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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1939
Page
7
Rochester mayor O I Minter and Police Chief Fred Carr face a delicate task as a widow asks them to bar three divorced wives from decorating their late husband s grave. The women reside in town and challenge the widow s claim to the grave site rituals.
New York May 19 After a near steel sell off a muted rebound lifted select stocks led by motors. Volume edged up from the prior session as transfers ran about 450000 shares. A bit of short covering and some buyers suggested the worst may be over for now with gains around a point. Names shown include American Radium Bethlehem Chrysler General Electric General Motors U S Steel Packard Penney Woolworth and others with varied closing bids.
York, a native of England who settled in Plainfield and later Winchester New Jersey, receives the Order of the Purple Heart and a prior Indian-war medal. He recalls standing in zero cold for $13 a month and recounts wounds from Wounded Knee era fighting. He plans a cross‑country trip with his wife to Yellowstone and Indian battle grounds while keeping a daily flag routine. He and Mrs. York have four children in New Jersey and Virginia.
Winchester and Frederick county youths show slow uptake for July Citizens' Military Training Corps camps. Frederick has 14 quota with eight applicants by May 15. Clarke three quota with four applicants. Warren five quota with three. Shenandoah nine quota with 19 applicants. Virginia total 997 quota, 773 applications by May 15. Capt Edward C. Goss of Winchester Gas Co chairs local committee and can provide blanks. Attendance costs nothing. government covers transport, uniforms, subsistence. no obligation to enlist. Training aims to build military proficiency and improve chances for commissions if needed.
Shenandoah Area Council of Boy Scouts announces a Court of Honor tonight at 7 30 at the George Washington Hotel. Rev Ronald Rowland of White Post will be principal speaker. Parents invited. Scouts from Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties to receive awards.
Homemakers of Frederick and Clarke counties turnout in force for the Winchester Evening Star cooking school final session. Mrs. J. Watson Shockley gave lectures and demonstrations drawing about 800 women with many gifts awarded including a prize for the longest married woman, Mrs. Edward H. Grove.
Habie’s Palace Theatre today announced upcoming features for the next several months. Opening May 29 is the year’s top entertainment Rose of Washington Square starring Tyrone Power and Alice Faye. Additional titles include Man of Conquest with Richard Dix and Gail Patrick, The Gorilla with Bela Lugosi, and Shirley Temple appearances.
Approval of a field survey of the 1939 commercial apple and peach crop announced by William A. Smith state WPA administrator. WPA will fund 4 549 dollars with sponsor contributing 1 234 dollars for a 5 783 dollar project in Clarke Frederick Page Rockingham Shenandoah Warren Augusta Rockbridge Madison Fauquier Loudoun Rappahannock Albemarle Amherst Nelson Bedford Botetourt Floyd Franklin Montgomery Roanoke counties.
A slate of upcoming films includes Susannah of the Mounties with Randolph Scott and Margaret Lockwood Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur The Sun Never Sets Good Girls Go To Paris Second Fiddle Frontier Marshal After Schooldays T Stole a Million Mr Smith Goes to Washington Golden Boy Coast Guard and more Watch The Star for concrete show dates and listings in the near future.
The Jewish Scientific Institute in Warsaw, Poland put the world Jewish population at 16 240 000 in 1936. This figure reflects a global estimate from a scholarly source active in that period.
Chicago bids show wheat advancing to 80 1 4 for May and 75 1 4 for July before a pullback on profit taking amid forecasts of cool wet weather. Cash grain quotes list mixed wheat values and corn around 52 1 2 to 53 1 4, soybeans near 97 1 4.
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