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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
7
Police report thieves entered the villa Mariani home of Mrs. John Kerr Branch a former Richmond resident through a second story window and took jewels and valuables valued near 100000 while Mrs. Branch a 70 year old widow and two others slept undisturbed.
Six men were confirmed dead and six others seriously burned with two missing after an explosion at the Butler mine of the Volpe Coal Company in eastern Pennsylvania. Rescue teams and investigators cordoned the area as the accident prompted a formal inquiry into mine safety.
In a smiling White House scene the Big Four of Democratic leaders convince President Roosevelt to delay the departmental reorganization bill until the 1939 Congress. The measure passed the Senate this Congress but failed in the House by eight votes. Left to right Rep Sam Rayburn Texas Sen Alben Barkley Kentucky Vice President Garner Speaker Bankhead.
Market quotations from Baltimore and Chicago show cattle and hogs moving higher with steady to weak care in cows and bulls. Wheat corn oats soybeans and rye futures and cash grain prices listed with ranges and top notes from Philadelphia Chicago and Baltimore exchanges.
Chicago wheat prices edged higher today as late rallies amid brighter harvest prospects limited losses from earlier declines. North American export demand topped 400000 bushels aiding the advance along with a marginal lift in cash grain quotes across futures.
New York June 2. After an early rise led by steel shares gains faded under light selling. Trading remained light with about 450000 shares changing hands. Most issues closed unchanged or modestly lower as analysts blamed technical factors for the morning rally amid ongoing business and industrial weakness.
Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone fined 13 major oil companies and 11 officials $36000 and $25000 costs after pleas of nolo contendere over illegally fixing margins for wholesale gasoline. Other defendants rejected pleas and face trial September 23 in Madison.
Shanghai reports Nippon planes struck towns along the Lunghai railway as Japanese forces gain ground. They say they occupied a corner of Kihsien south of Lanfeng after an hour of fighting and damaged Chinese field positions north of Kihsien. Chinese forces claim to hold villages near Lanfeng while three villages north and east of Lanfeng were captured by China, preventing a siege lift of Doihara’s division.
Readers are invited to name a cartoon series Psiedabi by Paul Webb with a chance to win theatre tickets. The Ritz Brothers inspired sketches tie to the stage musical Kentucky Moonshine shown at the Palace Theatre Winchester starting this week with more cartoons to come.
London reports Britain urges the non intervention sub committee to speed up withdrawal of foreign troops from Spain to pave the way for a truce. Soviet Russia accepts withdrawal on sea control condition while observers call for international port watch. The plan includes a roundtable peace conference and Czech Sudeten issue mediation as part of a two fold approach.
Louise Campbell and Elizabeth Denny lead a Berryville graduation section with portraits and poems. Mary Frances Dix contributes the Class Poem while Marjorie Moreland and Gladys Cheshire present Class Gifts. Betsy Jane Royston, Edna Carroll, Clifton Gaunt, Doris Marcus, and Jack Russell appear in class sections with songs and prophecies amid a benediction by Rev. Dr. Louis Tucker.
Olivia deHavilland stars as Maid Merian in the Star Capitol Coloring Contest with $5 prize. Three pictures total. Errol Flynn as Robin Hood has appeared, and the final image runs tomorrow. Send colored entries to Robin Hood Editor at Capitol Theatre by noon Monday. neatness and originality decide ties, with top prize of $5 and ten runner up prizes including a guest ticket and a Movie Book.
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