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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1937
Page
3
Barn reports from Baltimore note stable to mixed gains in produce and poultry returns with eggs at 3 450 cases and cattle, hogs, and sheep trading unevenly. Chicago updates show lower hogs and varied cattle values as buyers adjust to light offerings and packer demand.
The Star lists daily local market prices for patent brand flour and various feeds. Included are 98 lb, 48 lb, 24 lb, and 12 lb sack prices, corn meal, egg mash, scratch feed, chicken starter, and dairy feeds with ranges from 2.05 to 7.50 per bbl or per hundred, plus butter and cattle feeds. The page reflects multiple brands and bag sizes with unit prices and occasional typographical gaps.
Traders held a mixed session with the ticker idle at times as stocks edged forward late in the day. Grains rallied while cotton fell with notable gains for Douglas Aircraft Boeing North African Aviation U S Steel Bethlehem and many others and several blue chips slipping moderately.
Chicago and Minneapolis grain markets surged on June 8 as black rust concerns and adverse crop news from Canada and the southwest fueled buying. Closing prices show modest gains across wheat corn oats rye and related markets with cash grain listings and regional quotations noted alongside a social item about Miss Mary Elizabeth Ebert visiting Randolph Macon College.
The May report by Eulalia Savage-Nalley shows 150 open county welfare cases with 75 relief and 15 service cases, totaling 558 persons. Of these, 59 are unemployable, 25 temporarily incapacitated, 36 aged, 3 blind, and 13 child welfare cases. 13 applications were received, 6 accepted, 2 hospitalized, 7 received medical care, 3 in tuberculosis sanatoria, and 1 burial.
Harry H Willis fined 10.25 for reckless driving and to pay damages from a collision yesterday afternoon at Valley and Whitlock. John B Graber’s reckless driving charge was dismissed. Other court actions included DUI fines, drunkenness, and assaults with several 10.25 or 20 fines and costs listed.
In Wichita Kansas a rehearsal tragedy ends with Kent Roessler 17 shooting and killing Robert Douthitt 16 with an apparently empty gun. Roessler absolved of blame. Central Press reports a CIO affiliated United Automobile Workers strike threat and city wide work stoppage as charges loom for five of eight pickets.
The late Brand Whitlock, former American minister to Belgium honored by King Albert for WWI service, is commemorated with a Whitlock plaque now given by his widow to the Champaign County Historical Society and Urbana Public Library. Whitlock, born in Urbana, Chicago newspaperman, and twice mayor of Toledo, was a novelist and distinguished figure.
About 100 attended the memorial service for Dr. W. J. Whitlock founder of the Golden Rule Bible Class of Braddock Street M E Church South. Fred Barnett, Florida lay leader, will teach the class next Sunday at Randolph Macon Academy summer pastors’ school.
In Lansing on June 8 a one-day labor holiday halted construction as unions allied with the AFL began an organizing drive. Bricklayers plasterers painters and plumbers joined in the stoppage signaling broader union action.
Explosive attacks strike across Madrid with over sixty buildings hit. The Cuban consulate, United Press and Havas offices damaged, Bank of Spain struck. Cuartros Caminos district bore the brunt with about 300 shells. One man killed, others flee panic, then return as cleanup and repairs begin.
The article notes the actress died of uremic poisoning at the peak of her fame. Her body lay in a mortuary for family viewing before a funeral service the next day. Her mother Mrs Jean Bello and stepfather Marino Bello urged restraint to avoid public demonstrations seen at Valentino events.
The coffin will be closed and private funeral services set for 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Wee Kirk O the Heather in Glendale. Arrangements for interment are pending.
The 1937-38 Senior activities include salutatory by Mary Scully and valedictory by Hilma Hottel. Class gifts, poems, songs, and prophecies are led by Mary Scully and Thelma Courtney. A flag raising with fireworks closes the night and a cemetery flowers visit precedes the June graduation addressed by Dr. J D Eggleston.
Robert and Johnson, two prisoners, grappled with jailer Elliott Buckner during a night escape attempt at the Clarke County jail. Elliott, recently convicted in Clarke Circuit Court for fur theft, was awaiting transfer to the Virginia penitentiary. Johnson faces burglary charges. Authorities from Clarke, Winchester, and surrounding areas issued on sight warrants and descriptions to several states and Washington, D. C. for the fugitives.
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