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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1940
Page
5
Baltimore market news reports unchanged prices for apples and potatoes with poultry mixed in value. Cattle and hogs show varying steady to mixed prices across regions including Chicago and national figures, with details on weights and top prices for steers, cows, calves, hogs, and lambs.
Market quotes show Am Brake Shoe at 42 1 4, Am Shel Am Tel 174 3 6, Am Tob B 90, B and O 5 1 8, Steel 78 1 2, Cc and O 39 7 8, Chrysler 86 1 4, Con Edison 31.
Market results list closing prices for companies including Corn Products DuPont De N Gen Elec Gen Mills General Motors Indus Ray Intest Int Nick Can Johns Manville Kennecott Mont Ward Nat Biscuit Nat Distillers N Y Central Owens Ill Glass Packard Penny JC Penn R R Proct Gam Rep Steel Sears Roebuck Son R R Ltd Oil N J Texas Corp U S Rubber U S Steel West El Mfg Woolworth with varied gains and losses across sectors.
Chicago futures fall about two cents as profit taking and moisture forecasts weigh on wheat. May wheat 1.02 7/8 to 1.03 1/8, July 1.00 3/4 to 1. Use cash quotes show No. 3 red wheat at 1.04 1/2, No. 2 yellow hard at 1.07, corn around 56 5/8 to 57 1/4, oats near 42 to 33 5/8. Baltimore bids list No. 2 red winter 1.15, Winchester Wheat 1.08.
Special Lenten services will be held at 8 o clock tonight by the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour with Rev. C Wor thington Lowe delivering a sermon on Self Denial.
Helsinki signals Finns may choose peace or war with Russia with Mannerheim to decide. Stockholm papers report a go between for Soviet contact. Berlin notes Sweden mediation talk. Sven Hedin reportedly carried a message from King Gustaf to Hitler. Communications across Stockholm Oslo and Copenhagen are heavily censored to pursuit of quiet talks.
The Virginia House of Delegates deferred action on the Daughton Senate joint resolution to constitutionally freeze the state literary fund at eight million dollars and divert accruals to public schools including teacher retirement. The measure, approved in the Senate, could reach the 1942 Legislature and a referendum if enacted. The House also passed Norris Moseley Moses bill taxing farm cooperatives on sales to non members and on products sold to members not on the exempt list.
Mahlon Jackson, a well known retired Winchester carpenter and builder, had a stroke last Saturday. He was found at his home and received medical care. Further updates on his condition are awaited.
The will of Walter R. Talbot is admitted to record in Clark County Court. It provides that after debts are paid the residue of the estate goes to Mrs. Talbot who is named executrix of the will.
The Macedonia Methodist Church Epworth League will hold a special meeting Sunday at 7.30. Wright will lead and Robert Whitacre will be the guest speaker. The Jones quartet will provide music and the public is invited.
The Virginia Senate applauded former U.S. Senator Carter Glass with praise and jokes as he recalled his career and spoke about witnessing his son take office. John Barrymore sent a telegram praising Wickham and the Senate, prompting lighthearted replies from the chamber.
After his Senate address, Senator Glass was escorted to the House by Delegates Massenburg Bustard Hutcheson and Stephens. He urged Virginia and other states to repay grants with interest and defended states rights while receiving a warm welcome from Speaker Ashton Dovell and Delegate Thomas B. Stanley.
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