be a form of Fascism, while Representative Rankin condemned the influence of private utilities as powerful and corrupt.
A Maryland state prison inmate, 39 year old John J. Kilmurray of Lutherville, was stabbed with a sharpened radio spring by fellow inmate Carl Smith, 34, of Baltimore, during a dispute. Kilmurray sustained a deep chest wound and a hip injury and was treated at the prison hospital. Smith faces assault charges as authorities held the suspect in solitary confinement.
Weather outlook for the period December 12 to 17 across North and Middle Atlantic States. Precipitation likely at the beginning of the week and again around Thursday. Temperatures expected to be mostly near or slightly above normal.
The regular monthly meeting of the Business Women's Circle at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will be held at 7 45 oclock Monday evening in the church annex. All business women of the church are urged to attend.
Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer ordered a hold on cash and securities in Carol E. B. Coster's brokerage account valued around 100000. The move comes as Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. opened a public hearing into the finances of McKesson and Robbins Inc, described by a director as fantastic. The firm seeks reorganization under the Chandler bankruptcy act.
In a dramatic pre-dawn storm rescue, seven men were evacuated from the grounded Boston trawler Andover by breeches buoy as heavy seas battered the vessel. The pelting rain and pounding surf posed a serious threat as the operation unfolded two hours before dawn on Cape Cod.
Florence Alabama reports an error by an office girl as John Henry Wilson Jr advertising man and novelist recalls receiving a letter from Speaker William B Bankhead of Jasper Alabama. The speaker's letter to President Roosevelt was enclosed by mistake.
Judge Michael Hansson of Norway accepted the Nobel Peace Prize of 40000 dollars on behalf of the Nansen International Office for Refugees in Oslo. He called the refugee problem the biggest social question of our time in his remarks.
District Attorney Joseph J. McGuigan rested his case in the trial of Hans Heinrich Schackow charged with photographing Panama Canal defenses. The defense moved for a directed verdict of acquittal contending no intent to injure the United States was shown.
Annapolis announces Capt Emery E. Swede Larson U S Marine Corps will head the Navy football squad for 1939. Larson, commander of thearine detachment at the academy, succeeds Lieut Hank ee who leaves for sea duty at his own request after guiding the team the past two years.
Peru's President Oscar Benavides opened the conference stressing unity among American nations while rejecting a bloc approach. Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle Jr. denied U S aims for military alliances with Latin America as delegates hint at mutual assistance and regular foreign minister consults. The Cuban and Argentine delegations push cooperation proposals circulated for possible revisions.
A party of about 32 foreigners, including Americans, completed evacuation from the Kuling mountain refuge in Central China. They descended a 13 mile road to Kiukiang and boarded a Japanese transport for Shanghai as weather improves. U S gunboat Monocacy and cruiser Augusta reported the move, with plans for other ships to depart soon. The Sacramento was to be withdrawn to the United States.
Mr and Mrs Carl R Ritter and children and Mrs W B Grove returned home from Pocomoke City Maryland after attending the funeral of Alonzo H Long brother in law to Mrs Grove and Mrs Ritter The deceased was father of Miss Audrey Long in training at Memorial Hospital and Miss Sara Long who graduated from a Beauty Academy on South Loudoun Street Long resided on the Eastern Shore and was buried from the Baptist Church near his home The service drew a large crowd and showed the esteem in which he was held
The United States Treasury will issue checks totaling over 20 million dollars to about one million WPA and NYA workers between December 24 and 31. Payments replace the regular after holiday schedule, delivering funds after Christmas and New Year’s Day.
The council drafts sweeping recommendations to expand the Social Security program. Proposals include monthly benefits for widows and dependents, $200 funeral aid, aid for families of retirees, advancing start dates to 1940, and expanding coverage to seamen, bank and charity workers, with later inclusion of farm and domestic workers. Married men would receive $10 more monthly than single men, raising top and bottom payment levels.
The Epworth League of Market Street M E Church hosts a joint gathering with the Braddock Street Southern Methodist Church tomorrow at 6 30 pm. Louis Hibert, president of the Christian Youth Council, will speak and lead a music appreciation session with organ selections and special pieces for the public.
Dr Charles F Sanders head of philosophy at Gettysburg College will supply Grace Lutheran Church pulpit tomorrow for morning service and vespers in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. He previously preached there on November 13 and is welcomed back as a capable preacher by the congregation.
Lawrence Jolliffe, a renowned local commercial photographer, has three of his pictures hung in a national exhibit. The show welcomes both commercial and amateur photographers and is known for strict judging.
A group from Winchester Lions plans a trip to Lynchburg Virginia on Monday to hear International President Walter F. Dexter of Sacramento California as the principal speaker. Local delegates include District Governor and Mrs. Sam Preston P G Ireland Henry Goode Bryan Stotler C F Schenck and possibly Earl Mason and Warren Daugherty.
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