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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
10
A 25 year industrial survey of Baltimore shows the value of manufactured products and total wages more than tripled since 1914. Herbert A. Wagner of Consolidated Gas and Electric Co. released the survey predicting continued growth in the city's industry and wage earners.
Relatives and friends are requested to meet at Ebenezer Cemetery on Friday June 9 at 1 30 for a final clean up of the cemetery and church grounds. All interested are urged to attend and bring necessary implements.
Dr. Wade S. Miller president of Shenandoah College Dayton was honored by his alma mater Lebanon Valley College at its seventieth commencement on June 3 1939 receiving the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He earned an A B from Lebanon Valley in 1937 a B D from Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1930 and studied summers at Ohio State College and Northwestern University. He joined Shenandoah College in 1930 and has served as instructor college pastor dean and since 1935 as president.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate three ambassadorial and ministerial nominations today. Claude G. Bowers of New York would serve as ambassador to Chile Edwin C Wilson of Florida as minister to Uruguay and Douglas Jenkins of South Carolina as minister to Bolivia.
The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that some financing firms allowed dealers to impose high charges and commit deception or fraud in auto sales. The FTC reviewed financing ads and found many six percent plans misrepresented finance charges as interest rates, inflating the actual cost.
James Reed of Round Hill and his brother Stanley Reed were fined 10.25 each for drunkenness on a public highway near Castleman's Ferry on Route 7. James Dodd, former Ambassador William E. Dodd’s employee, appeared before Trial Justice Kackley and arranged payment of his employee’s fine.
Deputy Sheriff Bob Buckner reported he foiled an attempted jail break on Saturday morning at the county jail. Inmates R. G. Mc Cauley and Howard Hockman had broken a window bar and dug through three brick layers to create a hole large enough to escape.
Milford Utah volunteers rushed to their own fire station after an alarm. The building burned to the ground, with firefighters left to respond to the blaze at the local firehouse.
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A letter from a woman unable to have children seeks guidance on adopting. Caroline Chatfield counsels ignoring relatives who judge childless couples, endorses adopting, and urges raising the child with both traditional and modern guidance. She emphasizes love, responsibility, and the joys of parenthood despite sleepless nights.
Memorial day observances took place at Old Chapel near Berryville Virginia on Sunday afternoon addressing the South's fallen with brief talks by A MacKay Smith and R Floyd Flickinger. Rev Robert Goodwin conducted a short service and musical selections framed a solemn program led by George Burwell.
New Yorks Lawisohn Stadium concerts will be heard on CBS for a fifth season starting next week with Thursday 9 pm 45 minute programs and Saturday night airings. The New York Philharmonic Symphony Society presents the series with Alexander Woollcott as Town Crier in a Hollywood program from New York.
President Roosevelt has sent to the Senate a list of postmaster nominations in Virginia and West Virginia. The names include Mabel C. Bishop Catlett Bessie M. Crockett Cornelia L. Patton Eagle Rock D Irvin Persinger Edgar McCarty Wiley Kilmarnock Edward M. Blake Lynchburg John H. Cave Norfolk Robert W. Shultice Peters burg George Leonard Elmore in Virginia and William B. Snyder for Shepherdstown West Virginia.
A Washington motorist crashed a late-model coupe in Millwood Virginia Sunday night, smashing into an oak tree in Richard Estep's yard. The unidentified driver left on a bus to Washington before authorities arrived to identify him.
The drive to raise funds from churches across the state for a chapel at the State Industrial Farm for Women is progressing satisfactorily. Mrs. Robert Barton reports that several denominations have funded milestones and drives are under way. The chapel will cost 10000 dollars, with half already secured. A garden is planned and state garden clubs will donate shrubs. Recent gifts include 50 dollars from Luray and 25 dollars from Middleburg. Women in charge ask pledges of 1 dollar or more.
In Minneapolis a burglary charge followed after Mr and Mrs Frank Farnham found their apartment ransacked and a thief lounging in their chair with feet on the table reading a story. The suspect was arrested by police.
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