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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1929
Page
5
Beginning next Friday evening, synagogues around the world will celebrate Rosh HaShanah. An extracted account traces the festival from its ancient agrarian calendar to its modern spiritual meaning as the Day of Judgment, emphasizing self examination and repentance.
Text notes that the chief values of the holy day dominate Reform Jewish liturgy, emphasizing their prominence in ritual and worship. The excerpt foregrounds ethical and communal ideals central to the observance.
A Boy Scout court of honor will be held tonight at the Handley Library Auditorium at 7.45. Eagle Award to Scout Thomas Sealy plus eagle palms life star and other pins and badges. For the first time in Winchester the eagle gold palm will be awarded requiring 31 merit badges. Junior and senior Red Cross life saving awards also included. Representatives of service clubs invited as guests and friends of scouting urged to attend.
U S Market News Service notes warm clear conditions in the Cumberland Shenandoah Potomac district with moderate demand and steady prices. Carload and bulk shipments rise with 1 112 cars rolled nationwide including 379 from Virginia and 132 from West Virginia while Yorks Winesap and Rome apples show up in several price ranges.
President Hoover announced John McNab attorney of San Francisco will study federal judicial procedure in enforcing the eighteenth amendment. He will cooperate with the law enforcement commission and the Justice and Treasury departments to formulate changes to submit to Congress in December.
Lieutenant Harry A. Smith 35 of Minneapolis died when his airplane crashed into a corn field near Junction City Kansas. Sergeant Kenneth McKee of the army air service was injured in the same crash.
Agreement on the anti trust case by the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad over its purchase and related conduct is reported from Washington. The action centers on competition and market impact in the rail industry.
The commission will hear stock concerns of the Western Maryland Railroad on November 22. The panel charged the Baltimore and Ohio with purchasing stock without commission approval. The excerpt notes a large folded insurance policy with fine print seen by many, contrasted with a loud intruder in a sedan.
A beautiful heiress Barbara Tannon pursues Ray Lowther on a moonlit ship deck to uncover a bitter past. Ray reveals his father’s suicide and ruined finances as barrier to a proposed match, arguing he would be penniless and dishonored without a fortune and title. Barbara challenges his view and insists on truth.
Nancy Hopkins niece of Charles Dana Gibson and a young pilot, works at Roosevelt Field giving information to aviators and hopeful students while completing 50 hours of solo flight. She began at Hoover Field and is nearing a commercial pilot license.
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