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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1935
Page
6
Acting officers for the R M A unit include Matthews as battalion leader. First Lieut John Meville of Sykesville Md and Cadet Sam Hardy of Buena Vista command Company A. Acting commander of Company A is Marshall Pickard of New York City. Company C is led by Corporals Nat Smoot and Martin Styre of Washington DC. School band cadet commander is Walter Smith Morris of Morehead City NC.
The Front Royal Glee Club gave an engaging program at the Methodist Episcopal Church under local direction. Highlights included Unfold The Portal and One Sweetly Solemn Thought, with organ solos by Mrs. Elsie Reaguer Shirey and Mrs. Margaret Shiner Payne.
Front Royal observes 1935 as a record year for marriage licenses issued by the Waren County circuit court clerk. By Oct 11 the year has seen 68 licenses, surpassing 1928’s high of 72 and promising another year-end total above the 1928 peak.
Raymond Beaty of the county received a four month suspended sentence and a 25 dollar fine plus 14.50 costs for an alleged assault on Paul Beaty in Harmony Hollow. Paul Beaty sustained a dislocated shoulder along with facial bruises and cuts. The hearing before Trial Justice Walter G. Olmstead began after 10 am and ended around 2 30 pm with Commonwealth's Attorney John H. Downing prosecuting and W LeRoy Corron defending Raymond Beaty.
Collier's Weekly notes that industrial expansion increases occupational skin diseases. Eighty years ago only about a dozen substances caused skin ailments, but today there are around 700 or more skin irritants and sensitizers.
Front Royal Virginia reports the Veterans of Foreign Wars will conduct its annual election of officers on Monday evening. Local social notes mention visits, hospitalities, and arrivals including Mrs. Moorman Parker with her son David in Washington.
The League considers lifting the ban on arms for Ethiopia as delegates press for action. A committee studies adding items to the embargo and a move to halt exports to Italy accelerates, with experts warning Mussolini could bypass shortages but Italian forces face a new threat if Ethiopia’s embargo ends.
Chicago report says taxi driver William Leinnert testified that Mandeville W. Zenge admitted abducting rival Dr. Walter J. Bauer and performing an emasculation procedure that caused Bauer’s death. Leinnert quoted Zenge saying he did not mean to kill him and blamed hospital care for the fatal outcome.
Clyde Clapper of East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania, a sprinkler system worker for a Pennsylvania company, fell forty feet from a scaffold at the Phillips Packing Company factory in Cambridge. He died in a hospital after being injured last night.
The funeral of Mrs Martha E McDonald widow of J William McDonald of this city was held yesterday at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev Wallace M Brashears and Rev E T Clark conducted the services with many friends attending. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers were John I Sloat George H Eagle Harry H Willis Edward B Sartelle J M Spurr and George W Lind.
Elaine Barrie told reporters that actor John Barrymore lent her the 3200 to pay duties on a diamond ring she owned as an engagement ring from him. She said she had no intent to evade duty and had simply forgotten about it.
Soviet writer Karl Radek in Izvestia said the U.S. embargo on arms to Italy and Ethiopia and sanctions policy remove the danger of the United States entering a war against League members. He warned English leaders fear U.S. noncooperation could trigger a clash, noting British and French support will determine sanctions impact.
Everett Sanders former presidential secretary and RNC chairman said Roosevelt might win if the election were held now but Republicans had a very good chance to beat him next year He forecast no coalition with conservative Democrats and argued Roosevelt policies are unsound and can be torn to pieces in a campaign.
Firemen blamed a short circuit near a vapor leak of an electric pump for the explosion of a 200000 gallon gasoline tank, killing one man and seriously injuring another. The dead man was James Richards, 30, an employee of the Richfield Oil Company distributing plant where the blast occurred. The tank was being emptied prior to cleaning, about one gallon of gasoline remained.
A Diredawa report said Ethiopian forces captured Walwal and Wardair on the southern front. Rome reported light Italian casualties and surrender by Ethiopian chiefs in an official communique on the occupation campaign in Ethiopia.
Pan American clipper seaplane leaves Midway Island at 1 19 p m EST on the third leg of a four stop flight from Alameda to Guam. Expected to reach Wake Island about nine hours later, 1191 miles distant.
More than 3,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association in Texas and Lake Charles began a strike at 8 a.m. They will not return to work until a new contract with operators is agreed in New Orleans and Lake Charles is included for this district.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt marks her fifty first birthday at Walkill Cottage Hyde Park New York. She is a partner in the furniture factory near the cottage site.
London officials announced Parliament will convene on October 22. It was anticipated that Parliament may be dissolved around November 1 with general elections set for November 21 and runoff elections on November 28. The move aims to meet public interest needs.
Tomorrow at 9 30 morning Theodore Jackimier’s team will play the Charles Rhino eleven. The Jackimier outfit won 13 0 last Saturday.
Ernest A Benn died of a heart attack near Carnebor four miles south of Berryville. He was in his 71st year and an unmarried son of the late John and Anne Benn of Warren county. He is survived by one sister, Mrs Fannie Walker of Alexandria, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Sunday at 3 pm from Enders funeral parlors Berryville conducted by Rev L A Parker. Interment Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers James Perks Robert Bell Henry Bell Robert Littleton Jr John Vorous.
Shenandoah Valley Academy and the Mt. Jackson Independents played to a scoreless tie at halftime. S V A reached the invaders four yard line but was stopped on downs. Harper provided several strong runs and passes, but the locals lost the ball near scoring range.
Tokyo reports Japan plans to open a legation in Addis Ababa in January to boost trade. Shoichi Nakayama, Tokyo embassy counsel, will lead two officials to lay groundwork, with plans considered for over a year and not a gesture toward Ethiopia amid ongoing conflict.
Striking milk farmers in the Chicago milk shed vowed to keep shipments halted from four counties McHenry Lake Kane and Boone despite highway patrol presence. Robert Mather of the strike board at Elgin headquarters predicted continued stoppage of shipments from the four counties.
Atlantic City N J October 11 The American Federation of Labor urged affiliated unions to join a campaign to boost membership beginning by December 1 Delegates backed the executive council plan aiming to extend changes in economic institutions and secure workers rights recognition.
New York stock market opened strong with heavy block trades pushing many issues to new year highs before profit taking trimmed gains. Industrials led, rails and utilities slipped, grains and cotton stayed barely steady, and secondary bonds followed equities with foreign exchange markets narrowing.
Market notes list wholesale and retail flour prices by bag size for patent and mixed feeds, with corn meal, dairy and egg products, and butter prices. Fragmentary lines show 98 lb, 48 lb, 24 lb, and 12 lb bag prices, plus per 100 measures and miscellaneous items.
U S Dept of Agriculture notes cattle 150, steady. hogs 700, weak to mostly 10 lower top 11.90. calves 30, steady. sheep and lambs 300, better lambs 25-35 lower. Prices listed for cattle, hogs by weight, poultry, butter, and eggs with firm prices unchanged.
Winchester Virginia to Martinsburg notes demand light and market steady with carload sales. Prices listed for various apples by grade and size include Stayman Winesap York U S No 1 and Ben Davis with bulk pricing per 40 pound box and factors like 2% minimums and 175 80 cent ranges.
Closing grain prices show wheat dec 1 04 3 8 to 1 3 7 8 and corn dec 60 5 8 to 3 4. Cash grain in Chicago lists No 2 red wheat 1.08 1 2 and No 2 yellow corn 87 1 2 to 88. Baltimore spot wheat No 2 red winter at 1.02. Winchester wheat 96 cents. yellow corn 90 cents.
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