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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1936
Page
4
A brief biblical verse from Luke 6 21 emphasizes the promise of fulfillment and joy for those who hunger and weep now, anticipating future recompense. The quotation highlights spiritual consolation and the reversal of present sorrow into later laughter.
The House passed bill aims to tax undistributed corporate earnings and raise revenue via surtaxes on distributed profits. Critics call it regulatory, risking debt repayment for debt laden firms and small corporations, with uncertain budget impact and broad opposition from business leaders.
A Palo Alto Times editorial argues readers often misjudge newspapers as flawless or corrupt. It notes biases arise from audience demands and business needs, urging consideration of newsroom constraints when evaluating coverage of social and economic facts.
New York Times reports a $3,000,000 gift from the General Educational Board to the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases. The donation funds a new building to expand care beyond 11,000 annual cases and to reduce reliance on free treatments, though the deficit remains without a strong endowment. It notes the hospital’s history of firsts and ongoing private fundraising needs.
Will Rogers notes how spring rains affect children who lack safe sidewalks to play on. He contrasts indoor life with outdoor freedom and humorously reflects on what kids need to live.
A boy and his sister Ellen wade in a rain puddle in the suburbs. An uplift lady in a car stops and scolds them for playing in the water, while Bobby defends their find and jokes the puddle isn’t deep enough for him.
The institution, renowned for radium and X ray use, aims to become the first modern cancer institute in North America. It will train graduates and post graduates in malignant disease study and draw physicians and pathologists worldwide with new research methods. The staff will have a larger field of usefulness with more beds and greater impact on cancer knowledge.
One year ago Judge T W Harrison was ill with pneumonia Senator Bronson Cutting died in an airplane crash Robert B Nelson Jr retires as president of the Raven Society at the University of Virginia Dr Thomas Archer Gibson married Miss Helen Hawks of Clifton Heights Pa Miss Lillian Anderson to be honored at a May 8 party hosted by Memorial Hospital nurses Five years ago Rev and Mrs E D Witherspoon returned from their honeymoon The Hodgson tulip garden is blooming Mr C A Cooper staged a military display for Queen Shenandoah Miss Patricia Morton Miss Margaret Yeakley became first assistant to the New York City Public Library librarian Mrs B P Harrison named Queen of Love and Beauty for a bank sponsored paradefloat
Miss Zoe Virginia Johnson of Front Royal and W H Striker wed in Rockville Maryland. Mr E C Sloat of Washington sues his wife Mrs Elizabeth Sloat. Miss Primilia Bridges of Hancock Maryland crowned queen of the festival by Governor Byrd. A large B&O railroad delegation attends the festival. TM stroke is fatal to Dr E T Gold.
The column recalls Captain Jack Mosby mortally involved with Mexican insurgents during a stage Holdup in Lower California. Col John W Avirett is ousted from Cumberland Times hall amid clashes over Evitts Creek water plans. Miss Lillian Ramsburg wed Roland C Ryan of Buffalo. John R McLean backs the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad charter. Historic note marks May 6 1835 first New York Herald issue. Rose bush arrest by officers cites James P O'Brien fined five days jail for drunkenness.
Answers cover a 1936 Diplomatic Corps dinner at the White House, locations of government hospitals for tubercular veterans, U.S. turkey production, Washington Zoo origins, Roman beer, Columbus portraits, first pure food law, Titanic survivors, Tono Bungay, Shirley Temple stand-ins, Marconi parentage, and chimney smoke atmospheric conditions.
A Spokane field report notes R Scurtz trucking 11.5 million bees from California to Canada stopped briefly. The bees became restless, buzzing loudly and seeking escape as the journey paused, reflecting the challenges of live bee transport.
Washington report outlines the rift between William Green of the A F of L and John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers over industrial versus craft unionism. Green opposes official partisanship in politics while Lewis supports Roosevelt’s re election, with potential secession to form industrial unionism. China’s perilous stance against Japan is also noted through T A Bisson's Foreign Policy Bulletin analysis of Japan's pressure on China and the three point program.
Since December 1935 a broad Chinese resistance movement has grown from students to professors teachers women’s groups and workers. Peiping and Shanghai associations urge uniting arming and funding with confiscated Japanese property, while Nanking cracks down issuing an emergency law authorizing force to disperse meetings suppress propaganda and arrest leaders of student bodies.
In a Camden home, Margalo Younger lies dead with a needlelike instrument at her brain. Suspects include Don Van Every the jeweler and Gary Maughan as his unknown acquaintance. Laura Randall accuses Seon the quiet Chinese servant while Edith Bryce is named as Van Every’s love interest. Detective Keyes questions Foster and Maughan as Roy Barrimore’s suicide links him to the case. The narrator, new to Florence and faded from Africa, recalls how a cameos and a jewel named Camden ruby figure in the intrigue.
Dallas police radio logs show Max Moore issuing routine orders to quiet barking dogs after a resident complained their incessant yelping kept the neighborhood awake. In Louisville a golfer exclaimed it bit me when grabbing a ball from water at Standard Club, revealing a yearling bass. Oklahoma City reports a bull jumping a fence in a zoo, while Hills golfers wade through casual water and a dairy visit rounds out the scene.
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