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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1938
Page
7
Baltimore and Philadelphia livestock and produce markets report on July 25. Prices for apples potatoes sweet potatoes and eggs are listed alongside cattle hogs sheep and poultry quotes from Baltimore Philadelphia and Chicago exchanges with notes on grays and grinds in various weight classes.
Governor will address the opening session of the tenth annual rural affairs institute at Virginia Tech Tuesday night on Virginia and Her Future. Dr. Julian A. Burruss will present merit certificates to two leaders. Dr. A. W. Drinkard will discuss station research results Wednesday alongside H H Zimmerley and Dean W E Coffey. The federation and conference board meet Tuesday before the program.
Premier Hodza oversees a rushed draft of a nationalities statute with professors judges and ministers shaping provisions. The plan aims to grant autonomy and will be submitted to Sudeten Germans tomorrow and to Hungarian and Polish minorities in subsequent days.
Kiukiang, a key Yangtze river port, remained in Chinese hands as Japanese forces pressed a strong assault. Reports said land forces advanced from Kutang while aircraft and warships bombarded defenses and hit nearby oil facilities. details from Japanese spokesmen were scarce.
An Associated Press report from Richmond Va states F L Largent Jr son of Mr and Mrs F L Largent of Valley avenue formerly of Boyce Va was among 70 successful candidates in the State Bar Examinations held in Roanoke June 29 30 There were 201 applicants Jim Sargent as he is known here graduated from Handley in 1933 and later attended Lynchburg College He received a BA from the University of Virginia and had been there the past three years This afternoon the Star could not determine where Mr Sargent will practice.
Shirley Temple arrived in New York on July 25 after a week in Bermuda. She described riding a several hundred year old tortoise in the Bermuda aquarium as the most exciting experience of her trip.
The text recounts a Will Rogers style humorous anecdote about a traveler speaking with an old native regarding rising prices and the value of bare necessities. The sketch reflects rural life and market pressures with a folksy exchange.
The Star lists daily local market figures for grain feeds, corn meal and mixed feeds, plus wholesale prices for bran middlings and guineas, hens, calves, lambs, butterfat and eggs. It notes various bag sizes, per bushel or per barrel rates, with scattered price points across livestock and poultry categories.
New York July 25 shares swung up early but late selling trimmed gains. The market saw a slowdowns near noon with prices retreating from earlier highs. total shares traded about 2.2 million. Production rose to 37 percent capacity, the third straight weekly gain, as motors, rubbers, coppers, utilities and specialties led while rail stocks were steadier.
Chicago July 25 prices fall across wheat corn and oats as a 18 034000 bushel rise in U S visible supply weighs on values Wheat futures slip to 67 7 8 to 68 for Sept Dec at 70 1 8 March 71 1 2 May and corn down 56 3 4 to 7 8 Sept 55 3 8 to 1 2 Dec 57 1 4 Mar 58 1 4 May 58 1 4 Oats ease with Sept 24 1 8 Dec 25 1 4 May 26 5 8 and rye futures lower Too cash quotes in Chicago show No 3 red wheat 68 1 2 No 1 hard 70 1 2 71 No 1 yellow 70 to 70 1 2 No 1 mixed 68 1 2 while corn No 1 mixed 58 3 4 No 1 yellow 58 1 2 to 59 No 1 white 58 to 58 3 4 Soybeans 3 yellow 98 Barley 32 51 nom Baltimore quotes Wheat 66 1 2 to 63 bushel Corn 70 bushel All quotations based on mill deliveries Year ago wheat 1 10 corn 1 15
A coroner's jury ordered Mrs. Mae Conner, 43, held for grand jury action in the illegal operation death of Mrs. Justine Crosser Sweeny, 29, wife of a government attorney and daughter of Representative and Mrs. Crosser of Ohio. Sergeant Jeremiah Flaherty testified Conner admitted attempting the operation. Crosser Sweeny, mother of two, was found dead in Conner's apartment Thursday.
Leopold Stokowski conductor, touring Europe with Greta Garbo, said farewell to Miss Garbo in Stockholm. He is expected in Philadelphia by mid August where Alfred Reginald Allen plans four weeks of concerts for next spring.
Harrisburg reports that a special legislative session to open tonight will consider a bill to ban all methods of transmitting race track information in Pennsylvania. Governor George H. Earle urged laws making illegal the use of devices or methods that convey gambling information.
The U S Court of Appeals upheld a 1921 fraud restitution ruling against the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs Des Metaux for 14 million dollars. The government had proven 7 million paid on a fraudulent wartime seizure claim and 7 million in interest. Former alien property custodian Thomas W Miller and ex attorney general Harry M Daugherty were involved in the original referral. Miller was convicted, Daugherty's indictment was dismissed.
In London July 25 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain blocked Labour attempts to uncover timing for enforcing the Anglo Italian pact before Friday's adjournment. He denied any formal understanding on the Spanish settlement and said confidential exchanges occurred but he never committed to a definition of the phrase.
Lester D. O'Dell president announces the 75 year old Federal McGuffey Society will break a lifelog rule to back anti New Deal candidates. The group cites upholding American education of self reliance and condemns what it calls a New Deal political institution of dependence.
Nine teen year old Earl Tucker died after a pistol shot following a sidewalk bump with a black youth on Tulip Street in Richmond. Police said the assailant fled and had not been caught. Tucker had just left home minutes earlier and died in the hospital emergency room.
The Virginia Tech horticultural department plans an afternoon session on fruit production problems during the Institute of Rural Affairs at Blacksburg on July 25. Topics include apple marketing futures and by products with experts from Virginia Tech and the U S Department of Agriculture.
Wallace H. Smith, famed as the most wounded veteran from World War I, died of a heart attack in Miami while driving home from an American Legion meeting. He was wounded in 132 places after a shell explosion at the Château Thierry offensive and bayoneted through the left lung on the battlefield. He enlisted at age 15.
Richmond, July 25. Hubert Douglas, a three year old from New Kent County, died Sunday in an Richmond hospital from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. He is the sixth summer victim in the state. His father Harry Douglas is hospitalized with the same disease and reported in fair condition.
The Rev. George F. Parring, 85 and one of the last circuit riders, died after a long illness. He preached his first sermon in 1871 and served in Maryland Virginia and Delaware for more than fifty years. He attributed his long life to good feeding.
Canton residents report continued air raids with Japanese planes over the Canton railway. About 20 bombs were dropped this morning on the area where cement works are located, intensifying routine wartime patrols.
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