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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1939
Page
2
Roosevelt seeks 200000 for a survey of a barge canal and highway across Nicaragua, with estimated total cost from 25000000 to 40000000. The plan aims to boost hemisphere defense and inland access, while not yet pledging U S funding for actual construction. Officials note potential strategic advantages for defense if larger canal plans are pursued.
Mrs Naomi R Duke 19 wife of James N Duke died at 3 50 this morning at 541 Highland Ave Winchester of complications. She was born in Frederick County daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Rinker and member of Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church. Survived by husband parents three brothers Frank Clarence John Rinker four sisters Pansie May Margaret Cleta Blanche all of Winchester one nephew Irwin Rinker and one niece Isabelle Shopland. Funeral Sunday at 4 from Highland Avenue Church with Herman Womeldorf and Rev Mr Cather officiating. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Last rites for Phineas Shaler of Hayfield who died Thursday at Memorial Hospital will be conducted from Jones Funeral Home chapel Saturday at 3 o'clock. The Rev. J. Goode will officiate. Pallbearers are William Clowser, Frank Lineburg, Raymond Largent, Joseph Rowe, Clyde Shuler, and Turner Anderson. Interment will be in Mount Hebron.
PORTSMOUTH N H June 23 P Unstinted praise for men whose lives swayed in the balance while they rescued 33 members of the crew of the submarine Squalus was put in the record of a Naval Court of Inquiry today by Rear Admiral Cyrus W Cole commander of the Portsmouth Navy Yard The heroism of Divers William Badders of Washington and John Mikalowski of Worcester was given particular attention by the soft spoken officer who has been in charge of rescue and salvage operations since the May 23 tragedy in which 26 were drowned The two divers he mentioned made the fifth and last descent in the rescue chamber to determine that none in the flooded after section of the submarine lived The rescue with the big diving bell was described as the most efficient engineering project ever undertaken and completed in the world and comprised the second phase of the Board investigation The first phase completed yesterday and the third phase was to study salvage operations The Board inspected the rescue bell as divers prepared to loop heavy chains about the sunken hull for lifting The survivors testimony pointed to the belief that the early theory of the tragedy a failure of an air induction valve to keep out seawater was correct The valve was said to have been closed and not functioning Parts of the mechanism were blamed
The 1938 Virginia cash farm income is estimated at 119.6 million dollars, down 8 percent from 1937. Crops accounted for 51.6 percent, livestock and products 45 percent, and government payments 3.4 percent. Tobacco led cash income, followed by chickens and eggs, milk, cattle, and hogs, with various values listed for other crops and products.
The House concurred with minor Senate amendments to the business tax revision bill and sent it to President Roosevelt for signature. The measure repeals the undivided profits tax and imposes a flat 18 percent levy on large corporations, rushed through as excise levies near expiration.
Representative Tabor of New York denounced the Presidents program as a budget busting subterfuge aimed at evading the public debt limit. He said government guaranteed securities would fund the plan rather than direct Treasury use. He blamed the Roosevelt administration for trying to bypass Congress after the debt limit vote.
Answers to test questions printed on page 2 include South America University of Colorado Newspaper Enterprise Association MCDXT Me di o ker hybrid cattle cross and government bureau handling public lands West Point New York.
William A. Cooper 70 died at home in Hayfield Thursday night from complications. He farmed for years and belonged to Mt. Olive United Brethren Church. Survived by wife Wallie Lineberg, son Robert L. Cooper, daughter Mrs Ernest Davies, brother Frank Cooper of Gore, and six grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 2:30 from Mount Olive AB Church, with services by Revs. McFarland and Smith. Burial at Mount Olive Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Meeting at Jones Funeral Home at 2:00.
Tokyo reports a heavy air battle near the Lake Bor frontier area between Manchoukuo and outer Mongolia. Japanese communique says 49 Mongolian planes down, 5 Japanese lost, with 18 Japanese versus 150 Mongol planes. Moscow had no corroboration.
Dr J C Jensen of Nebraska Wesleyan observed ten days of wild seismograph readings not from quakes but a spider. The spider spun a web from the case to the boom and every movement of the spider shifted the needle, creating false earthquakes.
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