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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1937
Page
3
Laurens P. Jones led a Kiwanis luncheon program with Forrest Jones and C B Hartman of Winchester Boy Scouts recounting the Washington Boy Scout Jamboree. Hartman cited $750000 in attendee spending, $900000 encampment costs, and 120 special trains.
Mrs Cleo Tirado of New York and Mrs Rush were noted church members who participated in Christian and Macedonia M E Church South activities. The Macedonia Church pastor Rev Charles L Reiter will conduct the funeral Friday at 2 PM from the Macedonia Church. Interment follows at a nearby cemetery with pallbearers J H Haldeman Samuel Chiles George Haymaker Guy Lynn Robert Golightly C H Bailey.
The Sun-Telegraph withdrew reporters from the Federation of Flat Glass Workers national convention in Pittsburgh. The federation barred newspapermen from meetings at the Fort Pitt Hotel unless they show paid up American Newspaper Guild membership cards.
Chicago hogs and cattle move higher on strong demand while sheep retreat. Baltimore market shows slow cattle and mixed hog sales with steady to lower prices. calves and sows vary by grade. Prices reflect ranges for weights from 120 to 300 pounds and up, with notable activity in grassers and feeder categories.
New York stock action drifted in a fractional range with a late turn to modest advances after early losses. Notable quotes show Allied Chemical at 231 and Goodyear at 40. Prices moved slowly as activity remained at a low ebb through the session.
Chicago July 15 A late rally in Chicago wheat prices offset earlier losses driven by concerns over black dust endangering spring wheat north and south of the Canadian border. Cash grain prices show No 2 red winter wheat at 1.22 1/4, corn around 1.15 per bushel, oats and rye also listed, with mild gains and steady futures.
Rescue teams pulled twelve miners alive from the Baker coal mine near Sullivan Indiana after a blast and fire trapped about twenty four men. Four severely burned survivors were hospitalized and no bodies recovered at last report. Rescue efforts centered on Glen dora Coal Company operations with state and federal inspectors directing the response.
The article reports on continued hearings as the inquiry into testimonies proceeds. Selinek denies being advised to alter his earlier police station statement. Napoli had claimed Selinek named Joseph Weber as urging gun and club arming before a march toward Republic property.
Selinek said he could not recall making certain remarks and called the statements mixed up. He claimed he had never been in police trouble before and criticized the police treatment of injured men at the station, while Deputy Coroner Whalen announced a riot film would be shown to the six man jury after other testimony.
In Honolulu on July 15 Navy aviators from the aircraft carrier Lexington resumed a vast 265000 mile hunt for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Forty two planes and most of the carrier's fighters scoured the Pacific near the dateline seeking the missing pair after their July 2 disappearance en route from New Guinea to Howland Island.
Five men on Huntsberry farm near Red Bud were stunned when a bolt struck within about 25 feet as they worked with pitchforks. Holmes Gruber and four others reported the strike, one man fell ill briefly, and soil was thrown high like a post hole. Mrs Hausenfluck noted her husband was in another field at the time.
Stockholders of Virginia Apple Storage Inc met at the plant on Valley Pike south of town and elected directors for the year. L R Dettra W A Bailey E W Barr H E Yeakley R L Omps L Jackson H B Larrick H W Butler Fred L Glaize Jr A C Oates Julius W Richard Walker McC Bond were chosen to fill vacancies due to deaths. Wilbur M Krise to preside. officers to be elected soon. Large attendance and representation of capital stock noted.
The board of directors declared a dividend in June after a detailed report on operations for the past year. The outlook for the coming season is excellent with strong indications storage will reach capacity.
State Officer R E Bayliss investigated two minor crashes yesterday and today. Landon B Whitacre's truck and Ralph Rinard's automobile on secondary route 652 near Kernstown caused $2 and $50 damages. Both drivers must appear Saturday morning before Trial Justice A J Tavenner. Later, Isaac Wallace of Mountain Falls driving a car and S C Prunty of 1130 Market St Parkersburg collided near a Glees filling station with about $10 damage to the Vir ginia car and $2 to the other vehicle.
Government forces move north of the Coruna road threatening to split Las Rozas and El Planito as Miaja's new army advances. The by-road ties Villanueva and Villafranca Del Castillo to Villafranca Del the scene of combat as the siege nears its ninth day.
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