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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1938
Page
2
High officials of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars will speak at a district rally in Winchester Sunday May 15. Edward Kinman National Council of Administration VFW Washington D C says vital issues face ex servicemen. The event opens 10:30 at George Washington Hotel with Mayor R Anderson welcomed by A Lee Coble post commander.
Haile Selassie’s audience includes South American representatives as Motta presents Switzerland’s demand for news and Dr Wellington Koo questions British promises of arms credits. China’s plea for aid remains a key issue as delegates close a night session amid renewed debate on relief and credit terms.
Scully leaves Thursday for the Scout Council meeting to be held May 13-14. The program includes talks by national leaders and the event, opening Friday morning, welcomes all Scouters to attend.
The Frederick County Lamb Marketing Association stated it will accept all types of lambs for shipment. Producers may sell lower quality lambs if desired to gain the benefit of higher prices for better finished animals. Lambs sold through the cooperative will be graded by the Division of Markets and priced by quality.
Hailey Selassie departed Paris for Geneva to seek support from the League of Nations in preserving his African empire's legal remnants. He waved farewell with a broad smile as his train left an almost empty platform, avoiding press comments.
Will of Hollie B. McCormac, Winchester industrialist and former Virginia Republican leader, found and admitted to record in Cory Court Clerk office. Administratrix Gertrude McCormac reappointed. probate signs confirm validity despite disputed witnesses.
Frederick County teachers will gather at the courthouse Saturday at 10 o clock with R A Wall, president of the Frederick County Teachers Association, announcing the election of officers for the coming year. Many schools prepare to close the year as commencement programs are planned and a partial teacher appointment list is released with vacancies to be filled.
Friends of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said he would return to the United States only if his services were needed during wartime or in another national emergency. Associates note he planned to stay in England with his wife Anne Morrow and sons Jon and Lord Morrow, while the Spirit of St. Louis was built in a local fish cannery.
The Shenandoah Executive Committee met at the George. Director-General Baldridge and Treasurer DeGrange reported approval. A second meeting is planned for Saturday morning. Baldridge urged all persons and firms with festival bills to present them immediately.
The government opened an inquiry after two gas explosions at the Markham coal mine in Derbyshire England. Sixty-nine miners were killed and more than 40 injured the previous day. Authorities sought cause and safety improvements.
A minority report by Representatives Taber and Bacon of New York and Wigglesworth of Massachusetts attacks New Deal policy. It calls for a congressional WPA investigation, bipartisan local federal relief administration, and broad revisions to Roosevelt economic measures.
Mrs. Homer Lyman of the Woman's Civic League of Winchester urged the newly formed Junior Board of Trade to back a syphilis clinic in Frederick and Clarke counties. A motion to support the fight against the disease was carried. Dr. Raymond Kerlin will lead the health committee in coordinating with the Civic League and report at the next meeting. Rosewell Rosengren may attend the charter dinner planned for May.
The Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union marked 50 years with morning exercises in Richmond at Broad Street Methodist Church and prepared to elect officers as its golden jubilee neared completion. A bronze tablet honoring the founding room was presented by Miss Clare Whitfield of Richmond and Miss Kathleen Matoton of Birmingham.
The Goodwill Courier car promoting the New York World Fair will visit Fredericksburg Alexandria Winchester and Harrisonburg as part of a southern tour. Gray Williams of Winchester joins National Advisory Committee with Charles Brown Hiercene Opie and T B Ralston of Staunton.
In Rotterdam the Hoogstraat house collapse during rush hour left nine dead including a woman and her baby and seven men. The ancient structure fell on the city’s busiest street, trapping pedestrians in the debris.
Senator Thomas reports the Senate civil liberties committee has received hundreds of requests to investigate Mayor Frank Hague's New Jersey political organization. Requests come from across the country and include Jersey City residents.
Seismologist Reverend A. M. Forestall of Regis College reports instruments recorded an earthquake described as the worst kind. The quake began at 8 49 a m MST with maximum intensity at 8 57 a m and ended at 9 32 a m, Denver authorities said.
Jack Foster aged 32 of Benton Arkansas was held without bail on a first degree murder charge in Camden after allegedly killing Curtiss Carson a 26 year old teammate with a baseball bat following an incident in the shower after Carson threw cold water on him.
Assistant U S Attorney William F Smith announced a federal grand jury indicted Joseph A Corio a judge of the Atlantic County Common Pleas on charges of federal income tax evasion.
State police trooper John Carstensen said George Ketvirtis 19 a Newberry high school senior confessed he and a companion tortured and killed a Chinese laundryman in Newberry last December during a $64 robbery.
Mrs. Etienne Langlois, 50, and daughters Henriette, 20, and Etiennette, 15, died in an early morning fire at Monte St. Michel north of Montreal. Investigators say a defective chimney is believed to have caused the blaze.
A Winchester branch of the W C T U sponsors a 7 45 lecture by Miss Ervin next Monday night at a local church. She advocates total abstinence and liquor traffic abolition and focuses on alcohol education for youth and adults. Her lectures target colleges high schools and civic groups with a call to action.
The White House said President Roosevelt cannot settle the dispute over selling helium to Germany due to Secretary Ickes' refusal to approve a safe contract without guarantees it will not be used in foreign military operations. Unanimous cabinet consent is required, and the matter returns to the National Munitions Control Board for a formal decision. Secretary Ickes will attend the next meeting with an open mind, while the State Department has already approved the sale.
A seven man jury quickly ruled that Sunday movie showings at the Wilson Theatre in Arlington County Virginia are moral and proper. The Fairfax Corp sought a declaratory judgment from Circuit Judge Walter T. McCarthy after Sheriff Howard B. Fields closed the theater following a Sunday July 4 1937 screening. The court instructed the jury before arguments, and the theater has since remained closed on subsequent Sabbaths
The Iowa Works Progress Administration reports an active market for authentic reproductions of Chief Black Hawk’s headdress. Officials appealed for six skunk tails by mail and telegraph, receiving donations by parcel post from as far as Easton, Pennsylvania.
Miss Emma Swimley named salutatorian and Miss Margaret Grim valedictorian as 20 students graduate. The May 25 ceremony features processional, invocations, poems, class history, last will, chorus, portraits, token presentations, colors and flowers, song, and diplomas by Superintendent Leslie Kline with principal R E Ayler.
Baltimore on May 11 city police said no clues were found in the disappearance of Reverend Frederick I Mumford pastor of Garrett Park Methodist Episcopal Church He left home April 18 to attend to personal business and did not return his wife had asked police to search for him
Oil heated homes for sale with electric beds. Magruder's plant nursery offers good opportunity for the right man. May operate tourist home in connection with nursery. Apply F. W. Magruder 552 North Loudoun St Winchester Virginia.
The record notes a travel agent guiding passengers from Winchester through Luray and Charlottesville to Richmond with departures at 8:00 A.M. and 3:45 P.M. via Culpeper.
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