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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1941
Page
2
A local editor advocates supporting the Salvation Army in its annual drive. He praises the Army’s care of transients and especially its 24 hour open home for underprivileged children, run by Captain Bott and his wife, arguing they offer unique constant supervision and personal guidance. He urges Winchester citizens to contribute.
Answers to today’s quiz printed on page 4 include Manfred von Richthofen hydrogen Dickens Alaska United States No Charles and Mary Beard Anna Eleanor Mrs John Boettiger Parsifal Massachusetts.
At a York Club gathering last night Pat Barr succeeded J K Wheeler as club president after Wheeler's transfer to Hagerstown. Barr led the program in his new role.
Herbert Larrick to J C Gardner transfers lots b c and d in a Stephens City subdivision near the B and O depot for 1200 dollars. S A Rust and wife to Charles E Staples a Main Street lot and dwelling in Stephens City for 10 dollars and other considerations. F L Harris and wife to Joseph W Walters and Virginia B Walters transfers lot No 6 block 1 Harris Pike tract off Orchard Lee for 10 dollars and other considerations.
Chicago wires report rains favoring grain belts and strong harvests abroad dampening prices. May wheat bids drop to 85 and July to 79, corn around 63, oats near 36, soybeans about 96. Rye and lard to oats mixed. Chicago cash grain shows No. 2 hard wheat at 91.5 and various corn/oats grades. Baltimore market notes wheat around 93 cents and corn about 60 cents per bushel.
Bad weather and icing forced a four motor Boeing army bomber to return to Patterson Field at 7:30 a.m. cutting a 3000 mile high altitude test cruise. Maj. James E. Parker said the plane covered nearly 2600 miles from Albany to Boston then Savannah Nashville and Louisville before turning back.
Pan American Airways reports the Atlantic Clipper completed a Bermuda to Lisbon non stop flight in 16 hours 46 minutes. Captain Robert D. Sullivan commanded the ship which departed Bermuda at 4 24 p.m. EST and arrived at 10 a.m. local time. The previous Bermuda Lisbon record was 18 hours 24 minutes set by Sullivan on October 22.
Mrs. Mary Dunlap wife of the late M J Dunlap a former Norfolk and Western agent at Virginia was buried after funeral services at the Boyce Episcopal Church The Rev Ernest Williams officiated Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery Surviving are her children Mrs Green of Winchester Mrs Dunlap of Roanoke and M J Dunlap Jr a Stanley merchant Also noted was her long residence with relatives in Rippon West Virginia
Daily market column lists wholesale flour prices for patent brand bags of 12 24 48 and 98 pounds per barrel with varied per bag rates and mixed feeds including middling corn meal and horse feed. Live stock prices and dairy butter figures appear alongside grain and feed items in a dense price table.
Acting Gov. Myers pardoned Al Benson, a miner serving a murder conspiracy sentence from the 1931 Evarts battle. The three other defendants Jim Poore, Joe Jones, and one more were reconsolidated for immediate parole eligibility. All four began serving sentences in 1933 and would have faced parole consideration next August.
The Rev. Williams rector of Alecopel Church received the 1940 distinguished service award for outstanding community contributions last year. Nominees came from Clarke county groups and a committee selected him for character, Boy Scout work, refugee aid, and Negro education support. Williams, a College of Idaho cum laude graduate in 1935, trained at Virginia Theological Seminary, 1938. He formerly did missionary work in mining camps and now leads Berryville activities as 1941 officers were installed with Ed Lee as president.
U. S. Department of Agriculture quotes and Chicago trade show hogs down to 8.14 to 8.45 per hundredweight with varied loads, cattle slower and sheep steady. Philadelphia reports live poultry prices for fowls and leghorns mostly steady with butter and dressed poultry unchanged. Nearby markets show mixed colors of eggs and farm produce holding steady overall.
A few scattered sales occurred in the Boston market. Graded French combing length finer wools brought 1.02 to 1.05 dollars scoured, and 0.97 to 1.00 dollars scoured for half bloods. Combing three eighths blood territory wood sold at 0.85 to 0.88 dollars scoured. Volume was very moderate.
In New York on January 22 demand for rails and steels spurred a modest rally after nine straight declines or stagnation. Trading reached about 500000 shares as leading issues edged up fractions to around a point. Major quotes at 2 p m included Al Chem 156 Am Can 91 1 4 Am Rad 6 3 4 and U S Steel 66 with several others like Chrysler 66 Goodyear 19 1 8 and Sears 75 3 4 listed.
Afternoon News notes press time for The Star with 9 PM in London 10 PM in Berlin 11 PM in Rome 11 PM in Alexandriz and Bucharest. outlines distribution across cities.
The article urges support for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis directing funds to laboratory research in major U S hospitals and to scholarships for physicians and nurses. It invites donations via coin boxes and a birthday ball, noting local participation in Frederick and Winchester.
Market notes extended Tuesday sales list prices for steers heifers fat cows bulls veal calves lambs hogs pigs fat sows feeder and stocker cattle with ranges for quality grades and weights at the Va Livestock Market on N Kent Street.
The weekly Prayer Service at the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour is set for tonight at 7 30 with Rev. C W Lowe delivering a sermon titled Human Needs Satisfied by God The public is invited according to the minister’s announcement
Thomas declares the bill would not lead to total war and derides Democratic control as inconsistent. He criticizes Roosevelt for not amending the law, calls the embargo lift on Russia amazing, and questions the president’s authority and vague war powers amid current tensions.
Chief Hollis warns pedestrians face greatest risk in winter due to darkness storms and obstructed windshields. motorists may not see walkers. pedestrians should increase caution and help keep Winchester safe.
Union forces shut down all Allis production at a Wisconsin plant near Milwaukee after the UAW closed shop demand escalated. The strike affected multiple company manufacturing facilities working on War Department orders.
Wendell L. Willkie departs New York aboard a clipper plan for Bermuda and Lisbon en route to London. He carries a Roosevelt letter but insists he travels "on his own" as an individual, not as an envoy.
The Winchester Star Information Bureau in Washington D C provides fact answers upon request. Readers are directed to page 4 for details and guidance on submitting questions.
Federal and state officials view a camel quarantine largely due to the vast acreage involved. The plan would require shipments of nursery stock from the Winchester area to non quarantined areas to be certified as free of Japanese beetles and grubs. Road patrols and other controls used in prior years will continue to curb spread.
A mine blast in Maines killed four and injured fourteen at Koppers Coal Company. The local explosion in two rooms was blamed on gas with investigators tracing the second right of the second king main heading. Three of the injured were seriously burned and eleven less severely hurt.
The Carswell mine near Welch West Virginia experienced a two mile underground explosion likely caused by a gas or dust ignition sparked by a cable. Foreman Carl Mitchem and a nine man crew were loading coal when the blast occurred, they escaped after burns. W. J. Fene of the US Bureau of Mines was dispatched to the scene.
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