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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1932
Page
2
Colonial Theatre features Night Beat a lively action packed thriller praised for its direction and acting. Chester Morris stars in Cock of the Air opening Thursday offering a romantic aviation role and strong fan appeal.
Warner BrosCAPITOL screens Shanghai Express a ten year favorite noted for its vivid East of Suez atmosphere. Von Sternberg crafts bustling Peiping scenes and a cast including Dietrich and Brook while the story hinges on faith and a tragic reunion amid opium and intrigue.
Paramount musical comedy Queen High stars Ginger Rogers Stanley Smith and Charles Ruggles. The Palace shows the film tonight and Thursday with Lindbergh baby case footage, a Chester Conklin comedy and Harry Lauder song novelty. Friday features Meet the Wife with Laura La Plante. Red Grange appears in The Galloping Ghost chapter one.
Tax officials in Richmond estimate Byrd plan abolishing local road levies will save about 3.14 million dollars in local taxes. The study uses 1931 levy data with 1929 figures referenced. Economists say counties cut real and tangible taxes by about 1 million in 1931 and expect further reductions into 1932. The assembly also added 900,000 for schools based on population and equalization aid for poorer areas.
The article notes Melvin A. Traylor stating he is not running for president, while acknowledging the question of his willingness to run remains unsettled.
The Virginia Education Association District G will hold a one day session in Harrisonburg on Friday March 18. Prof Q D Gasque of Front Royal announces the meeting expecting several hundred teachers from Winchester and Northern Virginia in attendance. Registration occurs before 9 am in Main Street South Street school buildings and Wilson Hall at State Teachers College.
Frederick county to hold a seminar hour at 1 p m for primary and one room school teachers with John Kerr School and Miss Mary Powers participating. Grammar grade pupils meet in Reed Hall under Miss Leslie Fox while high school groups convene in Wilson Hall. A general meeting follows 2 30 to 4 p m led by President Gasque with four talks on curriculum study and study centers in the program.
Walter J. Gifford writes on community groups, Henry G. Ellis explores aspects of the Virginia Education Association, and Dr. C. J. Heatwole reviews related educational matters.
Washington March 15 President Hoover met with farm leaders from the House and Secretary Hyde at the White House. Attendees included Representatives Haugen Iowa Purnell Indiana and Clarke New York all Republican members of the House agriculture committee. Discussion centered on Capitol Hill actions regarding the equalization fee export debenture relief and the Senate farm resolution adopted yesterday.
A columnist comments on patriotism and taxation with a joke about whistling the national air while paying income tax. The piece questions gender roles in driving and raises trucks as a counterpoint.
Col. H Norman Schwarzkopf superintendent of the New Jersey state police says investigators are completely bewildered in the hindbough baby kidnapping case. He has not slept more than 24 hours since the kidnapping occurred.
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