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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1935
Page
4
Advertising rates listed per word with minimum charge and a memorial rate for four stanzas. Cards of Thanks priced at 75 cents. Display ads must be in the office by 10 A M on publication day. National representatives named for major cities.
The text reiterates that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to publish dispatches credited to AP or not and to all local news printed in the paper. It emphasizes republication privileges and local reporting ownership.
A devotional fragment quotes Psalm 71 19 praising God's righteousness and wonders at great deeds, reflecting a religious message from a church publication. The incomplete text emphasizes the phrase who is like unto thee and seeks reverent reflection on divine works.
The International League dictator bans Edwin C. Pitts from Albany despite his parole after eight years for a hold-up. Judge Bramwell argues against opening baseball ranks to ex convicts while acknowledging merit may vary by case. Warden Lawes notes Pitts’ clean record post release.
A Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reflection on a New York Times rotogravure image titled Italy's Sons of the Wolf. It contrasts disciplined soldiers with a sleepy young lad, ages six to eight, whose unconcerned yawn exposes the gap between pomp and human vulnerability, prompting questions about mentorship and philosophy.
The questions cover Franklin’s quote about hanging together, the definition of animism, and the world’s largest man made hole at the Bingham Canyon copper mine near Salt Lake City Utah.
The passage argues against mobilizing children into military roles, insisting that a child’s rights are inalienable and protected unless overridden by tyranny. It condemns parading uniformed youths as a modern state prize, calling it a violation of child integrity and a blunt response to a government that drafts from infancy.
Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the King’s birthday honors list. He expressed gratitude, noting the award honors general practitioners in Canada and highlighting his role with the Dionne quintuplets. The piece urges appreciation for country doctors and suggests medical students consider general practice.
Rev. F. C. Lester, dean of Elon Summer School, invites Rev. Ivan R Smith to join the faculty. The program, under Congregational and Christian Church boards, will be at Elon College North Carolina with three courses from the International Council of Religious Education. Local Congregational Christian Church representatives will attend. church leaders voted unanimously to permit teaching time.
Mrs Cora A Snarr of this city was granted a partial divorce from Benjamin B Snarr of Strasburg on constructive desertion grounds dating from May 15 1934. Married December 12 1905 the decree restrains him from molesting or interfering with her and extinguishes property rights. Judge Philip Williams issued the bed and board decree in Frederick County Circuit Court.
In Shanghai a romance blooms as Lt Valentine Preston marries Lia Garenne. At a Puget Sound ball Lia performs a Manchu masque that unsettles Val, revealing a distant, unfamiliar persona behind his wife. The performance stirs tension as he questions his attachment and Lia’s true self.
Present and past rainfall data show no precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. June totals to date reach 1.68 inches for the month and 15.74 inches year to date. The Winchester Laboratory average over 22 years is 34.61 inches annually with monthly figures listed from January to December.
Ten years ago the Handley Senior Class gifted a flag staff to the school and Handley graduates are entertained by the Junior Class. The Civic League campaigns to end the family clothes line and few ballots are cast in city elections. An oil laden van overturned on Bolivar hill and a Pennsylvania woman dies in a mishap near Toms Brook. The NRA anniversary is celebrated, Rexford Tugwell’s under secretary bid recalls dirt farmer experience, and Handley graduates hear Dr. Lloyd Courtney on careful choices.
A grand jury returned one true bill for horse stealing and another for murder. Mr and Mrs Andrew Feuchtenberger celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with family and friends.
Ada Virginia Guyer and Roy Carlton Grove, both of Martinsburg West Virginia, were married in Hagerstown Maryland as William P. McGuire seeks to succeed the late 8. P. Latane on the Winchester Road health board.
William Larner of Shepherdstown was held on a manslaughter charge after a coroner’s inquest into a Sunday morning collision that killed Jack B. Brazier Jr. aged 20 who was riding with him. Larner, injured in the crash, was ordered to bed by a physician and did not attend the inquest at Charles Town.
Witnesses testified Larner failed to negotiate a curve at the intersection, striking Thomas Southern's car as it turned off the highway. Thomas Southern’s car collided with Brazier, who was thrown partly from the vehicle and suffered a skull fracture.
The bureau of navigation and steamboat inspection defines register tonnage as net tonnage remaining after deducting from gross tonnage the spaces used by propelling machinery including fuel, crew quarters, master's cabin and navigation spaces.
The article notes oil and natural gas seeping from the ground formed fuel for ancient peoples devotion to fire as a sacred element. Evidence suggests prehistoric man used fire fueled by these natural resources.
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