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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1937
Page
10
In Front Royal July 12 reporters note social updates and travel while reporting on labor clashes in Columbiana Heights. Police pursued rioters as strikes spread to East Chicago and Pittsburgh with warnings from government and industry figures.
Miss Maude Carter daughter of Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt Carter Linden and Mr Randolph Mauch son of Mr and Mrs Alena Mauch Linden wed Saturday evening at the Front Royal Methodist Church parsonage with Rev R B Clagget presiding.
The confrontation near Republic Steel built amid strikers and sympathizers as Ohio National Guardsmen backed by police deployed around the plant. More than 100 held, gunfire and tear gas sent crowds scattering, windows shattered, and deputies claimed provocation while others said officers opened fire first.
Peiping area tanks operated by Japanese forces were reported near the international golf course where Chinese troops were entrenched. Fighting began an hour after Chinese officials said a settlement had been reached and indicated Japanese demands had not been accepted, accusing Japan of unprovoked aggression.
Senator O Mahoney of Wyoming condemned the administration rules guiding the court bill debate while opposing the War Department non military appropriation bill and the McGill Pope farm bill. Crowded galleries watched as he challenged the process from his desk near Robinson, Wheeler and McCarran.
The report notes no general promotion plan for state employees but a good plan exists in the highway department. It praises the motor vehicles division and state police for a good appointment method and urges abolition of statutory salaries, further reorganization, and a state retirement system as essential. It credits high average ability and loyalty among public servants.
Richmond Parley will open under Mr Page at 1 30 with routine business including officer elections for the ensuing year Then at 7 o clock Thursday evening the annual banquet will be held Addressing the session will be R Gray Williams of Winchester and Richmond and Major A Willis Robertson member of Congress from the Seventh Virginia district Page notes growing Virginia Chapter membership and expects at least 100 postmasters to attend All postmasters especially third and fourth class urged to attend the meeting
Soviet aviators Mikhail Gromoff Andrie Yu mosheff and Sergei Danilin took off at 3 22 a m from near Moscow on a Arctic route to the United States Pacific coast landing near Vancouver Washington after 63 hours 17 minutes in the air. They planned to push toward San Francisco with favorable weather forecast and followed the route of Chekaloff Baidukoff and Beliakoff while carrying seven and a half tons of gasoline. An official said there would be no speed race but a longer distance flight, with Ambassador Davies farewelling the crew at Tschelokovo Field.
The heat siege expands across the Northeast and Midwest as temperatures spike into the 90s and 100s. New York leads fatalities with 62 deaths, followed by New Jersey 44 and Connecticut 38, with counts in many states including Michigan Illinois Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The road commission started two improved sections and will launch a third project. A fourth link to complete the highway is planned next year. The route runs U S 60 from Huntington to Charleston then via state routes 13 35 20 5 to Elkins and onward to Maryland and Virginia lines.
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