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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1939
Page
5
Dewitt Mackenzie reports a growing global push for moral rearmament as world leaders and monarchs embrace the Golden Rule and Sermon on the Mount. He notes Belgian and Dutch royals backing the effort and cites Roosevelt's call amid rising international interest.
A series of property transfers are recorded including Katie Boyd Glaize to Eva Shade Omps for a Mason subdivision lot and buildings at 3950 dollars. Margaret E. Athey to Harry E. Athey covers a west Gray Avenue lot for 10 dollars. Other deeds include ELiberty Avenue dwelling transfers for 10 dollars, Gerrard fronting lot for 1 dollar, and a ground strip between properties for 1000 dollars. Additional quit rent deed to John W. Rosenberger and Co. on Smithfield Farm site and Euclid Avenue lots for 10 dollars outline the day’s local transfers in Frederick County.
Public advertisement urges college education, citing government data that 90 percent of college men succeed. It promotes choosing a profession, planning courses, and requests readers send remittance and preferences for school lists via Washington Bureau.
William W. Corcoran bought the original 12% acre site in 1848 and founded Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D C with woodlands preserved. The first burial occurred on April 13 in the early years of the cemetery.
Naquin testifies about final dive of the Squalus describing crew readiness at 50 feet and the periscope moment of pressure in the ears. He notes engine valve history and says the induction valve had no mechanical fault while praising the sub’s trim during a May 18 slow-speed run.
Virginia youths participate in a boys state program at the college setting a mock government. Candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general pass bar exams while 58 of 74 seek admission. Voting on a mechanical machine consumes hours with results due by afternoon. State officers will be inducted by Governor Trinkle and the state Supreme Court.
Earl Whetzel a 16 year old son of I C Whetzel living 61 percent miles west of the city on the Northwestern Grade is missing. He left Thursday in blue jeans a dark shirt and blue cap. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall with red hair and freckles. Sheriff John Bywaters and his father seek information to locate him.
Laurens Hammond invented the Novachord, an all electronic musical instrument with a six octave keyboard and over a dozen dial switches for tone control. It debuted on the Rudy Vallee radio program on February 9, featuring dual built in speakers and pedal volume control for upper and lower registers.
Henry Brothers plan to auction 75 lots in a new South Winchester subdivision partly within the city. Five new surfaced streets Montague Lambden Burton Belview Brad dock and Robert parallel Valley. A prior December sale was postponed due to weather and ballots sealed by the Chief of Police will be reused. The sale is set for Thursday June 29 at 1 30 pm conducted by Dunn and Duvall with C C Conrad assisting.
The appropriations sub committee with Byrnes opposed the three man board plan and predicted its rejection. Byrnes promised an amendment to require states to finance at least one third of WPA project costs within their borders. Acting Chairman Celler forecast drastic changes in the Hatch bill to ban political activity by government employees or with federal funds.
Dr A T Baker of the special guard of honor for King George and Queen Elizabeth spoke to the Lions Club about his wartime service. He recalled a brutal sun lit drill when an officer pushed the unit for over ninety minutes before conceding they were good enough. The Duke of York, later King George VI, spent weeks with the same unit, and English was then difficult for him. The Lions Club meets next Tuesday at 6 at the Country Club to install officers.
In Berryville Virginia local lore meets history as a hidden third story closet at Crow's Nest is revealed while the home goes up for sale. The 50 foot long concealed panel hid Confederate soldiers during Civil War campaigns including five known men. Civil War bullets spurred relics while maps drawn in 1820 by Frances Shepherd Crow reveal Missouri as the lone state west of the Mississippi in a world map.
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