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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1932
Page
4
The Weekly Mirror lists Associated Press rights and subscription rates. Rates include one year in advance 3.50, six months 1.75, three months 0.90, and one month 0.30, with carrier options and national advertising reps in New York and other cities.
A brief religious quotation from Malachi 3 17 promises that the Lord will spare and protect his faithful as a loving father cares for his son, in the day of judgment. The passage emphasizes divine ownership and mercy toward believers who serve.
Newport News Daily Press argues that failure to agree on reparations at Lausanne undermines world stability. Germany insists it cannot pay while France says it must. The piece cites recent talks in Paris and Berlin where leaders hardened their stances, urging frontal attacks on political nonsense to save democracy from public scorn.
Prof Georges Le Donnois of the French Set Fisheries Bureau declares there is no Gulf Stream. He argues the phenomenon is misunderstood and urges a halt to conjectures about the current's variability. The piece notes the Gulf Stream’s mythic role in romance and weather patterns.
Omaha faces a budget crisis as property values fall and tax rates cannot rise. The city schools reduce term length from 38 to 36 weeks and cut pay for teachers and staff to save a portion of its annual budget.
A plan targets saving three hundred thousand dollars with no loss of school time by cutting Great area schoo to fund the annual teachers convention in the fall. The note signals further economies possible without impairing public service.
Census shows 2 561 of 3 064 centenarians are women and 1 043 men. The piece questions why women outlive men, noting kitchen labor and births, and suggests men’s temptations and intemperance may shorten lifespans.
The piece invites families to camp and fish as a cheap escape from city woes. It promotes using old gear, camping, and fishing to enjoy inexpensive travel, with fish tasting as good as ever and an affordable alternative to pot roast.
Mount Williams Virginia notes a busy week with visitors from Hayfield Winchester and nearby towns. Several families including Crowser West Fauver and Clowser share holidays and Sunday visits. A church service by Rev. S Snapp is announced for July 3 at 11 a.m. and Raymond Clowser aged 13 recovers at home after operations and transfer from Winchester Memorial Hospital.
A study by the Advertising Federation of America finds in 34 cities with strong newspaper lineage in the first half of 1931, business ran 8.3 percent above the national average. In another 34 cities where lineage fell by more than 11.95 percent, business barely matched the national average. Maintain your newspaper advertising, Mr. Merchant.
With Yankee built factories in place, Russia could expand production of trucks and tractors, provided a skilled Yankee workforce is available to operate and maintain the machinery and oversee the new plants.
Two severe electrical storms visited this section last night amid heat of 100 degrees. Col. B. M. Roszel spoke at the Winches oad Kiwanis Club luncheon on prepared a etarry C. Fletcher, a Winchester creameryman, recently died after a brief illness. Rev. Dr. Frank T. McFaden completed eight years as pastor of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Dutton hosted dinner for Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Boyd, whose marriage happened recently.
Five years ago James B. Vredenburgh enrolled as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Kiwanis Club nine defeated Rotary team to win their first club league game here. Comdr. R. E. Byrd and his crew who landed the ocean off the coast of France in the America have been ordered to rest.
President Coolidge donned a cowboy uniform presented by western admirers while Southern fruit growers press the Interstate Commerce Commission for lower freight rates.
The government classifies wives as dependents under the draft law. Attorney T. Russell Cather becomes examiner of records for the seventeenth judicial district. Two German submarines are said to have been sunk by British vessels. Leslie D. Kline assumes duties as superintendent of Winchester and Clarke and Frederick counties schools.
The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Stewards Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South has been postponed from Monday July 4 to Monday July 11.
Members are reminded that their final reports must be completed and sent to the secretary no later than Wednesday July 6.
Will Rogers amuses delegates as they await the resolutions committee on the platform. The Roanoke Times notes he has grown rich from discovering the public loves to be kidded.
Five Chicago youths Jane Adams Pilly Lightner Tom Barry Larry Holmes and Jay Bruce embark on a South Seas cruise after finding an old ship log about Captain Whitney and the Western Wave in 1834. Miss Whitney Pauo, island power, entices them to Montonga while a log contains coded clues and Livingston’s radio messages raise danger as Jay and Tom uncover secrets aboard.
Precipitation in the last 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. reached 1 inch. Year to date rainfall totals 20.66 inches, with a season-to-date 2.41 inches. Monthly normals from 19 years of Winchester Research Laboratory data list January 2.36, February 1.95, March 2.70, April 3.17, May 3.58, June 3.89, July 3.50, August 3.54, September 2.20, October 2.87, November 2.14, December 2.39 inches.
A Boston court heard a man speak in a language none of thirty interpreters could comprehend. The Mobile Register suggests it may have been a negro dialect as written by Yankee observers.
Banks announce closings for Monday July 4 1932 a legal holiday with all maturities due that date payable on Tuesday July 5 1932 WM G Hardy Cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank John Sloat Cashier Commercial Site Savings Bank GEO B Bushnell Cashier Union Bank of Winchester Yost Cashier Farmers National Bank and Trust Company
Ohio State Journal notes that naval officials who forbid marriage for two years after graduation devalue real combat readiness. Richmond Times Dispatch comments that some singers see breathing as unimportant to crooners while others push for removing it entirely.
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