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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1938

Page

4

Park Nine Faces St Marys Celtics In Big Matchup

Undefeated Park pitcher Reid Lunsford will start against St Marys Celtics of Alexandria tomorrow. The right hander has five starts with wins including vs Walter Johnson Dr Pepper and 7 Up of Washington. A radio play by play will follow for the second time.

Reid Lunsford Chub Malloryes St.Mary's Celtics Alexandria Cannonbailer Lunsford Walter Johnson Dr. Pepper Washington Celtics McMemmain S. S Zimmerman Otts Zahn Alex Cabell Lynch Hamilton Mahoney Russ Kidwell Titcomb Wood Morgan Winchester Swanson Patton Burch McDermott Hort Kilmer

Pool Campaign on Frear tt the

A list of company or unit rosters with multiple captains and players is presented, detailing No 2 through No 10 squads led by various captains and players. The fragment outlines names including Hodg son and Koontz among others, indicating a historical poll or team enrollment record.

Welfare Costs Continued From Page One

Audit figures show the State Assistance Fund totaling 11172.85 secured by county levy representing about 36 percent of the total non school levy of 30909. Income includes 266.04 to the aged 2242.09 for board and allowances to the blind 136.86 for board and allowances 1764.56 for child welfare mothers aid boarding homes and relatives.

Welfare department audit shows substantial expenditures in Frederick

The Star reviewed the fiscal year audit noting 262 cases on welfare rolls. Expenditures span administrative costs for the Welfare Department and the superintendent of the poor, plus various aid items such as food, clothing, medicine, hospitalization, tubercular care, and mothers aid. Some costs from General Home Aid cover unemployables and other welfare categories.

General Home Aid

Notable items listed in county clerk expenditures

The document lists assorted payments including medicinal supplies $69.13 and $56.60 for repairs, $15.46, telephone service $40.25, coffins and funerals $77.50, doctors $62.50, hospitalization $2,332.41, lunacy commissions $247.75 and travel $76.85, with other minor entries. It reflects a historical accounting of public costs.

Morgenthau Heads Abroad on Hard Earned Vacation

New York July 16 Henry Morgenthau Jr secretary of the Treasury sailed aboard the Holland American liner Statendam for a month's international trip. He said the vacation would be strictly a rest period and refused to discuss domestic financial conditions. He was accompanied by Mrs Morgenthau and his son Robert and daughter Joan. Son Henry III would join in Boston.

New York Henry Morgenthau, Jr the Treasury Statendam

Wedding Invitations At Star Job Print

Star Job Print issues wedding invitations for a forthcoming ceremony. The notice lists event details and helps guests RSVP with contact information.

Winchester to Represent City at Tobacco Festival

Winchester Chamber of Commerce directors will select a local beauty to serve as Court of the Tobacco Queen at the Fourth National Tobacco Festival in South Boston Virginia. Senator William M. Tuck chairs the Queens committee. the Winchester Princess will be announced at a forthcoming Board meeting and must report to South Boston between 10 and 12 on September 9. She will be the Festival head quarters’ official guest during the event.

Winchester Chamber of Commerce South Boston William M. Tuck Andrew Bell Chamber of Commerce James R. Rowan Winchester Rowan Toibacco

Troops Guard Florence Prison Under Martial Law

National Guardsmen armed with machine guns moved into Florence Arizona to establish martial law at an overcrowded state prison. Governor R C Stanford ordered the action as convicts escapees mounted to eighteen since June 7 with eleven fugitives remaining including a life term murderer.

Florence Ariz Wih Priso R. C. Stanford John G. Eager Stanford

Winnchester Kiwanians Picnic At Pifer Cabin July Twenty

Berryville Virginia July 16 Arrangements made to erect an up to date agricultural and manual training shop for Clarke county high school students. The school board also plans a stucco vocational shop and a brick veneer home model for home economics girls with a kitchen bedroom and living area. Sealed bids are to be opened August 1.

Berryville Clarke County Clarke County School Board

King Recovers From Illness During Royal Walk

King George has recovered enough from influenza to take a grounds walk at Windsor. The government announced nine destroyers and 18 planes will escort the king and Queen Elizabeth from Dover in the admiralty yacht Enchantress for the state visit to France Tuesday.

Windsor Eng George Royal Lodge Queen Elizabeth Dover Admiralty Enchantress France

Lefty Grove Leaves Hospital To Watch Sox Game

Lefty Grove, star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, left St. Elizabeth's Hospital to attend the Sox versus St. Louis Browns game but will return to his bed after the fray due to lingering injuries.

Boston Lefty Grove Boston Red Sox St. Elizabeth's Hospital

Winchester Kiwanis Club Picnic Set for July 20

Members plan a Wednesday outing at Ralph Pifer’s Capon River cabin West Virginia. Depart Winchester to arrive by 4 PM for an official program of baseball softball swimming and horseshoe pitching. A 6 30 PM chicken dinner will be served with all trimmings. Many members and guests expected.

Winchester Kiwanis Club Ralph Pifer Capon River West Virginia Winchester

Guardsmen Encamped In Warren

Berryville Va July 16 Guardsmen from Virginia and the District of Columbia began a three day encampment on Passage Creek at the John Huffman property near Warren Sulphur Springs. About 300 guardsmen were present including the 29th Division Signal Corps and district units.

Berryville Rice Levi Virginia National Guard Passage Creek John Huffman Warren Sulphur Springs Virginia District of Columbia 29Th Division Signal Corps Norfolk Philhower

Break At Prison Averted By Shots

In Kilby prison guards fired shotgun blasts as seven of eight convicts tried to climb a wall. All injured were minor. none escaped. Warden Frank Boswell reported seven white prisoners and a black inmate overpowered two guards in the cotton mill and built a 24-foot ladder from tabletops.

