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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1937
Page
3
In Richmond city, trucks carrying musicians toured streets sparking questions about the local sound truck ban. Officials say the ordinance targets automatic canned music while live performances by licensed circuses or carnivals may legally advertise by roadside musicians.
Nearly 1000 people attended a Memorial concert for the late Gov John Garland Pollard in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richard Horner Bales conducted a three-number program including Bach Air for G String, Beethoven Funeral March, and Mozart Symphony in E Flat. Blythe W. Branch read Mrs Pollard's letter praising his interest in the museum.
The body of Joseph B. Crary, 25, owner of the automobile, was recovered after a four-person wreck on the Robinson River in Culpeper. The other victims were James T. Hogan, Laura Lindsey, and Elizabeth B. Morrison. Crary managed Virginia Northern Ice Company plants and is survived by his father T. B. Crary and brother Roy Crary.
Harry S. New, former Postmaster General in Harding’s cabinet and initiator of the air mail service, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at about 10:30 p.m. He was 68. Mrs. New was at his side. he had been critically ill for days and had lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland since retirement.
Mr and Mrs Louis Grimm of West Clifford street hosted guests for the Apple Blossom Festival including Mrs Ernest C Sloat Miss Josephine Ebersole and Mr John Hargraves of Washington and Mr and Mrs W K Routt Jr and son Billy of Waynesboro Va
Former VP and banker Dawes predicts a 1939 stock market decline beginning late 1938 into 1939, followed by a one to two year recession and then a period of prosperity. He cites durable goods demand, steel and iron as key factors and argues easy money will not hasten a credit crash.
Three die in Virginia highway crashes. James Welsh of Baltimore fell from a James River Bridge truck in Newport News after a tire blowout. Fred W Breitinger of Media PA was killed in Leesburg in a head on crash with a car. Wallace Bolling of Chesterfield County died when a door flew open as he turned on the Petersburg Hopewell road.
The Rev. James De Wolf Perry Jr. the only U S citizen in Wednesday's coronation will serve as one of two chaplains with the Archbishop of York. He will walk in and out of Westminster Abbey behind the Archbishop. Perry, curate of Christ and St Luke's Episcopal Church Norfolk Va, has been staying with friends while preparing for his role.
Richmond May 9. Debates loom over proposed state spending totaling over 12.5 million dollars for schools old age pensions and a new library. Teachers seek 6.5 million and pensions 2.5 million yearly with a 1 million for a library. Revenue options include higher existing taxes or a general sales tax as last resort.
Sheriff W C Whitehead issues a manhunt for the body of James Welsh a Baltimore resident after a truck driven by Jimmy Simpson of Baltimore reportedly struck the James River bridge railing and threw Welsh into the water. Simpson 45 is jailed in Smithfield on a technical manslaughter charge as investigators seek details.
Local residents attend regional meetings in Virginia Beach and Richmond. Families send members to Eastern Star events, visits to Washington and Arlington Cemetery, and weekend gatherings with relatives in Front Royal and nearby towns.
A freak hailstorm hit Woodstock at nine in the morning covering streets with about two inches of hail and darkened the town. Orchard damage was limited, but gardens suffered and rain followed. Tourists filled hotels for the Apple Blossom events, Main Street saw heavy traffic, and two arrests for drunken and reckless driving occurred. Water intake was clogged by hail and a circus truck damaged a fire plug, causing a temporary shortage. A local reunion occurred as Col. Benchoff met a long-lost brother at the festival. The Shenandoah circuit court meets tomorrow for a two week term with a memorial for the county bar planned.
Senator Wheeler leads a Senate committee probing the sale of the Van Sweringen rail empire. Allan P. Kirby Walter Orr and Robert R. Young sit with Wheeler outside the hearing room as all three buyers are called as witnesses.
Judge M L Walton Jr is described as a member of the bar and serving as trial justice for the county.
Virginia Bruce and Kent Taylor star in When Love Is Young at Hable's Palace Theatre today and tomorrow. The film follows youth's undaunted pursuit of first romance, paired with a Fox News Reel and a Community Sing for the screening.
Miles B. Dean lists antiques at 326 North Cameron Street Winchester on May 15 at 1 p.m. with 2 work horses 1 cow and farm implements. Leslie Wills hosts May 21 at 1 p.m. for Registered Polled Shorthorn cattle at the Fair Grounds Woodstock, Shenandoah Valley Polled Shorthorn Breeders Assn. Notices also mention Berryville sales.
Winchester Lions Club members will be addressed by Dr W J Fenton National Red Cross official on Red Cross work. Tonight at 7 30 he opens a first aid class for instructors at Braddock Street M E Church South, meeting each evening this week.
Miss Minnie Byrd daughter of Col and Mrs William Byrd of this city was removed to a medical facility after suffering a stroke.
Miss Byrd, long tied to Winchester and recent Baltimore resident, suffered a stroke at her North Cameron Street apartment. Her condition was described as showing little to no improvement since the incident, with Memorial Hospital monitoring her status.
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