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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1938
Page
2
All interested in the county high school band are invited to a meeting on June 25 in Shenandoah. Shenandoah Musicians will give a concert and discuss plans for a county school music festival and related events.
Bethel Methodist Church members and friends are asked to meet in the graveyard at Trone on Wednesday morning June 15 with needed implements for a general clean up and renovation of the graveyard and church grounds. If rain delays, work moves to the following day. Annual memorial services will be held June 26 the fourth Sunday at the church in charge of Rev. Mr. Coe with all-day services. everyone is invited.
The 7 Up Club from Chester Park faces the Park tomorrow at 3 PM with S Baroni the Washington hurler returning to oppose them. The Park won a 1 0 game in last year’s 18 inning marathon. Duvall and Winchester likely start for the locals.
Canton China on June 11 received a brief respite after two weeks of daily air attacks that killed about 3,000 and wounded 5,000 in the Canton area. Japanese aircraft had pounded the city and surroundings, leaving a high casualty toll.
Fragmentary text indicates Rev Dr Clark is home with a degree. Mentions Pray anc EG Apess and Kiwanis. Despite garbled OCR, one line notes chair of an organization and a council event. Further names are indecipherable in the damaged segment.
Dick Metz of Chicago moved to the lead at the United States golf championship third round at Cherry Hills, opening with 34 and reaching 175 for 45 holes to hold a five stroke edge over Henry Picard and Harold Jug McSpaden. Picard faltered after a strong start as Metz surged ahead despite earlier injury fears from a 1937 Florida crash.
Aerial photographers documented a wrecked bombing plane near Delavan Illinois to aid an army board's inquiry into eight deaths. Major Roy W Camblin headed the investigation as the crash site was inspected again and wreckage prepared for Chanute Field work. The War Department expected a report within about ten days.
Three wandering gunmen were hunted by a posse after wounding two men in a firefight. They fled through Saeger and into Virginia before being cornered in War McDowell county where officers exchanged fire. Bystanders Homer Young and Lacy Dowell were wounded.
Edgar B. Pohlman 54, assistant grand secretary of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows in Baltimore, was found shot to death at his home. Police recovered a note signed by him citing nervous and mental conditions and leaving all worldly belongings to his wife.
The W P A recreational program at the park opens Wednesday at 9 a m with a full summer schedule. Myrtle Chrismore leads a team of instructors and Red Cross first aid staff to guide hundreds of children and adults in daily activities, crafts, music, and sports while new equipment and a recemented wading pool are ready.
In Oxon Hill Maryland on Livingston road near here a car crash left Harold King 21 of Washington dead and three others injured Hyle Loury 28 and Harvey Williams 21 sustained lac erations and other injuries The driver Charles A Vanderbaugh 26 of Washington and another car driven by Samuel C Pitts of the Naval Air Station Washington were involved when both vehicles left the road to avoid a head on collision Dent identified the dead man as the son of a Washington police lieutenant The crash occurred as the two cars tried to avert a collision and overturned
Madrid reports Alicante a city of ruins with emergency hospitals and funeral corteges after two weeks of aerial bombings that killed or wounded more than 2,000 people. Most residents shelter underground as 24 killed and about 100 injured in yesterday’s raids, far below the May 25 toll of 250 killed and 1,000 wounded.
Park ahead at 3 45 this afternoon as Winchester Park leads Blairton W Va 1 0 in the third inning. This marks the first Saturday game of the season.
The Virginia State Christian Endeavor Union will hold its annual convention at Massanetta Springs near Harrisonburg for the third time. Theme Christ For the Crisis led by Dr Norman Richardson with a lineup of ministers and educators. The event runs Thursday June 16 to Sunday June 19 with C E Warrington presiding and a sightseeing trip to caverns and mountains scheduled for June 18 from 2 30 to 5 p m.
The body of the late Gertrude Potter Barrie wife of Alexander Barrie is being brought from Coronado California to Winchester for interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Accompanied by her sister Miss Marie Potter and her grandson George Barfield the casket will arrive in Martinsburg West Virginia at 7 am Tuesday June 14 and proceed to Mount Hebron for a private Protestant Episcopal committal service conducted by Rev. Robert B. Nelson. Pallbearers include W Nelson Page Harry F Byrd Jr Thomas B Byrd Gray Beverley R Gray Williams and Judge Philip Williams.
Altoona Pa June 11 Twenty one drivers raced on the Altoona Tyrone speedway seeking to top this afternoon’s 100 mile qualifying mark. Indian Joe Chitwood who once starred at Haskell University set a new record yesterday on the one and one eighth mile dirt track at 97.4 mph aboard his Vance special surpassing Floyd Roberts record by 1.9 mph.
Miss Madeline Blair the Frederick county home demonstration agent outlines a week of 4 H club meetings and home demonstration activities from June 13 to 18. A full schedule lists clubs at Bryarly Gravel Springs High View Stephens City Brucetown Gore Gainesboro and Bryarly Senior with dress contests flower arrangements salads and project work.
President Roosevelt ordered a world wheat supply survey after forecasts of a record U.S. crop exceeding 1 billion bushels. Wallace and Sayre announced the collaboration between Agriculture and State, aiming to gather facts on global supplies. The July 1 to June 30 crop projection ranges from about 1.021 to 1.046 billion bushels with a potential 500 million-bushel surplus above normal needs.
In Baltimore on June 11 thieves took 127 dollars of cash hidden in an ice cream freezer at a local parlor. No suspects named and no injuries reported.
Benjamin Luther Krouse, a well known Frederick county farmer, died at his home on Fairmont avenue at 1 PM after a two year decline. Born January 28 1862 in Cavetown Md he was 76. Survived by wife Bertie Ridings Krouse two brothers and one sister. Funeral will be Monday at 11 AM from the Fairmont avenue home with interment in Green Hill Cemetery Stephens City.
A movement led by the United States Flag Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars urges Americans to fly the American flag on Flag Day June 14. Local VFW leader Barry E. Anderson asks homes businesses and public buildings to display the Stars and Stripes to counter subversive Nazi fascist and communist influences. The national group backs the appeal saying Americans should publicly express love for country and its democratic ideals. Citizens of Winchester and nearby areas are urged to participate on June 14.
St Louis June 11 Engineman W W Mullroy of Brek Missouri believed killed in derailment of Missouri Pacific passenger train No 7 bound for Little Rock near Hematite due to swollen flood waters. Officials say no passengers or other crew were injured and Mullroy's body had not yet been found.
Matthew Josephson presents The Politicos, a companion to The Robber Barons, tracing post Civil War American politics from 1865 to century’s end. He examines how professional politicians evolved into a decisive government arm, revealing greed and spectacle behind historic forces shaping democracy.
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