Mongomery Ala Kilby Frank Boswell

Grotna Ania Surrenders Amid Conflict Report

Fragmentary wires describe Grotna Ania surrender amid ongoing clashes. Nondescript dates and places are unreadable, but the phrase indicates a ceasefire or capitulation related to the broader dispute. Further details are unavailable in the legible text.

Babe Drowned In Bath Tub Tragedy At Camden Home

Camden July 16 Mrs Margaret Vesey 39 left two daughters aged 9 and 111 months in a tub with an inch of water. She returned to find the tub full and Genevieve drowned in the tub. Police were notified and investigations planned.

Camden N. J Margaret Vesey Bok Elizabeth Genevieve

Southerners Win Point On Rates Victory at ICC Hearing

In Buffalo on July 16 Southern interests won a point in a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Examiner G H Mattingly sustained southern objections to wage statistics offered by a New York state witness, blocking evidence on relative Northern and Southern pay levels in the freight rate dispute.

Buffalo N. Y Interstate Commerce Commission G. H. Mattingly New York State

Slaying Victims Newly Identified At Wimbledon

Scotland Yard confirmed a second identification in the center court murder case. The victim is Mrs Rose Muriel Atkins, the woman found slain in a shadowy lane beside Wimbledon’s famed tennis grounds.

Wimbledon Eng Scotland Yard Rose Muriel Atkins Center Court

Ex Soldier Rosenberger Dies at 71 in Memorial Hospital

James William Rosenberger aged 71 and last member of a prominent local family died at Memorial Hospital from a stroke. Born March 24 1868 in Winchester he served in the Spanish American War with Company A Second Virginia Regiment. Interment will be at the National Cemetery with U S Spanish War Veterans pallbearers.

James William Rosenberger Memorial Hospital Mr. Rosenberger Frederick H Mary J. Myers Rosenberger Winchester Rosenberger United States Army Virginia Magruder Woodstock James Carr Baker F. .Howard Schindel Russell C. Rater Aederin Past Methodist Church National Cemetery Col. J. C. Baker United

Republican gains seen to spark national prosperity

Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts predicted that the Republican party would elect 71 new congressmen and seven new senators, creating a bold boom for business and restoring national confidence in the country’s future.

Manchester N. H Joseph W. Martin, Jr

Late Start Writers Prove Success After Sixty

The exchange cites William De Morgan as an outstanding example of a writer who began a successful career after age sixty five. He retired from business and, despite the late start, achieved notable literary recognition.

William de Morgan

Japan urged to use gold in buying supplies

The Central Price Policy Commission adopted a resolution urging Japan to use gold and specie reserves to purchase raw materials. Observers call it a major sign of financial distress since the China conflict began. Bank of Japan reserves stand at 800 million yen, with potential inflation and loss of confidence debated by financiers.

Tokyo Central Price Policy Commission China Ethin Ikeda Bank of Japan Shanghai Kiangsu Chekiang

Behrens Named Principal and School Switches

Behrens will depart Mineral High and assume work in a new post. Bryant Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper, will succeed him after previously being named principal at Bryarly. T. M. Swann Jr., son of the Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Swann, is appointed Bryarly principal after graduating from Emory and Henry College.

Behrens Fesighe Berons Louisa County Blackwell R. E. Blackwell Randolph-Macon Bryant Harper Charles Harper Bryarly T. M. Swann, Jr T. M. Swann Bryarly School Emory & Henry College

When You and I Were Young Maggie writer

The query asks who wrote the words to the old song When You and I Were Young Maggie. The composer is George A. Young, with the lyricist being Canada B. Smith. The cited line includes misformatted names and dates, but the traditional authorship credits attribute lyrics to G. W. (-gap) and melody to H. S. Harris.

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St. Mary’s Celtics of Alexandria Opposi Tion Frear Denver Spring Fred W. Sturm John Ramey Tom Baldridge Stewart Bell, Jr Robert Glass Joe Johannes Sloan Kuykendall, Jr Ansel Solenberger C. Ridgely White Robert Riley Fred Ritter J. R. Alexander John Glaize Wayne Omps J. Lee Miller Curtis Puckett Charles Shewbridge Garland Spillman C. R. Douglas C. A. Ho Harold Rowe J. Russell Richard Eddy Robert D. Dr Dan Henry J. William Hollis Forrest Jones Ally J. B. Thomas John Ze Otis Sargent Robert Peachy Hockman Fred Hunt, Jr John G. Miller J. Howard Riley Roy W. Rydon, Jr Ernest Rhodes William Starkey J. D. Crown Warren Eddy W. J L. Harris A. H. Jackson, Jr Lynn Keller Thomas Kremer John W. Rice Joseph A. Schroth John 8. Scully Hockman Church of Christ West Cork L. Hockman T Wen L. Ww Hin Geéliver Helen McClure Will ‘i Tyrone Power Mexico City Power TAL Small Loan & Finance CO. Inc E. Boscawen Winchester C. C. C Court of Tobacco Queen Berryville High School Lefty Ang Chi Shansi Globe-Girdlers Howard Hughes Floyd Bennett Airport Richard Stoddart Miling Ed Lund T. L. Thurlow City Scene Warren Babe ICU Tea Firestone Auto Supply and Service Store N. Main St J. W. Rosenberger Japan Meng W. B. Snider & Son Winchester Furniture CO MO. W. Rosenberger Winchester, Virginia S. Braddock St
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