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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices for in advance periods including one year at 3.50 and carrier rates of 4.56 per year. The paper is published daily except Sunday from Winchester Virginia with editor H. Byrd Jr. as posted in the masthead.
Classified rates set at two cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Memorials priced at 1.50 for four stanzas of four lines. Cards of Thanks 75 cents. Display ads due by 10 A M on publication day, 42 cents per inch for transient ads. Contract rates available. No local ad reps listed. Associated Press holds publication rights for news dispatches.
The verse asserts that God’s path is perfect and his word has been proven for all who trust in him, emphasizing unwavering faith and divine reliability.
Frank Lambert, 27, drove his wife and two children from Richmond toward Washington on a Wednesday night. His truck collided head on with another auto near Fredericksburg. His two year old son died instantly. wife and toddler injured. other drivers also hurt. Lambert fled but was captured eight hours later. he admitted he was drunk.
Hunger and lockout strikes unfold at federal aid sites in New York City as 250 demonstrators stage a mass picket in front of the Arts Music Writers and Historical Records project office. A work stoppage leaves 4000 workers unpaid as payroll operations are disrupted and a mock trial plus sit-ins unfold amid continued government cuts.
Earl Browder and Norman Thomas praise the Committee for Industrial Organization as the foundation of a new popular front party. Browder says a national party is forming within the old two parties as it gains control of government and signals a historic shift in US politics.
Browder and Thomas argue the CIO will drive a national Farmer-Labor party backed by Communists and Socialists. They warn Rexford Tugwell and John L. Lewis could steer politics toward a party aimed at dismantling American foundations. They urge vigilance against CIO power and ambitions for 1940.
Tallulah Bankhead garners Alabama support as a possible Scarlett O Hara in Gone With the Wind. Columnist O O McIntyre notes editorials and meetings praising her Southern aristocracy and Kennedy-era lineage. The piece traces Bankhead family ties to the Confederacy, politics, and far-reaching Southern prominence.
Miss Agnes Page Mitchell is chosen as centennial queen for Clarke County. Miss Charlotte Campbell will direct Camp White Rock during the Girl Scouts stay. Park Saturday hosts Ladies Day with vengeful Strasburg nine contest anticipated. State Development Commission sets Cedar Creek water flow checks near Marlboro to guide future supply needs.
The page compiles a quiz column with varied Q A items. It covers topics from horse counts at Narragansett Park to telephone rates to chemistry and literature, citing sources and providing concise factual answers.
Twenty five years ago Patricia Baldwin of Berryville earns notable recognition at a Norfolk tennis match. The item notes Wilson supporters claim W Jennings Bryan seeks Democratic nomination and mentions Roosevelt forming The Progressive party after the Republican convention.
Forty years ago John J. Kiger and Sandy Baker organize a new baseball club for younger players. Dr. John S. Lupton sends a five dollar check to the fireman's fund for slight service. J. W. Sibert and Robert Kurtz Jr angle in a Back Creek dispute with Vance Striker. East Clifford street resident struck by lightning while dining. Historic event notes 1868 eight hour day law signed by President Johnson.
A 1937 column discusses the sit down strikes and government reactions, naming leaders like John Lewis Sidney Hillman and William Green. It notes potential labor party rise and hints at IRS tax collection quirks while detailing Congress broadcasts and Jefferson Island outings.
The Richmond News Leader laments sun exposure folly as many people burn and suffer in summer heat. It notes hospitals overflow with blistered patients and urges action, joking that a law should curb risky tanning behavior.
Mrs. Helen Wright announces that first aid classes will begin next Monday at 7 PM in Virginia Avenue School. Teachers will be Mrs. Edna Ridings and Mrs. Grace Tinsman. Enrollment includes National Fruit Product plant workers and neighborhood residents. Junior and senior classes will be organized for ages 12 to 18 for the junior course.
Sandy, a jaded ad man moving to Los Angeles, rents an office and accepts a two week radio stint offered by Mike Borst. He travels to La Cresta to confront Alicia O Day but ends up at a cliffside beach where a young woman calls him ashore while his clothes are missing and a dog accompanies her.
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