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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1936
Page
10
The Commerce Department reports last year’s wholesale trade reached its strongest level since 1931. The $16,287,000 volume shows an 11 percent increase from the prior year and a 25 percent rise from 1933, though still 44 percent below the 1929 peak.
A social note records a fox hunting event despite weather with numerous guests from St. Louis and Baltimore visiting Brookfield Springsberry and Richmond area homes. Attendees include Mrs. George Greenhalgh and Capt. Ewart Johnston, as well as the Fairfield Hunt master and others. Reports follow arrivals, visits, and twins birth, along with travels to Bermuda and San Juan and homecomings at several estates.
Ras Desta Demtu denies Italian claims of a 125 mile advance and 5,000 Ethiopian casualties. At Geneva the sanctions funds transfer was defeated amid clashes over 75,000 Swiss francs. Selassie calls able bodied Ethiopians to prepare for duty. Badoglio reports Neghelli captured as Mussolini hails victory.
Chicago January 22 Leaders of the Prohibition party outlined a large 1936 campaign to win dry votes. National chairman Edward E. Blake said the push would place the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates on electoral ballots in at least 35 states.
An advertisement by Wilmer F. Shryock urges that doctors be paid and promotes a plan to prepay medical expenses for injuries. It claims prompt medical care saves lives, notes Winchester has excellent doctors, and offers $500 coverage for $1.25 per month with injury protection. Call 1231 for details.
Art Williams heads one of three expeditions searching for missing aviator Paul Redfern. He says definite traces show Redfern landed and was in the area recently in the South American jungle near the British Guiana boundary. The party also includes Harry Wendt and an Indian guide.
Virginia courts ordered the return of about $2.55 million in processed taxes to 36 firms as the Supreme Court reviewed the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Judge Luther Way ordered refunds to 29 firms in the Eastern District totaling $1,617,972, while Judge John Paul ordered $935,455.45 to seven western district companies with more refunds anticipated. A 1 percent fee for the government was kept.
Advisory at noon reports a disturbance of marked intensity moving eastward over the lake region. Winds shift from south and southwest to north and northwest this afternoon and tonight with gale force conditions from Cape Hatteras North Carolina to Eastport Maine.
Leningrad January 22 reports the All-Union Arctic Institute will organize 49 scientific expeditions to the far north this year. The projects involve extensive geological surveys and prospecting with costs expected to total 8,000,000 roubles undertaken by Soviet Russian explorers.
Greensboro's GREENSBORO N C Jan 22 former NRA chief S Clay Williams described by intimates as almost prostrate after his accidental shooting of William A Law head of Penn Mutual Life Insurance on a hunting trip Law 71 of Philadelphia died from loss of blood Williams sought to stop bleeding with a tourniquet Willie Brower guide carried Law two miles to a car then nearly two hours to reach Siler City for aid
The Commerce Department reported that 1935 ended with a favorable trade balance of 234,226,000 dollars, down 50 percent from 1934. Exports reached 2,282,023,000 dollars, about seven percent higher, while imports totaled 2,047,797,000 dollars, up 24 percent.
Frederick county schools will reopen next Monday morning as secondary roads are cleared of drifting snow. Bus service has been unable to reach rural students since last Sunday due to the blocked country highways.
Indians in Labrador cut stencils from birchbark and use the cut out designs as patterns for painting animal hides.
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