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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1936
Page
8
Baseball game summary with the New York Yankees defeating the Giants 2-1. Key moments include Dimaggio’s double, Lazzeri and Crosetti contributing hits, and late scoring for the Yankees while Giants pitchers held firm.
A fragment urges the commission to publicize a special meeting to attract as many hunters as possible. The note stresses the aim to formulate regulations benefiting both hunted and hunter, seeking broad attendance and awareness.
The article outlines a plan to form a five member committee to study Winchester water supply options Cedar Creek Shenandoah River and gravity supply with technical advice from engineers. It covers duties costs dam and reservoir options water rates and a published report to voters. The council favored Cedar Creek but citizens rejected the plan and a federal gift of 239 400 was lost. The author suspects the current council also seeks a showdown.
Students at Round Hill High School reorganized their Junior League which has held the state banner for the past four years. Glynn Moore elected president for 1936 37 with Miss Mary Gay Marker as vice president and Wiley Pingley as secretary and treasurer. Peggie Pangle also serves as an officer with James White chairing the membership committee. The first chapel program for the year was held yesterday with Miss Marker presiding in the president’s absence. A league program is planned for next Friday evening.
Crush Spy Ring has recaptured part of a town on the coastal end of the Bilbao defense line. Fighting was almost continuous as troops pressed the effort and reported clashes continued through the day.
A blaze broke out in the idle house of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus today. Prison officials said the fire was quickly checked with no prisoners in that building and inmates moved to other blocks. Guards and state patrols reinforced the scene as fifty visiting schoolchildren fled the area.
Federal agents found almost two acres of growing marijuana in Baltimore ending an all night search that led to two Mexican arrests and seizure of 345 pounds of marijuana in two northwestern city houses. Inspector Brigham said the field bordered a stream and was shielded by corn. The patch had been cultivated for several years.
The Commerce Department and Chamber of Commerce committees say monetary policy aids world stability and boosts private employment. They report seven million more wage earners in private industry since the low mood, and back proposed surtax repeal on undistributed corporate earnings and a $500 million federal budget cut next year.
Ross Lillard of Stephens City will be general superintendent for the seventh Frederick County F F A fair to be held October 21 22. He is aided by Herbert Manuel Robert Brumback Eldon Brumback Harry Cook Harry Sherman and Paul Hanna. Judges include Elizabeth Farrar Agnes Mason Margaret Flickinger W R Legge I Fred Stine W F Wall Jr. over 400 ribbons and more than 40 cash prizes will be awarded with free admission and no entry fee as local businesses support the event.
Washington sources said the decision to slash customs duties would be a major step toward relaxing world trade restrictions in line with the tri power monetary agreement.
The funeral for C. M. Henkel will begin at his late home 670 South Stewart Street at 10 o clock Monday. Rev. C Worthington Lowe of Grace Lutheran Church will officiate. Interment will be in Hershey Pennsylvania with Masonic fraternal rites at the graveside.
Three hundred Future Farmers participated in a dairy judging contest at the Piedmont Dairy Festival in Manassas based on reasons and merit. Teams from Sperryville Nokesville Falmouth Stafford and other communities competed with Sperryville taking the high team score and A L Pry’s squad earning the silver cup. Individual leaders across Guernsey Holstein and Jersey breeds were named with many youths earning top placements.
VATICAN CITY officials released an unofficial tally showing over 500 priests and nuns killed in the Spanish Civil War. About 400 were clergy men and nuns, five bishops named, with many missing or fled. 29 churches destroyed and 300 to 400 damaged or repurposed, while 101 Augustinian friars’ fate remained undetermined.
The nations railroads spent almost 600 million dollars in American markets in the first eight months of 1936 setting a six year buying record. Expenditures for materials supplies and fuel and orders for locomotives and cars totaled 97 million with 341.6 million for materials and supplies and 88.99 million for equipment.
Miss Phyllis Tuckerman of Boston, social figure and Bayard Tuckerman’s daughter, was hurt when her horse fell on a jump during Warrenton Hunt riding. She was taken to Emergency Hospital in Washington. extent of injuries not stated, but back may be hurt.
Winchester Martinsburg and nearby points show demand fair and market steady. Wire order sales list carloads fob. barrels and bushel baskets priced by Grimes and Staymen varieties with U S No 1 and No 12% min sizes. futures contracts note various min sizes and prices including 3.75 for U S No 1 barrels and Staymens.
The daily market notes show Baltimore on Oct 3 with little change in produce and poultry, while cattle, hogs, and sheep in Baltimore and Chicago move within narrow ranges. Cattle steady to weak, hogs mixed, and lambs trading barely steady as buyers weigh supplies and demand.
Prices listed for patent and short patent brand bags of different weights, corn meal in sacks and per hundred, scratch feed, screenings, bran, middlings, dairy feeds, cracked corn, chick and bird feeds, turkey and guinea fowl, butter fat, and cattle and sheep categories. The prices reflect per bag, per hundred, or per unit sale terms as published.
New York stocks rose broadly with steels and rails leading. turnover reached 1.6 million shares as buyers pushed values higher in a rare Saturday session. Bonds advanced while foreign exchange edged up the franc and sterling amid firm gold standard expectations.
Reports of Australian crop damage and drought in Argentina boosted wheat values in Chicago trade. Winnipeg futures extended yesterday’s gains as eastern buyers reentered the market. late prices showed Dec and July contracts edging higher with corn oats rye and barley also listed along with lard and cash grain quotes from Chicago and Baltimore markets.
In Havana on October 3 a clash between national police and suspects behind the El Pa newspaper bombing left four people dead including three suspects and a policeman.
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