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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1933
Page
8
Senator Cather urges a study of post repeal liquor regulation to curb bootlegging and graft. He calls for a joint Virginia House committee to examine models from the United States and abroad and to draft a practical temperance law for the special session.
The World Economic Conference sub committee voted 25 to 15 to continue talks on monetary problems as Neville Chamberlain urged the agenda to include monetary matters. A Franco American dispute over tariffs led to an eight to seven decision to bar tariffs and quotas, with the American delegation hoping to push the issue in higher committee stages.
The Dunn and Bradstreet review states that business is on the upgrade with sharp gains across industry and trade. It calls the reversal of trade trends during the first half of the year a fact, noting unprecedented climbs in productive and distributive totals.
Closing quotations from Chicago and Baltimore markets show July 9554, September 1934, December 1.0234, May 1.06 in Chicago while Baltimore spot wheat stands at 1.02 and Winchester spot wheat at 94. The data comes via Winchester Milling Corporation through a wire arrangement with Sticker Sales Corpora tion and lists Magerstown Maryland contact details.
Chicago market reports say all deliveries of wheat in Chicago sold above one dollar a bushel for the first time in 1933 with prices reaching up to 1.10. Investor profit taking and rains influenced trading while foreign currency fluctuations fed the rally following Roosevelt's money policy stance.
The fifteenth annual 4-H short course will be held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute July 24 to 29 with an expected 800 farm boys and girls. VPI faculty will teach courses in agronomy engineering gardening dairying livestock poultry and forestry with judging contests in clothing dairying foods home improvement livestock poultry and small grains. Special courses for adult leaders are offered and Mrs. Paul Kesler Jr of Roanoke is president of the state 4-H Club Leaders Association.
War ner Bros. lavish talking musical spectacle features 200 dancers in silken hellical skirts on a hellical stairway. Prominent numbers include the Shadow Waltz and Pettin in the Park staged with illuminated violins and a constructed park setting.
M E Church South Gainesboro announces Pastor C G Russell. Pine Grove Sunday School 10 am preaching 11 am. Young people's meeting 8 pm. Old Bethel Sunday School 10 am Epworth League 8 pm. Gainesboro Sunday School 10 am.
Judge Harrison proposes state appointed arbitration to value lands in the Conservation Commission dispute. Bailiwick lines up judges from Winchester Charlottesville Harrisonburg Leesburg Staunton as potential commissioners under the Byrd plan. Miller heirs back to circuit court August 8 in Warren County with Rappahannock next.
The Winchester Park Association announces lower dance admission at the new pavilion in Rouss Park. From tonight and every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night, gentlemen pay forty cents and ladies twenty cents. The change follows a survey of Valley dancegoers tastes.
The Palace in Winchester features three major films next week. Monday and Tuesday bring Humanity, an adaptation of Road To Heaven, starring Ralph Morgan Boots Mallory and Irene Ware. Wednesday and Thursday show What Price Innocence with Jean Parker Ben Alexander and Bryant Washburn. Friday and Saturday present Monogram’s Klondike with Thelma Todd Lyle Talbot and Captain Frank Hawks.
About three four ths of a mile of road remains to be rebuilt south of Winchester on the Valley Pike. A large force of men trucks and heavy machinery are closing the gap toward Har risonburg with grading and stone laying south of the B and O Railway tracks.
Actions effectively legalizing 3.2 beer in Richmond and Henrico County were agreed by Commonwealth Attorney Harold Ratcliffe and police chief J. C. Warriner. Cases in Richmond police courts were continued until after the legislature's special session opening August 17.
New York July 17 Stocks jumped on a weaker dollar with the British pound rising about 15 cents to around 4.75 against gold parity 4.8654. The dollar slid toward 70 cents in European gold exchanges as equities surged one to four points amid profit taking and heavy trading on the stock exchange. Sterling opened at 4.66. Call money 1 percent.
Senator Weaver complimented Peery and urged a referendum on October 3 instead of delegate conventions. He urged fair license fees, avoiding equal charges for small cars and luxury autos. Capt. Frank M. Wray promoted EF Blackburn Moore for House of Delegates and George C. Peery for governor, with club formation postponed.
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