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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1933
Page
4
The Evening Star entered at the post office in Winchester Virginia as second class matter. Published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Company. Consolidated with Morning News Item The Weekly News Ida Times The Weekly Torn.
The piece states that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to use news dispatches and locally published news in the paper, indicating the paper credits and reprints AP content as the primary source for national and local reporting. This note frames attribution and reuse standards for AP content.
Rates list for Mall subscriptions shows prices for one year six months and three months in advance. It also lists a one month option and weekly rate. Advertising representatives Frost Landis and Kohn are named for national coverage across New York Atlanta Chicago and Detroit.
A brief devotional note cites Isaiah urging the wicked to forsake their way and turn to God who promises abundant mercy and pardon. The message emphasizes repentance and divine forgiveness.
A 72 year old Colorado farmer writes a circulating letter describing his restrained lifestyle and steady diet while noting good crops and prices. He admits borrowing from a bank has hit his limit and urges specialists to read his diagnosis twice before prescribing remedies for hard times.
Minneapolis Journal views the bank suspension as potentially a blessing in disguise. It credits President Roosevelt for a sound, simple program and praises Congress for swift validation. The plan envisions reopening sound banks and reorganizing those not fully sound while expanding currency supply to curb deflation.
In a Philadelphia Public Ledger column, the writer argues France can spare a $20,000 instalment on the war debt but withholds it on principle. The United States could do without the dime yet prefers payment as a matter of principle, contrasting emotion with fiscal stance.
Frederick county farmer Daniel Metz dies at home. Council candidate Charles H. Harper advocates adequate water supply for the city. Handley High School dedicates its annual to Capt. J. C. Van Fossen. Capitol Theatre hosts Olivet To Cavalry. Col. B. M. Roszel addresses Winchester Century Club on Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s campaign. Virginia farmers plan more money crops. Handley pupils stage a pageant at the Apple Blossom Festival. Virginia counties expect nearly 2.75 million from the gasoline tax. Local ad notes Your druggist is more than a merchant. The 1756 Frederick militia officers lists published. Shenandoah Valley crops suffer from extreme cold. When Knighthood Was In Flower plays at Empire Theatre. Piggly Wiggly stock rises on NYSE. A Mississippi tornado leaves 1,000 homeless. Virginia Farm Bureau announces locals to be organized in every county.
Richmond March 21 State Highway Commissioner Henry G Shirley will urge abandonment of the stagger week labor plan at the next Highway Commission meeting. The program, aimed at spreading employment and easing depression, is declared wasteful and to end April 1 with Reconstruction Finance Corp advances. The department cites very low highway funds and tight controls on spending.
Whitacre Virginia reports a return of George W. Siford from Washington, D C. Lydia Barton and Harper teach Redland school as guests of the Whitacres. Jumbled social calls include Mr and Mrs Lee Whitacre hosting, quilt project completion by Ladies Aid, and health note on W A Tinsman back from Walter Reed Hospital.
Canterbury notes from Cant erbury Virginia report Mrs Lloyd Painter sick but improving. Visitors include her Ashland Kentucky brother and sister in law Mr Virgil Atwood from Washington DC Mr Ralph Alger and Miss Alberta Hames both of Richmond. Dinner guests of Rev H A Ritenour and wife were also from Richmond. Mae Painter visited Grace DeHaen Gainesboro Virginia. Carrie Hudson stayed with Fred Ridings near Relief. L J Cave visiting Refugee area. B A Rowland ill with flu. Allen Johnsons traveled to Luray for business. Arthur Webster wrecked his car but unharmed.
A fragment notes a wood sample claimed to be 20 million years old remains in Dr. Gl. Perry's possession in Seattle Washington. The tale frames Wood as ancient and valuable within a scrapbook by R J Scott.
Sue Allard, a hotelTelephone operator, encounters Philip Gerard a wealthy young man engaged to Merta Morris. In the hotel lobby a man identified as Merle Beckwith is found unconscious in a room, after Philip plans a dinner and a Boston trip. Christine Worden clings to hope as Merle lies near death, while Philip ponders love, Sue, and the looming wedding in a tale of social divides and fraught romance.
Precipitation data over the past 24 hours ends at 8 a.m. 0.81 inches. Year to date 7.64 inches. Arch to date 2.80 inches. Average 34.53 inches annually based on 20 years. Monthly averages: January 2.36, February 2.00, March 2.70, April 3.11, May 3.73, June 3.81, July 3.45, August 3.45, September 2.15, October 3.06, November 2.25, December 2.37.
One of 1933's great dramas returns to Hable's Palace for a second showing tonight and Tuesday. The Columbian feature stars Walter Huston Kay Johnson Pat O'Brien Constance Cummings and Gavin Gordon. It tells of a man who builds an institution on character avoiding catastrophe and succeeding on merit. Critics praise its timely plot and hopeful message. Paramount News Broadway Gossip and an all technicolor cartoon accompany the feature.
Constance Bennett the screen's best dressed woman stars in Our Betters at the Capitol today and Tuesday with Gilbert Roland Chas. Starrett and Grant Mitchell leading a strong supporting cast. McNamee announces news events and a Vitaphone musical act provide added attractions.
Warner Bros announces the Laurel and Hardy feature Pack Up Your Troubles arrives at the Colonial Theatre tomorrow. It is the duo’s second full-length comedy drawing strong audience interest and marking another high-spirited skidrow laugh in the team’s long running filmography.
Senator Byrd of Virginia said he hopes Congress will finish Roosevelt's emergency program and other needed laws in the next weeks and adjourn until next winter. He noted the idea has been unanimously approved by senators he spoke with and that President Roosevelt is aware. He added it would greatly aid business to end work quickly and depart Washington.
In Winchester Court on March 17 1933 Gertrude M Organ sues Chauncey B Organ for divorce a mensa et thereon and alimony with assets at 401 Courtfield Ave Winchester Virginia pledged to satisfy any judgment. An affidavit states Chauncey is nonresident. he must appear within 15 days of publication. Court orders four weekly notices in Winchester Evening Star and posting at courthouse door before April 3 1933.
Economies applying to World War veterans will not take effect until July 1, the start of the fiscal year, with no instructions yet issued. Colonel E. W. Jordan, regional manager at Richmond, notes the Veterans Bureau plans and possible impact on disability and service-connected claims. The Richmond area office foresees substantial disbursements and potential loss of monthly cash disability payments if changes abolish ongoing allowances.
A satirical note in Dunbar's Weekly muses on wives contemplating killing husbands or disposing of them as inflation erodes life insurance value to about thirty cents on the dollar.
Switzerland assumes control of importing manufacturing and selling vaccines and serums for human treatment in a sweeping public health move. The piece notes the scale of a billion as a counting target, suggesting it would take 60 to 70 years for an average person to count to a billion.
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