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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1937
Page
10
Gardner Jackson of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union calls for a July 9 convention in Denver to bring together tenant farmers and unions of packinghouse and cannery workers with farm hands to discuss potential C I O affiliation. The meeting aims to organize and coordinate farm labor groups across the region.
A Kansas City box office tale shows a young boy offering five pennies as a deposit for a Sunday Western. He explains seats cost a dime and plans to return with five more over the weekend. The cashier brings in the manager to handle the quirky payment.
Trustee Herbert S. Larrick announces a public auction of two adjoining parcels totaling 127 acres 3 roods 38 poles near Gore Rock Enon Poole's Ford in Frederick County Virginia. sale July 14 1937 at 11 am in Winchester with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust. auctioneer C I Brumback.
Edwin Snider of Winchester Troop 1 writes of a June 26 arrival in Washington for the Jamboree. He notes 20 000 Scouts present, first aid demonstrations, tours of Washington including a ball game, and hosting duties by Winchester with leaders Forrest Jones Steve Sponas Edgar Smoke Arthur Tinsman Edwin Snider.
Washington recorded two automobile deaths and one drowning after the Independence Day celebration. A year earlier the capital area saw 14 holiday fatalities. About twenty burns from firecrackers required hospital treatment.
Racing at Delaware Park was cancelled today due to ground conditions from yesterday's heavy rain. An entirely new card will be run tomorrow.
An applicant for damages asserts St. Peter as a witness while Andrew Fraley chair of the State Industrial Commission suggests granting the claim. Fraley quips that they may face St. Peter with their own claims someday.
Tourist travel in Virginia in May rose about 28 percent from May of last year. Wilbur C. Hall of the Virginia Conservation Commission cites hotel patronage gains, shrine and natural wonder visits, and strong National Park Service entries to Shenandoah and RichmondBattlefield Park, with literature distribution and mail inquiries also up.
Eight Negro defendants in the Scottsboro case were called for arraignment in Decatur Alabama with trials likely deferred until next week. Court attaches predicted the trials would not start today as previously indicated.
A bomb exploded today at the residence of Reverend Agu ilera in Ponce Puerto Rico destroying part of the building the library and furnishings the incident caused extensive damage but no injuries were reported.
The American Smelting and Refining Company plant in Perth Amboy New Jersey reopened after a two week shutdown due to a sit down strike. Workers returned under an agreement between management and a union affiliated with the.
Six year old Evone Courturier and Richard Solomonson will be crowned Prince and Princess at the National Cherry festival in Traverse City Michigan on July 15.
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