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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
9
The 1940 census begins Monday as the largest government data effort to date. It raises questions on employment and rising numbers of women in work, amid high federal spending and widespread relief programs. Economic factors loom large as nations weigh policies affecting married women in the workforce.
Steel production in Birmingham Alabama has reversed its downward trend as new orders outstrip shipments. Analysts forecast output to rise to 81 percent of capacity next week and pig iron to 95 percent as inquiries suggest further gains before the end of the second quarter.
Experts on folklore convene at Washington and Lee University for a two day meeting of the Southeastern Folklore Society. Sessions cover advertising folklore, American folksong classification, South Carolina U boosts folklore from the Federal Writers Project, and the Negro ballad Spin Cane. Earle Spicer will speak at Doremus Gymnasium tomorrow evening.
Fire near the Harpers Ferry Bridge over the Potomac threatened the B and O Railway link to Winchester. Volunteers battled a blaze that damaged wiring and a gasoline tank under a truck, which was driven from Martinsburg.
The court heard guilt pleas on liquor law violations and related offenses. Sentences included several defendants receiving six months to eight months and fines of 100 dollars, with others four months, three years’ probation, and one 250 dollar fine in Shenandoah County. Social and local names include Sam Hite Elwood Shiffiett Troy Baxter Milburn Elmer Stone Garrett Donovan Davis Shiffiett Clifton Sisk and E Hise.
In York on March 29 Louis, weighing in at 200 pounds, remains favored with a weight advantage as Square Garden engagement looms tonight.
Market notes from Baltimore dated March 29 record steady egg and butter quotes and mixed livestock bids. Steers and cows show uneven demand with softer prices for cows, while calves and hogs remain mostly steady to weak. Grain quotes list corn, rye, oats, and barley with modest shifts from futures.
Market notes show moisture readings and quotations for wheat and corn. WHEAT May and Sept prices listed from 1-4 to 3-8, CORN May to Sept ranges 56 1-2 to 58 1-4, with ongoing moisture and quality terms noted.
Quotations of listed stocks at midday show American Can at 115 1 4, Goodyear 22 1 8, Kennecott 35 3 4, Texas Corp 5, Steel 57 1 4, S Steel 57 1 4, Woolworth 40 1 2, Western Union 23, Alcoa Chemical 179, American Radiator 8 1 8, J Manville 69, M Ward 53 1 8, Lone Star Chem 18 1 8, Vanadium Chemical 33 8.
Shenandoah Council of the United Commercial Travelers of Harrisonburg will hold its annual banquet and dance at the Kavanaugh Hotel. The event features City Councilman Clarence W. Lehew as toastmaster, with speakers including Darden of Norfolk and Kite of Columbus, Ohio.
Laymen of Stephens City Methodist Church will host the regular fifth Sunday service at Fairview Church Sunday evening March 31 at 7 30. Congregation members from four churches will participate, with Pastor Rev Homer in the pulpit and the senior layman directing the program. Everyone is invited.
Andrew Haley Robert Newlin and Conrad Sirbaugh remain confined in the hospital after three separate crashes. Dr. Hugh Clark says they are doing as well as possible and will likely stay about two more months.
Paul Poston a local taxicabman is doing fairly well after a three way car crash on Millwood avenue. Dr Hugh Clark said he was confined to Winchester Memorial Hospital since Monday morning and was returned home at 109 South Kent street Wednesday with multiple cuts and bruises.
Amsterdam reports at least twenty German merchants laid up in Netherlands East Indies ports since the war began have started loading cargo and making preparations to sail. Speculation says they may run the allied blockade to land cargoes at Vladivostok for transport by Soviet Russia. Germans reportedly bought large quantities of rubber copra palm oil and other raw materials.
R. C. Green was charged with being drunk and fined 10.25 dollars in police court today.
The Martinsburg Choral Society directed by Prof. R K Hollinger of Hagerstown Md will perform Theodore Dubois Seven Last Words of Christ Sunday afternoon March 31 at 2 30 in the Methodist Church following a March 10 cantata at the Baptist Church A large audience is invited to hear the program with processional invocation cantata sections and offertory responses listed.
A court hearing on Dies involves objections by Leo Alpert and remarks about agents taking material with Mrs. Blumberg's consent. Dies questions authority to release the material, saying she could not stop investigators and denying explicit permission to take it.
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