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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1935
Page
2
In Bear New Jersey Mrs Mary Pisark vows to focus on geography next time she sells liquor after authorities overlook her shop but a misstep occurs when drinks are sold in Col and Collingswood dry zones. Judge Frank Neutze sentences her to 30 days in jail, she claims she mixed up rules.
Capetown to Buenos Aires distance by great circle is 8,728 nautical miles about 4,300 statute miles eastward. Westward rhumb line distance about 3,884 nautical miles roughly 4,410 statute miles.
Independence Day banking closures announced for Thursday July 4 1935 with all maturities due that day payable Friday July 5 1935. Bank officials J H Yost John S Sloat Geo B Bushnell Harold G Brown acknowledge holiday schedule across Farmers and Merchants National Bank Commercial and Savings Bank Union Bank of Winchester Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
Palmer House management honors an 80 year old waiter born in slavery who has been employed 52 years at the Loop hotel. Squire Wooton receives a gold medal for long service and is known to thousands of guests. He has waited on Presidents Grant McKinley Cleveland and Garfield, as well as Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Three generations of the Palmer family made him their personal waiter.
America shifted into a summer migration mode with steamships packed, railroads adding extra sections, and air lines pressed for equipment. Normandie’s capacity voyage spurred a broader boom with 14,000 leaving New York last weekend. Cunard-White Star traffic up 33 percent. New York Central passenger travel up 15 percent. Airline travel across US lines rose 49 percent for the year’s first quarter. Bus firms report surging business. one operator notes weekend activity doubling past week.
Washington July 3 Charles Curtis former vice president in the Hoover administration declares for a new chairman of the Republican national committee not naming Henry Fletcher. He criticizes bureaucratic boards and says Republicans would cut taxes if in power. Curtis cites a dozen men who could defeat Roosevelt in 1936 and plans to tour the Midwest to gauge sentiment.
In Brooklyn on July 3 a Black night watchman, Cornelius Reid, 34, reported seeing a ghostly form and two bony white hands through a garage window. The sighting required a radio alarm, six patrol cars and medical help to revive him after the scare following the prior week’s death of Oscar Wilson, also a watchman, at Fleet Brothers Coal Company.
Washington reports indications the Roosevelt administration may allot up to two billion dollars for jobs resembling old Civil Works Administration projects. Projects would be small with low material costs and selected locally, without prior Washington approval. Hopkins is slated to direct much of the four point eight billion dollar relief program.
By order of the Circuit Court of Frederick County Virginia a public sale of a eighty acre farm with orchard and outbuildings is set for 11 a.m. Saturday July 20 1935 in Winchester. The sale near Senseney Road includes a right of way and is bounded by Abram's Creek Coe land and Hollingsworth. Terms require one third cash day of sale with the balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and mortgage insurance. Special commissioners are M M Lynch Warren Rice and H S Larrick. auctioneers Dunn and Duvall.
The passage notes Republican criticisms of large New Deal spending as leaf raking while defenders of the Civil Works Administration argue the program was necessary and showed results, with debate over its abandonment.
Public auction to highest bidder at Winchester courthouse 3 PM Friday July 12 1935 describes multiple parcels on North Kent Street Winchester Virginia with frontages ranging 50 to 100 feet and depths to railroad lines plus associated machinery and equipment. Sale follows default on debt secured by deed dated August 29 1930 from Valley Cooperative Fruit Exchange to Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Company of Winchester Virginia trustee. Cash terms.
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