English Apple Crop Outlook Sparks Conflicting Reports
An English importer writes of planning a U S visit and notes the crop is 35 percent above last season in England while other sources say the English crop will be substantially below last year which exceeded the five year average. Bramley Seedling is unusually light and Cox Orange Pippin and Kent crops are well under last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winchester
United States
England
Bramley
Kent County
Apples and Trade Agreements Boost Virginia Apple Trade
Virginia apple growers praise Secretary Hull for negotiating tariffs and trade deals to expand markets. The article cites reductions by France and the Netherlands, improved terms with Canada and Finland, and ongoing Britain talks seen as crucial for higher export profits ahead of the harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordell Hull
United States
Virginia
England
Roosevelt
France
Netherlands
Finland
Canada
Great Britain
Hull
Socialism and leadership in the steel industry
Nine of ten chief executives in the steel industry rose from the ranks. The piece argues that supporters of socialism favor government operation of many activities now run by private business and suggests they should consider whether that stance amounts to socialism to some degree.
Government paternalism vs private merit in executive rise
The passage argues that executives rise through hard work and merit in private business, while government paternalism offers little incentive. It contends favoritism and political maneuvering harm appointments and contrasts this with the United States’ strong private sector competition producing great leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Unhappily Within the Law Norfolk Fisheries Lobby Ruling
Governor Price advised by Attorney General Staples that the State Fisheries Commission acted within the law when hiring a private Eastern Shore lawyer for 1400 dollars to press oyster crab clam interests before the 1936 and 1938 legislatures. The AG notes no explicit prohibition on lobbying by departments but questions the need for a general practitioner of law to explain complex fisheries issues to lawmakers. The piece calls for clearer law on paid departmental lobbying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Price
Staples
State Fisheries Commission
General Assembly
Fisheries Commission
The
State Hospital Board
Mental Hospital Survey Committee
New York
Marconi Dies At Home In Rome At Age Twenty One
News recalls Guglielmo Marconi founder of wireless telegraphy who died at his Rome area home. The report notes his age at death and his pivotal invention’s impact on communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guglielmo Marconi
Rome
Tientsin
China
Ralph Snapp
American College of Dentists
Smith enters Baby Show as Star sponsors event
Five years ago Edwin H. Smith Jr. joined The Star sponsored Baby Show while Wiley Post completed a solo round the world flight passing Nome on the final lap. Winchester and Frederick counties report per capita bank deposits at $215 with total assets over 8 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin H. Smith, Jr
The
Star
Wiley Post
Nome
Alaska
Winchester
Frederick County
Heat grips Frederick County court as attendees sweat in courtroom
Court session at Frederick County Court House under sweltering heat sees judge and attendees in shirt sleeves. B B Jones of Audley Farms lauded as one of the nation’s best and largest horse breeders. A Millwood woman provokes a quarrel with her husband over a dance and strikes him with an empty pop bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Court House
B. B. Jones
Audley Farms
Millwood
Government offers $1000 for road to cavalry camp study
Twenty five years ago a government offer proposed to match a county pledge of $1000 to improve a road to a cavalry camp. A Front Royal post office break in saw $4500 stolen in stamps money orders and cash. Over 2100 U S Cavalry from the 10th 11th and 15th were stationed at Solenberger property near town. Harry B Thatcher performed a bass solo at the Golden Rule Bible Class meeting led by Grace Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
10Th
11Th
15Th
U. S. Cavalry
Solenberger
Harry B. Thatcher
Grace Jackson
Local cider sale and stormy Valley events
Forty years ago T H Sprint advertised peach cherry apple blackberry and orange cider for 35 cents a gallon. Over 200 colored people from the valley’s lower part arrived by train for the Good Samaritan Order Convention. Winds tore at a family home sending the roof to the second floor. Henry Rutherford returns home from five years in the U S Navy after serving off the Cuban coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. H. Sprint
Good Samaritan Order
Edward Grove
Middle Road
Henry Rutherford
U. S. Navy
Cuban
Answers to Questions by Frederic J. Haskin
A compact public notices column states readers can mail questions to Frederic J. Haskin at The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington D C for answers to factual questions and enclosing three cents for reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic J. Haskin
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskins
Washington, D. C
Public Debt and Notable Q&A Snippets Across Topics
A compilation of trivia style Q and A touching state debt status with Nebraska cited as debt free, Kalamazoo as debt free for a city, wartime submarines, oxford quips, stamps, glass history, and notable figures. Includes vaccine notes for quintuplets and a 1864 Handley submarine, plus a 1920 murder wig twist and a 5 foot trunk rose bush claim in Whittier California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Nebraska
Union
Kalamazoo
Mich
I Saw Starvation in Soviet Russia
Ripley reports a five hour border stand off at Julfa and a famine in Ukraine and North Caucasus. He claims the Soviet regime feigns progress while starving millions, seizing grain and wealth, with Moscow and Leningrad as showcases. He cites Tarassevich and Nansen on deaths and accuses the regime of widespread asset confiscation and propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Russia
Robert L
Ripley
Crusaders
New York City
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Russia
Persia
International Bridge
Julfa
Araxes River
No Man's Land
Moscow
Leningrad
Kremlin
Lenin
Ukraine
Caucasus
North Caucasus
L. Tarassevich
League of Nations
Pridthjof Nansen
World Organization of the Red Cross
Romania
France
England
Belgium
United States
Soviet Union
Ranch Makeover Sparks Tension and Tender Moments
In the Dale Durango ranch saga Ellen designs a rock filled den and a carved petrified wood collection. Buckshot and Juan Salazar restore a decorative carreta while Bill Baron records the moment as Ellen roads with Juan, stirring playful jealousy in Buckshot and hinting at deeper feelings between Ellen and Bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen
Oldster
Durango
America
Buckshot
Sonora
Darlin
Juan Salazar
Juan
Nogales
Dale-Durango
Bill
Carreta
Rancho
Buckshot Brown
Bill Baron
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H. F. Byrd, JR
Ime Q
Eugene Field
John McCullough
J. M. A. Field
Macbeth
la Salle Opera House
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Karsten Andersen
Russell Sage Institute of Pathology
Whittier
Calif
American Glass Company
Postal Stationery Society
O. Q
Handley
U. S. S. Housatonic
Charleston
Gazine
Joseph B. Elwell
Edmund Pearson
Mr. Elwell
Larsen
L. W. H. A. Torquato Tasso
E. L H
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L. R
Sahara
By Robert Ripley
Scott
King Features Syndicate
Ivory
Czechoslovakia
R. J. Scott
Fies
Oren
Central Press
Concepecion Rivera
Arizona
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