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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1939
Page
5
Regional livestock and poultry prices list in Philadelphia Baltimore and Chicago markets. Includes cull and fat cow prices, vealer and hog ranges, chicken and turkey quotes, and notes on egg and flour trading.
The Star lists daily market offerings including patent brand feeds in 12 24 48 and 98 pound bags with prices from 4.50 to 5.30 per barrel. It also covers corn meal sacks oats dairy feed mixed feeds and poultry items such as chicks guineas turkeys and fowl with assorted prices.
New York January 20 A rally faded as opening trading faltered with light selling trimming early gains. Volume dropped and transfers ran about 800000 shares as the ticker paused near the close. Market news was modestly reassuring despite Reichsbank head Schacht’s ouster.
Closing grain prices for wheat corn oats and related futures at Chicago with cash grain details and Baltimore spot prices. Listings include wheat at various delivery months and cash equivalents for corn oats barley soybeans and rye with regional bids and quality grades.
The funeral for Mrs. Louise Snapp wife of J. B. Snapp will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from Bruce town Church with Rev. W. O. Tal bert and Rev. J. D. Russell officiating. She died at her Brucetown home after a long illness and a brief hospital stay. Pallbearers include Claude Curry Marvin Weaver Jessie Snapp Charles Cameron Russell La Follette Carlton Manuel and others.
Berryville and Purcellville faced off in a double bill hosted by the Clarke County Junior Board of Trade. Clarke’s men won 21-12 led by H. Kercheval eight points. Purcellville’s Wade Palmer scored nine for the visitors. Clarke women’s team, with Harris, Foley, and Barnett as standouts, lost.
Master Commissioner outlines distribution plan granting 90 percent of owed amounts to heirs and organizations. Payments include Louise Anderson Patten 90000 and Gwyn Page Whipple 90000 via Shenandoah Valley National Bank Trustee, with several other listed sums to individuals, hospital, Red Cross, cemetery, and a colored employee, totaling about 608687.47 after taxes and interest.
Will of the late R L Mullen recorded in Clark M Smith office. Widow Bessie O Mullen named executrix and qualified with bond set at 1500 dollars without security. Appraisers listed include M L Capper E B Estes L E Fries J Moling Jr and P D Mills. Andrew Carnegie titled Laird of Skibo for years in Scotland.
Spanish insurgents report capturing Calaf a key communications hub on the rail and highway to Lerida, bringing forces within 45 miles of Barcelona. General Garcia Valino’s columns push toward the city while recruitment in Barcelona rises to about 600 women daily for behind the lines duties.
In Cristobal Panama Canal Zone two young Germans Hans Heinrich Schackow 26 and Ernst Robert Edward Kuhrig 29 were convicted in the zone first espionage trials for unlawfully obtaining information on US defenses. They received up to two years at hard labor. Judge Bunk Gardner gave 60 days for appeals. Also charged are Ingeborg Waltrant Gutenau 19 and Gisbert Wilhelm Gross 26 awaiting trial for similar offenses after being arrested October 16 for taking pictures at Fort Randolph guarding the Atlantic entrance.
Police questioned two Manhattan men on charges of granada larceny in connection with a $600 diamond bracelet theft from Mrs. Richard E. Berlin as part of a broader $100,000 gems theft case. Foster Joseph Blakeley-Bazeley, 27, a magazine writer, and Edward Lawforth, 26, a broker, were brought to New York custody from where they had been arrested.
A 4 story frame house in Brooklyn Hill section burned in the early hours killing three people including a 90 year old woman. Police investigated a prowler after footsteps woke a fourth family member, who survived.
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